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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 52 63
Rank change year-on-year -20 +11 +12
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,443 1,209 1,411
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.29% 4.12% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 4.56% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 932 728 936
10th Percentile £402 £357 £393
25th Percentile £463 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £705 £688
90th Percentile £800 £834 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 44 43
10th Percentile £23.42 £28.72 £12.25
25th Percentile £43.86 £45.04 £19.30
Median hourly rate £74.68 £61.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.44% +6.95% +440.92%
75th Percentile £98.75 £78.37 £66.63
90th Percentile £107.00 £84.64 £83.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.34 £61.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +25.77% +14.41% +448.47%

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 37,710 26,528 38,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.02% 90.44% 86.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,926 17,086 24,905
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 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.28% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 926 2,329
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £12.98
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.32 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.51 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.72 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £31.76 £31.25
% change year-on-year -10.26% +1.63% -10.71%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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 1,285 £550 -4.35% 608
London -21 674 £600 -4.00% 257
UK excluding London -15 645 £525 - 426
Work from Home -3 412 £550 - 274
North of England -8 201 £519 +2.32% 111
South East -11 190 £550 -4.35% 144
Midlands -38 106 £537 +2.29% 62
North West -9 103 £525 +5.00% 63
Yorkshire +1 96 £500 - 42
West Midlands -43 73 £518 -9.01% 48
South West -7 55 £525 +6.33% 48
Scotland -12 51 £425 -8.99% 15
East of England -22 34 £510 -9.73% 31
East Midlands -29 33 £550 +22.22% 14
Wales -1 9 £214 -59.69% 11
Northern Ireland -2 8 £500 -9.09% 7
North East -27 2 £550 -4.35% 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 67 (4.64%) Confluence
2 25 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.42%) SAS
6 4 (0.28%) nginx
7 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.14%) Apache
8 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.069%) CMS
9 1 (0.069%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.069%) IIS
9 1 (0.069%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (3.81%) Microsoft Project
3 36 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (1.18%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.28%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Revit
8 1 (0.069%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.069%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.069%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.55%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.42%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.42%) Primavera
5 6 (0.42%) Summit
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.21%) Endur
8 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.21%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.14%) Actimize
9 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 171 (11.85%) Azure
2 142 (9.84%) AWS
3 54 (3.74%) GCP
3 54 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (3.26%) Power Platform
5 36 (2.49%) Entra ID
6 33 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
7 31 (2.15%) SaaS
8 23 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
9 22 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.52%) Google Workspace
10 21 (1.46%) GitHub
11 18 (1.25%) Google Sheets
12 15 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (0.83%) OCI
14 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (0.76%) OpenShift
15 10 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (0.55%) Collibra
17 7 (0.49%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.26%) Network Security
2 39 (2.70%) Firewall
3 15 (1.04%) DNS
4 11 (0.76%) LAN
5 10 (0.69%) Internet
5 10 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (0.62%) HTTP
6 9 (0.62%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
7 8 (0.55%) WAN
8 7 (0.49%) DHCP
9 5 (0.35%) 5G
9 5 (0.35%) BIG-IP
10 4 (0.28%) Cisco IPT
10 4 (0.28%) VPN
11 3 (0.21%) Broadband
11 3 (0.21%) NGFW
11 3 (0.21%) SAN
11 3 (0.21%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (2.63%) Power BI
2 23 (1.59%) Metadata
3 22 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.11%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.49%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.49%) MongoDB
7 7 (0.49%) RDBMS
8 6 (0.42%) Big Data
8 6 (0.42%) KDB
8 6 (0.42%) Kdb+
8 6 (0.42%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.42%) Tableau
9 5 (0.35%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.28%) MS Access
10 4 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 132 (9.15%) JIRA
2 17 (1.18%) Git
3 13 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.62%) GitLab
5 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.21%) QUnit
6 3 (0.21%) Selenium
6 3 (0.21%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.21%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.14%) GCC
7 2 (0.14%) GDB
7 2 (0.14%) JUnit
7 2 (0.14%) Mockito
7 2 (0.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.069%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.069%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.069%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.069%) jMock
General
1 541 (37.49%) Social Skills
2 535 (37.08%) Finance
3 238 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (12.82%) Banking
5 155 (10.74%) Public Sector
6 111 (7.69%) Legal
7 56 (3.88%) Front Office
8 55 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
9 45 (3.12%) Investment Banking
10 43 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
11 38 (2.63%) Financial Institution
12 35 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (2.43%) Retail
13 32 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
14 29 (2.01%) Manufacturing
15 27 (1.87%) Telecoms
16 23 (1.59%) Military
17 21 (1.46%) Aerospace
18 20 (1.39%) Marketing
19 17 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 188 (13.03%) Project Manager
2 164 (11.37%) Lead
3 156 (10.81%) Analyst
4 149 (10.33%) Senior
5 133 (9.22%) Architect
6 110 (7.62%) Consultant
7 81 (5.61%) Developer
8 73 (5.06%) Programme Manager
9 70 (4.85%) Security Architect
10 67 (4.64%) Business Analyst
11 54 (3.74%) Senior Manager
12 48 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
13 44 (3.05%) Security Consultant
14 41 (2.84%) Risk Manager
15 36 (2.49%) Risk Analyst
16 32 (2.22%) Senior Developer
17 31 (2.15%) Security Engineer
17 31 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
18 28 (1.94%) Technical Manager
19 25 (1.73%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (1.46%) Kafka
3 20 (1.39%) REST
4 16 (1.11%) OAuth
5 15 (1.04%) .NET
6 13 (0.90%) SAML
6 13 (0.90%) XML
7 11 (0.76%) Middleware
8 10 (0.69%) RESTful
9 9 (0.62%) .NET Framework
9 9 (0.62%) COM
9 9 (0.62%) Dask
9 9 (0.62%) NumPy
9 9 (0.62%) Pandas
10 8 (0.55%) LDAP
11 7 (0.49%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (0.49%) OpenID
11 7 (0.49%) PyTorch
12 6 (0.42%) Leaflet
12 6 (0.42%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 151 (10.46%) Management Information System
2 74 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 68 (4.71%) Derivative
4 58 (4.02%) Security Posture
5 55 (3.81%) Onboarding
6 42 (2.91%) Cloud Native
7 38 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 38 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 37 (2.56%) Data Centre
8 37 (2.56%) Market Risk
9 36 (2.49%) Equities
10 28 (1.94%) Operational Technology
11 27 (1.87%) Credit Risk
12 26 (1.80%) Algorithms
12 26 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (1.80%) Fixed Income
13 24 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (1.59%) NHS
15 19 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
16 17 (1.18%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.49%) Linux
2 33 (2.29%) Windows
3 15 (1.04%) Unix
4 6 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.21%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.21%) VMS
6 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.21%) zOS
7 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.069%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (28.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 351 (24.32%) Agile
3 288 (19.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 267 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
5 245 (16.98%) Cybersecurity
6 242 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 228 (15.80%) Project Management
8 187 (12.96%) Decision-Making
9 175 (12.13%) Information Security
10 164 (11.37%) Change Management
11 156 (10.81%) Roadmaps
12 145 (10.05%) Project Delivery
13 138 (9.56%) Migration
14 133 (9.22%) AI
15 128 (8.87%) Regulatory Compliance
16 126 (8.73%) Analytics
17 115 (7.97%) Data Protection
18 114 (7.90%) PRINCE2
19 104 (7.21%) DevOps
20 99 (6.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 132 (9.15%) SQL
2 117 (8.11%) Python
3 51 (3.53%) Java
4 38 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 27 (1.87%) C#
6 26 (1.80%) C++
7 14 (0.97%) VBA
8 11 (0.76%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.49%) Bash
10 5 (0.35%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.35%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.28%) Korn
11 4 (0.28%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.21%) Perl
13 2 (0.14%) R
13 2 (0.14%) RPG
13 2 (0.14%) Rust
13 2 (0.14%) Scala
13 2 (0.14%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 312 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 235 (16.29%) SC Cleared
3 228 (15.80%) Degree
4 129 (8.94%) CISSP
5 92 (6.38%) CISM
6 80 (5.54%) DV Cleared
7 77 (5.34%) PMI Certification
8 76 (5.27%) PMP
9 45 (3.12%) Master's Degree
10 33 (2.29%) CRISC
11 31 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
13 18 (1.25%) CISA
14 15 (1.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 15 (1.04%) Numerate Degree
14 15 (1.04%) PhD
15 13 (0.90%) CESG Certified Professional
15 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 12 (0.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (12.68%) NIST
2 172 (11.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 118 (8.18%) GDPR
4 111 (7.69%) GRC
5 90 (6.24%) PMO
6 75 (5.20%) QA
7 53 (3.67%) PCI DSS
8 47 (3.26%) Data Quality
8 47 (3.26%) NCSC
9 29 (2.01%) NIST 800
10 27 (1.87%) SLA
11 24 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 24 (1.66%) SOC 2
12 22 (1.52%) COBIT
13 21 (1.46%) JSP 440
14 18 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
15 17 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 14 (0.97%) RMADS
17 13 (0.90%) Def Stans
System Software
1 31 (2.15%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.90%) Docker
3 9 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.21%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.069%) Ceph
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.069%) Postfix
7 1 (0.069%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.069%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (1.59%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.39%) Terraform
3 15 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (0.76%) Ansible
5 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.62%) SCCM
7 5 (0.35%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.21%) CASB
8 3 (0.21%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.21%) Grafana
8 3 (0.21%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.21%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.21%) QRadar
8 3 (0.21%) WSUS
9 2 (0.14%) Control-M
9 2 (0.14%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.14%) Nessus
9 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 174 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 76 (5.27%) Oracle
3 68 (4.71%) SAP
4 62 (4.30%) ServiceNow
5 45 (3.12%) Google
6 23 (1.59%) Murex
7 20 (1.39%) Workday
8 17 (1.18%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.11%) Ariba
10 11 (0.76%) Databricks
10 11 (0.76%) VMware
11 10 (0.69%) Cisco
11 10 (0.69%) Splunk
12 9 (0.62%) IBM
13 8 (0.55%) CyberArk
13 8 (0.55%) F5
13 8 (0.55%) Informatica
14 6 (0.42%) Bloomberg
14 6 (0.42%) Charles River
14 6 (0.42%) OpenAI