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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 54 69
Rank change year-on-year -19 +15 -1
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,754 1,477 1,154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.29% 4.46% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 4.92% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,090 910 706
10th Percentile £406 £363 £363
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% -6.88%
75th Percentile £675 £736 £723
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 27 28
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £30.91
25th Percentile £50.00 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £49.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.54% -13.91% +45.20%
75th Percentile £85.00 £73.75 £68.17
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.35 £81.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.35 £51.00 £58.38
% change year-on-year +51.67% -12.63% -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 45,268 29,990 33,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.86% 90.46% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,853 18,764 21,291
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £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 £729 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,826 1,696 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.89 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -3.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.75% +13.33%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -23 1,537 £570 -0.87% 1,656
UK excluding London -8 901 £525 +2.44% 815
London -39 722 £600 -7.69% 988
Work from Home -19 494 £550 -5.32% 658
North of England -12 269 £513 +0.24% 167
South East -1 239 £574 +4.36% 229
North West -29 134 £525 +3.45% 102
Yorkshire +2 129 £500 -4.76% 49
Scotland +9 109 £475 +2.21% 78
South West -15 108 £570 -0.87% 127
Midlands -39 104 £575 +21.05% 108
West Midlands -37 82 £575 +15.00% 68
East of England +19 65 £525 -12.50% 68
East Midlands -18 19 £547 +28.71% 40
Northern Ireland -1 9 £394 -28.41% 25
Wales -19 8 £650 +47.14% 21
North East -43 6 £454 -22.77% 17

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 (4.22%) Confluence
2 39 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.57%) SAS
4 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.23%) 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
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.057%) Apache
8 1 (0.057%) Appian
8 1 (0.057%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.057%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.057%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.057%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.057%) WebSphere
Applications
1 55 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
4 36 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.86%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.23%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.23%) Revit
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.17%) Trello
7 3 (0.17%) Windchill
8 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.057%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.057%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 40 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.74%) Endur
3 11 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (0.63%) Primavera
4 10 (0.57%) SAP GRC
5 7 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.29%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.23%) Actimize
8 4 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.23%) Magento
8 4 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 265 (15.11%) Azure
2 191 (10.89%) AWS
3 80 (4.56%) GCP
4 70 (3.99%) Power Platform
5 61 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
6 57 (3.25%) Entra ID
7 50 (2.85%) SaaS
8 38 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (1.88%) GitHub
10 25 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
11 24 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
13 21 (1.20%) Snowflake
14 20 (1.14%) OCI
15 19 (1.08%) Azure AI
15 19 (1.08%) PaaS
16 17 (0.97%) Serverless
17 16 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
18 14 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
19 12 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.36%) Network Security
2 39 (2.22%) Firewall
3 21 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.91%) DNS
4 16 (0.91%) WAN
5 14 (0.80%) 5G
5 14 (0.80%) LAN
6 13 (0.74%) DHCP
7 12 (0.68%) 4G
7 12 (0.68%) HTTP
8 9 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.46%) BIG-IP
10 7 (0.40%) Internet
10 7 (0.40%) VPN
11 6 (0.34%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
12 5 (0.29%) NAS
12 5 (0.29%) NGFW
12 5 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
12 5 (0.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.08%) Power BI
2 32 (1.82%) Metadata
2 32 (1.82%) Relational Database
2 32 (1.82%) SQL Server
3 18 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (0.97%) MongoDB
5 14 (0.80%) Data Lake
6 13 (0.74%) Db2
7 11 (0.63%) Tableau
8 10 (0.57%) Big Data
8 10 (0.57%) RDBMS
9 7 (0.40%) MySQL
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.29%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 120 (6.84%) JIRA
2 25 (1.43%) Git
3 22 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.68%) Selenium
5 8 (0.46%) GitLab
5 8 (0.46%) Postman
6 7 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 7 (0.40%) WebDriver
6 7 (0.40%) Zephyr
7 6 (0.34%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.23%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.23%) DbUnit
8 4 (0.23%) jMock
8 4 (0.23%) JUnit
8 4 (0.23%) Maven
8 4 (0.23%) Mockito
8 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.23%) Subversion
8 4 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 674 (38.43%) Social Skills
2 639 (36.43%) Finance
3 279 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 208 (11.86%) Public Sector
5 191 (10.89%) Banking
6 133 (7.58%) Legal
7 72 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
7 72 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
8 57 (3.25%) Front Office
9 47 (2.68%) Telecoms
10 46 (2.62%) Retail
11 44 (2.51%) Aerospace
12 41 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
13 39 (2.22%) Financial Institution
14 38 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
15 35 (2.00%) Investment Banking
16 34 (1.94%) Military
17 30 (1.71%) Manufacturing
18 29 (1.65%) Law
19 25 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 231 (13.17%) Lead
2 216 (12.31%) Architect
3 208 (11.86%) Project Manager
4 174 (9.92%) Senior
5 161 (9.18%) Analyst
6 106 (6.04%) Consultant
7 93 (5.30%) Security Architect
8 74 (4.22%) Programme Manager
9 69 (3.93%) Developer
10 61 (3.48%) Business Analyst
11 60 (3.42%) Senior Manager
12 58 (3.31%) Risk Manager
13 49 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
14 48 (2.74%) IT Manager
15 45 (2.57%) Security Consultant
16 39 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
17 36 (2.05%) Security Manager
18 33 (1.88%) Security Engineer
19 31 (1.77%) Product Manager
20 30 (1.71%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (1.77%) REST
2 27 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
3 26 (1.48%) .NET
4 21 (1.20%) Middleware
5 17 (0.97%) Kafka
5 17 (0.97%) OAuth
6 13 (0.74%) XML
7 12 (0.68%) OpenID
7 12 (0.68%) SAML
7 12 (0.68%) SOAP
7 12 (0.68%) Spring
8 11 (0.63%) Azure Blueprints
8 11 (0.63%) JSON
8 11 (0.63%) Leaflet
8 11 (0.63%) React
8 11 (0.63%) RESTful
9 9 (0.51%) LDAP
9 9 (0.51%) PyTorch
9 9 (0.51%) SailPoint
9 9 (0.51%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 122 (6.96%) Management Information System
2 92 (5.25%) Onboarding
3 90 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 77 (4.39%) Cloud Native
5 72 (4.10%) Security Posture
6 56 (3.19%) Operational Technology
7 52 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
8 46 (2.62%) Data Centre
9 34 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
10 33 (1.88%) AI Agents
11 32 (1.82%) Derivative
12 29 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
13 26 (1.48%) Market Risk
14 25 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
14 25 (1.43%) PMI
15 23 (1.31%) NHS
16 22 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
17 20 (1.14%) Data Structures
17 20 (1.14%) Fixed Income
18 19 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 56 (3.19%) Windows
2 53 (3.02%) Linux
3 35 (2.00%) Unix
4 21 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.29%) zOS
7 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.17%) AIX
8 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.057%) Android
9 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (36.49%) Stakeholder Management
2 430 (24.52%) Agile
3 400 (22.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 390 (22.23%) Cybersecurity
5 368 (20.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 256 (14.60%) Decision-Making
7 255 (14.54%) Project Management
8 244 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
9 238 (13.57%) AI
10 218 (12.43%) Roadmaps
11 207 (11.80%) Information Security
12 187 (10.66%) Project Delivery
13 165 (9.41%) Migration
14 162 (9.24%) Change Management
15 156 (8.89%) CI/CD
15 156 (8.89%) DevOps
16 135 (7.70%) Analytics
16 135 (7.70%) Vulnerability Management
17 134 (7.64%) PRINCE2
18 132 (7.53%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 125 (7.13%) Python
2 89 (5.07%) SQL
3 56 (3.19%) Java
4 36 (2.05%) PowerShell
5 25 (1.43%) C#
6 17 (0.97%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.74%) C++
8 10 (0.57%) VBA
9 9 (0.51%) Bash
9 9 (0.51%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.51%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.34%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.29%) Go
12 4 (0.23%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.23%) Bicep
12 4 (0.23%) CLIST
12 4 (0.23%) JCL
12 4 (0.23%) REXX
12 4 (0.23%) Scala
13 3 (0.17%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 447 (25.48%) Security Cleared
2 329 (18.76%) SC Cleared
3 181 (10.32%) Degree
4 167 (9.52%) CISSP
5 114 (6.50%) DV Cleared
6 112 (6.39%) CISM
7 82 (4.68%) PMI Certification
8 79 (4.50%) PMP
9 52 (2.96%) CRISC
10 44 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
11 38 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
12 37 (2.11%) CISA
13 33 (1.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 32 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
15 29 (1.65%) Master's Degree
16 28 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 22 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
18 18 (1.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
19 17 (0.97%) CESG Certified Professional
19 17 (0.97%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (12.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 212 (12.09%) NIST
3 173 (9.86%) GRC
4 119 (6.78%) GDPR
5 88 (5.02%) QA
6 68 (3.88%) Data Quality
7 67 (3.82%) PMO
8 61 (3.48%) NCSC
9 35 (2.00%) JSP 440
10 34 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
11 32 (1.82%) PCI DSS
12 28 (1.60%) SOC 2
13 27 (1.54%) SLA
14 22 (1.25%) COBIT
14 22 (1.25%) NIST 800
15 18 (1.03%) ISO 31000
16 17 (0.97%) Accessibility
16 17 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.86%) Def Stans
18 14 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 38 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.14%) Docker
3 10 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.23%) Postfix
5 4 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.11%) FreeRADIUS
7 2 (0.11%) NFS
7 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.057%) Ceph
8 1 (0.057%) IAG
8 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (1.94%) Terraform
2 32 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.43%) Ansible
4 12 (0.68%) Grafana
4 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.57%) SCCM
6 9 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.29%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.23%) Control-M
9 4 (0.23%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.23%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.17%) CASB
10 3 (0.17%) Istio
10 3 (0.17%) Nessus
11 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 238 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 98 (5.59%) ServiceNow
3 83 (4.73%) SAP
4 78 (4.45%) Oracle
5 40 (2.28%) Google
6 21 (1.20%) IBM
7 20 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.97%) Splunk
9 16 (0.91%) Foundry
9 16 (0.91%) Sybase
9 16 (0.91%) Workday
10 14 (0.80%) Cisco
11 13 (0.74%) Databricks
12 12 (0.68%) Murex
12 12 (0.68%) Qualys
13 10 (0.57%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (0.51%) F5
14 9 (0.51%) Okta
14 9 (0.51%) Tenable