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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 51 62
Rank change year-on-year -20 +11 +16
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,448 1,234 1,429
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.40% 4.08% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 4.52% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 921 711 945
10th Percentile £402 £360 £400
25th Percentile £463 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% -6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £685
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 45 57
10th Percentile £26.12 £28.79 £12.34
25th Percentile £33.50 £46.12 £36.33
Median hourly rate £57.25 £61.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +6.95% +440.92%
75th Percentile £95.63 £78.36 £83.11
90th Percentile £106.70 £84.43 £83.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.78 £60.75 £53.75
% change year-on-year -24.64% +13.02% +448.47%

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 36,798 27,287 38,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.45% 90.16% 86.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,332 17,120 24,896
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -2.03% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,175 894 2,252
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.11
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £32.85
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -1.05% -6.16%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £73.63 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £33.28
% change year-on-year -20.81% -4.57% -4.91%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -13 1,295 £550 -5.82% 614
London -11 691 £600 -4.00% 244
UK excluding London -23 635 £525 - 447
Work from Home -3 414 £550 - 301
South East -10 188 £525 -8.70% 153
North of England -14 188 £510 -2.90% 95
Midlands -44 102 £545 +2.35% 72
Yorkshire -2 94 £500 -5.48% 37
North West -23 92 £525 +5.00% 53
West Midlands -43 68 £533 -11.25% 52
South West -7 62 £513 +3.80% 69
Scotland -10 47 £425 -8.99% 21
East of England -32 35 £518 +10.58% 31
East Midlands -26 34 £550 +22.22% 20
Wales +4 11 £293 -44.72% 14
Northern Ireland +3 9 £500 +66.67% 1
North East -21 2 £550 -4.35% 5

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 60 (4.14%) Confluence
2 25 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.62%) SAS
6 5 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.28%) nginx
8 2 (0.14%) Apache
8 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.069%) Camunda
9 1 (0.069%) CMS
9 1 (0.069%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 74 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (3.87%) Microsoft Project
3 39 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.21%) Trello
9 2 (0.14%) Revit
10 1 (0.069%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.069%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 23 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.62%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.41%) Primavera
5 5 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.28%) Summit
7 3 (0.21%) Endur
7 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.21%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.14%) Actimize
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 171 (11.81%) Azure
2 142 (9.81%) AWS
3 59 (4.07%) GCP
4 52 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
5 49 (3.38%) Power Platform
6 35 (2.42%) Entra ID
7 32 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
8 31 (2.14%) SaaS
9 23 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
10 21 (1.45%) GitHub
10 21 (1.45%) Google Workspace
11 18 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (1.24%) Google Sheets
12 15 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (0.76%) OCI
13 11 (0.76%) OpenShift
14 10 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (0.55%) Collibra
16 7 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.52%) Firewall
2 40 (2.76%) Network Security
3 13 (0.90%) DNS
4 10 (0.69%) Internet
4 10 (0.69%) LAN
5 9 (0.62%) Kerberos
5 9 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
7 7 (0.48%) HTTP
7 7 (0.48%) WAN
8 6 (0.41%) DHCP
9 5 (0.35%) BIG-IP
9 5 (0.35%) Cisco IPT
10 4 (0.28%) 5G
10 4 (0.28%) VPN
11 3 (0.21%) Broadband
11 3 (0.21%) NGFW
11 3 (0.21%) SAN
11 3 (0.21%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.14%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (2.76%) Power BI
2 24 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (1.31%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.10%) Metadata
6 15 (1.04%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.41%) Big Data
8 6 (0.41%) KDB
8 6 (0.41%) Kdb+
8 6 (0.41%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.35%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.35%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.35%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.35%) Tableau
10 4 (0.28%) Data Mart
10 4 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.28%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.28%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 123 (8.49%) JIRA
2 16 (1.10%) Git
3 14 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.55%) GitLab
5 6 (0.41%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.21%) QUnit
8 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.14%) GCC
8 2 (0.14%) GDB
8 2 (0.14%) JUnit
8 2 (0.14%) Mockito
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.14%) Postman
8 2 (0.14%) Selenium
9 1 (0.069%) Appium
9 1 (0.069%) JMeter
9 1 (0.069%) MLflow
9 1 (0.069%) Zephyr
General
1 570 (39.36%) Social Skills
2 541 (37.36%) Finance
3 230 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (12.78%) Banking
5 145 (10.01%) Public Sector
6 114 (7.87%) Legal
7 59 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
8 53 (3.66%) Front Office
8 53 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
9 44 (3.04%) Investment Banking
10 39 (2.69%) Financial Institution
11 36 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (2.21%) Retail
13 29 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (1.86%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.73%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.45%) Military
17 19 (1.31%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 18 (1.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 174 (12.02%) Analyst
2 169 (11.67%) Project Manager
3 155 (10.70%) Lead
4 147 (10.15%) Senior
5 129 (8.91%) Architect
6 113 (7.80%) Consultant
7 86 (5.94%) Developer
8 73 (5.04%) Programme Manager
9 66 (4.56%) Business Analyst
10 65 (4.49%) Security Architect
11 51 (3.52%) Senior Manager
12 50 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
13 45 (3.11%) Security Consultant
14 41 (2.83%) Risk Manager
15 39 (2.69%) Risk Analyst
16 32 (2.21%) Senior Developer
16 32 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
17 30 (2.07%) Security Analyst
17 30 (2.07%) Technical Manager
18 27 (1.86%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.59%) Kafka
1 23 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (1.52%) REST
3 18 (1.24%) .NET
4 16 (1.10%) OAuth
5 13 (0.90%) Middleware
5 13 (0.90%) SAML
6 12 (0.83%) .NET Framework
7 11 (0.76%) NumPy
7 11 (0.76%) Pandas
7 11 (0.76%) XML
8 10 (0.69%) RESTful
9 9 (0.62%) COM
9 9 (0.62%) Dask
10 8 (0.55%) LDAP
10 8 (0.55%) PyTorch
10 8 (0.55%) React
11 7 (0.48%) Entity Framework
11 7 (0.48%) OpenID
11 7 (0.48%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 160 (11.05%) Management Information System
2 73 (5.04%) Product Ownership
3 69 (4.77%) Security Posture
4 66 (4.56%) Derivative
5 56 (3.87%) Onboarding
6 40 (2.76%) Data Centre
6 40 (2.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 39 (2.69%) Cloud Native
8 38 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
8 38 (2.62%) Equities
8 38 (2.62%) Market Risk
9 30 (2.07%) Credit Risk
10 28 (1.93%) Algorithms
11 27 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
11 27 (1.86%) Fixed Income
11 27 (1.86%) Operational Technology
12 25 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
13 21 (1.45%) NHS
14 19 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
15 18 (1.24%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 42 (2.90%) Linux
2 36 (2.49%) Windows
3 16 (1.10%) Unix
4 5 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.21%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.21%) VMS
5 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.21%) zOS
6 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.069%) Android
7 1 (0.069%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (28.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 336 (23.20%) Agile
3 282 (19.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 256 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
5 253 (17.47%) Cybersecurity
6 236 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 224 (15.47%) Project Management
8 188 (12.98%) Decision-Making
9 185 (12.78%) Information Security
10 158 (10.91%) Change Management
11 149 (10.29%) Roadmaps
12 135 (9.32%) Migration
13 133 (9.19%) Project Delivery
14 131 (9.05%) Regulatory Compliance
15 127 (8.77%) AI
16 119 (8.22%) Data Protection
17 118 (8.15%) Analytics
18 104 (7.18%) PRINCE2
19 102 (7.04%) Scrum
20 92 (6.35%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 129 (8.91%) SQL
2 123 (8.49%) Python
3 55 (3.80%) Java
4 38 (2.62%) PowerShell
5 31 (2.14%) C#
6 27 (1.86%) C++
7 16 (1.10%) VBA
8 15 (1.04%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.41%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.35%) Bash
10 5 (0.35%) R
10 5 (0.35%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.28%) Korn
12 3 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.14%) Perl
13 2 (0.14%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.14%) RPG
13 2 (0.14%) Rust
13 2 (0.14%) Scala
13 2 (0.14%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 303 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 236 (16.30%) Degree
3 232 (16.02%) SC Cleared
4 134 (9.25%) CISSP
5 96 (6.63%) CISM
6 75 (5.18%) DV Cleared
7 70 (4.83%) PMI Certification
8 67 (4.63%) PMP
9 58 (4.01%) Master's Degree
10 39 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (2.35%) CRISC
12 30 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (1.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 22 (1.52%) CISA
15 16 (1.10%) PhD
16 15 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (1.04%) Numerate Degree
17 12 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 11 (0.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
19 10 (0.69%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 192 (13.26%) NIST
3 128 (8.84%) GRC
4 125 (8.63%) GDPR
5 84 (5.80%) PMO
6 72 (4.97%) QA
7 58 (4.01%) PCI DSS
8 44 (3.04%) Data Quality
9 41 (2.83%) NCSC
10 29 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 28 (1.93%) NIST 800
12 23 (1.59%) SLA
13 22 (1.52%) SOC 2
14 21 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
14 21 (1.45%) Def Stans
15 20 (1.38%) COBIT
16 16 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
16 16 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 15 (1.04%) JSP 440
18 13 (0.90%) RMADS
System Software
1 34 (2.35%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.90%) Docker
3 8 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.21%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.069%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.069%) Postfix
5 1 (0.069%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.069%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (1.52%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.31%) Terraform
3 13 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.69%) Ansible
4 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.55%) SCCM
6 7 (0.48%) RSA Archer
7 5 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.28%) Grafana
8 4 (0.28%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.21%) CASB
9 3 (0.21%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.21%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.21%) QRadar
9 3 (0.21%) WSUS
10 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.14%) Nessus
10 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.14%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 181 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 70 (4.83%) SAP
3 67 (4.63%) Oracle
4 66 (4.56%) ServiceNow
5 45 (3.11%) Google
6 21 (1.45%) Murex
7 18 (1.24%) Workday
8 17 (1.17%) Ariba
9 15 (1.04%) Salesforce
10 11 (0.76%) Databricks
10 11 (0.76%) Splunk
11 10 (0.69%) Cisco
11 10 (0.69%) CyberArk
11 10 (0.69%) VMware
12 8 (0.55%) F5
12 8 (0.55%) IBM
12 8 (0.55%) Informatica
13 7 (0.48%) Citrix
14 6 (0.41%) Bloomberg
15 5 (0.35%) Charles River