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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 46 72
Rank change year-on-year -26 +26 -7
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,549 1,294 1,261
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.17% 4.50% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 4.94% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,013 797 798
10th Percentile £402 £372 £359
25th Percentile £475 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £700
90th Percentile £810 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 43
10th Percentile £20.27 £46.30 £12.25
25th Percentile £29.00 £48.13 £26.23
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% +370.37%
75th Percentile £101.38 £80.80 £60.63
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.23 £78.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% +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 41,363 26,184 36,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.68% 91.01% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,810 16,717 23,641
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 2,496 1,118 2,535
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.98 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.85 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.27% -23.70% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.19 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.14 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -23 1,372 £550 -7.17% 955
UK excluding London -5 765 £525 +2.56% 567
London -37 664 £600 -11.11% 472
Work from Home -9 456 £550 -4.35% 411
North of England -15 235 £514 +0.53% 146
South East -9 198 £550 - 162
Yorkshire +3 124 £500 -1.23% 43
North West -12 110 £550 +8.37% 92
Midlands -33 106 £539 +10.51% 80
South West +4 89 £570 +26.67% 78
Scotland +6 88 £475 +1.71% 41
West Midlands -39 73 £525 +5.00% 48
East of England -7 48 £525 -4.55% 45
East Midlands -21 33 £550 +22.63% 32
Northern Ireland -1 8 £450 -18.18% 11
Wales -15 2 £600 +26.32% 13
North East -38 1 £480 -18.30% 11

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 71 (4.58%) Confluence
2 38 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.45%) SAS
5 4 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.13%) Apache
7 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.13%) IIS
7 2 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.065%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.065%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.065%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.065%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.065%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.065%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.065%) WebSphere
Applications
1 56 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (2.84%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.32%) Revit
7 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.26%) Trello
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.13%) Windchill
10 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.065%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.065%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 24 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.58%) Endur
4 7 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.45%) Summit
5 6 (0.39%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.32%) Actimize
6 5 (0.32%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.32%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.32%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.26%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.26%) Primavera
7 4 (0.26%) SAP GRC
8 3 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 203 (13.11%) Azure
2 157 (10.14%) AWS
3 66 (4.26%) Power Platform
4 65 (4.20%) GCP
5 62 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (2.78%) Entra ID
7 40 (2.58%) SaaS
8 27 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (1.61%) GitHub
9 25 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
10 22 (1.42%) Google Workspace
11 21 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
12 19 (1.23%) Snowflake
13 18 (1.16%) Google Sheets
13 18 (1.16%) PaaS
14 15 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
15 14 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
16 11 (0.71%) IaaS
17 10 (0.65%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 53 (3.42%) Network Security
2 33 (2.13%) Firewall
3 19 (1.23%) DNS
4 14 (0.90%) DHCP
5 12 (0.77%) BIG-IP
6 11 (0.71%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.58%) WAN
9 8 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
10 7 (0.45%) 5G
10 7 (0.45%) HTTP
10 7 (0.45%) Internet
11 6 (0.39%) LAN
12 5 (0.32%) 3G
12 5 (0.32%) 4G
13 4 (0.26%) NAS
13 4 (0.26%) NGFW
13 4 (0.26%) SAN
13 4 (0.26%) VPN
14 3 (0.19%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.49%) Power BI
2 35 (2.26%) Metadata
3 25 (1.61%) Relational Database
4 24 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (0.90%) MongoDB
8 11 (0.71%) Tableau
9 10 (0.65%) Big Data
10 9 (0.58%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.52%) DB2
12 7 (0.45%) MySQL
12 7 (0.45%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.39%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.32%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
15 4 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 4 (0.26%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 125 (8.07%) JIRA
2 18 (1.16%) Git
2 18 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.58%) GitLab
4 6 (0.39%) Zephyr
5 5 (0.32%) JUnit
5 5 (0.32%) Mockito
5 5 (0.32%) Selenium
6 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (0.26%) DbUnit
6 4 (0.26%) jMock
6 4 (0.26%) Maven
6 4 (0.26%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.26%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.13%) MLflow
7 2 (0.13%) TestRail
7 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.065%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.065%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.065%) ERwin
General
1 570 (36.80%) Finance
2 560 (36.15%) Social Skills
3 245 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (11.49%) Public Sector
5 176 (11.36%) Banking
6 119 (7.68%) Legal
7 49 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
8 47 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
9 41 (2.65%) Front Office
10 40 (2.58%) Investment Banking
11 36 (2.32%) Retail
12 35 (2.26%) Telecoms
13 34 (2.19%) Financial Institution
14 32 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
15 31 (2.00%) Military
16 29 (1.87%) Manufacturing
16 29 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
17 22 (1.42%) Law
18 20 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 20 (1.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 199 (12.85%) Project Manager
2 189 (12.20%) Lead
3 166 (10.72%) Architect
4 157 (10.14%) Senior
5 145 (9.36%) Analyst
6 87 (5.62%) Consultant
7 73 (4.71%) Business Analyst
8 72 (4.65%) Security Architect
9 71 (4.58%) Programme Manager
10 67 (4.33%) Developer
11 57 (3.68%) Risk Manager
12 56 (3.62%) Senior Manager
13 42 (2.71%) Delivery Manager
14 39 (2.52%) Security Engineer
15 35 (2.26%) Risk Analyst
15 35 (2.26%) Security Consultant
16 34 (2.19%) IT Manager
16 34 (2.19%) Security Manager
17 30 (1.94%) Solutions Architect
18 25 (1.61%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (1.61%) REST
3 20 (1.29%) Kafka
4 18 (1.16%) .NET
5 16 (1.03%) XML
6 15 (0.97%) Middleware
7 13 (0.84%) JSON
8 11 (0.71%) Azure Blueprints
8 11 (0.71%) Leaflet
8 11 (0.71%) RESTful
9 9 (0.58%) SOAP
10 8 (0.52%) LDAP
10 8 (0.52%) OAuth
10 8 (0.52%) React
11 7 (0.45%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.45%) OpenID
11 7 (0.45%) PyTorch
11 7 (0.45%) Web Services
12 6 (0.39%) J2EE
12 6 (0.39%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 119 (7.68%) Management Information System
2 71 (4.58%) Product Ownership
3 62 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 59 (3.81%) Security Posture
5 52 (3.36%) Cloud Native
5 52 (3.36%) Operational Technology
6 48 (3.10%) Derivative
7 45 (2.91%) Data Centre
8 44 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
9 33 (2.13%) Market Risk
10 26 (1.68%) AI Agents
11 24 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (1.48%) Credit Risk
12 23 (1.48%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (1.36%) NHS
15 20 (1.29%) Fixed Income
15 20 (1.29%) PMI
16 18 (1.16%) Equities
16 18 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 50 (3.23%) Windows
2 41 (2.65%) Linux
3 24 (1.55%) Unix
4 17 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.39%) zOS
7 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (30.54%) Stakeholder Management
2 391 (25.24%) Agile
3 318 (20.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 297 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 292 (18.85%) Cybersecurity
6 256 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
7 242 (15.62%) Project Management
8 226 (14.59%) Decision-Making
9 184 (11.88%) AI
9 184 (11.88%) Information Security
10 176 (11.36%) Roadmaps
11 169 (10.91%) Change Management
12 144 (9.30%) Project Delivery
13 136 (8.78%) Migration
14 129 (8.33%) Analytics
15 127 (8.20%) Regulatory Compliance
16 123 (7.94%) DevOps
17 121 (7.81%) Data Protection
18 120 (7.75%) CI/CD
19 115 (7.42%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 111 (7.17%) Python
2 109 (7.04%) SQL
3 58 (3.74%) Java
4 33 (2.13%) PowerShell
5 19 (1.23%) C#
6 18 (1.16%) C++
7 14 (0.90%) JavaScript
8 12 (0.77%) VBA
9 9 (0.58%) Bash
10 7 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.39%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.32%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.19%) Assembly Language
13 3 (0.19%) Bicep
13 3 (0.19%) CLIST
13 3 (0.19%) Go
13 3 (0.19%) JCL
13 3 (0.19%) REXX
14 2 (0.13%) Perl
14 2 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 358 (23.11%) Security Cleared
2 263 (16.98%) SC Cleared
3 186 (12.01%) Degree
4 132 (8.52%) CISSP
5 98 (6.33%) CISM
6 83 (5.36%) DV Cleared
7 71 (4.58%) PMI Certification
8 69 (4.45%) PMP
9 43 (2.78%) CRISC
10 39 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
12 28 (1.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 27 (1.74%) CISA
14 26 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
15 22 (1.42%) Master's Degree
16 21 (1.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 15 (0.97%) CESG Certified Professional
18 14 (0.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
19 13 (0.84%) CCSP
19 13 (0.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (12.07%) NIST
2 184 (11.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 138 (8.91%) GRC
4 110 (7.10%) GDPR
5 77 (4.97%) PMO
5 77 (4.97%) QA
6 64 (4.13%) Data Quality
7 55 (3.55%) NCSC
8 43 (2.78%) PCI DSS
9 35 (2.26%) JSP 440
10 31 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
11 29 (1.87%) SLA
12 28 (1.81%) SOC 2
13 27 (1.74%) COBIT
14 22 (1.42%) NIST 800
15 17 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 16 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
16 16 (1.03%) ISO 31000
16 16 (1.03%) RMADS
16 16 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.10%) Docker
3 11 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.26%) Postfix
5 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.065%) Ceph
7 1 (0.065%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.065%) NFS
7 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.065%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.29%) Terraform
3 19 (1.23%) Ansible
4 11 (0.71%) Grafana
4 11 (0.71%) SCCM
5 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.32%) Control-M
7 5 (0.32%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.19%) CASB
9 3 (0.19%) Nessus
9 3 (0.19%) OMEGAMON
10 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.13%) OpenVAS
10 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
10 2 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 207 (13.36%) Microsoft
2 88 (5.68%) ServiceNow
3 77 (4.97%) Oracle
4 74 (4.78%) SAP
5 48 (3.10%) Google
6 22 (1.42%) Workday
7 21 (1.36%) Murex
7 21 (1.36%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.03%) Databricks
9 15 (0.97%) Cisco
10 14 (0.90%) F5
10 14 (0.90%) IBM
10 14 (0.90%) VMware
11 12 (0.77%) Ariba
12 11 (0.71%) Splunk
12 11 (0.71%) Sybase
13 10 (0.65%) Infoblox
14 9 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (0.58%) Remedy
15 8 (0.52%) Qualys