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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 45 75
Rank change year-on-year -29 +30 -10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,602 1,354 1,226
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.15% 4.50% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 4.94% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 826 758
10th Percentile £404 £380 £354
25th Percentile £475 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £745 £709
90th Percentile £800 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £516 £538
% change year-on-year +1.84% -4.14% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 26 41
10th Percentile £21.11 £47.06 £12.25
25th Percentile £45.78 £48.94 £22.34
Median hourly rate £64.09 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +30.00% +370.37%
75th Percentile £87.16 £84.74 £61.25
90th Percentile £106.60 £87.38 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.09 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.40% +30.00% +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 43,238 27,425 37,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.97% 91.06% 85.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,959 17,371 23,647
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,600 1,291 2,584
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.65
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.70 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.88 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.04 £38.12
% change year-on-year +79.73% -34.32% +17.29%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 1,429 £563 -5.06% 620
UK excluding London -9 822 £525 +1.84% 416
London -42 675 £600 -11.11% 285
Work from Home -21 465 £550 -8.33% 283
North of England -10 252 £511 -0.24% 104
South East -18 204 £563 +2.27% 146
Yorkshire +2 126 £500 -1.23% 33
North West -13 124 £533 +3.75% 58
Midlands -39 120 £550 +15.79% 58
South West -3 99 £570 +11.76% 51
Scotland +2 94 £475 +0.85% 15
West Midlands -32 89 £540 +8.00% 30
East of England +6 52 £525 -4.55% 38
East Midlands -16 31 £550 +23.66% 28
Northern Ireland -4 8 £413 -25.00% 9
Wales -12 5 £800 +68.42% 6
North East -39 4 £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 71 (4.43%) Confluence
2 35 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.62%) SAS
4 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.19%) IIS
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.062%) Apache
7 1 (0.062%) Appian
7 1 (0.062%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.062%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.062%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.062%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.062%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.062%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.062%) WebSphere
Applications
1 50 (3.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
3 35 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.25%) Navisworks
5 4 (0.25%) Revit
5 4 (0.25%) Trello
6 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) Windchill
8 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.062%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.062%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 28 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.69%) Endur
2 11 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.37%) Summit
5 5 (0.31%) Actimize
5 5 (0.31%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.31%) Primavera
6 4 (0.25%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.25%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.19%) Findur
7 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 226 (14.11%) Azure
2 166 (10.36%) AWS
3 69 (4.31%) GCP
4 63 (3.93%) Power Platform
5 58 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (3.06%) Entra ID
7 48 (3.00%) SaaS
8 32 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (1.75%) GitHub
9 28 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
10 19 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
10 19 (1.19%) PaaS
11 18 (1.12%) Snowflake
12 16 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
12 16 (1.00%) Google Workspace
13 14 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
14 13 (0.81%) Google Sheets
15 12 (0.75%) OCI
15 12 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.56%) Network Security
2 38 (2.37%) Firewall
3 16 (1.00%) DNS
4 14 (0.87%) DHCP
4 14 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 12 (0.75%) WAN
6 11 (0.69%) 5G
6 11 (0.69%) BIG-IP
7 10 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.56%) 4G
8 9 (0.56%) LAN
9 7 (0.44%) HTTP
9 7 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (0.37%) VPN
11 5 (0.31%) 3G
11 5 (0.31%) Internet
11 5 (0.31%) NAS
11 5 (0.31%) NGFW
11 5 (0.31%) SAN
12 4 (0.25%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (3.12%) Power BI
2 35 (2.18%) Metadata
3 28 (1.75%) Relational Database
4 24 (1.50%) SQL Server
5 21 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.00%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.69%) Db2
9 10 (0.62%) Tableau
10 9 (0.56%) Big Data
11 8 (0.50%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.37%) MySQL
12 6 (0.37%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.31%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 4 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (0.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 120 (7.49%) JIRA
2 20 (1.25%) Git
2 20 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 8 (0.50%) GitLab
4 7 (0.44%) Selenium
5 6 (0.37%) Zephyr
6 5 (0.31%) JUnit
6 5 (0.31%) Mockito
6 5 (0.31%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.25%) DbUnit
7 4 (0.25%) jMock
7 4 (0.25%) Maven
7 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.19%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.19%) MLflow
8 3 (0.19%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.12%) Vite
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 596 (37.20%) Finance
2 593 (37.02%) Social Skills
3 247 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 183 (11.42%) Banking
6 126 (7.87%) Legal
7 54 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
9 44 (2.75%) Front Office
10 41 (2.56%) Financial Institution
11 40 (2.50%) Telecoms
12 36 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
12 36 (2.25%) Investment Banking
12 36 (2.25%) Retail
13 34 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (1.87%) Manufacturing
14 30 (1.87%) Military
15 27 (1.69%) Law
16 24 (1.50%) Aerospace
16 24 (1.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 203 (12.67%) Lead
2 197 (12.30%) Project Manager
3 177 (11.05%) Architect
4 158 (9.86%) Senior
5 154 (9.61%) Analyst
6 89 (5.56%) Consultant
7 71 (4.43%) Security Architect
8 68 (4.24%) Programme Manager
9 66 (4.12%) Business Analyst
9 66 (4.12%) Developer
10 60 (3.75%) Risk Manager
11 57 (3.56%) Senior Manager
12 43 (2.68%) IT Manager
13 39 (2.43%) Delivery Manager
14 37 (2.31%) Security Consultant
14 37 (2.31%) Security Engineer
15 33 (2.06%) Security Manager
15 33 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
16 27 (1.69%) Risk Analyst
17 26 (1.62%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (1.56%) REST
3 23 (1.44%) .NET
4 21 (1.31%) Kafka
5 19 (1.19%) Middleware
6 15 (0.94%) XML
7 13 (0.81%) JSON
8 11 (0.69%) Azure Blueprints
8 11 (0.69%) Leaflet
8 11 (0.69%) OAuth
8 11 (0.69%) OpenID
8 11 (0.69%) React
8 11 (0.69%) RESTful
8 11 (0.69%) SAML
8 11 (0.69%) SOAP
9 9 (0.56%) LDAP
9 9 (0.56%) Web Services
10 8 (0.50%) PySpark
10 8 (0.50%) PyTorch
11 7 (0.44%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 125 (7.80%) Management Information System
2 83 (5.18%) Product Ownership
3 70 (4.37%) Onboarding
4 64 (4.00%) Security Posture
5 63 (3.93%) Cloud Native
6 59 (3.68%) Operational Technology
7 49 (3.06%) Data Centre
8 47 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
9 40 (2.50%) Derivative
10 30 (1.87%) Market Risk
11 26 (1.62%) PMI
12 25 (1.56%) AI Agents
12 25 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
13 24 (1.50%) NHS
14 23 (1.44%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.37%) Fixed Income
16 21 (1.31%) Credit Risk
16 21 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
17 18 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
17 18 (1.12%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 53 (3.31%) Windows
2 42 (2.62%) Linux
3 29 (1.81%) Unix
4 19 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.44%) zOS
7 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (32.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 403 (25.16%) Agile
3 355 (22.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 324 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 320 (19.98%) Cybersecurity
6 250 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
7 238 (14.86%) Decision-Making
8 235 (14.67%) Project Management
9 202 (12.61%) Roadmaps
10 197 (12.30%) Information Security
11 195 (12.17%) AI
12 175 (10.92%) Change Management
13 154 (9.61%) Project Delivery
14 142 (8.86%) Migration
15 137 (8.55%) DevOps
16 134 (8.36%) CI/CD
17 133 (8.30%) Analytics
18 126 (7.87%) Regulatory Compliance
19 121 (7.55%) Data Protection
20 117 (7.30%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 122 (7.62%) Python
2 108 (6.74%) SQL
3 55 (3.43%) Java
4 38 (2.37%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.37%) C#
6 16 (1.00%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.75%) VBA
8 11 (0.69%) C++
9 9 (0.56%) Bash
10 8 (0.50%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.50%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.44%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.31%) Go
13 4 (0.25%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.25%) Bicep
13 4 (0.25%) CLIST
13 4 (0.25%) JCL
13 4 (0.25%) REXX
14 3 (0.19%) Korn
14 3 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 382 (23.85%) Security Cleared
2 282 (17.60%) SC Cleared
3 186 (11.61%) Degree
4 144 (8.99%) CISSP
5 98 (6.12%) CISM
6 90 (5.62%) DV Cleared
7 76 (4.74%) PMI Certification
8 70 (4.37%) PMP
9 42 (2.62%) CRISC
10 39 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 32 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
13 29 (1.81%) CISA
14 28 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 24 (1.50%) Master's Degree
16 22 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 16 (1.00%) CESG Certified Professional
18 15 (0.94%) AWS Certification
18 15 (0.94%) CCSP
18 15 (0.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (12.05%) NIST
2 191 (11.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 151 (9.43%) GRC
4 106 (6.62%) GDPR
5 76 (4.74%) PMO
6 72 (4.49%) QA
7 66 (4.12%) Data Quality
8 58 (3.62%) NCSC
9 39 (2.43%) PCI DSS
10 37 (2.31%) JSP 440
11 30 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
11 30 (1.87%) SLA
12 29 (1.81%) SOC 2
13 25 (1.56%) COBIT
13 25 (1.56%) NIST 800
14 17 (1.06%) ISO 31000
14 17 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 17 (1.06%) RMADS
15 16 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.87%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 32 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.94%) Docker
3 9 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.25%) Postfix
5 4 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.062%) Ceph
8 1 (0.062%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.062%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (1.62%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.44%) Terraform
3 20 (1.25%) Ansible
4 14 (0.87%) SCCM
5 13 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (0.62%) Grafana
7 8 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.31%) Control-M
9 5 (0.31%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
11 3 (0.19%) CASB
11 3 (0.19%) Nessus
12 2 (0.12%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.12%) Istio
12 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.12%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.12%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 209 (13.05%) Microsoft
2 95 (5.93%) ServiceNow
3 80 (4.99%) Oracle
4 79 (4.93%) SAP
5 45 (2.81%) Google
6 22 (1.37%) Workday
7 19 (1.19%) IBM
7 19 (1.19%) Salesforce
8 18 (1.12%) Cisco
9 16 (1.00%) Murex
10 14 (0.87%) Splunk
10 14 (0.87%) Sybase
11 13 (0.81%) Databricks
11 13 (0.81%) F5
11 13 (0.81%) VMware
12 12 (0.75%) Ariba
12 12 (0.75%) Qualys
13 11 (0.69%) Foundry
14 10 (0.62%) Infoblox
15 9 (0.56%) CrowdStrike