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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 55 66
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,903 1,411 1,265
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.49% 4.27% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 4.72% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,157 875 743
10th Percentile £400 £360 £380
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% -5.37%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £800 £875 £836
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 27 28
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £33.88
25th Percentile £46.25 £23.50 £42.81
Median hourly rate £64.09 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.31% -41.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.00 £68.17
90th Percentile £89.00 £79.15 £81.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £33.50 £59.19
% change year-on-year +126.87% -43.40% -18.24%

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 46,152 29,871 33,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.49% 85.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,085 18,553 20,430
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,056 1,793 1,507
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.92%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.78 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.58 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.32% -47.50% +7.50%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 1,663 £559 -2.83% 2,408
UK excluding London -4 950 £525 +5.00% 1,134
London -25 807 £600 -7.69% 1,525
Work from Home -21 514 £550 -7.95% 1,075
North of England -12 268 £510 +2.00% 223
South East +17 255 £575 +4.55% 329
North West -18 135 £525 +5.00% 141
Yorkshire -1 127 £500 - 59
Scotland +13 122 £488 +8.33% 128
South West -18 115 £600 +4.35% 143
Midlands -37 112 £525 +12.72% 170
West Midlands -24 89 £500 +5.26% 105
East of England +8 68 £513 -14.58% 97
East Midlands -30 20 £547 +36.07% 65
Wales -19 11 £600 +45.45% 21
Northern Ireland -3 10 £456 -17.05% 37
North East -44 6 £454 - 28
Channel Islands - 2 £600 - 1

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 (3.78%) Confluence
2 46 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.58%) SAS
4 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.16%) IIS
7 2 (0.11%) CMS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.053%) Apache
8 1 (0.053%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.053%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.053%) Appian
8 1 (0.053%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.053%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.053%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 66 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.21%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.21%) Revit
7 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.16%) Windchill
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.053%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.84%) SAP GRC
3 14 (0.74%) Endur
4 10 (0.53%) Primavera
5 9 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.26%) Summit
10 4 (0.21%) Actimize
10 4 (0.21%) Aladdin
10 4 (0.21%) Front Arena
10 4 (0.21%) Magento
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 3 (0.16%) Findur
11 3 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 282 (14.82%) Azure
2 196 (10.30%) AWS
3 91 (4.78%) Power Platform
4 83 (4.36%) GCP
5 63 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
6 62 (3.26%) Entra ID
7 57 (3.00%) SaaS
8 41 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (1.79%) GitHub
10 26 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
12 24 (1.26%) OCI
13 22 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
14 21 (1.10%) Snowflake
15 20 (1.05%) Azure AI
15 20 (1.05%) PaaS
16 18 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
17 16 (0.84%) IaaS
17 16 (0.84%) Serverless
18 15 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 66 (3.47%) Network Security
2 44 (2.31%) Firewall
3 23 (1.21%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.00%) WAN
5 17 (0.89%) DNS
5 17 (0.89%) LAN
6 14 (0.74%) 5G
7 13 (0.68%) DHCP
8 12 (0.63%) 4G
9 8 (0.42%) BIG-IP
9 8 (0.42%) Internet
9 8 (0.42%) VPN
10 7 (0.37%) Cisco IPT
10 7 (0.37%) HTTP
11 6 (0.32%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.32%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.26%) 3G
12 5 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
12 5 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (3.68%) Power BI
2 44 (2.31%) Metadata
3 40 (2.10%) SQL Server
4 34 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 22 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (1.00%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.79%) Db2
7 15 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 12 (0.63%) Big Data
9 12 (0.63%) Tableau
10 11 (0.58%) Oracle Database
11 9 (0.47%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.37%) MySQL
13 6 (0.32%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.26%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 4 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.21%) Neo4j
15 4 (0.21%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 130 (6.83%) JIRA
2 28 (1.47%) Git
3 21 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.74%) Selenium
5 10 (0.53%) Cypress.io
6 9 (0.47%) Postman
6 9 (0.47%) Zephyr
7 8 (0.42%) WebDriver
8 7 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.32%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.32%) GitLab
10 5 (0.26%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.26%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.21%) Gradle
11 4 (0.21%) Maven
11 4 (0.21%) Subversion
12 3 (0.16%) DbUnit
12 3 (0.16%) jMock
12 3 (0.16%) Mockito
General
1 766 (40.25%) Social Skills
2 698 (36.68%) Finance
3 325 (17.08%) Analytical Skills
4 235 (12.35%) Public Sector
5 209 (10.98%) Banking
6 145 (7.62%) Legal
7 95 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
8 76 (3.99%) Front Office
9 75 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
10 52 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
11 50 (2.63%) Aerospace
12 48 (2.52%) Military
13 47 (2.47%) Investment Banking
14 43 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
14 43 (2.26%) Telecoms
15 40 (2.10%) Manufacturing
15 40 (2.10%) Retail
16 38 (2.00%) Financial Institution
17 36 (1.89%) Law
18 26 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 250 (13.14%) Lead
2 234 (12.30%) Architect
3 196 (10.30%) Project Manager
4 195 (10.25%) Analyst
5 186 (9.77%) Senior
6 104 (5.47%) Consultant
7 94 (4.94%) Security Architect
8 75 (3.94%) Programme Manager
9 74 (3.89%) Developer
10 69 (3.63%) Business Analyst
11 55 (2.89%) IT Manager
12 53 (2.79%) Risk Manager
12 53 (2.79%) Senior Manager
13 48 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
14 43 (2.26%) Security Consultant
15 38 (2.00%) Solutions Architect
16 37 (1.94%) Risk Analyst
17 36 (1.89%) Security Manager
17 36 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
18 34 (1.79%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.31%) Terraform
2 38 (2.00%) REST
3 35 (1.84%) .NET
4 26 (1.37%) Middleware
5 23 (1.21%) Kafka
6 20 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
7 18 (0.95%) OAuth
8 15 (0.79%) JSON
8 15 (0.79%) Spring
9 13 (0.68%) XML
10 12 (0.63%) SAML
10 12 (0.63%) SOAP
11 11 (0.58%) OpenID
11 11 (0.58%) React
11 11 (0.58%) SailPoint
11 11 (0.58%) SLSA
11 11 (0.58%) Spring Boot
12 10 (0.53%) RESTful
13 9 (0.47%) LDAP
13 9 (0.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 124 (6.52%) Management Information System
2 118 (6.20%) Onboarding
3 97 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 78 (4.10%) Security Posture
5 72 (3.78%) Cloud Native
6 64 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
7 54 (2.84%) Operational Technology
8 43 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
8 43 (2.26%) Data Centre
9 38 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
10 35 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
11 33 (1.73%) AI Agents
12 32 (1.68%) Market Risk
13 30 (1.58%) Derivative
14 29 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
15 27 (1.42%) Data Structures
16 26 (1.37%) NHS
17 23 (1.21%) Credit Risk
18 22 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 22 (1.16%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 65 (3.42%) Windows
2 62 (3.26%) Linux
3 41 (2.15%) Unix
4 21 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.32%) zOS
8 4 (0.21%) Android
8 4 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.16%) AIX
9 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 756 (39.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 473 (24.86%) Cybersecurity
3 470 (24.70%) Agile
4 421 (22.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 420 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 311 (16.34%) Decision-Making
7 284 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
8 274 (14.40%) AI
9 258 (13.56%) Project Management
10 246 (12.93%) Roadmaps
11 219 (11.51%) Information Security
12 210 (11.04%) Project Delivery
13 183 (9.62%) DevOps
14 179 (9.41%) CI/CD
15 176 (9.25%) Migration
16 166 (8.72%) Change Management
17 162 (8.51%) Analytics
18 158 (8.30%) Vulnerability Management
19 153 (8.04%) PRINCE2
20 151 (7.93%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 152 (7.99%) Python
2 108 (5.68%) SQL
3 53 (2.79%) Java
4 42 (2.21%) PowerShell
5 32 (1.68%) C#
6 19 (1.00%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.84%) Bash
8 14 (0.74%) C++
9 13 (0.68%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.58%) VBA
11 8 (0.42%) Go
11 8 (0.42%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.42%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.32%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.26%) Bicep
13 5 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.26%) Korn
14 4 (0.21%) CLIST
14 4 (0.21%) JCL
14 4 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 529 (27.80%) Security Cleared
2 381 (20.02%) SC Cleared
3 174 (9.14%) Degree
4 168 (8.83%) CISSP
5 123 (6.46%) DV Cleared
6 117 (6.15%) CISM
7 89 (4.68%) PMI Certification
8 87 (4.57%) PMP
9 55 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 54 (2.84%) CRISC
11 43 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (2.10%) CISA
13 38 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 28 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
15 26 (1.37%) Master's Degree
15 26 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 25 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
17 24 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
18 22 (1.16%) Azure Certification
18 22 (1.16%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (12.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 222 (11.67%) NIST
3 194 (10.19%) GRC
4 123 (6.46%) GDPR
5 114 (5.99%) QA
6 88 (4.62%) Data Quality
7 81 (4.26%) NCSC
8 69 (3.63%) PMO
9 37 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
9 37 (1.94%) JSP 440
10 25 (1.31%) NIST 800
11 22 (1.16%) COBIT
12 20 (1.05%) Accessibility
13 19 (1.00%) SOC 2
14 17 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 16 (0.84%) Def Stans
16 15 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 15 (0.79%) ISO 31000
16 15 (0.79%) PCI DSS
16 15 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.31%) Docker
3 12 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.26%) vSphere
7 4 (0.21%) FreeRADIUS
7 4 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) Firmware
8 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.16%) Postfix
8 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.11%) IAG
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
10 1 (0.053%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 49 (2.57%) Kubernetes
2 34 (1.79%) Ansible
3 14 (0.74%) Grafana
4 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.58%) SCCM
6 8 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.32%) Control-M
8 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.21%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.21%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.21%) Nessus
9 4 (0.21%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (0.21%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.16%) Puppet
11 2 (0.11%) Istio
11 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 277 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 112 (5.89%) ServiceNow
3 92 (4.83%) SAP
4 78 (4.10%) Oracle
5 43 (2.26%) Google
6 22 (1.16%) IBM
6 22 (1.16%) Splunk
7 19 (1.00%) VMware
8 18 (0.95%) Cisco
8 18 (0.95%) Salesforce
9 17 (0.89%) Databricks
9 17 (0.89%) Sybase
10 15 (0.79%) Foundry
10 15 (0.79%) Murex
11 14 (0.74%) Qualys
12 11 (0.58%) Ariba
12 11 (0.58%) BeyondTrust
12 11 (0.58%) CyberArk
12 11 (0.58%) Workday
13 10 (0.53%) Tenable