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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 49 76
Rank change year-on-year -22 +27 -10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,699 1,428 1,217
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.21% 4.40% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 4.86% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,091 868 740
10th Percentile £406 £372 £356
25th Percentile £481 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £715
90th Percentile £800 £875 £839
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +5.37% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 29 41
10th Percentile £23.82 £29.19 £12.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £47.83 £22.34
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.83% +29.46% +297.82%
75th Percentile £85.40 £75.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £105.40 £87.30 £70.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.34 £63.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year +22.28% +26.50% +66.67%

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 45,068 29,357 36,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 90.46% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,042 18,505 23,449
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,667 1,497 2,458
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.45 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -2.91%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -19 1,506 £570 -1.96% 765
UK excluding London -7 874 £540 +5.37% 470
London -41 706 £600 -7.69% 386
Work from Home -18 489 £550 -8.33% 355
North of England -8 268 £514 +0.29% 106
South East -6 233 £575 +4.55% 165
North West -10 139 £540 +5.62% 61
Yorkshire +4 127 £500 -4.76% 41
Midlands -37 119 £550 +16.53% 62
Scotland +7 99 £475 +0.85% 30
South West -2 93 £570 +9.62% 62
West Midlands -42 90 £563 +12.50% 33
East of England +12 58 £525 -4.55% 38
East Midlands -21 29 £550 +24.29% 29
Northern Ireland +1 9 £394 -28.41% 10
Wales -19 6 £800 +79.37% 6
North East -36 4 £454 -17.50% 6

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 69 (4.06%) Confluence
2 36 (2.12%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.59%) SAS
4 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.24%) IIS
6 3 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.059%) Apache
8 1 (0.059%) Appian
8 1 (0.059%) CMS
8 1 (0.059%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.059%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.059%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.059%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.059%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.059%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 52 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.88%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.24%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.24%) Revit
6 4 (0.24%) Trello
7 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) Windchill
8 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.059%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 35 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.77%) Endur
3 11 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.41%) Primavera
4 7 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.35%) Actimize
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.35%) Summit
6 5 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.29%) Loan IQ
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.24%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 251 (14.77%) Azure
2 178 (10.48%) AWS
3 78 (4.59%) GCP
4 72 (4.24%) Power Platform
5 59 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (3.24%) Entra ID
7 48 (2.83%) SaaS
8 36 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (1.88%) GitHub
10 31 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
11 23 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
12 20 (1.18%) PaaS
13 19 (1.12%) Snowflake
14 17 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
15 16 (0.94%) Google Workspace
16 15 (0.88%) Azure AI
16 15 (0.88%) Serverless
17 14 (0.82%) OCI
18 13 (0.77%) Anthropic Claude
18 13 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.41%) Network Security
2 39 (2.30%) Firewall
3 16 (0.94%) DNS
4 14 (0.82%) DHCP
4 14 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.82%) WAN
5 12 (0.71%) 5G
6 11 (0.65%) BIG-IP
6 11 (0.65%) LAN
7 10 (0.59%) 4G
7 10 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (0.41%) HTTP
8 7 (0.41%) Internet
8 7 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
9 6 (0.35%) VPN
10 5 (0.29%) 3G
10 5 (0.29%) NAS
10 5 (0.29%) NGFW
10 5 (0.29%) SAN
10 5 (0.29%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.18%) Power BI
2 35 (2.06%) Metadata
3 33 (1.94%) Relational Database
4 28 (1.65%) SQL Server
5 21 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (0.94%) MongoDB
7 12 (0.71%) Db2
8 11 (0.65%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.59%) RDBMS
9 10 (0.59%) Tableau
10 9 (0.53%) Big Data
11 6 (0.35%) MySQL
11 6 (0.35%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.35%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.29%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 121 (7.12%) JIRA
2 25 (1.47%) Git
3 24 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.59%) GitLab
5 8 (0.47%) Selenium
6 6 (0.35%) TeamCity
6 6 (0.35%) Zephyr
7 5 (0.29%) JUnit
7 5 (0.29%) Mockito
8 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (0.24%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.24%) DbUnit
8 4 (0.24%) jMock
8 4 (0.24%) Maven
8 4 (0.24%) Postman
8 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.18%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.18%) MLflow
9 3 (0.18%) Subversion
9 3 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 632 (37.20%) Finance
1 632 (37.20%) Social Skills
2 264 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
3 197 (11.60%) Public Sector
4 193 (11.36%) Banking
5 133 (7.83%) Legal
6 62 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
7 60 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
8 51 (3.00%) Front Office
9 43 (2.53%) Financial Institution
10 40 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
10 40 (2.35%) Telecoms
11 39 (2.30%) Retail
12 38 (2.24%) Investment Banking
13 36 (2.12%) Aerospace
13 36 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (1.82%) Military
15 30 (1.77%) Manufacturing
16 26 (1.53%) Law
17 23 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 219 (12.89%) Lead
2 205 (12.07%) Project Manager
3 203 (11.95%) Architect
4 168 (9.89%) Senior
5 162 (9.54%) Analyst
6 93 (5.47%) Consultant
7 86 (5.06%) Security Architect
8 72 (4.24%) Business Analyst
8 72 (4.24%) Developer
9 69 (4.06%) Programme Manager
10 65 (3.83%) Senior Manager
11 57 (3.35%) Risk Manager
12 45 (2.65%) IT Manager
13 44 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
14 39 (2.30%) Security Consultant
15 37 (2.18%) Security Engineer
16 35 (2.06%) Security Manager
16 35 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
17 29 (1.71%) Product Manager
18 28 (1.65%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.59%) .NET
1 27 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
2 26 (1.53%) REST
3 20 (1.18%) Kafka
4 19 (1.12%) Middleware
5 15 (0.88%) XML
6 14 (0.82%) OAuth
7 13 (0.77%) JSON
8 12 (0.71%) RESTful
8 12 (0.71%) SOAP
9 11 (0.65%) Azure Blueprints
9 11 (0.65%) Leaflet
9 11 (0.65%) OpenID
9 11 (0.65%) React
9 11 (0.65%) SAML
10 10 (0.59%) Spring
10 10 (0.59%) Web Services
11 9 (0.53%) LDAP
11 9 (0.53%) SLSA
12 8 (0.47%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 124 (7.30%) Management Information System
2 88 (5.18%) Onboarding
3 86 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 68 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 66 (3.88%) Security Posture
6 64 (3.77%) Operational Technology
7 54 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
8 48 (2.83%) Data Centre
9 39 (2.30%) Derivative
10 33 (1.94%) Market Risk
11 28 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
12 27 (1.59%) AI Agents
13 26 (1.53%) Fixed Income
13 26 (1.53%) PMI
14 25 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (1.41%) Data Structures
15 24 (1.41%) NHS
16 21 (1.24%) Credit Risk
17 20 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
18 18 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (3.18%) Windows
2 47 (2.77%) Linux
3 33 (1.94%) Unix
4 20 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.41%) zOS
7 6 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.059%) AIX
11 1 (0.059%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (33.61%) Stakeholder Management
2 424 (24.96%) Agile
3 387 (22.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 355 (20.89%) Cybersecurity
5 348 (20.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 258 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
7 253 (14.89%) Decision-Making
7 253 (14.89%) Project Management
8 225 (13.24%) Roadmaps
9 222 (13.07%) AI
10 206 (12.12%) Information Security
11 183 (10.77%) Change Management
12 165 (9.71%) Project Delivery
13 155 (9.12%) Migration
14 150 (8.83%) CI/CD
15 147 (8.65%) DevOps
16 140 (8.24%) Analytics
17 129 (7.59%) Data Protection
17 129 (7.59%) Regulatory Compliance
18 127 (7.47%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 133 (7.83%) Python
2 109 (6.42%) SQL
3 60 (3.53%) Java
4 41 (2.41%) PowerShell
5 24 (1.41%) C#
6 18 (1.06%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.77%) VBA
8 10 (0.59%) C++
8 10 (0.59%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.53%) Bash
9 9 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.41%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.35%) Go
12 4 (0.24%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.24%) Bicep
12 4 (0.24%) CLIST
12 4 (0.24%) JCL
12 4 (0.24%) REXX
12 4 (0.24%) Scala
13 3 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 418 (24.60%) Security Cleared
2 305 (17.95%) SC Cleared
3 191 (11.24%) Degree
4 163 (9.59%) CISSP
5 103 (6.06%) CISM
6 102 (6.00%) DV Cleared
7 80 (4.71%) PMI Certification
8 75 (4.41%) PMP
9 41 (2.41%) CRISC
10 38 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
12 31 (1.82%) CISA
13 30 (1.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 29 (1.71%) Master's Degree
15 25 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 19 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
17 16 (0.94%) AWS Certification
17 16 (0.94%) CESG Certified Professional
17 16 (0.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (11.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 202 (11.89%) NIST
3 154 (9.06%) GRC
4 118 (6.95%) GDPR
5 79 (4.65%) QA
6 73 (4.30%) Data Quality
7 71 (4.18%) PMO
8 56 (3.30%) NCSC
9 39 (2.30%) PCI DSS
10 36 (2.12%) JSP 440
11 33 (1.94%) SOC 2
12 31 (1.82%) SLA
13 30 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
14 28 (1.65%) NIST 800
15 22 (1.29%) COBIT
16 18 (1.06%) ISO 31000
17 16 (0.94%) Def Stans
17 16 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 16 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 14 (0.82%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 37 (2.18%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.18%) Docker
3 10 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.24%) Postfix
5 4 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.059%) Ceph
8 1 (0.059%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (1.77%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.59%) Terraform
3 24 (1.41%) Ansible
4 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.82%) SCCM
5 11 (0.65%) Grafana
6 8 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.29%) Control-M
7 5 (0.29%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.24%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.18%) CASB
9 3 (0.18%) Nessus
10 2 (0.12%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.12%) Istio
10 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.12%) OpenVAS
10 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 229 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.47%) ServiceNow
3 82 (4.83%) Oracle
3 82 (4.83%) SAP
4 49 (2.88%) Google
5 20 (1.18%) Cisco
5 20 (1.18%) IBM
5 20 (1.18%) Workday
6 19 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 15 (0.88%) Murex
7 15 (0.88%) Sybase
8 14 (0.82%) Foundry
8 14 (0.82%) Splunk
9 13 (0.77%) F5
9 13 (0.77%) Qualys
9 13 (0.77%) VMware
10 11 (0.65%) Ariba
11 10 (0.59%) Databricks
11 10 (0.59%) Infoblox
12 9 (0.53%) CrowdStrike