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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 54 61
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 +29
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,333 1,364 1,585
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.65% 3.78% 3.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% 4.32% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 826 770 1,074
10th Percentile £359 £375 £403
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £572 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -0.57% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £689 £700
90th Percentile £838 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 37 54
10th Percentile £22.16 £27.50 £34.33
25th Percentile £24.19 £40.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £73.31
Median % change year-on-year -44.17% -18.16% +66.61%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £83.40
90th Percentile £93.10 £81.28 £83.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £82.79
% change year-on-year -44.17% -27.52% +88.15%

All Process and 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 32,500 31,582 39,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.05% 87.42% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,460 19,152 26,649
10th Percentile £300 £310 £312
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,092 1,104 1,551
10th Percentile £14.54 £15.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.23 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.53 £63.51 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.93 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.71% -23.53% +30.77%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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 -12 1,193 £560 -2.61% 1,029
London -1 664 £624 +3.06% 256
UK excluding London -25 585 £500 -4.76% 908
Work from Home -5 370 £595 +8.09% 434
North of England -21 167 £500 -9.09% 203
South East -8 153 £520 -7.35% 295
North West -20 93 £488 -7.14% 110
Midlands -46 81 £475 -14.87% 158
South West -7 74 £600 +23.08% 103
Yorkshire +12 72 £500 -6.54% 85
West Midlands -45 56 £538 -6.52% 88
Scotland -6 51 £456 -1.35% 34
East of England -35 32 £575 +11.65% 103
East Midlands -19 25 £400 -27.27% 63
Wales +14 20 £354 +44.39% 20
Northern Ireland +2 10 £500 +17.65% 9
North East -12 2 £550 -4.35% 8

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 59 (4.43%) Confluence
2 22 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.90%) CMS
5 11 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.75%) SAS
7 4 (0.30%) CICS
8 2 (0.15%) IIS
8 2 (0.15%) nginx
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.075%) Camunda
Applications
1 76 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (3.75%) Microsoft Project
3 48 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.28%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.38%) Trello
7 3 (0.23%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.23%) Revit
7 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.15%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.15%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.075%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 37 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.98%) Endur
3 10 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.60%) SAP CO
4 8 (0.60%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
5 6 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.38%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.30%) Primavera
7 4 (0.30%) SAP GTS
7 4 (0.30%) VisionPLUS
8 3 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.23%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.23%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 148 (11.10%) AWS
2 135 (10.13%) Azure
3 63 (4.73%) GCP
4 42 (3.15%) Power Platform
5 31 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (2.33%) SaaS
6 22 (1.65%) Entra ID
6 22 (1.65%) GitHub
7 16 (1.20%) dbt
7 16 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
8 15 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (0.75%) OCI
10 9 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (0.68%) Miro
10 9 (0.68%) OpenShift
11 8 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (0.60%) PaaS
12 7 (0.53%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (0.53%) Power Automate
12 7 (0.53%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 58 (4.35%) Firewall
2 24 (1.80%) Network Security
3 10 (0.75%) LAN
4 9 (0.68%) WAN
5 8 (0.60%) Multicast
6 7 (0.53%) Kerberos
7 6 (0.45%) Internet
7 6 (0.45%) VPN
7 6 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.38%) Cisco IPT
8 5 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.30%) 5G
9 4 (0.30%) Broadband
9 4 (0.30%) DNS
9 4 (0.30%) S/MIME
9 4 (0.30%) SSL
9 4 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (0.23%) HTTP
10 3 (0.23%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.15%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (2.70%) Power BI
3 24 (1.80%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.35%) Relational Database
5 15 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (1.13%) Apache Arrow
5 15 (1.13%) Apache Iceberg
5 15 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (1.13%) Dremio
6 13 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 11 (0.83%) Metadata
8 9 (0.68%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.68%) Tableau
9 8 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (0.60%) Big Data
9 8 (0.60%) KDB
9 8 (0.60%) Kdb+
9 8 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.45%) MySQL
10 6 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 119 (8.93%) JIRA
2 21 (1.58%) Git
3 13 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.83%) SpecFlow
5 8 (0.60%) GCC
5 8 (0.60%) GDB
6 7 (0.53%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.38%) Gradle
7 5 (0.38%) Maven
7 5 (0.38%) Postman
7 5 (0.38%) QUnit
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.30%) Selenium
8 4 (0.30%) SonarLint
9 3 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.23%) JUnit
9 3 (0.23%) MSTest
9 3 (0.23%) NUnit
9 3 (0.23%) Ranorex
10 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 577 (43.29%) Social Skills
2 542 (40.66%) Finance
3 220 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (14.48%) Banking
5 132 (9.90%) Public Sector
6 101 (7.58%) Legal
7 71 (5.33%) Front Office
8 56 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
9 51 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
10 41 (3.08%) Investment Banking
11 37 (2.78%) Manufacturing
12 35 (2.63%) Telecoms
13 31 (2.33%) Financial Institution
14 27 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (1.95%) Retail
16 24 (1.80%) Marketing
17 23 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
18 22 (1.65%) Local Government
19 20 (1.50%) Back Office
20 19 (1.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 178 (13.35%) Analyst
2 162 (12.15%) Project Manager
3 134 (10.05%) Senior
4 133 (9.98%) Lead
5 131 (9.83%) Developer
6 116 (8.70%) Consultant
7 108 (8.10%) Architect
8 66 (4.95%) Business Analyst
9 51 (3.83%) Programme Manager
10 48 (3.60%) Security Consultant
11 46 (3.45%) Security Architect
12 39 (2.93%) Delivery Manager
13 37 (2.78%) Senior Developer
13 37 (2.78%) Senior Manager
14 36 (2.70%) AWS Developer
15 35 (2.63%) Java Developer
15 35 (2.63%) Security Analyst
16 34 (2.55%) Risk Analyst
17 33 (2.48%) IT Manager
17 33 (2.48%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.55%) React
2 32 (2.40%) AngularJS
3 30 (2.25%) .NET
3 30 (2.25%) Kafka
4 25 (1.88%) NumPy
5 24 (1.80%) Pandas
5 24 (1.80%) REST
6 22 (1.65%) RESTful
7 16 (1.20%) .NET Framework
7 16 (1.20%) Node.js
7 16 (1.20%) SciPy
8 15 (1.13%) Playwright
8 15 (1.13%) Vue
9 14 (1.05%) Middleware
10 12 (0.90%) Entity Framework
10 12 (0.90%) OAuth
11 11 (0.83%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 11 (0.83%) NHibernate
12 10 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
12 10 (0.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 167 (12.53%) Management Information System
2 72 (5.40%) Product Ownership
3 60 (4.50%) Security Posture
4 58 (4.35%) Derivative
5 55 (4.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 44 (3.30%) Equities
6 44 (3.30%) Onboarding
7 41 (3.08%) Market Risk
8 39 (2.93%) Fixed Income
9 37 (2.78%) Data Centre
10 32 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 31 (2.33%) Credit Risk
12 29 (2.18%) Cloud Native
12 29 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
13 23 (1.73%) Algorithms
13 23 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
14 21 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
15 18 (1.35%) Data Structures
16 17 (1.28%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 52 (3.90%) Linux
2 30 (2.25%) Windows
3 19 (1.43%) Unix
4 5 (0.38%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.23%) VMS
6 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.075%) Android
7 1 (0.075%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.075%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (26.18%) Agile
2 347 (26.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 277 (20.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 261 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
5 237 (17.78%) Cybersecurity
6 225 (16.88%) Project Management
7 182 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 158 (11.85%) Decision-Making
9 152 (11.40%) Information Security
10 138 (10.35%) Project Delivery
11 133 (9.98%) Migration
12 130 (9.75%) Change Management
13 106 (7.95%) AI
14 105 (7.88%) Scrum
15 99 (7.43%) Incident Response
16 97 (7.28%) Analytics
16 97 (7.28%) Roadmaps
17 93 (6.98%) Data Protection
17 93 (6.98%) PRINCE2
18 91 (6.83%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 149 (11.18%) Python
2 115 (8.63%) SQL
3 75 (5.63%) Java
4 30 (2.25%) C#
4 30 (2.25%) C++
5 28 (2.10%) TypeScript
6 26 (1.95%) JavaScript
7 24 (1.80%) PowerShell
8 12 (0.90%) VBA
9 10 (0.75%) R
10 5 (0.38%) JCL
11 4 (0.30%) COBOL
11 4 (0.30%) Go
12 3 (0.23%) Bash
12 3 (0.23%) Korn
12 3 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.23%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.15%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.15%) Scala
13 2 (0.15%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 249 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 195 (14.63%) Degree
3 182 (13.65%) SC Cleared
4 123 (9.23%) CISSP
5 79 (5.93%) CISM
6 69 (5.18%) PMI Certification
6 69 (5.18%) PMP
7 68 (5.10%) DV Cleared
8 57 (4.28%) Master's Degree
9 34 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (1.88%) CISA
12 20 (1.50%) CRISC
12 20 (1.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 16 (1.20%) PhD
14 14 (1.05%) GIAC
15 13 (0.98%) Azure Certification
15 13 (0.98%) CESG Certified Professional
15 13 (0.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (12.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 167 (12.53%) NIST
3 111 (8.33%) GDPR
4 82 (6.15%) GRC
5 76 (5.70%) QA
6 70 (5.25%) PMO
7 40 (3.00%) PCI DSS
8 35 (2.63%) NCSC
9 31 (2.33%) Data Quality
9 31 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 22 (1.65%) NIST 800
11 18 (1.35%) SLA
12 17 (1.28%) Accessibility
12 17 (1.28%) RMADS
13 16 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (1.20%) EU AI Act
14 15 (1.13%) COBIT
14 15 (1.13%) Def Stans
14 15 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 10 (0.75%) Basel III
System Software
1 26 (1.95%) Active Directory
1 26 (1.95%) Docker
2 6 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.075%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.075%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 29 (2.18%) Kubernetes
2 22 (1.65%) Terraform
3 16 (1.20%) Ansible
4 11 (0.83%) RSA Archer
5 9 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.45%) QRadar
7 5 (0.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 5 (0.38%) Grafana
7 5 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.075%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.075%) Consul
10 1 (0.075%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.075%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.075%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.075%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.075%) Packer
10 1 (0.075%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 159 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 90 (6.75%) SAP
3 65 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 41 (3.08%) Oracle
5 24 (1.80%) Splunk
6 19 (1.43%) Google
6 19 (1.43%) Salesforce
7 12 (0.90%) Ariba
7 12 (0.90%) Cisco
8 10 (0.75%) Databricks
8 10 (0.75%) Solace
9 9 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (0.68%) CyberArk
9 9 (0.68%) IBM
10 7 (0.53%) ArcSight
10 7 (0.53%) Bloomberg
10 7 (0.53%) Citrix
10 7 (0.53%) LogRhythm
11 6 (0.45%) BiZZdesign
11 6 (0.45%) Workday