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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 58 61
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,960 1,351 1,265
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.59% 4.07% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 4.49% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 826 706
10th Percentile £400 £360 £363
25th Percentile £475 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £561 £556
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +0.94% -3.30%
75th Percentile £675 £722 £700
90th Percentile £790 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 31 31
10th Percentile £36.70 £22.16 £34.25
25th Percentile £51.00 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £71.25 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +112.69% -41.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80.00 £57.50 £71.87
90th Percentile £90.75 £73.75 £78.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £33.50 £58.38
% change year-on-year +126.87% -42.61% -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 46,144 30,062 32,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.46% 90.58% 85.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,776 18,666 19,743
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,300 1,877 1,341
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.33 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.62 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.06 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.77% -48.10% +1.18%

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 4 October 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 4 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Top 18 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 4 October 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 -6 1,711 £570 -0.87% 3,844
UK excluding London -6 927 £525 +3.96% 1,992
London -8 872 £615 -3.91% 2,232
Work from Home -21 526 £550 -8.18% 1,669
North of England -6 263 £510 +2.00% 402
South East +8 253 £575 +4.55% 500
Yorkshire +14 129 £492 -1.60% 134
North West -20 128 £525 +5.00% 231
Scotland +11 121 £500 +11.11% 249
Midlands -31 106 £500 +5.26% 264
South West -25 101 £600 +2.13% 264
West Midlands -24 84 £498 -0.50% 150
East of England +11 70 £513 -16.33% 161
East Midlands -22 19 £549 +36.44% 114
Wales -14 13 £600 +45.45% 78
Northern Ireland +1 9 £505 -8.18% 84
North East -37 7 £450 -18.18% 38
Channel Islands - 2 £600 - 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 75 (3.83%) Confluence
2 40 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.56%) SAS
4 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.20%) IIS
7 3 (0.15%) CMS
8 2 (0.10%) Apache
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.051%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.051%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.051%) Appian
9 1 (0.051%) CICS
9 1 (0.051%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.051%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.051%) nginx
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 64 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (1.07%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.15%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.15%) Revit
8 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.10%) Windchill
9 1 (0.051%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.051%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.051%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.051%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 51 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.77%) SAP GRC
3 13 (0.66%) Endur
4 10 (0.51%) Primavera
5 9 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.26%) SAP HCM
8 4 (0.20%) Actimize
8 4 (0.20%) Magento
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.20%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.15%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.15%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 303 (15.46%) Azure
2 205 (10.46%) AWS
3 102 (5.20%) GCP
4 87 (4.44%) Power Platform
5 73 (3.72%) Entra ID
6 61 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
7 60 (3.06%) SaaS
8 51 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (1.99%) GitHub
10 29 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
11 27 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
11 27 (1.38%) OCI
12 22 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
13 20 (1.02%) Snowflake
14 19 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
15 18 (0.92%) Serverless
16 17 (0.87%) Azure AI
17 16 (0.82%) Anthropic Claude
17 16 (0.82%) PaaS
18 15 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.67%) Network Security
2 56 (2.86%) Firewall
3 24 (1.22%) WAN
4 22 (1.12%) LAN
5 21 (1.07%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.77%) DNS
7 14 (0.71%) VPN
8 11 (0.56%) 5G
9 10 (0.51%) DHCP
10 9 (0.46%) 4G
11 7 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
11 7 (0.36%) Internet
12 6 (0.31%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.26%) BIG-IP
13 5 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
13 5 (0.26%) Softphone
13 5 (0.26%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (3.52%) Power BI
2 45 (2.30%) SQL Server
3 39 (1.99%) Metadata
4 29 (1.48%) Relational Database
5 23 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (0.82%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.77%) Data Lake
8 14 (0.71%) Big Data
8 14 (0.71%) Db2
9 13 (0.66%) Oracle Database
9 13 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.46%) Tableau
11 8 (0.41%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.36%) MySQL
12 7 (0.36%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.36%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.20%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (0.20%) SAP HANA
13 4 (0.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 138 (7.04%) JIRA
2 30 (1.53%) Git
3 19 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.66%) Selenium
5 11 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 10 (0.51%) Postman
7 9 (0.46%) WebDriver
8 8 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.36%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.36%) GitLab
9 7 (0.36%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.26%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.20%) Gradle
11 4 (0.20%) Subversion
12 3 (0.15%) JMeter
12 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.15%) TestRail
13 2 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 795 (40.56%) Social Skills
2 738 (37.65%) Finance
3 341 (17.40%) Analytical Skills
4 249 (12.70%) Public Sector
5 236 (12.04%) Banking
6 148 (7.55%) Legal
7 108 (5.51%) Influencing Skills
8 89 (4.54%) Organisational Skills
9 79 (4.03%) Front Office
10 53 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
11 52 (2.65%) Aerospace
11 52 (2.65%) Military
12 48 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (2.35%) Manufacturing
14 43 (2.19%) Investment Banking
15 42 (2.14%) Financial Institution
16 38 (1.94%) Telecoms
17 37 (1.89%) Retail
18 36 (1.84%) Law
19 29 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 262 (13.37%) Lead
2 233 (11.89%) Architect
3 207 (10.56%) Senior
4 203 (10.36%) Analyst
5 199 (10.15%) Project Manager
6 103 (5.26%) Consultant
7 93 (4.74%) Security Architect
8 86 (4.39%) Programme Manager
9 75 (3.83%) Developer
10 73 (3.72%) Business Analyst
11 61 (3.11%) Senior Manager
12 56 (2.86%) IT Manager
13 53 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
14 50 (2.55%) Risk Manager
15 46 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
16 41 (2.09%) Security Engineer
17 40 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
18 38 (1.94%) Service Manager
18 38 (1.94%) Technical Manager
19 36 (1.84%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (3.06%) Terraform
2 38 (1.94%) REST
3 34 (1.73%) .NET
4 27 (1.38%) Middleware
5 24 (1.22%) Kafka
6 19 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
7 18 (0.92%) OAuth
8 13 (0.66%) Spring
9 12 (0.61%) JSON
9 12 (0.61%) OpenID
9 12 (0.61%) SAML
10 11 (0.56%) SLSA
11 10 (0.51%) SailPoint
11 10 (0.51%) SOAP
11 10 (0.51%) XML
12 9 (0.46%) LDAP
12 9 (0.46%) React
12 9 (0.46%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.46%) Web Services
12 9 (0.46%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 129 (6.58%) Onboarding
2 124 (6.33%) Management Information System
3 103 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 82 (4.18%) Security Posture
5 74 (3.78%) Cloud Native
6 61 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
7 56 (2.86%) Data Centre
7 56 (2.86%) Operational Technology
8 47 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
8 47 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (1.84%) Market Risk
10 34 (1.73%) AI Agents
11 29 (1.48%) Credit Risk
12 28 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
12 28 (1.43%) NHS
13 27 (1.38%) Derivative
14 25 (1.28%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.12%) PKI
15 22 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 68 (3.47%) Linux
1 68 (3.47%) Windows
2 44 (2.24%) Unix
3 22 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.41%) zOS
6 7 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.26%) Android
7 5 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.15%) AIX
8 3 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 807 (41.17%) Stakeholder Management
2 502 (25.61%) Cybersecurity
3 478 (24.39%) Agile
4 459 (23.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 430 (21.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 326 (16.63%) Decision-Making
7 300 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
8 292 (14.90%) AI
9 285 (14.54%) Roadmaps
10 263 (13.42%) Project Management
11 232 (11.84%) Project Delivery
12 228 (11.63%) Information Security
13 197 (10.05%) Migration
14 195 (9.95%) DevOps
15 193 (9.85%) CI/CD
16 171 (8.72%) Change Management
17 167 (8.52%) Analytics
18 163 (8.32%) Vulnerability Management
19 157 (8.01%) Data Protection
20 155 (7.91%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 165 (8.42%) Python
2 111 (5.66%) SQL
3 51 (2.60%) Java
4 48 (2.45%) PowerShell
5 39 (1.99%) C#
6 24 (1.22%) Bash
7 18 (0.92%) JavaScript
8 17 (0.87%) Shell Script
9 14 (0.71%) C++
10 10 (0.51%) Go
11 8 (0.41%) VBA
12 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.36%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.31%) Bicep
13 6 (0.31%) JCL
13 6 (0.31%) Korn
14 5 (0.26%) Assembly Language
14 5 (0.26%) CLIST
14 5 (0.26%) R
14 5 (0.26%) REXX
Qualifications
1 540 (27.55%) Security Cleared
2 391 (19.95%) SC Cleared
3 189 (9.64%) Degree
4 169 (8.62%) CISSP
5 123 (6.28%) DV Cleared
6 113 (5.77%) CISM
7 96 (4.90%) PMI Certification
8 89 (4.54%) PMP
9 58 (2.96%) CRISC
10 57 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 49 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
12 46 (2.35%) CISA
13 44 (2.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 31 (1.58%) Master's Degree
15 30 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
16 26 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 25 (1.28%) CCSP
17 25 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
18 24 (1.22%) AWS Certification
18 24 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (12.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 216 (11.02%) NIST
3 197 (10.05%) GRC
4 115 (5.87%) QA
5 109 (5.56%) GDPR
6 97 (4.95%) Data Quality
7 91 (4.64%) NCSC
8 73 (3.72%) PMO
9 42 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 28 (1.43%) JSP 440
11 25 (1.28%) NIST 800
12 19 (0.97%) Accessibility
13 17 (0.87%) COBIT
13 17 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 15 (0.77%) Def Stans
14 15 (0.77%) PCI DSS
15 14 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 14 (0.71%) SLA
16 13 (0.66%) ISO 31000
16 13 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (2.35%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.28%) Docker
3 15 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.46%) vSphere
6 7 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.26%) FreeRADIUS
7 5 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.15%) Firmware
9 3 (0.15%) IAG
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.051%) NFS
10 1 (0.051%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 59 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 36 (1.84%) Ansible
3 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.71%) Grafana
5 12 (0.61%) SCCM
6 8 (0.41%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.31%) Control-M
9 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.26%) Nessus
9 5 (0.26%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.15%) Argo
10 3 (0.15%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.15%) Puppet
10 3 (0.15%) QRadar
10 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.10%) Istio
11 2 (0.10%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 302 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 116 (5.92%) ServiceNow
3 101 (5.15%) SAP
4 75 (3.83%) Oracle
5 53 (2.70%) Google
6 24 (1.22%) IBM
6 24 (1.22%) Splunk
7 23 (1.17%) VMware
8 22 (1.12%) Cisco
9 21 (1.07%) Murex
10 20 (1.02%) Databricks
11 19 (0.97%) Salesforce
12 16 (0.82%) Ariba
12 16 (0.82%) Qualys
13 14 (0.71%) Sybase
14 13 (0.66%) BeyondTrust
14 13 (0.66%) CyberArk
14 13 (0.66%) OpenAI
15 12 (0.61%) Foundry
16 11 (0.56%) Tenable