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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 49 65
Rank change year-on-year -24 +16 +10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,463 1,223 1,388
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.29% 4.21% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 4.65% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 749 920
10th Percentile £401 £360 £387
25th Percentile £463 £452 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £838 £834 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 40 43
10th Percentile £20.27 £29.16 £12.25
25th Percentile £40.00 £46.30 £19.30
Median hourly rate £74.31 £61.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +22.99% +370.37%
75th Percentile £97.50 £78.40 £62.25
90th Percentile £107.00 £85.43 £83.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.49 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +21.14% +22.99% +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 38,122 26,294 38,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.61% 90.44% 86.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,155 17,082 24,859
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 966 2,351
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.00 £12.84
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.24 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -10.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.72 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £31.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -12.50%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -17 1,302 £550 -4.35% 603
UK excluding London -17 678 £525 - 424
London -20 660 £600 -4.00% 260
Work from Home -3 421 £550 -4.35% 271
North of England -7 215 £520 +1.58% 112
South East -6 196 £543 -5.65% 145
North West -6 111 £540 +8.00% 65
Midlands -37 108 £537 +6.97% 70
Yorkshire -4 103 £500 -1.23% 39
West Midlands -35 75 £525 - 56
South West -4 62 £560 +17.89% 37
Scotland -12 54 £425 -10.99% 16
East of England -30 36 £525 -0.94% 31
East Midlands -31 33 £550 +22.22% 14
Wales -4 9 £214 -59.69% 9
Northern Ireland -1 8 £500 -4.76% 7
North East -24 1 - - 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 71 (4.85%) Confluence
2 25 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.48%) SAS
6 4 (0.27%) nginx
7 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.14%) Apache
8 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.068%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.068%) IIS
9 1 (0.068%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.068%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.068%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 67 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (3.62%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.27%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Revit
7 2 (0.14%) Windchill
8 1 (0.068%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.068%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 20 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.55%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.41%) Summit
6 5 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.34%) Primavera
7 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.21%) Endur
8 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.21%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.21%) SAP GRC
8 3 (0.21%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 177 (12.10%) Azure
2 150 (10.25%) AWS
3 55 (3.76%) GCP
4 54 (3.69%) Power Platform
5 52 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (2.32%) Entra ID
7 30 (2.05%) SaaS
8 29 (1.98%) Microsoft Purview
9 22 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
9 22 (1.50%) GitHub
9 22 (1.50%) Google Workspace
10 18 (1.23%) Google Sheets
11 15 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
12 12 (0.82%) OCI
13 10 (0.68%) OpenShift
14 9 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (0.55%) Collibra
15 8 (0.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.14%) Network Security
2 36 (2.46%) Firewall
3 17 (1.16%) DNS
4 11 (0.75%) Internet
5 9 (0.62%) DHCP
5 9 (0.62%) LAN
5 9 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (0.55%) HTTP
6 8 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
7 7 (0.48%) BIG-IP
8 6 (0.41%) 5G
8 6 (0.41%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.41%) WAN
9 5 (0.34%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
10 4 (0.27%) SAN
10 4 (0.27%) VPN
11 3 (0.21%) Broadband
11 3 (0.21%) NGFW
11 3 (0.21%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (2.87%) Power BI
2 25 (1.71%) Metadata
3 23 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.09%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.03%) SQL Server
7 9 (0.62%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.62%) Tableau
8 7 (0.48%) Big Data
9 6 (0.41%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.41%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.41%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.41%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.27%) Data Mart
11 4 (0.27%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.21%) KDB
Development Applications
1 137 (9.36%) JIRA
2 19 (1.30%) Git
3 15 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.62%) GitLab
5 4 (0.27%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.27%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.21%) JUnit
6 3 (0.21%) Mockito
7 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.14%) DbUnit
7 2 (0.14%) jMock
7 2 (0.14%) Maven
7 2 (0.14%) Selenium
7 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.068%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.068%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.068%) Flyway
8 1 (0.068%) MLflow
8 1 (0.068%) Postman
General
1 555 (37.94%) Social Skills
2 536 (36.64%) Finance
3 244 (16.68%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (12.71%) Banking
5 159 (10.87%) Public Sector
6 113 (7.72%) Legal
7 50 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
8 45 (3.08%) Front Office
9 42 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
10 41 (2.80%) Investment Banking
11 38 (2.60%) Financial Institution
12 37 (2.53%) Retail
13 34 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
13 34 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (2.05%) Manufacturing
15 28 (1.91%) Telecoms
16 24 (1.64%) Military
17 22 (1.50%) Aerospace
18 21 (1.44%) Marketing
19 18 (1.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 193 (13.19%) Project Manager
2 171 (11.69%) Lead
3 154 (10.53%) Analyst
4 149 (10.18%) Senior
5 137 (9.36%) Architect
6 116 (7.93%) Consultant
7 75 (5.13%) Developer
8 72 (4.92%) Security Architect
9 71 (4.85%) Programme Manager
10 69 (4.72%) Business Analyst
11 53 (3.62%) Senior Manager
12 48 (3.28%) Security Consultant
13 47 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
14 46 (3.14%) Risk Manager
15 35 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
16 34 (2.32%) Risk Analyst
17 31 (2.12%) Security Engineer
17 31 (2.12%) Senior Developer
18 29 (1.98%) Technical Manager
19 27 (1.85%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
2 24 (1.64%) REST
3 22 (1.50%) Kafka
4 17 (1.16%) .NET
5 13 (0.89%) XML
6 12 (0.82%) OAuth
7 11 (0.75%) RESTful
8 10 (0.68%) Leaflet
8 10 (0.68%) Middleware
9 9 (0.62%) COM
9 9 (0.62%) Dask
9 9 (0.62%) NumPy
9 9 (0.62%) Pandas
9 9 (0.62%) SAML
10 8 (0.55%) .NET Framework
10 8 (0.55%) LDAP
10 8 (0.55%) PyTorch
11 7 (0.48%) JSON
11 7 (0.48%) scikit-learn
11 7 (0.48%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 142 (9.71%) Management Information System
2 73 (4.99%) Product Ownership
3 65 (4.44%) Security Posture
4 62 (4.24%) Derivative
5 57 (3.90%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.94%) Cloud Native
7 40 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
8 39 (2.67%) Data Centre
9 35 (2.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 35 (2.39%) Market Risk
10 33 (2.26%) Equities
11 29 (1.98%) Operational Technology
12 26 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (1.78%) Credit Risk
13 24 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (1.57%) NHS
15 21 (1.44%) Algorithms
15 21 (1.44%) Fixed Income
16 19 (1.30%) AI Agents
17 18 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.53%) Windows
2 32 (2.19%) Linux
3 15 (1.03%) Unix
4 8 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.21%) VMS
6 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.21%) zOS
7 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.068%) Android
8 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (29.80%) Stakeholder Management
2 364 (24.88%) Agile
3 291 (19.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 268 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
5 260 (17.77%) Cybersecurity
6 246 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 239 (16.34%) Project Management
8 187 (12.78%) Decision-Making
9 177 (12.10%) Information Security
10 166 (11.35%) Change Management
11 157 (10.73%) Roadmaps
12 148 (10.12%) Project Delivery
13 142 (9.71%) AI
14 138 (9.43%) Migration
15 132 (9.02%) Regulatory Compliance
16 125 (8.54%) Analytics
17 124 (8.48%) Data Protection
18 116 (7.93%) PRINCE2
19 103 (7.04%) DevOps
20 102 (6.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 128 (8.75%) SQL
2 119 (8.13%) Python
3 53 (3.62%) Java
4 36 (2.46%) PowerShell
5 23 (1.57%) C#
5 23 (1.57%) C++
6 16 (1.09%) VBA
7 11 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.48%) Bash
9 5 (0.34%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.34%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.34%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.21%) Korn
10 3 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.21%) Perl
11 2 (0.14%) R
11 2 (0.14%) RPG
11 2 (0.14%) Rust
11 2 (0.14%) Scala
11 2 (0.14%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 319 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 241 (16.47%) SC Cleared
3 219 (14.97%) Degree
4 132 (9.02%) CISSP
5 93 (6.36%) CISM
6 82 (5.60%) DV Cleared
7 81 (5.54%) PMI Certification
8 80 (5.47%) PMP
9 42 (2.87%) Master's Degree
10 38 (2.60%) CRISC
11 33 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
13 19 (1.30%) CISA
14 16 (1.09%) CESG Certified Professional
15 14 (0.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 14 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
16 13 (0.89%) PhD
16 13 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 12 (0.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (13.33%) NIST
2 182 (12.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 125 (8.54%) GDPR
4 123 (8.41%) GRC
5 90 (6.15%) PMO
6 76 (5.19%) QA
7 53 (3.62%) PCI DSS
8 48 (3.28%) Data Quality
8 48 (3.28%) NCSC
9 29 (1.98%) SLA
10 28 (1.91%) NIST 800
11 27 (1.85%) JSP 440
11 27 (1.85%) SOC 2
12 23 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 22 (1.50%) COBIT
14 18 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 18 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 15 (1.03%) RMADS
16 13 (0.89%) Def Stans
System Software
1 31 (2.12%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.82%) Docker
3 9 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.21%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.14%) Postfix
7 1 (0.068%) Ceph
7 1 (0.068%) NFS
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.068%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.068%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.068%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (1.44%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.30%) Terraform
3 13 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (0.82%) Ansible
5 9 (0.62%) SCCM
6 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.41%) RSA Archer
8 5 (0.34%) Grafana
9 4 (0.27%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.21%) CASB
10 3 (0.21%) Control-M
10 3 (0.21%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.21%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.21%) QRadar
10 3 (0.21%) WSUS
11 2 (0.14%) Nessus
11 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.14%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 178 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 78 (5.33%) Oracle
3 69 (4.72%) ServiceNow
4 66 (4.51%) SAP
5 45 (3.08%) Google
6 22 (1.50%) Murex
7 20 (1.37%) Workday
8 18 (1.23%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.03%) Ariba
10 12 (0.82%) Databricks
11 11 (0.75%) Splunk
11 11 (0.75%) VMware
12 9 (0.62%) Cisco
12 9 (0.62%) F5
12 9 (0.62%) IBM
13 8 (0.55%) CyberArk
13 8 (0.55%) Foundry
13 8 (0.55%) Informatica
14 7 (0.48%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.41%) Bloomberg