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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 49 64
Rank change year-on-year -22 +15 +8
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,514 1,303 1,374
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.25% 4.41% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 4.86% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 792 900
10th Percentile £400 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £838 £838 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 40 47
10th Percentile £20.27 £40.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £36.00 £47.96 £31.80
Median hourly rate £69.36 £61.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.79% +22.99% +370.37%
75th Percentile £100.00 £78.80 £61.25
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.10 £83.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.31 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +20.83% +22.99% +410.20%

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 39,506 26,799 37,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.73% 90.79% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,946 17,322 24,335
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -0.36% -2.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,068 2,432
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £28.00 £35.58
% change year-on-year +49.48% -21.29% -4.62%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 1,333 £550 -4.35% 479
UK excluding London -14 724 £525 +0.96% 388
London -25 656 £600 -6.61% 179
Work from Home -7 438 £550 -4.35% 274
North of England -10 214 £503 -1.80% 94
South East -11 203 £550 -4.35% 130
Midlands -29 112 £535 +7.00% 58
North West -9 109 £550 +8.75% 51
Yorkshire -8 103 £482 -3.68% 36
West Midlands -32 79 £525 - 31
Scotland +4 74 £450 -10.00% 21
South West -11 72 £525 +16.67% 43
East of England -20 46 £525 +12.18% 34
East Midlands -32 33 £537 +19.79% 26
Northern Ireland 0 6 £475 -13.64% 8
Wales -7 6 £214 -55.03% 7
North East -30 2 £480 -16.52% 7

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 62 (4.10%) Confluence
2 34 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.53%) SAS
5 7 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.26%) nginx
7 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.13%) Apache
8 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.13%) IIS
9 1 (0.066%) CMS
9 1 (0.066%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.066%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.066%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.33%) Revit
7 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.26%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) Windchill
9 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.066%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.066%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 25 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.53%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.46%) Endur
4 7 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.46%) Summit
5 6 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.33%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.26%) Primavera
7 4 (0.26%) SAP GRC
8 3 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.20%) Dynamics SL
8 3 (0.20%) Findur
8 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 177 (11.69%) Azure
2 143 (9.45%) AWS
3 64 (4.23%) Power Platform
4 61 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (3.37%) GCP
6 36 (2.38%) Entra ID
6 36 (2.38%) SaaS
7 29 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (1.45%) GitHub
8 22 (1.45%) Google Workspace
9 21 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
11 18 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (1.19%) Google Sheets
12 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
12 15 (0.99%) Snowflake
13 13 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
14 11 (0.73%) PaaS
15 10 (0.66%) Amazon S3
15 10 (0.66%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.17%) Network Security
2 32 (2.11%) Firewall
3 20 (1.32%) DNS
4 12 (0.79%) DHCP
4 12 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (0.59%) BIG-IP
5 9 (0.59%) Structured Cabling
6 8 (0.53%) 5G
6 8 (0.53%) LAN
6 8 (0.53%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.53%) WAN
7 7 (0.46%) HTTP
7 7 (0.46%) Internet
8 5 (0.33%) 3G
8 5 (0.33%) 4G
9 4 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
9 4 (0.26%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.26%) VPN
10 3 (0.20%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.20%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.37%) Power BI
2 36 (2.38%) Metadata
3 25 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (1.19%) SQL Server
6 11 (0.73%) MongoDB
7 10 (0.66%) Tableau
8 9 (0.59%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.53%) RDBMS
10 7 (0.46%) Big Data
10 7 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.40%) DB2
11 6 (0.40%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.40%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.40%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 128 (8.45%) JIRA
2 23 (1.52%) Git
3 19 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.59%) GitLab
5 5 (0.33%) JUnit
5 5 (0.33%) Mockito
5 5 (0.33%) Zephyr
6 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (0.26%) DbUnit
6 4 (0.26%) jMock
6 4 (0.26%) Maven
6 4 (0.26%) Selenium
6 4 (0.26%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.26%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.066%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.066%) Flyway
7 1 (0.066%) MLflow
7 1 (0.066%) Postman
7 1 (0.066%) TestRail
General
1 556 (36.72%) Social Skills
2 550 (36.33%) Finance
3 240 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (12.75%) Banking
5 170 (11.23%) Public Sector
6 103 (6.80%) Legal
7 50 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
8 45 (2.97%) Front Office
9 44 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (2.64%) Investment Banking
11 39 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
11 39 (2.58%) Retail
12 36 (2.38%) Financial Institution
13 31 (2.05%) Manufacturing
14 30 (1.98%) Telecoms
15 28 (1.85%) Military
15 28 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
16 19 (1.25%) Law
16 19 (1.25%) Marketing
17 17 (1.12%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 202 (13.34%) Project Manager
2 180 (11.89%) Lead
3 153 (10.11%) Senior
4 152 (10.04%) Analyst
5 147 (9.71%) Architect
6 99 (6.54%) Consultant
7 81 (5.35%) Developer
8 74 (4.89%) Business Analyst
9 71 (4.69%) Programme Manager
10 66 (4.36%) Security Architect
11 51 (3.37%) Senior Manager
12 49 (3.24%) Risk Manager
13 46 (3.04%) Delivery Manager
14 41 (2.71%) Security Consultant
15 34 (2.25%) IT Manager
16 33 (2.18%) Security Engineer
17 31 (2.05%) Risk Analyst
18 30 (1.98%) Security Manager
19 29 (1.92%) Senior Developer
20 28 (1.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (2.05%) Oracle Fusion
2 24 (1.59%) REST
3 22 (1.45%) Kafka
4 18 (1.19%) .NET
5 14 (0.92%) RESTful
6 12 (0.79%) Middleware
7 11 (0.73%) Leaflet
8 10 (0.66%) XML
9 9 (0.59%) OAuth
10 8 (0.53%) JSON
10 8 (0.53%) LDAP
10 8 (0.53%) PyTorch
11 7 (0.46%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.46%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.46%) React
11 7 (0.46%) scikit-learn
11 7 (0.46%) SOAP
11 7 (0.46%) TensorFlow
12 6 (0.40%) J2EE
12 6 (0.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 134 (8.85%) Management Information System
2 64 (4.23%) Product Ownership
2 64 (4.23%) Security Posture
3 60 (3.96%) Onboarding
4 58 (3.83%) Derivative
5 44 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
6 43 (2.84%) Data Centre
7 41 (2.71%) Cloud Native
8 40 (2.64%) Operational Technology
9 39 (2.58%) Market Risk
10 29 (1.92%) Credit Risk
11 28 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 26 (1.72%) Equities
13 25 (1.65%) Data Structures
14 24 (1.59%) NHS
15 23 (1.52%) AI Agents
15 23 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
15 23 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
16 22 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
17 20 (1.32%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.64%) Windows
2 33 (2.18%) Linux
3 17 (1.12%) Unix
4 9 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.20%) zOS
7 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (30.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 385 (25.43%) Agile
3 291 (19.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 277 (18.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 277 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
5 248 (16.38%) Project Management
6 242 (15.98%) Cybersecurity
7 200 (13.21%) Decision-Making
8 180 (11.89%) Information Security
9 172 (11.36%) Change Management
10 167 (11.03%) AI
11 163 (10.77%) Roadmaps
12 156 (10.30%) Project Delivery
13 145 (9.58%) Migration
14 132 (8.72%) Data Protection
15 129 (8.52%) Analytics
16 122 (8.06%) PRINCE2
17 120 (7.93%) Regulatory Compliance
18 112 (7.40%) DevOps
19 106 (7.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 125 (8.26%) SQL
2 120 (7.93%) Python
3 60 (3.96%) Java
4 36 (2.38%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.45%) C++
6 21 (1.39%) C#
7 15 (0.99%) VBA
8 13 (0.86%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.46%) Bash
9 7 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.40%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.26%) Perl
12 3 (0.20%) Korn
12 3 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.20%) Scala
13 2 (0.13%) Go
13 2 (0.13%) R
13 2 (0.13%) RPG
14 1 (0.066%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 326 (21.53%) Security Cleared
2 241 (15.92%) SC Cleared
3 208 (13.74%) Degree
4 122 (8.06%) CISSP
5 86 (5.68%) CISM
6 80 (5.28%) PMP
7 79 (5.22%) DV Cleared
8 74 (4.89%) PMI Certification
9 36 (2.38%) CRISC
10 35 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (2.05%) Master's Degree
12 27 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
13 21 (1.39%) CISA
14 19 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 18 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 18 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 12 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 11 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
19 10 (0.66%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (12.42%) NIST
2 184 (12.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 131 (8.65%) GRC
4 126 (8.32%) GDPR
5 91 (6.01%) PMO
6 79 (5.22%) QA
7 57 (3.76%) Data Quality
8 50 (3.30%) PCI DSS
9 45 (2.97%) NCSC
10 30 (1.98%) SLA
11 27 (1.78%) JSP 440
12 26 (1.72%) COBIT
12 26 (1.72%) SOC 2
13 24 (1.59%) NIST 800
14 20 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
15 19 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 17 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
16 17 (1.12%) RMADS
16 17 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.92%) Docker
3 9 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.26%) Postfix
4 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.066%) Ceph
7 1 (0.066%) NFS
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.066%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (1.32%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.99%) Ansible
3 14 (0.92%) Terraform
4 10 (0.66%) SCCM
5 9 (0.59%) Grafana
5 9 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.33%) Control-M
8 5 (0.33%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.20%) CASB
10 3 (0.20%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.20%) WSUS
11 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.13%) Nessus
11 2 (0.13%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 193 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 84 (5.55%) Oracle
3 81 (5.35%) ServiceNow
4 78 (5.15%) SAP
5 43 (2.84%) Google
6 24 (1.59%) Workday
7 22 (1.45%) Murex
8 16 (1.06%) Ariba
8 16 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 13 (0.86%) Databricks
10 12 (0.79%) IBM
10 12 (0.79%) VMware
11 11 (0.73%) F5
12 9 (0.59%) Cisco
13 8 (0.53%) Foundry
13 8 (0.53%) Splunk
14 7 (0.46%) HP
14 7 (0.46%) Infoblox
14 7 (0.46%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.46%) Sybase