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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 50 62
Rank change year-on-year -20 +12 +16
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,327 1,254 1,505
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.44% 3.99% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 4.48% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 837 706 1,021
10th Percentile £400 £363 £400
25th Percentile £461 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £688 £699 £681
90th Percentile £838 £813 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 40 61
10th Percentile - £26.11 £15.50
25th Percentile £33.50 £40.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - +464.44%
75th Percentile £81.84 £74.81 £83.40
90th Percentile £99.25 £80.32 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -36.67% - +512.24%

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 33,610 27,994 39,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.22% 89.12% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,285 16,989 25,814
10th Percentile £305 £307 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,025 871 2,057
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £58.65 £62.50 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.78 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.72% -14.50% +24.57%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -17 1,183 £550 -7.17% 568
London -6 656 £601 -3.84% 251
UK excluding London -27 555 £500 -4.76% 408
Work from Home -7 366 £569 +2.02% 264
North of England -28 165 £498 -6.92% 72
South East -17 154 £525 -8.70% 165
Midlands -52 87 £537 -0.56% 68
Yorkshire +5 85 £492 -7.95% 18
North West -40 78 £498 -0.25% 49
South West -23 54 £513 +5.13% 45
West Midlands -52 53 £510 -11.30% 49
Scotland -7 45 £428 -5.00% 16
East of England -31 35 £575 - 35
East Midlands -21 34 £544 +14.42% 19
Wales +10 13 £308 - 11
Northern Ireland +6 9 £500 +66.67% 3
North East -23 2 £550 -13.73% 5

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 52 (3.92%) Confluence
2 28 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.83%) SAS
6 6 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.38%) CMS
8 4 (0.30%) CICS
8 4 (0.30%) nginx
9 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.075%) Apache
10 1 (0.075%) Camunda
10 1 (0.075%) IIS
10 1 (0.075%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.075%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.075%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.075%) Tomcat
Applications
1 83 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (4.52%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (1.36%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.30%) Revit
6 4 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.23%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.23%) Trello
8 2 (0.15%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 27 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.53%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.38%) Endur
5 5 (0.38%) Primavera
6 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.30%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.30%) Summit
6 4 (0.30%) VisionPLUS
7 3 (0.23%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.23%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.23%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.15%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.15%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.15%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 151 (11.38%) Azure
2 132 (9.95%) AWS
3 58 (4.37%) GCP
4 52 (3.92%) Power Platform
5 43 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (2.71%) SaaS
7 33 (2.49%) Entra ID
8 26 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
9 24 (1.81%) Microsoft Purview
10 22 (1.66%) GitHub
11 21 (1.58%) Google Workspace
12 18 (1.36%) Google Sheets
13 15 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (0.68%) OCI
15 9 (0.68%) OpenShift
15 9 (0.68%) PaaS
16 8 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
17 7 (0.53%) AWS Step Functions
17 7 (0.53%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.84%) Firewall
2 31 (2.34%) Network Security
3 10 (0.75%) DNS
3 10 (0.75%) Internet
4 9 (0.68%) Kerberos
4 9 (0.68%) LAN
5 8 (0.60%) VPN
6 7 (0.53%) WAN
7 6 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.38%) Cisco IPT
8 5 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
9 4 (0.30%) 5G
10 3 (0.23%) Broadband
10 3 (0.23%) DHCP
10 3 (0.23%) HTTP
10 3 (0.23%) Multicast
10 3 (0.23%) S/MIME
10 3 (0.23%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.23%) SSL
11 2 (0.15%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.24%) Power BI
2 32 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (1.58%) SQL Server
4 20 (1.51%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (1.06%) Metadata
7 12 (0.90%) NoSQL
8 9 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (0.68%) Tableau
9 8 (0.60%) Big Data
9 8 (0.60%) KDB
9 8 (0.60%) Kdb+
9 8 (0.60%) RDBMS
10 7 (0.53%) MySQL
11 6 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (0.45%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.45%) Redis
12 5 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.38%) Apache Arrow
12 5 (0.38%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 117 (8.82%) JIRA
2 19 (1.43%) Git
3 16 (1.21%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.68%) SpecFlow
5 6 (0.45%) GitLab
5 6 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.38%) QUnit
7 4 (0.30%) Gradle
7 4 (0.30%) Maven
7 4 (0.30%) SonarLint
7 4 (0.30%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.23%) GCC
8 3 (0.23%) GDB
9 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.15%) Postman
10 1 (0.075%) JMeter
10 1 (0.075%) JUnit
10 1 (0.075%) MLflow
General
1 552 (41.60%) Social Skills
2 515 (38.81%) Finance
3 222 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (13.64%) Banking
5 140 (10.55%) Public Sector
6 108 (8.14%) Legal
7 59 (4.45%) Front Office
8 58 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
9 46 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
10 45 (3.39%) Investment Banking
11 33 (2.49%) Financial Institution
12 32 (2.41%) Manufacturing
13 29 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
15 26 (1.96%) Retail
16 24 (1.81%) Telecoms
17 21 (1.58%) Law
17 21 (1.58%) Military
18 18 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 16 (1.21%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 165 (12.43%) Analyst
2 149 (11.23%) Project Manager
3 132 (9.95%) Lead
3 132 (9.95%) Senior
4 116 (8.74%) Architect
5 111 (8.36%) Consultant
6 104 (7.84%) Developer
7 65 (4.90%) Business Analyst
8 62 (4.67%) Programme Manager
9 55 (4.14%) Security Architect
10 43 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
10 43 (3.24%) Senior Manager
11 38 (2.86%) Risk Analyst
11 38 (2.86%) Security Consultant
12 37 (2.79%) Senior Developer
13 35 (2.64%) Risk Manager
14 30 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
15 29 (2.19%) Technical Manager
16 27 (2.03%) Java Developer
17 26 (1.96%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.81%) Kafka
2 19 (1.43%) .NET
2 19 (1.43%) REST
3 17 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
3 17 (1.28%) RESTful
4 14 (1.06%) .NET Framework
4 14 (1.06%) Middleware
4 14 (1.06%) NumPy
4 14 (1.06%) OAuth
4 14 (1.06%) Pandas
5 12 (0.90%) SAML
6 10 (0.75%) AngularJS
6 10 (0.75%) Entity Framework
6 10 (0.75%) Playwright
6 10 (0.75%) XML
7 9 (0.68%) COM
7 9 (0.68%) Dask
7 9 (0.68%) NHibernate
7 9 (0.68%) React
8 8 (0.60%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 151 (11.38%) Management Information System
2 68 (5.12%) Product Ownership
3 67 (5.05%) Derivative
4 63 (4.75%) Security Posture
5 52 (3.92%) Onboarding
6 46 (3.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 41 (3.09%) Equities
8 40 (3.01%) Market Risk
9 37 (2.79%) Credit Risk
10 35 (2.64%) Data Centre
11 33 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
11 33 (2.49%) Cloud Native
12 32 (2.41%) Fixed Income
13 31 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
14 30 (2.26%) Algorithms
15 25 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
16 22 (1.66%) NHS
17 19 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
17 19 (1.43%) Data Structures
18 18 (1.36%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 43 (3.24%) Linux
2 34 (2.56%) Windows
3 19 (1.43%) Unix
4 6 (0.45%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.23%) VMS
5 3 (0.23%) zOS
6 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.075%) Android
7 1 (0.075%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.075%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (27.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 319 (24.04%) Agile
3 267 (20.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 253 (19.07%) Problem-Solving
5 227 (17.11%) Cybersecurity
6 208 (15.67%) Project Management
7 186 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 171 (12.89%) Decision-Making
9 155 (11.68%) Information Security
10 132 (9.95%) Change Management
11 122 (9.19%) Migration
11 122 (9.19%) Project Delivery
12 120 (9.04%) Regulatory Compliance
13 118 (8.89%) Roadmaps
14 117 (8.82%) Analytics
15 105 (7.91%) AI
16 101 (7.61%) PRINCE2
17 100 (7.54%) Data Protection
18 96 (7.23%) Scrum
19 90 (6.78%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 131 (9.87%) SQL
2 126 (9.50%) Python
3 56 (4.22%) Java
4 30 (2.26%) C#
4 30 (2.26%) PowerShell
5 29 (2.19%) C++
6 15 (1.13%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.06%) VBA
8 9 (0.68%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.60%) R
10 5 (0.38%) JCL
10 5 (0.38%) Korn
11 4 (0.30%) COBOL
11 4 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.23%) Bash
12 3 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.15%) Go
13 2 (0.15%) Rust
13 2 (0.15%) Scala
13 2 (0.15%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 248 (18.69%) Security Cleared
2 227 (17.11%) Degree
3 183 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 116 (8.74%) CISSP
5 83 (6.25%) CISM
6 78 (5.88%) PMI Certification
7 73 (5.50%) PMP
8 66 (4.97%) DV Cleared
9 58 (4.37%) Master's Degree
10 41 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
11 27 (2.03%) CRISC
12 26 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (1.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 21 (1.58%) CISA
15 16 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (1.21%) PhD
16 15 (1.13%) Numerate Degree
17 12 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
18 11 (0.83%) GIAC
19 9 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (12.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 154 (11.61%) NIST
3 115 (8.67%) GDPR
4 106 (7.99%) GRC
5 75 (5.65%) PMO
6 66 (4.97%) QA
7 41 (3.09%) PCI DSS
8 37 (2.79%) Data Quality
9 36 (2.71%) NCSC
10 27 (2.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 19 (1.43%) COBIT
12 17 (1.28%) Def Stans
13 16 (1.21%) NIST 800
13 16 (1.21%) SLA
14 15 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
14 15 (1.13%) EU AI Act
15 14 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 13 (0.98%) Basel III
16 13 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
17 12 (0.90%) JSP 440
System Software
1 35 (2.64%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.66%) Docker
3 8 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.075%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.075%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.075%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (2.03%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.43%) Terraform
3 11 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.68%) RSA Archer
5 8 (0.60%) Ansible
6 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.38%) Grafana
7 5 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (0.38%) SCCM
8 4 (0.30%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.23%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.23%) QRadar
9 3 (0.23%) WSUS
10 2 (0.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.075%) Consul
11 1 (0.075%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.075%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.075%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.075%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 174 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 68 (5.12%) SAP
3 58 (4.37%) ServiceNow
4 56 (4.22%) Oracle
5 40 (3.01%) Google
6 19 (1.43%) Murex
6 19 (1.43%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.21%) Ariba
8 12 (0.90%) Databricks
8 12 (0.90%) Splunk
9 11 (0.83%) Workday
10 9 (0.68%) Cisco
10 9 (0.68%) CyberArk
10 9 (0.68%) IBM
10 9 (0.68%) VMware
11 8 (0.60%) Citrix
11 8 (0.60%) Informatica
12 7 (0.53%) Bloomberg
12 7 (0.53%) F5
13 5 (0.38%) OneTrust