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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 48 76
Rank change year-on-year -24 +28 -10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,572 1,327 1,216
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.13% 4.48% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 4.92% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 811 754
10th Percentile £406 £375 £346
25th Percentile £476 £459 £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 £514 £538
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 28 42
10th Percentile £20.86 £46.30 £12.25
25th Percentile £39.52 £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 £91.08 £83.71 £60.94
90th Percentile £107.00 £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 42,574 26,968 37,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.80% 91.03% 85.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,549 17,103 23,600
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,556 1,231 2,598
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.01
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.32 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +67.02% -29.21% +6.23%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +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 16 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 16 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 16 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 1,401 £550 -6.38% 915
UK excluding London -8 787 £525 +2.14% 559
London -41 673 £600 -11.11% 448
Work from Home -14 461 £550 -5.98% 422
North of England -4 243 £513 +0.61% 154
South East -14 191 £563 +2.27% 169
Yorkshire +5 122 £500 - 51
North West -14 119 £540 +6.01% 89
Midlands -34 115 £545 +11.79% 74
South West +9 97 £570 +14.00% 85
Scotland 0 89 £475 -1.55% 40
West Midlands -36 83 £525 +5.00% 38
East of England -1 52 £525 -4.55% 35
East Midlands -18 32 £550 +23.04% 36
Northern Ireland -4 7 £425 -22.73% 9
Wales -16 2 £600 +26.32% 9
North East -39 2 £469 -14.77% 16

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 (4.58%) Confluence
2 38 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.45%) SAS
4 3 (0.19%) IIS
4 3 (0.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.064%) Apache
6 1 (0.064%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.064%) Appian
6 1 (0.064%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.064%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.064%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.064%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.064%) WebSphere
Applications
1 50 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.83%) 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 (0.13%) Windchill
9 1 (0.064%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.064%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.064%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 26 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.64%) Endur
4 7 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.45%) Summit
5 6 (0.38%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.32%) Actimize
6 5 (0.32%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.32%) Primavera
6 5 (0.32%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.25%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.19%) SAP GRC
8 3 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 211 (13.42%) Azure
2 156 (9.92%) AWS
3 67 (4.26%) Power Platform
4 62 (3.94%) GCP
5 60 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (3.05%) Entra ID
7 41 (2.61%) SaaS
8 31 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (1.78%) Microsoft Purview
10 26 (1.65%) GitHub
11 20 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (1.21%) Google Workspace
13 18 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
13 18 (1.15%) PaaS
13 18 (1.15%) Snowflake
14 17 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (1.02%) Google Sheets
16 14 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
17 11 (0.70%) IaaS
17 11 (0.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.63%) Network Security
2 34 (2.16%) Firewall
3 18 (1.15%) DNS
4 14 (0.89%) DHCP
5 12 (0.76%) BIG-IP
5 12 (0.76%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (0.57%) 5G
7 9 (0.57%) WAN
8 7 (0.45%) 4G
8 7 (0.45%) HTTP
8 7 (0.45%) Internet
8 7 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
9 6 (0.38%) LAN
10 5 (0.32%) 3G
11 4 (0.25%) NAS
11 4 (0.25%) NGFW
11 4 (0.25%) SAN
11 4 (0.25%) VPN
12 3 (0.19%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.50%) Power BI
2 33 (2.10%) Metadata
3 26 (1.65%) Relational Database
4 22 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.40%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.02%) MongoDB
6 12 (0.76%) Tableau
7 10 (0.64%) Data Lake
8 9 (0.57%) Big Data
8 9 (0.57%) Db2
9 8 (0.51%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.38%) MySQL
10 6 (0.38%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.32%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 119 (7.57%) JIRA
2 19 (1.21%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.15%) Git
4 7 (0.45%) GitLab
5 6 (0.38%) Selenium
5 6 (0.38%) Zephyr
6 5 (0.32%) JUnit
6 5 (0.32%) Mockito
6 5 (0.32%) 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 (0.13%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.13%) Postman
9 2 (0.13%) TestRail
10 1 (0.064%) WebDriver
General
1 579 (36.83%) Finance
2 571 (36.32%) Social Skills
3 253 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (11.58%) Public Sector
5 178 (11.32%) Banking
6 127 (8.08%) Legal
7 51 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
8 45 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
9 40 (2.54%) Front Office
10 39 (2.48%) Telecoms
11 37 (2.35%) Investment Banking
12 36 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
12 36 (2.29%) Financial Institution
13 34 (2.16%) Retail
14 31 (1.97%) Manufacturing
14 31 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.84%) Military
16 27 (1.72%) Law
17 23 (1.46%) Aerospace
18 22 (1.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 199 (12.66%) Project Manager
2 196 (12.47%) Lead
3 171 (10.88%) Architect
4 160 (10.18%) Senior
5 147 (9.35%) Analyst
6 84 (5.34%) Consultant
7 72 (4.58%) Security Architect
8 70 (4.45%) Programme Manager
9 69 (4.39%) Business Analyst
10 65 (4.13%) Developer
11 60 (3.82%) Senior Manager
12 55 (3.50%) Risk Manager
13 42 (2.67%) Delivery Manager
14 41 (2.61%) IT Manager
15 39 (2.48%) Security Engineer
16 36 (2.29%) Security Manager
17 34 (2.16%) Security Consultant
18 32 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
19 29 (1.84%) Risk Analyst
20 26 (1.65%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (1.59%) REST
3 22 (1.40%) .NET
4 21 (1.34%) Kafka
5 17 (1.08%) Middleware
5 17 (1.08%) XML
6 14 (0.89%) JSON
7 11 (0.70%) Azure Blueprints
7 11 (0.70%) Leaflet
7 11 (0.70%) RESTful
8 10 (0.64%) OAuth
8 10 (0.64%) OpenID
8 10 (0.64%) SAML
8 10 (0.64%) SOAP
9 9 (0.57%) React
9 9 (0.57%) Web Services
10 7 (0.45%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.45%) LDAP
10 7 (0.45%) PySpark
10 7 (0.45%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 118 (7.51%) Management Information System
2 72 (4.58%) Onboarding
2 72 (4.58%) Product Ownership
3 61 (3.88%) Security Posture
4 57 (3.63%) Cloud Native
4 57 (3.63%) Operational Technology
5 44 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
6 42 (2.67%) Data Centre
6 42 (2.67%) Derivative
7 31 (1.97%) Market Risk
8 25 (1.59%) AI Agents
8 25 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (1.46%) Credit Risk
9 23 (1.46%) Data Structures
10 22 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
10 22 (1.40%) NHS
11 21 (1.34%) PMI
12 20 (1.27%) Fixed Income
13 18 (1.15%) SCADA
14 16 (1.02%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 50 (3.18%) Windows
2 42 (2.67%) Linux
3 26 (1.65%) Unix
4 17 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.38%) zOS
7 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (31.87%) Stakeholder Management
2 391 (24.87%) Agile
3 335 (21.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 314 (19.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 309 (19.66%) Cybersecurity
6 262 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 241 (15.33%) Project Management
8 229 (14.57%) Decision-Making
9 193 (12.28%) Information Security
10 185 (11.77%) AI
10 185 (11.77%) Roadmaps
11 175 (11.13%) Change Management
12 154 (9.80%) Project Delivery
13 141 (8.97%) Migration
14 130 (8.27%) DevOps
14 130 (8.27%) Regulatory Compliance
15 128 (8.14%) Analytics
16 124 (7.89%) CI/CD
17 119 (7.57%) Data Protection
18 117 (7.44%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 114 (7.25%) Python
2 108 (6.87%) SQL
3 56 (3.56%) Java
4 38 (2.42%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.34%) C#
6 14 (0.89%) C++
6 14 (0.89%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.70%) VBA
8 9 (0.57%) Bash
9 8 (0.51%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.32%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.25%) Bicep
13 3 (0.19%) Assembly Language
13 3 (0.19%) CLIST
13 3 (0.19%) Go
13 3 (0.19%) JCL
13 3 (0.19%) REXX
14 2 (0.13%) RPG
14 2 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 373 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 272 (17.30%) SC Cleared
3 186 (11.83%) Degree
4 137 (8.72%) CISSP
5 98 (6.23%) CISM
6 86 (5.47%) DV Cleared
7 74 (4.71%) PMI Certification
8 71 (4.52%) PMP
9 45 (2.86%) CRISC
10 39 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
12 30 (1.91%) CISA
13 29 (1.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 28 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
15 22 (1.40%) Master's Degree
16 21 (1.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 15 (0.95%) CCSP
17 15 (0.95%) CESG Certified Professional
18 13 (0.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
19 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (12.34%) NIST
2 193 (12.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 146 (9.29%) GRC
4 109 (6.93%) GDPR
5 79 (5.03%) QA
6 77 (4.90%) PMO
7 65 (4.13%) Data Quality
8 53 (3.37%) NCSC
9 40 (2.54%) PCI DSS
10 36 (2.29%) JSP 440
11 29 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
12 28 (1.78%) COBIT
12 28 (1.78%) SLA
12 28 (1.78%) SOC 2
13 25 (1.59%) NIST 800
14 17 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 16 (1.02%) ISO 31000
15 16 (1.02%) RMADS
15 16 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 32 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.95%) Docker
3 10 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.25%) Postfix
6 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.064%) Ceph
7 1 (0.064%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.064%) NFS
7 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.064%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (1.65%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.46%) Terraform
3 21 (1.34%) Ansible
4 14 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.89%) SCCM
5 11 (0.70%) Grafana
6 9 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.32%) Control-M
8 5 (0.32%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.19%) CASB
10 3 (0.19%) Nessus
10 3 (0.19%) OMEGAMON
11 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.13%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.13%) OpenVAS
11 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 211 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.73%) ServiceNow
3 83 (5.28%) Oracle
4 78 (4.96%) SAP
5 44 (2.80%) Google
6 21 (1.34%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.34%) Workday
7 17 (1.08%) Cisco
7 17 (1.08%) Murex
8 15 (0.95%) IBM
9 14 (0.89%) Databricks
9 14 (0.89%) F5
10 13 (0.83%) VMware
11 12 (0.76%) Ariba
11 12 (0.76%) Qualys
11 12 (0.76%) Splunk
11 12 (0.76%) Sybase
12 10 (0.64%) Infoblox
13 9 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.57%) Foundry