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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 50 71
Rank change year-on-year -27 +21 -2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,687 1,435 1,179
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.20% 4.40% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 4.87% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 876 725
10th Percentile £412 £363 £363
25th Percentile £481 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £566 £551
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +2.86% -8.25%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £717
90th Percentile £791 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +5.37% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 30 39
10th Percentile £25.52 £22.16 £12.37
25th Percentile £50.00 £34.53 £30.69
Median hourly rate £75.00 £50.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.25% +0.51% +81.82%
75th Percentile £85.84 £74.87 £61.25
90th Percentile £105.25 £87.28 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +45.45% - -24.26%

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 44,825 29,480 35,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.35% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,802 18,519 22,641
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,641 1,572 2,187
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.06
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.86
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%
75th Percentile £68.50 £50.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £68.75 £73.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.88% -39.15% -1.95%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -20 1,489 £570 -0.87% 1,057
UK excluding London -5 869 £540 +5.37% 580
London -39 695 £600 -7.69% 585
Work from Home -22 485 £550 -5.32% 433
North of England -12 258 £514 +0.29% 141
South East -3 239 £575 +4.55% 188
North West -22 130 £525 +2.68% 82
Yorkshire +5 126 £500 -4.76% 51
Midlands -38 113 £550 +16.53% 71
Scotland -2 99 £475 +3.60% 46
South West -15 93 £570 -0.87% 79
West Midlands -38 86 £563 +12.50% 39
East of England +18 61 £525 -4.55% 43
East Midlands -17 25 £550 +24.50% 32
Northern Ireland -2 9 £394 -28.41% 10
Wales -21 7 £725 +61.83% 11
North East -40 4 £454 -17.50% 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 70 (4.15%) Confluence
2 38 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.53%) SAS
4 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.24%) IIS
6 3 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.059%) Apache
8 1 (0.059%) Appian
8 1 (0.059%) CMS
8 1 (0.059%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.059%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.059%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.059%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.059%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.059%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 50 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.83%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.24%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.24%) Revit
6 4 (0.24%) Trello
7 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) Windchill
8 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.059%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 42 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.65%) Endur
3 10 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.53%) Primavera
4 9 (0.53%) SAP GRC
5 7 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.36%) Actimize
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.30%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.24%) Loan IQ
8 4 (0.24%) Magento
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.24%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.24%) Summit
8 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 250 (14.82%) Azure
2 176 (10.43%) AWS
3 78 (4.62%) GCP
4 69 (4.09%) Power Platform
5 58 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (3.08%) Entra ID
7 43 (2.55%) SaaS
8 35 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (1.96%) GitHub
10 28 (1.66%) Microsoft Purview
11 22 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
12 20 (1.19%) PaaS
12 20 (1.19%) Snowflake
13 17 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
14 16 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
14 16 (0.95%) Azure AI
15 15 (0.89%) Serverless
16 14 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
16 14 (0.83%) Google Workspace
17 13 (0.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.44%) Network Security
2 41 (2.43%) Firewall
3 17 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 15 (0.89%) DNS
4 15 (0.89%) WAN
5 13 (0.77%) 5G
5 13 (0.77%) DHCP
6 12 (0.71%) LAN
7 11 (0.65%) 4G
8 10 (0.59%) BIG-IP
8 10 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.53%) HTTP
10 7 (0.41%) Internet
10 7 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
11 6 (0.36%) VPN
12 5 (0.30%) 3G
12 5 (0.30%) NAS
12 5 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
12 5 (0.30%) SAN
12 5 (0.30%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.02%) Power BI
2 33 (1.96%) Metadata
3 31 (1.84%) Relational Database
4 29 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 21 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (0.95%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (0.77%) Db2
9 12 (0.71%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.59%) Big Data
10 10 (0.59%) Tableau
11 9 (0.53%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.36%) MySQL
12 6 (0.36%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.30%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.30%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 116 (6.88%) JIRA
2 26 (1.54%) Git
3 23 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.53%) GitLab
4 9 (0.53%) Selenium
5 6 (0.36%) TeamCity
5 6 (0.36%) Zephyr
6 5 (0.30%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.30%) JUnit
6 5 (0.30%) Mockito
6 5 (0.30%) Postman
7 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.24%) DbUnit
7 4 (0.24%) jMock
7 4 (0.24%) Maven
7 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.24%) Subversion
7 4 (0.24%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.18%) Artifactory
General
1 639 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 626 (37.11%) Finance
3 261 (15.47%) Analytical Skills
4 197 (11.68%) Public Sector
5 187 (11.08%) Banking
6 126 (7.47%) Legal
7 64 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
8 63 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
9 50 (2.96%) Front Office
10 44 (2.61%) Telecoms
11 41 (2.43%) Aerospace
11 41 (2.43%) Financial Institution
12 40 (2.37%) Retail
13 38 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
14 37 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
15 35 (2.07%) Investment Banking
16 29 (1.72%) Manufacturing
16 29 (1.72%) Military
17 25 (1.48%) Law
18 23 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 222 (13.16%) Lead
2 205 (12.15%) Project Manager
3 200 (11.86%) Architect
4 171 (10.14%) Senior
5 153 (9.07%) Analyst
6 91 (5.39%) Consultant
7 85 (5.04%) Security Architect
8 74 (4.39%) Programme Manager
9 72 (4.27%) Developer
10 66 (3.91%) Senior Manager
11 62 (3.68%) Business Analyst
12 55 (3.26%) Risk Manager
13 47 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
14 44 (2.61%) IT Manager
15 36 (2.13%) Security Engineer
16 35 (2.07%) Security Consultant
16 35 (2.07%) Security Manager
16 35 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
17 30 (1.78%) Product Manager
18 29 (1.72%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 26 (1.54%) REST
3 25 (1.48%) .NET
4 20 (1.19%) Middleware
5 19 (1.13%) Kafka
6 15 (0.89%) OAuth
7 14 (0.83%) XML
8 13 (0.77%) JSON
9 12 (0.71%) RESTful
9 12 (0.71%) SOAP
9 12 (0.71%) Spring
10 11 (0.65%) Azure Blueprints
10 11 (0.65%) Leaflet
10 11 (0.65%) OpenID
10 11 (0.65%) React
10 11 (0.65%) SAML
11 9 (0.53%) LDAP
11 9 (0.53%) SLSA
11 9 (0.53%) Web Services
12 8 (0.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 116 (6.88%) Management Information System
2 88 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 87 (5.16%) Onboarding
4 71 (4.21%) Cloud Native
5 63 (3.73%) Security Posture
6 61 (3.62%) Operational Technology
7 50 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
8 46 (2.73%) Data Centre
9 33 (1.96%) Derivative
10 30 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
10 30 (1.78%) Market Risk
11 28 (1.66%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.54%) PMI
13 25 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
14 23 (1.36%) Fixed Income
15 22 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
15 22 (1.30%) NHS
16 20 (1.19%) Data Structures
16 20 (1.19%) Virtual Team
17 19 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 53 (3.14%) Windows
2 49 (2.90%) Linux
3 34 (2.02%) Unix
4 20 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.30%) zOS
7 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.059%) AIX
9 1 (0.059%) Android
9 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 596 (35.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 413 (24.48%) Agile
3 385 (22.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 358 (21.22%) Cybersecurity
5 355 (21.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 252 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
6 252 (14.94%) Project Management
7 250 (14.82%) Decision-Making
8 230 (13.63%) AI
9 225 (13.34%) Roadmaps
10 200 (11.86%) Information Security
11 180 (10.67%) Change Management
12 160 (9.48%) Project Delivery
13 157 (9.31%) Migration
14 151 (8.95%) CI/CD
15 147 (8.71%) DevOps
16 137 (8.12%) Analytics
17 127 (7.53%) Vulnerability Management
18 123 (7.29%) PRINCE2
19 122 (7.23%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 124 (7.35%) Python
2 96 (5.69%) SQL
3 58 (3.44%) Java
4 35 (2.07%) PowerShell
5 23 (1.36%) C#
6 17 (1.01%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.71%) VBA
8 10 (0.59%) C++
8 10 (0.59%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.53%) Bash
9 9 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.30%) Go
12 4 (0.24%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.24%) Bicep
12 4 (0.24%) CLIST
12 4 (0.24%) JCL
12 4 (0.24%) REXX
12 4 (0.24%) Scala
13 3 (0.18%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 422 (25.01%) Security Cleared
2 314 (18.61%) SC Cleared
3 183 (10.85%) Degree
4 162 (9.60%) CISSP
5 103 (6.11%) DV Cleared
6 100 (5.93%) CISM
7 78 (4.62%) PMI Certification
8 74 (4.39%) PMP
9 41 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 38 (2.25%) CRISC
11 34 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
12 33 (1.96%) CISA
13 30 (1.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 30 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
14 28 (1.66%) Master's Degree
14 28 (1.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 21 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
16 17 (1.01%) CESG Certified Professional
16 17 (1.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 16 (0.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (12.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 203 (12.03%) NIST
3 158 (9.37%) GRC
4 110 (6.52%) GDPR
5 85 (5.04%) QA
6 67 (3.97%) PMO
7 65 (3.85%) Data Quality
8 59 (3.50%) NCSC
9 35 (2.07%) PCI DSS
10 34 (2.02%) JSP 440
11 31 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
11 31 (1.84%) SOC 2
12 29 (1.72%) NIST 800
13 28 (1.66%) SLA
14 21 (1.24%) COBIT
15 18 (1.07%) ISO 31000
16 17 (1.01%) Def Stans
17 16 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 15 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 13 (0.77%) RMADS
System Software
1 37 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.24%) Docker
3 10 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.24%) Postfix
5 4 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.059%) Ceph
8 1 (0.059%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.059%) IAG
8 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.72%) Terraform
3 23 (1.36%) Ansible
4 12 (0.71%) Grafana
4 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.59%) SCCM
6 9 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.24%) Control-M
9 4 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.24%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.18%) CASB
10 3 (0.18%) Nessus
11 2 (0.12%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 224 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 91 (5.39%) ServiceNow
3 85 (5.04%) SAP
4 74 (4.39%) Oracle
5 48 (2.85%) Google
6 21 (1.24%) IBM
6 21 (1.24%) Salesforce
7 20 (1.19%) Cisco
8 17 (1.01%) Workday
9 16 (0.95%) Splunk
9 16 (0.95%) Sybase
10 15 (0.89%) Foundry
11 12 (0.71%) F5
11 12 (0.71%) Qualys
12 11 (0.65%) Databricks
12 11 (0.65%) Murex
12 11 (0.65%) VMware
13 10 (0.59%) Ariba
13 10 (0.59%) Infoblox
13 10 (0.59%) OpenAI