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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 53 65
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 0
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,883 1,422 1,244
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.46% 4.31% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 4.77% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,149 879 732
10th Percentile £400 £360 £382
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £560
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +1.79% -5.72%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £800 £875 £837
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £506 £550
% change year-on-year +3.70% -7.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 25 29
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £31.02
25th Percentile £47.13 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £64.09 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.31% -41.74% +17.35%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £89.20 £81.85 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £33.50 £58.38
% change year-on-year +126.87% -42.61% -2.71%

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 46,112 29,840 32,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.46% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,098 18,520 20,299
10th Percentile £325 £300 £312
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,038 1,780 1,507
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.38 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +76.89% -47.37% +8.65%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -19 1,646 £560 -2.61% 2,919
UK excluding London -9 944 £525 +3.70% 1,345
London -28 794 £600 -7.69% 1,916
Work from Home -23 508 £550 -8.26% 1,245
North of England -12 270 £512 +2.38% 302
South East +8 252 £575 +4.55% 337
North West -23 138 £525 +2.68% 195
Yorkshire -1 126 £500 - 88
Scotland +3 121 £475 +5.56% 161
South West -15 115 £600 +4.35% 183
Midlands -48 108 £542 +15.62% 195
West Midlands -23 85 £525 +5.00% 117
East of England +1 69 £513 -14.58% 91
East Midlands -30 20 £547 +36.07% 78
Wales -14 11 £600 +45.45% 23
Northern Ireland -3 9 £413 -25.00% 64
North East -45 6 £454 - 25
Channel Islands - 2 £600 - 1

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 (3.77%) Confluence
2 47 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.53%) SAS
4 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.21%) IIS
5 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.11%) CMS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.053%) Apache
8 1 (0.053%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.053%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.053%) Appian
8 1 (0.053%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.053%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.053%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 68 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.21%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.21%) Revit
7 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.16%) Windchill
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.053%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.85%) SAP GRC
3 14 (0.74%) Endur
4 10 (0.53%) Primavera
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.21%) Actimize
9 4 (0.21%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.21%) Magento
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.21%) Summit
10 3 (0.16%) Findur
10 3 (0.16%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.16%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 278 (14.76%) Azure
2 193 (10.25%) AWS
3 89 (4.73%) Power Platform
4 81 (4.30%) GCP
5 64 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
6 63 (3.35%) Entra ID
7 57 (3.03%) SaaS
8 39 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (1.70%) GitHub
10 26 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
11 25 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (1.27%) OCI
13 21 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
13 21 (1.12%) Snowflake
14 20 (1.06%) PaaS
15 19 (1.01%) Azure AI
16 17 (0.90%) Anthropic Claude
17 16 (0.85%) IaaS
18 15 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
18 15 (0.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.40%) Network Security
2 43 (2.28%) Firewall
3 23 (1.22%) TCP/IP
4 18 (0.96%) DNS
4 18 (0.96%) WAN
5 16 (0.85%) LAN
6 14 (0.74%) 5G
6 14 (0.74%) DHCP
7 12 (0.64%) 4G
8 8 (0.42%) BIG-IP
8 8 (0.42%) Internet
8 8 (0.42%) VPN
9 7 (0.37%) HTTP
9 7 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.32%) Cisco IPT
10 6 (0.32%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.32%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.27%) 3G
11 5 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
11 5 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (3.66%) Power BI
2 45 (2.39%) Metadata
3 39 (2.07%) SQL Server
4 34 (1.81%) Relational Database
5 22 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (1.01%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.80%) Db2
7 15 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 12 (0.64%) Tableau
10 11 (0.58%) Big Data
10 11 (0.58%) Oracle Database
11 9 (0.48%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.37%) MySQL
13 5 (0.27%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.27%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 4 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.21%) Ataccama
14 4 (0.21%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 128 (6.80%) JIRA
2 28 (1.49%) Git
3 20 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.69%) Selenium
5 9 (0.48%) Cypress.io
5 9 (0.48%) Zephyr
6 8 (0.42%) Postman
7 7 (0.37%) WebDriver
8 6 (0.32%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.32%) GitLab
9 4 (0.21%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.21%) Gradle
9 4 (0.21%) Maven
9 4 (0.21%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.21%) Subversion
10 3 (0.16%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.16%) JUnit
10 3 (0.16%) Mockito
General
1 755 (40.10%) Social Skills
2 686 (36.43%) Finance
3 323 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (12.27%) Public Sector
5 204 (10.83%) Banking
6 142 (7.54%) Legal
7 91 (4.83%) Influencing Skills
8 75 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
9 73 (3.88%) Front Office
10 53 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
11 51 (2.71%) Aerospace
12 47 (2.50%) Military
13 45 (2.39%) Investment Banking
14 43 (2.28%) Telecoms
15 42 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
15 42 (2.23%) Retail
16 41 (2.18%) Manufacturing
17 38 (2.02%) Financial Institution
18 36 (1.91%) Law
19 25 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 244 (12.96%) Lead
2 232 (12.32%) Architect
3 196 (10.41%) Project Manager
4 187 (9.93%) Analyst
5 181 (9.61%) Senior
6 103 (5.47%) Consultant
7 97 (5.15%) Security Architect
8 76 (4.04%) Programme Manager
9 74 (3.93%) Developer
10 66 (3.51%) Business Analyst
11 56 (2.97%) IT Manager
12 53 (2.81%) Risk Manager
12 53 (2.81%) Senior Manager
13 49 (2.60%) Delivery Manager
14 42 (2.23%) Security Consultant
15 37 (1.96%) Solutions Architect
16 36 (1.91%) Security Manager
17 35 (1.86%) Risk Analyst
18 34 (1.81%) Security Engineer
18 34 (1.81%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (2.28%) Terraform
2 37 (1.96%) REST
3 34 (1.81%) .NET
4 26 (1.38%) Middleware
5 21 (1.12%) Kafka
5 21 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
6 18 (0.96%) OAuth
7 15 (0.80%) JSON
8 14 (0.74%) Spring
9 13 (0.69%) XML
10 12 (0.64%) SAML
11 11 (0.58%) OpenID
11 11 (0.58%) React
11 11 (0.58%) SailPoint
11 11 (0.58%) SLSA
11 11 (0.58%) SOAP
12 10 (0.53%) RESTful
12 10 (0.53%) Spring Boot
13 9 (0.48%) LDAP
13 9 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 121 (6.43%) Management Information System
2 115 (6.11%) Onboarding
3 92 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 78 (4.14%) Security Posture
5 71 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 59 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
7 54 (2.87%) Operational Technology
8 43 (2.28%) Cyber Threat
9 42 (2.23%) Data Centre
10 35 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
10 35 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
11 34 (1.81%) AI Agents
12 31 (1.65%) Market Risk
13 30 (1.59%) Derivative
14 28 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
15 27 (1.43%) Data Structures
16 26 (1.38%) NHS
17 23 (1.22%) Credit Risk
17 23 (1.22%) PMI
18 22 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 63 (3.35%) Windows
2 60 (3.19%) Linux
3 40 (2.12%) Unix
4 21 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.32%) zOS
7 5 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.16%) AIX
9 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.16%) Android
9 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 741 (39.35%) Stakeholder Management
2 468 (24.85%) Cybersecurity
3 467 (24.80%) Agile
4 418 (22.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 414 (21.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 305 (16.20%) Decision-Making
7 281 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
8 270 (14.34%) AI
9 257 (13.65%) Project Management
10 239 (12.69%) Roadmaps
11 215 (11.42%) Information Security
12 210 (11.15%) Project Delivery
13 180 (9.56%) DevOps
14 178 (9.45%) Migration
15 175 (9.29%) CI/CD
16 164 (8.71%) Change Management
17 163 (8.66%) Analytics
18 156 (8.28%) Vulnerability Management
19 151 (8.02%) PRINCE2
20 146 (7.75%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 149 (7.91%) Python
2 107 (5.68%) SQL
3 51 (2.71%) Java
4 40 (2.12%) PowerShell
5 31 (1.65%) C#
6 18 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.74%) Bash
7 14 (0.74%) C++
8 12 (0.64%) Shell Script
9 11 (0.58%) VBA
10 8 (0.42%) Go
10 8 (0.42%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.42%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.27%) Bicep
12 5 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.21%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.21%) CLIST
13 4 (0.21%) Perl
13 4 (0.21%) REXX
Qualifications
1 523 (27.77%) Security Cleared
2 378 (20.07%) SC Cleared
3 170 (9.03%) Degree
4 167 (8.87%) CISSP
5 124 (6.59%) DV Cleared
6 115 (6.11%) CISM
7 87 (4.62%) PMI Certification
8 84 (4.46%) PMP
9 54 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 54 (2.87%) CRISC
10 43 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (2.07%) CISA
12 38 (2.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 27 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
14 26 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 24 (1.27%) Master's Degree
15 24 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
16 23 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
17 22 (1.17%) CCSP
18 20 (1.06%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (12.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 221 (11.74%) NIST
3 193 (10.25%) GRC
4 120 (6.37%) GDPR
5 114 (6.05%) QA
6 88 (4.67%) Data Quality
7 81 (4.30%) NCSC
8 69 (3.66%) PMO
9 37 (1.96%) JSP 440
10 36 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
11 24 (1.27%) NIST 800
12 22 (1.17%) COBIT
13 19 (1.01%) Accessibility
13 19 (1.01%) SOC 2
14 17 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 16 (0.85%) ISO 31000
15 16 (0.85%) PCI DSS
15 16 (0.85%) SLA
16 15 (0.80%) Def Stans
16 15 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (2.39%) Active Directory
2 24 (1.27%) Docker
3 11 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
6 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.21%) vSphere
7 3 (0.16%) Firmware
7 3 (0.16%) FreeRADIUS
7 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.16%) Postfix
7 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.11%) IAG
8 2 (0.11%) NFS
9 1 (0.053%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 47 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 33 (1.75%) Ansible
3 14 (0.74%) Grafana
4 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.64%) SCCM
5 8 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.32%) Control-M
7 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.21%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.21%) Nessus
8 4 (0.21%) OMEGAMON
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (0.21%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.16%) Puppet
10 2 (0.11%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.11%) Istio
Vendors
1 277 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 112 (5.95%) ServiceNow
3 92 (4.89%) SAP
4 78 (4.14%) Oracle
5 41 (2.18%) Google
6 23 (1.22%) IBM
7 21 (1.12%) Splunk
8 20 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 17 (0.90%) Cisco
9 17 (0.90%) Databricks
9 17 (0.90%) Sybase
9 17 (0.90%) VMware
10 15 (0.80%) Foundry
11 13 (0.69%) Qualys
12 12 (0.64%) Murex
13 11 (0.58%) Ariba
13 11 (0.58%) BeyondTrust
13 11 (0.58%) CyberArk
13 11 (0.58%) Workday
14 9 (0.48%) Okta