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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 51 71
Rank change year-on-year -21 +20 -1
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,754 1,466 1,143
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.29% 4.46% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 4.93% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,108 904 696
10th Percentile £406 £363 £363
25th Percentile £475 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £566 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% +2.95% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £716
90th Percentile £788 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 30 31
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £22.34
25th Percentile £50.00 £24.19 £38.75
Median hourly rate £78.70 £50.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.62% -12.61% +45.87%
75th Percentile £85.20 £74.87 £63.13
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.28 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +44.55% -4.35% -15.78%

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 45,324 29,743 33,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.43% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,013 18,657 21,666
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,761 1,640 1,941
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.32 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.94
% change year-on-year +86.55% -42.44% +2.35%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -21 1,542 £570 -0.87% 1,459
UK excluding London -7 912 £525 +2.44% 780
London -37 715 £600 -7.69% 828
Work from Home -27 497 £550 -5.17% 654
North of England -6 271 £513 - 167
South East +5 251 £575 +4.55% 225
North West -30 136 £525 +3.45% 101
Yorkshire +10 129 £500 -4.76% 52
Scotland +7 108 £475 +5.56% 62
Midlands -47 106 £563 +19.94% 115
South West -15 104 £570 -0.87% 101
West Midlands -43 85 £550 +10.00% 75
East of England +21 65 £525 -4.55% 55
East Midlands -26 18 £537 +22.94% 40
Northern Ireland -5 9 £394 -28.41% 34
Wales -14 8 £650 +45.09% 31
North East -41 6 £454 -17.50% 15

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 72 (4.10%) Confluence
2 39 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.51%) SAS
4 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.23%) IIS
6 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.057%) Apache
8 1 (0.057%) Appian
8 1 (0.057%) CMS
8 1 (0.057%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.057%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.057%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.057%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.057%) WebSphere
Applications
1 52 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.23%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.23%) Revit
6 4 (0.23%) Trello
7 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.17%) Windchill
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.057%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.057%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 40 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.68%) Endur
3 10 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.57%) Primavera
4 9 (0.51%) SAP GRC
5 7 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.29%) Actimize
7 5 (0.29%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.23%) Magento
8 4 (0.23%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 266 (15.17%) Azure
2 188 (10.72%) AWS
3 80 (4.56%) GCP
4 71 (4.05%) Power Platform
5 61 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (3.14%) Entra ID
7 50 (2.85%) SaaS
8 38 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (1.94%) GitHub
10 26 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
11 22 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
12 21 (1.20%) Snowflake
13 19 (1.08%) PaaS
14 18 (1.03%) Azure AI
15 17 (0.97%) OCI
15 17 (0.97%) Serverless
16 16 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
17 15 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
18 12 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.31%) Network Security
2 41 (2.34%) Firewall
3 22 (1.25%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.03%) WAN
5 16 (0.91%) DNS
6 15 (0.86%) LAN
7 14 (0.80%) DHCP
8 13 (0.74%) 5G
9 12 (0.68%) HTTP
10 11 (0.63%) 4G
11 10 (0.57%) BIG-IP
11 10 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.40%) Internet
12 7 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
13 6 (0.34%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.34%) VPN
14 5 (0.29%) 3G
14 5 (0.29%) NAS
14 5 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
14 5 (0.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.08%) Power BI
2 33 (1.88%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.82%) Metadata
3 32 (1.82%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (0.97%) MongoDB
6 13 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 13 (0.74%) Db2
7 11 (0.63%) Tableau
8 10 (0.57%) Big Data
9 9 (0.51%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.34%) MySQL
10 6 (0.34%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.29%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 121 (6.90%) JIRA
2 26 (1.48%) Git
3 22 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.68%) Selenium
5 8 (0.46%) GitLab
5 8 (0.46%) Postman
6 7 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 7 (0.40%) WebDriver
6 7 (0.40%) Zephyr
7 6 (0.34%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.29%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.23%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.23%) jMock
9 4 (0.23%) JUnit
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
9 4 (0.23%) Mockito
9 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 673 (38.37%) Social Skills
2 641 (36.55%) Finance
3 278 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
4 208 (11.86%) Public Sector
5 196 (11.17%) Banking
6 127 (7.24%) Legal
7 70 (3.99%) Influencing Skills
8 68 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
9 54 (3.08%) Front Office
10 44 (2.51%) Aerospace
11 43 (2.45%) Retail
11 43 (2.45%) Telecoms
12 40 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
12 40 (2.28%) Financial Institution
13 36 (2.05%) Investment Banking
13 36 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.94%) Military
15 28 (1.60%) Manufacturing
16 27 (1.54%) Law
17 25 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 232 (13.23%) Lead
2 210 (11.97%) Architect
3 206 (11.74%) Project Manager
4 182 (10.38%) Senior
5 165 (9.41%) Analyst
6 104 (5.93%) Consultant
7 90 (5.13%) Security Architect
8 72 (4.10%) Developer
9 69 (3.93%) Programme Manager
10 64 (3.65%) Senior Manager
11 62 (3.53%) Business Analyst
12 58 (3.31%) Risk Manager
13 51 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
14 48 (2.74%) IT Manager
15 44 (2.51%) Security Consultant
16 38 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
17 37 (2.11%) Security Manager
18 35 (2.00%) Security Engineer
19 32 (1.82%) Product Manager
20 30 (1.71%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.71%) REST
2 26 (1.48%) .NET
2 26 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
3 20 (1.14%) Middleware
4 19 (1.08%) Kafka
5 17 (0.97%) OAuth
6 13 (0.74%) JSON
6 13 (0.74%) XML
7 12 (0.68%) OpenID
7 12 (0.68%) SAML
7 12 (0.68%) Spring
8 11 (0.63%) Azure Blueprints
8 11 (0.63%) Leaflet
8 11 (0.63%) React
8 11 (0.63%) RESTful
8 11 (0.63%) SOAP
9 9 (0.51%) LDAP
9 9 (0.51%) PyTorch
9 9 (0.51%) SailPoint
9 9 (0.51%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 123 (7.01%) Management Information System
2 90 (5.13%) Onboarding
2 90 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 76 (4.33%) Cloud Native
4 71 (4.05%) Security Posture
5 61 (3.48%) Operational Technology
6 50 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
7 46 (2.62%) Data Centre
8 34 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
9 31 (1.77%) AI Agents
9 31 (1.77%) Derivative
10 28 (1.60%) Market Risk
11 26 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
11 26 (1.48%) PMI
12 24 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
13 22 (1.25%) NHS
14 20 (1.14%) Data Structures
14 20 (1.14%) Fixed Income
14 20 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (3.14%) Windows
2 54 (3.08%) Linux
3 35 (2.00%) Unix
4 21 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.29%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.29%) zOS
7 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.11%) AIX
10 1 (0.057%) Android
10 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 644 (36.72%) Stakeholder Management
2 428 (24.40%) Agile
3 391 (22.29%) Cybersecurity
4 388 (22.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 377 (21.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 262 (14.94%) Decision-Making
7 260 (14.82%) Project Management
8 258 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
9 239 (13.63%) AI
10 227 (12.94%) Roadmaps
11 213 (12.14%) Information Security
12 181 (10.32%) Project Delivery
13 167 (9.52%) Change Management
14 157 (8.95%) Migration
15 156 (8.89%) CI/CD
16 154 (8.78%) DevOps
17 140 (7.98%) Vulnerability Management
18 137 (7.81%) Analytics
19 132 (7.53%) PRINCE2
20 125 (7.13%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 128 (7.30%) Python
2 92 (5.25%) SQL
3 59 (3.36%) Java
4 37 (2.11%) PowerShell
5 26 (1.48%) C#
6 19 (1.08%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.74%) C++
8 12 (0.68%) VBA
9 10 (0.57%) Shell Script
10 9 (0.51%) Bash
10 9 (0.51%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.34%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.29%) Go
13 4 (0.23%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.23%) Bicep
13 4 (0.23%) CLIST
13 4 (0.23%) JCL
13 4 (0.23%) REXX
13 4 (0.23%) Scala
14 3 (0.17%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 453 (25.83%) Security Cleared
2 336 (19.16%) SC Cleared
3 179 (10.21%) Degree
4 168 (9.58%) CISSP
5 111 (6.33%) DV Cleared
6 110 (6.27%) CISM
7 79 (4.50%) PMI Certification
8 76 (4.33%) PMP
9 49 (2.79%) CRISC
10 43 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 37 (2.11%) CISA
12 36 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
13 32 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
14 31 (1.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 29 (1.65%) Master's Degree
15 29 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 22 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
17 18 (1.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 17 (0.97%) CESG Certified Professional
19 16 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (12.60%) NIST
2 219 (12.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 173 (9.86%) GRC
4 119 (6.78%) GDPR
5 92 (5.25%) QA
6 71 (4.05%) Data Quality
7 66 (3.76%) PMO
8 60 (3.42%) NCSC
9 35 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
9 35 (2.00%) JSP 440
9 35 (2.00%) PCI DSS
10 31 (1.77%) SOC 2
11 28 (1.60%) NIST 800
11 28 (1.60%) SLA
12 22 (1.25%) COBIT
13 18 (1.03%) ISO 31000
14 17 (0.97%) Accessibility
14 17 (0.97%) Def Stans
15 16 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 16 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.14%) Docker
3 10 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.23%) Postfix
5 4 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.11%) FreeRADIUS
7 2 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.057%) Ceph
8 1 (0.057%) IAG
8 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (1.82%) Kubernetes
2 31 (1.77%) Terraform
3 25 (1.43%) Ansible
4 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.68%) Grafana
6 11 (0.63%) SCCM
7 9 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.29%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.23%) Control-M
10 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.23%) Nessus
10 4 (0.23%) OMEGAMON
11 3 (0.17%) CASB
11 3 (0.17%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.17%) Istio
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.11%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 232 (13.23%) Microsoft
2 96 (5.47%) ServiceNow
3 85 (4.85%) SAP
4 75 (4.28%) Oracle
5 41 (2.34%) Google
6 21 (1.20%) IBM
6 21 (1.20%) Salesforce
7 17 (0.97%) Cisco
7 17 (0.97%) Splunk
8 16 (0.91%) Foundry
8 16 (0.91%) Sybase
8 16 (0.91%) Workday
9 13 (0.74%) Qualys
10 12 (0.68%) Databricks
11 11 (0.63%) F5
11 11 (0.63%) Murex
12 10 (0.57%) Ariba
12 10 (0.57%) Infoblox
12 10 (0.57%) OpenAI
12 10 (0.57%) VMware