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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 48 75
Rank change year-on-year -23 +27 -10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,601 1,335 1,229
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.17% 4.48% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 4.92% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 818 756
10th Percentile £406 £372 £350
25th Percentile £476 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £700
90th Percentile £800 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £516 £538
% change year-on-year +1.84% -4.09% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 28 42
10th Percentile £21.08 £46.30 £12.25
25th Percentile £44.34 £48.25 £24.29
Median hourly rate £64.09 £65.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +33.33% +358.61%
75th Percentile £87.37 £83.71 £60.94
90th Percentile £106.70 £87.33 £79.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.09 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.40% +30.00% +410.20%

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 42,883 27,154 37,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.85% 91.05% 85.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,719 17,238 23,736
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,572 1,254 2,607
10th Percentile £14.70 £14.20 £12.70
25th Percentile £20.07 £17.79 £16.04
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.40 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.07% -32.27% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.19 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.08 £38.12
% change year-on-year +79.46% -34.22% +17.29%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -23 1,428 £550 -7.17% 603
UK excluding London -2 814 £525 +1.84% 409
London -41 678 £600 -11.11% 286
Work from Home -17 470 £550 -7.72% 300
North of England -5 247 £511 - 100
South East -13 205 £563 +2.27% 143
Yorkshire +2 124 £500 - 28
North West -8 121 £540 +5.62% 62
Midlands -30 119 £550 +12.82% 48
South West +16 98 £570 +14.00% 57
Scotland 0 93 £475 - 23
West Midlands -34 87 £540 +8.00% 23
East of England +4 52 £525 -4.55% 35
East Midlands -15 32 £550 +23.04% 25
Northern Ireland -5 7 £425 -22.73% 8
Wales -16 4 £800 +68.42% 5
North East -39 4 £454 -17.50% 11

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 71 (4.43%) Confluence
2 37 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.62%) SAS
4 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.19%) IIS
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.062%) Apache
7 1 (0.062%) Appian
7 1 (0.062%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.062%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.062%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.062%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.062%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.062%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.062%) WebSphere
Applications
1 50 (3.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (2.62%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.25%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.25%) Revit
6 4 (0.25%) Trello
7 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.12%) Windchill
9 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.062%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.062%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 27 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.62%) Endur
4 7 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.37%) Summit
6 5 (0.31%) Actimize
6 5 (0.31%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.31%) Primavera
7 4 (0.25%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.25%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.19%) Findur
8 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
8 3 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 217 (13.55%) Azure
2 162 (10.12%) AWS
3 69 (4.31%) GCP
4 64 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 60 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
6 47 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 46 (2.87%) SaaS
8 31 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (1.75%) GitHub
9 28 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
10 19 (1.19%) Google Workspace
11 18 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
11 18 (1.12%) PaaS
11 18 (1.12%) Snowflake
12 17 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (1.00%) Google Sheets
14 14 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
15 12 (0.75%) OCI
16 11 (0.69%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 53 (3.31%) Network Security
2 34 (2.12%) Firewall
3 16 (1.00%) DNS
4 14 (0.87%) DHCP
5 12 (0.75%) BIG-IP
5 12 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.62%) 5G
6 10 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (0.56%) WAN
8 8 (0.50%) 4G
9 7 (0.44%) HTTP
9 7 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (0.37%) Internet
10 6 (0.37%) LAN
11 5 (0.31%) 3G
12 4 (0.25%) NAS
12 4 (0.25%) NGFW
12 4 (0.25%) SAN
12 4 (0.25%) VPN
13 3 (0.19%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (3.25%) Power BI
2 34 (2.12%) Metadata
3 26 (1.62%) Relational Database
4 22 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.37%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.00%) MongoDB
6 15 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (0.69%) Data Lake
7 11 (0.69%) Tableau
8 10 (0.62%) Db2
9 9 (0.56%) Big Data
10 8 (0.50%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.37%) MySQL
11 6 (0.37%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.31%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (0.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 120 (7.50%) JIRA
2 20 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.12%) Git
4 8 (0.50%) GitLab
5 6 (0.37%) Selenium
5 6 (0.37%) Zephyr
6 5 (0.31%) JUnit
6 5 (0.31%) Mockito
6 5 (0.31%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.25%) DbUnit
7 4 (0.25%) jMock
7 4 (0.25%) Maven
7 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.19%) MLflow
9 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) TestRail
9 2 (0.12%) Vite
General
1 587 (36.66%) Finance
2 582 (36.35%) Social Skills
3 254 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (11.68%) Public Sector
5 182 (11.37%) Banking
6 126 (7.87%) Legal
7 53 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
9 41 (2.56%) Front Office
9 41 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 36 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
10 36 (2.25%) Investment Banking
11 35 (2.19%) Financial Institution
12 33 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (2.06%) Retail
13 30 (1.87%) Manufacturing
13 30 (1.87%) Military
14 27 (1.69%) Law
15 24 (1.50%) Aerospace
16 23 (1.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 201 (12.55%) Lead
2 199 (12.43%) Project Manager
3 174 (10.87%) Architect
4 158 (9.87%) Senior
5 150 (9.37%) Analyst
6 83 (5.18%) Consultant
7 71 (4.43%) Programme Manager
7 71 (4.43%) Security Architect
8 68 (4.25%) Business Analyst
9 66 (4.12%) Developer
10 61 (3.81%) Risk Manager
11 58 (3.62%) Senior Manager
12 41 (2.56%) IT Manager
13 40 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
14 39 (2.44%) Security Engineer
15 35 (2.19%) Security Manager
16 34 (2.12%) Security Consultant
17 31 (1.94%) Solutions Architect
18 29 (1.81%) Risk Analyst
19 26 (1.62%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 24 (1.50%) REST
3 23 (1.44%) .NET
4 22 (1.37%) Kafka
5 18 (1.12%) Middleware
6 15 (0.94%) XML
7 13 (0.81%) JSON
8 11 (0.69%) Azure Blueprints
8 11 (0.69%) Leaflet
8 11 (0.69%) OAuth
8 11 (0.69%) OpenID
8 11 (0.69%) React
8 11 (0.69%) RESTful
8 11 (0.69%) SAML
9 10 (0.62%) SOAP
10 9 (0.56%) Web Services
11 8 (0.50%) LDAP
11 8 (0.50%) PySpark
12 7 (0.44%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.44%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 123 (7.68%) Management Information System
2 86 (5.37%) Product Ownership
3 67 (4.18%) Onboarding
4 61 (3.81%) Security Posture
5 60 (3.75%) Cloud Native
6 58 (3.62%) Operational Technology
7 45 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
8 42 (2.62%) Data Centre
8 42 (2.62%) Derivative
9 31 (1.94%) Market Risk
10 26 (1.62%) PMI
11 25 (1.56%) AI Agents
11 25 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
12 24 (1.50%) NHS
13 23 (1.44%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.37%) Fixed Income
15 21 (1.31%) Credit Risk
15 21 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
16 18 (1.12%) SCADA
17 17 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 50 (3.12%) Windows
2 42 (2.62%) Linux
3 26 (1.62%) Unix
4 17 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.44%) zOS
7 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (32.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 404 (25.23%) Agile
3 348 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 318 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 312 (19.49%) Cybersecurity
6 260 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
7 241 (15.05%) Project Management
8 235 (14.68%) Decision-Making
9 199 (12.43%) Roadmaps
10 193 (12.05%) Information Security
11 190 (11.87%) AI
12 173 (10.81%) Change Management
13 152 (9.49%) Project Delivery
14 139 (8.68%) Migration
15 133 (8.31%) DevOps
16 132 (8.24%) Analytics
17 131 (8.18%) CI/CD
18 127 (7.93%) Regulatory Compliance
19 121 (7.56%) Data Protection
20 118 (7.37%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 121 (7.56%) Python
2 110 (6.87%) SQL
3 56 (3.50%) Java
4 36 (2.25%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.37%) C#
6 14 (0.87%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.81%) C++
8 11 (0.69%) VBA
9 9 (0.56%) Bash
10 8 (0.50%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.50%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.44%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.31%) Go
13 4 (0.25%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.25%) Bicep
13 4 (0.25%) CLIST
13 4 (0.25%) JCL
13 4 (0.25%) REXX
14 3 (0.19%) Korn
14 3 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 380 (23.74%) Security Cleared
2 279 (17.43%) SC Cleared
3 188 (11.74%) Degree
4 142 (8.87%) CISSP
5 101 (6.31%) CISM
6 88 (5.50%) DV Cleared
7 77 (4.81%) PMI Certification
8 69 (4.31%) PMP
9 45 (2.81%) CRISC
10 41 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
12 31 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
13 30 (1.87%) CISA
14 29 (1.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 24 (1.50%) Master's Degree
16 21 (1.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 15 (0.94%) CCSP
17 15 (0.94%) CESG Certified Professional
18 14 (0.87%) AWS Certification
19 13 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (11.99%) NIST
2 191 (11.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 149 (9.31%) GRC
4 108 (6.75%) GDPR
5 77 (4.81%) PMO
6 75 (4.68%) QA
7 64 (4.00%) Data Quality
8 55 (3.44%) NCSC
9 39 (2.44%) PCI DSS
10 36 (2.25%) JSP 440
11 30 (1.87%) SOC 2
12 29 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
13 28 (1.75%) SLA
14 27 (1.69%) COBIT
15 25 (1.56%) NIST 800
16 17 (1.06%) ISO 31000
16 17 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 17 (1.06%) RMADS
17 16 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 13 (0.81%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 32 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.94%) Docker
3 10 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.25%) Postfix
5 4 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.062%) Ceph
7 1 (0.062%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.062%) NFS
7 1 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.062%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (1.62%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.44%) Terraform
3 21 (1.31%) Ansible
4 14 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.87%) SCCM
5 11 (0.69%) Grafana
6 9 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.31%) Control-M
8 5 (0.31%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.19%) CASB
10 3 (0.19%) Nessus
11 2 (0.12%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.12%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.12%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.12%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 208 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 94 (5.87%) ServiceNow
3 80 (5.00%) Oracle
4 79 (4.93%) SAP
5 45 (2.81%) Google
6 22 (1.37%) Workday
7 21 (1.31%) Salesforce
8 18 (1.12%) IBM
9 17 (1.06%) Cisco
10 16 (1.00%) Murex
11 15 (0.94%) Databricks
12 14 (0.87%) F5
13 13 (0.81%) Sybase
13 13 (0.81%) VMware
14 12 (0.75%) Ariba
14 12 (0.75%) Qualys
14 12 (0.75%) Splunk
15 10 (0.62%) Foundry
15 10 (0.62%) Infoblox
16 9 (0.56%) CrowdStrike