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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 48 74
Rank change year-on-year -24 +26 -8
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,567 1,315 1,255
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.15% 4.49% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 4.94% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,023 808 783
10th Percentile £406 £375 £355
25th Percentile £476 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £700
90th Percentile £800 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 27 45
10th Percentile £20.57 £46.30 £12.25
25th Percentile £34.52 £48.13 £30.12
Median hourly rate £58.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% +30.00% +370.37%
75th Percentile £96.25 £80.80 £60.00
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.23 £76.07
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -10.77% +30.00% +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 42,104 26,621 36,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.94% 85.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,283 16,896 23,594
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,537 1,167 2,565
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%
75th Percentile £67.89 £56.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 1,391 £550 -6.78% 574
UK excluding London 0 780 £525 +2.56% 412
London -36 669 £600 -11.11% 230
Work from Home -16 461 £550 -4.35% 277
North of England -9 238 £514 +1.28% 103
South East -8 196 £563 +2.27% 144
Yorkshire +5 123 £500 - 40
North West -10 114 £545 +7.76% 52
Midlands -37 113 £550 +10.00% 55
South West +10 94 £570 +26.67% 56
Scotland +1 88 £475 +1.71% 17
West Midlands -41 78 £550 +10.00% 30
East of England -6 49 £525 -16.00% 36
East Midlands -19 35 £550 +22.63% 25
Northern Ireland -2 8 £450 -18.18% 6
Wales -14 2 £600 +26.32% 7
North East -33 1 £480 -18.30% 11

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 73 (4.66%) Confluence
2 39 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.45%) SAS
5 3 (0.19%) IIS
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.13%) nginx
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.064%) Apache
7 1 (0.064%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.064%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.064%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.064%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.064%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.064%) WebSphere
Applications
1 56 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.83%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.32%) Revit
7 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.26%) Trello
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.13%) Windchill
10 1 (0.064%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.064%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.064%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 25 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.57%) Endur
4 7 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.45%) Summit
5 6 (0.38%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.32%) Actimize
6 5 (0.32%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.32%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.26%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.26%) Primavera
8 3 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 209 (13.34%) Azure
2 157 (10.02%) AWS
3 67 (4.28%) Power Platform
4 65 (4.15%) GCP
5 64 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (3.06%) Entra ID
7 40 (2.55%) SaaS
8 28 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (1.66%) Microsoft Purview
10 24 (1.53%) GitHub
11 22 (1.40%) Google Workspace
12 20 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
14 18 (1.15%) Google Sheets
14 18 (1.15%) PaaS
14 18 (1.15%) Snowflake
15 17 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
16 14 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
17 11 (0.70%) IaaS
17 11 (0.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.45%) Network Security
2 32 (2.04%) Firewall
3 19 (1.21%) DNS
4 14 (0.89%) DHCP
5 12 (0.77%) BIG-IP
6 11 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.57%) WAN
9 8 (0.51%) 5G
9 8 (0.51%) Internet
9 8 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
10 7 (0.45%) HTTP
11 6 (0.38%) 4G
11 6 (0.38%) LAN
12 5 (0.32%) 3G
12 5 (0.32%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.26%) NAS
13 4 (0.26%) NGFW
13 4 (0.26%) SAN
13 4 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.38%) Power BI
2 35 (2.23%) Metadata
3 26 (1.66%) Relational Database
4 23 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (1.28%) SQL Server
6 15 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (0.96%) MongoDB
7 11 (0.70%) Tableau
8 9 (0.57%) Db2
9 8 (0.51%) Big Data
9 8 (0.51%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.51%) RDBMS
10 7 (0.45%) MySQL
11 5 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.32%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.32%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 124 (7.91%) JIRA
2 19 (1.21%) Jenkins
3 17 (1.08%) Git
4 9 (0.57%) GitLab
5 6 (0.38%) Zephyr
6 5 (0.32%) JUnit
6 5 (0.32%) Mockito
6 5 (0.32%) Selenium
6 5 (0.32%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.26%) DbUnit
7 4 (0.26%) jMock
7 4 (0.26%) Maven
7 4 (0.26%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.13%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.13%) MLflow
8 2 (0.13%) TestRail
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.064%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.064%) ERwin
General
1 575 (36.69%) Finance
2 570 (36.38%) Social Skills
3 251 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 177 (11.30%) Public Sector
5 176 (11.23%) Banking
6 120 (7.66%) Legal
7 49 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
8 46 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
9 40 (2.55%) Front Office
10 38 (2.43%) Investment Banking
11 37 (2.36%) Telecoms
12 36 (2.30%) Financial Institution
12 36 (2.30%) Retail
13 33 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
14 31 (1.98%) Manufacturing
14 31 (1.98%) Military
15 30 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
16 26 (1.66%) Law
17 22 (1.40%) Aerospace
18 20 (1.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 197 (12.57%) Project Manager
2 193 (12.32%) Lead
3 166 (10.59%) Architect
4 159 (10.15%) Senior
5 151 (9.64%) Analyst
6 86 (5.49%) Consultant
7 72 (4.59%) Business Analyst
8 71 (4.53%) Security Architect
9 70 (4.47%) Programme Manager
10 69 (4.40%) Developer
11 58 (3.70%) Senior Manager
12 54 (3.45%) Risk Manager
13 43 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
14 39 (2.49%) Security Engineer
15 37 (2.36%) IT Manager
16 36 (2.30%) Security Manager
17 35 (2.23%) Security Consultant
18 34 (2.17%) Risk Analyst
19 30 (1.91%) Solutions Architect
20 25 (1.60%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (1.60%) REST
3 21 (1.34%) Kafka
4 20 (1.28%) .NET
5 17 (1.08%) XML
6 15 (0.96%) Middleware
7 13 (0.83%) JSON
8 12 (0.77%) OAuth
9 11 (0.70%) Azure Blueprints
9 11 (0.70%) LDAP
9 11 (0.70%) Leaflet
9 11 (0.70%) OpenID
9 11 (0.70%) RESTful
10 10 (0.64%) SAML
10 10 (0.64%) SOAP
11 8 (0.51%) React
11 8 (0.51%) Web Services
12 7 (0.45%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.45%) Spring
13 6 (0.38%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 122 (7.79%) Management Information System
2 72 (4.59%) Product Ownership
3 68 (4.34%) Onboarding
4 60 (3.83%) Security Posture
5 54 (3.45%) Cloud Native
6 53 (3.38%) Operational Technology
7 45 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
7 45 (2.87%) Derivative
8 43 (2.74%) Data Centre
9 31 (1.98%) Market Risk
10 26 (1.66%) AI Agents
11 25 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (1.47%) Credit Risk
12 23 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 23 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (1.40%) NHS
14 20 (1.28%) PMI
15 19 (1.21%) Fixed Income
16 18 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 17 (1.08%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 53 (3.38%) Windows
2 44 (2.81%) Linux
3 27 (1.72%) Unix
4 18 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.38%) zOS
7 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (30.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 388 (24.76%) Agile
3 324 (20.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 299 (19.08%) Cybersecurity
5 298 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 255 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
7 241 (15.38%) Project Management
8 225 (14.36%) Decision-Making
9 189 (12.06%) Information Security
10 184 (11.74%) AI
11 182 (11.61%) Roadmaps
12 171 (10.91%) Change Management
13 149 (9.51%) Project Delivery
14 142 (9.06%) Migration
15 130 (8.30%) Regulatory Compliance
16 128 (8.17%) Analytics
17 126 (8.04%) DevOps
18 123 (7.85%) CI/CD
19 121 (7.72%) Data Protection
20 114 (7.28%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 112 (7.15%) Python
2 111 (7.08%) SQL
3 59 (3.77%) Java
4 34 (2.17%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.34%) C#
6 18 (1.15%) C++
7 13 (0.83%) JavaScript
8 12 (0.77%) VBA
9 9 (0.57%) Bash
10 8 (0.51%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.32%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.19%) Assembly Language
13 3 (0.19%) Bicep
13 3 (0.19%) CLIST
13 3 (0.19%) Go
13 3 (0.19%) JCL
13 3 (0.19%) REXX
14 2 (0.13%) Perl
14 2 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 362 (23.10%) Security Cleared
2 266 (16.98%) SC Cleared
3 190 (12.13%) Degree
4 136 (8.68%) CISSP
5 98 (6.25%) CISM
6 83 (5.30%) DV Cleared
7 71 (4.53%) PMI Certification
8 69 (4.40%) PMP
9 45 (2.87%) CRISC
10 39 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
12 29 (1.85%) CISA
13 28 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 26 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
15 21 (1.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 20 (1.28%) Master's Degree
17 15 (0.96%) CESG Certified Professional
18 14 (0.89%) CCSP
18 14 (0.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
19 12 (0.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (12.13%) NIST
2 187 (11.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 142 (9.06%) GRC
4 111 (7.08%) GDPR
5 78 (4.98%) QA
6 76 (4.85%) PMO
7 66 (4.21%) Data Quality
8 53 (3.38%) NCSC
9 41 (2.62%) PCI DSS
10 36 (2.30%) JSP 440
11 30 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
12 29 (1.85%) SLA
12 29 (1.85%) SOC 2
13 28 (1.79%) COBIT
14 22 (1.40%) NIST 800
15 17 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 16 (1.02%) ISO 31000
16 16 (1.02%) RMADS
16 16 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 34 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.08%) Docker
3 11 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.26%) Postfix
6 3 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.064%) Ceph
7 1 (0.064%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.064%) NFS
7 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.064%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (1.66%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.28%) Terraform
3 19 (1.21%) Ansible
4 11 (0.70%) Grafana
4 11 (0.70%) SCCM
5 10 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.32%) Control-M
8 5 (0.32%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.19%) CASB
10 3 (0.19%) Nessus
10 3 (0.19%) OMEGAMON
11 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.13%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 212 (13.53%) Microsoft
2 89 (5.68%) ServiceNow
3 85 (5.42%) Oracle
4 75 (4.79%) SAP
5 48 (3.06%) Google
6 21 (1.34%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.34%) Workday
7 19 (1.21%) Murex
8 15 (0.96%) Cisco
8 15 (0.96%) IBM
9 14 (0.89%) Databricks
9 14 (0.89%) F5
9 14 (0.89%) VMware
10 13 (0.83%) Ariba
11 12 (0.77%) Splunk
11 12 (0.77%) Sybase
12 10 (0.64%) Infoblox
13 9 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.57%) Foundry
13 9 (0.57%) Qualys