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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 49 73
Rank change year-on-year -23 +24 -8
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,552 1,297 1,250
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.16% 4.48% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 4.93% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,018 797 787
10th Percentile £406 £374 £356
25th Percentile £476 £459 £450
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 £804 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 43
10th Percentile £20.27 £46.30 £12.25
25th Percentile £29.00 £48.13 £26.23
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% +370.37%
75th Percentile £101.38 £80.80 £60.63
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.23 £78.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +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 41,594 26,332 36,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.70% 91.01% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,970 16,762 23,491
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,502 1,133 2,525
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.29 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.09% -34.02% +8.91%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -21 1,375 £550 -7.41% 889
UK excluding London -6 769 £525 +2.56% 538
London -36 663 £600 -11.11% 435
Work from Home -17 454 £550 -4.35% 379
North of England -6 239 £514 +0.53% 139
South East -10 192 £563 +2.27% 163
Yorkshire +6 125 £500 -1.23% 40
North West -11 113 £550 +8.37% 86
Midlands -28 109 £545 +11.79% 74
South West +9 92 £570 +26.67% 70
Scotland +3 88 £475 +1.71% 38
West Midlands -36 76 £540 +8.00% 44
East of England -5 47 £525 -16.00% 44
East Midlands -17 33 £550 +22.63% 30
Northern Ireland 0 8 £450 -18.18% 8
Wales -21 2 £600 +26.32% 11
North East -36 1 £480 -18.30% 13

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 73 (4.70%) Confluence
2 38 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.45%) SAS
5 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.19%) IIS
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.064%) Apache
7 1 (0.064%) Appian
7 1 (0.064%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.064%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.064%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.064%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.064%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.064%) WebSphere
Applications
1 55 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (2.77%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.32%) Revit
7 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.26%) Trello
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.13%) Windchill
10 1 (0.064%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.064%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.064%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 25 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.58%) Endur
4 7 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.45%) Summit
5 6 (0.39%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.32%) Actimize
6 5 (0.32%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.32%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.26%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.26%) Primavera
7 4 (0.26%) SAP GRC
8 3 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 206 (13.27%) Azure
2 157 (10.12%) AWS
3 66 (4.25%) Power Platform
4 65 (4.19%) GCP
5 62 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (2.77%) Entra ID
7 40 (2.58%) SaaS
8 27 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (1.61%) GitHub
9 25 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
10 22 (1.42%) Google Workspace
11 20 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (1.16%) Google Sheets
13 18 (1.16%) PaaS
13 18 (1.16%) Snowflake
14 17 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
15 14 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
16 11 (0.71%) IaaS
17 10 (0.64%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 53 (3.41%) Network Security
2 33 (2.13%) Firewall
3 19 (1.22%) DNS
4 14 (0.90%) DHCP
5 12 (0.77%) BIG-IP
6 11 (0.71%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.58%) WAN
8 8 (0.52%) 5G
8 8 (0.52%) Internet
8 8 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.45%) HTTP
10 6 (0.39%) 4G
10 6 (0.39%) LAN
10 6 (0.39%) Structured Cabling
11 5 (0.32%) 3G
12 4 (0.26%) NAS
12 4 (0.26%) NGFW
12 4 (0.26%) SAN
12 4 (0.26%) VPN
13 3 (0.19%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (3.35%) Power BI
2 35 (2.26%) Metadata
3 26 (1.68%) Relational Database
4 23 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 15 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (0.90%) MongoDB
8 11 (0.71%) Tableau
9 9 (0.58%) Big Data
10 8 (0.52%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.52%) Db2
10 8 (0.52%) RDBMS
11 7 (0.45%) MySQL
12 6 (0.39%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.32%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.26%) Crystal Reports
14 4 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.26%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 125 (8.05%) JIRA
2 19 (1.22%) Jenkins
3 17 (1.10%) Git
4 9 (0.58%) GitLab
5 6 (0.39%) Zephyr
6 5 (0.32%) JUnit
6 5 (0.32%) Mockito
6 5 (0.32%) Selenium
6 5 (0.32%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.26%) DbUnit
7 4 (0.26%) jMock
7 4 (0.26%) Maven
7 4 (0.26%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.13%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.13%) MLflow
8 2 (0.13%) TestRail
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.064%) ERwin
9 1 (0.064%) Flyway
General
1 571 (36.79%) Finance
2 564 (36.34%) Social Skills
3 247 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (11.53%) Public Sector
5 176 (11.34%) Banking
6 118 (7.60%) Legal
7 49 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
8 47 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
9 41 (2.64%) Front Office
10 39 (2.51%) Investment Banking
11 36 (2.32%) Retail
11 36 (2.32%) Telecoms
12 35 (2.26%) Financial Institution
13 32 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
14 31 (2.00%) Military
15 30 (1.93%) Manufacturing
15 30 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
16 25 (1.61%) Law
17 20 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 20 (1.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 193 (12.44%) Project Manager
2 189 (12.18%) Lead
3 167 (10.76%) Architect
4 157 (10.12%) Senior
5 148 (9.54%) Analyst
6 86 (5.54%) Consultant
7 72 (4.64%) Business Analyst
7 72 (4.64%) Security Architect
8 70 (4.51%) Programme Manager
9 68 (4.38%) Developer
10 57 (3.67%) Senior Manager
11 54 (3.48%) Risk Manager
12 42 (2.71%) Delivery Manager
13 39 (2.51%) Security Engineer
14 35 (2.26%) IT Manager
14 35 (2.26%) Security Consultant
15 34 (2.19%) Risk Analyst
15 34 (2.19%) Security Manager
16 30 (1.93%) Solutions Architect
17 25 (1.61%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.87%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (1.61%) REST
3 20 (1.29%) .NET
4 19 (1.22%) Kafka
5 17 (1.10%) XML
6 15 (0.97%) Middleware
7 13 (0.84%) JSON
8 11 (0.71%) Azure Blueprints
8 11 (0.71%) Leaflet
8 11 (0.71%) RESTful
9 10 (0.64%) SOAP
10 8 (0.52%) LDAP
10 8 (0.52%) OAuth
10 8 (0.52%) React
10 8 (0.52%) Web Services
11 7 (0.45%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.45%) OpenID
11 7 (0.45%) PyTorch
12 6 (0.39%) scikit-learn
12 6 (0.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 120 (7.73%) Management Information System
2 71 (4.57%) Product Ownership
3 64 (4.12%) Onboarding
4 59 (3.80%) Security Posture
5 53 (3.41%) Cloud Native
5 53 (3.41%) Operational Technology
6 47 (3.03%) Derivative
7 45 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
8 42 (2.71%) Data Centre
9 32 (2.06%) Market Risk
10 26 (1.68%) AI Agents
11 25 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (1.48%) Credit Risk
12 23 (1.48%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (1.42%) NHS
14 20 (1.29%) Fixed Income
14 20 (1.29%) PMI
15 18 (1.16%) Equities
15 18 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.29%) Windows
2 43 (2.77%) Linux
3 26 (1.68%) Unix
4 18 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.39%) 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
9 1 (0.064%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (30.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 388 (25.00%) Agile
3 317 (20.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 298 (19.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 294 (18.94%) Cybersecurity
6 254 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
7 238 (15.34%) Project Management
8 225 (14.50%) Decision-Making
9 189 (12.18%) Information Security
10 184 (11.86%) AI
11 177 (11.40%) Roadmaps
12 168 (10.82%) Change Management
13 146 (9.41%) Project Delivery
14 140 (9.02%) Migration
15 128 (8.25%) Analytics
16 127 (8.18%) Regulatory Compliance
17 125 (8.05%) DevOps
18 121 (7.80%) CI/CD
18 121 (7.80%) Data Protection
19 110 (7.09%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 113 (7.28%) Python
2 111 (7.15%) SQL
3 57 (3.67%) Java
4 34 (2.19%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.35%) C#
6 18 (1.16%) C++
7 14 (0.90%) JavaScript
8 12 (0.77%) VBA
9 9 (0.58%) Bash
10 8 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.32%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.19%) Assembly Language
13 3 (0.19%) Bicep
13 3 (0.19%) CLIST
13 3 (0.19%) Go
13 3 (0.19%) JCL
13 3 (0.19%) REXX
14 2 (0.13%) Perl
14 2 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 358 (23.07%) Security Cleared
2 261 (16.82%) SC Cleared
3 189 (12.18%) Degree
4 134 (8.63%) CISSP
5 98 (6.31%) CISM
6 83 (5.35%) DV Cleared
7 70 (4.51%) PMI Certification
8 68 (4.38%) PMP
9 44 (2.84%) CRISC
10 39 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
12 29 (1.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 28 (1.80%) CISA
14 26 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
15 21 (1.35%) Master's Degree
16 19 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 15 (0.97%) CESG Certified Professional
18 14 (0.90%) CCSP
18 14 (0.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
19 13 (0.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (12.05%) NIST
2 184 (11.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 141 (9.09%) GRC
4 110 (7.09%) GDPR
5 77 (4.96%) QA
6 76 (4.90%) PMO
7 66 (4.25%) Data Quality
8 54 (3.48%) NCSC
9 42 (2.71%) PCI DSS
10 34 (2.19%) JSP 440
11 31 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
12 29 (1.87%) SLA
13 28 (1.80%) SOC 2
14 27 (1.74%) COBIT
15 22 (1.42%) NIST 800
16 17 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 16 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (1.03%) ISO 31000
17 16 (1.03%) RMADS
17 16 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.10%) Docker
3 11 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.26%) Postfix
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 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.29%) Terraform
3 19 (1.22%) Ansible
4 11 (0.71%) Grafana
4 11 (0.71%) SCCM
5 10 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.32%) Control-M
8 5 (0.32%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.26%) 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%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.13%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 208 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 88 (5.67%) ServiceNow
3 80 (5.15%) Oracle
4 74 (4.77%) SAP
5 48 (3.09%) Google
6 21 (1.35%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.35%) Workday
7 20 (1.29%) Murex
8 15 (0.97%) Cisco
9 14 (0.90%) Databricks
9 14 (0.90%) F5
9 14 (0.90%) IBM
9 14 (0.90%) VMware
10 13 (0.84%) Ariba
11 12 (0.77%) Splunk
12 11 (0.71%) Sybase
13 10 (0.64%) Infoblox
14 9 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (0.58%) Foundry
14 9 (0.58%) Qualys