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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 49 67
Rank change year-on-year -23 +18 -1
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,504 1,301 1,313
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.13% 4.46% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 4.90% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 975 807 851
10th Percentile £402 £370 £363
25th Percentile £464 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £678 £750 £700
90th Percentile £835 £850 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 35 44
10th Percentile £20.27 £40.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £30.00 £47.91 £28.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% +370.37%
75th Percentile £105.25 £80.80 £61.25
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.32 £82.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £64.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -14.06% +28.00% +410.20%

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 40,493 26,571 36,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.28% 90.99% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,428 17,064 23,633
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,382 1,097 2,442
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.26 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.72 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.23 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.39% -32.73% +7.14%

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 19 May 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 May 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 May 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 -24 1,328 £550 -5.66% 651
UK excluding London -13 740 £525 - 431
London -36 639 £600 -7.69% 290
Work from Home -14 436 £550 -8.03% 303
North of England -10 229 £513 -0.15% 96
South East -16 193 £563 -2.17% 159
Yorkshire -3 119 £487 -3.80% 37
North West -13 108 £550 +7.57% 52
Midlands -37 107 £537 +7.45% 53
Scotland +6 85 £475 -2.06% 22
South West +2 83 £570 +26.67% 51
West Midlands -39 74 £525 +5.00% 37
East of England -11 44 £525 -4.55% 45
East Midlands -27 33 £550 +22.22% 16
Northern Ireland -4 6 £450 -23.73% 5
North East -31 2 £480 -16.52% 7
Wales -15 1 - - 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 66 (4.39%) Confluence
2 39 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.47%) SAS
5 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.20%) nginx
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.13%) Apache
7 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.066%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.066%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.066%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.066%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.066%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 65 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (3.52%) Microsoft Project
3 43 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.33%) Revit
7 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.27%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.27%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.13%) Windchill
9 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.066%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.066%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 26 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.53%) Endur
4 7 (0.47%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.47%) Summit
5 6 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.33%) Actimize
6 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.33%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.27%) Primavera
7 4 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.20%) Findur
8 3 (0.20%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.20%) SAP GRC
8 3 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
8 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 193 (12.83%) Azure
2 144 (9.57%) AWS
3 65 (4.32%) Power Platform
4 62 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
5 61 (4.06%) GCP
6 38 (2.53%) Entra ID
7 37 (2.46%) SaaS
8 25 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
10 22 (1.46%) GitHub
11 21 (1.40%) Google Workspace
12 19 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
12 19 (1.26%) Snowflake
13 18 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (1.20%) Google Sheets
13 18 (1.20%) PaaS
14 15 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (0.73%) OpenShift
16 10 (0.66%) Azure Sentinel
16 10 (0.66%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.39%) Network Security
2 31 (2.06%) Firewall
3 19 (1.26%) DNS
4 12 (0.80%) DHCP
5 11 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (0.66%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
7 9 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.53%) WAN
9 7 (0.47%) 5G
9 7 (0.47%) HTTP
10 6 (0.40%) LAN
11 5 (0.33%) 3G
11 5 (0.33%) 4G
11 5 (0.33%) Internet
12 4 (0.27%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.27%) NAS
12 4 (0.27%) SAN
13 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.59%) Power BI
2 36 (2.39%) Metadata
3 24 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 21 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (1.00%) SQL Server
7 11 (0.73%) MongoDB
7 11 (0.73%) Tableau
8 9 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.47%) Big Data
9 7 (0.47%) MySQL
9 7 (0.47%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.40%) DB2
10 6 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.33%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.33%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.33%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.27%) Crystal Reports
12 4 (0.27%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 126 (8.38%) JIRA
2 19 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.20%) Git
4 10 (0.66%) GitLab
5 5 (0.33%) JUnit
5 5 (0.33%) Mockito
5 5 (0.33%) Zephyr
6 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (0.27%) DbUnit
6 4 (0.27%) jMock
6 4 (0.27%) Maven
6 4 (0.27%) Selenium
6 4 (0.27%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.27%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.066%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.066%) Flyway
7 1 (0.066%) MLflow
7 1 (0.066%) Postman
7 1 (0.066%) TestRail
General
1 552 (36.70%) Finance
2 540 (35.90%) Social Skills
3 233 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (11.57%) Banking
5 166 (11.04%) Public Sector
6 106 (7.05%) Legal
7 49 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
8 46 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
9 38 (2.53%) Investment Banking
10 36 (2.39%) Financial Institution
10 36 (2.39%) Front Office
10 36 (2.39%) Retail
11 33 (2.19%) Telecoms
12 31 (2.06%) Military
13 30 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
13 30 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (1.93%) Manufacturing
15 18 (1.20%) Marketing
16 17 (1.13%) Aerospace
16 17 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 195 (12.97%) Project Manager
2 188 (12.50%) Lead
3 153 (10.17%) Architect
4 149 (9.91%) Senior
5 147 (9.77%) Analyst
6 91 (6.05%) Consultant
7 73 (4.85%) Programme Manager
8 72 (4.79%) Business Analyst
9 66 (4.39%) Developer
10 63 (4.19%) Security Architect
11 51 (3.39%) Risk Manager
12 49 (3.26%) Senior Manager
13 43 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
14 37 (2.46%) Security Consultant
15 36 (2.39%) Security Engineer
16 34 (2.26%) IT Manager
17 33 (2.19%) Risk Analyst
18 30 (1.99%) Security Manager
19 29 (1.93%) Solutions Architect
20 26 (1.73%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.19%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (1.46%) REST
3 18 (1.20%) Kafka
4 15 (1.00%) .NET
5 14 (0.93%) XML
6 12 (0.80%) Middleware
7 11 (0.73%) Leaflet
8 10 (0.66%) JSON
8 10 (0.66%) RESTful
9 9 (0.60%) LDAP
10 8 (0.53%) OAuth
10 8 (0.53%) SOAP
11 7 (0.47%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.47%) PyTorch
11 7 (0.47%) React
11 7 (0.47%) Web Services
12 6 (0.40%) J2EE
12 6 (0.40%) JSP
12 6 (0.40%) scikit-learn
12 6 (0.40%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 115 (7.65%) Management Information System
2 64 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 60 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 54 (3.59%) Derivative
4 54 (3.59%) Security Posture
5 50 (3.32%) Operational Technology
6 49 (3.26%) Data Centre
7 42 (2.79%) Cloud Native
7 42 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
8 34 (2.26%) Market Risk
9 25 (1.66%) Data Structures
10 24 (1.60%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.53%) Credit Risk
12 22 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
13 21 (1.40%) Fixed Income
14 20 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
15 19 (1.26%) Equities
15 19 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 18 (1.20%) NHS
17 17 (1.13%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 42 (2.79%) Windows
2 37 (2.46%) Linux
3 24 (1.60%) Unix
4 9 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.20%) zOS
8 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (30.19%) Stakeholder Management
2 377 (25.07%) Agile
3 295 (19.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 273 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 262 (17.42%) Cybersecurity
6 259 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
7 243 (16.16%) Project Management
8 210 (13.96%) Decision-Making
9 177 (11.77%) AI
10 174 (11.57%) Information Security
11 164 (10.90%) Change Management
11 164 (10.90%) Roadmaps
12 148 (9.84%) Project Delivery
13 142 (9.44%) Migration
14 130 (8.64%) Analytics
15 124 (8.24%) Regulatory Compliance
16 116 (7.71%) Data Protection
16 116 (7.71%) PRINCE2
17 115 (7.65%) DevOps
18 109 (7.25%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 115 (7.65%) Python
1 115 (7.65%) SQL
2 55 (3.66%) Java
3 30 (1.99%) PowerShell
4 22 (1.46%) C++
5 18 (1.20%) C#
6 13 (0.86%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.66%) VBA
8 8 (0.53%) Bash
8 8 (0.53%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.33%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.27%) Perl
12 2 (0.13%) Go
12 2 (0.13%) Korn
12 2 (0.13%) RPG
12 2 (0.13%) Scala
13 1 (0.066%) C
13 1 (0.066%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.066%) R
Qualifications
1 343 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 254 (16.89%) SC Cleared
3 203 (13.50%) Degree
4 127 (8.44%) CISSP
5 94 (6.25%) CISM
6 79 (5.25%) DV Cleared
7 73 (4.85%) PMP
8 72 (4.79%) PMI Certification
9 40 (2.66%) CRISC
10 34 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 29 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 26 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
14 24 (1.60%) Master's Degree
15 23 (1.53%) CISA
16 19 (1.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 15 (1.00%) CESG Certified Professional
18 14 (0.93%) GIAC
19 13 (0.86%) CCSP
19 13 (0.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (12.23%) NIST
2 180 (11.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 122 (8.11%) GRC
4 109 (7.25%) GDPR
5 85 (5.65%) PMO
6 75 (4.99%) QA
7 60 (3.99%) Data Quality
8 45 (2.99%) NCSC
8 45 (2.99%) PCI DSS
9 32 (2.13%) JSP 440
9 32 (2.13%) SLA
10 28 (1.86%) COBIT
11 26 (1.73%) SOC 2
12 25 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
13 22 (1.46%) NIST 800
14 18 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
15 17 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 17 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (1.06%) ISO 31000
16 16 (1.06%) RMADS
System Software
1 30 (1.99%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.93%) Docker
3 11 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.27%) Postfix
5 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.066%) Ceph
7 1 (0.066%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.066%) NFS
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.066%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (1.60%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.93%) Ansible
3 12 (0.80%) Terraform
4 10 (0.66%) SCCM
5 9 (0.60%) Grafana
5 9 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.33%) Control-M
8 5 (0.33%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.20%) CASB
10 3 (0.20%) Nessus
10 3 (0.20%) WSUS
11 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.13%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.13%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 198 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 85 (5.65%) Oracle
3 81 (5.39%) SAP
4 80 (5.32%) ServiceNow
5 42 (2.79%) Google
6 22 (1.46%) Workday
7 21 (1.40%) Murex
8 20 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 17 (1.13%) Ariba
10 16 (1.06%) Databricks
11 14 (0.93%) VMware
12 13 (0.86%) Cisco
13 12 (0.80%) F5
14 11 (0.73%) IBM
15 9 (0.60%) Splunk
16 8 (0.53%) Infoblox
17 7 (0.47%) Bloomberg
17 7 (0.47%) Foundry
17 7 (0.47%) HP
17 7 (0.47%) Sybase