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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 50 65
Rank change year-on-year -27 +15 +10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,467 1,247 1,390
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.25% 4.27% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 4.71% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 957 758 912
10th Percentile £402 £363 £379
25th Percentile £463 £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £838 £838 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 42 43
10th Percentile £20.27 £30.31 £12.25
25th Percentile £40.00 £46.68 £26.23
Median hourly rate £74.31 £61.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +22.99% +370.37%
75th Percentile £97.50 £78.39 £61.25
90th Percentile £107.00 £86.87 £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 38,631 26,466 38,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.54% 90.55% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,504 17,183 24,720
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 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,266 983 2,350
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.96 £31.52 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.07% -4.48% -11.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.83
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.10 £70.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.55 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +18.50% -7.69% -12.87%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -17 1,304 £550 -4.35% 603
UK excluding London -16 689 £525 - 424
London -25 652 £600 -4.76% 260
Work from Home -9 418 £550 -4.35% 271
North of England -19 212 £512 - 112
South East -5 200 £530 -7.83% 145
North West -11 110 £540 +8.00% 65
Midlands -45 109 £536 +7.20% 70
Yorkshire -6 100 £500 - 39
West Midlands -31 77 £518 +0.78% 56
South West +2 69 £550 +22.11% 37
Scotland -10 56 £425 -12.37% 16
East of England -25 36 £525 -0.94% 31
East Midlands -29 32 £544 +21.79% 14
Wales -7 9 £214 -59.69% 9
Northern Ireland -4 8 £500 -4.76% 7
North East -24 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 67 (4.57%) Confluence
2 27 (1.84%) 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%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.068%) IIS
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 65 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (3.54%) Microsoft Project
3 35 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (0.95%) 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 (0.55%) 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%) Primavera
7 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.20%) Endur
8 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.20%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.20%) SAP GRC
8 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.14%) Actimize
9 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 178 (12.13%) Azure
2 148 (10.09%) AWS
3 56 (3.82%) Power Platform
4 55 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
5 54 (3.68%) GCP
6 34 (2.32%) Entra ID
7 31 (2.11%) SaaS
8 29 (1.98%) Microsoft Purview
9 23 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (1.50%) Google Workspace
11 21 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
11 21 (1.43%) GitHub
12 18 (1.23%) Google Sheets
13 16 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
15 12 (0.82%) OCI
16 10 (0.68%) OpenShift
17 9 (0.61%) Amazon S3
17 9 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
17 9 (0.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.20%) Network Security
2 35 (2.39%) Firewall
3 18 (1.23%) DNS
4 10 (0.68%) DHCP
5 9 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (0.55%) BIG-IP
6 8 (0.55%) Internet
6 8 (0.55%) LAN
6 8 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
7 7 (0.48%) 5G
7 7 (0.48%) HTTP
8 6 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.34%) WAN
10 4 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
10 4 (0.27%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.27%) SAN
10 4 (0.27%) VPN
11 3 (0.20%) 3G
11 3 (0.20%) Broadband
11 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.00%) Power BI
2 27 (1.84%) Metadata
3 23 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (1.23%) 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%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.27%) Data Mart
12 4 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 133 (9.07%) JIRA
2 20 (1.36%) Git
3 16 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.61%) GitLab
5 5 (0.34%) Zephyr
6 4 (0.27%) JUnit
6 4 (0.27%) Mockito
6 4 (0.27%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (0.20%) DbUnit
7 3 (0.20%) jMock
7 3 (0.20%) Maven
7 3 (0.20%) Selenium
7 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.068%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.068%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.068%) Flyway
8 1 (0.068%) MLflow
8 1 (0.068%) Postman
General
1 559 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 534 (36.40%) Finance
3 239 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (12.54%) Banking
5 160 (10.91%) Public Sector
6 112 (7.63%) Legal
7 48 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
8 47 (3.20%) Front Office
9 41 (2.79%) Investment Banking
9 41 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
10 37 (2.52%) Financial Institution
11 36 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
11 36 (2.45%) Retail
12 32 (2.18%) Manufacturing
12 32 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (1.91%) Telecoms
14 27 (1.84%) Military
15 23 (1.57%) Aerospace
16 21 (1.43%) Marketing
17 18 (1.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 195 (13.29%) Project Manager
2 169 (11.52%) Lead
3 149 (10.16%) Analyst
4 148 (10.09%) Senior
5 142 (9.68%) Architect
6 115 (7.84%) Consultant
7 75 (5.11%) Developer
8 69 (4.70%) Programme Manager
8 69 (4.70%) Security Architect
9 68 (4.64%) Business Analyst
10 54 (3.68%) Senior Manager
11 50 (3.41%) Security Consultant
12 49 (3.34%) Risk Manager
13 48 (3.27%) Delivery Manager
14 35 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
15 32 (2.18%) Risk Analyst
16 31 (2.11%) Senior Developer
17 29 (1.98%) Security Engineer
17 29 (1.98%) Security Manager
17 29 (1.98%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (1.70%) REST
3 21 (1.43%) Kafka
4 17 (1.16%) .NET
5 13 (0.89%) XML
6 12 (0.82%) RESTful
7 11 (0.75%) Middleware
8 10 (0.68%) Leaflet
8 10 (0.68%) OAuth
9 9 (0.61%) COM
9 9 (0.61%) Dask
9 9 (0.61%) NumPy
9 9 (0.61%) Pandas
10 8 (0.55%) .NET Framework
10 8 (0.55%) JSON
10 8 (0.55%) LDAP
10 8 (0.55%) PyTorch
11 7 (0.48%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.48%) scikit-learn
11 7 (0.48%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 134 (9.13%) Management Information System
2 69 (4.70%) Product Ownership
3 63 (4.29%) Derivative
4 62 (4.23%) Security Posture
5 59 (4.02%) Onboarding
6 44 (3.00%) Cloud Native
7 39 (2.66%) Data Centre
7 39 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
8 36 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 34 (2.32%) Market Risk
10 33 (2.25%) Equities
10 33 (2.25%) Operational Technology
11 25 (1.70%) Credit Risk
12 24 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
13 23 (1.57%) NHS
14 21 (1.43%) Algorithms
14 21 (1.43%) Fixed Income
15 19 (1.30%) AI Agents
15 19 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.59%) Windows
2 33 (2.25%) Linux
3 15 (1.02%) Unix
4 8 (0.55%) 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
1 444 (30.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 368 (25.09%) Agile
3 287 (19.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 269 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
5 252 (17.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 252 (17.18%) Cybersecurity
6 239 (16.29%) Project Management
7 186 (12.68%) Decision-Making
8 173 (11.79%) Information Security
9 165 (11.25%) Change Management
10 159 (10.84%) Roadmaps
11 148 (10.09%) Project Delivery
12 147 (10.02%) AI
13 138 (9.41%) Migration
14 130 (8.86%) Regulatory Compliance
15 124 (8.45%) Analytics
15 124 (8.45%) Data Protection
16 114 (7.77%) PRINCE2
17 108 (7.36%) DevOps
18 101 (6.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 130 (8.86%) SQL
2 121 (8.25%) Python
3 53 (3.61%) Java
4 36 (2.45%) PowerShell
5 24 (1.64%) C++
6 23 (1.57%) 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
1 319 (21.75%) Security Cleared
2 240 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 219 (14.93%) Degree
4 126 (8.59%) CISSP
5 95 (6.48%) CISM
6 83 (5.66%) DV Cleared
7 79 (5.39%) PMP
8 77 (5.25%) PMI Certification
9 40 (2.73%) Master's Degree
10 38 (2.59%) CRISC
11 35 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 26 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
13 19 (1.30%) CISA
14 15 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 14 (0.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 14 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
16 13 (0.89%) PhD
17 12 (0.82%) CESG Certified Professional
17 12 (0.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (13.29%) NIST
2 183 (12.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 125 (8.52%) GDPR
4 124 (8.45%) GRC
5 87 (5.93%) PMO
6 75 (5.11%) QA
7 52 (3.54%) PCI DSS
8 49 (3.34%) Data Quality
9 48 (3.27%) NCSC
10 29 (1.98%) SLA
11 28 (1.91%) JSP 440
11 28 (1.91%) NIST 800
12 27 (1.84%) SOC 2
13 23 (1.57%) COBIT
14 21 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 19 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 19 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
17 16 (1.09%) RMADS
18 13 (0.89%) Def Stans
System Software
1 32 (2.18%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.95%) Docker
3 9 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.20%) Postfix
5 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
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 17 (1.16%) Terraform
3 13 (0.89%) Ansible
4 11 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.61%) SCCM
6 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.41%) Grafana
7 6 (0.41%) RSA Archer
8 5 (0.34%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.27%) Control-M
9 4 (0.27%) 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%) WSUS
11 2 (0.14%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.14%) Nessus
11 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.14%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 178 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 80 (5.45%) Oracle
3 73 (4.98%) ServiceNow
4 65 (4.43%) SAP
5 42 (2.86%) Google
6 23 (1.57%) Murex
7 20 (1.36%) Workday
8 16 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.02%) Ariba
10 12 (0.82%) Databricks
10 12 (0.82%) VMware
11 11 (0.75%) F5
12 10 (0.68%) IBM
13 9 (0.61%) Cisco
13 9 (0.61%) Splunk
14 8 (0.55%) Foundry
15 7 (0.48%) CyberArk
15 7 (0.48%) Informatica
15 7 (0.48%) OpenAI
16 6 (0.41%) Bloomberg