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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 58 62
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,964 1,349 1,273
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.58% 4.07% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 4.50% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 827 713
10th Percentile £400 £360 £372
25th Percentile £475 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £560 £560
Median % change year-on-year -1.61% - -2.61%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £788 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 33 31
10th Percentile £35.82 £22.16 £31.25
25th Percentile £50.75 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £67.05 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +100.13% -41.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80.00 £51.00 £68.84
90th Percentile £91.25 £72.00 £75.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £33.50 £58.38
% change year-on-year +126.87% -42.61% -11.82%

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 46,382 30,011 32,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.49% 90.62% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,976 18,637 19,780
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £734 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,269 1,869 1,352
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.02 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.86% -48.10% +1.18%

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 2 October 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 2 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Top 18 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 2 October 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 -6 1,713 £565 -1.74% 4,009
UK excluding London -10 937 £525 +5.00% 1,868
London -10 863 £600 -7.69% 2,412
Work from Home -16 529 £550 -7.95% 1,535
North of England -5 266 £508 +1.65% 418
South East +6 253 £575 +6.98% 494
Yorkshire +17 131 £494 -1.20% 136
North West -24 129 £525 +5.85% 254
Scotland +7 121 £500 +11.11% 184
Midlands -33 108 £513 +7.89% 266
South West -23 104 £600 +4.35% 265
West Midlands -15 86 £500 - 168
East of England +7 71 £513 -16.33% 143
East Midlands -27 19 £549 +36.44% 98
Wales -13 13 £600 +45.45% 39
Northern Ireland +6 10 £500 -9.09% 75
North East -40 7 £450 -18.18% 30
Channel Islands - 2 £600 - 3

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 74 (3.77%) Confluence
2 42 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.56%) SAS
4 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.20%) IIS
7 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.15%) CMS
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.051%) Apache
9 1 (0.051%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.051%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.051%) Appian
9 1 (0.051%) CICS
9 1 (0.051%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.051%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 66 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (1.07%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.20%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.20%) Revit
6 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.10%) Windchill
8 1 (0.051%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.051%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.051%) LaTeX
8 1 (0.051%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 49 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.76%) SAP GRC
3 13 (0.66%) Endur
4 10 (0.51%) Primavera
5 9 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.20%) Actimize
8 4 (0.20%) Magento
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.20%) SAP HCM
8 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.20%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.15%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.15%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 301 (15.33%) Azure
2 207 (10.54%) AWS
3 103 (5.24%) GCP
4 88 (4.48%) Power Platform
5 72 (3.67%) Entra ID
6 62 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
7 61 (3.11%) SaaS
8 49 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (1.88%) GitHub
10 29 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
11 28 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
12 27 (1.37%) OCI
13 22 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
15 18 (0.92%) PaaS
15 18 (0.92%) Snowflake
16 17 (0.87%) Azure AI
16 17 (0.87%) Serverless
17 16 (0.81%) Anthropic Claude
18 15 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.62%) Network Security
2 56 (2.85%) Firewall
3 24 (1.22%) WAN
4 22 (1.12%) LAN
5 21 (1.07%) TCP/IP
6 14 (0.71%) DNS
6 14 (0.71%) VPN
7 12 (0.61%) 5G
8 10 (0.51%) 4G
8 10 (0.51%) DHCP
9 7 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
9 7 (0.36%) Internet
10 6 (0.31%) Kerberos
10 6 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.25%) BIG-IP
11 5 (0.25%) HTTP
11 5 (0.25%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.25%) Softphone
11 5 (0.25%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (3.56%) Power BI
2 45 (2.29%) SQL Server
3 39 (1.99%) Metadata
4 29 (1.48%) Relational Database
5 23 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (0.81%) MongoDB
7 14 (0.71%) Db2
7 14 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (0.66%) Big Data
8 13 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 13 (0.66%) Oracle Database
9 9 (0.46%) Tableau
10 8 (0.41%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.36%) MySQL
11 7 (0.36%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.36%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.20%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.20%) SAP HANA
12 4 (0.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 136 (6.92%) JIRA
2 31 (1.58%) Git
3 20 (1.02%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.66%) Selenium
5 11 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 10 (0.51%) Postman
7 9 (0.46%) WebDriver
8 8 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.36%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.36%) GitLab
9 7 (0.36%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.25%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.20%) Gradle
11 4 (0.20%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.20%) Subversion
12 3 (0.15%) JMeter
12 3 (0.15%) Maven
12 3 (0.15%) TestRail
13 2 (0.10%) REST Assured
General
1 796 (40.53%) Social Skills
2 738 (37.58%) Finance
3 340 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
4 249 (12.68%) Public Sector
5 235 (11.97%) Banking
6 147 (7.48%) Legal
7 109 (5.55%) Influencing Skills
8 90 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
9 79 (4.02%) Front Office
10 52 (2.65%) Aerospace
10 52 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
10 52 (2.65%) Military
11 51 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (2.44%) Manufacturing
13 42 (2.14%) Financial Institution
13 42 (2.14%) Investment Banking
14 39 (1.99%) Telecoms
15 37 (1.88%) Retail
16 35 (1.78%) Law
17 29 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 260 (13.24%) Lead
2 235 (11.97%) Architect
3 205 (10.44%) Senior
4 200 (10.18%) Project Manager
5 199 (10.13%) Analyst
6 104 (5.30%) Consultant
7 93 (4.74%) Security Architect
8 85 (4.33%) Programme Manager
9 74 (3.77%) Developer
10 72 (3.67%) Business Analyst
11 60 (3.05%) Senior Manager
12 55 (2.80%) IT Manager
13 54 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
14 53 (2.70%) Risk Manager
15 43 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
16 41 (2.09%) Security Engineer
16 41 (2.09%) Solutions Architect
17 38 (1.93%) Service Manager
18 37 (1.88%) Security Consultant
18 37 (1.88%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (3.00%) Terraform
2 39 (1.99%) REST
3 34 (1.73%) .NET
4 27 (1.37%) Middleware
5 23 (1.17%) Kafka
6 19 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
7 18 (0.92%) OAuth
8 14 (0.71%) Spring
9 12 (0.61%) JSON
9 12 (0.61%) OpenID
9 12 (0.61%) SAML
10 11 (0.56%) SLSA
10 11 (0.56%) SOAP
11 10 (0.51%) SailPoint
11 10 (0.51%) Spring Boot
11 10 (0.51%) Web Services
11 10 (0.51%) XML
12 9 (0.46%) LDAP
12 9 (0.46%) React
12 9 (0.46%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 130 (6.62%) Onboarding
2 124 (6.31%) Management Information System
3 103 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 82 (4.18%) Security Posture
5 74 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 60 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
7 58 (2.95%) Operational Technology
8 56 (2.85%) Data Centre
9 46 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
10 45 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
11 38 (1.93%) Market Risk
12 35 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
13 34 (1.73%) AI Agents
14 29 (1.48%) Credit Risk
14 29 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
15 27 (1.37%) Data Structures
15 27 (1.37%) Derivative
16 26 (1.32%) NHS
17 22 (1.12%) Fixed Income
17 22 (1.12%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 68 (3.46%) Windows
2 67 (3.41%) Linux
3 44 (2.24%) Unix
4 22 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.41%) zOS
7 7 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.25%) Android
8 5 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.15%) AIX
9 3 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.15%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (41.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 498 (25.36%) Cybersecurity
3 478 (24.34%) Agile
4 459 (23.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 429 (21.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 324 (16.50%) Decision-Making
7 294 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
8 289 (14.71%) AI
9 286 (14.56%) Roadmaps
10 263 (13.39%) Project Management
11 231 (11.76%) Project Delivery
12 228 (11.61%) Information Security
13 195 (9.93%) DevOps
13 195 (9.93%) Migration
14 191 (9.73%) CI/CD
15 168 (8.55%) Change Management
16 165 (8.40%) Vulnerability Management
17 163 (8.30%) Analytics
18 157 (7.99%) PRINCE2
19 156 (7.94%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 163 (8.30%) Python
2 110 (5.60%) SQL
3 50 (2.55%) Java
4 47 (2.39%) PowerShell
5 37 (1.88%) C#
6 23 (1.17%) Bash
7 18 (0.92%) JavaScript
8 17 (0.87%) Shell Script
9 13 (0.66%) C++
10 10 (0.51%) Go
11 8 (0.41%) VBA
12 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.36%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.31%) Bicep
13 6 (0.31%) JCL
13 6 (0.31%) Korn
14 5 (0.25%) Assembly Language
14 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.25%) R
14 5 (0.25%) REXX
Qualifications
1 538 (27.39%) Security Cleared
2 388 (19.76%) SC Cleared
3 192 (9.78%) Degree
4 170 (8.66%) CISSP
5 121 (6.16%) DV Cleared
6 114 (5.80%) CISM
7 95 (4.84%) PMI Certification
8 89 (4.53%) PMP
9 58 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 58 (2.95%) CRISC
10 49 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
11 46 (2.34%) CISA
12 44 (2.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 31 (1.58%) Master's Degree
14 30 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
15 27 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 26 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
17 25 (1.27%) CCSP
17 25 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
18 24 (1.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (12.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 217 (11.05%) NIST
3 201 (10.23%) GRC
4 115 (5.86%) QA
5 109 (5.55%) GDPR
6 94 (4.79%) Data Quality
7 90 (4.58%) NCSC
8 72 (3.67%) PMO
9 42 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 28 (1.43%) JSP 440
11 25 (1.27%) NIST 800
12 20 (1.02%) Accessibility
13 18 (0.92%) COBIT
14 17 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 15 (0.76%) Def Stans
16 14 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 14 (0.71%) ISO 31000
16 14 (0.71%) PCI DSS
16 14 (0.71%) SLA
17 13 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (2.34%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.37%) Docker
3 15 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.46%) vSphere
6 7 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.25%) FreeRADIUS
7 5 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.15%) Firmware
9 3 (0.15%) IAG
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.10%) Postfix
11 1 (0.051%) NFS
Systems Management
1 58 (2.95%) Kubernetes
2 35 (1.78%) Ansible
3 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.71%) Grafana
5 12 (0.61%) SCCM
6 7 (0.36%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.31%) Control-M
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.25%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.25%) Nessus
8 5 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.15%) Argo
9 3 (0.15%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.15%) Puppet
9 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.10%) Istio
10 2 (0.10%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.10%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 299 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 118 (6.01%) ServiceNow
3 99 (5.04%) SAP
4 76 (3.87%) Oracle
5 53 (2.70%) Google
6 24 (1.22%) IBM
6 24 (1.22%) VMware
7 23 (1.17%) Splunk
8 22 (1.12%) Cisco
9 21 (1.07%) Murex
10 19 (0.97%) Salesforce
11 18 (0.92%) Databricks
12 16 (0.81%) Qualys
13 15 (0.76%) Ariba
14 14 (0.71%) Sybase
15 13 (0.66%) BeyondTrust
15 13 (0.66%) CyberArk
15 13 (0.66%) OpenAI
16 12 (0.61%) Foundry
17 11 (0.56%) Workday