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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 59 62
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,992 1,337 1,259
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.63% 4.05% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.29% 4.47% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 819 703
10th Percentile £400 £360 £363
25th Percentile £475 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £563 £551
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% +2.18% -4.26%
75th Percentile £675 £721 £700
90th Percentile £788 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 30 30
10th Percentile £37.59 £22.16 £33.95
25th Percentile £51.00 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £73.59 £33.50 £57.94
Median % change year-on-year +119.67% -42.18% +5.34%
75th Percentile £81.25 £46.96 £72.72
90th Percentile £90.25 £65.88 £78.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £33.50 £58.38
% change year-on-year +126.87% -42.61% -11.82%

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 46,438 29,893 32,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.54% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,948 18,567 19,512
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 £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,331 1,864 1,314
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.08 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.87 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.56% -39.40% -2.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.13 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +70.85% -48.10% +1.18%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -4 1,737 £571 -0.70% 3,583
UK excluding London -6 940 £525 +3.70% 1,655
London -7 887 £600 -6.25% 2,165
Work from Home -16 536 £550 -8.18% 1,317
North of England -3 270 £500 - 346
South East +9 252 £575 +4.55% 464
North West -13 132 £525 +5.00% 192
Yorkshire +13 131 £489 -2.20% 130
Scotland +16 124 £500 +11.11% 163
Midlands -28 107 £513 +7.89% 228
South West -28 101 £600 - 205
West Midlands -24 84 £498 -0.50% 130
East of England +7 71 £513 -16.33% 127
East Midlands -29 20 £550 +36.82% 98
Wales -10 15 £600 +45.45% 42
Northern Ireland +3 9 £505 -8.18% 86
North East -36 8 £450 -18.18% 25
Channel Islands - 2 £600 - 2

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 76 (3.82%) Confluence
2 40 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.60%) SAS
4 6 (0.30%) Jupyter
4 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.20%) IIS
5 4 (0.20%) nginx
6 3 (0.15%) CMS
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 64 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.15%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.15%) Revit
8 2 (0.10%) Windchill
9 1 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.050%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.050%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.050%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.050%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 51 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.75%) SAP GRC
3 13 (0.65%) Endur
4 10 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.50%) Primavera
5 9 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.30%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.25%) SAP HCM
8 4 (0.20%) Actimize
8 4 (0.20%) Magento
8 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.15%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.15%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.15%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 307 (15.41%) Azure
2 213 (10.69%) AWS
3 105 (5.27%) GCP
4 89 (4.47%) Power Platform
5 74 (3.71%) Entra ID
6 66 (3.31%) SaaS
7 62 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
8 53 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (1.96%) GitHub
10 30 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
11 28 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
12 27 (1.36%) OCI
13 23 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
14 22 (1.10%) Snowflake
15 19 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
16 18 (0.90%) Serverless
17 17 (0.85%) Azure AI
17 17 (0.85%) PaaS
18 16 (0.80%) Anthropic Claude
18 16 (0.80%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.61%) Network Security
2 56 (2.81%) Firewall
3 24 (1.20%) WAN
4 22 (1.10%) LAN
5 21 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 17 (0.85%) VPN
7 15 (0.75%) DNS
8 11 (0.55%) 5G
9 10 (0.50%) DHCP
10 9 (0.45%) 4G
11 8 (0.40%) Cisco IPT
12 7 (0.35%) Internet
13 6 (0.30%) Kerberos
13 6 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.25%) BIG-IP
14 5 (0.25%) HTTP
14 5 (0.25%) HTTPS
14 5 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
14 5 (0.25%) Softphone
14 5 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (3.51%) Power BI
2 46 (2.31%) SQL Server
3 39 (1.96%) Metadata
4 30 (1.51%) Relational Database
5 24 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.85%) MongoDB
6 17 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (0.75%) Data Lake
7 15 (0.75%) Db2
8 14 (0.70%) Big Data
8 14 (0.70%) Oracle Database
9 9 (0.45%) BigQuery
9 9 (0.45%) Tableau
10 8 (0.40%) MySQL
10 8 (0.40%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.35%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.25%) SAP HANA
13 5 (0.25%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (0.20%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 143 (7.18%) JIRA
2 33 (1.66%) Git
3 22 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.70%) Selenium
5 12 (0.60%) Cypress.io
6 11 (0.55%) Postman
7 10 (0.50%) GitLab
8 9 (0.45%) WebDriver
9 8 (0.40%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.35%) Claude Code
10 7 (0.35%) Zephyr
11 5 (0.25%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.20%) Gradle
12 4 (0.20%) Subversion
13 3 (0.15%) JMeter
13 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.15%) TestRail
14 2 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 808 (40.56%) Social Skills
2 753 (37.80%) Finance
3 346 (17.37%) Analytical Skills
4 256 (12.85%) Public Sector
5 244 (12.25%) Banking
6 150 (7.53%) Legal
7 111 (5.57%) Influencing Skills
8 92 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
9 80 (4.02%) Front Office
10 54 (2.71%) Aerospace
11 53 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
11 53 (2.66%) Military
12 48 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
13 47 (2.36%) Manufacturing
14 45 (2.26%) Investment Banking
15 42 (2.11%) Financial Institution
16 39 (1.96%) Telecoms
17 38 (1.91%) Law
18 37 (1.86%) Retail
19 28 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 264 (13.25%) Lead
2 232 (11.65%) Architect
3 208 (10.44%) Senior
4 207 (10.39%) Analyst
5 203 (10.19%) Project Manager
6 105 (5.27%) Consultant
7 95 (4.77%) Security Architect
8 89 (4.47%) Programme Manager
9 76 (3.82%) Developer
10 74 (3.71%) Business Analyst
11 61 (3.06%) Senior Manager
12 56 (2.81%) IT Manager
13 55 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
14 50 (2.51%) Risk Manager
15 46 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
16 42 (2.11%) Security Engineer
16 42 (2.11%) Technical Manager
17 40 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
18 38 (1.91%) Risk Analyst
18 38 (1.91%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (3.16%) Terraform
2 43 (2.16%) REST
3 38 (1.91%) .NET
4 27 (1.36%) Middleware
5 25 (1.26%) Kafka
6 19 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
7 18 (0.90%) OAuth
8 13 (0.65%) Spring
9 12 (0.60%) JSON
9 12 (0.60%) OpenID
9 12 (0.60%) React
9 12 (0.60%) SAML
10 11 (0.55%) SLSA
11 10 (0.50%) SailPoint
11 10 (0.50%) SOAP
11 10 (0.50%) XGBoost
11 10 (0.50%) XML
12 9 (0.45%) LDAP
12 9 (0.45%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 132 (6.63%) Onboarding
2 127 (6.38%) Management Information System
3 106 (5.32%) Product Ownership
4 86 (4.32%) Security Posture
5 75 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 64 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
7 56 (2.81%) Data Centre
7 56 (2.81%) Operational Technology
8 48 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (2.31%) Cyber Threat
10 37 (1.86%) Market Risk
11 36 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
12 35 (1.76%) AI Agents
13 29 (1.46%) Credit Risk
13 29 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
14 28 (1.41%) Data Structures
14 28 (1.41%) NHS
15 27 (1.36%) Derivative
16 23 (1.15%) PKI
17 22 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 75 (3.77%) Linux
2 72 (3.61%) Windows
3 44 (2.21%) Unix
4 23 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.40%) zOS
7 7 (0.35%) 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%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.050%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.050%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 829 (41.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 509 (25.55%) Cybersecurity
3 490 (24.60%) Agile
4 470 (23.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 429 (21.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 334 (16.77%) Decision-Making
7 301 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
8 295 (14.81%) AI
9 291 (14.61%) Roadmaps
10 265 (13.30%) Project Management
11 236 (11.85%) Project Delivery
12 232 (11.65%) Information Security
13 204 (10.24%) DevOps
14 201 (10.09%) CI/CD
14 201 (10.09%) Migration
15 175 (8.79%) Analytics
15 175 (8.79%) Change Management
16 165 (8.28%) Vulnerability Management
17 162 (8.13%) Data Protection
18 156 (7.83%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 175 (8.79%) Python
2 115 (5.77%) SQL
3 52 (2.61%) Java
4 50 (2.51%) PowerShell
5 43 (2.16%) C#
6 24 (1.20%) Bash
7 21 (1.05%) JavaScript
8 17 (0.85%) Shell Script
9 15 (0.75%) 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
1 548 (27.51%) Security Cleared
2 398 (19.98%) SC Cleared
3 194 (9.74%) Degree
4 171 (8.58%) CISSP
5 123 (6.17%) DV Cleared
6 114 (5.72%) CISM
7 98 (4.92%) PMI Certification
8 90 (4.52%) PMP
9 60 (3.01%) CRISC
10 57 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 50 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (2.36%) CISA
13 45 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 32 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
15 31 (1.56%) Master's Degree
16 26 (1.31%) CCSP
16 26 (1.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 25 (1.26%) AWS Certification
17 25 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
18 24 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 247 (12.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 220 (11.04%) NIST
3 201 (10.09%) GRC
4 122 (6.12%) QA
5 113 (5.67%) GDPR
6 100 (5.02%) Data Quality
7 93 (4.67%) NCSC
8 73 (3.66%) PMO
9 46 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 28 (1.41%) JSP 440
11 25 (1.26%) NIST 800
12 19 (0.95%) Accessibility
13 17 (0.85%) COBIT
13 17 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 15 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 15 (0.75%) Def Stans
14 15 (0.75%) PCI DSS
15 14 (0.70%) SLA
16 13 (0.65%) ISO 31000
16 13 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (2.36%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.46%) Docker
3 16 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.45%) vSphere
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 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 37 (1.86%) Ansible
3 17 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.70%) Grafana
5 12 (0.60%) SCCM
6 8 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.30%) Control-M
9 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.25%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.25%) Nessus
9 5 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.15%) Argo
10 3 (0.15%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.15%) Kibana
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.15%) Puppet
10 3 (0.15%) QRadar
10 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.10%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 306 (15.36%) Microsoft
2 119 (5.97%) ServiceNow
3 102 (5.12%) SAP
4 77 (3.87%) Oracle
5 54 (2.71%) Google
6 25 (1.26%) IBM
6 25 (1.26%) VMware
7 24 (1.20%) Splunk
8 23 (1.15%) Murex
9 22 (1.10%) Cisco
10 21 (1.05%) Salesforce
11 20 (1.00%) Databricks
12 16 (0.80%) Ariba
12 16 (0.80%) Qualys
13 14 (0.70%) Sybase
14 13 (0.65%) BeyondTrust
14 13 (0.65%) CyberArk
14 13 (0.65%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.65%) Workday
15 12 (0.60%) Foundry