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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 51 61
Rank change year-on-year -20 +10 +15
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,365 1,235 1,493
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.40% 3.99% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 4.46% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 700 992
10th Percentile £400 £363 £400
25th Percentile £463 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £682 £700 £685
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.62% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 41 64
10th Percentile £27.85 £26.12 £15.50
25th Percentile £33.50 £40.00 £39.65
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% +4.67% +452.68%
75th Percentile £94.38 £75.00 £83.40
90th Percentile £105.60 £83.20 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.97 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -33.38% +2.49% +512.24%

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 34,907 27,716 39,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.98% 89.51% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,112 17,001 25,591
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,104 852 2,127
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.15%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.32
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.85% -12.53% +7.69%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -14 1,219 £550 -8.33% 485
London -7 672 £600 -4.00% 178
UK excluding London -29 572 £511 -2.62% 387
Work from Home -3 386 £556 -0.22% 262
South East -12 170 £525 -10.60% 161
North of England -24 165 £500 -5.48% 66
Midlands -45 96 £540 - 57
North West -36 84 £504 +1.49% 42
Yorkshire -6 79 £492 -8.04% 21
West Midlands -43 62 £525 -12.50% 38
South West -12 53 £500 +2.56% 49
Scotland -20 42 £425 -7.31% 17
East Midlands -25 34 £550 +19.57% 18
East of England -35 32 £525 -4.98% 33
Wales +6 13 £308 -41.98% 9
Northern Ireland +2 8 £500 +66.67% 3
North East -22 2 £550 -4.35% 3

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 53 (3.88%) Confluence
2 25 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.81%) SAS
5 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.29%) nginx
7 2 (0.15%) CMS
7 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.073%) Apache
8 1 (0.073%) Camunda
8 1 (0.073%) CICS
8 1 (0.073%) IIS
8 1 (0.073%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 77 (5.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (4.32%) Microsoft Project
3 39 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.29%) Revit
7 4 (0.29%) Trello
8 3 (0.22%) Navisworks
9 2 (0.15%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 23 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.51%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.37%) Primavera
6 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.29%) Endur
6 4 (0.29%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.29%) Summit
7 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.22%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.22%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.15%) Actimize
8 2 (0.15%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 157 (11.50%) Azure
2 132 (9.67%) AWS
3 53 (3.88%) GCP
3 53 (3.88%) Power Platform
4 45 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (2.34%) Entra ID
5 32 (2.34%) SaaS
6 27 (1.98%) Microsoft Purview
7 26 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
8 21 (1.54%) Google Workspace
9 18 (1.32%) Google Sheets
10 16 (1.17%) GitHub
11 15 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (0.66%) OpenShift
15 8 (0.59%) Collibra
15 8 (0.59%) OCI
16 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Copilot
16 6 (0.44%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.74%) Firewall
2 33 (2.42%) Network Security
3 12 (0.88%) DNS
4 10 (0.73%) Internet
4 10 (0.73%) LAN
5 9 (0.66%) Kerberos
6 8 (0.59%) WAN
7 7 (0.51%) VPN
7 7 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
9 5 (0.37%) Cisco IPT
9 5 (0.37%) DHCP
10 4 (0.29%) 5G
10 4 (0.29%) BIG-IP
10 4 (0.29%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.22%) Broadband
11 3 (0.22%) HTTP
11 3 (0.22%) Multicast
11 3 (0.22%) S/MIME
11 3 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.15%) Power BI
2 26 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (1.39%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (1.10%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.03%) Metadata
7 9 (0.66%) Tableau
8 7 (0.51%) KDB
8 7 (0.51%) Kdb+
9 6 (0.44%) Big Data
9 6 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.37%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.37%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.29%) Data Mart
11 4 (0.29%) Dremio
11 4 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.29%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 117 (8.57%) JIRA
2 13 (0.95%) Git
3 12 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.51%) GitLab
4 7 (0.51%) SpecFlow
5 4 (0.29%) QUnit
5 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.22%) GCC
6 3 (0.22%) GDB
7 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.15%) Postman
7 2 (0.15%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.073%) Appium
8 1 (0.073%) JMeter
8 1 (0.073%) JUnit
8 1 (0.073%) MLflow
8 1 (0.073%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.073%) Selenium
8 1 (0.073%) SonarQube
General
1 558 (40.88%) Social Skills
2 524 (38.39%) Finance
3 227 (16.63%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (13.48%) Banking
5 134 (9.82%) Public Sector
6 105 (7.69%) Legal
7 59 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
8 54 (3.96%) Front Office
9 48 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
10 45 (3.30%) Investment Banking
11 35 (2.56%) Financial Institution
12 31 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (2.20%) Manufacturing
14 29 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
15 27 (1.98%) Retail
16 24 (1.76%) Telecoms
17 22 (1.61%) Military
18 21 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 19 (1.39%) Aerospace
20 17 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 169 (12.38%) Analyst
2 159 (11.65%) Project Manager
3 144 (10.55%) Lead
4 141 (10.33%) Senior
5 116 (8.50%) Architect
6 107 (7.84%) Consultant
7 92 (6.74%) Developer
8 67 (4.91%) Programme Manager
9 66 (4.84%) Business Analyst
10 57 (4.18%) Security Architect
11 48 (3.52%) Senior Manager
12 43 (3.15%) Delivery Manager
13 41 (3.00%) Risk Analyst
14 39 (2.86%) Risk Manager
14 39 (2.86%) Security Consultant
15 35 (2.56%) Senior Developer
16 31 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
17 28 (2.05%) Security Specialist
18 27 (1.98%) Java Developer
18 27 (1.98%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.76%) Kafka
2 21 (1.54%) REST
3 19 (1.39%) .NET
4 18 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
5 15 (1.10%) OAuth
6 13 (0.95%) Middleware
6 13 (0.95%) NumPy
6 13 (0.95%) Pandas
7 12 (0.88%) .NET Framework
7 12 (0.88%) SAML
8 11 (0.81%) XML
9 10 (0.73%) React
10 9 (0.66%) COM
10 9 (0.66%) Dask
10 9 (0.66%) RESTful
11 8 (0.59%) Entity Framework
11 8 (0.59%) LDAP
11 8 (0.59%) Playwright
12 7 (0.51%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.51%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 151 (11.06%) Management Information System
2 68 (4.98%) Derivative
3 64 (4.69%) Security Posture
4 60 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 44 (3.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 41 (3.00%) Market Risk
8 39 (2.86%) Equities
9 35 (2.56%) Data Centre
9 35 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
10 34 (2.49%) Credit Risk
11 33 (2.42%) Cloud Native
12 30 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
12 30 (2.20%) Fixed Income
13 29 (2.12%) Algorithms
14 26 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
14 26 (1.90%) Operational Technology
15 22 (1.61%) NHS
16 19 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
16 19 (1.39%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.00%) Linux
2 34 (2.49%) Windows
3 17 (1.25%) Unix
4 5 (0.37%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.22%) VMS
5 3 (0.22%) zOS
6 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.073%) Android
7 1 (0.073%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (28.28%) Stakeholder Management
2 313 (22.93%) Agile
3 274 (20.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 250 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
5 237 (17.36%) Cybersecurity
6 211 (15.46%) Project Management
7 206 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 175 (12.82%) Decision-Making
9 170 (12.45%) Information Security
10 143 (10.48%) Change Management
11 127 (9.30%) Migration
11 127 (9.30%) Regulatory Compliance
12 126 (9.23%) Roadmaps
13 120 (8.79%) Project Delivery
14 119 (8.72%) Analytics
15 115 (8.42%) AI
16 104 (7.62%) Data Protection
17 103 (7.55%) PRINCE2
18 94 (6.89%) Scrum
19 89 (6.52%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 135 (9.89%) SQL
2 125 (9.16%) Python
3 53 (3.88%) Java
4 33 (2.42%) PowerShell
5 29 (2.12%) C#
6 28 (2.05%) C++
7 16 (1.17%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.17%) VBA
8 8 (0.59%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.51%) R
10 4 (0.29%) Korn
10 4 (0.29%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.22%) Bash
11 3 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.15%) JCL
12 2 (0.15%) Perl
12 2 (0.15%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.15%) Rust
12 2 (0.15%) Scala
12 2 (0.15%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 273 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 227 (16.63%) Degree
3 211 (15.46%) SC Cleared
4 122 (8.94%) CISSP
5 85 (6.23%) CISM
6 73 (5.35%) PMI Certification
7 68 (4.98%) DV Cleared
8 67 (4.91%) PMP
9 58 (4.25%) Master's Degree
10 38 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (2.27%) CRISC
12 28 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (1.61%) CISA
13 22 (1.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 16 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (1.17%) PhD
15 15 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
16 12 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (0.73%) GIAC
17 10 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (13.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 173 (12.67%) NIST
3 115 (8.42%) GDPR
3 115 (8.42%) GRC
4 77 (5.64%) PMO
5 72 (5.27%) QA
6 48 (3.52%) PCI DSS
7 39 (2.86%) Data Quality
8 37 (2.71%) NCSC
9 25 (1.83%) NIST 800
9 25 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (1.47%) COBIT
11 19 (1.39%) Def Stans
11 19 (1.39%) SLA
12 18 (1.32%) SOC 2
13 16 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
13 16 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 14 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
15 13 (0.95%) EU AI Act
16 11 (0.81%) Basel III
System Software
1 35 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.10%) Docker
3 9 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.073%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.073%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (1.54%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.25%) Terraform
3 12 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.73%) Ansible
5 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.66%) RSA Archer
6 7 (0.51%) SCCM
7 5 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.29%) Grafana
8 4 (0.29%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.22%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.22%) QRadar
9 3 (0.22%) WSUS
10 2 (0.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.15%) Nessus
10 2 (0.15%) OpenVAS
11 1 (0.073%) Control-M
11 1 (0.073%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.073%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 174 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 67 (4.91%) SAP
3 59 (4.32%) ServiceNow
4 58 (4.25%) Oracle
5 41 (3.00%) Google
6 19 (1.39%) Murex
7 17 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.17%) Ariba
9 11 (0.81%) Cisco
9 11 (0.81%) Databricks
9 11 (0.81%) Splunk
9 11 (0.81%) Workday
10 10 (0.73%) Citrix
10 10 (0.73%) VMware
11 9 (0.66%) CyberArk
12 8 (0.59%) IBM
12 8 (0.59%) Informatica
13 7 (0.51%) F5
14 6 (0.44%) Bloomberg
15 5 (0.37%) Rapid7