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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 51 75
Rank change year-on-year -21 +24 -9
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,689 1,423 1,232
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.21% 4.40% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 4.86% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,085 867 756
10th Percentile £406 £372 £356
25th Percentile £481 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £712
90th Percentile £800 £875 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £513 £543
% change year-on-year +5.37% -5.53% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 29 41
10th Percentile £23.50 £29.19 £12.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £47.83 £22.34
Median hourly rate £72.34 £61.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.64% +29.46% +297.82%
75th Percentile £85.40 £75.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £105.48 £87.30 £70.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.34 £63.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year +22.28% +26.50% +62.60%

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 44,833 29,276 36,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.19% 90.47% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,910 18,456 23,540
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,660 1,489 2,488
10th Percentile £14.95 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -3.62%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -20 1,499 £570 -1.89% 940
UK excluding London -6 869 £540 +5.37% 580
London -41 703 £600 -7.69% 512
Work from Home -21 489 £550 -8.33% 404
North of England -9 265 £514 +0.29% 120
South East -2 232 £575 +4.55% 173
North West -11 137 £540 +5.62% 69
Yorkshire +5 126 £500 -4.76% 42
Midlands -38 119 £550 +16.53% 67
Scotland +2 98 £475 +0.85% 30
South West 0 93 £570 +9.62% 143
West Midlands -41 90 £563 +12.50% 36
East of England +5 58 £525 -4.55% 44
East Midlands -16 29 £550 +24.29% 31
Northern Ireland 0 9 £394 -28.41% 10
Wales -18 6 £800 +79.37% 5
North East -41 4 £454 -17.50% 9

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 69 (4.09%) Confluence
2 35 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.59%) SAS
4 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.24%) IIS
6 3 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.059%) Apache
8 1 (0.059%) Appian
8 1 (0.059%) CMS
8 1 (0.059%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.059%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.059%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.059%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.059%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.059%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 52 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.89%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.24%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.24%) Revit
6 4 (0.24%) Trello
7 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) Windchill
8 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.059%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 35 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.77%) Endur
3 11 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.41%) Primavera
4 7 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.36%) Actimize
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.36%) Summit
6 5 (0.30%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.30%) Loan IQ
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.24%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.18%) Findur
8 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 251 (14.86%) Azure
2 177 (10.48%) AWS
3 77 (4.56%) GCP
4 72 (4.26%) Power Platform
5 58 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (3.26%) Entra ID
7 48 (2.84%) SaaS
8 36 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (1.89%) GitHub
10 31 (1.84%) Microsoft Purview
11 23 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
12 20 (1.18%) PaaS
13 19 (1.12%) Snowflake
14 16 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
14 16 (0.95%) Google Workspace
15 15 (0.89%) Azure AI
15 15 (0.89%) Serverless
16 14 (0.83%) OCI
17 13 (0.77%) Anthropic Claude
17 13 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.37%) Network Security
2 38 (2.25%) Firewall
3 16 (0.95%) DNS
4 14 (0.83%) DHCP
4 14 (0.83%) TCP/IP
5 13 (0.77%) WAN
6 12 (0.71%) 5G
7 11 (0.65%) BIG-IP
8 10 (0.59%) 4G
8 10 (0.59%) LAN
8 10 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.41%) HTTP
9 7 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (0.36%) Internet
10 6 (0.36%) VPN
11 5 (0.30%) 3G
11 5 (0.30%) NAS
11 5 (0.30%) NGFW
11 5 (0.30%) SAN
12 4 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.20%) Power BI
2 35 (2.07%) Metadata
3 33 (1.95%) Relational Database
4 28 (1.66%) SQL Server
5 21 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (0.95%) MongoDB
7 12 (0.71%) Db2
8 11 (0.65%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.59%) RDBMS
9 10 (0.59%) Tableau
10 9 (0.53%) Big Data
11 6 (0.36%) MySQL
11 6 (0.36%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.36%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.30%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 121 (7.16%) JIRA
2 25 (1.48%) Git
3 24 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.59%) GitLab
5 8 (0.47%) Selenium
6 6 (0.36%) TeamCity
6 6 (0.36%) Zephyr
7 5 (0.30%) JUnit
7 5 (0.30%) Mockito
8 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (0.24%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.24%) DbUnit
8 4 (0.24%) jMock
8 4 (0.24%) Maven
8 4 (0.24%) Postman
8 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.18%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.18%) MLflow
9 3 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 630 (37.30%) Social Skills
2 629 (37.24%) Finance
3 263 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
4 195 (11.55%) Public Sector
5 191 (11.31%) Banking
6 132 (7.82%) Legal
7 61 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
8 60 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
9 51 (3.02%) Front Office
10 43 (2.55%) Financial Institution
11 39 (2.31%) Retail
11 39 (2.31%) Telecoms
12 38 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
12 38 (2.25%) Investment Banking
13 36 (2.13%) Aerospace
13 36 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (1.78%) Manufacturing
14 30 (1.78%) Military
15 26 (1.54%) Law
16 23 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 217 (12.85%) Lead
2 204 (12.08%) Project Manager
3 199 (11.78%) Architect
4 167 (9.89%) Senior
5 162 (9.59%) Analyst
6 93 (5.51%) Consultant
7 84 (4.97%) Security Architect
8 72 (4.26%) Business Analyst
8 72 (4.26%) Developer
9 69 (4.09%) Programme Manager
10 64 (3.79%) Senior Manager
11 57 (3.37%) Risk Manager
12 45 (2.66%) IT Manager
13 43 (2.55%) Delivery Manager
14 39 (2.31%) Security Consultant
15 37 (2.19%) Security Engineer
16 35 (2.07%) Security Manager
17 34 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
18 29 (1.72%) Product Manager
19 27 (1.60%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 26 (1.54%) .NET
2 26 (1.54%) REST
3 20 (1.18%) Kafka
4 19 (1.12%) Middleware
5 15 (0.89%) XML
6 14 (0.83%) OAuth
7 13 (0.77%) JSON
8 12 (0.71%) RESTful
8 12 (0.71%) SOAP
9 11 (0.65%) Azure Blueprints
9 11 (0.65%) Leaflet
9 11 (0.65%) OpenID
9 11 (0.65%) React
9 11 (0.65%) SAML
10 10 (0.59%) Spring
10 10 (0.59%) Web Services
11 9 (0.53%) LDAP
11 9 (0.53%) SLSA
12 8 (0.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 123 (7.28%) Management Information System
2 86 (5.09%) Onboarding
2 86 (5.09%) Product Ownership
3 67 (3.97%) Cloud Native
4 66 (3.91%) Security Posture
5 64 (3.79%) Operational Technology
6 53 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
7 47 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 39 (2.31%) Derivative
9 33 (1.95%) Market Risk
10 28 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
11 26 (1.54%) AI Agents
11 26 (1.54%) Fixed Income
11 26 (1.54%) PMI
12 25 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
13 24 (1.42%) Data Structures
13 24 (1.42%) NHS
14 21 (1.24%) Credit Risk
15 20 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
16 18 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (3.20%) Windows
2 47 (2.78%) Linux
3 33 (1.95%) Unix
4 20 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.41%) zOS
7 6 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.059%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 570 (33.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 423 (25.04%) Agile
3 385 (22.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 352 (20.84%) Cybersecurity
5 348 (20.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 258 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
7 253 (14.98%) Decision-Making
7 253 (14.98%) Project Management
8 224 (13.26%) Roadmaps
9 220 (13.03%) AI
10 206 (12.20%) Information Security
11 182 (10.78%) Change Management
12 164 (9.71%) Project Delivery
13 153 (9.06%) Migration
14 148 (8.76%) CI/CD
15 147 (8.70%) DevOps
16 140 (8.29%) Analytics
17 129 (7.64%) Regulatory Compliance
18 128 (7.58%) Data Protection
19 127 (7.52%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 133 (7.87%) Python
2 109 (6.45%) SQL
3 60 (3.55%) Java
4 41 (2.43%) PowerShell
5 24 (1.42%) C#
6 18 (1.07%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.77%) VBA
8 10 (0.59%) C++
8 10 (0.59%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.53%) Bash
9 9 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.41%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.36%) Go
12 4 (0.24%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.24%) Bicep
12 4 (0.24%) CLIST
12 4 (0.24%) JCL
12 4 (0.24%) REXX
12 4 (0.24%) Scala
13 3 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 411 (24.33%) Security Cleared
2 304 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 191 (11.31%) Degree
4 162 (9.59%) CISSP
5 103 (6.10%) CISM
6 97 (5.74%) DV Cleared
7 80 (4.74%) PMI Certification
8 75 (4.44%) PMP
9 41 (2.43%) CRISC
10 38 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
12 31 (1.84%) CISA
13 30 (1.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 29 (1.72%) Master's Degree
15 25 (1.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 18 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
17 16 (0.95%) AWS Certification
17 16 (0.95%) CESG Certified Professional
17 16 (0.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (11.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 201 (11.90%) NIST
3 153 (9.06%) GRC
4 117 (6.93%) GDPR
5 78 (4.62%) QA
6 73 (4.32%) Data Quality
7 71 (4.20%) PMO
8 56 (3.32%) NCSC
9 39 (2.31%) PCI DSS
10 36 (2.13%) JSP 440
11 33 (1.95%) SOC 2
12 31 (1.84%) SLA
13 30 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials
14 28 (1.66%) NIST 800
15 22 (1.30%) COBIT
16 18 (1.07%) ISO 31000
17 16 (0.95%) Def Stans
17 16 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 16 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 14 (0.83%) RMADS
System Software
1 37 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.18%) Docker
3 10 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.24%) Postfix
5 4 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.059%) Ceph
8 1 (0.059%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.60%) Terraform
3 24 (1.42%) Ansible
4 14 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.83%) SCCM
5 11 (0.65%) Grafana
6 8 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.30%) Control-M
7 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.24%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.18%) CASB
9 3 (0.18%) Nessus
10 2 (0.12%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.12%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.12%) Istio
10 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.12%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 229 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.51%) ServiceNow
3 82 (4.85%) Oracle
3 82 (4.85%) SAP
4 48 (2.84%) Google
5 20 (1.18%) IBM
5 20 (1.18%) Workday
6 19 (1.12%) Cisco
6 19 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 15 (0.89%) Murex
7 15 (0.89%) Sybase
8 14 (0.83%) Foundry
8 14 (0.83%) Splunk
9 13 (0.77%) F5
9 13 (0.77%) Qualys
9 13 (0.77%) VMware
10 11 (0.65%) Ariba
11 10 (0.59%) Databricks
11 10 (0.59%) Infoblox
12 9 (0.53%) CrowdStrike