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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 52 69
Rank change year-on-year -20 +17 +1
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,765 1,480 1,163
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.31% 4.49% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 4.96% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,098 918 706
10th Percentile £406 £363 £363
25th Percentile £474 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +0.91% -6.83%
75th Percentile £675 £730 £723
90th Percentile £788 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £511 £550
% change year-on-year +2.68% -7.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 28 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 £85.00 £73.75 £68.17
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.33 £81.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.35 £51.00 £58.38
% change year-on-year +51.67% -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 45,292 29,826 33,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.86% 90.48% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,883 18,657 21,289
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 2,827 1,696 1,836
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.80 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.51 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.84 £42.50
% change year-on-year +92.47% -46.26% +17.24%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 1,549 £570 -0.87% 3,018
UK excluding London -8 910 £525 +2.68% 1,399
London -38 725 £600 -7.69% 1,952
Work from Home -27 493 £550 -4.35% 1,293
North of England -12 268 £503 -0.84% 306
South East +2 246 £575 +4.55% 346
Yorkshire 0 132 £500 - 88
North West -32 130 £525 +3.45% 196
South West -9 110 £570 -0.87% 182
Scotland +13 109 £475 +2.21% 195
Midlands -40 105 £575 +21.82% 175
West Midlands -32 83 £563 +12.50% 111
East of England +13 66 £519 -9.78% 107
East Midlands -18 19 £547 +36.07% 64
Northern Ireland 0 9 £394 -28.41% 65
Wales -15 7 £650 +47.14% 35
North East -43 6 £454 -22.77% 27

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 (4.19%) Confluence
2 41 (2.32%) 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 56 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 37 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.91%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.23%) Navisworks
5 4 (0.23%) Revit
6 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.17%) Trello
6 3 (0.17%) Windchill
7 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.057%) MicroStation
8 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
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
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%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.17%) Summit
9 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 266 (15.07%) Azure
2 194 (10.99%) AWS
3 84 (4.76%) GCP
4 72 (4.08%) Power Platform
5 63 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (3.29%) Entra ID
7 50 (2.83%) SaaS
8 38 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (1.87%) GitHub
10 26 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
11 25 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
13 21 (1.19%) Snowflake
14 20 (1.13%) OCI
15 19 (1.08%) Azure AI
15 19 (1.08%) PaaS
16 17 (0.96%) Serverless
17 16 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
18 14 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
19 12 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 66 (3.74%) Network Security
2 41 (2.32%) 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 55 (3.12%) Power BI
2 33 (1.87%) Metadata
2 33 (1.87%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.81%) Relational Database
4 18 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (0.96%) MongoDB
5 17 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (0.79%) Data Lake
7 13 (0.74%) Db2
8 11 (0.62%) Tableau
9 10 (0.57%) Big Data
9 10 (0.57%) RDBMS
10 8 (0.45%) Oracle Database
11 7 (0.40%) MySQL
12 5 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.28%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.28%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 120 (6.80%) JIRA
2 26 (1.47%) Git
3 21 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.74%) Selenium
5 9 (0.51%) Postman
6 8 (0.45%) Cypress.io
6 8 (0.45%) 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%) Claude Code
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
1 684 (38.75%) Social Skills
2 644 (36.49%) Finance
3 281 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 212 (12.01%) Public Sector
5 191 (10.82%) Banking
6 132 (7.48%) Legal
7 74 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
8 73 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
9 60 (3.40%) Front Office
10 47 (2.66%) Telecoms
11 45 (2.55%) Aerospace
11 45 (2.55%) Retail
12 44 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
13 40 (2.27%) Financial Institution
14 38 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
15 36 (2.04%) Investment Banking
16 34 (1.93%) Military
17 30 (1.70%) Law
18 29 (1.64%) Manufacturing
19 25 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 232 (13.14%) Lead
2 220 (12.46%) Architect
3 208 (11.78%) Project Manager
4 175 (9.92%) Senior
5 158 (8.95%) Analyst
6 106 (6.01%) Consultant
7 96 (5.44%) Security Architect
8 74 (4.19%) Programme Manager
9 69 (3.91%) Developer
10 61 (3.46%) Senior Manager
11 60 (3.40%) Business Analyst
12 54 (3.06%) Risk Manager
13 49 (2.78%) Delivery Manager
13 49 (2.78%) IT Manager
14 45 (2.55%) Security Consultant
15 39 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
16 34 (1.93%) Security Engineer
16 34 (1.93%) Security Manager
17 30 (1.70%) Technical Manager
18 29 (1.64%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.81%) 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 12 (0.68%) JSON
7 12 (0.68%) SAML
7 12 (0.68%) SOAP
7 12 (0.68%) Spring
7 12 (0.68%) XML
8 11 (0.62%) Leaflet
8 11 (0.62%) OpenID
8 11 (0.62%) RESTful
9 10 (0.57%) Azure Blueprints
9 10 (0.57%) React
9 10 (0.57%) SLSA
10 9 (0.51%) LDAP
10 9 (0.51%) PyTorch
10 9 (0.51%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 122 (6.91%) Management Information System
2 90 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 89 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 77 (4.36%) Cloud Native
5 75 (4.25%) Security Posture
6 56 (3.17%) Operational Technology
7 51 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
8 47 (2.66%) Data Centre
9 36 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
10 34 (1.93%) AI Agents
11 32 (1.81%) Derivative
12 31 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
13 26 (1.47%) Market Risk
14 25 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
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%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 57 (3.23%) Windows
2 53 (3.00%) Linux
3 35 (1.98%) Unix
4 21 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.28%) zOS
7 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
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 1 (0.057%) Android
9 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 653 (37.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 429 (24.31%) Agile
3 397 (22.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 391 (22.15%) Cybersecurity
5 368 (20.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 258 (14.62%) Decision-Making
7 257 (14.56%) Project Management
8 247 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
9 242 (13.71%) AI
10 218 (12.35%) Roadmaps
11 207 (11.73%) Information Security
12 189 (10.71%) Project Delivery
13 165 (9.35%) Migration
14 163 (9.24%) Change Management
15 161 (9.12%) CI/CD
15 161 (9.12%) DevOps
16 138 (7.82%) Analytics
17 135 (7.65%) PRINCE2
18 132 (7.48%) Data Protection
18 132 (7.48%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (7.25%) Python
2 89 (5.04%) SQL
3 55 (3.12%) 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 (25.67%) Security Cleared
2 330 (18.70%) SC Cleared
3 180 (10.20%) Degree
4 165 (9.35%) CISSP
5 117 (6.63%) DV Cleared
6 110 (6.23%) CISM
7 82 (4.65%) PMI Certification
8 79 (4.48%) PMP
9 49 (2.78%) CRISC
10 45 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (2.04%) CISA
13 34 (1.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 31 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
15 28 (1.59%) Master's Degree
15 28 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
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
1 214 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 212 (12.01%) NIST
3 170 (9.63%) GRC
4 121 (6.86%) GDPR
5 89 (5.04%) QA
6 71 (4.02%) Data Quality
7 67 (3.80%) PMO
8 63 (3.57%) NCSC
9 36 (2.04%) JSP 440
10 34 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
11 31 (1.76%) PCI DSS
12 27 (1.53%) SOC 2
13 26 (1.47%) SLA
14 22 (1.25%) COBIT
15 21 (1.19%) NIST 800
16 18 (1.02%) ISO 31000
17 17 (0.96%) Accessibility
17 17 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 16 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 42001
19 15 (0.85%) Def Stans
System Software
1 38 (2.15%) 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 37 (2.10%) Terraform
2 36 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.47%) Ansible
4 12 (0.68%) Grafana
4 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.57%) SCCM
6 9 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.23%) Control-M
9 4 (0.23%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.23%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.17%) CASB
10 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.17%) Istio
10 3 (0.17%) Nessus
11 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 244 (13.82%) Microsoft
2 94 (5.33%) 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%) Splunk
9 16 (0.91%) Foundry
9 16 (0.91%) Sybase
9 16 (0.91%) Workday
10 15 (0.85%) Cisco
11 13 (0.74%) Databricks
11 13 (0.74%) Murex
12 12 (0.68%) Qualys
13 10 (0.57%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.57%) VMware
14 9 (0.51%) Ariba
14 9 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (0.51%) Tenable