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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 48 72
Rank change year-on-year -22 +24 -6
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,568 1,306 1,262
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.20% 4.48% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 4.93% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 804 800
10th Percentile £404 £373 £359
25th Percentile £475 £458 £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 £816 £872 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 30 43
10th Percentile £20.27 £46.30 £12.25
25th Percentile £29.00 £48.25 £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 £82.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.10 £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 41,434 26,510 36,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.66% 90.99% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,895 16,942 23,625
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 2,481 1,120 2,526
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.98% -23.38% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £60.71
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -22 1,388 £550 -5.98% 999
UK excluding London -5 773 £525 +2.44% 589
London -34 673 £600 -10.71% 502
Work from Home -14 457 £550 -4.35% 435
North of England -6 237 £513 +0.38% 155
South East -6 200 £556 +1.14% 169
Yorkshire -1 126 £500 -1.23% 48
North West -18 110 £550 +7.97% 98
Midlands -29 108 £538 +10.26% 83
South West +7 90 £570 +26.67% 75
Scotland +5 89 £475 +1.71% 41
West Midlands -37 75 £525 +5.00% 45
East of England -9 49 £525 -4.55% 46
East Midlands -21 33 £550 +22.63% 38
Northern Ireland -1 8 £450 -18.18% 16
Wales -14 2 £600 +26.32% 13
North East -35 1 £480 -16.52% 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 71 (4.53%) Confluence
2 38 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.51%) 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 (0.064%) Appian
8 1 (0.064%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.064%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.064%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.064%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.064%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.064%) WebSphere
Applications
1 61 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.83%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.32%) Revit
7 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.26%) Trello
8 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.13%) Windchill
10 1 (0.064%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.064%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.064%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 25 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.57%) Endur
4 7 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.45%) Summit
5 6 (0.38%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.38%) 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%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.19%) Findur
8 3 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 204 (13.01%) Azure
2 157 (10.01%) AWS
3 66 (4.21%) Power Platform
4 64 (4.08%) GCP
4 64 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (2.81%) Entra ID
6 39 (2.49%) SaaS
7 27 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (1.59%) GitHub
9 24 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
10 22 (1.40%) Google Workspace
11 21 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
12 19 (1.21%) Snowflake
13 18 (1.15%) Google Sheets
14 17 (1.08%) PaaS
15 15 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
16 14 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
17 12 (0.77%) OpenShift
18 10 (0.64%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (3.32%) Network Security
2 33 (2.10%) Firewall
3 19 (1.21%) DNS
4 14 (0.89%) DHCP
5 12 (0.77%) BIG-IP
6 11 (0.70%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (0.57%) Structured Cabling
7 9 (0.57%) WAN
8 7 (0.45%) 5G
8 7 (0.45%) HTTP
8 7 (0.45%) Internet
9 6 (0.38%) LAN
10 5 (0.32%) 3G
10 5 (0.32%) 4G
11 4 (0.26%) NAS
11 4 (0.26%) NGFW
11 4 (0.26%) SAN
11 4 (0.26%) VPN
12 3 (0.19%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.44%) Power BI
2 34 (2.17%) Metadata
3 25 (1.59%) Relational Database
4 24 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.21%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (0.89%) MongoDB
8 11 (0.70%) Tableau
9 10 (0.64%) Big Data
10 9 (0.57%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.51%) DB2
12 7 (0.45%) MySQL
12 7 (0.45%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.38%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.32%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
15 4 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
15 4 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 129 (8.23%) JIRA
2 18 (1.15%) Git
2 18 (1.15%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.57%) GitLab
4 6 (0.38%) 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 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.13%) MLflow
8 2 (0.13%) TestRail
9 1 (0.064%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.064%) Flyway
9 1 (0.064%) SoapUI
General
1 578 (36.86%) Finance
2 568 (36.22%) Social Skills
3 247 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (11.35%) Public Sector
5 177 (11.29%) Banking
6 121 (7.72%) Legal
7 49 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
9 41 (2.61%) Investment Banking
10 40 (2.55%) Front Office
11 36 (2.30%) Retail
12 35 (2.23%) Financial Institution
12 35 (2.23%) Telecoms
13 32 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
14 31 (1.98%) Military
15 29 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (1.79%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.34%) Law
18 20 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 20 (1.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 203 (12.95%) Project Manager
2 192 (12.24%) Lead
3 165 (10.52%) Architect
4 158 (10.08%) Senior
5 147 (9.38%) Analyst
6 88 (5.61%) Consultant
7 74 (4.72%) Business Analyst
8 72 (4.59%) Security Architect
9 71 (4.53%) Programme Manager
10 68 (4.34%) Developer
11 56 (3.57%) Risk Manager
11 56 (3.57%) Senior Manager
12 44 (2.81%) Delivery Manager
13 38 (2.42%) Security Engineer
14 35 (2.23%) Risk Analyst
14 35 (2.23%) Security Consultant
15 34 (2.17%) IT Manager
15 34 (2.17%) Security Manager
16 29 (1.85%) Solutions Architect
17 26 (1.66%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
2 24 (1.53%) REST
3 20 (1.28%) Kafka
4 18 (1.15%) .NET
5 15 (0.96%) Middleware
5 15 (0.96%) XML
6 13 (0.83%) JSON
7 11 (0.70%) Azure Blueprints
7 11 (0.70%) Leaflet
7 11 (0.70%) RESTful
8 8 (0.51%) LDAP
8 8 (0.51%) OAuth
8 8 (0.51%) React
8 8 (0.51%) SOAP
9 7 (0.45%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.45%) OpenID
9 7 (0.45%) PyTorch
9 7 (0.45%) Web Services
10 6 (0.38%) scikit-learn
10 6 (0.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 119 (7.59%) Management Information System
2 73 (4.66%) Product Ownership
3 63 (4.02%) Onboarding
4 60 (3.83%) Security Posture
5 52 (3.32%) Operational Technology
6 51 (3.25%) Cloud Native
6 51 (3.25%) Derivative
7 46 (2.93%) Data Centre
7 46 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
8 33 (2.10%) Market Risk
9 27 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 24 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (1.47%) Credit Risk
11 23 (1.47%) Data Structures
11 23 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.40%) NHS
13 20 (1.28%) Fixed Income
14 19 (1.21%) Equities
14 19 (1.21%) PMI
15 18 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.25%) Windows
2 41 (2.61%) Linux
3 23 (1.47%) Unix
4 17 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.38%) 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 2 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (30.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 397 (25.32%) Agile
3 319 (20.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 299 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 293 (18.69%) Cybersecurity
6 265 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
7 246 (15.69%) Project Management
8 228 (14.54%) Decision-Making
9 188 (11.99%) AI
10 184 (11.73%) Information Security
11 176 (11.22%) Roadmaps
12 169 (10.78%) Change Management
13 148 (9.44%) Project Delivery
14 141 (8.99%) Migration
15 132 (8.42%) Analytics
16 128 (8.16%) Regulatory Compliance
17 123 (7.84%) Data Protection
17 123 (7.84%) DevOps
18 121 (7.72%) CI/CD
19 117 (7.46%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 115 (7.33%) Python
2 109 (6.95%) SQL
3 58 (3.70%) Java
4 33 (2.10%) PowerShell
5 20 (1.28%) C#
5 20 (1.28%) C++
6 14 (0.89%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.77%) VBA
8 9 (0.57%) Bash
9 7 (0.45%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.38%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.32%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.19%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.19%) Bicep
12 3 (0.19%) CLIST
12 3 (0.19%) Go
12 3 (0.19%) JCL
12 3 (0.19%) REXX
13 2 (0.13%) Korn
13 2 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 362 (23.09%) Security Cleared
2 267 (17.03%) SC Cleared
3 198 (12.63%) Degree
4 134 (8.55%) CISSP
5 99 (6.31%) CISM
6 85 (5.42%) DV Cleared
7 70 (4.46%) PMI Certification
8 69 (4.40%) PMP
9 43 (2.74%) CRISC
10 39 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
12 28 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 27 (1.72%) CISA
14 26 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
15 23 (1.47%) Master's Degree
16 22 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 15 (0.96%) CESG Certified Professional
18 14 (0.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
19 13 (0.83%) GIAC
19 13 (0.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (11.93%) NIST
2 184 (11.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 138 (8.80%) GRC
4 111 (7.08%) GDPR
5 80 (5.10%) PMO
6 78 (4.97%) QA
7 64 (4.08%) Data Quality
8 54 (3.44%) NCSC
9 44 (2.81%) PCI DSS
10 35 (2.23%) JSP 440
11 31 (1.98%) SLA
12 30 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
13 28 (1.79%) SOC 2
14 27 (1.72%) COBIT
15 22 (1.40%) NIST 800
16 17 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
16 17 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 16 (1.02%) ISO 31000
17 16 (1.02%) RMADS
17 16 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.08%) Docker
3 11 (0.70%) 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 (0.064%) Ceph
7 1 (0.064%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.064%) NFS
7 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.064%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.21%) Ansible
2 19 (1.21%) Terraform
3 11 (0.70%) Grafana
3 11 (0.70%) SCCM
4 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.32%) Control-M
6 5 (0.32%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.19%) CASB
8 3 (0.19%) Nessus
8 3 (0.19%) OMEGAMON
9 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.13%) NSN NetAct
9 2 (0.13%) OpenVAS
9 2 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 208 (13.27%) Microsoft
2 87 (5.55%) ServiceNow
3 81 (5.17%) Oracle
4 75 (4.78%) SAP
5 47 (3.00%) Google
6 22 (1.40%) Workday
7 21 (1.34%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.28%) Murex
9 16 (1.02%) Databricks
10 14 (0.89%) Cisco
10 14 (0.89%) F5
10 14 (0.89%) IBM
10 14 (0.89%) VMware
11 12 (0.77%) Ariba
12 11 (0.70%) Splunk
12 11 (0.70%) Sybase
13 10 (0.64%) Infoblox
14 9 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (0.57%) Remedy
15 8 (0.51%) Qualys