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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 53 67
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 -1
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,813 1,416 1,200
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.37% 4.33% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 4.79% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 887 726
10th Percentile £406 £359 £373
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -6.88%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £800 £875 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 25 28
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £27.08
25th Percentile £48.00 £23.50 £39.38
Median hourly rate £64.09 £49.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.47% -13.91% +16.16%
75th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £68.17
90th Percentile £87.16 £86.45 £81.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £51.00 £59.19
% change year-on-year +49.02% -13.83% -4.65%

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 45,469 29,582 33,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.43% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,813 18,412 20,921
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £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 2,891 1,754 1,674
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.92 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.80% -46.07% +6.25%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -20 1,590 £566 -1.52% 1,757
UK excluding London -9 921 £525 +2.44% 928
London -31 757 £600 -7.69% 1,074
Work from Home -23 490 £550 -7.25% 785
North of England -15 268 £500 -1.12% 193
South East +17 249 £575 +4.55% 253
North West -24 134 £525 +2.68% 113
Yorkshire -3 128 £492 -1.60% 61
South West 0 117 £585 -0.43% 166
Scotland +14 112 £475 +5.56% 90
Midlands -44 102 £550 +17.27% 109
West Midlands -40 79 £525 +5.00% 65
East of England +12 66 £513 -10.87% 82
East Midlands -29 20 £547 +36.07% 44
Wales -19 11 £600 +45.45% 23
Northern Ireland -3 8 £394 -28.41% 23
North East -39 6 £454 -27.40% 23

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 74 (4.08%) Confluence
2 45 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.55%) SAS
4 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.22%) 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 (0.055%) Apache
8 1 (0.055%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.055%) Appian
8 1 (0.055%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.055%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.055%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.055%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 66 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.22%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.22%) Revit
7 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.17%) Windchill
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) Trello
9 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.055%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 46 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.83%) SAP GRC
3 13 (0.72%) Endur
4 10 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.55%) Primavera
5 9 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.28%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.22%) Actimize
9 4 (0.22%) Magento
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.17%) Findur
10 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.17%) Summit
10 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 267 (14.73%) Azure
2 186 (10.26%) AWS
3 82 (4.52%) GCP
4 80 (4.41%) Power Platform
5 64 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (3.25%) Entra ID
7 52 (2.87%) SaaS
8 40 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (1.65%) GitHub
10 26 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (1.27%) OCI
12 22 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
13 21 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
14 20 (1.10%) Snowflake
15 19 (1.05%) Azure AI
15 19 (1.05%) PaaS
16 16 (0.88%) Anthropic Claude
17 15 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
17 15 (0.83%) Serverless
18 14 (0.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (3.59%) Network Security
2 44 (2.43%) Firewall
3 23 (1.27%) TCP/IP
4 18 (0.99%) WAN
5 17 (0.94%) DNS
6 16 (0.88%) LAN
7 14 (0.77%) 5G
7 14 (0.77%) DHCP
8 12 (0.66%) 4G
9 9 (0.50%) HTTP
9 9 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.44%) BIG-IP
10 8 (0.44%) Internet
10 8 (0.44%) VPN
11 6 (0.33%) Cisco IPT
11 6 (0.33%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.33%) Structured Cabling
12 5 (0.28%) 3G
12 5 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
12 5 (0.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (3.36%) Power BI
2 41 (2.26%) Metadata
3 36 (1.99%) SQL Server
4 32 (1.77%) Relational Database
5 18 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (0.88%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 13 (0.72%) Db2
9 12 (0.66%) Tableau
10 10 (0.55%) Big Data
10 10 (0.55%) Oracle Database
11 9 (0.50%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.39%) MySQL
13 6 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 5 (0.28%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.28%) NoSQL
15 4 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.22%) Oracle Exadata
15 4 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 123 (6.78%) JIRA
2 25 (1.38%) Git
3 20 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.72%) Selenium
5 10 (0.55%) Zephyr
6 8 (0.44%) Cypress.io
6 8 (0.44%) Postman
7 7 (0.39%) GitLab
7 7 (0.39%) WebDriver
8 6 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.22%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) Subversion
10 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.17%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.17%) jMock
10 3 (0.17%) JUnit
10 3 (0.17%) MLflow
10 3 (0.17%) TestRail
General
1 728 (40.15%) Social Skills
2 655 (36.13%) Finance
3 297 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
4 217 (11.97%) Public Sector
5 194 (10.70%) Banking
6 132 (7.28%) Legal
7 86 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
8 71 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
9 69 (3.81%) Front Office
10 49 (2.70%) Aerospace
11 47 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
12 43 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
12 43 (2.37%) Telecoms
13 41 (2.26%) Investment Banking
13 41 (2.26%) Military
13 41 (2.26%) Retail
14 38 (2.10%) Financial Institution
15 36 (1.99%) Manufacturing
16 34 (1.88%) Law
17 26 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 242 (13.35%) Lead
2 219 (12.08%) Architect
3 199 (10.98%) Project Manager
4 169 (9.32%) Analyst
4 169 (9.32%) Senior
5 107 (5.90%) Consultant
6 95 (5.24%) Security Architect
7 75 (4.14%) Programme Manager
8 72 (3.97%) Developer
9 62 (3.42%) Business Analyst
10 54 (2.98%) IT Manager
11 53 (2.92%) Risk Manager
11 53 (2.92%) Senior Manager
12 45 (2.48%) Delivery Manager
13 43 (2.37%) Security Consultant
14 36 (1.99%) Security Engineer
15 35 (1.93%) Security Manager
15 35 (1.93%) Solutions Architect
16 31 (1.71%) Coordinator
17 30 (1.65%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.15%) Terraform
2 34 (1.88%) REST
3 31 (1.71%) .NET
4 25 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
5 24 (1.32%) Middleware
6 16 (0.88%) Kafka
6 16 (0.88%) OAuth
7 14 (0.77%) JSON
8 13 (0.72%) XML
9 11 (0.61%) Leaflet
9 11 (0.61%) SAML
9 11 (0.61%) SLSA
9 11 (0.61%) SOAP
10 10 (0.55%) OpenID
10 10 (0.55%) React
10 10 (0.55%) RESTful
10 10 (0.55%) Spring
11 9 (0.50%) LDAP
11 9 (0.50%) SailPoint
12 8 (0.44%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 118 (6.51%) Management Information System
2 99 (5.46%) Onboarding
3 85 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 73 (4.03%) Security Posture
5 69 (3.81%) Cloud Native
6 54 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
6 54 (2.98%) Operational Technology
7 43 (2.37%) Data Centre
8 41 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
9 36 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
10 32 (1.77%) Derivative
11 31 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
12 30 (1.65%) AI Agents
13 28 (1.54%) Market Risk
14 27 (1.49%) NHS
15 25 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
16 23 (1.27%) Credit Risk
16 23 (1.27%) PMI
17 22 (1.21%) Data Structures
18 21 (1.16%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 62 (3.42%) Windows
2 56 (3.09%) Linux
3 37 (2.04%) Unix
4 21 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.33%) zOS
7 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.17%) AIX
8 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.11%) Android
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.055%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 701 (38.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 441 (24.32%) Cybersecurity
3 436 (24.05%) Agile
4 410 (22.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 391 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 288 (15.89%) Decision-Making
7 273 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
8 258 (14.23%) AI
9 257 (14.18%) Project Management
10 229 (12.63%) Roadmaps
11 205 (11.31%) Information Security
12 199 (10.98%) Project Delivery
13 177 (9.76%) Migration
14 172 (9.49%) Change Management
15 166 (9.16%) DevOps
16 162 (8.94%) CI/CD
17 152 (8.38%) Analytics
18 147 (8.11%) PRINCE2
19 143 (7.89%) Vulnerability Management
20 135 (7.45%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 138 (7.61%) Python
2 94 (5.18%) SQL
3 50 (2.76%) Java
4 37 (2.04%) PowerShell
5 31 (1.71%) C#
6 17 (0.94%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.77%) C++
8 12 (0.66%) Bash
9 11 (0.61%) VBA
10 8 (0.44%) Go
10 8 (0.44%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.33%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.28%) Bicep
12 5 (0.28%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.22%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.22%) CLIST
13 4 (0.22%) JCL
13 4 (0.22%) REXX
13 4 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 497 (27.41%) Security Cleared
2 359 (19.80%) SC Cleared
3 176 (9.71%) Degree
4 160 (8.83%) CISSP
5 123 (6.78%) DV Cleared
6 112 (6.18%) CISM
7 88 (4.85%) PMI Certification
8 85 (4.69%) PMP
9 52 (2.87%) CRISC
10 47 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
12 37 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 37 (2.04%) CISA
13 31 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
14 28 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 24 (1.32%) Master's Degree
16 23 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
17 20 (1.10%) CCSP
17 20 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
18 18 (0.99%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (12.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 214 (11.80%) NIST
3 183 (10.09%) GRC
4 116 (6.40%) GDPR
5 103 (5.68%) QA
6 79 (4.36%) NCSC
7 78 (4.30%) Data Quality
8 66 (3.64%) PMO
9 40 (2.21%) JSP 440
10 33 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
11 23 (1.27%) COBIT
12 21 (1.16%) NIST 800
13 19 (1.05%) PCI DSS
13 19 (1.05%) SLA
14 18 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 18 (0.99%) SOC 2
15 16 (0.88%) Accessibility
16 15 (0.83%) ISO 31000
17 14 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 14 (0.77%) Def Stans
System Software
1 40 (2.21%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.21%) Docker
3 10 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
5 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.17%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) Postfix
6 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
7 2 (0.11%) NFS
7 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.055%) Ceph
8 1 (0.055%) IAG
Systems Management
1 42 (2.32%) Kubernetes
2 31 (1.71%) Ansible
3 13 (0.72%) Grafana
4 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.66%) SCCM
5 8 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.28%) Control-M
7 4 (0.22%) Data Guard
7 4 (0.22%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (0.22%) Nessus
7 4 (0.22%) OMEGAMON
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.17%) Puppet
9 2 (0.11%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 261 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 102 (5.63%) ServiceNow
3 89 (4.91%) SAP
4 81 (4.47%) Oracle
5 43 (2.37%) Google
6 22 (1.21%) IBM
7 20 (1.10%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.05%) Splunk
9 17 (0.94%) Cisco
10 16 (0.88%) Sybase
11 15 (0.83%) Foundry
11 15 (0.83%) Workday
12 14 (0.77%) Databricks
12 14 (0.77%) VMware
13 13 (0.72%) Qualys
14 12 (0.66%) Murex
15 10 (0.55%) Ariba
16 9 (0.50%) BeyondTrust
16 9 (0.50%) F5
16 9 (0.50%) Okta