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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 58 62
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 2,027 1,327 1,264
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.67% 4.00% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 4.42% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,234 820 705
10th Percentile £400 £362 £363
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £573 £554
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +3.34% -3.65%
75th Percentile £675 £717 £688
90th Percentile £788 £875 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £519 £525
% change year-on-year +1.25% -1.24% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 33 28
10th Percentile £38.03 £22.16 £33.35
25th Percentile £51.00 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £74.84 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +123.40% -41.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85.00 £64.00 £73.86
90th Percentile £89.40 £82.75 £78.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.70 £33.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +134.93% -41.74% -20.57%

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 46,826 30,024 32,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.73% 90.50% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,144 18,679 19,408
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,407 1,886 1,245
10th Percentile £13.64 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.72 £65.07 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -8.14%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -2 1,768 £570 -0.87% 2,088
UK excluding London +4 967 £525 +1.25% 923
London -7 890 £605 -6.92% 1,294
Work from Home -11 554 £550 -8.33% 864
North of England -4 281 £510 +2.00% 218
South East +14 263 £575 +4.55% 229
Yorkshire +20 138 £494 -1.20% 84
North West -21 136 £525 +3.83% 120
Scotland +17 125 £500 +11.11% 108
South West -16 107 £600 - 113
Midlands -34 106 £500 +5.26% 115
West Midlands -22 83 £495 -3.41% 77
East of England +6 71 £513 -16.33% 62
East Midlands -24 20 £550 +37.50% 38
Wales -13 15 £600 +45.45% 23
Northern Ireland +4 10 £505 -8.18% 60
North East -38 8 £450 -18.18% 14
Channel Islands - 2 £600 -

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 83 (4.09%) Confluence
2 38 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.64%) SAS
4 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.20%) CMS
6 4 (0.20%) IIS
6 4 (0.20%) nginx
7 2 (0.099%) Apache
7 2 (0.099%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.049%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.049%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.049%) Appian
8 1 (0.049%) CICS
8 1 (0.049%) Documentum
8 1 (0.049%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.049%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.049%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 61 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (1.09%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.099%) Gliffy
8 2 (0.099%) LaTeX
8 2 (0.099%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.099%) Revit
8 2 (0.099%) Windchill
9 1 (0.049%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.049%) Trello
Business Applications
1 53 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.74%) SAP GRC
3 11 (0.54%) Endur
4 10 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.49%) Primavera
5 6 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.30%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.25%) SAP HCM
6 5 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.20%) Actimize
7 4 (0.20%) Magento
7 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.15%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 305 (15.05%) Azure
2 220 (10.85%) AWS
3 106 (5.23%) GCP
4 81 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 76 (3.75%) SaaS
6 73 (3.60%) Entra ID
7 62 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
8 55 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (2.02%) GitHub
10 30 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
11 28 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
11 28 (1.38%) OCI
12 24 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
13 19 (0.94%) Snowflake
14 18 (0.89%) Serverless
15 17 (0.84%) Azure AI
15 17 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
15 17 (0.84%) PaaS
16 16 (0.79%) IaaS
17 15 (0.74%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.70%) Network Security
2 55 (2.71%) Firewall
3 23 (1.13%) WAN
4 21 (1.04%) LAN
4 21 (1.04%) TCP/IP
5 18 (0.89%) DNS
6 17 (0.84%) VPN
7 11 (0.54%) 5G
7 11 (0.54%) DHCP
8 9 (0.44%) 4G
8 9 (0.44%) Internet
8 9 (0.44%) Kerberos
9 8 (0.39%) Cisco IPT
10 6 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.25%) BIG-IP
11 5 (0.25%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
11 5 (0.25%) Softphone
11 5 (0.25%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (3.06%) Power BI
2 47 (2.32%) SQL Server
3 35 (1.73%) Metadata
4 27 (1.33%) Relational Database
5 24 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (0.79%) MongoDB
7 16 (0.79%) Oracle Database
8 15 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 14 (0.69%) Db2
10 13 (0.64%) Big Data
11 10 (0.49%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.39%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.35%) MySQL
13 7 (0.35%) Tableau
14 6 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.30%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.25%) Snowflake Schema
16 4 (0.20%) Neo4j
16 4 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 150 (7.40%) JIRA
2 30 (1.48%) Git
3 24 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 15 (0.74%) Selenium
5 12 (0.59%) Cypress.io
6 11 (0.54%) Postman
7 10 (0.49%) GitLab
8 9 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.44%) WebDriver
9 7 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.35%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.35%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.25%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.20%) Gradle
11 4 (0.20%) JMeter
11 4 (0.20%) Subversion
12 3 (0.15%) Gatling
12 3 (0.15%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 827 (40.80%) Social Skills
2 777 (38.33%) Finance
3 354 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 259 (12.78%) Banking
5 256 (12.63%) Public Sector
6 152 (7.50%) Legal
7 114 (5.62%) Influencing Skills
8 94 (4.64%) Organisational Skills
9 83 (4.09%) Front Office
10 59 (2.91%) Aerospace
11 55 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
12 54 (2.66%) Military
13 50 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
14 49 (2.42%) Manufacturing
15 46 (2.27%) Financial Institution
16 45 (2.22%) Investment Banking
17 42 (2.07%) Telecoms
18 38 (1.87%) Law
19 37 (1.83%) Retail
20 26 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 272 (13.42%) Lead
2 231 (11.40%) Architect
3 214 (10.56%) Analyst
4 204 (10.06%) Project Manager
5 203 (10.01%) Senior
6 111 (5.48%) Consultant
7 95 (4.69%) Programme Manager
8 93 (4.59%) Security Architect
9 73 (3.60%) Business Analyst
9 73 (3.60%) Developer
10 59 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
10 59 (2.91%) IT Manager
10 59 (2.91%) Senior Manager
11 52 (2.57%) Risk Manager
12 49 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
13 45 (2.22%) Risk Analyst
14 43 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
15 41 (2.02%) Technical Manager
16 40 (1.97%) Security Engineer
17 39 (1.92%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (3.45%) Terraform
2 46 (2.27%) REST
3 40 (1.97%) .NET
4 27 (1.33%) Middleware
5 25 (1.23%) Kafka
6 21 (1.04%) OAuth
7 20 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
8 15 (0.74%) SAML
9 13 (0.64%) OpenID
9 13 (0.64%) Spring
10 12 (0.59%) JSON
10 12 (0.59%) React
11 11 (0.54%) SLSA
11 11 (0.54%) Web Services
12 10 (0.49%) SailPoint
12 10 (0.49%) SOAP
12 10 (0.49%) XGBoost
13 9 (0.44%) Azure Blueprints
13 9 (0.44%) LDAP
13 9 (0.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 132 (6.51%) Onboarding
2 130 (6.41%) Management Information System
3 113 (5.57%) Product Ownership
4 82 (4.05%) Security Posture
5 74 (3.65%) Cloud Native
6 65 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
7 57 (2.81%) Data Centre
7 57 (2.81%) Operational Technology
8 49 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
9 47 (2.32%) Cyber Threat
10 37 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 37 (1.83%) Market Risk
11 36 (1.78%) AI Agents
12 30 (1.48%) Credit Risk
12 30 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
13 28 (1.38%) Derivative
14 26 (1.28%) NHS
15 25 (1.23%) Data Structures
15 25 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 25 (1.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 78 (3.85%) Linux
2 76 (3.75%) Windows
3 43 (2.12%) Unix
4 26 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.39%) zOS
7 6 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.25%) Android
8 5 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.15%) AIX
11 2 (0.099%) macOS
12 1 (0.049%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.049%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 861 (42.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 527 (26.00%) Cybersecurity
3 503 (24.81%) Agile
4 481 (23.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 429 (21.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 343 (16.92%) Decision-Making
7 306 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
8 301 (14.85%) Roadmaps
9 289 (14.26%) AI
10 264 (13.02%) Project Management
11 242 (11.94%) Project Delivery
12 231 (11.40%) Information Security
13 205 (10.11%) DevOps
14 204 (10.06%) CI/CD
15 202 (9.97%) Migration
16 181 (8.93%) Change Management
17 176 (8.68%) Analytics
18 172 (8.49%) Vulnerability Management
19 162 (7.99%) PRINCE2
19 162 (7.99%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 175 (8.63%) Python
2 115 (5.67%) SQL
3 53 (2.61%) Java
4 51 (2.52%) PowerShell
5 47 (2.32%) C#
6 25 (1.23%) Bash
7 22 (1.09%) JavaScript
8 17 (0.84%) Shell Script
9 16 (0.79%) C++
10 10 (0.49%) Go
11 8 (0.39%) VBA
12 7 (0.35%) Bicep
12 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.35%) TypeScript
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
1 565 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 412 (20.33%) SC Cleared
3 196 (9.67%) Degree
4 175 (8.63%) CISSP
5 129 (6.36%) DV Cleared
6 125 (6.17%) CISM
7 105 (5.18%) PMI Certification
8 97 (4.79%) PMP
9 62 (3.06%) CRISC
10 58 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 47 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
12 46 (2.27%) CISA
13 42 (2.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 32 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
15 31 (1.53%) Master's Degree
16 27 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 26 (1.28%) AWS Certification
17 26 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
18 25 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
19 23 (1.13%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (12.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 217 (10.71%) NIST
3 198 (9.77%) GRC
4 125 (6.17%) QA
5 109 (5.38%) GDPR
6 99 (4.88%) Data Quality
6 99 (4.88%) NCSC
7 70 (3.45%) PMO
8 46 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 26 (1.28%) JSP 440
10 24 (1.18%) NIST 800
11 18 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 17 (0.84%) Accessibility
13 16 (0.79%) COBIT
13 16 (0.79%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 15 (0.74%) Def Stans
14 15 (0.74%) SLA
15 13 (0.64%) ISO 31000
15 13 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.48%) Docker
3 18 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.54%) vSphere
5 10 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
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 (0.049%) NFS
11 1 (0.049%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 61 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 40 (1.97%) Ansible
3 18 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.64%) Grafana
4 13 (0.64%) SCCM
5 8 (0.39%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.35%) Control-M
6 7 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.25%) FortiGate
7 5 (0.25%) Nessus
7 5 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
8 3 (0.15%) Argo
8 3 (0.15%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.15%) Istio
8 3 (0.15%) Kibana
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.15%) Podman
8 3 (0.15%) QRadar
Vendors
1 308 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 115 (5.67%) ServiceNow
3 104 (5.13%) SAP
4 82 (4.05%) Oracle
5 56 (2.76%) Google
6 27 (1.33%) VMware
7 25 (1.23%) Murex
8 24 (1.18%) IBM
8 24 (1.18%) Splunk
9 23 (1.13%) Cisco
9 23 (1.13%) Salesforce
10 19 (0.94%) Ariba
11 18 (0.89%) Databricks
11 18 (0.89%) Qualys
12 13 (0.64%) BeyondTrust
12 13 (0.64%) CyberArk
12 13 (0.64%) OpenAI
12 13 (0.64%) Sybase
12 13 (0.64%) Workday
13 12 (0.59%) Bloomberg