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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 54 65
Rank change year-on-year -17 +11 0
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,872 1,404 1,234
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.44% 4.29% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.06% 4.74% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,145 871 725
10th Percentile £400 £358 £382
25th Percentile £475 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £560
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% - -5.37%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £800 £875 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £503 £550
% change year-on-year +4.48% -8.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 23 29
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £31.02
25th Percentile £46.25 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £64.09 £49.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.47% -13.91% +17.35%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £87.43 £84.55 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.68 £33.50 £58.38
% change year-on-year +122.93% -42.61% -2.71%

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 46,106 29,609 32,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.64% 90.43% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,135 18,363 20,196
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
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 2,994 1,772 1,501
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.03 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.17% -41.51% +1.96%
75th Percentile £67.84 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £22.60 £43.00
% change year-on-year +85.18% -47.44% +7.50%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -16 1,636 £563 -2.17% 3,132
UK excluding London -7 936 £525 +4.48% 1,393
London -26 790 £600 -7.69% 2,102
Work from Home -24 505 £550 -7.95% 1,515
North of England -9 271 £511 +2.26% 305
South East +10 249 £575 +4.55% 338
North West -18 138 £525 +2.68% 194
Yorkshire +5 127 £500 - 94
Scotland +9 119 £488 +8.33% 175
South West -18 114 £600 +4.35% 200
Midlands -41 108 £542 +15.62% 195
West Midlands -26 85 £525 +5.00% 120
East of England +5 66 £513 -14.58% 100
East Midlands -27 20 £547 +36.07% 75
Wales -18 11 £600 +45.45% 22
Northern Ireland -4 9 £413 -25.00% 69
North East -45 6 £454 - 23
Channel Islands - 2 £600 - 1

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 72 (3.85%) Confluence
2 47 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.53%) SAS
4 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.21%) IIS
5 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.11%) CMS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.053%) Apache
8 1 (0.053%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.053%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.053%) Appian
8 1 (0.053%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.053%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.053%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 68 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.21%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.21%) Revit
7 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.16%) Windchill
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.053%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.85%) SAP GRC
3 14 (0.75%) Endur
4 10 (0.53%) Primavera
5 9 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.21%) Actimize
9 4 (0.21%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.21%) Magento
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.21%) Summit
10 3 (0.16%) Front Arena
10 3 (0.16%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 276 (14.74%) Azure
2 192 (10.26%) AWS
3 88 (4.70%) Power Platform
4 81 (4.33%) GCP
5 65 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
6 63 (3.37%) Entra ID
7 56 (2.99%) SaaS
8 39 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (1.66%) GitHub
10 26 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
11 25 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (1.28%) OCI
13 21 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
13 21 (1.12%) Snowflake
14 20 (1.07%) PaaS
15 19 (1.01%) Azure AI
16 17 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
17 16 (0.85%) IaaS
18 15 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
18 15 (0.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 65 (3.47%) Network Security
2 43 (2.30%) Firewall
3 23 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 18 (0.96%) DNS
4 18 (0.96%) WAN
5 16 (0.85%) LAN
6 14 (0.75%) 5G
6 14 (0.75%) DHCP
7 12 (0.64%) 4G
8 8 (0.43%) BIG-IP
8 8 (0.43%) HTTP
8 8 (0.43%) Internet
8 8 (0.43%) VPN
9 7 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.32%) Cisco IPT
10 6 (0.32%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.32%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.27%) 3G
11 5 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
11 5 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (3.63%) Power BI
2 45 (2.40%) Metadata
3 38 (2.03%) SQL Server
4 34 (1.82%) Relational Database
5 21 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (0.96%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (0.75%) Data Lake
8 14 (0.75%) Db2
9 12 (0.64%) Tableau
10 11 (0.59%) Big Data
11 10 (0.53%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.48%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.37%) MySQL
14 5 (0.27%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.27%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 4 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.21%) Neo4j
15 4 (0.21%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 128 (6.84%) JIRA
2 28 (1.50%) Git
3 20 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.69%) Selenium
5 9 (0.48%) Cypress.io
5 9 (0.48%) Zephyr
6 8 (0.43%) Postman
7 7 (0.37%) WebDriver
8 6 (0.32%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.32%) GitLab
9 4 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.21%) Maven
9 4 (0.21%) Subversion
10 3 (0.16%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.16%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.16%) Gradle
10 3 (0.16%) jMock
10 3 (0.16%) JUnit
10 3 (0.16%) Mockito
General
1 750 (40.06%) Social Skills
2 684 (36.54%) Finance
3 320 (17.09%) Analytical Skills
4 232 (12.39%) Public Sector
5 206 (11.00%) Banking
6 142 (7.59%) Legal
7 89 (4.75%) Influencing Skills
8 75 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
9 74 (3.95%) Front Office
10 53 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
11 50 (2.67%) Aerospace
12 45 (2.40%) Investment Banking
12 45 (2.40%) Military
13 43 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (2.30%) Telecoms
14 41 (2.19%) Retail
15 40 (2.14%) Manufacturing
16 39 (2.08%) Financial Institution
17 35 (1.87%) Law
18 25 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 243 (12.98%) Lead
2 230 (12.29%) Architect
3 195 (10.42%) Project Manager
4 186 (9.94%) Analyst
5 178 (9.51%) Senior
6 104 (5.56%) Consultant
7 97 (5.18%) Security Architect
8 76 (4.06%) Programme Manager
9 74 (3.95%) Developer
10 65 (3.47%) Business Analyst
11 55 (2.94%) IT Manager
12 53 (2.83%) Risk Manager
12 53 (2.83%) Senior Manager
13 49 (2.62%) Delivery Manager
14 43 (2.30%) Security Consultant
15 36 (1.92%) Security Manager
15 36 (1.92%) Solutions Architect
16 35 (1.87%) Risk Analyst
17 34 (1.82%) Technical Manager
18 33 (1.76%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.24%) Terraform
2 36 (1.92%) REST
3 33 (1.76%) .NET
4 25 (1.34%) Middleware
5 22 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
6 20 (1.07%) Kafka
7 18 (0.96%) OAuth
8 15 (0.80%) JSON
9 13 (0.69%) Spring
9 13 (0.69%) XML
10 12 (0.64%) SAML
11 11 (0.59%) OpenID
11 11 (0.59%) React
11 11 (0.59%) SailPoint
11 11 (0.59%) SLSA
11 11 (0.59%) SOAP
12 10 (0.53%) RESTful
13 9 (0.48%) LDAP
13 9 (0.48%) Spring Boot
14 8 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 120 (6.41%) Management Information System
2 112 (5.98%) Onboarding
3 89 (4.75%) Product Ownership
4 78 (4.17%) Security Posture
5 71 (3.79%) Cloud Native
6 58 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
7 54 (2.88%) Operational Technology
8 42 (2.24%) Cyber Threat
8 42 (2.24%) Data Centre
9 35 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (1.82%) AI Agents
10 34 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
11 32 (1.71%) Derivative
12 31 (1.66%) Market Risk
13 28 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
14 27 (1.44%) Data Structures
15 26 (1.39%) NHS
16 23 (1.23%) Credit Risk
16 23 (1.23%) PMI
17 21 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 62 (3.31%) Windows
2 58 (3.10%) Linux
3 39 (2.08%) Unix
4 21 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.32%) zOS
7 5 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.16%) AIX
9 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.16%) Android
9 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (39.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 465 (24.84%) Agile
3 463 (24.73%) Cybersecurity
4 415 (22.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 407 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 300 (16.03%) Decision-Making
7 279 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
8 270 (14.42%) AI
9 255 (13.62%) Project Management
10 236 (12.61%) Roadmaps
11 215 (11.49%) Information Security
12 207 (11.06%) Project Delivery
13 178 (9.51%) Migration
14 176 (9.40%) DevOps
15 171 (9.13%) CI/CD
16 164 (8.76%) Change Management
17 161 (8.60%) Analytics
18 153 (8.17%) Vulnerability Management
19 149 (7.96%) PRINCE2
20 144 (7.69%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 149 (7.96%) Python
2 105 (5.61%) SQL
3 52 (2.78%) Java
4 39 (2.08%) PowerShell
5 30 (1.60%) C#
6 18 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.75%) C++
8 13 (0.69%) Bash
9 11 (0.59%) Shell Script
9 11 (0.59%) VBA
10 8 (0.43%) Go
10 8 (0.43%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.43%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.27%) Bicep
12 5 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.21%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.21%) CLIST
13 4 (0.21%) Perl
13 4 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 516 (27.56%) Security Cleared
2 372 (19.87%) SC Cleared
3 171 (9.13%) Degree
4 165 (8.81%) CISSP
5 121 (6.46%) DV Cleared
6 115 (6.14%) CISM
7 86 (4.59%) PMI Certification
8 83 (4.43%) PMP
9 54 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 53 (2.83%) CRISC
11 42 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
12 39 (2.08%) CISA
13 37 (1.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 29 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
15 26 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 24 (1.28%) Master's Degree
16 24 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
17 22 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
18 21 (1.12%) CCSP
19 18 (0.96%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (12.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 220 (11.75%) NIST
3 192 (10.26%) GRC
4 121 (6.46%) GDPR
5 113 (6.04%) QA
6 87 (4.65%) Data Quality
7 81 (4.33%) NCSC
8 69 (3.69%) PMO
9 37 (1.98%) JSP 440
10 36 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
11 22 (1.18%) COBIT
11 22 (1.18%) NIST 800
12 19 (1.01%) Accessibility
12 19 (1.01%) SOC 2
13 17 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 17 (0.91%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 16 (0.85%) SLA
15 15 (0.80%) Def Stans
15 15 (0.80%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 45 (2.40%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.18%) Docker
3 11 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
6 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.21%) vSphere
7 3 (0.16%) FreeRADIUS
7 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.16%) Postfix
7 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.11%) Firmware
8 2 (0.11%) IAG
8 2 (0.11%) NFS
9 1 (0.053%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 44 (2.35%) Kubernetes
2 32 (1.71%) Ansible
3 14 (0.75%) Grafana
4 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.64%) SCCM
5 8 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.32%) Control-M
7 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.21%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.21%) Nessus
8 4 (0.21%) OMEGAMON
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (0.21%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.16%) Puppet
10 2 (0.11%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.11%) Istio
Vendors
1 275 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 111 (5.93%) ServiceNow
3 92 (4.91%) SAP
4 78 (4.17%) Oracle
5 41 (2.19%) Google
6 23 (1.23%) IBM
7 20 (1.07%) Salesforce
7 20 (1.07%) Splunk
8 17 (0.91%) Cisco
8 17 (0.91%) VMware
9 16 (0.85%) Databricks
9 16 (0.85%) Sybase
10 15 (0.80%) Foundry
11 13 (0.69%) Qualys
12 11 (0.59%) Ariba
12 11 (0.59%) BeyondTrust
12 11 (0.59%) CyberArk
12 11 (0.59%) Murex
12 11 (0.59%) Workday
13 9 (0.48%) Okta