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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 50 72
Rank change year-on-year -25 +22 -2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,732 1,462 1,155
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.26% 4.46% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 4.93% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,096 901 706
10th Percentile £406 £363 £363
25th Percentile £475 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +0.91% -7.06%
75th Percentile £675 £728 £712
90th Percentile £788 £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 30 32
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £16.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £24.19 £36.88
Median hourly rate £78.70 £50.25 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +56.62% -10.67% +42.69%
75th Percentile £85.20 £74.87 £62.19
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.28 £79.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +44.55% -4.35% -15.78%

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 45,107 29,668 33,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.95% 90.46% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,893 18,635 21,816
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £736 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,744 1,629 1,969
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.66 £17.35 £17.72
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £40.33
% change year-on-year +83.17% -40.48% +0.81%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -22 1,524 £570 -0.96% 1,235
UK excluding London -8 902 £525 +2.44% 647
London -37 704 £600 -7.69% 709
Work from Home -28 491 £550 -4.35% 470
North of England -6 269 £513 - 142
South East 0 249 £575 +4.55% 206
North West -30 135 £525 +3.45% 85
Yorkshire 0 128 £500 -4.76% 45
Scotland +6 105 £475 +5.56% 45
Midlands -43 104 £575 +22.60% 95
South West -13 103 £570 -0.87% 88
West Midlands -45 84 £563 +12.50% 61
East of England +20 65 £525 -4.55% 50
East Midlands -27 17 £537 +22.38% 34
Northern Ireland -5 9 £394 -28.41% 20
Wales -19 8 £650 +45.09% 12
North East -45 6 £454 -17.50% 13

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 72 (4.16%) Confluence
2 39 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.52%) 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 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.058%) Apache
8 1 (0.058%) Appian
8 1 (0.058%) CMS
8 1 (0.058%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.058%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.058%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.058%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.058%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.058%) WebSphere
Applications
1 51 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 34 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (0.75%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.23%) Navisworks
5 4 (0.23%) Revit
5 4 (0.23%) Trello
6 3 (0.17%) Windchill
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.058%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.058%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.058%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 40 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.69%) Endur
3 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.58%) Primavera
4 9 (0.52%) SAP GRC
5 7 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.29%) Actimize
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 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.23%) Magento
8 4 (0.23%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 259 (14.95%) Azure
2 186 (10.74%) AWS
3 80 (4.62%) GCP
4 71 (4.10%) Power Platform
5 60 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (3.12%) Entra ID
7 50 (2.89%) SaaS
8 37 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (1.96%) GitHub
10 25 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
11 22 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
12 21 (1.21%) Snowflake
13 20 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
14 19 (1.10%) PaaS
15 18 (1.04%) Azure AI
16 16 (0.92%) Anthropic Claude
16 16 (0.92%) OCI
16 16 (0.92%) Serverless
17 14 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
18 12 (0.69%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.35%) Network Security
2 41 (2.37%) Firewall
3 22 (1.27%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.98%) WAN
5 16 (0.92%) DNS
6 14 (0.81%) DHCP
6 14 (0.81%) LAN
7 13 (0.75%) 5G
8 12 (0.69%) HTTP
9 11 (0.64%) 4G
10 10 (0.58%) BIG-IP
10 10 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.40%) Internet
11 7 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
12 6 (0.35%) HTTPS
12 6 (0.35%) VPN
13 5 (0.29%) 3G
13 5 (0.29%) NGFW
13 5 (0.29%) SAN
13 5 (0.29%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.12%) Power BI
2 32 (1.85%) Metadata
2 32 (1.85%) Relational Database
3 31 (1.79%) SQL Server
4 19 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (0.98%) MongoDB
6 13 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 13 (0.75%) Db2
7 11 (0.64%) Tableau
8 10 (0.58%) Big Data
9 9 (0.52%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.35%) MySQL
10 6 (0.35%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.29%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 120 (6.93%) JIRA
2 26 (1.50%) Git
3 22 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.64%) Selenium
5 8 (0.46%) GitLab
6 7 (0.40%) Postman
6 7 (0.40%) Zephyr
7 6 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.35%) WebDriver
8 5 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.29%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.23%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.23%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.23%) jMock
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
9 4 (0.23%) Mockito
9 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 662 (38.22%) Social Skills
2 633 (36.55%) Finance
3 270 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 191 (11.03%) Banking
6 126 (7.27%) Legal
7 70 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
8 66 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
9 52 (3.00%) Front Office
10 44 (2.54%) Aerospace
11 43 (2.48%) Telecoms
12 42 (2.42%) Retail
13 40 (2.31%) Financial Institution
14 39 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
15 36 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
16 35 (2.02%) Investment Banking
17 34 (1.96%) Military
18 28 (1.62%) Manufacturing
19 27 (1.56%) Law
20 24 (1.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 229 (13.22%) Lead
2 207 (11.95%) Architect
3 205 (11.84%) Project Manager
4 178 (10.28%) Senior
5 159 (9.18%) Analyst
6 102 (5.89%) Consultant
7 89 (5.14%) Security Architect
8 72 (4.16%) Developer
9 67 (3.87%) Programme Manager
10 62 (3.58%) Senior Manager
11 59 (3.41%) Business Analyst
12 57 (3.29%) Risk Manager
13 51 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
14 48 (2.77%) IT Manager
15 44 (2.54%) Security Consultant
16 37 (2.14%) Security Manager
16 37 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
17 34 (1.96%) Security Engineer
18 31 (1.79%) Product Manager
19 30 (1.73%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.73%) REST
2 26 (1.50%) .NET
3 25 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
4 20 (1.15%) Middleware
5 19 (1.10%) Kafka
6 17 (0.98%) OAuth
7 13 (0.75%) JSON
7 13 (0.75%) XML
8 12 (0.69%) OpenID
8 12 (0.69%) SAML
8 12 (0.69%) Spring
9 11 (0.64%) Azure Blueprints
9 11 (0.64%) Leaflet
9 11 (0.64%) React
9 11 (0.64%) RESTful
9 11 (0.64%) SOAP
10 9 (0.52%) LDAP
10 9 (0.52%) PyTorch
10 9 (0.52%) SailPoint
10 9 (0.52%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 122 (7.04%) Management Information System
2 89 (5.14%) Product Ownership
3 88 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 75 (4.33%) Cloud Native
5 68 (3.93%) Security Posture
6 61 (3.52%) Operational Technology
7 49 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
8 46 (2.66%) Data Centre
9 33 (1.91%) Cyber Threat
10 31 (1.79%) AI Agents
11 30 (1.73%) Derivative
12 27 (1.56%) Market Risk
13 26 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
13 26 (1.50%) PMI
14 24 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
14 24 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (1.27%) NHS
16 20 (1.15%) Data Structures
16 20 (1.15%) Fixed Income
16 20 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (3.18%) Windows
2 53 (3.06%) Linux
3 35 (2.02%) Unix
4 21 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.29%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.29%) zOS
7 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.12%) AIX
10 1 (0.058%) Android
10 1 (0.058%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 629 (36.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 424 (24.48%) Agile
3 385 (22.23%) Cybersecurity
4 382 (22.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 372 (21.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 260 (15.01%) Decision-Making
7 257 (14.84%) Project Management
8 252 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
9 237 (13.68%) AI
10 226 (13.05%) Roadmaps
11 208 (12.01%) Information Security
12 176 (10.16%) Project Delivery
13 166 (9.58%) Change Management
14 156 (9.01%) CI/CD
15 153 (8.83%) Migration
16 152 (8.78%) DevOps
17 139 (8.03%) Vulnerability Management
18 135 (7.79%) Analytics
19 129 (7.45%) PRINCE2
20 124 (7.16%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 127 (7.33%) Python
2 91 (5.25%) SQL
3 59 (3.41%) Java
4 37 (2.14%) PowerShell
5 25 (1.44%) C#
6 18 (1.04%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.75%) C++
8 12 (0.69%) VBA
9 10 (0.58%) Shell Script
10 9 (0.52%) Bash
10 9 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.35%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.29%) Go
13 4 (0.23%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.23%) Bicep
13 4 (0.23%) CLIST
13 4 (0.23%) JCL
13 4 (0.23%) REXX
13 4 (0.23%) Scala
14 3 (0.17%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 447 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 333 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 178 (10.28%) Degree
4 163 (9.41%) CISSP
5 108 (6.24%) DV Cleared
6 106 (6.12%) CISM
7 79 (4.56%) PMI Certification
8 76 (4.39%) PMP
9 45 (2.60%) CRISC
10 43 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 37 (2.14%) CISA
12 36 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
13 32 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
14 31 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 29 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 28 (1.62%) Master's Degree
17 22 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
18 17 (0.98%) CESG Certified Professional
19 16 (0.92%) AWS Certification
19 16 (0.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (12.41%) NIST
2 214 (12.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 169 (9.76%) GRC
4 118 (6.81%) GDPR
5 89 (5.14%) QA
6 69 (3.98%) Data Quality
7 66 (3.81%) PMO
8 60 (3.46%) NCSC
9 35 (2.02%) JSP 440
9 35 (2.02%) PCI DSS
10 32 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
11 31 (1.79%) SOC 2
12 28 (1.62%) NIST 800
12 28 (1.62%) SLA
13 20 (1.15%) COBIT
14 18 (1.04%) ISO 31000
15 17 (0.98%) Def Stans
16 16 (0.92%) Accessibility
16 16 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 16 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.15%) Docker
3 10 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.23%) Postfix
5 4 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.12%) FreeRADIUS
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.058%) Ceph
8 1 (0.058%) IAG
8 1 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.058%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (1.85%) Kubernetes
2 31 (1.79%) Terraform
3 25 (1.44%) Ansible
4 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.69%) Grafana
6 11 (0.64%) SCCM
7 9 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.29%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.23%) Control-M
10 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.23%) Nessus
10 4 (0.23%) OMEGAMON
11 3 (0.17%) CASB
11 3 (0.17%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.17%) Istio
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 224 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 95 (5.48%) ServiceNow
3 85 (4.91%) SAP
4 74 (4.27%) Oracle
5 41 (2.37%) Google
6 21 (1.21%) IBM
7 20 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.98%) Cisco
8 17 (0.98%) Splunk
9 16 (0.92%) Foundry
9 16 (0.92%) Sybase
9 16 (0.92%) Workday
10 13 (0.75%) Qualys
11 12 (0.69%) Databricks
12 11 (0.64%) F5
13 10 (0.58%) Ariba
13 10 (0.58%) Infoblox
13 10 (0.58%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.52%) Murex
14 9 (0.52%) VMware