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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 56 64
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,960 1,356 1,259
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.57% 4.10% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 4.53% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,190 834 710
10th Percentile £400 £362 £375
25th Percentile £475 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +0.45% -2.61%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £788 £875 £831
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 32 30
10th Percentile £28.62 £22.16 £33.95
25th Percentile £48.50 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £64.09 £33.50 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.31% -41.23% +15.15%
75th Percentile £80.00 £54.25 £66.88
90th Percentile £89.40 £72.88 £75.86
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 46,293 29,942 32,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.37% 90.52% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,017 18,609 19,950
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £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 1,849 1,396
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.23 £17.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £66.00 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.78% -47.67% +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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -7 1,706 £563 -2.17% 3,550
UK excluding London +1 960 £525 +5.00% 1,679
London -17 841 £600 -7.69% 2,169
Work from Home -17 529 £550 -8.26% 1,386
North of England -4 269 £508 +1.65% 356
South East +8 258 £575 +9.52% 446
Yorkshire +15 132 £494 -1.20% 113
North West -20 130 £525 +3.83% 215
Scotland +15 127 £500 +11.11% 169
Midlands -26 112 £525 +13.51% 239
South West -26 108 £565 -1.74% 226
West Midlands -14 90 £500 - 155
East of England -1 72 £513 -16.33% 124
East Midlands -28 19 £549 +36.44% 84
Wales -11 13 £600 +45.45% 40
Northern Ireland -2 10 £500 -9.09% 94
North East -36 8 £454 -17.50% 32
Channel Islands - 2 £600 - 2

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 74 (3.78%) Confluence
2 44 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.61%) SAS
4 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.20%) IIS
5 4 (0.20%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.10%) CMS
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.051%) Apache
8 1 (0.051%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.051%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.051%) Appian
8 1 (0.051%) CICS
8 1 (0.051%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.051%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 67 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.20%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.20%) Revit
7 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.10%) Windchill
9 1 (0.051%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.051%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.051%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 50 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.82%) SAP GRC
3 14 (0.71%) Endur
4 10 (0.51%) Primavera
5 9 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.46%) 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 (0.20%) Actimize
9 4 (0.20%) Magento
9 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.20%) SAP HCM
9 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.20%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.15%) Aladdin
10 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 300 (15.31%) Azure
2 209 (10.66%) AWS
3 99 (5.05%) GCP
4 94 (4.80%) Power Platform
5 74 (3.78%) Entra ID
6 62 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
7 60 (3.06%) SaaS
8 43 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (1.89%) GitHub
10 28 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
11 27 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
13 23 (1.17%) OCI
14 21 (1.07%) Azure AI
14 21 (1.07%) Snowflake
15 19 (0.97%) PaaS
16 18 (0.92%) Azure Sentinel
16 18 (0.92%) Serverless
17 17 (0.87%) Anthropic Claude
18 15 (0.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.62%) Network Security
2 56 (2.86%) Firewall
3 24 (1.22%) TCP/IP
3 24 (1.22%) WAN
4 21 (1.07%) LAN
5 17 (0.87%) DNS
6 13 (0.66%) 5G
6 13 (0.66%) DHCP
6 13 (0.66%) VPN
7 11 (0.56%) 4G
8 8 (0.41%) BIG-IP
9 7 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
9 7 (0.36%) Internet
10 6 (0.31%) HTTP
10 6 (0.31%) Kerberos
10 6 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.26%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.26%) Softphone
11 5 (0.26%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (3.72%) Power BI
2 43 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 42 (2.14%) Metadata
4 31 (1.58%) Relational Database
5 21 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (0.82%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.77%) Data Lake
8 14 (0.71%) Db2
9 13 (0.66%) Big Data
9 13 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (0.61%) Oracle Database
11 10 (0.51%) Tableau
12 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.36%) MySQL
12 7 (0.36%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.31%) NoSQL
14 4 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.20%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 4 (0.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 131 (6.68%) JIRA
2 30 (1.53%) Git
3 21 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.71%) Selenium
5 11 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 10 (0.51%) Postman
7 9 (0.46%) 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 (0.20%) Gradle
11 4 (0.20%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.20%) Subversion
12 3 (0.15%) JMeter
12 3 (0.15%) Maven
12 3 (0.15%) MLflow
12 3 (0.15%) TestRail
General
1 797 (40.66%) Social Skills
2 721 (36.79%) Finance
3 336 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (12.91%) Public Sector
5 222 (11.33%) Banking
6 151 (7.70%) Legal
7 107 (5.46%) Influencing Skills
8 82 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
9 77 (3.93%) Front Office
10 55 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
11 52 (2.65%) Military
12 51 (2.60%) Aerospace
13 48 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
14 42 (2.14%) Investment Banking
15 40 (2.04%) Telecoms
16 39 (1.99%) Manufacturing
17 38 (1.94%) Law
17 38 (1.94%) Retail
18 37 (1.89%) Financial Institution
19 29 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 257 (13.11%) Lead
2 243 (12.40%) Architect
3 203 (10.36%) Analyst
4 199 (10.15%) Senior
5 191 (9.74%) Project Manager
6 106 (5.41%) Consultant
7 95 (4.85%) Security Architect
8 75 (3.83%) Developer
8 75 (3.83%) Programme Manager
9 73 (3.72%) Business Analyst
10 56 (2.86%) Senior Manager
11 55 (2.81%) IT Manager
11 55 (2.81%) Risk Manager
12 51 (2.60%) Delivery Manager
13 44 (2.24%) Security Engineer
14 42 (2.14%) Senior Analyst
14 42 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
15 41 (2.09%) Security Consultant
16 37 (1.89%) Service Manager
17 36 (1.84%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (2.86%) Terraform
2 39 (1.99%) REST
3 36 (1.84%) .NET
4 27 (1.38%) Middleware
5 25 (1.28%) Kafka
6 18 (0.92%) OAuth
6 18 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (0.77%) JSON
8 14 (0.71%) Spring
9 12 (0.61%) OpenID
9 12 (0.61%) SAML
10 11 (0.56%) SLSA
10 11 (0.56%) SOAP
11 10 (0.51%) React
11 10 (0.51%) RESTful
11 10 (0.51%) SailPoint
11 10 (0.51%) Spring Boot
11 10 (0.51%) XML
12 9 (0.46%) .NET Core
12 9 (0.46%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 129 (6.58%) Onboarding
2 123 (6.28%) Management Information System
3 102 (5.20%) Product Ownership
4 86 (4.39%) Security Posture
5 78 (3.98%) Cloud Native
6 61 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
7 56 (2.86%) Operational Technology
8 54 (2.76%) Data Centre
9 45 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
10 44 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
11 38 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
12 35 (1.79%) AI Agents
13 33 (1.68%) Market Risk
14 29 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
15 28 (1.43%) Credit Risk
16 27 (1.38%) Data Structures
16 27 (1.38%) Derivative
16 27 (1.38%) NHS
17 22 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
17 22 (1.12%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 72 (3.67%) Windows
2 67 (3.42%) Linux
3 45 (2.30%) Unix
4 24 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.61%) 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 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.15%) AIX
9 3 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 800 (40.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 502 (25.61%) Cybersecurity
3 477 (24.34%) Agile
4 447 (22.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 424 (21.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 323 (16.48%) Decision-Making
7 297 (15.15%) AI
8 289 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
9 276 (14.08%) Roadmaps
10 257 (13.11%) Project Management
11 225 (11.48%) Information Security
12 220 (11.22%) Project Delivery
13 193 (9.85%) CI/CD
14 191 (9.74%) Migration
15 189 (9.64%) DevOps
16 173 (8.83%) Change Management
17 167 (8.52%) Vulnerability Management
18 165 (8.42%) Data Protection
19 161 (8.21%) Analytics
20 154 (7.86%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 161 (8.21%) Python
2 110 (5.61%) SQL
3 50 (2.55%) Java
4 47 (2.40%) PowerShell
5 37 (1.89%) C#
6 21 (1.07%) JavaScript
7 20 (1.02%) Bash
8 17 (0.87%) Shell Script
9 13 (0.66%) C++
10 12 (0.61%) VBA
11 10 (0.51%) 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%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.26%) REXX
Qualifications
1 540 (27.55%) Security Cleared
2 389 (19.85%) SC Cleared
3 187 (9.54%) Degree
4 175 (8.93%) CISSP
5 123 (6.28%) DV Cleared
6 120 (6.12%) CISM
7 84 (4.29%) PMI Certification
8 79 (4.03%) PMP
9 59 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 55 (2.81%) CRISC
11 49 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
12 44 (2.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 41 (2.09%) CISA
14 31 (1.58%) Master's Degree
15 30 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
16 27 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 27 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
17 25 (1.28%) AWS Certification
17 25 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
18 24 (1.22%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (12.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 224 (11.43%) NIST
3 204 (10.41%) GRC
4 120 (6.12%) GDPR
5 118 (6.02%) QA
6 97 (4.95%) Data Quality
7 86 (4.39%) NCSC
8 68 (3.47%) PMO
9 41 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
10 31 (1.58%) JSP 440
11 23 (1.17%) NIST 800
12 20 (1.02%) Accessibility
12 20 (1.02%) COBIT
13 19 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 17 (0.87%) SOC 2
15 16 (0.82%) ISO 31000
15 16 (0.82%) PCI DSS
15 16 (0.82%) SLA
16 14 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 14 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (2.45%) Active Directory
2 24 (1.22%) Docker
3 15 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.46%) vSphere
6 7 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.26%) FreeRADIUS
7 5 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.15%) Firmware
9 3 (0.15%) IAG
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.10%) Postfix
11 1 (0.051%) NFS
Systems Management
1 58 (2.96%) Kubernetes
2 38 (1.94%) Ansible
3 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.66%) Grafana
5 12 (0.61%) SCCM
6 7 (0.36%) Control-M
6 7 (0.36%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.36%) Prometheus
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 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.15%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.15%) Puppet
10 2 (0.10%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.10%) Istio
10 2 (0.10%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 293 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 120 (6.12%) ServiceNow
3 96 (4.90%) SAP
4 73 (3.72%) Oracle
5 51 (2.60%) Google
6 24 (1.22%) VMware
7 23 (1.17%) IBM
7 23 (1.17%) Splunk
8 21 (1.07%) Cisco
9 20 (1.02%) Databricks
10 19 (0.97%) Salesforce
11 18 (0.92%) Murex
12 16 (0.82%) Foundry
12 16 (0.82%) Qualys
13 15 (0.77%) Sybase
14 14 (0.71%) BeyondTrust
15 13 (0.66%) Ariba
15 13 (0.66%) CyberArk
16 12 (0.61%) OpenAI
17 11 (0.56%) Tenable