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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 50 65
Rank change year-on-year -22 +15 +11
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,470 1,223 1,388
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.29% 4.21% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 4.65% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 955 746 920
10th Percentile £402 £361 £387
25th Percentile £463 £455 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £833 £834 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 40 43
10th Percentile £20.27 £29.16 £12.25
25th Percentile £40.00 £46.30 £19.30
Median hourly rate £74.31 £61.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +22.99% +370.37%
75th Percentile £97.50 £78.40 £62.25
90th Percentile £107.00 £85.43 £83.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.49 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +21.14% +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 38,255 26,278 38,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.62% 90.49% 86.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,265 17,064 24,859
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £636 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 966 2,352
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.00 £12.84
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.26 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.72 £70.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.07 £31.50 £31.65
% change year-on-year +8.14% -0.47% -12.69%

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 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 1 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 1 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 -18 1,308 £550 -4.35% 603
UK excluding London -17 684 £525 - 424
London -26 662 £600 -4.76% 260
Work from Home -4 418 £550 -4.35% 271
North of England -12 214 £520 +1.70% 112
South East -4 197 £550 -4.35% 145
North West -10 111 £540 +8.00% 65
Midlands -40 111 £536 +7.20% 70
Yorkshire -9 101 £500 - 39
West Midlands -32 78 £510 +1.59% 56
South West -1 64 £560 +17.89% 37
Scotland -8 56 £425 -11.46% 16
East of England -23 35 £525 -0.94% 31
East Midlands -26 33 £550 +22.22% 14
Wales -4 9 £214 -59.69% 9
Northern Ireland +1 8 £500 -4.76% 7
North East -23 2 £480 -16.52% 8

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 71 (4.83%) Confluence
2 26 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.48%) SAS
6 4 (0.27%) nginx
7 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.14%) Apache
8 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.068%) CMS
9 1 (0.068%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.068%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.068%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.068%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 67 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (3.61%) Microsoft Project
3 35 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.27%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Revit
7 2 (0.14%) Windchill
8 1 (0.068%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.068%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 20 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.54%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.41%) Summit
6 5 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.34%) Primavera
7 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.20%) Endur
8 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.20%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.20%) SAP GRC
8 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 179 (12.18%) Azure
2 150 (10.20%) AWS
3 55 (3.74%) GCP
3 55 (3.74%) Power Platform
4 54 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (2.31%) Entra ID
6 30 (2.04%) SaaS
7 29 (1.97%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (1.56%) GitHub
9 22 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
9 22 (1.50%) Google Workspace
10 18 (1.22%) Google Sheets
11 15 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
12 12 (0.82%) OCI
13 10 (0.68%) OpenShift
14 9 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (0.54%) Collibra
15 8 (0.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.06%) Network Security
2 36 (2.45%) Firewall
3 18 (1.22%) DNS
4 10 (0.68%) DHCP
4 10 (0.68%) Internet
5 9 (0.61%) LAN
5 9 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (0.54%) BIG-IP
6 8 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
7 7 (0.48%) HTTP
8 6 (0.41%) 5G
8 6 (0.41%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.41%) WAN
9 5 (0.34%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
10 4 (0.27%) SAN
10 4 (0.27%) VPN
11 3 (0.20%) Broadband
11 3 (0.20%) NGFW
11 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (2.93%) Power BI
2 26 (1.77%) Metadata
3 22 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (1.16%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.02%) SQL Server
7 10 (0.68%) Tableau
8 9 (0.61%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.48%) Big Data
9 7 (0.48%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.41%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.41%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.41%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.27%) Data Mart
12 4 (0.27%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 3 (0.20%) KDB
Development Applications
1 139 (9.46%) JIRA
2 19 (1.29%) Git
3 15 (1.02%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.61%) GitLab
5 5 (0.34%) Zephyr
6 4 (0.27%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.20%) JUnit
7 3 (0.20%) Mockito
7 3 (0.20%) Selenium
8 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.14%) DbUnit
8 2 (0.14%) jMock
8 2 (0.14%) Maven
8 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.068%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.068%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.068%) Flyway
9 1 (0.068%) MLflow
9 1 (0.068%) Postman
General
1 560 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 537 (36.53%) Finance
3 244 (16.60%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (12.79%) Banking
5 159 (10.82%) Public Sector
6 113 (7.69%) Legal
7 48 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
8 47 (3.20%) Front Office
9 44 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
10 42 (2.86%) Investment Banking
11 38 (2.59%) Financial Institution
12 37 (2.52%) Retail
13 35 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
14 34 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
15 30 (2.04%) Manufacturing
16 28 (1.90%) Telecoms
17 24 (1.63%) Military
18 22 (1.50%) Aerospace
19 21 (1.43%) Marketing
20 18 (1.22%) Law
Job Titles
1 195 (13.27%) Project Manager
2 169 (11.50%) Lead
3 153 (10.41%) Analyst
4 150 (10.20%) Senior
5 138 (9.39%) Architect
6 118 (8.03%) Consultant
7 74 (5.03%) Developer
8 72 (4.90%) Security Architect
9 71 (4.83%) Programme Manager
10 69 (4.69%) Business Analyst
11 55 (3.74%) Senior Manager
12 49 (3.33%) Security Consultant
13 47 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
13 47 (3.20%) Risk Manager
14 35 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
15 34 (2.31%) Risk Analyst
16 30 (2.04%) Security Engineer
16 30 (2.04%) Senior Developer
17 29 (1.97%) Technical Manager
18 28 (1.90%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 24 (1.63%) REST
3 21 (1.43%) Kafka
4 17 (1.16%) .NET
5 13 (0.88%) XML
6 11 (0.75%) Middleware
6 11 (0.75%) OAuth
6 11 (0.75%) RESTful
7 10 (0.68%) Leaflet
8 9 (0.61%) COM
8 9 (0.61%) Dask
8 9 (0.61%) NumPy
8 9 (0.61%) Pandas
9 8 (0.54%) .NET Framework
9 8 (0.54%) JSON
9 8 (0.54%) LDAP
9 8 (0.54%) PyTorch
9 8 (0.54%) SAML
10 7 (0.48%) scikit-learn
10 7 (0.48%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 140 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 72 (4.90%) Product Ownership
3 65 (4.42%) Security Posture
4 63 (4.29%) Derivative
5 57 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.93%) Cloud Native
7 40 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
8 39 (2.65%) Data Centre
9 36 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 34 (2.31%) Market Risk
11 33 (2.24%) Equities
12 31 (2.11%) Operational Technology
13 26 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
13 26 (1.77%) Credit Risk
14 24 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
15 23 (1.56%) NHS
16 21 (1.43%) Algorithms
16 21 (1.43%) Fixed Income
17 19 (1.29%) AI Agents
17 19 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.52%) Windows
2 32 (2.18%) Linux
3 15 (1.02%) Unix
4 8 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.20%) VMS
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.20%) zOS
7 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.068%) Android
8 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (29.93%) Stakeholder Management
2 367 (24.97%) Agile
3 291 (19.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 271 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
5 258 (17.55%) Cybersecurity
6 249 (16.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 242 (16.46%) Project Management
8 187 (12.72%) Decision-Making
9 176 (11.97%) Information Security
10 167 (11.36%) Change Management
11 157 (10.68%) Roadmaps
12 149 (10.14%) Project Delivery
13 144 (9.80%) AI
14 139 (9.46%) Migration
15 131 (8.91%) Regulatory Compliance
16 126 (8.57%) Data Protection
17 125 (8.50%) Analytics
18 118 (8.03%) PRINCE2
19 105 (7.14%) DevOps
20 101 (6.87%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 129 (8.78%) SQL
2 122 (8.30%) Python
3 53 (3.61%) Java
4 36 (2.45%) PowerShell
5 24 (1.63%) C++
6 23 (1.56%) C#
7 17 (1.16%) VBA
8 12 (0.82%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.48%) Bash
10 6 (0.41%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.34%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.34%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.27%) Perl
13 3 (0.20%) Korn
13 3 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.14%) R
14 2 (0.14%) RPG
14 2 (0.14%) Rust
14 2 (0.14%) Scala
14 2 (0.14%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 321 (21.84%) Security Cleared
2 241 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 219 (14.90%) Degree
4 132 (8.98%) CISSP
5 94 (6.39%) CISM
6 83 (5.65%) DV Cleared
7 82 (5.58%) PMI Certification
8 80 (5.44%) PMP
9 42 (2.86%) Master's Degree
10 38 (2.59%) CRISC
11 34 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
13 19 (1.29%) CISA
14 17 (1.16%) CESG Certified Professional
15 14 (0.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 14 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
15 14 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 13 (0.88%) PhD
17 12 (0.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (13.27%) NIST
2 183 (12.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 125 (8.50%) GDPR
4 124 (8.44%) GRC
5 90 (6.12%) PMO
6 78 (5.31%) QA
7 52 (3.54%) PCI DSS
8 50 (3.40%) Data Quality
9 49 (3.33%) NCSC
10 29 (1.97%) SLA
11 28 (1.90%) JSP 440
11 28 (1.90%) NIST 800
12 27 (1.84%) SOC 2
13 23 (1.56%) COBIT
14 22 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 21 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 18 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
16 18 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
17 16 (1.09%) RMADS
18 13 (0.88%) Def Stans
System Software
1 31 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.82%) Docker
3 9 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.14%) Postfix
7 1 (0.068%) Ceph
7 1 (0.068%) NFS
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.068%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.068%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.068%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.29%) Terraform
3 13 (0.88%) Ansible
4 12 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.61%) SCCM
6 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.41%) RSA Archer
8 5 (0.34%) Grafana
9 4 (0.27%) Control-M
9 4 (0.27%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.27%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.20%) CASB
10 3 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.20%) QRadar
10 3 (0.20%) WSUS
11 2 (0.14%) Nessus
11 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.14%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 178 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 79 (5.37%) Oracle
3 70 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 65 (4.42%) SAP
5 45 (3.06%) Google
6 23 (1.56%) Murex
7 20 (1.36%) Workday
8 17 (1.16%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.02%) Ariba
10 12 (0.82%) Databricks
11 11 (0.75%) Splunk
11 11 (0.75%) VMware
12 10 (0.68%) F5
12 10 (0.68%) IBM
13 9 (0.61%) Cisco
14 8 (0.54%) Foundry
14 8 (0.54%) Informatica
15 7 (0.48%) CyberArk
15 7 (0.48%) OpenAI
16 6 (0.41%) Infoblox