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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 51 71
Rank change year-on-year -26 +20 -1
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,690 1,440 1,153
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.20% 4.40% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 4.86% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,077 882 704
10th Percentile £412 £363 £363
25th Percentile £480 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £554 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.53% +0.68% -7.21%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £719
90th Percentile £793 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £512 £550
% change year-on-year +2.56% -6.93% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 32 33
10th Percentile £24.62 £22.16 £16.87
25th Percentile £50.00 £25.56 £37.50
Median hourly rate £78.70 £49.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.98% -10.00% +83.33%
75th Percentile £85.40 £74.12 £61.25
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.23 £79.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 £53.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% -7.83% -20.57%

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 44,902 29,618 34,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.94% 90.44% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,798 18,592 22,057
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,679 1,619 2,026
10th Percentile £14.79 £14.20 £13.56
25th Percentile £20.06 £17.33 £17.55
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.39 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +87.06% -41.25% -

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -20 1,493 £570 -0.87% 1,019
UK excluding London -10 878 £525 +2.56% 556
London -39 691 £600 -7.69% 571
Work from Home -28 481 £550 -4.76% 412
North of England -11 261 £514 +0.29% 131
South East -2 243 £575 +4.55% 178
Yorkshire +10 129 £500 -4.76% 45
North West -28 129 £540 +6.40% 73
Midlands -41 106 £540 +15.14% 72
Scotland 0 99 £475 +5.56% 39
South West -12 99 £570 -0.87% 76
West Midlands -35 86 £533 +6.50% 38
East of England +19 63 £525 -4.55% 41
East Midlands -25 17 £537 +21.83% 34
Northern Ireland -6 9 £394 -28.41% 19
Wales -18 8 £650 +45.09% 11
North East -44 5 £454 -17.50% 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 71 (4.20%) Confluence
2 38 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.53%) SAS
4 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.24%) IIS
6 3 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.059%) Apache
8 1 (0.059%) Appian
8 1 (0.059%) CMS
8 1 (0.059%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.059%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.059%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.059%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.059%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.059%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 51 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.24%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.24%) Revit
6 4 (0.24%) Trello
7 3 (0.18%) Windchill
8 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.059%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 41 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.65%) Endur
3 10 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.53%) Primavera
4 9 (0.53%) SAP GRC
5 7 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.30%) Actimize
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.30%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.24%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.24%) Loan IQ
8 4 (0.24%) Magento
8 4 (0.24%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.24%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 253 (14.97%) Azure
2 182 (10.77%) AWS
3 80 (4.73%) GCP
4 69 (4.08%) Power Platform
5 58 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
6 53 (3.14%) Entra ID
7 46 (2.72%) SaaS
8 37 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (2.01%) GitHub
10 27 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
11 20 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
11 20 (1.18%) Snowflake
12 19 (1.12%) PaaS
13 16 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
13 16 (0.95%) Azure AI
13 16 (0.95%) OCI
13 16 (0.95%) Serverless
14 14 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
15 12 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.55%) Network Security
2 42 (2.49%) Firewall
3 18 (1.07%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.95%) WAN
5 15 (0.89%) DNS
6 13 (0.77%) 5G
6 13 (0.77%) DHCP
6 13 (0.77%) LAN
7 11 (0.65%) 4G
8 10 (0.59%) BIG-IP
8 10 (0.59%) HTTP
8 10 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.41%) Internet
9 7 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
10 5 (0.30%) 3G
10 5 (0.30%) NAS
10 5 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
10 5 (0.30%) SAN
10 5 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (3.08%) Power BI
2 32 (1.89%) Metadata
3 31 (1.83%) Relational Database
3 31 (1.83%) SQL Server
4 19 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (1.01%) MongoDB
6 16 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.77%) Db2
8 12 (0.71%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.59%) Big Data
9 10 (0.59%) Tableau
10 9 (0.53%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.36%) MySQL
11 6 (0.36%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.30%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.30%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
13 4 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 119 (7.04%) JIRA
2 26 (1.54%) Git
3 23 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.65%) Selenium
5 9 (0.53%) GitLab
6 7 (0.41%) Postman
6 7 (0.41%) Zephyr
7 6 (0.36%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.36%) WebDriver
8 5 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.30%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.24%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.24%) jMock
9 4 (0.24%) JUnit
9 4 (0.24%) Maven
9 4 (0.24%) Mockito
9 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 638 (37.75%) Social Skills
2 621 (36.75%) Finance
3 260 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 196 (11.60%) Public Sector
5 186 (11.01%) Banking
6 122 (7.22%) Legal
7 68 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 49 (2.90%) Front Office
10 43 (2.54%) Telecoms
11 42 (2.49%) Aerospace
12 40 (2.37%) Financial Institution
12 40 (2.37%) Retail
13 37 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
13 37 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
14 32 (1.89%) Investment Banking
15 31 (1.83%) Military
16 27 (1.60%) Manufacturing
17 26 (1.54%) Law
18 24 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 224 (13.25%) Lead
2 204 (12.07%) Project Manager
3 203 (12.01%) Architect
4 170 (10.06%) Senior
5 148 (8.76%) Analyst
6 98 (5.80%) Consultant
7 88 (5.21%) Security Architect
8 71 (4.20%) Developer
9 66 (3.91%) Programme Manager
10 62 (3.67%) Senior Manager
11 58 (3.43%) Business Analyst
12 57 (3.37%) Risk Manager
13 49 (2.90%) Delivery Manager
14 47 (2.78%) IT Manager
15 40 (2.37%) Security Consultant
16 37 (2.19%) Security Engineer
16 37 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
17 36 (2.13%) Security Manager
18 31 (1.83%) Product Manager
19 29 (1.72%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.72%) REST
2 26 (1.54%) .NET
3 25 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
4 20 (1.18%) Middleware
5 19 (1.12%) Kafka
6 16 (0.95%) OAuth
7 13 (0.77%) JSON
7 13 (0.77%) XML
8 12 (0.71%) OpenID
8 12 (0.71%) SAML
9 11 (0.65%) Azure Blueprints
9 11 (0.65%) Leaflet
9 11 (0.65%) React
9 11 (0.65%) RESTful
9 11 (0.65%) SOAP
9 11 (0.65%) Spring
10 9 (0.53%) LDAP
10 9 (0.53%) SailPoint
10 9 (0.53%) SLSA
11 8 (0.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 118 (6.98%) Management Information System
2 87 (5.15%) Onboarding
2 87 (5.15%) Product Ownership
3 73 (4.32%) Cloud Native
4 67 (3.96%) Security Posture
5 57 (3.37%) Operational Technology
6 51 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
7 45 (2.66%) Data Centre
8 31 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
9 30 (1.78%) Derivative
10 28 (1.66%) Market Risk
11 27 (1.60%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.54%) PMI
13 24 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
14 23 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
14 23 (1.36%) NHS
15 22 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
16 21 (1.24%) Fixed Income
17 20 (1.18%) Virtual Team
18 19 (1.12%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 54 (3.20%) Windows
2 50 (2.96%) Linux
3 33 (1.95%) Unix
4 20 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.30%) zOS
7 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.12%) AIX
9 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.059%) Android
10 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 607 (35.92%) Stakeholder Management
2 417 (24.67%) Agile
3 375 (22.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 373 (22.07%) Cybersecurity
5 360 (21.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 257 (15.21%) Project Management
7 253 (14.97%) Decision-Making
8 248 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
9 228 (13.49%) AI
10 220 (13.02%) Roadmaps
11 201 (11.89%) Information Security
12 170 (10.06%) Project Delivery
13 168 (9.94%) Change Management
14 155 (9.17%) CI/CD
15 152 (8.99%) DevOps
16 150 (8.88%) Migration
17 133 (7.87%) Analytics
18 131 (7.75%) Vulnerability Management
19 126 (7.46%) PRINCE2
20 124 (7.34%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 123 (7.28%) Python
2 87 (5.15%) SQL
3 58 (3.43%) Java
4 35 (2.07%) PowerShell
5 25 (1.48%) C#
6 18 (1.07%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.71%) VBA
8 11 (0.65%) C++
9 10 (0.59%) Shell Script
10 9 (0.53%) Bash
10 9 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.36%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.30%) Go
13 4 (0.24%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.24%) Bicep
13 4 (0.24%) CLIST
13 4 (0.24%) JCL
13 4 (0.24%) REXX
13 4 (0.24%) Scala
14 3 (0.18%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 433 (25.62%) Security Cleared
2 324 (19.17%) SC Cleared
3 174 (10.30%) Degree
4 164 (9.70%) CISSP
5 107 (6.33%) DV Cleared
6 106 (6.27%) CISM
7 79 (4.67%) PMI Certification
8 75 (4.44%) PMP
9 43 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 42 (2.49%) CRISC
11 36 (2.13%) CISA
11 36 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
12 31 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 30 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
14 29 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 28 (1.66%) Master's Degree
16 21 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
17 17 (1.01%) CESG Certified Professional
18 16 (0.95%) AWS Certification
18 16 (0.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (12.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 203 (12.01%) NIST
3 161 (9.53%) GRC
4 111 (6.57%) GDPR
5 87 (5.15%) QA
6 67 (3.96%) PMO
7 63 (3.73%) Data Quality
8 59 (3.49%) NCSC
9 35 (2.07%) JSP 440
9 35 (2.07%) PCI DSS
10 32 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
11 31 (1.83%) SOC 2
12 28 (1.66%) NIST 800
12 28 (1.66%) SLA
13 20 (1.18%) COBIT
14 18 (1.07%) ISO 31000
15 17 (1.01%) Def Stans
16 16 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.89%) Accessibility
17 15 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 37 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.24%) Docker
3 10 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.24%) Postfix
5 4 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.12%) FreeRADIUS
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.059%) Ceph
8 1 (0.059%) IAG
8 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (1.95%) Kubernetes
2 31 (1.83%) Terraform
3 24 (1.42%) Ansible
4 12 (0.71%) Grafana
4 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.59%) SCCM
6 9 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.24%) Control-M
9 4 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.24%) Nessus
9 4 (0.24%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.18%) CASB
10 3 (0.18%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.18%) Istio
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.12%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 223 (13.20%) Microsoft
2 92 (5.44%) ServiceNow
3 84 (4.97%) SAP
4 73 (4.32%) Oracle
5 42 (2.49%) Google
6 21 (1.24%) IBM
7 20 (1.18%) Cisco
8 19 (1.12%) Salesforce
9 16 (0.95%) Splunk
9 16 (0.95%) Sybase
9 16 (0.95%) Workday
10 15 (0.89%) Foundry
11 12 (0.71%) Qualys
12 11 (0.65%) Ariba
12 11 (0.65%) Databricks
12 11 (0.65%) F5
13 10 (0.59%) Infoblox
13 10 (0.59%) Murex
13 10 (0.59%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.59%) VMware