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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 50 63
Rank change year-on-year -20 +13 +10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,508 1,296 1,375
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.25% 4.39% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 4.83% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 982 789 901
10th Percentile £400 £363 £360
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £838 £838 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 40 47
10th Percentile £20.27 £40.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £36.00 £47.96 £31.80
Median hourly rate £69.36 £61.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.79% +22.99% +370.37%
75th Percentile £100.00 £78.80 £61.25
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.10 £83.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.31 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +20.83% +22.99% +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 39,397 26,809 37,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.78% 90.76% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,864 17,328 24,353
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £739 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,354 1,060 2,429
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.83 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £28.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +48.41% -20.00% -6.17%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 1,329 £550 -4.35% 471
UK excluding London -14 719 £525 +0.48% 372
London -31 655 £600 -4.00% 179
Work from Home -7 434 £550 -4.35% 221
North of England -11 212 £500 -2.44% 90
South East -9 202 £550 -4.35% 127
Midlands -33 112 £535 +7.00% 53
North West -9 109 £550 +8.75% 49
Yorkshire -5 101 £481 -3.75% 34
West Midlands -29 79 £525 - 31
Scotland +4 72 £458 -8.50% 16
South West -2 72 £525 +16.67% 44
East of England -14 46 £525 +12.18% 36
East Midlands -34 33 £537 +20.19% 21
Northern Ireland -1 6 £475 -13.64% 8
Wales -11 6 £214 -55.03% 5
North East -27 2 £480 -16.52% 7

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 (3.98%) Confluence
2 33 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.53%) SAS
5 7 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.27%) nginx
7 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.13%) Apache
8 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.13%) IIS
9 1 (0.066%) CMS
9 1 (0.066%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.066%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.066%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (3.58%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.33%) Revit
7 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.27%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.27%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) Windchill
9 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.066%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.066%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 24 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.53%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.46%) Endur
4 7 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.46%) Summit
5 6 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.33%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.27%) Primavera
7 4 (0.27%) SAP GRC
8 3 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.20%) Dynamics SL
8 3 (0.20%) Findur
8 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 176 (11.67%) Azure
2 143 (9.48%) AWS
3 64 (4.24%) Power Platform
4 61 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
5 50 (3.32%) GCP
6 36 (2.39%) Entra ID
6 36 (2.39%) SaaS
7 29 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (1.53%) GitHub
9 22 (1.46%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
11 18 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (1.19%) Google Sheets
12 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
12 15 (0.99%) Snowflake
13 13 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
14 11 (0.73%) PaaS
15 10 (0.66%) Amazon S3
15 10 (0.66%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.18%) Network Security
2 31 (2.06%) Firewall
3 20 (1.33%) DNS
4 12 (0.80%) DHCP
4 12 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (0.60%) BIG-IP
5 9 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
6 8 (0.53%) 5G
6 8 (0.53%) LAN
6 8 (0.53%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.53%) WAN
7 7 (0.46%) HTTP
7 7 (0.46%) Internet
8 5 (0.33%) 3G
8 5 (0.33%) 4G
9 4 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
9 4 (0.27%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.27%) VPN
10 3 (0.20%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.20%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.38%) Power BI
2 36 (2.39%) Metadata
3 25 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.13%) SQL Server
7 11 (0.73%) MongoDB
8 10 (0.66%) Tableau
9 9 (0.60%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.53%) RDBMS
11 7 (0.46%) Big Data
11 7 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.40%) DB2
12 6 (0.40%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.40%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.40%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 126 (8.36%) JIRA
2 23 (1.53%) Git
3 19 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.60%) GitLab
5 5 (0.33%) JUnit
5 5 (0.33%) Mockito
5 5 (0.33%) Zephyr
6 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (0.27%) DbUnit
6 4 (0.27%) jMock
6 4 (0.27%) Maven
6 4 (0.27%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.27%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.20%) Selenium
8 1 (0.066%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.066%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.066%) ERwin
8 1 (0.066%) MLflow
8 1 (0.066%) Postman
General
1 554 (36.74%) Social Skills
2 549 (36.41%) Finance
3 238 (15.78%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (12.86%) Banking
5 168 (11.14%) Public Sector
6 104 (6.90%) Legal
7 50 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
8 46 (3.05%) Front Office
9 43 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (2.65%) Investment Banking
11 39 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
12 36 (2.39%) Financial Institution
12 36 (2.39%) Retail
13 30 (1.99%) Manufacturing
13 30 (1.99%) Telecoms
14 28 (1.86%) Military
14 28 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.26%) Law
15 19 (1.26%) Marketing
16 17 (1.13%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 199 (13.20%) Project Manager
2 181 (12.00%) Lead
3 150 (9.95%) Analyst
3 150 (9.95%) Senior
4 147 (9.75%) Architect
5 99 (6.56%) Consultant
6 82 (5.44%) Developer
7 74 (4.91%) Business Analyst
8 71 (4.71%) Programme Manager
9 66 (4.38%) Security Architect
10 50 (3.32%) Senior Manager
11 49 (3.25%) Risk Manager
12 46 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
13 41 (2.72%) Security Consultant
14 34 (2.25%) IT Manager
15 33 (2.19%) Security Engineer
16 30 (1.99%) Risk Analyst
17 29 (1.92%) Security Manager
17 29 (1.92%) Senior Developer
18 28 (1.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (1.66%) REST
3 21 (1.39%) Kafka
4 18 (1.19%) .NET
5 14 (0.93%) RESTful
6 12 (0.80%) Middleware
7 11 (0.73%) Leaflet
8 10 (0.66%) XML
9 9 (0.60%) OAuth
10 8 (0.53%) JSON
10 8 (0.53%) LDAP
10 8 (0.53%) PyTorch
11 7 (0.46%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.46%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.46%) COM
11 7 (0.46%) NumPy
11 7 (0.46%) Pandas
11 7 (0.46%) React
11 7 (0.46%) scikit-learn
11 7 (0.46%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 134 (8.89%) Management Information System
2 64 (4.24%) Product Ownership
2 64 (4.24%) Security Posture
3 59 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 58 (3.85%) Derivative
5 43 (2.85%) Data Centre
5 43 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
6 41 (2.72%) Cloud Native
7 38 (2.52%) Market Risk
7 38 (2.52%) Operational Technology
8 29 (1.92%) Credit Risk
8 29 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 27 (1.79%) Equities
10 24 (1.59%) Data Structures
10 24 (1.59%) NHS
11 23 (1.53%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 22 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.33%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.59%) Windows
2 33 (2.19%) Linux
3 17 (1.13%) Unix
4 9 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.20%) zOS
7 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (30.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 381 (25.27%) Agile
3 288 (19.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 277 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
5 276 (18.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 246 (16.31%) Project Management
7 238 (15.78%) Cybersecurity
8 200 (13.26%) Decision-Making
9 181 (12.00%) Information Security
10 172 (11.41%) Change Management
11 163 (10.81%) AI
11 163 (10.81%) Roadmaps
12 155 (10.28%) Project Delivery
13 143 (9.48%) Migration
14 132 (8.75%) Data Protection
15 129 (8.55%) Analytics
16 120 (7.96%) PRINCE2
16 120 (7.96%) Regulatory Compliance
17 113 (7.49%) DevOps
18 104 (6.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 126 (8.36%) SQL
2 121 (8.02%) Python
3 59 (3.91%) Java
4 36 (2.39%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.46%) C++
6 21 (1.39%) C#
7 16 (1.06%) VBA
8 13 (0.86%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.46%) Bash
9 7 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.40%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.27%) Perl
12 3 (0.20%) Korn
12 3 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.20%) Scala
13 2 (0.13%) Go
13 2 (0.13%) R
13 2 (0.13%) RPG
14 1 (0.066%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 327 (21.68%) Security Cleared
2 242 (16.05%) SC Cleared
3 207 (13.73%) Degree
4 120 (7.96%) CISSP
5 84 (5.57%) CISM
6 79 (5.24%) DV Cleared
7 78 (5.17%) PMP
8 72 (4.77%) PMI Certification
9 36 (2.39%) CRISC
10 35 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (2.06%) Master's Degree
12 27 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
13 21 (1.39%) CISA
14 19 (1.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 18 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 18 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 12 (0.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 11 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
19 10 (0.66%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (12.47%) NIST
2 183 (12.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 132 (8.75%) GRC
4 125 (8.29%) GDPR
5 90 (5.97%) PMO
6 78 (5.17%) QA
7 56 (3.71%) Data Quality
8 49 (3.25%) PCI DSS
9 45 (2.98%) NCSC
10 30 (1.99%) SLA
11 27 (1.79%) JSP 440
12 26 (1.72%) COBIT
12 26 (1.72%) SOC 2
13 23 (1.53%) NIST 800
14 19 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 17 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
15 17 (1.13%) RMADS
15 17 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 13 (0.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (2.12%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.93%) Docker
3 9 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.27%) Postfix
4 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.066%) Ceph
7 1 (0.066%) NFS
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.066%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (1.33%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.99%) Ansible
3 14 (0.93%) Terraform
4 10 (0.66%) SCCM
5 9 (0.60%) Grafana
5 9 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.33%) Control-M
8 5 (0.33%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.20%) CASB
10 3 (0.20%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.20%) WSUS
11 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.13%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.13%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 192 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 84 (5.57%) Oracle
3 82 (5.44%) ServiceNow
4 76 (5.04%) SAP
5 43 (2.85%) Google
6 24 (1.59%) Workday
7 22 (1.46%) Murex
8 16 (1.06%) Ariba
9 15 (0.99%) Salesforce
10 13 (0.86%) Databricks
11 12 (0.80%) IBM
11 12 (0.80%) VMware
12 11 (0.73%) F5
13 9 (0.60%) Cisco
14 8 (0.53%) Foundry
14 8 (0.53%) Splunk
15 7 (0.46%) HP
15 7 (0.46%) Infoblox
15 7 (0.46%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.46%) Sybase