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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 48 64
Rank change year-on-year -28 +16 +11
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,456 1,224 1,401
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.28% 4.21% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 4.65% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 947 748 928
10th Percentile £401 £359 £393
25th Percentile £463 £451 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £695
90th Percentile £818 £834 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 40 45
10th Percentile £20.85 £29.16 £12.25
25th Percentile £40.97 £46.30 £22.34
Median hourly rate £74.68 £61.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.44% +6.95% +440.92%
75th Percentile £98.75 £78.40 £70.00
90th Percentile £107.00 £85.43 £83.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.34 £61.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +25.77% +6.95% +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 38,117 26,296 38,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.75% 90.49% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,146 17,083 24,839
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 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 956 2,346
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.12 £12.84
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.47 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.35 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.25 £31.64 £31.80
% change year-on-year -1.23% -0.50% -11.67%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -18 1,297 £550 -4.35% 603
UK excluding London -17 667 £525 - 424
London -21 664 £600 -4.00% 260
Work from Home -7 421 £556 -3.26% 271
North of England -8 212 £520 +1.58% 112
South East -12 192 £550 -4.35% 145
Midlands -43 109 £537 +6.97% 70
North West -7 108 £540 +8.00% 65
Yorkshire -3 103 £500 -1.23% 39
West Midlands -35 76 £525 - 56
South West -3 60 £550 +14.29% 37
Scotland -15 52 £425 -9.77% 16
East of England -26 35 £518 -2.36% 31
East Midlands -27 33 £550 +22.22% 14
Wales -7 9 £214 -59.69% 9
Northern Ireland -3 8 £500 -4.76% 7
North East -22 1 - - 8

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 (4.95%) Confluence
2 27 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.48%) SAS
6 4 (0.27%) 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%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.069%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 67 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (3.71%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.27%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Revit
7 2 (0.14%) Windchill
8 1 (0.069%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.069%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 20 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.55%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.41%) Primavera
5 6 (0.41%) Summit
6 5 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.27%) Endur
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
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
8 3 (0.21%) SAP GRC
8 3 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 176 (12.09%) Azure
2 149 (10.23%) AWS
3 56 (3.85%) GCP
4 54 (3.71%) Power Platform
5 52 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (2.34%) Entra ID
7 30 (2.06%) SaaS
8 29 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
9 22 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
9 22 (1.51%) Google Workspace
10 21 (1.44%) GitHub
11 18 (1.24%) Google Sheets
12 15 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (0.82%) OCI
14 11 (0.76%) OpenShift
15 9 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (0.55%) Amazon S3
16 8 (0.55%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.16%) Network Security
2 38 (2.61%) Firewall
3 15 (1.03%) DNS
4 11 (0.76%) Internet
5 10 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (0.62%) Kerberos
6 9 (0.62%) LAN
7 8 (0.55%) HTTP
7 8 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
8 7 (0.48%) DHCP
9 6 (0.41%) 5G
9 6 (0.41%) WAN
10 5 (0.34%) BIG-IP
11 4 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
11 4 (0.27%) SAN
11 4 (0.27%) VPN
12 3 (0.21%) Broadband
12 3 (0.21%) NGFW
12 3 (0.21%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (2.88%) Power BI
2 24 (1.65%) Metadata
3 23 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (1.17%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.10%) SQL Server
7 9 (0.62%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.55%) Tableau
9 7 (0.48%) Big Data
9 7 (0.48%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.41%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.41%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.41%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.27%) Data Mart
12 4 (0.27%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 3 (0.21%) KDB
Development Applications
1 138 (9.48%) JIRA
2 19 (1.30%) Git
3 14 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.62%) GitLab
5 4 (0.27%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.27%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.21%) JUnit
6 3 (0.21%) Mockito
7 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.14%) DbUnit
7 2 (0.14%) jMock
7 2 (0.14%) Maven
7 2 (0.14%) Selenium
7 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.14%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.069%) ERwin
8 1 (0.069%) Flyway
8 1 (0.069%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.069%) Postman
General
1 551 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 539 (37.02%) Finance
3 241 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (12.64%) Banking
5 157 (10.78%) Public Sector
6 111 (7.62%) Legal
7 54 (3.71%) Influencing Skills
8 45 (3.09%) Front Office
9 43 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
10 41 (2.82%) Investment Banking
11 38 (2.61%) Financial Institution
12 36 (2.47%) Retail
13 34 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
13 34 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (1.99%) Manufacturing
15 28 (1.92%) Telecoms
16 24 (1.65%) Military
17 22 (1.51%) Aerospace
18 21 (1.44%) Marketing
19 17 (1.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 193 (13.26%) Project Manager
2 168 (11.54%) Lead
3 152 (10.44%) Analyst
4 146 (10.03%) Senior
5 134 (9.20%) Architect
6 116 (7.97%) Consultant
7 76 (5.22%) Developer
8 71 (4.88%) Programme Manager
8 71 (4.88%) Security Architect
9 68 (4.67%) Business Analyst
10 53 (3.64%) Senior Manager
11 49 (3.37%) Security Consultant
12 48 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
13 46 (3.16%) Risk Manager
14 34 (2.34%) Risk Analyst
14 34 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
15 31 (2.13%) Security Engineer
16 30 (2.06%) Senior Developer
17 28 (1.92%) Technical Manager
18 26 (1.79%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (1.51%) REST
3 21 (1.44%) Kafka
4 17 (1.17%) .NET
5 15 (1.03%) OAuth
6 13 (0.89%) XML
7 12 (0.82%) SAML
8 10 (0.69%) 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
10 8 (0.55%) Leaflet
11 7 (0.48%) PyTorch
12 6 (0.41%) OpenID
12 6 (0.41%) React
12 6 (0.41%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 147 (10.10%) Management Information System
2 75 (5.15%) Product Ownership
3 65 (4.46%) Security Posture
4 62 (4.26%) Derivative
5 56 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 42 (2.88%) Cloud Native
7 39 (2.68%) Data Centre
8 38 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
9 35 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 35 (2.40%) Market Risk
10 33 (2.27%) Equities
11 28 (1.92%) Operational Technology
12 26 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (1.79%) Credit Risk
13 24 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.51%) NHS
15 21 (1.44%) Algorithms
15 21 (1.44%) Fixed Income
16 17 (1.17%) Data Structures
16 17 (1.17%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.47%) Windows
2 33 (2.27%) Linux
3 14 (0.96%) Unix
4 8 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.27%) 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
1 434 (29.81%) Stakeholder Management
2 363 (24.93%) Agile
3 290 (19.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 267 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
5 254 (17.45%) Cybersecurity
6 244 (16.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 233 (16.00%) Project Management
8 187 (12.84%) Decision-Making
9 176 (12.09%) Information Security
10 161 (11.06%) Change Management
11 156 (10.71%) Roadmaps
12 145 (9.96%) Project Delivery
13 137 (9.41%) AI
14 136 (9.34%) Migration
15 130 (8.93%) Regulatory Compliance
16 123 (8.45%) Analytics
17 121 (8.31%) Data Protection
18 117 (8.04%) PRINCE2
19 104 (7.14%) DevOps
20 102 (7.01%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 128 (8.79%) SQL
2 115 (7.90%) Python
3 54 (3.71%) Java
4 35 (2.40%) PowerShell
5 25 (1.72%) C#
6 23 (1.58%) C++
7 14 (0.96%) VBA
8 9 (0.62%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.48%) Bash
10 5 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.34%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.27%) Korn
11 4 (0.27%) 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
1 316 (21.70%) Security Cleared
2 238 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 222 (15.25%) Degree
4 133 (9.13%) CISSP
5 95 (6.52%) CISM
6 82 (5.63%) PMI Certification
7 81 (5.56%) DV Cleared
7 81 (5.56%) PMP
8 43 (2.95%) Master's Degree
9 37 (2.54%) CRISC
10 32 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (1.30%) CISA
13 16 (1.10%) CESG Certified Professional
14 15 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
14 15 (1.03%) PhD
15 14 (0.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 13 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 12 (0.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (12.91%) NIST
2 176 (12.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 121 (8.31%) GDPR
4 119 (8.17%) GRC
5 90 (6.18%) PMO
6 75 (5.15%) QA
7 53 (3.64%) PCI DSS
8 48 (3.30%) NCSC
9 47 (3.23%) Data Quality
10 29 (1.99%) SLA
11 28 (1.92%) NIST 800
12 25 (1.72%) JSP 440
13 23 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 23 (1.58%) SOC 2
14 22 (1.51%) COBIT
15 18 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 18 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 17 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (1.03%) RMADS
18 13 (0.89%) Def Stans
System Software
1 31 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.89%) Docker
3 9 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.21%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.14%) Postfix
7 1 (0.069%) Ceph
7 1 (0.069%) NFS
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.069%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.069%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (1.58%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.37%) Terraform
3 15 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (0.76%) Ansible
5 9 (0.62%) SCCM
6 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.41%) RSA Archer
8 5 (0.34%) Grafana
9 4 (0.27%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.21%) CASB
10 3 (0.21%) Control-M
10 3 (0.21%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.21%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.21%) QRadar
10 3 (0.21%) WSUS
11 2 (0.14%) Nessus
11 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.14%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 176 (12.09%) Microsoft
2 78 (5.36%) Oracle
3 67 (4.60%) SAP
4 66 (4.53%) ServiceNow
5 45 (3.09%) Google
6 22 (1.51%) Murex
7 20 (1.37%) Workday
8 18 (1.24%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.03%) Ariba
10 12 (0.82%) Databricks
11 11 (0.76%) VMware
12 10 (0.69%) Cisco
12 10 (0.69%) Splunk
13 9 (0.62%) IBM
14 8 (0.55%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.55%) Informatica
15 7 (0.48%) F5
15 7 (0.48%) Foundry
15 7 (0.48%) OpenAI
16 6 (0.41%) Bloomberg