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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 53 69
Rank change year-on-year -20 +16 -1
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,763 1,480 1,157
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.30% 4.49% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 4.97% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,098 914 706
10th Percentile £406 £363 £363
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +0.91% -6.83%
75th Percentile £675 £728 £716
90th Percentile £788 £875 £844
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 29 28
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £30.91
25th Percentile £50.00 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £49.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.54% -13.91% -10.36%
75th Percentile £83.75 £73.75 £68.17
90th Percentile £98.15 £87.30 £81.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £51.00 £58.38
% change year-on-year +49.02% -12.63% -19.37%

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 45,250 29,801 33,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 90.48% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,843 18,616 21,279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,819 1,703 1,838
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.31 £18.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -39.40% -1.55%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.38 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +13.33%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 1,546 £570 -0.87% 2,938
UK excluding London -8 910 £525 +2.44% 1,384
London -38 722 £600 -7.69% 1,897
Work from Home -25 489 £550 -4.35% 1,236
North of England -18 270 £508 +0.15% 284
South East +6 247 £575 +4.55% 347
North West -29 133 £525 +3.45% 171
Yorkshire 0 131 £500 - 85
South West -16 110 £570 -2.98% 191
Scotland +9 109 £475 +2.21% 191
Midlands -44 102 £575 +21.82% 168
West Midlands -34 80 £563 +12.50% 100
East of England +11 66 £519 -9.78% 119
East Midlands -27 19 £547 +36.07% 68
Northern Ireland 0 9 £394 -28.41% 61
Wales -16 7 £650 +47.14% 36
North East -43 6 £454 -22.77% 33

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 (4.20%) Confluence
2 41 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.57%) SAS
4 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.23%) IIS
6 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.11%) CMS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.057%) Apache
8 1 (0.057%) Appian
8 1 (0.057%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.057%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.057%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.057%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.057%) WebSphere
Applications
1 54 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.23%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.23%) Revit
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.17%) Trello
7 3 (0.17%) Windchill
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.057%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.057%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 40 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.74%) Endur
3 11 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (0.62%) Primavera
4 10 (0.57%) SAP GRC
5 7 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.23%) Actimize
8 4 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.23%) Magento
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.17%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.17%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 266 (15.09%) Azure
2 193 (10.95%) AWS
3 84 (4.76%) GCP
4 71 (4.03%) Power Platform
5 63 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (3.35%) Entra ID
7 50 (2.84%) SaaS
8 38 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (1.87%) GitHub
10 25 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
11 23 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
12 21 (1.19%) Snowflake
13 20 (1.13%) OCI
14 19 (1.08%) Azure AI
14 19 (1.08%) PaaS
15 17 (0.96%) Serverless
16 16 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
17 14 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
18 12 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 67 (3.80%) Network Security
2 41 (2.33%) Firewall
3 21 (1.19%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.02%) WAN
5 16 (0.91%) DNS
5 16 (0.91%) LAN
6 14 (0.79%) 5G
7 13 (0.74%) DHCP
8 12 (0.68%) 4G
8 12 (0.68%) HTTP
9 9 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.45%) BIG-IP
11 7 (0.40%) Internet
11 7 (0.40%) VPN
12 6 (0.34%) HTTPS
12 6 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
13 5 (0.28%) NAS
13 5 (0.28%) NGFW
13 5 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
13 5 (0.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.01%) Power BI
2 34 (1.93%) Metadata
3 33 (1.87%) SQL Server
4 32 (1.82%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.96%) MongoDB
6 17 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (0.79%) Data Lake
8 13 (0.74%) Db2
9 11 (0.62%) Tableau
10 10 (0.57%) Big Data
10 10 (0.57%) RDBMS
11 8 (0.45%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.40%) MySQL
13 5 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.28%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.28%) NoSQL
14 4 (0.23%) Oracle Exadata
14 4 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 119 (6.75%) JIRA
2 26 (1.47%) Git
3 20 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.74%) Selenium
5 9 (0.51%) Postman
6 8 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.40%) GitLab
7 7 (0.40%) WebDriver
7 7 (0.40%) Zephyr
8 6 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.23%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.23%) jMock
9 4 (0.23%) JUnit
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
9 4 (0.23%) Mockito
9 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.23%) Subversion
9 4 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 681 (38.63%) Social Skills
2 641 (36.36%) Finance
3 278 (15.77%) Analytical Skills
4 210 (11.91%) Public Sector
5 192 (10.89%) Banking
6 132 (7.49%) Legal
7 74 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
8 73 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
9 60 (3.40%) Front Office
10 46 (2.61%) Telecoms
11 45 (2.55%) Retail
12 44 (2.50%) Aerospace
12 44 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
13 40 (2.27%) Financial Institution
14 39 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
15 36 (2.04%) Investment Banking
16 34 (1.93%) Military
17 30 (1.70%) Law
18 29 (1.64%) Manufacturing
19 24 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 232 (13.16%) Lead
2 219 (12.42%) Architect
3 203 (11.51%) Project Manager
4 173 (9.81%) Senior
5 157 (8.91%) Analyst
6 105 (5.96%) Consultant
7 96 (5.45%) Security Architect
8 74 (4.20%) Programme Manager
9 69 (3.91%) Developer
10 60 (3.40%) Business Analyst
10 60 (3.40%) Senior Manager
11 54 (3.06%) Risk Manager
12 50 (2.84%) Delivery Manager
13 48 (2.72%) IT Manager
14 45 (2.55%) Security Consultant
15 38 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
16 37 (2.10%) Security Manager
17 34 (1.93%) Security Engineer
18 30 (1.70%) Technical Manager
19 29 (1.64%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.82%) REST
2 27 (1.53%) .NET
3 26 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
4 21 (1.19%) Middleware
5 17 (0.96%) OAuth
6 16 (0.91%) Kafka
7 13 (0.74%) XML
8 12 (0.68%) JSON
8 12 (0.68%) SAML
8 12 (0.68%) SOAP
8 12 (0.68%) Spring
9 11 (0.62%) Leaflet
9 11 (0.62%) OpenID
9 11 (0.62%) RESTful
10 10 (0.57%) Azure Blueprints
10 10 (0.57%) SLSA
11 9 (0.51%) LDAP
11 9 (0.51%) PyTorch
11 9 (0.51%) React
11 9 (0.51%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 122 (6.92%) Management Information System
2 90 (5.10%) Product Ownership
3 89 (5.05%) Onboarding
4 76 (4.31%) Cloud Native
5 74 (4.20%) Security Posture
6 55 (3.12%) Operational Technology
7 51 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
8 47 (2.67%) Data Centre
9 37 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
10 34 (1.93%) AI Agents
11 32 (1.82%) Derivative
12 31 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
13 26 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
13 26 (1.47%) Market Risk
14 25 (1.42%) PMI
15 23 (1.30%) NHS
16 22 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
17 20 (1.13%) Credit Risk
17 20 (1.13%) Data Structures
17 20 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 57 (3.23%) Windows
2 54 (3.06%) Linux
3 36 (2.04%) Unix
4 21 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.28%) zOS
7 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.17%) AIX
8 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.11%) Android
10 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 650 (36.87%) Stakeholder Management
2 431 (24.45%) Agile
3 396 (22.46%) Cybersecurity
4 395 (22.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 370 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 259 (14.69%) Decision-Making
7 255 (14.46%) Project Management
8 249 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
9 244 (13.84%) AI
10 220 (12.48%) Roadmaps
11 204 (11.57%) Information Security
12 187 (10.61%) Project Delivery
13 164 (9.30%) Migration
14 162 (9.19%) Change Management
15 161 (9.13%) DevOps
16 160 (9.08%) CI/CD
17 139 (7.88%) Analytics
18 134 (7.60%) PRINCE2
19 131 (7.43%) Security Architecture
20 130 (7.37%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (7.26%) Python
2 89 (5.05%) SQL
3 54 (3.06%) Java
4 36 (2.04%) PowerShell
5 27 (1.53%) C#
6 17 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.74%) C++
8 12 (0.68%) Bash
9 10 (0.57%) VBA
10 9 (0.51%) Shell Script
11 8 (0.45%) Go
11 8 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.34%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.23%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.23%) Bicep
13 4 (0.23%) CLIST
13 4 (0.23%) JCL
13 4 (0.23%) REXX
13 4 (0.23%) Scala
14 3 (0.17%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 453 (25.69%) Security Cleared
2 330 (18.72%) SC Cleared
3 174 (9.87%) Degree
4 163 (9.25%) CISSP
5 117 (6.64%) DV Cleared
6 110 (6.24%) CISM
7 83 (4.71%) PMI Certification
8 80 (4.54%) PMP
9 47 (2.67%) CRISC
10 45 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
12 34 (1.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 34 (1.93%) CISA
13 30 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
14 28 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 26 (1.47%) Master's Degree
16 22 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
17 18 (1.02%) AWS Certification
17 18 (1.02%) CESG Certified Professional
17 18 (1.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (12.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 209 (11.85%) NIST
3 167 (9.47%) GRC
4 120 (6.81%) GDPR
5 88 (4.99%) QA
6 70 (3.97%) Data Quality
7 65 (3.69%) NCSC
8 63 (3.57%) PMO
9 36 (2.04%) JSP 440
10 34 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
11 28 (1.59%) PCI DSS
12 25 (1.42%) SOC 2
13 24 (1.36%) SLA
14 20 (1.13%) COBIT
14 20 (1.13%) NIST 800
15 17 (0.96%) Accessibility
15 17 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.91%) ISO 31000
16 16 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 14 (0.79%) Def Stans
System Software
1 38 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.13%) Docker
3 9 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.23%) Postfix
5 4 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.17%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.11%) NFS
7 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.057%) Ceph
8 1 (0.057%) IAG
8 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.057%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (2.04%) Kubernetes
1 36 (2.04%) Terraform
2 27 (1.53%) Ansible
3 12 (0.68%) Grafana
3 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.57%) SCCM
5 9 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.23%) Control-M
8 4 (0.23%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.23%) OMEGAMON
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.17%) CASB
9 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.17%) Nessus
9 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 244 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 95 (5.39%) ServiceNow
3 81 (4.59%) SAP
4 79 (4.48%) Oracle
5 43 (2.44%) Google
6 21 (1.19%) IBM
7 19 (1.08%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.96%) Cisco
8 17 (0.96%) Splunk
9 16 (0.91%) Foundry
9 16 (0.91%) Sybase
9 16 (0.91%) Workday
10 13 (0.74%) Databricks
10 13 (0.74%) Murex
11 12 (0.68%) Qualys
12 10 (0.57%) OpenAI
12 10 (0.57%) VMware
13 9 (0.51%) Ariba
13 9 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.51%) Tenable