Risk Management Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Risk Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Risk Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 51 60
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 +28
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 48 68 85
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.12% 4.11% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 4.57% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 47 48
10th Percentile £279 £358 £321
25th Percentile £400 £380 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £536 £538 £638
90th Percentile £605 £630 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £573 £575
% change year-on-year -3.93% -0.43% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Risk Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,350 1,488 2,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.78% 89.96% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 885 1,327
10th Percentile £240 £239 £250
25th Percentile £398 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 45 53
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.09 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.59 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £39.30 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Risk Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Risk Management job vacancy trend in Scotland

Risk Management
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Risk Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in Scotland

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Risk Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -18 27 £450 -7.69% 6
Edinburgh +9 22 £425 -5.56% 10
Aberdeen - 1 - - 2
Risk Management
UK

Risk Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) Apache
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.83%) Azure
2 5 (10.42%) AWS
3 4 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.17%) Lucidchart
6 1 (2.08%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.08%) GitHub
6 1 (2.08%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) Firewall
2 1 (2.08%) Internet
2 1 (2.08%) Intranet
2 1 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (2.08%) Big Data
3 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) Subversion
2 1 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (31.25%) Finance
3 11 (22.92%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.42%) Banking
5 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Analyst
2 6 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 5 (10.42%) Architect
3 5 (10.42%) Developer
4 3 (6.25%) Core Java Developer
4 3 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (6.25%) Information Governance Officer
4 3 (6.25%) Information Officer
4 3 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 3 (6.25%) Lead
4 3 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 3 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (4.17%) Change Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (4.17%) Python Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Python Software Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Security Architect
5 2 (4.17%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 2 (4.17%) Kafka
1 2 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.08%) .NET
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.17%) Management Information System
2 7 (14.58%) Freedom of Information
3 5 (10.42%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
5 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (6.25%) Data Structures
6 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.17%) Equities
6 2 (4.17%) Fixed Income
6 2 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (4.17%) Market Risk
6 2 (4.17%) Operational Technology
6 2 (4.17%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.08%) Credit Risk
7 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.08%) FMCG
7 1 (2.08%) PMI
7 1 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (2.08%) SCADA
7 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Linux
2 3 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) Agile
2 13 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 12 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (20.83%) Project Management
5 9 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (12.50%) Incident Management
7 6 (12.50%) PRINCE2
8 5 (10.42%) Coaching
8 5 (10.42%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (10.42%) Computer Science
8 5 (10.42%) Decision-Making
8 5 (10.42%) DevOps
8 5 (10.42%) Information Governance
8 5 (10.42%) Mentoring
8 5 (10.42%) Regulatory Compliance
8 5 (10.42%) Scrum
8 5 (10.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.58%) Python
2 6 (12.50%) Java
3 5 (10.42%) SQL
4 3 (6.25%) C++
5 2 (4.17%) Go
5 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.17%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Degree
2 4 (8.33%) CISSP
3 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (4.17%) HND
4 2 (4.17%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.17%) PMP
5 1 (2.08%) BC Cleared
5 1 (2.08%) CEH
5 1 (2.08%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) ISEB
5 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.08%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) Disclosure Scotland
1 9 (18.75%) GDPR
2 3 (6.25%) GRC
2 3 (6.25%) QA
3 2 (4.17%) PMO
4 1 (2.08%) Basel III
4 1 (2.08%) COBIT
4 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (2.08%) NIST
4 1 (2.08%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (6.25%) Grafana
1 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) Ansible
2 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) F5
3 2 (4.17%) Splunk
4 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.08%) Databricks
4 1 (2.08%) IBM
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle
4 1 (2.08%) Pega
4 1 (2.08%) Rockwell
4 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow