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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 58 64
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,934 1,343 1,263
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.56% 4.09% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 4.52% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,174 825 708
10th Percentile £400 £361 £369
25th Percentile £475 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £556
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +1.17% -3.30%
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 74 32 31
10th Percentile £28.62 £22.16 £31.25
25th Percentile £48.50 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £64.09 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.31% -41.74% +16.16%
75th Percentile £80.00 £54.25 £68.84
90th Percentile £89.40 £72.88 £75.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £33.50 £58.38
% change year-on-year +126.87% -42.61% -2.71%

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 45,850 29,737 32,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.30% 90.62% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,722 18,491 19,844
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
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 £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,198 1,854 1,372
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.23 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -1.16%
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.72 £65.00 £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -6 1,684 £563 -2.17% 3,002
UK excluding London 0 941 £525 +5.00% 1,417
London -13 836 £600 -7.69% 1,764
Work from Home -16 517 £550 -8.18% 1,188
North of England -8 261 £508 +1.65% 318
South East +10 254 £575 +9.52% 359
Yorkshire +17 128 £497 -0.60% 93
North West -29 126 £525 +5.85% 194
Scotland +16 125 £500 +11.11% 138
Midlands -27 108 £525 +13.51% 207
South West -27 107 £570 -0.87% 189
West Midlands -17 86 £500 - 121
East of England +12 72 £513 -16.33% 105
East Midlands -28 19 £549 +36.44% 86
Wales -15 13 £600 +45.45% 35
Northern Ireland +2 10 £500 -9.09% 75
North East -35 8 £454 -17.50% 31
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 (3.72%) Confluence
2 43 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.57%) SAS
4 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.21%) IIS
5 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.10%) CMS
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.052%) Apache
8 1 (0.052%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.052%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.052%) Appian
8 1 (0.052%) CICS
8 1 (0.052%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.052%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 65 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.21%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.21%) Revit
7 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.10%) Windchill
9 1 (0.052%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.052%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 49 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.78%) SAP GRC
3 13 (0.67%) Endur
4 10 (0.52%) Primavera
5 9 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.21%) Actimize
9 4 (0.21%) Magento
9 4 (0.21%) SAP HCM
9 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.21%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.16%) Aladdin
10 3 (0.16%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.16%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 294 (15.20%) Azure
2 205 (10.60%) AWS
3 99 (5.12%) GCP
4 89 (4.60%) Power Platform
5 72 (3.72%) Entra ID
6 62 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
7 60 (3.10%) SaaS
8 43 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (1.91%) GitHub
10 28 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
11 27 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.19%) OCI
13 21 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (0.98%) Snowflake
15 18 (0.93%) Azure AI
15 18 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
15 18 (0.93%) PaaS
16 17 (0.88%) Anthropic Claude
16 17 (0.88%) Serverless
17 14 (0.72%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.62%) Network Security
2 56 (2.90%) Firewall
3 24 (1.24%) TCP/IP
3 24 (1.24%) WAN
4 21 (1.09%) LAN
5 17 (0.88%) DNS
6 13 (0.67%) DHCP
6 13 (0.67%) VPN
7 12 (0.62%) 5G
8 10 (0.52%) 4G
9 8 (0.41%) BIG-IP
10 7 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
10 7 (0.36%) Internet
11 6 (0.31%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
12 5 (0.26%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.26%) Softphone
12 5 (0.26%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (3.67%) Power BI
2 42 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 41 (2.12%) Metadata
4 30 (1.55%) Relational Database
5 22 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (0.83%) MongoDB
7 14 (0.72%) Db2
8 13 (0.67%) Data Lake
9 12 (0.62%) Big Data
9 12 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (0.57%) Oracle Database
11 10 (0.52%) Tableau
12 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.36%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.31%) MySQL
13 6 (0.31%) NoSQL
14 4 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.21%) Ataccama
14 4 (0.21%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 129 (6.67%) JIRA
2 29 (1.50%) Git
3 21 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.72%) Selenium
5 11 (0.57%) Cypress.io
6 10 (0.52%) Postman
7 9 (0.47%) WebDriver
8 8 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.41%) Zephyr
9 7 (0.36%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.36%) GitLab
10 5 (0.26%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.21%) Gradle
11 4 (0.21%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.21%) Subversion
12 3 (0.16%) JMeter
12 3 (0.16%) Maven
12 3 (0.16%) MLflow
12 3 (0.16%) TestRail
General
1 784 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 711 (36.76%) Finance
3 332 (17.17%) Analytical Skills
4 249 (12.87%) Public Sector
5 222 (11.48%) Banking
6 147 (7.60%) Legal
7 105 (5.43%) Influencing Skills
8 82 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
9 77 (3.98%) Front Office
10 53 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
11 52 (2.69%) Military
12 50 (2.59%) Aerospace
13 48 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (2.12%) Investment Banking
15 40 (2.07%) Manufacturing
16 39 (2.02%) Telecoms
17 37 (1.91%) Financial Institution
17 37 (1.91%) Retail
18 36 (1.86%) Law
19 29 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 255 (13.19%) Lead
2 242 (12.51%) Architect
3 199 (10.29%) Analyst
4 198 (10.24%) Senior
5 190 (9.82%) Project Manager
6 101 (5.22%) Consultant
7 95 (4.91%) Security Architect
8 76 (3.93%) Programme Manager
9 73 (3.77%) Developer
10 72 (3.72%) Business Analyst
11 57 (2.95%) Senior Manager
12 54 (2.79%) Risk Manager
13 53 (2.74%) IT Manager
14 51 (2.64%) Delivery Manager
15 42 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
16 41 (2.12%) Security Engineer
16 41 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
17 38 (1.96%) Security Consultant
17 38 (1.96%) Service Manager
18 35 (1.81%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (2.90%) Terraform
2 39 (2.02%) REST
3 34 (1.76%) .NET
4 27 (1.40%) Middleware
5 24 (1.24%) Kafka
6 18 (0.93%) OAuth
6 18 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (0.78%) JSON
8 14 (0.72%) Spring
9 12 (0.62%) OpenID
9 12 (0.62%) SAML
10 11 (0.57%) SLSA
10 11 (0.57%) SOAP
11 10 (0.52%) React
11 10 (0.52%) RESTful
11 10 (0.52%) SailPoint
11 10 (0.52%) Spring Boot
11 10 (0.52%) XML
12 9 (0.47%) LDAP
12 9 (0.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 130 (6.72%) Onboarding
2 122 (6.31%) Management Information System
3 102 (5.27%) Product Ownership
4 82 (4.24%) Security Posture
5 75 (3.88%) Cloud Native
6 61 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
7 56 (2.90%) Operational Technology
8 54 (2.79%) Data Centre
9 45 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
10 44 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
12 34 (1.76%) AI Agents
13 33 (1.71%) Market Risk
14 29 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
15 27 (1.40%) Credit Risk
15 27 (1.40%) Derivative
15 27 (1.40%) NHS
16 26 (1.34%) Data Structures
17 22 (1.14%) PKI
17 22 (1.14%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 69 (3.57%) Windows
2 65 (3.36%) Linux
3 44 (2.28%) Unix
4 22 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.41%) zOS
7 5 (0.26%) Android
7 5 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.16%) AIX
9 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.052%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (40.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 496 (25.65%) Cybersecurity
3 468 (24.20%) Agile
4 445 (23.01%) Continuous Improvement
5 421 (21.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 320 (16.55%) Decision-Making
7 291 (15.05%) AI
8 284 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
9 273 (14.12%) Roadmaps
10 254 (13.13%) Project Management
11 223 (11.53%) Information Security
12 218 (11.27%) Project Delivery
13 191 (9.88%) Migration
14 188 (9.72%) CI/CD
15 187 (9.67%) DevOps
16 171 (8.84%) Change Management
17 164 (8.48%) Vulnerability Management
18 161 (8.32%) Analytics
19 160 (8.27%) Data Protection
20 152 (7.86%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 158 (8.17%) Python
2 108 (5.58%) SQL
3 49 (2.53%) Java
4 47 (2.43%) PowerShell
5 36 (1.86%) C#
6 21 (1.09%) JavaScript
7 20 (1.03%) Bash
8 17 (0.88%) Shell Script
9 13 (0.67%) C++
10 11 (0.57%) VBA
11 10 (0.52%) Go
12 8 (0.41%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.31%) Bicep
14 6 (0.31%) JCL
14 6 (0.31%) Korn
15 5 (0.26%) Assembly Language
15 5 (0.26%) CLIST
15 5 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.26%) REXX
Qualifications
1 533 (27.56%) Security Cleared
2 382 (19.75%) SC Cleared
3 184 (9.51%) Degree
4 169 (8.74%) CISSP
5 122 (6.31%) DV Cleared
6 115 (5.95%) CISM
7 84 (4.34%) PMI Certification
8 78 (4.03%) PMP
9 58 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 54 (2.79%) CRISC
11 49 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
12 44 (2.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 41 (2.12%) CISA
14 31 (1.60%) Master's Degree
15 29 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
16 27 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 26 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
18 25 (1.29%) AWS Certification
18 25 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
19 24 (1.24%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (12.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 218 (11.27%) NIST
3 197 (10.19%) GRC
4 117 (6.05%) QA
5 114 (5.89%) GDPR
6 96 (4.96%) Data Quality
7 86 (4.45%) NCSC
8 67 (3.46%) PMO
9 41 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials
10 31 (1.60%) JSP 440
11 23 (1.19%) NIST 800
12 20 (1.03%) Accessibility
12 20 (1.03%) COBIT
13 17 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 17 (0.88%) SOC 2
14 16 (0.83%) ISO 31000
15 14 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 14 (0.72%) Def Stans
15 14 (0.72%) PCI DSS
15 14 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 24 (1.24%) Docker
3 15 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.47%) vSphere
6 7 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.26%) FreeRADIUS
7 5 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.16%) Firmware
9 3 (0.16%) IAG
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.10%) Postfix
11 1 (0.052%) NFS
Systems Management
1 56 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 38 (1.96%) Ansible
3 17 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.62%) Grafana
4 12 (0.62%) SCCM
5 7 (0.36%) Progress Chef
5 7 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.31%) Control-M
7 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.26%) FortiGate
7 5 (0.26%) Nessus
7 5 (0.26%) OMEGAMON
8 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.16%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.16%) Puppet
10 2 (0.10%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.10%) Istio
10 2 (0.10%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 289 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 120 (6.20%) ServiceNow
3 95 (4.91%) SAP
4 71 (3.67%) Oracle
5 51 (2.64%) Google
6 24 (1.24%) VMware
7 23 (1.19%) IBM
7 23 (1.19%) Splunk
8 21 (1.09%) Cisco
9 19 (0.98%) Databricks
9 19 (0.98%) Salesforce
10 17 (0.88%) Murex
11 16 (0.83%) Qualys
12 15 (0.78%) Sybase
13 14 (0.72%) BeyondTrust
14 13 (0.67%) Ariba
14 13 (0.67%) CyberArk
14 13 (0.67%) Foundry
15 12 (0.62%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.57%) Tenable