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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 59 62
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,962 1,351 1,260
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.57% 4.09% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 4.51% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,191 829 704
10th Percentile £400 £360 £376
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £563 £560
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +0.45% -2.61%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £788 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 32 31
10th Percentile £32.76 £22.16 £31.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £64.09 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.31% -41.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80.00 £54.25 £68.84
90th Percentile £91.00 £72.88 £75.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £33.50 £58.38
% change year-on-year +126.87% -42.61% -11.82%

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 46,382 29,970 32,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.48% 90.66% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,008 18,622 19,630
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £733 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,245 1,858 1,349
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.19 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.64 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.01% -48.10% +1.18%

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 October 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 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Top 18 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 October 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 -5 1,708 £568 -1.30% 3,364
UK excluding London -4 939 £525 +5.00% 1,658
London -11 859 £600 -7.69% 1,952
Work from Home -13 524 £550 -8.18% 1,336
North of England -5 261 £510 +2.00% 353
South East +11 254 £575 +9.52% 454
North West -22 128 £525 +5.85% 217
Yorkshire +17 126 £500 - 111
Scotland +14 124 £500 +11.11% 159
Midlands -35 108 £525 +10.53% 231
South West -25 107 £600 +4.35% 240
West Midlands -14 86 £500 - 142
East of England +7 71 £513 -16.33% 117
East Midlands -28 19 £549 +36.44% 89
Wales -15 13 £600 +45.45% 45
Northern Ireland +6 10 £500 -9.09% 67
North East -34 8 £454 -17.50% 26
Channel Islands - 2 £600 - 3

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 72 (3.67%) Confluence
2 43 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.56%) SAS
4 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.20%) IIS
7 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.10%) CMS
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.051%) Apache
9 1 (0.051%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.051%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.051%) Appian
9 1 (0.051%) CICS
9 1 (0.051%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.051%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 67 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.20%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.20%) Revit
6 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.10%) Windchill
8 1 (0.051%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.051%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.051%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 49 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.76%) SAP GRC
3 13 (0.66%) Endur
4 10 (0.51%) Primavera
5 9 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.20%) Actimize
8 4 (0.20%) Magento
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.20%) SAP HCM
8 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.20%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.15%) Front Arena
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.15%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 298 (15.19%) Azure
2 205 (10.45%) AWS
3 102 (5.20%) GCP
4 89 (4.54%) Power Platform
5 72 (3.67%) Entra ID
6 64 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
7 62 (3.16%) SaaS
8 46 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (1.83%) GitHub
10 29 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
11 28 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
12 25 (1.27%) OCI
13 22 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
15 18 (0.92%) PaaS
15 18 (0.92%) Snowflake
16 17 (0.87%) Anthropic Claude
16 17 (0.87%) Azure AI
16 17 (0.87%) Serverless
17 14 (0.71%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.62%) Network Security
2 56 (2.85%) Firewall
3 24 (1.22%) WAN
4 22 (1.12%) LAN
4 22 (1.12%) TCP/IP
5 15 (0.76%) DNS
6 14 (0.71%) VPN
7 12 (0.61%) 5G
8 11 (0.56%) DHCP
9 10 (0.51%) 4G
10 7 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
10 7 (0.36%) Internet
11 6 (0.31%) BIG-IP
11 6 (0.31%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.25%) Modbus
12 5 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
12 5 (0.25%) Softphone
12 5 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
12 5 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (3.62%) Power BI
2 43 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 40 (2.04%) Metadata
4 30 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 23 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (0.82%) MongoDB
7 14 (0.71%) Db2
8 13 (0.66%) Big Data
8 13 (0.66%) Data Lake
9 12 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (0.56%) Oracle Database
11 10 (0.51%) Tableau
12 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.36%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.31%) MySQL
13 6 (0.31%) NoSQL
14 4 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.20%) Ataccama
14 4 (0.20%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 134 (6.83%) JIRA
2 30 (1.53%) Git
3 20 (1.02%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.71%) Selenium
5 11 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 10 (0.51%) Postman
7 9 (0.46%) WebDriver
8 8 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.41%) Zephyr
9 7 (0.36%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.36%) GitLab
10 5 (0.25%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.20%) Gradle
11 4 (0.20%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.20%) Subversion
12 3 (0.15%) JMeter
12 3 (0.15%) Maven
12 3 (0.15%) TestRail
13 2 (0.10%) TeamCity
General
1 791 (40.32%) Social Skills
2 732 (37.31%) Finance
3 333 (16.97%) Analytical Skills
4 251 (12.79%) Public Sector
5 228 (11.62%) Banking
6 147 (7.49%) Legal
7 108 (5.50%) Influencing Skills
8 87 (4.43%) Organisational Skills
9 81 (4.13%) Front Office
10 53 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
10 53 (2.70%) Military
11 52 (2.65%) Aerospace
12 48 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
13 44 (2.24%) Manufacturing
14 43 (2.19%) Investment Banking
15 39 (1.99%) Telecoms
16 38 (1.94%) Financial Institution
17 37 (1.89%) Retail
18 35 (1.78%) Law
19 29 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 255 (13.00%) Lead
2 238 (12.13%) Architect
3 205 (10.45%) Senior
4 203 (10.35%) Project Manager
5 199 (10.14%) Analyst
6 105 (5.35%) Consultant
7 95 (4.84%) Security Architect
8 81 (4.13%) Programme Manager
9 73 (3.72%) Developer
10 72 (3.67%) Business Analyst
11 62 (3.16%) Senior Manager
12 56 (2.85%) IT Manager
13 55 (2.80%) Risk Manager
14 51 (2.60%) Delivery Manager
15 43 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
16 41 (2.09%) Security Engineer
16 41 (2.09%) Solutions Architect
17 38 (1.94%) Security Consultant
17 38 (1.94%) Service Manager
18 35 (1.78%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (2.85%) Terraform
2 37 (1.89%) REST
3 33 (1.68%) .NET
4 28 (1.43%) Middleware
5 23 (1.17%) Kafka
6 19 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
7 18 (0.92%) OAuth
8 14 (0.71%) Spring
9 13 (0.66%) JSON
10 12 (0.61%) OpenID
10 12 (0.61%) SAML
11 11 (0.56%) SLSA
11 11 (0.56%) SOAP
12 10 (0.51%) SailPoint
12 10 (0.51%) Spring Boot
12 10 (0.51%) XML
13 9 (0.46%) LDAP
13 9 (0.46%) React
13 9 (0.46%) RESTful
13 9 (0.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 130 (6.63%) Onboarding
2 126 (6.42%) Management Information System
3 103 (5.25%) Product Ownership
4 82 (4.18%) Security Posture
5 74 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 60 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
7 56 (2.85%) Data Centre
7 56 (2.85%) Operational Technology
8 45 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
8 45 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 37 (1.89%) Market Risk
10 34 (1.73%) AI Agents
11 29 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
12 28 (1.43%) Credit Risk
13 27 (1.38%) Data Structures
13 27 (1.38%) Derivative
14 26 (1.33%) NHS
15 22 (1.12%) PKI
15 22 (1.12%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 68 (3.47%) Windows
2 67 (3.41%) Linux
3 44 (2.24%) Unix
4 22 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.41%) zOS
7 7 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.25%) Android
8 5 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.15%) AIX
9 3 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.15%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (40.93%) Stakeholder Management
2 495 (25.23%) Cybersecurity
3 476 (24.26%) Agile
4 451 (22.99%) Continuous Improvement
5 425 (21.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 321 (16.36%) Decision-Making
7 292 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
8 290 (14.78%) AI
9 282 (14.37%) Roadmaps
10 261 (13.30%) Project Management
11 226 (11.52%) Information Security
11 226 (11.52%) Project Delivery
12 194 (9.89%) Migration
13 191 (9.73%) DevOps
14 187 (9.53%) CI/CD
15 169 (8.61%) Change Management
16 164 (8.36%) Vulnerability Management
17 162 (8.26%) Analytics
18 159 (8.10%) Data Protection
19 154 (7.85%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 161 (8.21%) Python
2 110 (5.61%) SQL
3 51 (2.60%) Java
4 46 (2.34%) PowerShell
5 36 (1.83%) C#
6 21 (1.07%) Bash
7 19 (0.97%) JavaScript
8 17 (0.87%) Shell Script
9 14 (0.71%) C++
10 10 (0.51%) Go
11 9 (0.46%) VBA
12 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.36%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.31%) Bicep
13 6 (0.31%) JCL
13 6 (0.31%) Korn
14 5 (0.25%) CLIST
14 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.25%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 538 (27.42%) Security Cleared
2 386 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 188 (9.58%) Degree
4 168 (8.56%) CISSP
5 123 (6.27%) DV Cleared
6 115 (5.86%) CISM
7 89 (4.54%) PMI Certification
8 83 (4.23%) PMP
9 59 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 54 (2.75%) CRISC
11 49 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
12 44 (2.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 42 (2.14%) CISA
14 31 (1.58%) Master's Degree
15 30 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
16 28 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 26 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
18 25 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
19 24 (1.22%) Azure Certification
19 24 (1.22%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (12.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 214 (10.91%) NIST
3 198 (10.09%) GRC
4 118 (6.01%) QA
5 110 (5.61%) GDPR
6 96 (4.89%) Data Quality
7 91 (4.64%) NCSC
8 72 (3.67%) PMO
9 42 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 29 (1.48%) JSP 440
11 24 (1.22%) NIST 800
12 20 (1.02%) Accessibility
12 20 (1.02%) COBIT
13 17 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 16 (0.82%) ISO 31000
15 15 (0.76%) Def Stans
16 14 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 14 (0.71%) PCI DSS
16 14 (0.71%) SLA
17 13 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (2.34%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.27%) Docker
3 15 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.46%) vSphere
6 7 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.25%) FreeRADIUS
7 5 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.15%) Firmware
9 3 (0.15%) IAG
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.10%) Postfix
11 1 (0.051%) NFS
Systems Management
1 56 (2.85%) Kubernetes
2 36 (1.83%) Ansible
3 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.61%) Grafana
4 12 (0.61%) SCCM
5 7 (0.36%) Control-M
5 7 (0.36%) Progress Chef
5 7 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.25%) FortiGate
6 5 (0.25%) Nessus
6 5 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
7 3 (0.15%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.15%) Puppet
7 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.10%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.10%) NSN NetAct
8 2 (0.10%) QRadar
Vendors
1 296 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 119 (6.07%) ServiceNow
3 98 (4.99%) SAP
4 73 (3.72%) Oracle
5 52 (2.65%) Google
6 24 (1.22%) IBM
6 24 (1.22%) VMware
7 23 (1.17%) Splunk
8 22 (1.12%) Cisco
8 22 (1.12%) Murex
9 19 (0.97%) Salesforce
10 18 (0.92%) Databricks
11 16 (0.82%) Qualys
12 15 (0.76%) Ariba
12 15 (0.76%) Sybase
13 13 (0.66%) BeyondTrust
13 13 (0.66%) CyberArk
13 13 (0.66%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.61%) Foundry
15 11 (0.56%) Tenable