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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 48 62
Rank change year-on-year -20 +14 +18
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,290 1,272 1,471
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.49% 4.04% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 4.54% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 719 994
10th Percentile £385 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £689 £688
90th Percentile £838 £813 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 40 52
10th Percentile £22.16 £26.11 £33.76
25th Percentile £33.50 £40.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +1.25% +512.24%
75th Percentile £72.02 £75.00 £83.40
90th Percentile £94.50 £80.32 £83.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.50 £60.75 £66.66
% change year-on-year -44.85% -8.86% +580.15%

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 32,398 27,994 37,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.63% 88.92% 87.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,495 16,988 25,007
10th Percentile £305 £307 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,977 897 1,738
10th Percentile £14.52 £15.62 £14.02
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.94 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £38.85
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -16.34% +19.54%
75th Percentile £57.00 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.92 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.83 £40.28
% change year-on-year -22.15% -23.46% +54.90%

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 January 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 January 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 19 January 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 1,150 £550 -5.66% 592
London -7 625 £600 -4.00% 164
UK excluding London -28 557 £500 -4.76% 532
Work from Home -7 357 £550 - 308
North of England -19 168 £492 -8.04% 99
South East -11 151 £523 -9.13% 193
North West -33 84 £488 -2.01% 49
Yorkshire +13 82 £492 -9.31% 42
Midlands -47 79 £482 -16.17% 79
South West -8 63 £513 +5.13% 55
Scotland -4 47 £438 -2.78% 25
West Midlands -54 47 £525 -8.70% 44
East of England -31 34 £575 - 65
East Midlands -20 32 £437 -8.00% 35
Wales +8 13 £308 - 22
Northern Ireland +2 9 £500 +66.67% 8
North East -21 2 £550 -13.73% 8

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 50 (3.88%) Confluence
2 28 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.85%) SAS
6 7 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.39%) CMS
8 4 (0.31%) CICS
8 4 (0.31%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.16%) IIS
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.078%) Apache
10 1 (0.078%) Camunda
10 1 (0.078%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.078%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 84 (6.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (4.50%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.31%) Revit
6 3 (0.23%) Navisworks
6 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.23%) Trello
7 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.16%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 29 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.62%) SAP CO
3 8 (0.62%) SAP FI
3 8 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
4 7 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.39%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.39%) Primavera
6 4 (0.31%) Endur
6 4 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.31%) VisionPLUS
7 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.23%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.16%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 141 (10.93%) Azure
2 127 (9.84%) AWS
3 58 (4.50%) GCP
4 52 (4.03%) Power Platform
5 39 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (2.71%) SaaS
7 31 (2.40%) Entra ID
8 23 (1.78%) GitHub
9 18 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
10 17 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (1.01%) Google Workspace
13 11 (0.85%) OCI
14 10 (0.78%) Google Sheets
15 8 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (0.62%) OpenShift
15 8 (0.62%) PaaS
15 8 (0.62%) Snowflake
16 7 (0.54%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.80%) Firewall
2 28 (2.17%) Network Security
3 10 (0.78%) DNS
3 10 (0.78%) Internet
3 10 (0.78%) LAN
4 9 (0.70%) Kerberos
5 7 (0.54%) VPN
5 7 (0.54%) WAN
5 7 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.39%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.39%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.31%) 5G
8 3 (0.23%) Broadband
8 3 (0.23%) DHCP
8 3 (0.23%) HTTP
8 3 (0.23%) Multicast
8 3 (0.23%) S/MIME
8 3 (0.23%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.23%) SSL
9 2 (0.16%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.41%) Power BI
2 33 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (1.71%) SQL Server
4 19 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.85%) Metadata
6 11 (0.85%) NoSQL
7 10 (0.78%) Tableau
8 8 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.62%) Big Data
8 8 (0.62%) KDB
8 8 (0.62%) Kdb+
9 7 (0.54%) MySQL
10 6 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (0.47%) Dremio
10 6 (0.47%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.47%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 122 (9.46%) JIRA
2 18 (1.40%) Git
3 13 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.70%) SpecFlow
5 6 (0.47%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.39%) GitLab
6 5 (0.39%) QUnit
7 4 (0.31%) Gradle
7 4 (0.31%) Maven
7 4 (0.31%) SonarLint
7 4 (0.31%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.23%) GCC
8 3 (0.23%) GDB
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.16%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.16%) Postman
10 1 (0.078%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.078%) MLflow
10 1 (0.078%) REST Assured
General
1 538 (41.71%) Social Skills
2 511 (39.61%) Finance
3 222 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (14.42%) Banking
5 129 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 101 (7.83%) Legal
7 58 (4.50%) Front Office
8 55 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
9 54 (4.19%) Organisational Skills
10 42 (3.26%) Investment Banking
11 34 (2.64%) Manufacturing
12 32 (2.48%) Financial Institution
13 26 (2.02%) Retail
14 25 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
14 25 (1.94%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
16 22 (1.71%) Law
17 19 (1.47%) Local Government
17 19 (1.47%) Military
18 18 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 161 (12.48%) Analyst
2 152 (11.78%) Project Manager
3 128 (9.92%) Senior
4 118 (9.15%) Lead
5 116 (8.99%) Consultant
6 109 (8.45%) Architect
7 107 (8.29%) Developer
8 61 (4.73%) Business Analyst
9 50 (3.88%) Programme Manager
10 49 (3.80%) Security Architect
11 43 (3.33%) Security Consultant
12 42 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
13 38 (2.95%) Senior Manager
14 37 (2.87%) Senior Developer
15 36 (2.79%) Risk Analyst
15 36 (2.79%) Risk Manager
16 32 (2.48%) Security Analyst
17 31 (2.40%) IT Manager
18 30 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
19 28 (2.17%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.86%) Kafka
2 19 (1.47%) .NET
3 18 (1.40%) REST
4 16 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (1.24%) RESTful
5 15 (1.16%) NumPy
5 15 (1.16%) Pandas
6 14 (1.09%) .NET Framework
6 14 (1.09%) Middleware
6 14 (1.09%) OAuth
7 12 (0.93%) SAML
7 12 (0.93%) XML
8 11 (0.85%) AngularJS
8 11 (0.85%) React
9 10 (0.78%) Entity Framework
9 10 (0.78%) Playwright
10 9 (0.70%) COM
10 9 (0.70%) Dask
10 9 (0.70%) NHibernate
11 8 (0.62%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 155 (12.02%) Management Information System
2 66 (5.12%) Product Ownership
3 64 (4.96%) Security Posture
4 62 (4.81%) Derivative
5 55 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 44 (3.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 40 (3.10%) Equities
8 39 (3.02%) Market Risk
9 33 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 33 (2.56%) Credit Risk
9 33 (2.56%) Data Centre
10 31 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (2.33%) Cloud Native
12 29 (2.25%) Algorithms
13 28 (2.17%) Fixed Income
14 23 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
16 18 (1.40%) NHS
17 17 (1.32%) Hedge funds
18 16 (1.24%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 42 (3.26%) Linux
2 33 (2.56%) Windows
3 18 (1.40%) Unix
4 6 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.23%) VMS
5 3 (0.23%) zOS
6 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.078%) Android
7 1 (0.078%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (26.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 324 (25.12%) Agile
3 259 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
4 251 (19.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 230 (17.83%) Cybersecurity
6 208 (16.12%) Project Management
7 176 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 174 (13.49%) Decision-Making
9 159 (12.33%) Information Security
10 128 (9.92%) Project Delivery
11 115 (8.91%) Change Management
12 114 (8.84%) Migration
13 110 (8.53%) Roadmaps
14 109 (8.45%) Regulatory Compliance
15 106 (8.22%) Analytics
16 101 (7.83%) PRINCE2
17 99 (7.67%) Data Protection
18 98 (7.60%) AI
19 93 (7.21%) Scrum
20 87 (6.74%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (9.46%) Python
2 120 (9.30%) SQL
3 53 (4.11%) Java
4 31 (2.40%) C++
5 29 (2.25%) C#
6 26 (2.02%) PowerShell
7 16 (1.24%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.09%) VBA
9 9 (0.70%) R
9 9 (0.70%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.39%) JCL
10 5 (0.39%) Korn
11 4 (0.31%) COBOL
11 4 (0.31%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.23%) Bash
12 3 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.16%) Perl
13 2 (0.16%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.16%) RPG
13 2 (0.16%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 246 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 220 (17.05%) Degree
3 181 (14.03%) SC Cleared
4 120 (9.30%) CISSP
5 85 (6.59%) CISM
6 76 (5.89%) PMI Certification
7 71 (5.50%) PMP
8 62 (4.81%) DV Cleared
9 58 (4.50%) Master's Degree
10 37 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 30 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 27 (2.09%) CRISC
13 25 (1.94%) CISA
14 22 (1.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 16 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
15 16 (1.24%) PhD
16 15 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
17 12 (0.93%) Azure Certification
18 11 (0.85%) GIAC
19 10 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (12.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 154 (11.94%) NIST
3 108 (8.37%) GDPR
4 98 (7.60%) GRC
5 73 (5.66%) PMO
6 67 (5.19%) QA
7 40 (3.10%) PCI DSS
8 36 (2.79%) Data Quality
9 34 (2.64%) NCSC
10 27 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 21 (1.63%) COBIT
12 16 (1.24%) EU AI Act
12 16 (1.24%) SLA
13 15 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
14 14 (1.09%) Def Stans
14 14 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 13 (1.01%) Basel III
15 13 (1.01%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.93%) JSP 440
System Software
1 33 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.71%) Docker
3 7 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.078%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (2.09%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.47%) Terraform
3 11 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.78%) RSA Archer
5 8 (0.62%) Ansible
5 8 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (0.39%) SCCM
7 4 (0.31%) Grafana
8 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.23%) QRadar
8 3 (0.23%) WSUS
9 2 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.078%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.078%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.078%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.078%) Packer
10 1 (0.078%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 163 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 74 (5.74%) SAP
3 55 (4.26%) Oracle
3 55 (4.26%) ServiceNow
4 32 (2.48%) Google
5 18 (1.40%) Salesforce
6 17 (1.32%) Murex
7 15 (1.16%) Ariba
8 12 (0.93%) Databricks
8 12 (0.93%) Splunk
9 11 (0.85%) Workday
10 9 (0.70%) CyberArk
10 9 (0.70%) IBM
11 8 (0.62%) Citrix
12 7 (0.54%) F5
12 7 (0.54%) VMware
13 6 (0.47%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.47%) Informatica
14 5 (0.39%) Cisco
14 5 (0.39%) Solace