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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 54 69
Rank change year-on-year -15 +15 +2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,761 1,468 1,156
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.30% 4.46% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 4.93% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 905 698
10th Percentile £406 £363 £363
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £572 £559
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +2.33% -6.83%
75th Percentile £675 £730 £725
90th Percentile £788 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 29 28
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £30.91
25th Percentile £50.00 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £49.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.54% -13.91% +45.20%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.24 £65.63
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.30 £81.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.85 £53.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +48.77% -7.83% -20.57%

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 45,262 29,771 33,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.46% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,917 18,660 21,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
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 2,788 1,660 1,878
10th Percentile £14.46 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £64.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.30 £40.94
% change year-on-year +88.67% -43.09% +3.38%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -21 1,546 £570 -0.87% 1,551
UK excluding London -8 911 £525 +2.44% 776
London -35 722 £600 -7.69% 903
Work from Home -21 500 £550 -4.35% 611
North of England -15 271 £514 +0.53% 165
South East +1 245 £575 +4.55% 234
North West -32 137 £525 +3.45% 101
Yorkshire -1 128 £500 -4.76% 50
Scotland +12 110 £475 +1.71% 69
Midlands -41 107 £575 +21.82% 109
South West -20 106 £570 -0.87% 108
West Midlands -40 85 £578 +15.50% 70
East of England +19 65 £525 -4.55% 60
East Midlands -17 19 £537 +26.41% 39
Northern Ireland -3 9 £394 -28.41% 23
Wales -13 8 £650 +47.14% 17
North East -41 6 £454 -22.77% 15

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 (4.20%) Confluence
2 39 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.51%) SAS
4 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.23%) IIS
6 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.11%) CMS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.057%) Apache
8 1 (0.057%) Appian
8 1 (0.057%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.057%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.057%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.057%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.057%) WebSphere
Applications
1 55 (3.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
4 36 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.23%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.23%) Revit
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.17%) Trello
7 3 (0.17%) Windchill
8 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.057%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.057%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 40 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.74%) Endur
3 11 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.57%) Primavera
4 10 (0.57%) SAP GRC
5 7 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.23%) Actimize
8 4 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.23%) Magento
8 4 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 265 (15.05%) Azure
2 191 (10.85%) AWS
3 81 (4.60%) GCP
4 70 (3.98%) Power Platform
5 61 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (3.12%) Entra ID
7 49 (2.78%) SaaS
8 38 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (1.93%) GitHub
10 25 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
11 23 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
12 21 (1.19%) Snowflake
13 20 (1.14%) OCI
14 19 (1.08%) Azure AI
14 19 (1.08%) PaaS
15 17 (0.97%) Serverless
16 16 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
17 14 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
18 12 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.29%) Network Security
2 40 (2.27%) Firewall
3 20 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.02%) WAN
5 15 (0.85%) DNS
5 15 (0.85%) LAN
6 14 (0.80%) 5G
7 12 (0.68%) 4G
7 12 (0.68%) DHCP
7 12 (0.68%) HTTP
8 10 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.45%) BIG-IP
10 7 (0.40%) Internet
10 7 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
11 6 (0.34%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.34%) VPN
12 5 (0.28%) 3G
12 5 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
12 5 (0.28%) SAN
12 5 (0.28%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.07%) Power BI
2 33 (1.87%) Relational Database
2 33 (1.87%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.82%) Metadata
4 18 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (0.97%) MongoDB
6 13 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 13 (0.74%) Db2
7 11 (0.62%) Tableau
8 10 (0.57%) Big Data
8 10 (0.57%) RDBMS
9 7 (0.40%) MySQL
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.28%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 120 (6.81%) JIRA
2 26 (1.48%) Git
3 22 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.68%) Selenium
5 8 (0.45%) GitLab
5 8 (0.45%) Postman
6 7 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 7 (0.40%) WebDriver
6 7 (0.40%) Zephyr
7 6 (0.34%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.28%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.23%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.23%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.23%) jMock
9 4 (0.23%) JUnit
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
9 4 (0.23%) Mockito
9 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 676 (38.39%) Social Skills
2 640 (36.34%) Finance
3 280 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
4 208 (11.81%) Public Sector
5 194 (11.02%) Banking
6 132 (7.50%) Legal
7 72 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
8 71 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
9 56 (3.18%) Front Office
10 48 (2.73%) Telecoms
11 45 (2.56%) Aerospace
11 45 (2.56%) Retail
12 41 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
12 41 (2.33%) Financial Institution
13 39 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
14 35 (1.99%) Investment Banking
15 34 (1.93%) Military
16 29 (1.65%) Manufacturing
17 28 (1.59%) Law
18 24 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 232 (13.17%) Lead
2 214 (12.15%) Architect
3 208 (11.81%) Project Manager
4 181 (10.28%) Senior
5 161 (9.14%) Analyst
6 106 (6.02%) Consultant
7 92 (5.22%) Security Architect
8 75 (4.26%) Programme Manager
9 71 (4.03%) Developer
10 64 (3.63%) Senior Manager
11 60 (3.41%) Business Analyst
11 60 (3.41%) Risk Manager
12 50 (2.84%) Delivery Manager
13 48 (2.73%) IT Manager
14 45 (2.56%) Security Consultant
15 39 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
16 36 (2.04%) Security Manager
17 34 (1.93%) Security Engineer
18 32 (1.82%) Product Manager
19 31 (1.76%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.70%) REST
2 27 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
3 26 (1.48%) .NET
4 21 (1.19%) Middleware
5 18 (1.02%) Kafka
6 17 (0.97%) OAuth
7 13 (0.74%) XML
8 12 (0.68%) OpenID
8 12 (0.68%) SAML
8 12 (0.68%) SOAP
8 12 (0.68%) Spring
9 11 (0.62%) Azure Blueprints
9 11 (0.62%) JSON
9 11 (0.62%) Leaflet
9 11 (0.62%) React
9 11 (0.62%) RESTful
10 9 (0.51%) LDAP
10 9 (0.51%) PyTorch
10 9 (0.51%) SailPoint
10 9 (0.51%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 122 (6.93%) Management Information System
2 92 (5.22%) Onboarding
3 88 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 77 (4.37%) Cloud Native
5 70 (3.98%) Security Posture
6 58 (3.29%) Operational Technology
7 51 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
8 46 (2.61%) Data Centre
9 34 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
10 32 (1.82%) AI Agents
10 32 (1.82%) Derivative
11 28 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (1.53%) Market Risk
13 25 (1.42%) PMI
14 24 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
15 23 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
16 22 (1.25%) NHS
17 21 (1.19%) Data Structures
17 21 (1.19%) Fixed Income
18 19 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (3.07%) Linux
1 54 (3.07%) Windows
2 35 (1.99%) Unix
3 21 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.28%) zOS
6 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.17%) AIX
7 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.17%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.057%) Android
8 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 643 (36.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 433 (24.59%) Agile
3 395 (22.43%) Cybersecurity
3 395 (22.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 372 (21.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 258 (14.65%) Decision-Making
6 255 (14.48%) Project Management
7 251 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
8 244 (13.86%) AI
9 222 (12.61%) Roadmaps
10 213 (12.10%) Information Security
11 186 (10.56%) Project Delivery
12 166 (9.43%) Change Management
12 166 (9.43%) Migration
13 158 (8.97%) CI/CD
14 156 (8.86%) DevOps
15 139 (7.89%) Vulnerability Management
16 135 (7.67%) Analytics
16 135 (7.67%) PRINCE2
17 129 (7.33%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 127 (7.21%) Python
2 90 (5.11%) SQL
3 58 (3.29%) Java
4 37 (2.10%) PowerShell
5 26 (1.48%) C#
6 17 (0.97%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.74%) C++
8 10 (0.57%) VBA
9 9 (0.51%) Bash
9 9 (0.51%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.51%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.34%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.28%) Go
12 4 (0.23%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.23%) Bicep
12 4 (0.23%) CLIST
12 4 (0.23%) JCL
12 4 (0.23%) REXX
12 4 (0.23%) Scala
13 3 (0.17%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 453 (25.72%) Security Cleared
2 336 (19.08%) SC Cleared
3 182 (10.34%) Degree
4 167 (9.48%) CISSP
5 112 (6.36%) DV Cleared
6 111 (6.30%) CISM
7 82 (4.66%) PMI Certification
8 79 (4.49%) PMP
9 51 (2.90%) CRISC
10 43 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 38 (2.16%) CISA
12 37 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
13 32 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 31 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
15 29 (1.65%) Master's Degree
15 29 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 22 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
17 18 (1.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 17 (0.97%) AWS Certification
18 17 (0.97%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (12.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 217 (12.32%) NIST
3 172 (9.77%) GRC
4 119 (6.76%) GDPR
5 87 (4.94%) QA
6 68 (3.86%) Data Quality
7 67 (3.80%) PMO
8 60 (3.41%) NCSC
9 37 (2.10%) PCI DSS
10 35 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
10 35 (1.99%) JSP 440
11 31 (1.76%) SOC 2
12 29 (1.65%) SLA
13 25 (1.42%) NIST 800
14 22 (1.25%) COBIT
15 18 (1.02%) ISO 31000
16 17 (0.97%) Accessibility
16 17 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.91%) Def Stans
18 13 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 37 (2.10%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.14%) Docker
3 10 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.23%) Postfix
5 4 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.11%) FreeRADIUS
7 2 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.057%) Ceph
8 1 (0.057%) IAG
8 1 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (1.87%) Terraform
2 31 (1.76%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.42%) Ansible
4 12 (0.68%) Grafana
5 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.51%) SCCM
7 7 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.23%) Control-M
9 4 (0.23%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.23%) Nessus
9 4 (0.23%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.17%) CASB
10 3 (0.17%) Istio
11 2 (0.11%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 234 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 98 (5.57%) ServiceNow
3 83 (4.71%) SAP
4 78 (4.43%) Oracle
5 41 (2.33%) Google
6 21 (1.19%) IBM
7 20 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.97%) Splunk
9 16 (0.91%) Cisco
9 16 (0.91%) Foundry
9 16 (0.91%) Sybase
9 16 (0.91%) Workday
10 13 (0.74%) Databricks
10 13 (0.74%) Qualys
11 12 (0.68%) Murex
12 10 (0.57%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.51%) F5
13 9 (0.51%) Okta
13 9 (0.51%) Tenable