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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 49 60
Rank change year-on-year -22 +11 +17
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,416 1,238 1,452
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.41% 4.07% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 4.52% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 712 954
10th Percentile £402 £360 £400
25th Percentile £463 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £685
90th Percentile £808 £813 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 44 58
10th Percentile £26.12 £28.72 £14.53
25th Percentile £33.50 £44.90 £41.13
Median hourly rate £57.25 £60.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +5.65% +440.92%
75th Percentile £95.63 £75.84 £83.33
90th Percentile £106.70 £83.20 £83.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.78 £60.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -23.70% +4.35% +486.73%

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 35,946 27,398 38,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.59% 90.01% 86.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,812 17,104 25,306
10th Percentile £313 £305 £300
25th Percentile £412 £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 £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -1.93% -1.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,146 887 2,267
10th Percentile £14.66 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -1.52% -5.71%
75th Percentile £63.48 £64.50 £59.44
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.35 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £34.21
% change year-on-year -20.81% -7.16% -2.26%

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 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 1 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 1 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 -13 1,265 £550 -6.38% 689
London -13 677 £600 -4.00% 214
UK excluding London -15 620 £525 - 561
Work from Home -3 406 £550 - 368
North of England -11 184 £519 -1.98% 110
South East -12 182 £525 -8.70% 194
Midlands -39 100 £540 +1.41% 76
North West -24 92 £525 +5.00% 54
Yorkshire -3 90 £500 -6.45% 50
West Midlands -40 66 £525 -12.50% 48
South West -9 59 £500 +1.27% 86
Scotland -12 47 £425 -8.99% 21
East of England -34 35 £525 -4.98% 61
East Midlands -20 34 £550 +22.22% 27
Wales +1 11 £293 -44.72% 16
Northern Ireland +3 9 £500 +66.67% 5
North East -22 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 57 (4.03%) Confluence
2 25 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.78%) SAS
5 4 (0.28%) nginx
6 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.14%) Apache
7 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.071%) Camunda
8 1 (0.071%) CMS
8 1 (0.071%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.071%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 73 (5.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (4.03%) Microsoft Project
3 38 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.21%) Trello
9 2 (0.14%) Revit
10 1 (0.071%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.071%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 22 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.56%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.42%) Primavera
5 5 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.28%) Summit
7 3 (0.21%) Endur
7 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.21%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.14%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 165 (11.65%) Azure
2 136 (9.60%) AWS
3 56 (3.95%) GCP
4 51 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
5 50 (3.53%) Power Platform
6 34 (2.40%) Entra ID
7 32 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 31 (2.19%) SaaS
9 23 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
10 21 (1.48%) Google Workspace
11 20 (1.41%) GitHub
12 18 (1.27%) Google Sheets
13 16 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (0.71%) OpenShift
16 9 (0.64%) OCI
17 8 (0.56%) Collibra
18 6 (0.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.53%) Firewall
2 38 (2.68%) Network Security
3 13 (0.92%) DNS
4 10 (0.71%) Internet
4 10 (0.71%) LAN
5 9 (0.64%) Kerberos
6 7 (0.49%) WAN
6 7 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.42%) DHCP
7 6 (0.42%) HTTP
7 6 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
8 5 (0.35%) BIG-IP
8 5 (0.35%) Cisco IPT
9 4 (0.28%) 5G
9 4 (0.28%) VPN
10 3 (0.21%) Broadband
10 3 (0.21%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.14%) DKIM
11 2 (0.14%) DMARC
11 2 (0.14%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (2.90%) Power BI
2 24 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (1.27%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.13%) Metadata
6 15 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.42%) Big Data
7 6 (0.42%) KDB
7 6 (0.42%) Kdb+
7 6 (0.42%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.35%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.35%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.35%) Tableau
9 4 (0.28%) Data Mart
9 4 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.28%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 118 (8.33%) JIRA
2 15 (1.06%) Git
3 14 (0.99%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.56%) GitLab
5 6 (0.42%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.21%) QUnit
7 3 (0.21%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.14%) GCC
8 2 (0.14%) GDB
8 2 (0.14%) JUnit
8 2 (0.14%) Mockito
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.071%) Appium
9 1 (0.071%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.071%) MLflow
9 1 (0.071%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.071%) SonarQube
General
1 553 (39.05%) Social Skills
2 538 (37.99%) Finance
3 227 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (12.99%) Banking
5 143 (10.10%) Public Sector
6 116 (8.19%) Legal
7 61 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (3.67%) Front Office
8 52 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
9 44 (3.11%) Investment Banking
10 38 (2.68%) Financial Institution
11 35 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (2.26%) Retail
13 29 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (1.91%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.77%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.48%) Military
17 19 (1.34%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 18 (1.27%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 173 (12.22%) Analyst
2 164 (11.58%) Project Manager
3 149 (10.52%) Lead
4 144 (10.17%) Senior
5 128 (9.04%) Architect
6 108 (7.63%) Consultant
7 85 (6.00%) Developer
8 72 (5.08%) Programme Manager
9 65 (4.59%) Business Analyst
10 64 (4.52%) Security Architect
11 52 (3.67%) Senior Manager
12 50 (3.53%) Delivery Manager
13 43 (3.04%) Security Consultant
14 40 (2.82%) Risk Manager
15 39 (2.75%) Risk Analyst
16 32 (2.26%) Senior Developer
16 32 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
17 30 (2.12%) Security Analyst
17 30 (2.12%) Technical Manager
18 27 (1.91%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.62%) Kafka
2 22 (1.55%) REST
3 21 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
4 18 (1.27%) .NET
5 16 (1.13%) OAuth
6 13 (0.92%) Middleware
6 13 (0.92%) SAML
7 12 (0.85%) .NET Framework
8 11 (0.78%) NumPy
8 11 (0.78%) Pandas
8 11 (0.78%) XML
9 10 (0.71%) RESTful
10 9 (0.64%) COM
10 9 (0.64%) Dask
11 8 (0.56%) LDAP
11 8 (0.56%) React
12 7 (0.49%) Entity Framework
12 7 (0.49%) OpenID
12 7 (0.49%) Playwright
13 6 (0.42%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 157 (11.09%) Management Information System
2 69 (4.87%) Product Ownership
3 68 (4.80%) Security Posture
4 66 (4.66%) Derivative
5 56 (3.95%) Onboarding
6 40 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 39 (2.75%) Cloud Native
8 38 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
8 38 (2.68%) Equities
8 38 (2.68%) Market Risk
9 36 (2.54%) Data Centre
10 31 (2.19%) Credit Risk
11 28 (1.98%) Algorithms
12 27 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
12 27 (1.91%) Fixed Income
13 25 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
13 25 (1.77%) Operational Technology
14 20 (1.41%) NHS
15 19 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
16 18 (1.27%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.82%) Linux
2 35 (2.47%) Windows
3 16 (1.13%) Unix
4 5 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.21%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.21%) VMS
5 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.21%) zOS
6 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.071%) Android
7 1 (0.071%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (27.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 327 (23.09%) Agile
3 277 (19.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 249 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
5 248 (17.51%) Cybersecurity
6 229 (16.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 214 (15.11%) Project Management
8 187 (13.21%) Decision-Making
9 184 (12.99%) Information Security
10 144 (10.17%) Change Management
11 141 (9.96%) Roadmaps
12 132 (9.32%) Regulatory Compliance
13 130 (9.18%) Migration
13 130 (9.18%) Project Delivery
14 123 (8.69%) AI
15 118 (8.33%) Data Protection
16 115 (8.12%) Analytics
17 101 (7.13%) PRINCE2
18 100 (7.06%) Scrum
19 89 (6.29%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (9.11%) SQL
2 122 (8.62%) Python
3 55 (3.88%) Java
4 36 (2.54%) PowerShell
5 28 (1.98%) C#
6 27 (1.91%) C++
7 16 (1.13%) VBA
8 15 (1.06%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.49%) R
10 6 (0.42%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.35%) Bash
11 5 (0.35%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.28%) Korn
13 3 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.14%) Perl
14 2 (0.14%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.14%) RPG
14 2 (0.14%) Rust
14 2 (0.14%) Scala
14 2 (0.14%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 292 (20.62%) Security Cleared
2 230 (16.24%) Degree
3 223 (15.75%) SC Cleared
4 131 (9.25%) CISSP
5 93 (6.57%) CISM
6 73 (5.16%) DV Cleared
7 68 (4.80%) PMI Certification
8 65 (4.59%) PMP
9 56 (3.95%) Master's Degree
10 39 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (2.26%) CRISC
12 29 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (1.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 22 (1.55%) CISA
15 16 (1.13%) PhD
16 15 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
17 11 (0.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 10 (0.71%) CESG Certified Professional
18 10 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (13.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 187 (13.21%) NIST
3 126 (8.90%) GRC
4 124 (8.76%) GDPR
5 83 (5.86%) PMO
6 69 (4.87%) QA
7 56 (3.95%) PCI DSS
8 41 (2.90%) Data Quality
8 41 (2.90%) NCSC
9 28 (1.98%) NIST 800
9 28 (1.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 23 (1.62%) SLA
11 22 (1.55%) SOC 2
12 21 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 21 (1.48%) Def Stans
13 19 (1.34%) COBIT
14 16 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
14 16 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 13 (0.92%) RMADS
16 12 (0.85%) JSP 440
System Software
1 33 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.92%) Docker
3 8 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.21%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.071%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.071%) Postfix
5 1 (0.071%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.071%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (1.55%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.34%) Terraform
3 13 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.71%) Ansible
4 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.56%) SCCM
6 7 (0.49%) RSA Archer
7 5 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.28%) Grafana
8 4 (0.28%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.21%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.21%) QRadar
9 3 (0.21%) WSUS
10 2 (0.14%) CASB
10 2 (0.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.14%) Nessus
10 2 (0.14%) OpenVAS
11 1 (0.071%) Consul
11 1 (0.071%) Packer
Vendors
1 178 (12.57%) Microsoft
2 69 (4.87%) SAP
3 63 (4.45%) ServiceNow
4 62 (4.38%) Oracle
5 43 (3.04%) Google
6 20 (1.41%) Murex
7 17 (1.20%) Ariba
8 15 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 13 (0.92%) Workday
10 11 (0.78%) Databricks
11 10 (0.71%) CyberArk
11 10 (0.71%) Splunk
12 9 (0.64%) Cisco
12 9 (0.64%) VMware
13 8 (0.56%) F5
13 8 (0.56%) IBM
13 8 (0.56%) Informatica
14 7 (0.49%) Citrix
15 6 (0.42%) Bloomberg
16 5 (0.35%) Rapid7