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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 53 64
Rank change year-on-year -19 +11 +2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,851 1,396 1,211
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.43% 4.29% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.06% 4.75% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 867 724
10th Percentile £400 £359 £382
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £572 £561
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.92% -6.07%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £705
90th Percentile £800 £875 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £512 £550
% change year-on-year +2.56% -6.93% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 23 27
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £30.80
25th Percentile £46.69 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £64.09 £49.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.47% -13.91% +17.35%
75th Percentile £80.00 £69.38 £68.84
90th Percentile £87.40 £84.85 £82.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.34 £51.00 £58.38
% change year-on-year +47.73% -12.63% -2.71%

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 45,646 29,409 32,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.41% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,910 18,256 20,327
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,932 1,750 1,541
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.20 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.88
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.35% +3.33%
75th Percentile £67.85 £45.79 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.03 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +87.80% -47.37% +12.13%

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 5 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 5 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Top 17 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 5 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 -18 1,620 £563 -2.17% 2,947
UK excluding London -6 924 £525 +2.56% 1,380
London -25 782 £600 -7.69% 1,934
Work from Home -23 499 £550 -8.33% 1,274
North of England -12 271 £511 +2.13% 307
South East +7 249 £575 +4.55% 345
North West -23 137 £525 +2.68% 195
Yorkshire +2 128 £497 -0.60% 90
Scotland +3 117 £488 +8.33% 171
South West -15 113 £600 +4.35% 204
Midlands -47 103 £550 +17.27% 175
West Midlands -35 80 £525 +5.00% 108
East of England +4 65 £513 -14.58% 93
East Midlands -31 20 £547 +36.07% 67
Wales -17 11 £600 +45.45% 24
Northern Ireland -2 8 £394 -28.41% 72
North East -38 6 £454 - 27

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 72 (3.89%) Confluence
2 45 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.54%) SAS
4 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.22%) IIS
6 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.11%) CMS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.054%) Apache
8 1 (0.054%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.054%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.054%) Appian
8 1 (0.054%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.054%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.054%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.054%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 68 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.86%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.22%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.22%) Revit
7 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.16%) Windchill
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.054%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.054%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.86%) SAP GRC
3 14 (0.76%) Endur
4 10 (0.54%) Primavera
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.22%) Actimize
9 4 (0.22%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.22%) Magento
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.22%) Summit
10 3 (0.16%) Front Arena
10 3 (0.16%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.16%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 275 (14.86%) Azure
2 192 (10.37%) AWS
3 87 (4.70%) Power Platform
4 81 (4.38%) GCP
5 63 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
6 62 (3.35%) Entra ID
7 55 (2.97%) SaaS
8 39 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (1.67%) GitHub
10 25 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
11 24 (1.30%) OCI
12 21 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
12 21 (1.13%) Snowflake
13 19 (1.03%) Azure AI
13 19 (1.03%) PaaS
14 17 (0.92%) Anthropic Claude
15 15 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
15 15 (0.81%) IaaS
15 15 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 65 (3.51%) Network Security
2 43 (2.32%) Firewall
3 23 (1.24%) TCP/IP
4 18 (0.97%) DNS
4 18 (0.97%) WAN
5 16 (0.86%) LAN
6 14 (0.76%) 5G
6 14 (0.76%) DHCP
7 12 (0.65%) 4G
8 8 (0.43%) BIG-IP
8 8 (0.43%) HTTP
8 8 (0.43%) Internet
8 8 (0.43%) VPN
9 7 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.32%) Cisco IPT
10 6 (0.32%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.27%) 3G
11 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
11 5 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (3.67%) Power BI
2 45 (2.43%) Metadata
3 37 (2.00%) SQL Server
4 34 (1.84%) Relational Database
5 21 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (0.97%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (0.76%) Data Lake
8 14 (0.76%) Db2
9 12 (0.65%) Tableau
10 11 (0.59%) Big Data
11 10 (0.54%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.49%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.38%) MySQL
14 5 (0.27%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.27%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 4 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.22%) Neo4j
15 4 (0.22%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 127 (6.86%) JIRA
2 27 (1.46%) Git
3 20 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.65%) Selenium
5 9 (0.49%) Cypress.io
5 9 (0.49%) Zephyr
6 8 (0.43%) Postman
7 7 (0.38%) WebDriver
8 6 (0.32%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.32%) GitLab
9 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) Subversion
10 3 (0.16%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.16%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.16%) Gradle
10 3 (0.16%) jMock
10 3 (0.16%) JUnit
10 3 (0.16%) Mockito
General
1 745 (40.25%) Social Skills
2 671 (36.25%) Finance
3 313 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
4 229 (12.37%) Public Sector
5 202 (10.91%) Banking
6 137 (7.40%) Legal
7 86 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
8 74 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 72 (3.89%) Front Office
10 51 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
11 50 (2.70%) Aerospace
12 44 (2.38%) Investment Banking
13 43 (2.32%) Military
13 43 (2.32%) Telecoms
14 42 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
15 41 (2.22%) Retail
16 39 (2.11%) Manufacturing
17 38 (2.05%) Financial Institution
18 35 (1.89%) Law
19 25 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 242 (13.07%) Lead
2 230 (12.43%) Architect
3 196 (10.59%) Project Manager
4 184 (9.94%) Analyst
5 176 (9.51%) Senior
6 104 (5.62%) Consultant
7 97 (5.24%) Security Architect
8 75 (4.05%) Programme Manager
9 73 (3.94%) Developer
10 64 (3.46%) Business Analyst
11 55 (2.97%) IT Manager
12 54 (2.92%) Senior Manager
13 53 (2.86%) Risk Manager
14 48 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
15 42 (2.27%) Security Consultant
16 36 (1.94%) Solutions Architect
17 35 (1.89%) Risk Analyst
17 35 (1.89%) Security Engineer
18 34 (1.84%) Security Manager
19 33 (1.78%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (2.22%) Terraform
2 36 (1.94%) REST
3 32 (1.73%) .NET
4 25 (1.35%) Middleware
5 22 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
6 20 (1.08%) Kafka
7 18 (0.97%) OAuth
8 15 (0.81%) JSON
9 13 (0.70%) Spring
9 13 (0.70%) XML
10 12 (0.65%) SAML
11 11 (0.59%) OpenID
11 11 (0.59%) React
11 11 (0.59%) SailPoint
11 11 (0.59%) SLSA
11 11 (0.59%) SOAP
12 10 (0.54%) RESTful
13 9 (0.49%) LDAP
13 9 (0.49%) Spring Boot
14 8 (0.43%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 117 (6.32%) Management Information System
2 111 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 88 (4.75%) Product Ownership
4 75 (4.05%) Security Posture
5 71 (3.84%) Cloud Native
6 57 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
7 53 (2.86%) Operational Technology
8 41 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
8 41 (2.22%) Data Centre
9 35 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
11 32 (1.73%) AI Agents
12 31 (1.67%) Derivative
12 31 (1.67%) Market Risk
13 28 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
14 27 (1.46%) Data Structures
15 26 (1.40%) NHS
16 23 (1.24%) Credit Risk
16 23 (1.24%) PMI
17 21 (1.13%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 62 (3.35%) Windows
2 58 (3.13%) Linux
3 39 (2.11%) Unix
4 21 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.32%) zOS
7 5 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.16%) AIX
9 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.16%) Android
9 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.054%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 727 (39.28%) Stakeholder Management
2 458 (24.74%) Cybersecurity
3 456 (24.64%) Agile
4 412 (22.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 399 (21.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 297 (16.05%) Decision-Making
7 271 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
8 266 (14.37%) AI
9 250 (13.51%) Project Management
10 231 (12.48%) Roadmaps
11 215 (11.62%) Information Security
12 207 (11.18%) Project Delivery
13 178 (9.62%) Migration
14 175 (9.45%) DevOps
15 171 (9.24%) CI/CD
16 160 (8.64%) Analytics
17 158 (8.54%) Change Management
18 152 (8.21%) Vulnerability Management
19 147 (7.94%) PRINCE2
20 139 (7.51%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 146 (7.89%) Python
2 101 (5.46%) SQL
3 52 (2.81%) Java
4 39 (2.11%) PowerShell
5 29 (1.57%) C#
6 18 (0.97%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.76%) C++
8 13 (0.70%) Bash
9 11 (0.59%) Shell Script
9 11 (0.59%) VBA
10 8 (0.43%) Go
10 8 (0.43%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.43%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.27%) Bicep
12 5 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.22%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.22%) CLIST
13 4 (0.22%) REXX
13 4 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 511 (27.61%) Security Cleared
2 368 (19.88%) SC Cleared
3 171 (9.24%) Degree
4 162 (8.75%) CISSP
5 122 (6.59%) DV Cleared
6 112 (6.05%) CISM
7 85 (4.59%) PMI Certification
8 82 (4.43%) PMP
9 53 (2.86%) CRISC
10 51 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
12 39 (2.11%) CISA
13 37 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 29 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
15 26 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 24 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
17 23 (1.24%) Master's Degree
18 22 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
19 21 (1.13%) CCSP
20 18 (0.97%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (12.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 216 (11.67%) NIST
3 193 (10.43%) GRC
4 117 (6.32%) GDPR
5 112 (6.05%) QA
6 85 (4.59%) Data Quality
7 80 (4.32%) NCSC
8 69 (3.73%) PMO
9 38 (2.05%) JSP 440
10 34 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
11 22 (1.19%) COBIT
11 22 (1.19%) NIST 800
12 19 (1.03%) Accessibility
12 19 (1.03%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.97%) SLA
14 17 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 17 (0.92%) PCI DSS
15 16 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.81%) Def Stans
16 15 (0.81%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 44 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.19%) Docker
3 10 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
5 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.16%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.16%) Postfix
6 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.16%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
7 2 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.054%) Ceph
8 1 (0.054%) IAG
Systems Management
1 44 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 32 (1.73%) Ansible
3 14 (0.76%) Grafana
4 12 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.65%) SCCM
5 8 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.32%) Control-M
7 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.22%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.22%) Nessus
8 4 (0.22%) OMEGAMON
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (0.22%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.16%) Puppet
10 2 (0.11%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.11%) Istio
Vendors
1 271 (14.64%) Microsoft
2 111 (6.00%) ServiceNow
3 91 (4.92%) SAP
4 75 (4.05%) Oracle
5 41 (2.22%) Google
6 23 (1.24%) IBM
7 20 (1.08%) Salesforce
7 20 (1.08%) Splunk
8 16 (0.86%) Cisco
8 16 (0.86%) Databricks
8 16 (0.86%) Sybase
8 16 (0.86%) VMware
9 15 (0.81%) Foundry
10 13 (0.70%) Qualys
11 11 (0.59%) Ariba
11 11 (0.59%) Murex
12 10 (0.54%) BeyondTrust
12 10 (0.54%) CyberArk
12 10 (0.54%) Workday
13 9 (0.49%) Okta