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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 59 62
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 2,026 1,329 1,272
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.66% 4.00% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 4.42% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,233 824 709
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £573 £560
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +2.23% -2.61%
75th Percentile £685 £713 £688
90th Percentile £788 £875 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £519 £525
% change year-on-year +1.25% -1.24% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 33 28
10th Percentile £38.03 £22.16 £33.35
25th Percentile £51.00 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £74.84 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +123.40% -41.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85.00 £64.00 £73.86
90th Percentile £89.00 £82.75 £78.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.85 £33.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +135.37% -41.74% -20.57%

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 46,870 30,047 32,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 90.49% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,156 18,700 19,515
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,444 1,888 1,247
10th Percentile £13.53 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.94 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.18 £65.25 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -8.14%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -1 1,766 £575 -0.09% 2,167
UK excluding London +2 962 £525 +1.25% 976
London -8 893 £615 -5.38% 1,316
Work from Home -12 553 £550 -8.33% 961
North of England -3 285 £510 +2.00% 224
South East +9 260 £575 +4.55% 253
Yorkshire +15 139 £494 -1.20% 90
North West -19 138 £525 +5.00% 121
Scotland +20 125 £500 +11.11% 114
South West -18 108 £600 - 114
Midlands -30 104 £500 +5.26% 126
West Midlands -23 81 £495 -3.51% 82
East of England +2 66 £513 -16.33% 75
East Midlands -18 20 £550 +37.50% 44
Wales -12 15 £600 +45.45% 19
Northern Ireland +1 10 £505 -8.18% 56
North East -32 9 £454 -17.50% 13
Channel Islands - 2 £600 -

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 85 (4.20%) Confluence
2 38 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.64%) SAS
4 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.20%) CMS
6 4 (0.20%) IIS
6 4 (0.20%) nginx
7 2 (0.099%) Apache
7 2 (0.099%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.049%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.049%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.049%) Appian
8 1 (0.049%) CICS
8 1 (0.049%) Documentum
8 1 (0.049%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.049%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.049%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 63 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (1.09%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.099%) Gliffy
8 2 (0.099%) LaTeX
8 2 (0.099%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.099%) Revit
8 2 (0.099%) Windchill
9 1 (0.049%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.049%) Trello
Business Applications
1 52 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.74%) SAP GRC
3 11 (0.54%) Endur
3 11 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.49%) Primavera
5 7 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.25%) SAP HCM
7 5 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.20%) Actimize
8 4 (0.20%) Magento
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.15%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 304 (15.00%) Azure
2 220 (10.86%) AWS
3 106 (5.23%) GCP
4 82 (4.05%) Power Platform
5 76 (3.75%) SaaS
6 73 (3.60%) Entra ID
7 62 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
8 54 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (2.02%) GitHub
10 30 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
11 29 (1.43%) OCI
12 28 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
13 24 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
14 18 (0.89%) Serverless
14 18 (0.89%) Snowflake
15 17 (0.84%) Azure AI
15 17 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
15 17 (0.84%) PaaS
16 16 (0.79%) IaaS
17 15 (0.74%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.70%) Network Security
2 55 (2.71%) Firewall
3 23 (1.14%) WAN
4 21 (1.04%) LAN
4 21 (1.04%) TCP/IP
5 18 (0.89%) DNS
6 17 (0.84%) VPN
7 11 (0.54%) DHCP
8 10 (0.49%) 5G
9 9 (0.44%) Internet
9 9 (0.44%) Kerberos
10 8 (0.39%) 4G
10 8 (0.39%) Cisco IPT
11 5 (0.25%) BIG-IP
11 5 (0.25%) Modbus
11 5 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
11 5 (0.25%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.25%) Softphone
11 5 (0.25%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (3.11%) Power BI
2 47 (2.32%) SQL Server
3 35 (1.73%) Metadata
4 27 (1.33%) Relational Database
5 24 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (0.79%) MongoDB
6 16 (0.79%) Oracle Database
6 16 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 14 (0.69%) Db2
9 13 (0.64%) Big Data
10 10 (0.49%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.39%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.35%) MySQL
12 7 (0.35%) Tableau
13 6 (0.30%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.25%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 4 (0.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 151 (7.45%) JIRA
2 29 (1.43%) Git
3 23 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 15 (0.74%) Selenium
5 12 (0.59%) Cypress.io
6 11 (0.54%) Postman
7 10 (0.49%) GitLab
8 9 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.44%) WebDriver
9 7 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.35%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.35%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.25%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.20%) Gradle
11 4 (0.20%) JMeter
11 4 (0.20%) Subversion
12 3 (0.15%) Gatling
12 3 (0.15%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.15%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.099%) TestRail
General
1 826 (40.77%) Social Skills
2 783 (38.65%) Finance
3 356 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (12.83%) Banking
5 254 (12.54%) Public Sector
6 152 (7.50%) Legal
7 115 (5.68%) Influencing Skills
8 94 (4.64%) Organisational Skills
9 83 (4.10%) Front Office
10 60 (2.96%) Aerospace
11 55 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
12 54 (2.67%) Military
13 52 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
14 49 (2.42%) Manufacturing
15 47 (2.32%) Financial Institution
16 46 (2.27%) Investment Banking
17 40 (1.97%) Telecoms
18 38 (1.88%) Law
19 37 (1.83%) Retail
20 26 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 273 (13.47%) Lead
2 228 (11.25%) Architect
3 215 (10.61%) Analyst
4 206 (10.17%) Project Manager
4 206 (10.17%) Senior
5 111 (5.48%) Consultant
6 96 (4.74%) Programme Manager
7 90 (4.44%) Security Architect
8 74 (3.65%) Business Analyst
9 72 (3.55%) Developer
10 60 (2.96%) Senior Manager
11 59 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
12 58 (2.86%) IT Manager
13 53 (2.62%) Risk Manager
14 50 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
15 45 (2.22%) Risk Analyst
16 43 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
17 41 (2.02%) Technical Manager
18 39 (1.92%) Security Engineer
18 39 (1.92%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (3.46%) Terraform
2 45 (2.22%) REST
3 40 (1.97%) .NET
4 28 (1.38%) Middleware
5 25 (1.23%) Kafka
6 21 (1.04%) OAuth
6 21 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (0.74%) SAML
8 13 (0.64%) OpenID
9 12 (0.59%) JSON
9 12 (0.59%) React
9 12 (0.59%) Spring
10 11 (0.54%) SLSA
11 10 (0.49%) SailPoint
11 10 (0.49%) Web Services
11 10 (0.49%) XGBoost
12 9 (0.44%) ADO
12 9 (0.44%) LDAP
12 9 (0.44%) SOAP
12 9 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 132 (6.52%) Onboarding
2 131 (6.47%) Management Information System
3 113 (5.58%) Product Ownership
4 79 (3.90%) Security Posture
5 75 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 65 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
7 56 (2.76%) Operational Technology
8 55 (2.71%) Data Centre
9 49 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
10 47 (2.32%) Cyber Threat
11 37 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 37 (1.83%) Market Risk
12 36 (1.78%) AI Agents
13 30 (1.48%) Credit Risk
14 29 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
15 28 (1.38%) Derivative
16 26 (1.28%) NHS
17 25 (1.23%) Data Structures
17 25 (1.23%) PKI
17 25 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 77 (3.80%) Linux
2 76 (3.75%) Windows
3 43 (2.12%) Unix
4 26 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.39%) zOS
7 6 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.25%) Android
8 5 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.15%) AIX
11 2 (0.099%) macOS
12 1 (0.049%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.049%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 860 (42.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 529 (26.11%) Cybersecurity
3 500 (24.68%) Agile
4 484 (23.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 428 (21.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 346 (17.08%) Decision-Making
7 303 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
7 303 (14.96%) Roadmaps
8 290 (14.31%) AI
9 264 (13.03%) Project Management
10 243 (11.99%) Project Delivery
11 233 (11.50%) Information Security
12 204 (10.07%) CI/CD
13 202 (9.97%) DevOps
13 202 (9.97%) Migration
14 179 (8.84%) Analytics
14 179 (8.84%) Change Management
15 172 (8.49%) Vulnerability Management
16 162 (8.00%) Data Protection
16 162 (8.00%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 175 (8.64%) Python
2 114 (5.63%) SQL
3 52 (2.57%) Java
4 51 (2.52%) PowerShell
5 47 (2.32%) C#
6 25 (1.23%) Bash
7 22 (1.09%) JavaScript
8 17 (0.84%) Shell Script
9 16 (0.79%) C++
10 10 (0.49%) Go
11 8 (0.39%) VBA
12 7 (0.35%) Bicep
12 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.35%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.30%) JCL
13 6 (0.30%) Korn
14 5 (0.25%) Assembly Language
14 5 (0.25%) R
14 5 (0.25%) REXX
Qualifications
1 564 (27.84%) Security Cleared
2 411 (20.29%) SC Cleared
3 200 (9.87%) Degree
4 174 (8.59%) CISSP
5 129 (6.37%) DV Cleared
6 125 (6.17%) CISM
7 108 (5.33%) PMI Certification
8 99 (4.89%) PMP
9 62 (3.06%) CRISC
10 58 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 46 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
12 45 (2.22%) CISA
13 41 (2.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 32 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
15 31 (1.53%) Master's Degree
16 27 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 26 (1.28%) AWS Certification
17 26 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
18 25 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
19 22 (1.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (12.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 217 (10.71%) NIST
3 196 (9.67%) GRC
4 125 (6.17%) QA
5 108 (5.33%) GDPR
6 100 (4.94%) Data Quality
7 98 (4.84%) NCSC
8 69 (3.41%) PMO
9 47 (2.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 26 (1.28%) JSP 440
11 24 (1.18%) NIST 800
12 18 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 17 (0.84%) Accessibility
14 16 (0.79%) COBIT
14 16 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 16 (0.79%) Def Stans
14 16 (0.79%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.74%) SLA
16 13 (0.64%) ISO 31000
16 13 (0.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.43%) Docker
3 18 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.54%) vSphere
5 10 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.25%) FreeRADIUS
8 5 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
8 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.15%) Firmware
10 3 (0.15%) IAG
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.049%) NFS
Systems Management
1 61 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 40 (1.97%) Ansible
3 18 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.64%) SCCM
5 12 (0.59%) Grafana
6 8 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.35%) Control-M
7 7 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.30%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.25%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.25%) Nessus
9 5 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.15%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.15%) Istio
10 3 (0.15%) Kibana
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.15%) Podman
10 3 (0.15%) Puppet
10 3 (0.15%) QRadar
Vendors
1 310 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 114 (5.63%) ServiceNow
3 103 (5.08%) SAP
4 83 (4.10%) Oracle
5 56 (2.76%) Google
6 27 (1.33%) VMware
7 25 (1.23%) IBM
7 25 (1.23%) Murex
8 23 (1.14%) Cisco
8 23 (1.14%) Splunk
9 22 (1.09%) Salesforce
10 19 (0.94%) Ariba
11 18 (0.89%) Databricks
11 18 (0.89%) Qualys
12 16 (0.79%) CyberArk
13 14 (0.69%) BeyondTrust
13 14 (0.69%) Workday
14 13 (0.64%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.64%) Sybase
15 12 (0.59%) Bloomberg