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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 58 65
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,923 1,381 1,266
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.53% 4.19% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.18% 4.63% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 850 725
10th Percentile £400 £360 £376
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.67% -2.61%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £788 £875 £828
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 31 29
10th Percentile £25.78 £22.16 £34.25
25th Percentile £45.63 £23.50 £43.75
Median hourly rate £64.09 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.31% -41.74% +16.16%
75th Percentile £80.00 £50.88 £70.18
90th Percentile £89.20 £73.75 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £33.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +126.87% -44.17% -

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 45,960 29,830 33,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.47% 90.53% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,897 18,534 20,247
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £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 £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,123 1,812 1,459
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.23 £14.96
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.69% -47.67% +1.18%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -11 1,675 £558 -3.04% 3,460
UK excluding London -1 954 £525 +5.00% 1,654
London -24 816 £600 -7.69% 2,092
Work from Home -14 520 £550 -6.78% 1,285
North of England -9 267 £511 +2.20% 364
South East +11 253 £575 +4.55% 448
Yorkshire +9 130 £500 - 108
North West -25 130 £525 +2.68% 228
Scotland +20 127 £500 +11.11% 175
South West -17 113 £585 +1.74% 196
Midlands -27 113 £525 +13.51% 239
West Midlands -17 91 £500 +5.26% 152
East of England 0 69 £513 -14.58% 123
East Midlands -28 19 £549 +36.44% 87
Wales -16 11 £600 +45.45% 37
Northern Ireland -1 10 £500 -9.09% 87
North East -42 8 £454 - 33
Channel Islands - 2 £600 - 3

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 74 (3.85%) Confluence
2 45 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.62%) SAS
4 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.16%) IIS
7 2 (0.10%) CMS
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.052%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.052%) Apache
8 1 (0.052%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.052%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.052%) Appian
8 1 (0.052%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.052%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.052%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 67 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.99%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.21%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.21%) Revit
7 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.16%) Windchill
8 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.052%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.052%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.83%) SAP GRC
3 14 (0.73%) Endur
4 10 (0.52%) Primavera
5 9 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.21%) Actimize
10 4 (0.21%) Front Arena
10 4 (0.21%) Magento
10 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
11 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.16%) SAP HCM
11 3 (0.16%) Summit
11 3 (0.16%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 298 (15.50%) Azure
2 211 (10.97%) AWS
3 94 (4.89%) GCP
4 93 (4.84%) Power Platform
5 71 (3.69%) Entra ID
6 63 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
7 59 (3.07%) SaaS
8 40 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (1.87%) GitHub
10 28 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
11 26 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
12 25 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
13 24 (1.25%) OCI
14 21 (1.09%) Snowflake
15 20 (1.04%) Azure AI
15 20 (1.04%) PaaS
16 18 (0.94%) Anthropic Claude
16 18 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
17 17 (0.88%) Serverless
18 16 (0.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (3.48%) Network Security
2 49 (2.55%) Firewall
3 23 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 20 (1.04%) WAN
5 18 (0.94%) DNS
6 17 (0.88%) LAN
7 14 (0.73%) 5G
8 13 (0.68%) DHCP
9 12 (0.62%) 4G
10 9 (0.47%) VPN
11 8 (0.42%) BIG-IP
11 8 (0.42%) Internet
12 7 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
13 6 (0.31%) HTTP
13 6 (0.31%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.31%) Kerberos
13 6 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.26%) 3G
14 5 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
14 5 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (3.74%) Power BI
2 41 (2.13%) SQL Server
3 40 (2.08%) Metadata
4 32 (1.66%) Relational Database
5 21 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (0.94%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.78%) Data Lake
7 15 (0.78%) Db2
8 14 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (0.68%) Big Data
10 12 (0.62%) Oracle Database
10 12 (0.62%) Tableau
11 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.36%) MySQL
11 7 (0.36%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.31%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.21%) Ataccama
14 4 (0.21%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 133 (6.92%) JIRA
2 31 (1.61%) Git
3 22 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.68%) Selenium
5 10 (0.52%) Cypress.io
6 9 (0.47%) Postman
7 8 (0.42%) WebDriver
7 8 (0.42%) Zephyr
8 7 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.36%) GitLab
9 6 (0.31%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.26%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.26%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.21%) Gradle
11 4 (0.21%) Maven
11 4 (0.21%) Subversion
12 3 (0.16%) DbUnit
12 3 (0.16%) JUnit
12 3 (0.16%) TestRail
General
1 775 (40.30%) Social Skills
2 704 (36.61%) Finance
3 325 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
4 244 (12.69%) Public Sector
5 217 (11.28%) Banking
6 145 (7.54%) Legal
7 101 (5.25%) Influencing Skills
8 78 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
9 77 (4.00%) Front Office
10 54 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
11 50 (2.60%) Aerospace
11 50 (2.60%) Military
12 45 (2.34%) Investment Banking
13 42 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (2.18%) Telecoms
14 41 (2.13%) Manufacturing
15 40 (2.08%) Retail
16 37 (1.92%) Financial Institution
16 37 (1.92%) Law
17 28 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 256 (13.31%) Lead
2 244 (12.69%) Architect
3 198 (10.30%) Analyst
4 191 (9.93%) Senior
5 189 (9.83%) Project Manager
6 102 (5.30%) Consultant
7 94 (4.89%) Security Architect
8 75 (3.90%) Developer
9 74 (3.85%) Programme Manager
10 67 (3.48%) Business Analyst
11 55 (2.86%) Risk Manager
12 54 (2.81%) Senior Manager
13 53 (2.76%) IT Manager
14 49 (2.55%) Delivery Manager
15 42 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (2.08%) Security Consultant
17 38 (1.98%) Security Engineer
18 37 (1.92%) Risk Analyst
18 37 (1.92%) Senior Analyst
19 36 (1.87%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.55%) Terraform
2 40 (2.08%) REST
3 37 (1.92%) .NET
4 27 (1.40%) Middleware
5 24 (1.25%) Kafka
6 18 (0.94%) OAuth
6 18 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (0.78%) JSON
7 15 (0.78%) Spring
8 12 (0.62%) React
8 12 (0.62%) SAML
8 12 (0.62%) SOAP
9 11 (0.57%) OpenID
9 11 (0.57%) SailPoint
9 11 (0.57%) SLSA
9 11 (0.57%) Spring Boot
10 10 (0.52%) RESTful
10 10 (0.52%) Web Services
10 10 (0.52%) XML
11 9 (0.47%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 126 (6.55%) Onboarding
2 123 (6.40%) Management Information System
3 98 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 87 (4.52%) Security Posture
5 75 (3.90%) Cloud Native
6 60 (3.12%) Data Protection Act
7 56 (2.91%) Operational Technology
8 48 (2.50%) Data Centre
9 45 (2.34%) Cyber Threat
10 41 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
12 32 (1.66%) AI Agents
13 30 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
13 30 (1.56%) Market Risk
14 29 (1.51%) Derivative
15 26 (1.35%) Data Structures
15 26 (1.35%) NHS
16 24 (1.25%) Credit Risk
17 22 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 22 (1.14%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 69 (3.59%) Windows
2 65 (3.38%) Linux
3 42 (2.18%) Unix
4 22 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.36%) zOS
8 5 (0.26%) Android
8 5 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.16%) AIX
10 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 766 (39.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 489 (25.43%) Cybersecurity
3 471 (24.49%) Agile
4 429 (22.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 424 (22.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 319 (16.59%) Decision-Making
7 282 (14.66%) AI
8 281 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
9 263 (13.68%) Roadmaps
10 250 (13.00%) Project Management
11 217 (11.28%) Information Security
12 206 (10.71%) Project Delivery
13 192 (9.98%) CI/CD
14 183 (9.52%) DevOps
15 181 (9.41%) Migration
16 165 (8.58%) Change Management
16 165 (8.58%) Vulnerability Management
17 160 (8.32%) Analytics
18 154 (8.01%) Data Protection
19 149 (7.75%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 158 (8.22%) Python
2 110 (5.72%) SQL
3 55 (2.86%) Java
4 44 (2.29%) PowerShell
5 34 (1.77%) C#
6 19 (0.99%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.88%) Bash
8 16 (0.83%) Shell Script
9 14 (0.73%) C++
10 12 (0.62%) VBA
11 9 (0.47%) Go
11 9 (0.47%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.31%) Bicep
12 6 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.31%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.26%) Assembly Language
13 5 (0.26%) CLIST
13 5 (0.26%) JCL
13 5 (0.26%) Korn
13 5 (0.26%) REXX
Qualifications
1 536 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 386 (20.07%) SC Cleared
3 176 (9.15%) Degree
4 171 (8.89%) CISSP
5 122 (6.34%) DV Cleared
6 117 (6.08%) CISM
7 86 (4.47%) PMI Certification
8 82 (4.26%) PMP
9 57 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 55 (2.86%) CRISC
11 45 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
12 41 (2.13%) CISA
13 40 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 28 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
14 28 (1.46%) Master's Degree
15 26 (1.35%) Azure Certification
15 26 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 26 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
16 24 (1.25%) AWS Certification
16 24 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (12.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 221 (11.49%) NIST
3 199 (10.35%) GRC
4 122 (6.34%) GDPR
5 112 (5.82%) QA
6 94 (4.89%) Data Quality
7 83 (4.32%) NCSC
8 64 (3.33%) PMO
9 39 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
10 33 (1.72%) JSP 440
11 24 (1.25%) NIST 800
12 20 (1.04%) COBIT
13 19 (0.99%) Accessibility
14 18 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 18 (0.94%) SOC 2
15 16 (0.83%) SLA
16 15 (0.78%) Def Stans
16 15 (0.78%) ISO 31000
16 15 (0.78%) PCI DSS
16 15 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.30%) Docker
3 14 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.36%) vSphere
6 5 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (0.21%) FreeRADIUS
7 4 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) Firmware
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.16%) Postfix
8 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.10%) IAG
9 2 (0.10%) NFS
10 1 (0.052%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 55 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 37 (1.92%) Ansible
3 17 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.73%) Grafana
5 12 (0.62%) SCCM
6 8 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.31%) Control-M
8 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.26%) OMEGAMON
8 5 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.21%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.21%) Nessus
9 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.16%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.16%) Puppet
11 2 (0.10%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.10%) Istio
11 2 (0.10%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 286 (14.87%) Microsoft
2 117 (6.08%) ServiceNow
3 92 (4.78%) SAP
4 75 (3.90%) Oracle
5 48 (2.50%) Google
6 24 (1.25%) IBM
7 22 (1.14%) Splunk
7 22 (1.14%) VMware
8 19 (0.99%) Salesforce
9 18 (0.94%) Cisco
10 17 (0.88%) Databricks
10 17 (0.88%) Sybase
11 16 (0.83%) Foundry
11 16 (0.83%) Murex
11 16 (0.83%) Qualys
12 14 (0.73%) BeyondTrust
12 14 (0.73%) CyberArk
13 12 (0.62%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.57%) Tenable
15 10 (0.52%) Workday