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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 51 75
Rank change year-on-year -21 +24 -8
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,688 1,433 1,216
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.21% 4.42% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 4.88% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,085 870 745
10th Percentile £406 £375 £358
25th Percentile £481 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +4.55% -6.58%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £715
90th Percentile £800 £875 £845
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +4.88% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 29 41
10th Percentile £24.14 £23.23 £12.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £46.30 £22.34
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +15.79% +297.82%
75th Percentile £85.84 £75.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £105.33 £87.30 £70.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +30.09% +22.99% +66.67%

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 44,765 29,340 36,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.42% 85.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,853 18,476 23,295
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,647 1,521 2,449
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.50 £52.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.70 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.25 £24.64 £38.12
% change year-on-year +83.64% -35.36% -0.99%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 1,494 £570 -0.87% 1,053
UK excluding London -8 868 £538 +4.88% 795
London -39 700 £600 -10.08% 448
Work from Home -25 488 £550 -8.18% 688
North of England -11 259 £514 +0.15% 189
South East -1 236 £575 +5.02% 208
North West -22 131 £540 +5.62% 109
Yorkshire 0 126 £500 -4.76% 65
Midlands -32 116 £550 +15.79% 106
Scotland +1 99 £475 +1.71% 83
South West -8 93 £570 -0.87% 93
West Midlands -42 90 £545 +9.00% 58
East of England +16 59 £525 -4.55% 69
East Midlands -17 25 £550 +23.66% 48
Northern Ireland -2 9 £394 -28.41% 31
Wales -15 7 £725 +62.56% 27
North East -43 4 £454 -17.50% 15

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 69 (4.09%) Confluence
2 37 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.59%) SAS
4 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.24%) IIS
6 3 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.059%) Apache
8 1 (0.059%) Appian
8 1 (0.059%) CMS
8 1 (0.059%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.059%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.059%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.059%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.059%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.059%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 53 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (2.37%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.83%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.24%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.24%) Revit
6 4 (0.24%) Trello
7 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) Windchill
8 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.059%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 38 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.71%) Endur
3 11 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.41%) Primavera
4 7 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.36%) Actimize
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.36%) SAP GRC
6 5 (0.30%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.30%) Loan IQ
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.30%) Summit
7 4 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.24%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 249 (14.75%) Azure
2 175 (10.37%) AWS
3 78 (4.62%) GCP
4 71 (4.21%) Power Platform
5 61 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (3.26%) Entra ID
7 45 (2.67%) SaaS
8 35 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (1.90%) GitHub
10 30 (1.78%) Microsoft Purview
11 23 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
12 19 (1.13%) Snowflake
13 18 (1.07%) PaaS
14 17 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (0.89%) Azure AI
15 15 (0.89%) Serverless
16 14 (0.83%) Google Workspace
16 14 (0.83%) OCI
17 13 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
17 13 (0.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.44%) Network Security
2 39 (2.31%) Firewall
3 16 (0.95%) DNS
4 15 (0.89%) TCP/IP
4 15 (0.89%) WAN
5 14 (0.83%) DHCP
6 12 (0.71%) 5G
6 12 (0.71%) LAN
7 11 (0.65%) BIG-IP
8 10 (0.59%) 4G
8 10 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.41%) HTTP
9 7 (0.41%) Internet
9 7 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (0.36%) VPN
11 5 (0.30%) 3G
11 5 (0.30%) NAS
11 5 (0.30%) NGFW
11 5 (0.30%) SAN
11 5 (0.30%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.14%) Power BI
2 34 (2.01%) Metadata
3 33 (1.95%) Relational Database
4 28 (1.66%) SQL Server
5 20 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (0.95%) MongoDB
7 12 (0.71%) Db2
8 11 (0.65%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.59%) Big Data
9 10 (0.59%) RDBMS
9 10 (0.59%) Tableau
10 6 (0.36%) MySQL
10 6 (0.36%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.30%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.30%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 121 (7.17%) JIRA
2 25 (1.48%) Git
3 24 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.59%) GitLab
5 8 (0.47%) Selenium
6 6 (0.36%) TeamCity
6 6 (0.36%) Zephyr
7 5 (0.30%) JUnit
7 5 (0.30%) Mockito
8 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (0.24%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.24%) DbUnit
8 4 (0.24%) jMock
8 4 (0.24%) Maven
8 4 (0.24%) Postman
8 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.18%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.18%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.18%) MLflow
General
1 629 (37.26%) Social Skills
2 625 (37.03%) Finance
3 262 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (11.85%) Public Sector
5 189 (11.20%) Banking
6 133 (7.88%) Legal
7 63 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
7 63 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
8 50 (2.96%) Front Office
9 42 (2.49%) Financial Institution
10 40 (2.37%) Telecoms
11 39 (2.31%) Aerospace
11 39 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
12 38 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
12 38 (2.25%) Investment Banking
12 38 (2.25%) Retail
13 31 (1.84%) Military
14 29 (1.72%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.48%) Law
16 23 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 221 (13.09%) Lead
2 205 (12.14%) Project Manager
3 201 (11.91%) Architect
4 167 (9.89%) Senior
5 160 (9.48%) Analyst
6 89 (5.27%) Consultant
7 84 (4.98%) Security Architect
8 69 (4.09%) Business Analyst
8 69 (4.09%) Developer
8 69 (4.09%) Programme Manager
9 66 (3.91%) Senior Manager
10 57 (3.38%) Risk Manager
11 47 (2.78%) Delivery Manager
12 42 (2.49%) IT Manager
13 37 (2.19%) Security Engineer
14 36 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
15 35 (2.07%) Security Consultant
16 34 (2.01%) Security Manager
17 30 (1.78%) Product Manager
18 29 (1.72%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 26 (1.54%) .NET
2 26 (1.54%) REST
3 19 (1.13%) Kafka
4 18 (1.07%) Middleware
5 15 (0.89%) XML
6 14 (0.83%) OAuth
7 13 (0.77%) JSON
8 12 (0.71%) RESTful
8 12 (0.71%) SOAP
9 11 (0.65%) Azure Blueprints
9 11 (0.65%) Leaflet
9 11 (0.65%) OpenID
9 11 (0.65%) React
9 11 (0.65%) SAML
10 10 (0.59%) Spring
10 10 (0.59%) Web Services
11 9 (0.53%) LDAP
11 9 (0.53%) SLSA
12 8 (0.47%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 119 (7.05%) Management Information System
2 87 (5.15%) Onboarding
3 86 (5.09%) Product Ownership
4 68 (4.03%) Cloud Native
5 65 (3.85%) Security Posture
6 64 (3.79%) Operational Technology
7 53 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
8 47 (2.78%) Data Centre
9 38 (2.25%) Derivative
10 31 (1.84%) Market Risk
11 30 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
12 27 (1.60%) AI Agents
13 26 (1.54%) Fixed Income
13 26 (1.54%) PMI
14 25 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (1.42%) NHS
16 21 (1.24%) Data Structures
17 20 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
18 19 (1.13%) Credit Risk
18 19 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (3.20%) Windows
2 46 (2.73%) Linux
3 34 (2.01%) Unix
4 21 (1.24%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.36%) zOS
7 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.059%) AIX
10 1 (0.059%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (33.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 417 (24.70%) Agile
3 380 (22.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 358 (21.21%) Cybersecurity
5 352 (20.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 257 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
7 253 (14.99%) Project Management
8 250 (14.81%) Decision-Making
9 224 (13.27%) AI
10 223 (13.21%) Roadmaps
11 203 (12.03%) Information Security
12 177 (10.49%) Change Management
13 163 (9.66%) Project Delivery
14 156 (9.24%) Migration
15 148 (8.77%) CI/CD
16 144 (8.53%) DevOps
17 142 (8.41%) Analytics
18 128 (7.58%) PRINCE2
18 128 (7.58%) Vulnerability Management
19 126 (7.46%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 131 (7.76%) Python
2 103 (6.10%) SQL
3 58 (3.44%) Java
4 40 (2.37%) PowerShell
5 23 (1.36%) C#
6 18 (1.07%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.77%) VBA
8 10 (0.59%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.53%) Bash
9 9 (0.53%) C++
9 9 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.41%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.36%) Go
12 4 (0.24%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.24%) Bicep
12 4 (0.24%) CLIST
12 4 (0.24%) JCL
12 4 (0.24%) REXX
12 4 (0.24%) Scala
13 3 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 418 (24.76%) Security Cleared
2 306 (18.13%) SC Cleared
3 188 (11.14%) Degree
4 166 (9.83%) CISSP
5 106 (6.28%) CISM
6 103 (6.10%) DV Cleared
7 80 (4.74%) PMI Certification
8 76 (4.50%) PMP
9 42 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 42 (2.49%) CRISC
10 34 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
10 34 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 32 (1.90%) CISA
12 30 (1.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 29 (1.72%) Master's Degree
14 27 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 20 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
16 16 (0.95%) AWS Certification
16 16 (0.95%) CESG Certified Professional
16 16 (0.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (11.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 202 (11.97%) NIST
2 157 (9.30%) GRC
3 118 (6.99%) GDPR
4 80 (4.74%) QA
5 70 (4.15%) PMO
6 68 (4.03%) Data Quality
7 57 (3.38%) NCSC
8 37 (2.19%) PCI DSS
9 34 (2.01%) JSP 440
10 32 (1.90%) SOC 2
11 31 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
12 29 (1.72%) NIST 800
13 28 (1.66%) SLA
14 21 (1.24%) COBIT
15 18 (1.07%) ISO 31000
16 17 (1.01%) Def Stans
17 16 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 15 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 14 (0.83%) RMADS
System Software
1 37 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.18%) Docker
3 10 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.24%) Postfix
5 4 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.059%) Ceph
8 1 (0.059%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.059%) IAG
8 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.60%) Terraform
3 24 (1.42%) Ansible
4 14 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.71%) SCCM
6 11 (0.65%) Grafana
7 8 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.30%) Control-M
8 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.24%) Nessus
9 4 (0.24%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.18%) CASB
11 2 (0.12%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.12%) OpenVAS
11 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 232 (13.74%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.33%) ServiceNow
3 81 (4.80%) SAP
4 79 (4.68%) Oracle
5 47 (2.78%) Google
6 20 (1.18%) Cisco
6 20 (1.18%) IBM
7 19 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.01%) Workday
9 15 (0.89%) Splunk
9 15 (0.89%) Sybase
10 14 (0.83%) Foundry
10 14 (0.83%) Murex
11 13 (0.77%) F5
11 13 (0.77%) Qualys
11 13 (0.77%) VMware
12 11 (0.65%) Databricks
13 10 (0.59%) Infoblox
14 9 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (0.53%) Rapid7