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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 51 65
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 +9
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,501 1,278 1,372
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.25% 4.34% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 4.79% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 777 899
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £463 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £708
90th Percentile £838 £838 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 39 47
10th Percentile £20.27 £40.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £36.00 £47.91 £31.80
Median hourly rate £69.36 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.79% +17.13% +393.89%
75th Percentile £100.00 £78.38 £62.25
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.05 £83.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.31 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.83% +11.81% +461.22%

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 39,218 26,699 37,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.74% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,782 17,291 24,442
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,336 1,037 2,416
10th Percentile £14.93 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.74 £18.51 £15.91
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65.33 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.13 £75.00 £71.81
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.88 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.53% -17.50% -

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 19 April 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 April 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 April 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 -22 1,326 £550 -4.35% 633
UK excluding London -19 708 £525 +0.96% 446
London -24 661 £600 -4.00% 272
Work from Home -3 429 £550 -4.35% 285
North of England -17 210 £507 -1.32% 106
South East -8 201 £550 -2.22% 143
Midlands -41 112 £525 +5.00% 62
North West -12 106 £550 +8.75% 59
Yorkshire -6 102 £492 -2.81% 40
West Midlands -38 79 £510 -2.86% 37
South West +2 72 £525 +16.67% 54
Scotland -7 65 £438 -12.50% 26
East of England -13 44 £525 +12.18% 45
East Midlands -30 33 £537 +20.13% 24
Northern Ireland +2 8 £500 -4.76% 10
Wales -7 6 £214 -55.03% 9
North East -27 2 £480 -16.52% 9

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 61 (4.06%) Confluence
2 31 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.53%) SAS
5 4 (0.27%) nginx
6 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.13%) Apache
7 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.067%) CMS
8 1 (0.067%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.067%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.067%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.067%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.067%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 67 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (3.53%) Microsoft Project
3 38 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.27%) Trello
7 3 (0.20%) Revit
8 2 (0.13%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.13%) Windchill
9 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.067%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.067%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 21 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.53%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.47%) Endur
4 7 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.47%) Summit
5 6 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.27%) Primavera
6 4 (0.27%) SAP GRC
7 3 (0.20%) Findur
7 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.20%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 177 (11.79%) Azure
2 146 (9.73%) AWS
3 61 (4.06%) Power Platform
4 60 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (3.40%) GCP
6 36 (2.40%) Entra ID
6 36 (2.40%) SaaS
7 29 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (1.53%) GitHub
9 22 (1.47%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
11 19 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (1.20%) Google Sheets
13 16 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
14 15 (1.00%) Snowflake
15 13 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
16 11 (0.73%) OpenShift
16 11 (0.73%) PaaS
17 10 (0.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.26%) Network Security
2 35 (2.33%) Firewall
3 18 (1.20%) DNS
4 11 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.67%) DHCP
6 9 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
7 8 (0.53%) 5G
7 8 (0.53%) BIG-IP
7 8 (0.53%) Internet
8 7 (0.47%) HTTP
8 7 (0.47%) LAN
9 6 (0.40%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.33%) WAN
11 4 (0.27%) 3G
11 4 (0.27%) 4G
11 4 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
12 3 (0.20%) NAS
12 3 (0.20%) NGFW
12 3 (0.20%) SAN
12 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (3.20%) Power BI
2 31 (2.07%) Metadata
3 26 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.13%) SQL Server
7 11 (0.73%) Tableau
8 10 (0.67%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.60%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.53%) RDBMS
11 7 (0.47%) Big Data
11 7 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.40%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.40%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.40%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.33%) DB2
13 5 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 127 (8.46%) JIRA
2 24 (1.60%) Git
3 19 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.60%) GitLab
5 5 (0.33%) JUnit
5 5 (0.33%) Mockito
5 5 (0.33%) Zephyr
6 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (0.27%) DbUnit
6 4 (0.27%) jMock
6 4 (0.27%) Maven
6 4 (0.27%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.27%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.20%) Selenium
8 1 (0.067%) ERwin
8 1 (0.067%) Flyway
8 1 (0.067%) MLflow
8 1 (0.067%) Postman
8 1 (0.067%) TestRail
General
1 556 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 547 (36.44%) Finance
3 239 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (12.59%) Banking
5 168 (11.19%) Public Sector
6 106 (7.06%) Legal
7 50 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 46 (3.06%) Front Office
9 43 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (2.66%) Investment Banking
11 39 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
12 38 (2.53%) Retail
13 35 (2.33%) Financial Institution
14 31 (2.07%) Manufacturing
15 29 (1.93%) Military
15 29 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.93%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.40%) Marketing
17 19 (1.27%) Law
18 18 (1.20%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 199 (13.26%) Project Manager
2 179 (11.93%) Lead
3 151 (10.06%) Analyst
3 151 (10.06%) Senior
4 143 (9.53%) Architect
5 106 (7.06%) Consultant
6 83 (5.53%) Developer
7 73 (4.86%) Business Analyst
8 71 (4.73%) Programme Manager
9 67 (4.46%) Security Architect
10 52 (3.46%) Senior Manager
11 49 (3.26%) Risk Manager
12 47 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
13 43 (2.86%) Security Consultant
14 33 (2.20%) Security Engineer
15 31 (2.07%) Senior Developer
16 30 (2.00%) IT Manager
16 30 (2.00%) Risk Analyst
16 30 (2.00%) Security Manager
17 27 (1.80%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.93%) Oracle Fusion
2 26 (1.73%) REST
3 22 (1.47%) Kafka
4 18 (1.20%) .NET
5 14 (0.93%) RESTful
6 12 (0.80%) Middleware
7 11 (0.73%) Leaflet
7 11 (0.73%) XML
8 9 (0.60%) OAuth
9 8 (0.53%) COM
9 8 (0.53%) LDAP
9 8 (0.53%) NumPy
9 8 (0.53%) Pandas
9 8 (0.53%) PyTorch
10 7 (0.47%) .NET Framework
10 7 (0.47%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.47%) JSON
10 7 (0.47%) React
10 7 (0.47%) scikit-learn
10 7 (0.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 134 (8.93%) Management Information System
2 64 (4.26%) Product Ownership
2 64 (4.26%) Security Posture
3 60 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 59 (3.93%) Derivative
5 42 (2.80%) Cloud Native
5 42 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 42 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
6 38 (2.53%) Market Risk
7 34 (2.27%) Operational Technology
8 31 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 29 (1.93%) Credit Risk
9 29 (1.93%) Equities
10 25 (1.67%) NHS
11 23 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 23 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
12 21 (1.40%) AI Agents
12 21 (1.40%) Fixed Income
12 21 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.53%) Windows
2 33 (2.20%) Linux
3 17 (1.13%) Unix
4 8 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.20%) zOS
8 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.13%) VMS
8 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.067%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (30.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 381 (25.38%) Agile
3 288 (19.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 276 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
5 261 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 244 (16.26%) Cybersecurity
7 242 (16.12%) Project Management
8 192 (12.79%) Decision-Making
9 183 (12.19%) Information Security
10 170 (11.33%) Change Management
11 165 (10.99%) Roadmaps
12 157 (10.46%) AI
13 152 (10.13%) Project Delivery
14 146 (9.73%) Migration
15 131 (8.73%) Data Protection
16 126 (8.39%) Analytics
17 124 (8.26%) Regulatory Compliance
18 119 (7.93%) PRINCE2
19 113 (7.53%) DevOps
20 105 (7.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 127 (8.46%) SQL
2 122 (8.13%) Python
3 59 (3.93%) Java
4 35 (2.33%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.47%) C++
6 21 (1.40%) C#
7 16 (1.07%) VBA
8 12 (0.80%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.47%) Bash
9 7 (0.47%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.40%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.27%) Perl
12 3 (0.20%) Korn
12 3 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.13%) Go
13 2 (0.13%) R
13 2 (0.13%) Rust
13 2 (0.13%) Scala
13 2 (0.13%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 324 (21.59%) Security Cleared
2 241 (16.06%) SC Cleared
3 205 (13.66%) Degree
4 123 (8.19%) CISSP
5 88 (5.86%) CISM
6 79 (5.26%) DV Cleared
7 77 (5.13%) PMP
8 74 (4.93%) PMI Certification
9 37 (2.47%) CRISC
10 34 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (2.13%) Master's Degree
12 24 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 21 (1.40%) CISA
14 18 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 16 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 16 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 12 (0.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 12 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
18 10 (0.67%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (12.92%) NIST
2 186 (12.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 132 (8.79%) GRC
4 130 (8.66%) GDPR
5 87 (5.80%) PMO
6 76 (5.06%) QA
7 53 (3.53%) Data Quality
8 52 (3.46%) PCI DSS
9 46 (3.06%) NCSC
10 29 (1.93%) SLA
11 28 (1.87%) SOC 2
12 27 (1.80%) JSP 440
13 24 (1.60%) COBIT
13 24 (1.60%) NIST 800
14 19 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 18 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
15 18 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 18 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (1.13%) RMADS
17 11 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 31 (2.07%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.93%) Docker
3 9 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.27%) Postfix
6 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.067%) Ceph
8 1 (0.067%) NFS
8 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.067%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (1.33%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.00%) Terraform
3 14 (0.93%) Ansible
4 9 (0.60%) Grafana
4 9 (0.60%) SCCM
4 9 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.33%) Control-M
7 5 (0.33%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.27%) RSA Archer
9 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.20%) CASB
9 3 (0.20%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.20%) WSUS
10 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.13%) Nessus
10 2 (0.13%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.13%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 187 (12.46%) Microsoft
2 83 (5.53%) Oracle
2 83 (5.53%) ServiceNow
3 75 (5.00%) SAP
4 43 (2.86%) Google
5 22 (1.47%) Murex
5 22 (1.47%) Workday
6 16 (1.07%) Ariba
7 15 (1.00%) Salesforce
8 13 (0.87%) Databricks
9 12 (0.80%) IBM
9 12 (0.80%) VMware
10 11 (0.73%) F5
11 9 (0.60%) Splunk
12 8 (0.53%) Cisco
12 8 (0.53%) Foundry
13 7 (0.47%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.40%) Infoblox
14 6 (0.40%) Informatica
14 6 (0.40%) Sybase