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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 51 70
Rank change year-on-year -22 +19 -2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,747 1,472 1,143
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.29% 4.45% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 4.92% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 908 695
10th Percentile £406 £363 £363
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £571 £558
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% +2.33% -7.00%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
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 70 30 28
10th Percentile £24.69 £22.16 £30.91
25th Percentile £50.00 £24.19 £40.00
Median hourly rate £77.35 £50.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.93% -12.61% +58.80%
75th Percentile £85.00 £74.87 £65.63
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.28 £81.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +43.64% -4.35% -20.57%

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 45,145 29,940 33,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.95% 90.42% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,873 18,766 21,491
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% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,760 1,664 1,872
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.30 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.63 £40.94
% change year-on-year +86.03% -42.28% +2.35%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -22 1,535 £570 -0.87% 1,501
UK excluding London -8 909 £525 +2.44% 796
London -38 711 £600 -7.69% 848
Work from Home -22 496 £550 -5.32% 659
North of England -7 272 £514 +0.29% 165
South East +2 248 £575 +4.55% 243
North West -27 137 £525 +3.45% 96
Yorkshire +4 129 £500 -4.76% 55
Scotland +7 108 £475 +5.56% 67
Midlands -37 105 £575 +22.60% 111
South West -15 104 £570 -0.87% 110
West Midlands -43 84 £563 +12.50% 71
East of England +27 65 £525 -4.55% 60
East Midlands -27 18 £537 +22.94% 40
Northern Ireland -3 9 £394 -28.41% 36
Wales -18 8 £650 +45.09% 15
North East -40 6 £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 72 (4.12%) Confluence
2 39 (2.23%) 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 (0.11%) Apache Spark
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%) CMS
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 52 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.23%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.23%) Revit
6 4 (0.23%) Trello
7 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.17%) Windchill
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.057%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.057%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 40 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.69%) Endur
3 10 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.57%) Primavera
4 9 (0.52%) SAP GRC
5 7 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
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%) 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
1 266 (15.23%) Azure
2 188 (10.76%) AWS
3 80 (4.58%) GCP
4 71 (4.06%) Power Platform
5 61 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (3.15%) Entra ID
7 50 (2.86%) SaaS
8 38 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (1.95%) GitHub
10 26 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
11 23 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
13 21 (1.20%) Snowflake
14 19 (1.09%) PaaS
15 18 (1.03%) Azure AI
15 18 (1.03%) OCI
16 17 (0.97%) Serverless
17 16 (0.92%) Anthropic Claude
18 15 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
19 12 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.26%) Network Security
2 41 (2.35%) Firewall
3 21 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.03%) WAN
5 15 (0.86%) DNS
5 15 (0.86%) LAN
6 14 (0.80%) 5G
7 13 (0.74%) DHCP
8 12 (0.69%) 4G
8 12 (0.69%) HTTP
9 10 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.52%) BIG-IP
11 7 (0.40%) Internet
11 7 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
12 6 (0.34%) HTTPS
12 6 (0.34%) VPN
13 5 (0.29%) 3G
13 5 (0.29%) NAS
13 5 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
13 5 (0.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.09%) Power BI
2 33 (1.89%) Relational Database
2 33 (1.89%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.83%) Metadata
4 18 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (0.97%) MongoDB
6 13 (0.74%) 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%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 121 (6.93%) JIRA
2 26 (1.49%) Git
3 22 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.69%) 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 5 (0.29%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.23%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.23%) jMock
9 4 (0.23%) JUnit
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
9 4 (0.23%) Mockito
9 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 670 (38.35%) Social Skills
2 636 (36.41%) Finance
3 278 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (11.96%) Public Sector
5 193 (11.05%) Banking
6 127 (7.27%) Legal
7 70 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
8 69 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
9 54 (3.09%) Front Office
10 44 (2.52%) Aerospace
10 44 (2.52%) Telecoms
11 42 (2.40%) Retail
12 40 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
12 40 (2.29%) Financial Institution
13 36 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
14 35 (2.00%) Investment Banking
15 33 (1.89%) Military
16 28 (1.60%) Manufacturing
17 27 (1.55%) Law
18 24 (1.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 229 (13.11%) Lead
2 209 (11.96%) Architect
3 205 (11.73%) Project Manager
4 181 (10.36%) Senior
5 164 (9.39%) Analyst
6 104 (5.95%) Consultant
7 90 (5.15%) Security Architect
8 71 (4.06%) Developer
9 70 (4.01%) Programme Manager
10 64 (3.66%) Senior Manager
11 62 (3.55%) Business Analyst
12 58 (3.32%) Risk Manager
13 51 (2.92%) Delivery Manager
14 48 (2.75%) IT Manager
15 44 (2.52%) Security Consultant
16 38 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
17 37 (2.12%) Security Manager
18 35 (2.00%) Security Engineer
19 32 (1.83%) Product Manager
20 30 (1.72%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.66%) REST
2 26 (1.49%) .NET
2 26 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
3 20 (1.14%) Middleware
4 18 (1.03%) Kafka
5 17 (0.97%) OAuth
6 13 (0.74%) XML
7 12 (0.69%) JSON
7 12 (0.69%) OpenID
7 12 (0.69%) SAML
7 12 (0.69%) Spring
8 11 (0.63%) Azure Blueprints
8 11 (0.63%) Leaflet
8 11 (0.63%) React
8 11 (0.63%) RESTful
8 11 (0.63%) SOAP
9 9 (0.52%) LDAP
9 9 (0.52%) PyTorch
9 9 (0.52%) SailPoint
9 9 (0.52%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 121 (6.93%) Management Information System
2 91 (5.21%) Onboarding
3 89 (5.09%) Product Ownership
4 76 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 71 (4.06%) Security Posture
6 61 (3.49%) Operational Technology
7 50 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
8 46 (2.63%) Data Centre
9 34 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
10 31 (1.77%) AI Agents
11 30 (1.72%) Derivative
12 27 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (1.55%) Market Risk
13 26 (1.49%) PMI
14 24 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
14 24 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (1.26%) NHS
16 20 (1.14%) Data Structures
16 20 (1.14%) Fixed Income
17 18 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (3.15%) Linux
2 54 (3.09%) Windows
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%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.17%) AIX
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 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 (36.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 426 (24.38%) Agile
3 391 (22.38%) Cybersecurity
4 388 (22.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 375 (21.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 262 (15.00%) Decision-Making
7 257 (14.71%) Project Management
8 254 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
9 239 (13.68%) AI
10 227 (12.99%) Roadmaps
11 213 (12.19%) Information Security
12 180 (10.30%) Project Delivery
13 168 (9.62%) Change Management
14 158 (9.04%) Migration
15 156 (8.93%) CI/CD
16 155 (8.87%) DevOps
17 140 (8.01%) Vulnerability Management
18 135 (7.73%) Analytics
19 132 (7.56%) PRINCE2
20 125 (7.16%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 127 (7.27%) Python
2 92 (5.27%) SQL
3 58 (3.32%) Java
4 37 (2.12%) PowerShell
5 26 (1.49%) C#
6 18 (1.03%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.74%) C++
8 11 (0.63%) VBA
9 9 (0.52%) Bash
9 9 (0.52%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.52%) 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
1 455 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 338 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 178 (10.19%) Degree
4 169 (9.67%) CISSP
5 111 (6.35%) CISM
5 111 (6.35%) DV Cleared
6 79 (4.52%) PMI Certification
7 76 (4.35%) PMP
8 50 (2.86%) CRISC
9 43 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (2.12%) CISA
10 37 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
11 32 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 32 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (1.66%) Master's Degree
12 29 (1.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 22 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
14 18 (1.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 17 (0.97%) CCSP
15 17 (0.97%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (12.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 220 (12.59%) NIST
2 173 (9.90%) GRC
3 119 (6.81%) GDPR
4 90 (5.15%) QA
5 71 (4.06%) Data Quality
6 66 (3.78%) PMO
7 61 (3.49%) NCSC
8 35 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
8 35 (2.00%) JSP 440
8 35 (2.00%) PCI DSS
9 31 (1.77%) SOC 2
10 29 (1.66%) SLA
11 27 (1.55%) NIST 800
12 22 (1.26%) COBIT
13 18 (1.03%) ISO 31000
14 17 (0.97%) Accessibility
15 16 (0.92%) Def Stans
15 16 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 16 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (2.12%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.14%) Docker
3 10 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.34%) 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 32 (1.83%) Kubernetes
1 32 (1.83%) Terraform
2 25 (1.43%) Ansible
3 12 (0.69%) Grafana
3 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.57%) SCCM
5 9 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.29%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.23%) Control-M
8 4 (0.23%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.23%) Nessus
8 4 (0.23%) OMEGAMON
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.17%) CASB
9 3 (0.17%) Istio
10 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 231 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 97 (5.55%) ServiceNow
3 85 (4.87%) SAP
4 76 (4.35%) Oracle
5 41 (2.35%) Google
6 21 (1.20%) IBM
6 21 (1.20%) Salesforce
7 17 (0.97%) Cisco
7 17 (0.97%) Splunk
8 16 (0.92%) Foundry
8 16 (0.92%) Sybase
8 16 (0.92%) Workday
9 13 (0.74%) Qualys
10 12 (0.69%) Databricks
11 11 (0.63%) Murex
12 10 (0.57%) Ariba
12 10 (0.57%) F5
12 10 (0.57%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.52%) Tenable