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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 45 75
Rank change year-on-year -31 +30 -9
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,618 1,377 1,215
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.15% 4.50% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 4.95% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,045 842 750
10th Percentile £406 £375 £356
25th Percentile £480 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £712
90th Percentile £800 £875 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £540
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 27 41
10th Percentile £21.13 £46.30 £12.25
25th Percentile £45.90 £48.13 £22.34
Median hourly rate £64.09 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +30.00% +370.37%
75th Percentile £87.16 £80.24 £61.25
90th Percentile £106.50 £87.35 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.09 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.40% +30.00% +370.37%

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 43,613 27,816 36,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.98% 90.91% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,139 17,565 23,448
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,612 1,364 2,554
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.00% -34.42% +8.91%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -25 1,441 £563 -3.85% 591
UK excluding London -9 822 £525 +2.44% 378
London -42 688 £600 -9.43% 282
Work from Home -20 475 £550 -8.18% 263
North of England -10 254 £513 - 88
South East -13 209 £563 +2.27% 149
Yorkshire +2 128 £500 -4.76% 28
North West -15 124 £540 +5.62% 52
Midlands -38 118 £550 +15.79% 47
South West +5 95 £570 +9.62% 45
Scotland -4 94 £475 +1.71% 14
West Midlands -31 88 £545 +9.00% 25
East of England +4 49 £525 -4.55% 36
East Midlands -16 30 £550 +24.29% 22
Northern Ireland -2 9 £394 -28.41% 5
Wales -16 5 £800 +77.78% 6
North East -38 4 £454 -17.50% 11

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 70 (4.33%) Confluence
2 34 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.62%) SAS
4 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.25%) IIS
6 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.062%) Apache
8 1 (0.062%) Appian
8 1 (0.062%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.062%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.062%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.062%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.062%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.062%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.062%) WebSphere
Applications
1 50 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
4 34 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.87%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.25%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.25%) Revit
6 4 (0.25%) Trello
7 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.19%) Windchill
8 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.062%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.062%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 28 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.74%) Endur
3 11 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.37%) Primavera
5 6 (0.37%) Summit
6 5 (0.31%) Actimize
6 5 (0.31%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.25%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.25%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.19%) Findur
8 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 232 (14.34%) Azure
2 169 (10.44%) AWS
3 71 (4.39%) GCP
4 66 (4.08%) Power Platform
5 57 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (3.09%) Entra ID
7 49 (3.03%) SaaS
8 33 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (1.79%) GitHub
10 28 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
11 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
12 19 (1.17%) PaaS
13 18 (1.11%) Snowflake
14 16 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (0.93%) Google Workspace
16 13 (0.80%) Azure AI
16 13 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
16 13 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (0.80%) Serverless
17 12 (0.74%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.52%) Network Security
2 38 (2.35%) Firewall
3 16 (0.99%) DNS
4 14 (0.87%) DHCP
4 14 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 12 (0.74%) WAN
6 11 (0.68%) 5G
6 11 (0.68%) BIG-IP
7 10 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.56%) 4G
8 9 (0.56%) LAN
9 7 (0.43%) HTTP
9 7 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (0.37%) Internet
10 6 (0.37%) VPN
11 5 (0.31%) 3G
11 5 (0.31%) NAS
11 5 (0.31%) NGFW
11 5 (0.31%) SAN
12 4 (0.25%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.15%) Power BI
2 35 (2.16%) Metadata
3 30 (1.85%) Relational Database
4 25 (1.55%) SQL Server
5 21 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (0.99%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.74%) Db2
9 11 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.62%) Tableau
11 9 (0.56%) Big Data
11 9 (0.56%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.37%) MySQL
12 6 (0.37%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.31%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 5 (0.31%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 119 (7.35%) JIRA
2 21 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.24%) Git
4 8 (0.49%) GitLab
5 7 (0.43%) Selenium
6 6 (0.37%) TeamCity
6 6 (0.37%) Zephyr
7 5 (0.31%) JUnit
7 5 (0.31%) Mockito
8 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (0.25%) DbUnit
8 4 (0.25%) jMock
8 4 (0.25%) Maven
8 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.19%) MLflow
9 3 (0.19%) Postman
10 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 611 (37.76%) Finance
2 602 (37.21%) Social Skills
3 251 (15.51%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (11.68%) Banking
5 186 (11.50%) Public Sector
6 128 (7.91%) Legal
7 57 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
8 54 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
9 46 (2.84%) Front Office
10 43 (2.66%) Financial Institution
11 40 (2.47%) Telecoms
12 37 (2.29%) Investment Banking
13 36 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
13 36 (2.22%) Retail
14 34 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
15 32 (1.98%) Manufacturing
16 29 (1.79%) Military
17 27 (1.67%) Law
18 25 (1.55%) Aerospace
19 23 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 203 (12.55%) Lead
2 194 (11.99%) Project Manager
3 177 (10.94%) Architect
4 157 (9.70%) Senior
5 153 (9.46%) Analyst
6 91 (5.62%) Consultant
7 72 (4.45%) Security Architect
8 71 (4.39%) Developer
9 68 (4.20%) Business Analyst
9 68 (4.20%) Programme Manager
10 58 (3.58%) Risk Manager
10 58 (3.58%) Senior Manager
11 45 (2.78%) IT Manager
12 41 (2.53%) Delivery Manager
13 38 (2.35%) Security Consultant
14 37 (2.29%) Security Engineer
15 34 (2.10%) Security Manager
16 32 (1.98%) Solutions Architect
17 28 (1.73%) Risk Analyst
18 27 (1.67%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 26 (1.61%) REST
3 25 (1.55%) .NET
4 21 (1.30%) Kafka
5 18 (1.11%) Middleware
6 16 (0.99%) XML
7 13 (0.80%) JSON
8 12 (0.74%) SOAP
9 11 (0.68%) Azure Blueprints
9 11 (0.68%) Leaflet
9 11 (0.68%) OAuth
9 11 (0.68%) OpenID
9 11 (0.68%) React
9 11 (0.68%) RESTful
9 11 (0.68%) SAML
10 10 (0.62%) Web Services
11 9 (0.56%) LDAP
12 8 (0.49%) PySpark
12 8 (0.49%) PyTorch
13 7 (0.43%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 123 (7.60%) Management Information System
2 83 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 70 (4.33%) Onboarding
4 65 (4.02%) Security Posture
5 64 (3.96%) Cloud Native
6 60 (3.71%) Operational Technology
7 50 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
8 48 (2.97%) Data Centre
9 40 (2.47%) Derivative
10 31 (1.92%) Market Risk
11 27 (1.67%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.61%) PMI
13 25 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
14 24 (1.48%) NHS
15 23 (1.42%) Data Structures
15 23 (1.42%) Fixed Income
16 21 (1.30%) Credit Risk
17 20 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
18 19 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
19 18 (1.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 53 (3.28%) Windows
2 44 (2.72%) Linux
3 32 (1.98%) Unix
4 19 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.43%) zOS
7 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (33.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 408 (25.22%) Agile
3 362 (22.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 330 (20.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 321 (19.84%) Cybersecurity
6 255 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
7 238 (14.71%) Decision-Making
8 237 (14.65%) Project Management
9 207 (12.79%) Roadmaps
10 200 (12.36%) AI
11 198 (12.24%) Information Security
12 173 (10.69%) Change Management
13 154 (9.52%) Project Delivery
14 143 (8.84%) Migration
15 138 (8.53%) DevOps
16 136 (8.41%) CI/CD
17 135 (8.34%) Analytics
18 128 (7.91%) Regulatory Compliance
19 124 (7.66%) Data Protection
20 119 (7.35%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 128 (7.91%) Python
2 109 (6.74%) SQL
3 56 (3.46%) Java
4 38 (2.35%) PowerShell
5 24 (1.48%) C#
6 16 (0.99%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.80%) VBA
8 11 (0.68%) C++
9 10 (0.62%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.56%) Bash
10 9 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.43%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.37%) Go
13 4 (0.25%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.25%) Bicep
13 4 (0.25%) CLIST
13 4 (0.25%) JCL
13 4 (0.25%) REXX
14 3 (0.19%) C
14 3 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 385 (23.79%) Security Cleared
2 285 (17.61%) SC Cleared
3 188 (11.62%) Degree
4 148 (9.15%) CISSP
5 101 (6.24%) CISM
6 91 (5.62%) DV Cleared
7 78 (4.82%) PMI Certification
8 72 (4.45%) PMP
9 43 (2.66%) CRISC
10 37 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 32 (1.98%) CISA
12 32 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
13 28 (1.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 27 (1.67%) Master's Degree
15 24 (1.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 16 (0.99%) CESG Certified Professional
16 16 (0.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 15 (0.93%) AWS Certification
17 15 (0.93%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (12.11%) NIST
2 193 (11.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 151 (9.33%) GRC
4 109 (6.74%) GDPR
5 74 (4.57%) QA
6 73 (4.51%) PMO
7 69 (4.26%) Data Quality
8 58 (3.58%) NCSC
9 40 (2.47%) PCI DSS
10 37 (2.29%) JSP 440
11 31 (1.92%) SLA
11 31 (1.92%) SOC 2
12 30 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
13 25 (1.55%) COBIT
13 25 (1.55%) NIST 800
14 17 (1.05%) ISO 31000
14 17 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 17 (1.05%) RMADS
14 17 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 14 (0.87%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 33 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.99%) Docker
3 9 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.25%) Postfix
4 4 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
5 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.12%) NFS
6 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.062%) Ceph
7 1 (0.062%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.062%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 24 (1.48%) Terraform
3 21 (1.30%) Ansible
4 14 (0.87%) SCCM
5 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (0.62%) Grafana
7 8 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.31%) Control-M
9 5 (0.31%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
11 3 (0.19%) CASB
11 3 (0.19%) Nessus
12 2 (0.12%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.12%) Istio
12 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.12%) OpenVAS
12 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 211 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 95 (5.87%) ServiceNow
3 83 (5.13%) Oracle
4 80 (4.94%) SAP
5 44 (2.72%) Google
6 21 (1.30%) Workday
7 20 (1.24%) IBM
8 19 (1.17%) Salesforce
9 18 (1.11%) Cisco
10 16 (0.99%) Murex
11 15 (0.93%) Sybase
12 14 (0.87%) Splunk
13 13 (0.80%) F5
13 13 (0.80%) Foundry
13 13 (0.80%) VMware
14 12 (0.74%) Databricks
14 12 (0.74%) Qualys
15 11 (0.68%) Ariba
16 10 (0.62%) Infoblox
17 9 (0.56%) CrowdStrike