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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 50 63
Rank change year-on-year -21 +13 +8
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,498 1,279 1,366
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.24% 4.34% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 4.79% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 971 779 890
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £463 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £838 £838 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 39 46
10th Percentile £20.27 £40.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £36.00 £47.91 £30.96
Median hourly rate £69.36 £61.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.79% +22.99% +370.37%
75th Percentile £100.00 £78.38 £60.94
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.05 £83.41
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 39,258 26,720 37,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.83% 90.74% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,768 17,301 24,236
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +0.31% -3.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,351 1,041 2,413
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.80 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.93% -17.14% -6.67%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 1,323 £550 -4.35% 681
UK excluding London -18 710 £525 +0.96% 477
London -27 653 £600 -4.00% 289
Work from Home -6 429 £550 -4.35% 295
North of England -14 211 £507 -1.32% 115
South East -11 201 £550 -2.22% 150
Midlands -41 114 £525 +5.00% 62
North West -15 107 £550 +8.75% 59
Yorkshire -10 102 £492 -2.81% 46
West Midlands -36 80 £518 -1.43% 36
South West -1 72 £525 +16.67% 61
Scotland -6 66 £450 -10.00% 28
East of England -13 44 £525 +12.18% 51
East Midlands -32 34 £537 +20.13% 25
Northern Ireland 0 6 £475 -9.52% 11
Wales -7 6 £214 -55.03% 7
North East -26 2 £480 -16.52% 12

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 61 (4.07%) Confluence
2 32 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.53%) SAS
5 4 (0.27%) nginx
6 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.13%) Apache
7 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.067%) CMS
8 1 (0.067%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.067%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.067%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.067%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.067%) WebLogic
Applications
1 67 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (3.54%) Microsoft Project
3 38 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.27%) Revit
6 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.27%) Trello
7 3 (0.20%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.13%) Windchill
9 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.067%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.067%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 22 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.53%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.47%) Endur
4 7 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.47%) Summit
5 6 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.27%) Primavera
6 4 (0.27%) SAP GRC
7 3 (0.20%) Findur
7 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.20%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 177 (11.82%) Azure
2 146 (9.75%) AWS
3 61 (4.07%) Power Platform
4 60 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (3.40%) GCP
6 36 (2.40%) SaaS
7 35 (2.34%) Entra ID
8 29 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
9 22 (1.47%) GitHub
9 22 (1.47%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
11 19 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (1.20%) Google Sheets
13 16 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
14 15 (1.00%) Snowflake
15 13 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
16 11 (0.73%) OpenShift
16 11 (0.73%) PaaS
17 10 (0.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.27%) Network Security
2 33 (2.20%) Firewall
3 19 (1.27%) DNS
4 12 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (0.73%) DHCP
6 9 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
7 8 (0.53%) 5G
7 8 (0.53%) BIG-IP
7 8 (0.53%) Internet
7 8 (0.53%) LAN
8 7 (0.47%) HTTP
8 7 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.40%) WAN
10 4 (0.27%) 3G
10 4 (0.27%) 4G
10 4 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
11 3 (0.20%) NAS
11 3 (0.20%) NGFW
11 3 (0.20%) SAN
11 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (3.20%) Power BI
2 32 (2.14%) Metadata
3 25 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.54%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.13%) SQL Server
7 11 (0.73%) Tableau
8 10 (0.67%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.60%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.53%) RDBMS
11 7 (0.47%) Big Data
11 7 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
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%) DB2
13 5 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 126 (8.41%) JIRA
2 24 (1.60%) Git
3 19 (1.27%) 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 (0.067%) ERwin
8 1 (0.067%) Flyway
8 1 (0.067%) MLflow
8 1 (0.067%) Postman
8 1 (0.067%) TestRail
General
1 556 (37.12%) Social Skills
2 543 (36.25%) Finance
3 240 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (12.55%) Banking
5 168 (11.21%) Public Sector
6 105 (7.01%) Legal
7 48 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
8 45 (3.00%) Front Office
9 44 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
10 39 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (2.60%) Investment Banking
11 37 (2.47%) Retail
12 35 (2.34%) Financial Institution
13 31 (2.07%) Manufacturing
14 30 (2.00%) Telecoms
15 29 (1.94%) Military
16 28 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
17 21 (1.40%) Marketing
18 19 (1.27%) Law
19 18 (1.20%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 198 (13.22%) Project Manager
2 178 (11.88%) Lead
3 149 (9.95%) Analyst
3 149 (9.95%) Senior
4 144 (9.61%) Architect
5 105 (7.01%) Consultant
6 81 (5.41%) Developer
7 72 (4.81%) Business Analyst
8 71 (4.74%) Programme Manager
9 66 (4.41%) Security Architect
10 51 (3.40%) Senior Manager
11 49 (3.27%) Risk Manager
12 46 (3.07%) Delivery Manager
13 43 (2.87%) Security Consultant
14 33 (2.20%) Security Engineer
15 32 (2.14%) IT Manager
16 30 (2.00%) Risk Analyst
16 30 (2.00%) Security Manager
16 30 (2.00%) Senior Developer
17 28 (1.87%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (1.67%) REST
3 21 (1.40%) Kafka
4 18 (1.20%) .NET
5 14 (0.93%) RESTful
6 12 (0.80%) Middleware
7 11 (0.73%) Leaflet
7 11 (0.73%) XML
8 9 (0.60%) OAuth
9 8 (0.53%) LDAP
9 8 (0.53%) PyTorch
10 7 (0.47%) .NET Framework
10 7 (0.47%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.47%) COM
10 7 (0.47%) JSON
10 7 (0.47%) NumPy
10 7 (0.47%) Pandas
10 7 (0.47%) React
10 7 (0.47%) scikit-learn
10 7 (0.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 134 (8.95%) Management Information System
2 64 (4.27%) Security Posture
3 63 (4.21%) Product Ownership
4 60 (4.01%) Onboarding
5 58 (3.87%) Derivative
6 42 (2.80%) Cloud Native
6 42 (2.80%) Data Centre
6 42 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
7 37 (2.47%) Market Risk
8 35 (2.34%) Operational Technology
9 30 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 29 (1.94%) Credit Risk
11 28 (1.87%) Equities
12 24 (1.60%) NHS
13 23 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (1.54%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
15 21 (1.40%) AI Agents
15 21 (1.40%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.60%) Windows
2 33 (2.20%) 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
8 1 (0.067%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (30.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 381 (25.43%) Agile
3 289 (19.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 274 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
5 266 (17.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 243 (16.22%) Project Management
7 242 (16.15%) Cybersecurity
8 193 (12.88%) Decision-Making
9 183 (12.22%) Information Security
10 170 (11.35%) Change Management
11 163 (10.88%) Roadmaps
12 158 (10.55%) AI
13 150 (10.01%) Project Delivery
14 147 (9.81%) Migration
15 130 (8.68%) Data Protection
16 124 (8.28%) Analytics
17 121 (8.08%) Regulatory Compliance
18 119 (7.94%) PRINCE2
19 112 (7.48%) DevOps
20 104 (6.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 126 (8.41%) SQL
2 121 (8.08%) Python
3 58 (3.87%) Java
4 35 (2.34%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.47%) C++
6 21 (1.40%) C#
7 15 (1.00%) VBA
8 12 (0.80%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.47%) Bash
9 7 (0.47%) 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
13 2 (0.13%) Go
13 2 (0.13%) R
13 2 (0.13%) Rust
13 2 (0.13%) Scala
13 2 (0.13%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 326 (21.76%) Security Cleared
2 240 (16.02%) SC Cleared
3 207 (13.82%) Degree
4 123 (8.21%) CISSP
5 87 (5.81%) CISM
6 81 (5.41%) DV Cleared
7 77 (5.14%) PMP
8 72 (4.81%) PMI Certification
9 37 (2.47%) CRISC
10 34 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (2.14%) Master's Degree
12 26 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (1.47%) CISA
14 18 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 17 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 12 (0.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 12 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
18 10 (0.67%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (12.75%) NIST
2 185 (12.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 131 (8.74%) GRC
4 129 (8.61%) GDPR
5 90 (6.01%) PMO
6 76 (5.07%) QA
7 53 (3.54%) Data Quality
8 51 (3.40%) PCI DSS
9 46 (3.07%) NCSC
10 29 (1.94%) SLA
11 28 (1.87%) SOC 2
12 27 (1.80%) JSP 440
13 25 (1.67%) COBIT
14 23 (1.54%) NIST 800
15 19 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 19 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 18 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 17 (1.13%) RMADS
17 17 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 12 (0.80%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.93%) Docker
3 9 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.27%) Postfix
6 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.067%) Ceph
8 1 (0.067%) NFS
8 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.067%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (1.34%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.00%) Terraform
3 14 (0.93%) Ansible
4 10 (0.67%) 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%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.20%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.20%) WSUS
11 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.13%) Nessus
11 2 (0.13%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 188 (12.55%) Microsoft
2 83 (5.54%) Oracle
3 82 (5.47%) ServiceNow
4 76 (5.07%) SAP
5 43 (2.87%) Google
6 22 (1.47%) Murex
6 22 (1.47%) Workday
7 16 (1.07%) Ariba
8 15 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 13 (0.87%) Databricks
10 12 (0.80%) IBM
10 12 (0.80%) VMware
11 11 (0.73%) F5
12 9 (0.60%) Splunk
13 8 (0.53%) Cisco
13 8 (0.53%) Foundry
14 7 (0.47%) Bloomberg
14 7 (0.47%) HP
14 7 (0.47%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.40%) Infoblox