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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 59 61
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,985 1,343 1,276
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.64% 4.05% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 4.48% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 824 712
10th Percentile £400 £360 £363
25th Percentile £475 £447 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £717 £690
90th Percentile £788 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 32 30
10th Percentile £38.03 £22.16 £33.95
25th Percentile £51.00 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £74.84 £33.50 £57.94
Median % change year-on-year +123.40% -42.18% -3.44%
75th Percentile £84.65 £54.25 £72.72
90th Percentile £89.80 £72.88 £78.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.35 £33.50 £58.38
% change year-on-year +130.90% -42.61% -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 46,102 30,004 32,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.46% 86.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,718 18,629 19,703
10th Percentile £325 £294 £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 £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,326 1,885 1,303
10th Percentile £13.58 £14.33 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.52 £65.00 £73.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £41.25
% change year-on-year +68.43% -46.02% -2.94%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -4 1,734 £568 -1.30% 3,834
UK excluding London -1 947 £525 +2.68% 1,600
London -5 876 £600 -7.69% 2,435
Work from Home -12 541 £550 -8.33% 1,418
North of England -2 273 £500 - 348
South East +14 257 £575 +4.55% 414
North West -19 135 £525 +5.00% 191
Yorkshire +17 131 £491 -1.90% 133
Scotland +15 122 £500 +11.11% 169
Midlands -29 107 £513 +7.89% 209
South West -20 101 £600 - 207
West Midlands -21 84 £498 -1.73% 124
East of England +6 71 £513 -16.33% 122
East Midlands -28 20 £550 +36.82% 85
Wales -10 15 £600 +45.45% 44
Northern Ireland +4 10 £505 -8.18% 95
North East -37 8 £450 -18.18% 24
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 78 (3.93%) Confluence
2 39 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.60%) SAS
4 6 (0.30%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.20%) CMS
6 4 (0.20%) IIS
6 4 (0.20%) nginx
7 2 (0.10%) Apache
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.050%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.050%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.050%) Appian
8 1 (0.050%) CICS
8 1 (0.050%) Documentum
8 1 (0.050%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.050%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 62 (3.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (1.11%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.15%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.15%) Revit
8 2 (0.10%) LaTeX
8 2 (0.10%) Windchill
9 1 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.050%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 50 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.76%) SAP GRC
3 12 (0.60%) Endur
4 10 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.50%) Primavera
5 9 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.30%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.25%) SAP HCM
8 4 (0.20%) Actimize
8 4 (0.20%) Magento
8 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.15%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.15%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 303 (15.26%) Azure
2 212 (10.68%) AWS
3 104 (5.24%) GCP
4 83 (4.18%) Power Platform
5 73 (3.68%) Entra ID
6 68 (3.43%) SaaS
7 62 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
8 52 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (2.02%) GitHub
10 29 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
11 28 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
12 27 (1.36%) OCI
13 23 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (0.96%) Snowflake
15 18 (0.91%) Serverless
16 17 (0.86%) Azure AI
16 17 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
16 17 (0.86%) PaaS
17 16 (0.81%) Anthropic Claude
17 16 (0.81%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.58%) Network Security
2 55 (2.77%) Firewall
3 23 (1.16%) WAN
4 21 (1.06%) LAN
4 21 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 17 (0.86%) VPN
6 16 (0.81%) DNS
7 11 (0.55%) 5G
8 10 (0.50%) DHCP
9 9 (0.45%) 4G
10 8 (0.40%) Cisco IPT
11 7 (0.35%) Internet
11 7 (0.35%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.25%) BIG-IP
13 5 (0.25%) HTTP
13 5 (0.25%) Modbus
13 5 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
13 5 (0.25%) Softphone
13 5 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (3.22%) Power BI
2 47 (2.37%) SQL Server
3 38 (1.91%) Metadata
4 28 (1.41%) Relational Database
5 24 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.86%) MongoDB
7 16 (0.81%) Data Lake
7 16 (0.81%) Oracle Database
7 16 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (0.76%) Db2
9 13 (0.65%) Big Data
10 9 (0.45%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.40%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.35%) MySQL
12 7 (0.35%) Tableau
13 6 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.30%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.25%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (0.20%) Neo4j
15 4 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 144 (7.25%) JIRA
2 31 (1.56%) Git
3 23 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.71%) Selenium
5 12 (0.60%) Cypress.io
6 11 (0.55%) Postman
7 10 (0.50%) GitLab
8 9 (0.45%) WebDriver
9 8 (0.40%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.35%) Claude Code
10 7 (0.35%) Zephyr
11 5 (0.25%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.20%) Gradle
12 4 (0.20%) Subversion
13 3 (0.15%) JMeter
13 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.15%) TestRail
14 2 (0.10%) MLflow
14 2 (0.10%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 811 (40.86%) Social Skills
2 755 (38.04%) Finance
3 348 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (12.75%) Public Sector
5 246 (12.39%) Banking
6 150 (7.56%) Legal
7 111 (5.59%) Influencing Skills
8 92 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
9 80 (4.03%) Front Office
10 57 (2.87%) Aerospace
11 54 (2.72%) Military
12 53 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
13 49 (2.47%) Manufacturing
14 48 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
15 44 (2.22%) Investment Banking
16 42 (2.12%) Financial Institution
17 40 (2.02%) Telecoms
18 38 (1.91%) Law
19 36 (1.81%) Retail
20 26 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 266 (13.40%) Lead
2 230 (11.59%) Architect
3 210 (10.58%) Analyst
4 203 (10.23%) Senior
5 200 (10.08%) Project Manager
6 108 (5.44%) Consultant
7 93 (4.69%) Security Architect
8 88 (4.43%) Programme Manager
9 76 (3.83%) Developer
10 70 (3.53%) Business Analyst
11 59 (2.97%) Senior Manager
12 58 (2.92%) IT Manager
13 54 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
14 49 (2.47%) Risk Manager
15 48 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
16 42 (2.12%) Risk Analyst
16 42 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
17 41 (2.07%) Technical Manager
18 40 (2.02%) Security Engineer
19 38 (1.91%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (3.32%) Terraform
2 44 (2.22%) REST
3 40 (2.02%) .NET
4 27 (1.36%) Middleware
5 24 (1.21%) Kafka
6 20 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
7 19 (0.96%) OAuth
8 13 (0.65%) React
8 13 (0.65%) SAML
8 13 (0.65%) Spring
9 12 (0.60%) JSON
9 12 (0.60%) OpenID
10 11 (0.55%) SLSA
10 11 (0.55%) Web Services
11 10 (0.50%) SailPoint
11 10 (0.50%) SOAP
11 10 (0.50%) XGBoost
12 9 (0.45%) LDAP
12 9 (0.45%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 132 (6.65%) Onboarding
2 127 (6.40%) Management Information System
3 109 (5.49%) Product Ownership
4 82 (4.13%) Security Posture
5 72 (3.63%) Cloud Native
6 63 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
7 57 (2.87%) Data Centre
7 57 (2.87%) Operational Technology
8 48 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
9 47 (2.37%) Cyber Threat
10 36 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
10 36 (1.81%) Market Risk
11 34 (1.71%) AI Agents
12 31 (1.56%) Credit Risk
13 30 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
14 27 (1.36%) Derivative
15 26 (1.31%) NHS
16 25 (1.26%) Data Structures
17 24 (1.21%) PKI
17 24 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 75 (3.78%) Linux
2 71 (3.58%) Windows
3 43 (2.17%) Unix
4 23 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.40%) zOS
7 6 (0.30%) 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%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.050%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.050%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (42.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 513 (25.84%) Cybersecurity
3 488 (24.58%) Agile
4 473 (23.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 428 (21.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 334 (16.83%) Decision-Making
7 302 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
8 291 (14.66%) Roadmaps
9 288 (14.51%) AI
10 264 (13.30%) Project Management
11 236 (11.89%) Project Delivery
12 225 (11.34%) Information Security
13 202 (10.18%) DevOps
14 201 (10.13%) CI/CD
15 198 (9.97%) Migration
16 176 (8.87%) Analytics
17 173 (8.72%) Change Management
18 169 (8.51%) Vulnerability Management
19 160 (8.06%) Data Protection
20 156 (7.86%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 174 (8.77%) Python
2 115 (5.79%) SQL
3 53 (2.67%) Java
4 49 (2.47%) PowerShell
5 46 (2.32%) C#
6 25 (1.26%) Bash
7 21 (1.06%) JavaScript
8 17 (0.86%) Shell Script
9 15 (0.76%) C++
10 10 (0.50%) Go
11 8 (0.40%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.40%) VBA
12 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.30%) Bicep
13 6 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.30%) JCL
13 6 (0.30%) Korn
14 5 (0.25%) Assembly Language
14 5 (0.25%) CLIST
14 5 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 548 (27.61%) Security Cleared
2 399 (20.10%) SC Cleared
3 194 (9.77%) Degree
4 171 (8.61%) CISSP
5 125 (6.30%) DV Cleared
6 119 (5.99%) CISM
7 99 (4.99%) PMI Certification
8 91 (4.58%) PMP
9 62 (3.12%) CRISC
10 57 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 48 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (2.37%) CISA
13 43 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 33 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
15 31 (1.56%) Master's Degree
16 26 (1.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 25 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
17 25 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
18 24 (1.21%) AWS Certification
18 24 (1.21%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (12.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 219 (11.03%) NIST
3 200 (10.08%) GRC
4 122 (6.15%) QA
5 109 (5.49%) GDPR
6 98 (4.94%) Data Quality
7 95 (4.79%) NCSC
8 71 (3.58%) PMO
9 45 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 27 (1.36%) JSP 440
11 24 (1.21%) NIST 800
12 19 (0.96%) Accessibility
13 17 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 16 (0.81%) COBIT
14 16 (0.81%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.76%) Def Stans
16 14 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 14 (0.71%) SLA
17 13 (0.65%) ISO 31000
17 13 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.46%) Docker
3 17 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.50%) vSphere
5 7 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.25%) FreeRADIUS
7 5 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.15%) Firmware
9 3 (0.15%) IAG
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.050%) NFS
10 1 (0.050%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 60 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 37 (1.86%) Ansible
3 17 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.65%) Grafana
5 12 (0.60%) SCCM
6 8 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.35%) Control-M
7 7 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.25%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.25%) Nessus
8 5 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
8 5 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.15%) Argo
9 3 (0.15%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.15%) Kibana
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.15%) Puppet
9 3 (0.15%) QRadar
10 2 (0.10%) Istio
Vendors
1 302 (15.21%) Microsoft
2 117 (5.89%) ServiceNow
3 103 (5.19%) SAP
4 78 (3.93%) Oracle
5 55 (2.77%) Google
6 26 (1.31%) VMware
7 25 (1.26%) IBM
8 24 (1.21%) Murex
9 23 (1.16%) Cisco
9 23 (1.16%) Splunk
10 21 (1.06%) Salesforce
11 18 (0.91%) Ariba
11 18 (0.91%) Databricks
12 17 (0.86%) Qualys
13 14 (0.71%) Sybase
14 13 (0.65%) BeyondTrust
14 13 (0.65%) CyberArk
14 13 (0.65%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.65%) Workday
15 12 (0.60%) Foundry