Risk Management Contract Job Trends

Risk Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Risk Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 58 65
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,940 1,381 1,266
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.54% 4.19% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.19% 4.63% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 850 725
10th Percentile £400 £360 £376
25th Percentile £474 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.67% -2.61%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £788 £875 £828
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 31 29
10th Percentile £26.05 £22.16 £34.25
25th Percentile £45.94 £23.50 £43.75
Median hourly rate £64.09 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.31% -41.74% +16.16%
75th Percentile £80.00 £50.88 £70.18
90th Percentile £89.00 £73.75 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £33.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +126.87% -44.17% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,340 29,830 33,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.48% 90.53% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,136 18,534 20,247
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,159 1,812 1,459
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.23 £14.96
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +82.22% -47.67% +1.18%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Risk Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Risk Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Management over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Top 18 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. 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
England -10 1,691 £551 -4.17% 3,557
UK excluding London -1 960 £525 +5.00% 1,652
London -24 826 £600 -7.69% 2,183
Work from Home -17 523 £550 -6.78% 1,317
North of England -11 270 £510 +2.00% 358
South East +11 254 £575 +4.55% 451
North West -28 132 £525 +2.68% 222
Yorkshire +10 131 £500 - 111
Scotland +20 127 £500 +11.11% 177
South West -21 114 £570 -0.87% 203
Midlands -27 114 £525 +13.51% 238
West Midlands -20 92 £500 +5.26% 149
East of England +4 69 £513 -14.58% 124
East Midlands -27 19 £549 +36.44% 89
Wales -14 11 £600 +45.45% 37
Northern Ireland -1 10 £500 -9.09% 77
North East -46 8 £454 - 30
Channel Islands - 2 £600 - 3

Risk Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 74 (3.81%) Confluence
2 45 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.62%) SAS
4 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.15%) IIS
7 2 (0.10%) CMS
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.052%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.052%) Apache
8 1 (0.052%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.052%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.052%) Appian
8 1 (0.052%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.052%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.052%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 67 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.21%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.21%) Revit
7 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.15%) Windchill
8 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.052%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.052%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.82%) SAP GRC
3 14 (0.72%) Endur
4 10 (0.52%) Primavera
5 9 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.21%) Actimize
9 4 (0.21%) Front Arena
9 4 (0.21%) Magento
9 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.15%) SAP HCM
10 3 (0.15%) Summit
10 3 (0.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 299 (15.41%) Azure
2 214 (11.03%) AWS
3 97 (5.00%) GCP
4 93 (4.79%) Power Platform
5 73 (3.76%) Entra ID
6 63 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
7 60 (3.09%) SaaS
8 41 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (1.86%) GitHub
10 28 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
11 27 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
12 25 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
13 24 (1.24%) OCI
14 21 (1.08%) Snowflake
15 20 (1.03%) Azure AI
15 20 (1.03%) PaaS
16 18 (0.93%) Anthropic Claude
16 18 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
16 18 (0.93%) Serverless
17 16 (0.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.61%) Network Security
2 53 (2.73%) Firewall
3 24 (1.24%) TCP/IP
4 21 (1.08%) WAN
5 18 (0.93%) DNS
5 18 (0.93%) LAN
6 14 (0.72%) 5G
7 13 (0.67%) DHCP
8 12 (0.62%) 4G
9 11 (0.57%) VPN
10 8 (0.41%) BIG-IP
10 8 (0.41%) Internet
11 7 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
12 6 (0.31%) HTTP
12 6 (0.31%) HTTPS
12 6 (0.31%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.26%) 3G
13 5 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
13 5 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (3.71%) Power BI
2 43 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 41 (2.11%) Metadata
4 32 (1.65%) Relational Database
5 21 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (0.93%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.77%) Data Lake
7 15 (0.77%) Db2
8 14 (0.72%) Big Data
8 14 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (0.62%) Oracle Database
9 12 (0.62%) Tableau
10 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.36%) MySQL
10 7 (0.36%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.31%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.21%) Ataccama
13 4 (0.21%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 133 (6.86%) JIRA
2 31 (1.60%) Git
3 22 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.72%) Selenium
5 11 (0.57%) Cypress.io
6 10 (0.52%) Postman
7 9 (0.46%) WebDriver
8 8 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.41%) Zephyr
9 7 (0.36%) GitLab
10 6 (0.31%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.26%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.26%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.21%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.21%) Gradle
12 4 (0.21%) Maven
12 4 (0.21%) Subversion
13 3 (0.15%) DbUnit
13 3 (0.15%) Mockito
13 3 (0.15%) TestRail
General
1 785 (40.46%) Social Skills
2 710 (36.60%) Finance
3 331 (17.06%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (12.68%) Public Sector
5 220 (11.34%) Banking
6 146 (7.53%) Legal
7 104 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
8 79 (4.07%) Front Office
8 79 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
9 54 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
10 52 (2.68%) Aerospace
11 50 (2.58%) Military
12 45 (2.32%) Investment Banking
13 42 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (2.16%) Telecoms
14 41 (2.11%) Manufacturing
15 40 (2.06%) Retail
16 37 (1.91%) Financial Institution
16 37 (1.91%) Law
17 29 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 258 (13.30%) Lead
2 245 (12.63%) Architect
3 200 (10.31%) Analyst
4 193 (9.95%) Senior
5 191 (9.85%) Project Manager
6 103 (5.31%) Consultant
7 95 (4.90%) Security Architect
8 76 (3.92%) Developer
9 74 (3.81%) Programme Manager
10 68 (3.51%) Business Analyst
11 55 (2.84%) Risk Manager
12 54 (2.78%) Senior Manager
13 53 (2.73%) IT Manager
14 50 (2.58%) Delivery Manager
15 42 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (2.11%) Security Consultant
17 40 (2.06%) Security Engineer
18 39 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
19 37 (1.91%) Risk Analyst
20 36 (1.86%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (2.78%) Terraform
2 40 (2.06%) REST
3 38 (1.96%) .NET
4 27 (1.39%) Middleware
5 24 (1.24%) Kafka
6 18 (0.93%) OAuth
6 18 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (0.77%) JSON
7 15 (0.77%) Spring
8 12 (0.62%) React
8 12 (0.62%) SAML
8 12 (0.62%) SOAP
9 11 (0.57%) OpenID
9 11 (0.57%) SailPoint
9 11 (0.57%) SLSA
9 11 (0.57%) Spring Boot
10 10 (0.52%) RESTful
10 10 (0.52%) Web Services
10 10 (0.52%) XML
11 9 (0.46%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 127 (6.55%) Onboarding
2 125 (6.44%) Management Information System
3 98 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 89 (4.59%) Security Posture
5 75 (3.87%) Cloud Native
6 61 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
7 56 (2.89%) Operational Technology
8 49 (2.53%) Data Centre
9 47 (2.42%) Cyber Threat
10 41 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
12 32 (1.65%) AI Agents
13 31 (1.60%) Market Risk
14 30 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
15 29 (1.49%) Derivative
16 26 (1.34%) Data Structures
16 26 (1.34%) NHS
17 25 (1.29%) Credit Risk
18 22 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 22 (1.13%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 70 (3.61%) Windows
2 65 (3.35%) Linux
3 43 (2.22%) Unix
4 23 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.36%) zOS
8 5 (0.26%) Android
8 5 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.15%) AIX
10 3 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 775 (39.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 497 (25.62%) Cybersecurity
3 475 (24.48%) Agile
4 436 (22.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 428 (22.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 320 (16.49%) Decision-Making
7 287 (14.79%) AI
7 287 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
8 265 (13.66%) Roadmaps
9 252 (12.99%) Project Management
10 224 (11.55%) Information Security
11 208 (10.72%) Project Delivery
12 193 (9.95%) CI/CD
13 184 (9.48%) DevOps
14 183 (9.43%) Migration
15 168 (8.66%) Change Management
16 166 (8.56%) Vulnerability Management
17 161 (8.30%) Analytics
18 157 (8.09%) Data Protection
19 155 (7.99%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 160 (8.25%) Python
2 111 (5.72%) SQL
3 55 (2.84%) Java
4 46 (2.37%) PowerShell
5 36 (1.86%) C#
6 20 (1.03%) JavaScript
7 18 (0.93%) Bash
8 16 (0.82%) Shell Script
9 14 (0.72%) C++
10 12 (0.62%) VBA
11 9 (0.46%) Go
11 9 (0.46%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.31%) Bicep
13 6 (0.31%) Korn
13 6 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.26%) Assembly Language
14 5 (0.26%) CLIST
14 5 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.26%) JCL
Qualifications
1 539 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 387 (19.95%) SC Cleared
3 178 (9.18%) Degree
4 175 (9.02%) CISSP
5 124 (6.39%) DV Cleared
6 121 (6.24%) CISM
7 86 (4.43%) PMI Certification
8 82 (4.23%) PMP
9 58 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 56 (2.89%) CRISC
11 48 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
12 43 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 41 (2.11%) CISA
14 28 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
14 28 (1.44%) Master's Degree
15 26 (1.34%) AWS Certification
15 26 (1.34%) Azure Certification
15 26 (1.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 26 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
16 25 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (12.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 227 (11.70%) NIST
3 200 (10.31%) GRC
4 124 (6.39%) GDPR
5 113 (5.82%) QA
6 96 (4.95%) Data Quality
7 84 (4.33%) NCSC
8 64 (3.30%) PMO
9 40 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
10 34 (1.75%) JSP 440
11 24 (1.24%) NIST 800
12 20 (1.03%) Accessibility
12 20 (1.03%) COBIT
13 18 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 18 (0.93%) SOC 2
14 16 (0.82%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.82%) SLA
15 15 (0.77%) Def Stans
15 15 (0.77%) ISO 31000
15 15 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.29%) Docker
3 14 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.36%) vSphere
6 5 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (0.21%) FreeRADIUS
7 4 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.15%) Firmware
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.15%) Postfix
8 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.10%) IAG
9 2 (0.10%) NFS
10 1 (0.052%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 55 (2.84%) Kubernetes
2 38 (1.96%) Ansible
3 17 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.72%) Grafana
5 12 (0.62%) SCCM
6 8 (0.41%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.31%) Control-M
7 6 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.26%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (0.21%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.21%) Nessus
9 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.15%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.15%) Puppet
11 2 (0.10%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.10%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.10%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 291 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 117 (6.03%) ServiceNow
3 92 (4.74%) SAP
4 75 (3.87%) Oracle
5 51 (2.63%) Google
6 24 (1.24%) IBM
7 23 (1.19%) Splunk
8 22 (1.13%) VMware
9 19 (0.98%) Salesforce
10 18 (0.93%) Cisco
10 18 (0.93%) Databricks
11 17 (0.88%) Sybase
12 16 (0.82%) Foundry
12 16 (0.82%) Murex
12 16 (0.82%) Qualys
13 14 (0.72%) BeyondTrust
13 14 (0.72%) CyberArk
14 12 (0.62%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.57%) Tenable
16 10 (0.52%) Workday