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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 55 66
Rank change year-on-year -17 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,826 1,416 1,220
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.39% 4.30% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 4.75% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 889 736
10th Percentile £402 £360 £378
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £559
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +1.97% -5.73%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £800 £875 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.29% -6.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 24 29
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £28.10
25th Percentile £46.25 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £64.09 £50.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.54% -12.61% +17.35%
75th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £87.16 £86.65 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.68 £56.25 £58.38
% change year-on-year +32.77% -3.64% -2.71%

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 45,621 29,800 32,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.64% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,920 18,562 20,756
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,892 1,765 1,620
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.21 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.15 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.11 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +90.48% -47.37% +14.67%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -17 1,600 £565 -1.74% 3,033
UK excluding London -5 924 £525 +2.29% 1,485
London -29 767 £600 -7.69% 1,980
Work from Home -23 491 £550 -8.33% 1,345
North of England -14 268 £500 -1.12% 319
South East +12 249 £575 +4.55% 346
North West -28 134 £525 +2.68% 185
Yorkshire -2 128 £492 -1.60% 104
South West -10 117 £585 -0.43% 218
Scotland +9 115 £475 +5.56% 192
Midlands -44 101 £550 +17.27% 180
West Midlands -30 78 £525 +5.00% 104
East of England +7 67 £513 -14.58% 121
East Midlands -26 20 £547 +36.07% 75
Wales -16 11 £600 +45.45% 40
Northern Ireland -4 8 £394 -28.41% 74
North East -37 6 £454 -27.40% 33

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 75 (4.11%) Confluence
2 45 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.55%) SAS
4 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.22%) IIS
6 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.11%) CMS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.055%) Apache
8 1 (0.055%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.055%) Appian
8 1 (0.055%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.055%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.055%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.055%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 68 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.22%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.22%) Revit
7 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.16%) Windchill
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) Trello
9 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.055%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 47 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.88%) SAP GRC
3 13 (0.71%) Endur
4 10 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.55%) Primavera
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.27%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.22%) Actimize
9 4 (0.22%) Magento
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.16%) Findur
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 268 (14.68%) Azure
2 187 (10.24%) AWS
3 83 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 82 (4.49%) GCP
5 64 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
6 60 (3.29%) Entra ID
7 54 (2.96%) SaaS
8 40 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (1.64%) GitHub
10 26 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (1.31%) OCI
12 22 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
12 22 (1.20%) Snowflake
13 21 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (1.04%) Azure AI
14 19 (1.04%) PaaS
15 16 (0.88%) Anthropic Claude
16 15 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
16 15 (0.82%) Serverless
17 14 (0.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (3.56%) Network Security
2 44 (2.41%) Firewall
3 23 (1.26%) TCP/IP
4 18 (0.99%) WAN
5 17 (0.93%) DNS
6 16 (0.88%) LAN
7 14 (0.77%) 5G
7 14 (0.77%) DHCP
8 12 (0.66%) 4G
9 9 (0.49%) HTTP
9 9 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.44%) BIG-IP
10 8 (0.44%) Internet
10 8 (0.44%) VPN
11 6 (0.33%) Cisco IPT
11 6 (0.33%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.33%) Structured Cabling
12 5 (0.27%) 3G
12 5 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
12 5 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (3.50%) Power BI
2 41 (2.25%) Metadata
3 36 (1.97%) SQL Server
4 34 (1.86%) Relational Database
5 20 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (0.88%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 13 (0.71%) Db2
9 12 (0.66%) Tableau
10 10 (0.55%) Big Data
10 10 (0.55%) Oracle Database
11 9 (0.49%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.38%) MySQL
13 6 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 5 (0.27%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.27%) NoSQL
15 4 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.22%) Oracle Exadata
15 4 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 128 (7.01%) JIRA
2 25 (1.37%) Git
3 20 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.71%) Selenium
5 10 (0.55%) Zephyr
6 8 (0.44%) Cypress.io
6 8 (0.44%) Postman
7 7 (0.38%) GitLab
7 7 (0.38%) WebDriver
8 6 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.22%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) Subversion
10 3 (0.16%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.16%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.16%) MLflow
10 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.16%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.16%) TestRail
General
1 737 (40.36%) Social Skills
2 661 (36.20%) Finance
3 304 (16.65%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (12.05%) Public Sector
5 194 (10.62%) Banking
6 134 (7.34%) Legal
7 86 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
8 72 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
9 70 (3.83%) Front Office
10 50 (2.74%) Aerospace
11 49 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
12 43 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
12 43 (2.35%) Telecoms
13 41 (2.25%) Investment Banking
13 41 (2.25%) Military
13 41 (2.25%) Retail
14 38 (2.08%) Financial Institution
15 37 (2.03%) Manufacturing
16 34 (1.86%) Law
17 26 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 242 (13.25%) Lead
2 220 (12.05%) Architect
3 200 (10.95%) Project Manager
4 173 (9.47%) Analyst
5 171 (9.36%) Senior
6 106 (5.81%) Consultant
7 95 (5.20%) Security Architect
8 75 (4.11%) Programme Manager
9 72 (3.94%) Developer
10 63 (3.45%) Business Analyst
11 54 (2.96%) IT Manager
11 54 (2.96%) Risk Manager
12 53 (2.90%) Senior Manager
13 47 (2.57%) Delivery Manager
14 43 (2.35%) Security Consultant
15 36 (1.97%) Security Manager
16 35 (1.92%) Security Engineer
16 35 (1.92%) Solutions Architect
17 32 (1.75%) Risk Analyst
18 31 (1.70%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.14%) Terraform
2 34 (1.86%) REST
3 31 (1.70%) .NET
4 25 (1.37%) Middleware
4 25 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
5 16 (0.88%) Kafka
5 16 (0.88%) OAuth
6 14 (0.77%) JSON
7 13 (0.71%) XML
8 11 (0.60%) Leaflet
8 11 (0.60%) SAML
8 11 (0.60%) SLSA
8 11 (0.60%) SOAP
9 10 (0.55%) OpenID
9 10 (0.55%) React
9 10 (0.55%) RESTful
9 10 (0.55%) SailPoint
9 10 (0.55%) Spring
10 9 (0.49%) LDAP
11 8 (0.44%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 117 (6.41%) Management Information System
2 100 (5.48%) Onboarding
3 86 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 73 (4.00%) Security Posture
5 69 (3.78%) Cloud Native
6 55 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
7 54 (2.96%) Operational Technology
8 43 (2.35%) Data Centre
9 41 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
10 36 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
11 32 (1.75%) AI Agents
11 32 (1.75%) Derivative
12 31 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
13 29 (1.59%) Market Risk
14 27 (1.48%) NHS
15 25 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
16 24 (1.31%) Data Structures
17 23 (1.26%) Credit Risk
17 23 (1.26%) PMI
18 21 (1.15%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 62 (3.40%) Windows
2 56 (3.07%) Linux
3 37 (2.03%) Unix
4 21 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.33%) zOS
7 5 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.16%) AIX
8 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.11%) Android
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.055%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 709 (38.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 444 (24.32%) Cybersecurity
3 442 (24.21%) Agile
4 411 (22.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 394 (21.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 289 (15.83%) Decision-Making
7 277 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
8 261 (14.29%) AI
9 257 (14.07%) Project Management
10 230 (12.60%) Roadmaps
11 206 (11.28%) Information Security
12 203 (11.12%) Project Delivery
13 178 (9.75%) Migration
14 172 (9.42%) Change Management
15 166 (9.09%) DevOps
16 162 (8.87%) CI/CD
17 155 (8.49%) Analytics
18 149 (8.16%) PRINCE2
19 145 (7.94%) Vulnerability Management
20 137 (7.50%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 140 (7.67%) Python
2 97 (5.31%) SQL
3 50 (2.74%) Java
4 39 (2.14%) PowerShell
5 31 (1.70%) C#
6 17 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.77%) C++
8 12 (0.66%) Bash
9 11 (0.60%) VBA
10 8 (0.44%) Go
10 8 (0.44%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.33%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.27%) Bicep
12 5 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.27%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.22%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.22%) CLIST
13 4 (0.22%) JCL
13 4 (0.22%) REXX
Qualifications
1 498 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 360 (19.72%) SC Cleared
3 176 (9.64%) Degree
4 161 (8.82%) CISSP
5 123 (6.74%) DV Cleared
6 113 (6.19%) CISM
7 88 (4.82%) PMI Certification
8 85 (4.65%) PMP
9 53 (2.90%) CRISC
10 48 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
12 38 (2.08%) CISA
13 37 (2.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 31 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
15 28 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 24 (1.31%) Master's Degree
17 23 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
18 20 (1.10%) CCSP
18 20 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
19 18 (0.99%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (12.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 216 (11.83%) NIST
3 185 (10.13%) GRC
4 116 (6.35%) GDPR
5 105 (5.75%) QA
6 80 (4.38%) Data Quality
7 78 (4.27%) NCSC
8 67 (3.67%) PMO
9 40 (2.19%) JSP 440
10 34 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
11 23 (1.26%) COBIT
12 21 (1.15%) NIST 800
13 19 (1.04%) PCI DSS
13 19 (1.04%) SLA
13 19 (1.04%) SOC 2
14 18 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 16 (0.88%) Accessibility
16 15 (0.82%) ISO 31000
16 15 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 14 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 41 (2.25%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.20%) Docker
3 10 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
5 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.16%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.16%) Postfix
6 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
7 2 (0.11%) NFS
7 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.055%) Ceph
8 1 (0.055%) IAG
Systems Management
1 42 (2.30%) Kubernetes
2 31 (1.70%) Ansible
3 13 (0.71%) Grafana
4 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.66%) SCCM
5 8 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.33%) Control-M
7 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.22%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.22%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.22%) Nessus
8 4 (0.22%) OMEGAMON
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (0.22%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.16%) Puppet
10 2 (0.11%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 264 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 102 (5.59%) ServiceNow
3 90 (4.93%) SAP
4 81 (4.44%) Oracle
5 43 (2.35%) Google
6 22 (1.20%) IBM
7 20 (1.10%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.04%) Splunk
9 17 (0.93%) Cisco
10 16 (0.88%) Sybase
11 15 (0.82%) Foundry
11 15 (0.82%) Workday
12 14 (0.77%) Databricks
12 14 (0.77%) VMware
13 13 (0.71%) Qualys
14 12 (0.66%) Murex
15 10 (0.55%) Ariba
16 9 (0.49%) BeyondTrust
16 9 (0.49%) F5
16 9 (0.49%) Okta