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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 51 77
Rank change year-on-year -21 +26 -11
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,671 1,418 1,237
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.18% 4.39% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 4.85% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,072 864 765
10th Percentile £406 £373 £356
25th Percentile £481 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £713
90th Percentile £800 £875 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £513 £540
% change year-on-year +4.88% -5.09% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 29 41
10th Percentile £23.50 £29.19 £12.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £47.83 £22.34
Median hourly rate £72.34 £61.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.64% +29.46% +297.82%
75th Percentile £85.40 £75.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £105.48 £87.30 £70.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.34 £63.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year +22.28% +26.50% +62.60%

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 44,694 29,246 37,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.15% 90.54% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,812 18,436 23,663
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,657 1,477 2,496
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -3.62%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -22 1,484 £570 -1.96% 896
UK excluding London -8 858 £538 +4.88% 512
London -40 697 £600 -9.43% 468
Work from Home -22 481 £550 -8.18% 393
North of England -10 260 £514 +0.29% 128
South East -4 229 £575 +4.55% 169
North West -11 133 £540 +5.62% 75
Yorkshire +5 125 £500 -4.76% 44
Midlands -42 118 £550 +16.53% 65
Scotland +4 96 £475 +0.85% 29
South West -5 93 £570 +9.62% 71
West Midlands -39 89 £550 +10.00% 36
East of England +13 58 £525 -4.55% 42
East Midlands -14 29 £550 +24.29% 29
Northern Ireland +2 9 £394 -28.41% 12
Wales -19 6 £800 +79.37% 5
North East -36 4 £454 -17.50% 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 68 (4.07%) Confluence
2 34 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.60%) SAS
4 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.24%) IIS
6 3 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.060%) Apache
8 1 (0.060%) Appian
8 1 (0.060%) CMS
8 1 (0.060%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.060%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.060%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.060%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.060%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.060%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.060%) WebSphere
Applications
1 51 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
4 36 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.84%) 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 (0.060%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.060%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.060%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 35 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.78%) Endur
3 11 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.36%) Actimize
5 6 (0.36%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.36%) Primavera
5 6 (0.36%) Summit
6 5 (0.30%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
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%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.18%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 250 (14.96%) Azure
2 176 (10.53%) AWS
3 77 (4.61%) GCP
4 70 (4.19%) Power Platform
5 57 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (3.23%) Entra ID
7 48 (2.87%) SaaS
8 36 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (1.92%) GitHub
10 30 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
11 22 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
12 20 (1.20%) PaaS
13 19 (1.14%) Snowflake
14 16 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
14 16 (0.96%) Google Workspace
15 15 (0.90%) Serverless
16 14 (0.84%) Azure AI
17 13 (0.78%) Anthropic Claude
17 13 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
17 13 (0.78%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.41%) Network Security
2 38 (2.27%) Firewall
3 16 (0.96%) DNS
4 14 (0.84%) DHCP
4 14 (0.84%) TCP/IP
5 12 (0.72%) 5G
5 12 (0.72%) WAN
6 11 (0.66%) BIG-IP
7 10 (0.60%) 4G
7 10 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.54%) LAN
9 7 (0.42%) HTTP
9 7 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (0.36%) Internet
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
12 4 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.17%) Power BI
2 35 (2.09%) Metadata
3 30 (1.80%) Relational Database
4 26 (1.56%) SQL Server
5 21 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (0.96%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.72%) Db2
9 11 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.60%) Tableau
11 9 (0.54%) Big Data
11 9 (0.54%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.36%) MySQL
12 6 (0.36%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.30%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 5 (0.30%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 119 (7.12%) JIRA
2 24 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 23 (1.38%) Git
4 9 (0.54%) GitLab
5 8 (0.48%) 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
1 623 (37.28%) Social Skills
2 621 (37.16%) Finance
3 257 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (11.61%) Public Sector
5 189 (11.31%) Banking
6 131 (7.84%) Legal
7 60 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
8 59 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (2.99%) Front Office
10 44 (2.63%) Financial Institution
11 39 (2.33%) Retail
12 38 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
12 38 (2.27%) Telecoms
13 37 (2.21%) Investment Banking
14 36 (2.15%) Aerospace
14 36 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
15 31 (1.86%) Military
16 30 (1.80%) Manufacturing
17 26 (1.56%) Law
18 23 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 215 (12.87%) Lead
2 202 (12.09%) Project Manager
3 196 (11.73%) Architect
4 163 (9.75%) Senior
5 162 (9.69%) Analyst
6 93 (5.57%) Consultant
7 84 (5.03%) Security Architect
8 72 (4.31%) Business Analyst
9 71 (4.25%) Developer
10 67 (4.01%) Programme Manager
11 61 (3.65%) Senior Manager
12 54 (3.23%) Risk Manager
13 45 (2.69%) IT Manager
14 41 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
15 39 (2.33%) Security Consultant
16 37 (2.21%) Security Engineer
17 35 (2.09%) Security Manager
18 34 (2.03%) Solutions Architect
19 29 (1.74%) Product Manager
20 27 (1.62%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
2 26 (1.56%) .NET
2 26 (1.56%) REST
3 20 (1.20%) Kafka
4 19 (1.14%) Middleware
5 16 (0.96%) XML
6 13 (0.78%) JSON
7 12 (0.72%) OAuth
7 12 (0.72%) RESTful
7 12 (0.72%) SOAP
8 11 (0.66%) Azure Blueprints
8 11 (0.66%) Leaflet
8 11 (0.66%) OpenID
8 11 (0.66%) React
8 11 (0.66%) SAML
9 10 (0.60%) Web Services
10 9 (0.54%) LDAP
10 9 (0.54%) SLSA
11 8 (0.48%) PySpark
11 8 (0.48%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 123 (7.36%) Management Information System
2 85 (5.09%) Onboarding
3 83 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 67 (4.01%) Cloud Native
5 66 (3.95%) Security Posture
6 64 (3.83%) Operational Technology
7 51 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
8 47 (2.81%) Data Centre
9 39 (2.33%) Derivative
10 33 (1.97%) Market Risk
11 28 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
12 25 (1.50%) AI Agents
12 25 (1.50%) Fixed Income
12 25 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
12 25 (1.50%) PMI
13 24 (1.44%) Data Structures
13 24 (1.44%) NHS
14 21 (1.26%) Credit Risk
15 19 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
16 18 (1.08%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 53 (3.17%) Windows
2 44 (2.63%) Linux
3 32 (1.92%) Unix
4 19 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.42%) zOS
7 6 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (33.99%) Stakeholder Management
2 419 (25.07%) Agile
3 381 (22.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 353 (21.13%) Cybersecurity
5 341 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 254 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
7 250 (14.96%) Project Management
8 249 (14.90%) Decision-Making
9 220 (13.17%) Roadmaps
10 218 (13.05%) AI
11 206 (12.33%) Information Security
12 180 (10.77%) Change Management
13 162 (9.69%) Project Delivery
14 151 (9.04%) Migration
15 147 (8.80%) CI/CD
16 146 (8.74%) DevOps
17 140 (8.38%) Analytics
18 129 (7.72%) Regulatory Compliance
19 127 (7.60%) Vulnerability Management
20 126 (7.54%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 131 (7.84%) Python
2 108 (6.46%) SQL
3 57 (3.41%) Java
4 39 (2.33%) PowerShell
5 24 (1.44%) C#
6 18 (1.08%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.78%) VBA
8 10 (0.60%) C++
8 10 (0.60%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.54%) Bash
9 9 (0.54%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.42%) 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
13 3 (0.18%) C
13 3 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 407 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 301 (18.01%) SC Cleared
3 189 (11.31%) Degree
4 161 (9.63%) CISSP
5 102 (6.10%) CISM
6 96 (5.75%) DV Cleared
7 78 (4.67%) PMI Certification
8 74 (4.43%) PMP
9 40 (2.39%) CRISC
10 36 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 30 (1.80%) CISA
13 28 (1.68%) Master's Degree
14 25 (1.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 18 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
16 16 (0.96%) AWS Certification
16 16 (0.96%) CESG Certified Professional
16 16 (0.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (12.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 201 (12.03%) NIST
3 152 (9.10%) GRC
4 117 (7.00%) GDPR
5 78 (4.67%) QA
6 71 (4.25%) Data Quality
6 71 (4.25%) PMO
7 56 (3.35%) NCSC
8 39 (2.33%) PCI DSS
9 36 (2.15%) JSP 440
10 33 (1.97%) SOC 2
11 30 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 30 (1.80%) SLA
12 28 (1.68%) NIST 800
13 22 (1.32%) COBIT
14 17 (1.02%) ISO 31000
15 16 (0.96%) Def Stans
15 16 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 16 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.84%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 37 (2.21%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.08%) Docker
3 10 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.54%) 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%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.060%) Ceph
8 1 (0.060%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.060%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.56%) Terraform
3 22 (1.32%) Ansible
4 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.84%) SCCM
5 11 (0.66%) Grafana
6 8 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.30%) Control-M
7 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.24%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.18%) CASB
9 3 (0.18%) Nessus
10 2 (0.12%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.12%) Istio
10 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.12%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.12%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 224 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.57%) ServiceNow
3 83 (4.97%) Oracle
4 82 (4.91%) SAP
5 48 (2.87%) Google
6 20 (1.20%) IBM
6 20 (1.20%) Workday
7 19 (1.14%) Cisco
7 19 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 16 (0.96%) Murex
9 15 (0.90%) Sybase
10 14 (0.84%) Foundry
10 14 (0.84%) Splunk
11 13 (0.78%) F5
11 13 (0.78%) Qualys
11 13 (0.78%) VMware
12 11 (0.66%) Ariba
13 10 (0.60%) Databricks
13 10 (0.60%) Infoblox
14 9 (0.54%) Rapid7