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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 51 67
Rank change year-on-year -23 +16 +2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,761 1,478 1,165
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.30% 4.49% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 4.96% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,091 912 715
10th Percentile £406 £363 £363
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £553 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% +0.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £675 £727 £714
90th Percentile £788 £875 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 29 28
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £30.91
25th Percentile £50.00 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £73.00 £49.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.47% -13.91% -10.36%
75th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £68.17
90th Percentile £98.15 £87.30 £81.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £51.00 £58.38
% change year-on-year +49.02% -12.63% -19.37%

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 45,278 29,786 33,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.80% 90.49% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,840 18,586 21,275
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
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 2,823 1,710 1,832
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.31 £18.46
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £74.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -24 1,545 £570 -0.87% 1,626
UK excluding London -8 914 £525 +2.44% 842
London -37 717 £600 -7.69% 968
Work from Home -23 487 £550 -4.35% 653
North of England -14 270 £503 -1.21% 168
South East +1 250 £575 +4.55% 235
Yorkshire +2 132 £500 - 47
North West -30 132 £525 +2.68% 107
South West -20 111 £570 -2.98% 128
Scotland +11 109 £475 +1.33% 94
Midlands -40 102 £575 +22.60% 101
West Midlands -39 81 £563 +12.50% 63
East of England +12 66 £519 -9.78% 78
East Midlands -33 18 £542 +34.89% 38
Northern Ireland -1 9 £394 -28.41% 25
Wales -19 7 £650 +47.14% 23
North East -44 6 £454 -22.77% 17

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 75 (4.26%) Confluence
2 42 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.57%) SAS
4 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.23%) 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 (0.057%) Apache
8 1 (0.057%) Appian
8 1 (0.057%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.057%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.057%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.057%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.057%) WebSphere
Applications
1 55 (3.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.23%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.23%) Revit
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.17%) Trello
7 3 (0.17%) Windchill
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.057%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.057%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 41 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.74%) Endur
3 12 (0.68%) SAP GRC
4 11 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.62%) Primavera
5 8 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.23%) Actimize
8 4 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.23%) Magento
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
9 3 (0.17%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.17%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 261 (14.82%) Azure
2 189 (10.73%) AWS
3 84 (4.77%) GCP
4 71 (4.03%) Power Platform
5 64 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
6 60 (3.41%) Entra ID
7 51 (2.90%) SaaS
8 37 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (1.87%) GitHub
10 26 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
12 23 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
13 21 (1.19%) OCI
13 21 (1.19%) Snowflake
14 19 (1.08%) Azure AI
14 19 (1.08%) PaaS
15 16 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
15 16 (0.91%) Serverless
16 14 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
17 12 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 67 (3.80%) Network Security
2 40 (2.27%) Firewall
3 21 (1.19%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.02%) WAN
5 16 (0.91%) DNS
5 16 (0.91%) LAN
6 14 (0.80%) 5G
7 13 (0.74%) DHCP
8 12 (0.68%) 4G
8 12 (0.68%) HTTP
9 9 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.45%) BIG-IP
11 7 (0.40%) Internet
11 7 (0.40%) VPN
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%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.01%) Power BI
2 34 (1.93%) Metadata
3 33 (1.87%) SQL Server
4 32 (1.82%) Relational Database
5 17 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (0.97%) MongoDB
5 17 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 13 (0.74%) Db2
7 11 (0.62%) Tableau
8 10 (0.57%) Big Data
8 10 (0.57%) RDBMS
9 8 (0.45%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.40%) MySQL
11 5 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.28%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.28%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 120 (6.81%) JIRA
2 26 (1.48%) Git
3 20 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.74%) Selenium
5 9 (0.51%) Postman
6 8 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.40%) GitLab
7 7 (0.40%) WebDriver
7 7 (0.40%) Zephyr
8 6 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.23%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.23%) jMock
9 4 (0.23%) JUnit
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
9 4 (0.23%) Mockito
9 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.23%) Subversion
9 4 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 682 (38.73%) Social Skills
2 643 (36.51%) Finance
3 282 (16.01%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (11.87%) Public Sector
5 194 (11.02%) Banking
6 129 (7.33%) Legal
7 75 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
8 71 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
9 61 (3.46%) Front Office
10 45 (2.56%) Aerospace
10 45 (2.56%) Telecoms
11 44 (2.50%) Retail
12 43 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
13 39 (2.21%) Financial Institution
13 39 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
14 37 (2.10%) Investment Banking
15 35 (1.99%) Military
16 30 (1.70%) Law
16 30 (1.70%) Manufacturing
17 24 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 229 (13.00%) Lead
2 218 (12.38%) Architect
3 202 (11.47%) Project Manager
4 173 (9.82%) Senior
5 157 (8.92%) Analyst
6 106 (6.02%) Consultant
7 96 (5.45%) Security Architect
8 74 (4.20%) Programme Manager
9 70 (3.98%) Developer
10 61 (3.46%) Business Analyst
11 60 (3.41%) Senior Manager
12 54 (3.07%) Risk Manager
13 49 (2.78%) Delivery Manager
14 48 (2.73%) IT Manager
15 45 (2.56%) Security Consultant
16 38 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
17 37 (2.10%) Security Manager
18 34 (1.93%) Security Engineer
19 31 (1.76%) Technical Manager
20 29 (1.65%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.82%) REST
2 27 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
3 26 (1.48%) .NET
4 23 (1.31%) Middleware
5 17 (0.97%) OAuth
6 16 (0.91%) Kafka
7 13 (0.74%) XML
8 12 (0.68%) JSON
8 12 (0.68%) SAML
8 12 (0.68%) SOAP
8 12 (0.68%) Spring
9 11 (0.62%) Leaflet
9 11 (0.62%) OpenID
9 11 (0.62%) RESTful
10 10 (0.57%) SLSA
11 9 (0.51%) Azure Blueprints
11 9 (0.51%) LDAP
11 9 (0.51%) PyTorch
11 9 (0.51%) React
11 9 (0.51%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 122 (6.93%) Management Information System
2 93 (5.28%) Product Ownership
3 89 (5.05%) Onboarding
4 75 (4.26%) Security Posture
5 74 (4.20%) Cloud Native
6 54 (3.07%) Operational Technology
7 52 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
8 45 (2.56%) Data Centre
9 37 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
10 33 (1.87%) AI Agents
10 33 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
11 32 (1.82%) Derivative
12 27 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
13 26 (1.48%) Market Risk
14 24 (1.36%) PMI
15 23 (1.31%) NHS
16 22 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
17 21 (1.19%) Fixed Income
18 20 (1.14%) Credit Risk
18 20 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 57 (3.24%) Windows
2 54 (3.07%) Linux
3 36 (2.04%) Unix
4 21 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.28%) zOS
7 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.17%) AIX
8 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.11%) Android
10 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 652 (37.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 431 (24.47%) Agile
3 397 (22.54%) Cybersecurity
3 397 (22.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 370 (21.01%) Continuous Improvement
5 259 (14.71%) Decision-Making
6 255 (14.48%) Project Management
7 253 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
8 243 (13.80%) AI
9 219 (12.44%) Roadmaps
10 202 (11.47%) Information Security
11 191 (10.85%) Project Delivery
12 167 (9.48%) Migration
13 161 (9.14%) Change Management
14 158 (8.97%) CI/CD
15 157 (8.92%) DevOps
16 138 (7.84%) Analytics
16 138 (7.84%) PRINCE2
17 132 (7.50%) Security Architecture
18 131 (7.44%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (7.27%) Python
2 87 (4.94%) SQL
3 54 (3.07%) Java
4 36 (2.04%) PowerShell
5 27 (1.53%) C#
6 17 (0.97%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.74%) C++
8 12 (0.68%) 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 4 (0.23%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.23%) Bicep
13 4 (0.23%) CLIST
13 4 (0.23%) JCL
13 4 (0.23%) REXX
13 4 (0.23%) Scala
14 3 (0.17%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 456 (25.89%) Security Cleared
2 330 (18.74%) SC Cleared
3 174 (9.88%) Degree
4 163 (9.26%) CISSP
5 116 (6.59%) DV Cleared
6 111 (6.30%) CISM
7 84 (4.77%) PMI Certification
8 82 (4.66%) PMP
9 48 (2.73%) CRISC
10 45 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
12 34 (1.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 34 (1.93%) CISA
13 30 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
14 28 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 26 (1.48%) Master's Degree
16 22 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
17 18 (1.02%) AWS Certification
17 18 (1.02%) CESG Certified Professional
17 18 (1.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (12.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 210 (11.93%) NIST
3 170 (9.65%) GRC
4 121 (6.87%) GDPR
5 92 (5.22%) QA
6 70 (3.98%) Data Quality
7 65 (3.69%) NCSC
8 63 (3.58%) PMO
9 36 (2.04%) JSP 440
10 33 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
11 28 (1.59%) PCI DSS
12 25 (1.42%) SOC 2
13 23 (1.31%) SLA
14 20 (1.14%) NIST 800
15 19 (1.08%) COBIT
16 17 (0.97%) Accessibility
16 17 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.91%) ISO 31000
17 16 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 14 (0.80%) Def Stans
System Software
1 38 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.14%) Docker
3 9 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.23%) Postfix
5 4 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.17%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.11%) NFS
7 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.057%) Ceph
8 1 (0.057%) IAG
8 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.057%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (2.04%) Kubernetes
2 35 (1.99%) Terraform
3 27 (1.53%) Ansible
4 12 (0.68%) Grafana
4 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.57%) SCCM
6 9 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.23%) Control-M
9 4 (0.23%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.23%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.17%) CASB
10 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.17%) Nessus
10 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 246 (13.97%) Microsoft
2 94 (5.34%) ServiceNow
3 82 (4.66%) SAP
4 80 (4.54%) Oracle
5 43 (2.44%) Google
6 21 (1.19%) IBM
7 19 (1.08%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.97%) Cisco
8 17 (0.97%) Splunk
9 16 (0.91%) Sybase
9 16 (0.91%) Workday
10 15 (0.85%) Foundry
11 13 (0.74%) Databricks
11 13 (0.74%) Murex
12 12 (0.68%) Qualys
13 10 (0.57%) VMware
14 9 (0.51%) Ariba
14 9 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (0.51%) F5
14 9 (0.51%) Okta