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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 53 70
Rank change year-on-year -20 +17 -2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,782 1,459 1,169
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.33% 4.45% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 4.91% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,108 904 714
10th Percentile £406 £359 £363
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -1.08% -6.05%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £717
90th Percentile £788 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 29 27
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £30.80
25th Percentile £48.00 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £64.09 £49.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.47% -13.91% +16.16%
75th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £68.84
90th Percentile £87.33 £87.30 £82.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £51.00 £59.19
% change year-on-year +49.02% -13.83% -7.73%

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 45,377 29,691 33,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.71% 90.48% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,881 18,495 21,183
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,839 1,731 1,775
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.38 £17.30 £18.15
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% +0.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.30 £42.50
% change year-on-year +88.67% -45.18% +18.88%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -20 1,565 £570 -0.87% 1,956
UK excluding London -6 926 £525 +2.44% 1,082
London -34 724 £600 -7.69% 1,189
Work from Home -21 484 £550 -5.17% 875
North of England -18 276 £511 +0.37% 217
South East +8 251 £575 +4.55% 292
North West -32 136 £525 +2.68% 129
Yorkshire +2 134 £500 - 63
South West -17 114 £570 -0.87% 150
Scotland +8 110 £475 +2.70% 135
Midlands -39 102 £575 +22.60% 122
West Midlands -42 81 £550 +10.00% 69
East of England +8 67 £513 -10.87% 93
East Midlands -29 18 £547 +36.07% 52
Wales -19 9 £650 +52.94% 35
Northern Ireland -1 8 £394 -28.41% 47
North East -39 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 76 (4.26%) Confluence
2 41 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.56%) SAS
4 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.22%) 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 (0.056%) Apache
8 1 (0.056%) Appian
8 1 (0.056%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.056%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.056%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.056%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.056%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.056%) WebSphere
Applications
1 57 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.91%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.95%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.22%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.22%) Revit
7 3 (0.17%) Trello
7 3 (0.17%) Windchill
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.056%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.056%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 41 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.73%) Endur
3 12 (0.67%) SAP GRC
4 11 (0.62%) Primavera
5 10 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.22%) Actimize
9 4 (0.22%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.22%) Magento
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.17%) Findur
10 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 257 (14.42%) Azure
2 190 (10.66%) AWS
3 83 (4.66%) GCP
4 74 (4.15%) Power Platform
5 65 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (3.25%) Entra ID
7 50 (2.81%) SaaS
8 37 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (1.80%) GitHub
10 25 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
12 21 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
12 21 (1.18%) OCI
12 21 (1.18%) Snowflake
13 19 (1.07%) Azure AI
13 19 (1.07%) PaaS
14 16 (0.90%) Anthropic Claude
14 16 (0.90%) Serverless
15 14 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
16 12 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.93%) Network Security
2 40 (2.24%) Firewall
3 22 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.01%) WAN
5 17 (0.95%) DNS
6 16 (0.90%) LAN
7 14 (0.79%) 5G
7 14 (0.79%) DHCP
8 12 (0.67%) 4G
8 12 (0.67%) HTTP
9 9 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.45%) BIG-IP
10 8 (0.45%) VPN
11 7 (0.39%) Internet
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%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (3.14%) Power BI
2 38 (2.13%) Metadata
3 35 (1.96%) SQL Server
4 32 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.95%) MongoDB
6 17 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (0.73%) Data Lake
7 13 (0.73%) Db2
8 11 (0.62%) Tableau
9 10 (0.56%) Big Data
9 10 (0.56%) RDBMS
10 9 (0.51%) Oracle Database
11 7 (0.39%) MySQL
12 6 (0.34%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 5 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.28%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 123 (6.90%) JIRA
2 27 (1.52%) Git
3 20 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.73%) Selenium
5 9 (0.51%) Postman
5 9 (0.51%) Zephyr
6 8 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.39%) GitLab
7 7 (0.39%) WebDriver
8 6 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.22%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.22%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.22%) jMock
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) Mockito
9 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.22%) Subversion
9 4 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 689 (38.66%) Social Skills
2 646 (36.25%) Finance
3 285 (15.99%) Analytical Skills
4 210 (11.78%) Public Sector
5 193 (10.83%) Banking
6 129 (7.24%) Legal
7 77 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
8 70 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
9 65 (3.65%) Front Office
10 47 (2.64%) Aerospace
11 46 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
12 44 (2.47%) Retail
12 44 (2.47%) Telecoms
13 40 (2.24%) Investment Banking
14 39 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
15 38 (2.13%) Financial Institution
16 37 (2.08%) Military
17 31 (1.74%) Law
17 31 (1.74%) Manufacturing
18 25 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 231 (12.96%) Lead
2 221 (12.40%) Architect
3 198 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 169 (9.48%) Senior
5 163 (9.15%) Analyst
6 107 (6.00%) Consultant
7 97 (5.44%) Security Architect
8 73 (4.10%) Programme Manager
9 72 (4.04%) Developer
10 62 (3.48%) Business Analyst
11 57 (3.20%) Senior Manager
12 55 (3.09%) Risk Manager
13 50 (2.81%) IT Manager
14 48 (2.69%) Delivery Manager
15 44 (2.47%) Security Consultant
16 38 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
17 37 (2.08%) Security Manager
18 36 (2.02%) Security Engineer
19 28 (1.57%) Security Analyst
19 28 (1.57%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.91%) REST
2 28 (1.57%) .NET
3 26 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.23%) Middleware
5 17 (0.95%) Kafka
5 17 (0.95%) OAuth
6 13 (0.73%) JSON
6 13 (0.73%) XML
7 12 (0.67%) SAML
7 12 (0.67%) SOAP
7 12 (0.67%) Spring
8 11 (0.62%) Leaflet
8 11 (0.62%) OpenID
8 11 (0.62%) RESTful
9 10 (0.56%) SLSA
10 9 (0.51%) LDAP
10 9 (0.51%) PyTorch
10 9 (0.51%) React
10 9 (0.51%) SailPoint
11 8 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 122 (6.85%) Management Information System
2 94 (5.27%) Product Ownership
3 89 (4.99%) Onboarding
4 76 (4.26%) Security Posture
5 75 (4.21%) Cloud Native
6 54 (3.03%) Operational Technology
7 52 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
8 42 (2.36%) Data Centre
9 40 (2.24%) Cyber Threat
10 36 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
11 32 (1.80%) Derivative
12 31 (1.74%) AI Agents
13 29 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
14 28 (1.57%) NHS
15 27 (1.52%) Market Risk
16 24 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
16 24 (1.35%) PMI
17 22 (1.23%) Data Structures
18 21 (1.18%) Credit Risk
18 21 (1.18%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 59 (3.31%) Windows
2 54 (3.03%) Linux
3 36 (2.02%) Unix
4 21 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.28%) zOS
7 3 (0.17%) AIX
7 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.11%) Android
9 1 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 667 (37.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 436 (24.47%) Agile
3 418 (23.46%) Cybersecurity
4 398 (22.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 377 (21.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 267 (14.98%) Decision-Making
7 256 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
8 249 (13.97%) AI
8 249 (13.97%) Project Management
9 224 (12.57%) Roadmaps
10 199 (11.17%) Information Security
11 193 (10.83%) Project Delivery
12 166 (9.32%) Migration
13 164 (9.20%) Change Management
13 164 (9.20%) CI/CD
14 162 (9.09%) DevOps
15 143 (8.02%) Analytics
16 139 (7.80%) PRINCE2
17 137 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
18 134 (7.52%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 131 (7.35%) Python
2 91 (5.11%) SQL
3 54 (3.03%) Java
4 37 (2.08%) PowerShell
5 29 (1.63%) C#
6 17 (0.95%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.73%) C++
8 12 (0.67%) Bash
9 11 (0.62%) VBA
10 9 (0.51%) Shell Script
11 8 (0.45%) Go
11 8 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.34%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.28%) Bicep
14 4 (0.22%) Assembly Language
14 4 (0.22%) CLIST
14 4 (0.22%) JCL
14 4 (0.22%) REXX
14 4 (0.22%) Scala
15 3 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 471 (26.43%) Security Cleared
2 338 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 175 (9.82%) Degree
4 160 (8.98%) CISSP
5 118 (6.62%) DV Cleared
6 110 (6.17%) CISM
7 84 (4.71%) PMI Certification
8 82 (4.60%) PMP
9 47 (2.64%) CRISC
10 45 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
12 34 (1.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 34 (1.91%) CISA
13 30 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
14 28 (1.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 25 (1.40%) Master's Degree
16 22 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
17 18 (1.01%) AWS Certification
17 18 (1.01%) CCSP
17 18 (1.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (12.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 215 (12.07%) NIST
3 178 (9.99%) GRC
4 121 (6.79%) GDPR
5 96 (5.39%) QA
6 76 (4.26%) NCSC
7 75 (4.21%) Data Quality
8 60 (3.37%) PMO
9 38 (2.13%) JSP 440
10 33 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
11 26 (1.46%) PCI DSS
12 24 (1.35%) SOC 2
13 21 (1.18%) SLA
14 18 (1.01%) COBIT
14 18 (1.01%) NIST 800
15 17 (0.95%) Accessibility
15 17 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 17 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.84%) ISO 31000
17 14 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 38 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.12%) Docker
3 9 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.22%) Postfix
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.17%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.11%) NFS
7 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.056%) Ceph
8 1 (0.056%) IAG
8 1 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.056%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 37 (2.08%) Terraform
3 27 (1.52%) Ansible
4 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.67%) Grafana
6 11 (0.62%) SCCM
7 9 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.22%) Control-M
9 4 (0.22%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.22%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.22%) Nessus
9 4 (0.22%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.17%) CASB
10 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 248 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 97 (5.44%) ServiceNow
3 82 (4.60%) SAP
4 80 (4.49%) Oracle
5 45 (2.53%) Google
6 22 (1.23%) IBM
7 19 (1.07%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.95%) Cisco
8 17 (0.95%) Splunk
9 16 (0.90%) Sybase
10 15 (0.84%) Foundry
11 14 (0.79%) Databricks
11 14 (0.79%) Workday
12 13 (0.73%) Murex
13 12 (0.67%) Qualys
13 12 (0.67%) VMware
14 9 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (0.51%) F5
14 9 (0.51%) Okta
14 9 (0.51%) Tenable