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

6 months to
11 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 1,985 1,332 1,276
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.64% 4.02% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 4.45% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 822 714
10th Percentile £400 £361 £363
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £564 £559
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +0.85% -2.78%
75th Percentile £675 £715 £689
90th Percentile £788 £875 £823
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 33 30
10th Percentile £38.03 £22.16 £33.95
25th Percentile £51.00 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £74.84 £33.50 £57.94
Median % change year-on-year +123.40% -42.18% -3.44%
75th Percentile £84.65 £64.00 £74.45
90th Percentile £89.80 £82.75 £80.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.35 £33.50 £57.94
% change year-on-year +130.90% -42.18% -19.97%

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 46,170 29,963 32,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.61% 90.48% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,721 18,625 19,646
10th Percentile £325 £295 £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 £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,354 1,887 1,283
10th Percentile £13.53 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -9.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.65 £65.06 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -7.99%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -3 1,732 £568 -1.30% 3,364
UK excluding London -1 947 £525 +2.44% 1,478
London -7 875 £600 -7.69% 2,064
Work from Home -12 541 £550 -8.26% 1,323
North of England -6 272 £505 +1.00% 326
South East +16 257 £575 +4.55% 381
North West -20 134 £525 +3.83% 187
Yorkshire +20 131 £493 -1.40% 116
Scotland +16 122 £500 +11.11% 165
Midlands -35 106 £500 +5.26% 200
South West -19 103 £600 - 180
West Midlands -22 83 £495 -3.41% 115
East of England +9 71 £513 -16.33% 110
East Midlands -20 20 £550 +36.82% 85
Wales -12 15 £600 +45.45% 37
Northern Ireland +1 10 £505 -8.18% 84
North East -36 8 £450 -18.18% 23
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 80 (4.03%) Confluence
2 38 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.60%) 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 (0.10%) Apache
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.050%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.050%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.050%) Appian
8 1 (0.050%) CICS
8 1 (0.050%) Documentum
8 1 (0.050%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.050%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 61 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (1.11%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.10%) Gliffy
8 2 (0.10%) LaTeX
8 2 (0.10%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.10%) Revit
8 2 (0.10%) Windchill
9 1 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 52 (2.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.76%) SAP GRC
3 12 (0.60%) Endur
4 10 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.50%) Primavera
5 6 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.30%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.25%) SAP HCM
6 5 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.20%) Actimize
7 4 (0.20%) Magento
7 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.15%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.15%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 301 (15.16%) Azure
2 212 (10.68%) AWS
3 103 (5.19%) GCP
4 81 (4.08%) Power Platform
5 72 (3.63%) Entra ID
6 67 (3.38%) SaaS
7 62 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
8 54 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (2.07%) GitHub
10 30 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
11 28 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
11 28 (1.41%) OCI
12 24 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
13 19 (0.96%) Snowflake
14 18 (0.91%) Serverless
15 17 (0.86%) Azure AI
15 17 (0.86%) PaaS
16 16 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
16 16 (0.81%) IaaS
17 15 (0.76%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.58%) Network Security
2 55 (2.77%) Firewall
3 23 (1.16%) WAN
4 21 (1.06%) LAN
4 21 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 18 (0.91%) DNS
6 17 (0.86%) VPN
7 11 (0.55%) 5G
7 11 (0.55%) DHCP
8 9 (0.45%) 4G
9 8 (0.40%) Cisco IPT
9 8 (0.40%) Internet
10 7 (0.35%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.25%) BIG-IP
12 5 (0.25%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
12 5 (0.25%) Softphone
12 5 (0.25%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (3.12%) Power BI
2 47 (2.37%) SQL Server
3 35 (1.76%) Metadata
4 27 (1.36%) Relational Database
5 23 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (0.81%) MongoDB
7 16 (0.81%) Oracle Database
8 15 (0.76%) Data Lake
9 14 (0.71%) Db2
10 13 (0.65%) Big Data
11 9 (0.45%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.40%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.35%) MySQL
13 7 (0.35%) Tableau
14 6 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.30%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.25%) Snowflake Schema
16 4 (0.20%) Neo4j
16 4 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 147 (7.41%) JIRA
2 30 (1.51%) Git
3 24 (1.21%) Jenkins
4 15 (0.76%) Selenium
5 12 (0.60%) Cypress.io
6 11 (0.55%) Postman
7 10 (0.50%) GitLab
8 9 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.45%) 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%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 809 (40.76%) Social Skills
2 755 (38.04%) Finance
3 346 (17.43%) Analytical Skills
4 254 (12.80%) Public Sector
5 251 (12.64%) Banking
6 150 (7.56%) Legal
7 111 (5.59%) Influencing Skills
8 91 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
9 80 (4.03%) Front Office
10 57 (2.87%) Aerospace
11 54 (2.72%) Military
12 52 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
13 49 (2.47%) Manufacturing
14 47 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
15 44 (2.22%) Financial Institution
15 44 (2.22%) Investment Banking
16 40 (2.02%) Telecoms
17 38 (1.91%) Law
18 36 (1.81%) Retail
19 26 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 265 (13.35%) Lead
2 226 (11.39%) Architect
3 207 (10.43%) Analyst
4 202 (10.18%) Senior
5 201 (10.13%) Project Manager
6 109 (5.49%) Consultant
7 90 (4.53%) Security Architect
8 89 (4.48%) Programme Manager
9 74 (3.73%) Developer
10 69 (3.48%) Business Analyst
11 59 (2.97%) Senior Manager
12 58 (2.92%) IT Manager
13 55 (2.77%) Delivery Manager
14 52 (2.62%) Risk Manager
15 48 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
16 42 (2.12%) Risk Analyst
17 41 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
17 41 (2.07%) Technical Manager
18 40 (2.02%) Security Engineer
19 38 (1.91%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (3.38%) Terraform
2 46 (2.32%) REST
3 40 (2.02%) .NET
4 27 (1.36%) Middleware
5 25 (1.26%) Kafka
6 20 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
7 19 (0.96%) OAuth
8 13 (0.65%) OpenID
8 13 (0.65%) SAML
8 13 (0.65%) Spring
9 12 (0.60%) JSON
9 12 (0.60%) React
10 11 (0.55%) SLSA
10 11 (0.55%) Web Services
11 10 (0.50%) SailPoint
11 10 (0.50%) SOAP
11 10 (0.50%) XGBoost
12 9 (0.45%) ADO
12 9 (0.45%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 131 (6.60%) Onboarding
2 125 (6.30%) Management Information System
3 111 (5.59%) Product Ownership
4 81 (4.08%) Security Posture
5 71 (3.58%) Cloud Native
6 63 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
7 57 (2.87%) Data Centre
7 57 (2.87%) Operational Technology
8 48 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (2.32%) Cyber Threat
10 36 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
10 36 (1.81%) Market Risk
11 35 (1.76%) AI Agents
12 30 (1.51%) Credit Risk
12 30 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
13 28 (1.41%) Derivative
14 26 (1.31%) NHS
15 25 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 25 (1.26%) PKI
15 25 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 76 (3.83%) Linux
2 74 (3.73%) Windows
3 43 (2.17%) Unix
4 25 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.40%) zOS
7 6 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.25%) Android
8 5 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.15%) AIX
9 3 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.10%) macOS
11 1 (0.050%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.050%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 838 (42.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 515 (25.94%) Cybersecurity
3 490 (24.69%) Agile
4 472 (23.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 425 (21.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 334 (16.83%) Decision-Making
7 299 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
8 292 (14.71%) Roadmaps
9 285 (14.36%) AI
10 261 (13.15%) Project Management
11 237 (11.94%) Project Delivery
12 222 (11.18%) Information Security
13 202 (10.18%) CI/CD
14 201 (10.13%) DevOps
15 199 (10.03%) Migration
16 176 (8.87%) Analytics
17 175 (8.82%) Change Management
18 169 (8.51%) Vulnerability Management
19 159 (8.01%) Data Protection
20 156 (7.86%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 173 (8.72%) Python
2 115 (5.79%) SQL
3 52 (2.62%) Java
4 50 (2.52%) PowerShell
5 47 (2.37%) C#
6 25 (1.26%) Bash
7 22 (1.11%) JavaScript
8 17 (0.86%) Shell Script
9 15 (0.76%) C++
10 10 (0.50%) Go
11 8 (0.40%) VBA
12 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.35%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.30%) Bicep
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
1 549 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 401 (20.20%) SC Cleared
3 192 (9.67%) Degree
4 169 (8.51%) CISSP
5 124 (6.25%) DV Cleared
6 118 (5.94%) CISM
7 99 (4.99%) PMI Certification
8 91 (4.58%) PMP
9 62 (3.12%) CRISC
10 57 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 46 (2.32%) CISA
11 46 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
12 41 (2.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 32 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
14 31 (1.56%) Master's Degree
15 25 (1.26%) AWS Certification
15 25 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
15 25 (1.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 24 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
17 22 (1.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (12.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 215 (10.83%) NIST
3 196 (9.87%) GRC
4 124 (6.25%) QA
5 108 (5.44%) GDPR
6 97 (4.89%) Data Quality
7 93 (4.69%) NCSC
8 69 (3.48%) PMO
9 45 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 26 (1.31%) JSP 440
11 24 (1.21%) NIST 800
12 17 (0.86%) Accessibility
12 17 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 16 (0.81%) COBIT
13 16 (0.81%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.76%) Def Stans
15 14 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 14 (0.71%) SLA
16 13 (0.65%) ISO 31000
16 13 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.46%) Docker
3 18 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.55%) vSphere
5 10 (0.50%) 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 (0.050%) NFS
11 1 (0.050%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 60 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 39 (1.96%) Ansible
3 18 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.65%) Grafana
4 13 (0.65%) SCCM
5 8 (0.40%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.35%) Control-M
6 7 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.25%) FortiGate
7 5 (0.25%) Nessus
7 5 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
7 5 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.15%) Argo
8 3 (0.15%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.15%) Kibana
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.15%) Puppet
8 3 (0.15%) QRadar
9 2 (0.10%) Istio
Vendors
1 304 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 115 (5.79%) ServiceNow
3 101 (5.09%) SAP
4 79 (3.98%) Oracle
5 54 (2.72%) Google
6 27 (1.36%) VMware
7 24 (1.21%) IBM
7 24 (1.21%) Murex
8 23 (1.16%) Cisco
8 23 (1.16%) Splunk
9 22 (1.11%) Salesforce
10 18 (0.91%) Ariba
10 18 (0.91%) Databricks
11 17 (0.86%) Qualys
12 13 (0.65%) BeyondTrust
12 13 (0.65%) CyberArk
12 13 (0.65%) OpenAI
12 13 (0.65%) Sybase
12 13 (0.65%) Workday
13 12 (0.60%) Foundry