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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 54 67
Rank change year-on-year -17 +13 -2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,796 1,435 1,197
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.35% 4.39% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 4.85% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 892 730
10th Percentile £406 £358 £363
25th Percentile £475 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £552 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% +0.27% -6.38%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £800 £875 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £540
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 29 28
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £27.08
25th Percentile £47.13 £23.50 £39.38
Median hourly rate £64.09 £49.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.47% -13.91% +16.16%
75th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £68.17
90th Percentile £87.16 £87.30 £81.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £51.00 £59.19
% change year-on-year +49.02% -13.83% -4.65%

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 45,367 29,590 33,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.44% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,794 18,422 20,982
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 2,879 1,766 1,695
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.75% +6.25%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -20 1,577 £569 -1.04% 692
UK excluding London -6 924 £525 +2.44% 499
London -36 738 £600 -7.69% 300
Work from Home -19 489 £550 -5.46% 317
North of England -15 273 £507 +0.50% 103
South East +10 251 £575 +4.55% 112
North West -29 135 £525 +2.68% 60
Yorkshire +5 132 £492 -1.60% 31
South West -15 116 £570 -2.98% 128
Scotland +9 110 £475 +4.11% 34
Midlands -43 100 £563 +19.94% 64
West Midlands -47 77 £553 +10.50% 40
East of England +9 66 £513 -10.87% 50
East Midlands -26 20 £547 +36.07% 24
Wales -15 11 £600 +45.45% 15
Northern Ireland -6 8 £394 -28.41% 8
North East -42 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 (4.12%) Confluence
2 45 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.56%) SAS
4 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.22%) 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
8 1 (0.056%) Apache
8 1 (0.056%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.056%) Appian
8 1 (0.056%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.056%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.056%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.056%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 62 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.95%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.22%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.22%) Revit
7 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.17%) Windchill
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.056%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 45 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.84%) SAP GRC
3 13 (0.72%) Endur
4 11 (0.61%) Primavera
5 10 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
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 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.17%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.17%) Summit
10 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 264 (14.70%) Azure
2 184 (10.24%) AWS
3 82 (4.57%) GCP
4 79 (4.40%) Power Platform
5 64 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (3.29%) Entra ID
7 51 (2.84%) SaaS
8 40 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (1.61%) GitHub
10 26 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
11 22 (1.22%) OCI
12 20 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
12 20 (1.11%) Snowflake
13 19 (1.06%) Azure AI
13 19 (1.06%) PaaS
14 16 (0.89%) Anthropic Claude
15 14 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
15 14 (0.78%) IaaS
15 14 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 65 (3.62%) Network Security
2 43 (2.39%) Firewall
3 23 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.00%) DNS
4 18 (1.00%) WAN
5 16 (0.89%) LAN
6 15 (0.84%) DHCP
7 14 (0.78%) 5G
8 12 (0.67%) 4G
9 9 (0.50%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.50%) HTTP
9 9 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.45%) Internet
10 8 (0.45%) VPN
11 6 (0.33%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.33%) SAN
11 6 (0.33%) Structured Cabling
12 5 (0.28%) NAS
12 5 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
12 5 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (3.34%) Power BI
2 41 (2.28%) Metadata
3 35 (1.95%) SQL Server
4 32 (1.78%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (0.89%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 13 (0.72%) Db2
9 12 (0.67%) Tableau
10 10 (0.56%) Big Data
11 9 (0.50%) Oracle Database
11 9 (0.50%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.39%) MySQL
13 6 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 5 (0.28%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.28%) NoSQL
15 4 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.22%) Oracle Exadata
15 4 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 122 (6.79%) JIRA
2 25 (1.39%) Git
3 19 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.72%) Selenium
5 10 (0.56%) Zephyr
6 8 (0.45%) Cypress.io
6 8 (0.45%) Postman
7 7 (0.39%) WebDriver
8 6 (0.33%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.33%) GitLab
9 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.22%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) Subversion
10 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.17%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.17%) jMock
10 3 (0.17%) JUnit
10 3 (0.17%) Mockito
10 3 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 713 (39.70%) Social Skills
2 650 (36.19%) Finance
3 292 (16.26%) Analytical Skills
4 211 (11.75%) Public Sector
5 192 (10.69%) Banking
6 131 (7.29%) Legal
7 82 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
8 69 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
9 66 (3.67%) Front Office
10 48 (2.67%) Aerospace
11 46 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
12 43 (2.39%) Retail
12 43 (2.39%) Telecoms
13 41 (2.28%) Investment Banking
13 41 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (2.17%) Military
15 38 (2.12%) Financial Institution
16 34 (1.89%) Law
16 34 (1.89%) Manufacturing
17 25 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 242 (13.47%) Lead
2 217 (12.08%) Architect
3 199 (11.08%) Project Manager
4 168 (9.35%) Senior
5 163 (9.08%) Analyst
6 108 (6.01%) Consultant
7 93 (5.18%) Security Architect
8 75 (4.18%) Programme Manager
9 71 (3.95%) Developer
10 61 (3.40%) Business Analyst
11 55 (3.06%) Senior Manager
12 54 (3.01%) Risk Manager
13 51 (2.84%) IT Manager
14 45 (2.51%) Delivery Manager
15 43 (2.39%) Security Consultant
16 36 (2.00%) Solutions Architect
17 35 (1.95%) Security Manager
18 33 (1.84%) Security Engineer
19 30 (1.67%) Technical Manager
20 29 (1.61%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.06%) Terraform
2 33 (1.84%) REST
3 29 (1.61%) .NET
4 25 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
5 24 (1.34%) Middleware
6 16 (0.89%) Kafka
6 16 (0.89%) OAuth
7 14 (0.78%) JSON
8 13 (0.72%) XML
9 11 (0.61%) Leaflet
9 11 (0.61%) SAML
9 11 (0.61%) SLSA
9 11 (0.61%) SOAP
10 10 (0.56%) OpenID
10 10 (0.56%) RESTful
10 10 (0.56%) Spring
11 9 (0.50%) LDAP
11 9 (0.50%) React
11 9 (0.50%) SailPoint
12 8 (0.45%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 115 (6.40%) Management Information System
2 94 (5.23%) Onboarding
3 89 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 73 (4.06%) Security Posture
5 67 (3.73%) Cloud Native
6 55 (3.06%) Operational Technology
7 54 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
8 43 (2.39%) Data Centre
9 39 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
10 36 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
11 32 (1.78%) Derivative
12 31 (1.73%) AI Agents
13 29 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
14 28 (1.56%) Market Risk
15 27 (1.50%) NHS
16 24 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
17 23 (1.28%) Credit Risk
17 23 (1.28%) PMI
18 22 (1.22%) Data Structures
19 20 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 62 (3.45%) Windows
2 55 (3.06%) Linux
3 37 (2.06%) Unix
4 22 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.33%) zOS
7 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.17%) AIX
8 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.11%) Android
10 1 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 686 (38.20%) Stakeholder Management
2 430 (23.94%) Agile
2 430 (23.94%) Cybersecurity
3 403 (22.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 386 (21.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 284 (15.81%) Decision-Making
6 267 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
7 257 (14.31%) Project Management
8 255 (14.20%) AI
9 228 (12.69%) Roadmaps
10 199 (11.08%) Project Delivery
11 198 (11.02%) Information Security
12 171 (9.52%) Migration
13 167 (9.30%) Change Management
14 163 (9.08%) DevOps
15 159 (8.85%) CI/CD
16 150 (8.35%) Analytics
17 144 (8.02%) PRINCE2
18 139 (7.74%) Vulnerability Management
19 135 (7.52%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 131 (7.29%) Python
2 91 (5.07%) SQL
3 50 (2.78%) Java
4 35 (1.95%) PowerShell
5 29 (1.61%) C#
6 16 (0.89%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.78%) C++
8 11 (0.61%) VBA
9 10 (0.56%) Bash
10 8 (0.45%) Go
10 8 (0.45%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.33%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.28%) Bicep
12 5 (0.28%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.22%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.22%) CLIST
13 4 (0.22%) JCL
13 4 (0.22%) REXX
13 4 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 480 (26.73%) Security Cleared
2 345 (19.21%) SC Cleared
3 172 (9.58%) Degree
4 157 (8.74%) CISSP
5 120 (6.68%) DV Cleared
6 111 (6.18%) CISM
7 85 (4.73%) PMI Certification
8 83 (4.62%) PMP
9 50 (2.78%) CRISC
10 46 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
12 37 (2.06%) CISA
13 35 (1.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 30 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
15 28 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 24 (1.34%) Master's Degree
17 22 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
18 19 (1.06%) CCSP
19 17 (0.95%) AWS Certification
19 17 (0.95%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (12.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 211 (11.75%) NIST
3 184 (10.24%) GRC
4 117 (6.51%) GDPR
5 99 (5.51%) QA
6 77 (4.29%) Data Quality
7 76 (4.23%) NCSC
8 67 (3.73%) PMO
9 40 (2.23%) JSP 440
10 33 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
11 23 (1.28%) COBIT
12 20 (1.11%) PCI DSS
12 20 (1.11%) SLA
12 20 (1.11%) SOC 2
13 18 (1.00%) NIST 800
14 17 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 16 (0.89%) Accessibility
16 15 (0.84%) ISO 31000
17 14 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 14 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (2.23%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.06%) Docker
3 10 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
4 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.17%) FreeRADIUS
5 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.17%) Postfix
5 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.11%) NFS
6 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.056%) Ceph
7 1 (0.056%) IAG
7 1 (0.056%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (2.23%) Kubernetes
2 31 (1.73%) Ansible
3 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (0.72%) SCCM
4 12 (0.67%) Grafana
5 8 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.28%) Control-M
6 5 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.22%) Data Guard
7 4 (0.22%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (0.22%) Nessus
7 4 (0.22%) OMEGAMON
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.22%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.17%) Puppet
9 2 (0.11%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 253 (14.09%) Microsoft
2 99 (5.51%) ServiceNow
3 87 (4.84%) SAP
4 79 (4.40%) Oracle
5 43 (2.39%) Google
6 22 (1.22%) IBM
7 20 (1.11%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.95%) Cisco
8 17 (0.95%) Splunk
9 16 (0.89%) Sybase
10 15 (0.84%) Foundry
11 14 (0.78%) Databricks
11 14 (0.78%) VMware
11 14 (0.78%) Workday
12 12 (0.67%) Murex
12 12 (0.67%) Qualys
13 10 (0.56%) F5
14 9 (0.50%) BeyondTrust
14 9 (0.50%) Okta
14 9 (0.50%) OpenAI