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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 51 74
Rank change year-on-year -25 +23 -4
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,696 1,435 1,167
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.21% 4.39% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 4.86% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 878 715
10th Percentile £411 £363 £363
25th Percentile £479 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £555 £551
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% +0.82% -7.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £714
90th Percentile £794 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £529 £511 £550
% change year-on-year +3.52% -7.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 30 38
10th Percentile £26.58 £22.16 £14.57
25th Percentile £50.50 £34.53 £35.00
Median hourly rate £79.00 £50.25 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +57.21% -6.51% +66.67%
75th Percentile £85.40 £74.87 £64.06
90th Percentile £105.25 £87.28 £81.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +45.45% -4.35% -20.82%

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 44,871 29,543 34,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.02% 90.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,803 18,563 22,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.46%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,660 1,589 2,131
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £13.46
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £17.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.13 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £69.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +82.83% -39.15% -1.95%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -21 1,498 £565 -1.74% 1,140
UK excluding London -6 880 £529 +3.52% 628
London -40 694 £600 -7.69% 632
Work from Home -23 486 £550 -5.17% 447
North of England -13 259 £514 +0.41% 156
South East +2 242 £575 +4.55% 188
North West -24 129 £525 +3.45% 88
Yorkshire +2 127 £500 -4.76% 53
Midlands -38 110 £550 +16.53% 93
Scotland +3 101 £475 +5.56% 53
South West -13 99 £570 -0.87% 82
West Midlands -39 87 £550 +10.00% 49
East of England +19 63 £525 -4.55% 38
East Midlands -19 21 £550 +24.50% 44
Northern Ireland -2 9 £394 -28.41% 19
Wales -20 7 £725 +61.83% 11
North East -38 5 £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 73 (4.30%) Confluence
2 38 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.53%) SAS
4 6 (0.35%) 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 51 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.24%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.24%) Revit
6 4 (0.24%) Trello
7 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) Windchill
8 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.059%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 42 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.65%) Endur
3 10 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.53%) Primavera
4 9 (0.53%) SAP GRC
5 7 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.35%) Actimize
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.29%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.24%) Loan IQ
8 4 (0.24%) Magento
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.24%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.24%) Summit
8 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 248 (14.62%) Azure
2 179 (10.55%) AWS
3 78 (4.60%) GCP
4 68 (4.01%) Power Platform
5 57 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
6 51 (3.01%) Entra ID
7 44 (2.59%) SaaS
8 35 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (2.00%) GitHub
10 27 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
11 20 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
11 20 (1.18%) PaaS
11 20 (1.18%) Snowflake
12 18 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (0.94%) Anthropic Claude
13 16 (0.94%) Azure AI
14 15 (0.88%) Serverless
15 14 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
16 13 (0.77%) IaaS
16 13 (0.77%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.48%) Network Security
2 42 (2.48%) Firewall
3 18 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.94%) WAN
5 15 (0.88%) DNS
6 13 (0.77%) 5G
6 13 (0.77%) DHCP
6 13 (0.77%) LAN
7 11 (0.65%) 4G
8 10 (0.59%) BIG-IP
8 10 (0.59%) HTTP
8 10 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.41%) Internet
9 7 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (0.35%) VPN
11 5 (0.29%) 3G
11 5 (0.29%) NAS
11 5 (0.29%) NGFW
11 5 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
11 5 (0.29%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.01%) Power BI
2 33 (1.95%) Metadata
3 30 (1.77%) Relational Database
4 28 (1.65%) SQL Server
5 20 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (0.94%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (0.77%) Db2
9 12 (0.71%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.59%) Big Data
10 10 (0.59%) Tableau
11 9 (0.53%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.35%) MySQL
13 5 (0.29%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.29%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 120 (7.08%) JIRA
2 25 (1.47%) Git
3 23 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.59%) Selenium
5 9 (0.53%) GitLab
6 7 (0.41%) Zephyr
7 6 (0.35%) Postman
8 5 (0.29%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.29%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.29%) WebDriver
9 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.24%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.24%) jMock
9 4 (0.24%) JUnit
9 4 (0.24%) Maven
9 4 (0.24%) Mockito
9 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.24%) Subversion
10 3 (0.18%) MLflow
General
1 646 (38.09%) Social Skills
2 631 (37.21%) Finance
3 262 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 196 (11.56%) Public Sector
5 191 (11.26%) Banking
6 123 (7.25%) Legal
7 66 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
8 64 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
9 49 (2.89%) Front Office
10 43 (2.54%) Telecoms
11 41 (2.42%) Aerospace
11 41 (2.42%) Financial Institution
11 41 (2.42%) Retail
12 37 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
12 37 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
13 34 (2.00%) Investment Banking
14 31 (1.83%) Military
15 29 (1.71%) Manufacturing
16 25 (1.47%) Law
17 24 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 225 (13.27%) Lead
2 206 (12.15%) Project Manager
3 198 (11.67%) Architect
4 167 (9.85%) Senior
5 154 (9.08%) Analyst
6 94 (5.54%) Consultant
7 85 (5.01%) Security Architect
8 72 (4.25%) Developer
9 68 (4.01%) Programme Manager
10 63 (3.71%) Business Analyst
10 63 (3.71%) Senior Manager
11 58 (3.42%) Risk Manager
12 47 (2.77%) IT Manager
13 46 (2.71%) Delivery Manager
14 39 (2.30%) Security Consultant
15 36 (2.12%) Security Engineer
15 36 (2.12%) Security Manager
16 35 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
17 30 (1.77%) Product Manager
18 29 (1.71%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.65%) REST
2 26 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
3 25 (1.47%) .NET
4 20 (1.18%) Middleware
5 19 (1.12%) Kafka
6 15 (0.88%) OAuth
7 14 (0.83%) XML
8 13 (0.77%) JSON
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%) RESTful
9 11 (0.65%) SAML
9 11 (0.65%) SOAP
9 11 (0.65%) Spring
10 9 (0.53%) LDAP
10 9 (0.53%) SLSA
11 8 (0.47%) PySpark
11 8 (0.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 118 (6.96%) Management Information System
2 89 (5.25%) Product Ownership
3 88 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 71 (4.19%) Cloud Native
5 65 (3.83%) Security Posture
6 62 (3.66%) Operational Technology
7 51 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
8 45 (2.65%) Data Centre
9 33 (1.95%) Derivative
10 31 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
11 30 (1.77%) Market Risk
12 27 (1.59%) AI Agents
13 26 (1.53%) PMI
14 25 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
15 22 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
15 22 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (1.30%) Fixed Income
16 21 (1.24%) NHS
17 20 (1.18%) Data Structures
18 19 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (3.18%) Windows
2 50 (2.95%) Linux
3 34 (2.00%) Unix
4 20 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.29%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.29%) zOS
7 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.059%) AIX
9 1 (0.059%) Android
9 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 607 (35.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 415 (24.47%) Agile
3 381 (22.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 369 (21.76%) Cybersecurity
5 357 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 257 (15.15%) Project Management
7 256 (15.09%) Decision-Making
8 253 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
9 228 (13.44%) AI
10 222 (13.09%) Roadmaps
11 200 (11.79%) Information Security
12 176 (10.38%) Change Management
13 168 (9.91%) Project Delivery
14 153 (9.02%) Migration
15 151 (8.90%) CI/CD
16 148 (8.73%) DevOps
17 137 (8.08%) Analytics
18 128 (7.55%) Vulnerability Management
19 125 (7.37%) PRINCE2
20 122 (7.19%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 123 (7.25%) Python
2 91 (5.37%) SQL
3 59 (3.48%) Java
4 35 (2.06%) PowerShell
5 23 (1.36%) C#
6 17 (1.00%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.71%) VBA
8 11 (0.65%) C++
9 10 (0.59%) Shell Script
10 9 (0.53%) Bash
10 9 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.35%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.29%) Go
13 4 (0.24%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.24%) Bicep
13 4 (0.24%) CLIST
13 4 (0.24%) JCL
13 4 (0.24%) REXX
13 4 (0.24%) Scala
14 3 (0.18%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 429 (25.29%) Security Cleared
2 319 (18.81%) SC Cleared
3 177 (10.44%) Degree
4 163 (9.61%) CISSP
5 107 (6.31%) DV Cleared
6 103 (6.07%) CISM
7 78 (4.60%) PMI Certification
8 74 (4.36%) PMP
9 43 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 40 (2.36%) CRISC
11 35 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
12 34 (2.00%) CISA
13 30 (1.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 30 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
14 28 (1.65%) Master's Degree
14 28 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 21 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
16 17 (1.00%) CESG Certified Professional
17 16 (0.94%) AWS Certification
17 16 (0.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (12.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 204 (12.03%) NIST
3 164 (9.67%) GRC
4 111 (6.54%) GDPR
5 85 (5.01%) QA
6 69 (4.07%) PMO
7 64 (3.77%) Data Quality
8 59 (3.48%) NCSC
9 35 (2.06%) JSP 440
9 35 (2.06%) PCI DSS
10 32 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
11 31 (1.83%) SOC 2
12 29 (1.71%) NIST 800
13 28 (1.65%) SLA
14 20 (1.18%) COBIT
15 18 (1.06%) Def Stans
15 18 (1.06%) ISO 31000
16 16 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 16 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 14 (0.83%) Accessibility
System Software
1 36 (2.12%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.24%) Docker
3 10 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.41%) 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
7 2 (0.12%) FreeRADIUS
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.059%) Ceph
8 1 (0.059%) IAG
8 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (1.77%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.71%) Terraform
3 23 (1.36%) Ansible
4 12 (0.71%) Grafana
4 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.59%) SCCM
6 9 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.29%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.24%) Control-M
9 4 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.24%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.18%) CASB
10 3 (0.18%) Nessus
11 2 (0.12%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.12%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 218 (12.85%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.48%) ServiceNow
3 86 (5.07%) SAP
4 73 (4.30%) Oracle
5 45 (2.65%) Google
6 21 (1.24%) IBM
7 20 (1.18%) Cisco
8 19 (1.12%) Salesforce
9 17 (1.00%) Workday
10 16 (0.94%) Splunk
10 16 (0.94%) Sybase
11 15 (0.88%) Foundry
12 12 (0.71%) Qualys
13 11 (0.65%) Ariba
13 11 (0.65%) Databricks
13 11 (0.65%) F5
13 11 (0.65%) Murex
14 10 (0.59%) Infoblox
14 10 (0.59%) OpenAI
14 10 (0.59%) VMware