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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 59 62
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,974 1,327 1,258
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.61% 4.04% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 4.47% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 816 703
10th Percentile £400 £360 £363
25th Percentile £475 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £563 £551
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% +2.18% -4.26%
75th Percentile £675 £723 £700
90th Percentile £788 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 30 30
10th Percentile £37.14 £22.16 £33.95
25th Percentile £51.00 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £33.50 £57.94
Median % change year-on-year +116.42% -42.18% +5.34%
75th Percentile £80.00 £46.96 £72.72
90th Percentile £90.50 £65.88 £78.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £33.50 £58.38
% change year-on-year +126.87% -42.61% -11.82%

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 46,176 29,707 32,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.53% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,774 18,450 19,527
10th Percentile £325 £297 £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 £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,315 1,863 1,324
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.14 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £41.08
Median % change year-on-year +53.08% -38.77% -3.91%
75th Percentile £65.41 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £65.00 £74.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £22.32 £42.50
% change year-on-year +73.52% -47.49% -

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -4 1,723 £570 -0.87% 3,852
UK excluding London -10 933 £525 +3.70% 1,801
London -4 878 £613 -4.30% 2,308
Work from Home -21 530 £550 -7.49% 1,492
North of England -4 268 £505 +1.00% 392
South East +8 252 £575 +4.55% 483
Yorkshire +12 131 £489 -2.20% 138
North West -20 130 £525 +5.00% 225
Scotland +15 121 £500 +11.11% 186
Midlands -30 106 £500 +5.26% 253
South West -25 100 £600 - 223
West Midlands -24 84 £498 -0.50% 146
East of England +5 72 £513 -16.33% 147
East Midlands -21 19 £549 +36.44% 107
Wales -14 14 £600 +45.45% 47
Northern Ireland +3 9 £505 -8.18% 79
North East -34 8 £450 -18.18% 30
Channel Islands - 2 £600 - 2

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 (3.80%) Confluence
2 40 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.56%) SAS
4 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.25%) 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%) Documentum
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 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (1.11%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.15%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.15%) Revit
8 2 (0.10%) Windchill
9 1 (0.051%) Adobe Premiere
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 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.76%) SAP GRC
3 13 (0.66%) Endur
4 10 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.51%) Primavera
5 9 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.25%) SAP HCM
7 5 (0.25%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.20%) Actimize
8 4 (0.20%) Magento
8 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.15%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.15%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.15%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 303 (15.35%) Azure
2 207 (10.49%) AWS
3 104 (5.27%) GCP
4 88 (4.46%) Power Platform
5 73 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 64 (3.24%) SaaS
7 61 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
8 51 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (1.98%) GitHub
10 29 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
11 28 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
12 27 (1.37%) OCI
13 23 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
14 20 (1.01%) Snowflake
15 19 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
16 18 (0.91%) Serverless
17 17 (0.86%) Azure AI
17 17 (0.86%) PaaS
18 16 (0.81%) Anthropic Claude
19 15 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.65%) Network Security
2 56 (2.84%) Firewall
3 24 (1.22%) WAN
4 22 (1.11%) LAN
5 21 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.76%) DNS
7 14 (0.71%) VPN
8 11 (0.56%) 5G
9 10 (0.51%) DHCP
10 9 (0.46%) 4G
11 7 (0.35%) Cisco IPT
11 7 (0.35%) Internet
12 6 (0.30%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.25%) HTTP
13 5 (0.25%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
13 5 (0.25%) Softphone
13 5 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (3.50%) Power BI
2 46 (2.33%) SQL Server
3 40 (2.03%) Metadata
4 29 (1.47%) Relational Database
5 23 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.86%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.76%) Data Lake
7 15 (0.76%) Db2
8 14 (0.71%) Big Data
8 14 (0.71%) Oracle Database
8 14 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.46%) BigQuery
9 9 (0.46%) Tableau
10 8 (0.41%) MySQL
10 8 (0.41%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.35%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.25%) SAP HANA
13 4 (0.20%) Ataccama
13 4 (0.20%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 140 (7.09%) JIRA
2 31 (1.57%) Git
3 19 (0.96%) 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 (0.35%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.35%) GitLab
9 7 (0.35%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.25%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.25%) 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
1 796 (40.32%) Social Skills
2 743 (37.64%) Finance
3 339 (17.17%) Analytical Skills
4 252 (12.77%) Public Sector
5 240 (12.16%) Banking
6 150 (7.60%) Legal
7 109 (5.52%) Influencing Skills
8 89 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
9 80 (4.05%) Front Office
10 53 (2.68%) Aerospace
10 53 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
11 52 (2.63%) Military
12 48 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
13 47 (2.38%) Manufacturing
14 44 (2.23%) Investment Banking
15 42 (2.13%) Financial Institution
16 38 (1.93%) Telecoms
17 37 (1.87%) Retail
18 36 (1.82%) Law
19 28 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 261 (13.22%) Lead
2 231 (11.70%) Architect
3 207 (10.49%) Senior
4 206 (10.44%) Analyst
5 201 (10.18%) Project Manager
6 105 (5.32%) Consultant
7 94 (4.76%) Security Architect
8 87 (4.41%) Programme Manager
9 75 (3.80%) Developer
10 74 (3.75%) Business Analyst
11 61 (3.09%) Senior Manager
12 56 (2.84%) IT Manager
13 54 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
14 50 (2.53%) Risk Manager
15 46 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
16 42 (2.13%) Security Engineer
17 40 (2.03%) Solutions Architect
18 38 (1.93%) Service Manager
18 38 (1.93%) Technical Manager
19 37 (1.87%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (3.04%) Terraform
2 38 (1.93%) REST
3 34 (1.72%) .NET
4 27 (1.37%) Middleware
5 24 (1.22%) Kafka
6 19 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
7 18 (0.91%) 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
1 131 (6.64%) Onboarding
2 125 (6.33%) Management Information System
3 104 (5.27%) Product Ownership
4 83 (4.20%) Security Posture
5 74 (3.75%) Cloud Native
6 63 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
7 56 (2.84%) Data Centre
7 56 (2.84%) Operational Technology
8 47 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
10 37 (1.87%) Market Risk
11 36 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
12 34 (1.72%) AI Agents
13 29 (1.47%) Credit Risk
14 28 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
14 28 (1.42%) NHS
15 27 (1.37%) Data Structures
15 27 (1.37%) Derivative
16 22 (1.11%) Fixed Income
16 22 (1.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 70 (3.55%) Linux
2 68 (3.44%) Windows
3 44 (2.23%) Unix
4 22 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.41%) zOS
7 7 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.25%) Android
8 5 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.15%) AIX
9 3 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.15%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (41.49%) Stakeholder Management
2 505 (25.58%) Cybersecurity
3 481 (24.37%) Agile
4 461 (23.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 429 (21.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 328 (16.62%) Decision-Making
7 298 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
8 291 (14.74%) AI
9 285 (14.44%) Roadmaps
10 264 (13.37%) Project Management
11 234 (11.85%) Project Delivery
12 231 (11.70%) Information Security
13 198 (10.03%) Migration
14 195 (9.88%) DevOps
15 194 (9.83%) CI/CD
16 174 (8.81%) Change Management
17 170 (8.61%) Analytics
18 164 (8.31%) Vulnerability Management
19 159 (8.05%) Data Protection
20 155 (7.85%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 167 (8.46%) Python
2 113 (5.72%) SQL
3 52 (2.63%) Java
4 48 (2.43%) PowerShell
5 39 (1.98%) C#
6 24 (1.22%) Bash
7 18 (0.91%) JavaScript
8 17 (0.86%) Shell Script
9 15 (0.76%) C++
10 10 (0.51%) Go
11 8 (0.41%) VBA
12 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.35%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.30%) Bicep
13 6 (0.30%) JCL
13 6 (0.30%) Korn
14 5 (0.25%) Assembly Language
14 5 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.25%) R
14 5 (0.25%) REXX
Qualifications
1 542 (27.46%) Security Cleared
2 392 (19.86%) SC Cleared
3 191 (9.68%) Degree
4 170 (8.61%) CISSP
5 123 (6.23%) DV Cleared
6 113 (5.72%) CISM
7 97 (4.91%) PMI Certification
8 89 (4.51%) PMP
9 60 (3.04%) CRISC
10 57 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 50 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (2.38%) CISA
13 45 (2.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 32 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
15 31 (1.57%) Master's Degree
16 26 (1.32%) CCSP
16 26 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 25 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
18 24 (1.22%) AWS Certification
18 24 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (12.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 219 (11.09%) NIST
3 199 (10.08%) GRC
4 119 (6.03%) QA
5 111 (5.62%) GDPR
6 100 (5.07%) Data Quality
7 93 (4.71%) NCSC
8 73 (3.70%) PMO
9 45 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials
10 28 (1.42%) JSP 440
11 25 (1.27%) NIST 800
12 19 (0.96%) Accessibility
13 17 (0.86%) COBIT
13 17 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 15 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 15 (0.76%) Def Stans
14 15 (0.76%) PCI DSS
15 14 (0.71%) SLA
16 13 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 13 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.32%) Docker
3 15 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.46%) vSphere
6 7 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.25%) FreeRADIUS
7 5 (0.25%) 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 60 (3.04%) Kubernetes
2 36 (1.82%) Ansible
3 17 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.71%) Grafana
5 12 (0.61%) SCCM
6 8 (0.41%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.30%) Control-M
9 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.25%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.25%) Nessus
9 5 (0.25%) 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%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 304 (15.40%) Microsoft
2 117 (5.93%) ServiceNow
3 102 (5.17%) SAP
4 76 (3.85%) Oracle
5 54 (2.74%) Google
6 25 (1.27%) IBM
7 24 (1.22%) Splunk
8 23 (1.17%) Murex
8 23 (1.17%) VMware
9 22 (1.11%) Cisco
10 20 (1.01%) Databricks
10 20 (1.01%) Salesforce
11 16 (0.81%) Ariba
11 16 (0.81%) Qualys
12 14 (0.71%) Sybase
13 13 (0.66%) BeyondTrust
13 13 (0.66%) CyberArk
13 13 (0.66%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.61%) Foundry
14 12 (0.61%) Workday