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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 48 64
Rank change year-on-year -22 +16 +2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,506 1,291 1,326
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.17% 4.42% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 4.86% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 969 798 860
10th Percentile £405 £370 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £700
90th Percentile £838 £850 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 36 46
10th Percentile £20.66 £40.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £40.89 £47.96 £30.96
Median hourly rate £74.68 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% +30.00% +370.37%
75th Percentile £102.63 £80.80 £60.94
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.28 £81.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.04 £63.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +27.05% +20.00% +435.71%

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 40,059 26,552 37,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 90.94% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,139 17,089 23,891
10th Percentile £321 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% -1.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +2.93% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,402 1,086 2,440
10th Percentile £14.97 £14.42 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.87 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.40 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.48% -21.23% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +69.81% -30.26% +8.57%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 1,329 £550 -4.35% 681
UK excluding London -12 739 £525 - 447
London -33 635 £600 -7.69% 308
Work from Home -11 439 £550 -5.66% 302
North of England -12 225 £511 -0.24% 93
South East -7 206 £550 -4.35% 148
Yorkshire -2 113 £487 -2.60% 42
North West -6 110 £550 +7.57% 46
Midlands -39 105 £537 +7.40% 59
South West -2 81 £560 +24.44% 61
Scotland +3 78 £470 -6.00% 23
West Midlands -40 74 £525 +5.00% 36
East of England -11 44 £525 -0.94% 55
East Midlands -32 31 £544 +20.83% 22
Northern Ireland +2 6 £450 -23.73% 9
Wales -14 2 - - 9
North East -30 2 £480 -16.52% 6

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 67 (4.45%) Confluence
2 38 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.46%) SAS
5 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.20%) nginx
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.13%) Apache
6 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.13%) IIS
7 1 (0.066%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.066%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.066%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.066%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (3.52%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.33%) Revit
7 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.27%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.27%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.13%) Windchill
9 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.066%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.066%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 27 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.53%) Endur
4 7 (0.46%) Loan IQ
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%) Actimize
6 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.33%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.27%) Primavera
7 4 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.20%) Findur
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.20%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.20%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 187 (12.42%) Azure
2 145 (9.63%) AWS
3 66 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
3 66 (4.38%) Power Platform
4 57 (3.78%) GCP
5 41 (2.72%) SaaS
6 38 (2.52%) Entra ID
7 24 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (1.53%) GitHub
9 21 (1.39%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
11 19 (1.26%) Snowflake
12 18 (1.20%) Google Sheets
12 18 (1.20%) PaaS
13 17 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (0.73%) OpenShift
16 10 (0.66%) Amazon S3
16 10 (0.66%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.32%) Network Security
2 32 (2.12%) Firewall
3 20 (1.33%) DNS
4 12 (0.80%) DHCP
4 12 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.66%) BIG-IP
6 9 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
6 9 (0.60%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.60%) WAN
7 7 (0.46%) 5G
7 7 (0.46%) HTTP
7 7 (0.46%) LAN
8 6 (0.40%) Internet
9 5 (0.33%) 3G
9 5 (0.33%) 4G
10 4 (0.27%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.20%) NAS
11 3 (0.20%) NGFW
11 3 (0.20%) SAN
11 3 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.52%) Power BI
2 37 (2.46%) Metadata
3 26 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (1.66%) Relational Database
5 20 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (0.93%) SQL Server
7 11 (0.73%) MongoDB
7 11 (0.73%) Tableau
8 9 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.46%) MySQL
9 7 (0.46%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.40%) Big Data
10 6 (0.40%) DB2
10 6 (0.40%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.33%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.33%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.27%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 129 (8.57%) JIRA
2 19 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.20%) Git
4 10 (0.66%) GitLab
5 5 (0.33%) JUnit
5 5 (0.33%) Mockito
5 5 (0.33%) Zephyr
6 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (0.27%) DbUnit
6 4 (0.27%) jMock
6 4 (0.27%) Maven
6 4 (0.27%) Selenium
6 4 (0.27%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.27%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.066%) Appium
7 1 (0.066%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.066%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.066%) Flyway
7 1 (0.066%) TestRail
General
1 553 (36.72%) Social Skills
2 552 (36.65%) Finance
3 233 (15.47%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (12.08%) Banking
5 163 (10.82%) Public Sector
6 106 (7.04%) Legal
7 48 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
8 47 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
9 38 (2.52%) Retail
10 37 (2.46%) Investment Banking
11 36 (2.39%) Front Office
12 33 (2.19%) Financial Institution
13 32 (2.12%) Telecoms
14 31 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
14 31 (2.06%) Military
14 31 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.93%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 18 (1.20%) Law
16 18 (1.20%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 199 (13.21%) Project Manager
2 188 (12.48%) Lead
3 152 (10.09%) Architect
4 147 (9.76%) Analyst
4 147 (9.76%) Senior
5 91 (6.04%) Consultant
6 76 (5.05%) Programme Manager
7 70 (4.65%) Business Analyst
8 67 (4.45%) Developer
9 63 (4.18%) Security Architect
10 49 (3.25%) Risk Manager
10 49 (3.25%) Senior Manager
11 44 (2.92%) Delivery Manager
12 37 (2.46%) Security Consultant
13 34 (2.26%) Security Engineer
14 33 (2.19%) IT Manager
15 31 (2.06%) Risk Analyst
16 30 (1.99%) Security Manager
17 28 (1.86%) Solutions Architect
18 27 (1.79%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (1.33%) REST
3 18 (1.20%) Kafka
4 14 (0.93%) .NET
5 13 (0.86%) XML
6 12 (0.80%) Middleware
7 11 (0.73%) Leaflet
8 10 (0.66%) RESTful
9 9 (0.60%) JSON
10 8 (0.53%) LDAP
10 8 (0.53%) OAuth
10 8 (0.53%) React
10 8 (0.53%) SOAP
11 7 (0.46%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.46%) PyTorch
12 6 (0.40%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (0.40%) scikit-learn
12 6 (0.40%) Spring
12 6 (0.40%) TensorFlow
12 6 (0.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 120 (7.97%) Management Information System
2 62 (4.12%) Onboarding
3 59 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 52 (3.45%) Derivative
4 52 (3.45%) Security Posture
5 50 (3.32%) Operational Technology
6 44 (2.92%) Data Centre
7 41 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
8 39 (2.59%) Cloud Native
9 33 (2.19%) Market Risk
10 25 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 24 (1.59%) AI Agents
12 23 (1.53%) Credit Risk
13 22 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 20 (1.33%) Equities
15 20 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (1.33%) NHS
16 19 (1.26%) Fixed Income
17 17 (1.13%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 41 (2.72%) Windows
2 37 (2.46%) Linux
3 22 (1.46%) Unix
4 8 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.20%) zOS
8 2 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (30.68%) Stakeholder Management
2 383 (25.43%) Agile
3 296 (19.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 275 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 263 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
6 259 (17.20%) Cybersecurity
7 244 (16.20%) Project Management
8 207 (13.75%) Decision-Making
9 181 (12.02%) Information Security
10 174 (11.55%) AI
11 166 (11.02%) Roadmaps
12 165 (10.96%) Change Management
13 153 (10.16%) Project Delivery
14 139 (9.23%) Migration
15 132 (8.76%) Analytics
16 126 (8.37%) Regulatory Compliance
17 120 (7.97%) PRINCE2
18 117 (7.77%) Data Protection
19 113 (7.50%) DevOps
20 106 (7.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 117 (7.77%) SQL
2 115 (7.64%) Python
3 56 (3.72%) Java
4 30 (1.99%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.39%) C++
6 17 (1.13%) C#
7 15 (1.00%) JavaScript
8 12 (0.80%) VBA
9 7 (0.46%) Bash
9 7 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.40%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.27%) Perl
12 2 (0.13%) Go
12 2 (0.13%) Korn
12 2 (0.13%) RPG
12 2 (0.13%) Scala
13 1 (0.066%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.066%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.066%) R
Qualifications
1 342 (22.71%) Security Cleared
2 254 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 203 (13.48%) Degree
4 128 (8.50%) CISSP
5 93 (6.18%) CISM
6 79 (5.25%) DV Cleared
7 78 (5.18%) PMP
8 74 (4.91%) PMI Certification
9 39 (2.59%) CRISC
10 34 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (1.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 22 (1.46%) CISA
15 21 (1.39%) Master's Degree
16 19 (1.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 15 (1.00%) CESG Certified Professional
17 15 (1.00%) GIAC
17 15 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 12 (0.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (12.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 189 (12.55%) NIST
2 127 (8.43%) GRC
3 112 (7.44%) GDPR
4 90 (5.98%) PMO
5 78 (5.18%) QA
6 59 (3.92%) Data Quality
7 47 (3.12%) PCI DSS
8 45 (2.99%) NCSC
9 32 (2.12%) JSP 440
10 31 (2.06%) SLA
11 29 (1.93%) COBIT
12 26 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
12 26 (1.73%) SOC 2
13 23 (1.53%) NIST 800
14 19 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 18 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
16 17 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (1.06%) ISO 31000
17 16 (1.06%) RMADS
System Software
1 33 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.93%) Docker
3 10 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.27%) Postfix
4 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.066%) Ceph
6 1 (0.066%) NFS
6 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.066%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (1.46%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.93%) Ansible
3 12 (0.80%) Terraform
4 10 (0.66%) SCCM
5 9 (0.60%) Grafana
5 9 (0.60%) 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 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.20%) CASB
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%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.13%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 199 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 85 (5.64%) Oracle
3 81 (5.38%) SAP
3 81 (5.38%) ServiceNow
4 42 (2.79%) Google
5 23 (1.53%) Workday
6 21 (1.39%) Murex
7 18 (1.20%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.13%) Ariba
9 16 (1.06%) Databricks
10 13 (0.86%) VMware
11 12 (0.80%) Cisco
11 12 (0.80%) F5
11 12 (0.80%) IBM
12 9 (0.60%) Splunk
13 8 (0.53%) Infoblox
14 7 (0.46%) Bloomberg
14 7 (0.46%) Foundry
14 7 (0.46%) HP
14 7 (0.46%) Sybase