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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 47 75
Rank change year-on-year -24 +28 -10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,605 1,347 1,213
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.15% 4.49% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 4.93% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,044 821 745
10th Percentile £403 £375 £352
25th Percentile £475 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £700
90th Percentile £800 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.29% -4.56% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 28 41
10th Percentile £21.08 £46.30 £12.25
25th Percentile £44.34 £48.25 £22.34
Median hourly rate £64.09 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +30.00% +370.37%
75th Percentile £87.37 £83.71 £61.25
90th Percentile £106.70 £87.33 £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 43,234 27,342 36,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.93% 91.04% 85.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,976 17,315 23,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -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 2,595 1,301 2,587
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.65
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.79 £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 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.08 £38.12
% change year-on-year +77.47% -34.22% +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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -22 1,432 £563 -5.30% 455
UK excluding London -7 819 £525 +2.29% 366
London -41 679 £600 -11.11% 169
Work from Home -22 470 £550 -8.03% 228
North of England -10 246 £510 -0.49% 92
South East -10 207 £563 +2.27% 139
Yorkshire +2 123 £500 -1.23% 29
North West -17 121 £525 +2.56% 51
Midlands -31 119 £550 +15.79% 47
South West +9 100 £570 +11.76% 44
Scotland 0 94 £475 +0.85% 7
West Midlands -35 89 £540 +8.00% 23
East of England +5 52 £525 -4.55% 30
East Midlands -17 30 £550 +23.66% 24
Northern Ireland -5 8 £413 -25.00% 10
Wales -12 5 £800 +68.42% 7
North East -39 4 £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 (4.49%) 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 43 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
3 39 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.25%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.25%) Revit
6 4 (0.25%) Trello
7 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.12%) Windchill
9 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.062%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.062%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 28 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.62%) Endur
4 7 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.37%) Summit
6 5 (0.31%) Actimize
6 5 (0.31%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.31%) Primavera
7 4 (0.25%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.25%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.19%) Findur
8 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 222 (13.83%) Azure
2 167 (10.40%) AWS
3 68 (4.24%) GCP
4 62 (3.86%) Power Platform
5 57 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (2.99%) Entra ID
6 48 (2.99%) SaaS
7 32 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (1.74%) GitHub
8 28 (1.74%) Microsoft Purview
9 19 (1.18%) PaaS
10 18 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
10 18 (1.12%) Snowflake
11 16 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (1.00%) Google Workspace
12 14 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
13 13 (0.81%) Google Sheets
14 12 (0.75%) OCI
14 12 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 56 (3.49%) Network Security
2 36 (2.24%) Firewall
3 16 (1.00%) DNS
4 14 (0.87%) DHCP
5 13 (0.81%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.69%) 5G
6 11 (0.69%) BIG-IP
6 11 (0.69%) WAN
7 10 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.56%) 4G
9 8 (0.50%) LAN
10 7 (0.44%) HTTP
10 7 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
11 6 (0.37%) VPN
12 5 (0.31%) 3G
12 5 (0.31%) NAS
12 5 (0.31%) NGFW
12 5 (0.31%) SAN
13 4 (0.25%) Internet
13 4 (0.25%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (3.12%) Power BI
2 34 (2.12%) Metadata
3 28 (1.74%) Relational Database
4 24 (1.50%) SQL Server
5 22 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.00%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.69%) Db2
8 11 (0.69%) Tableau
9 9 (0.56%) Big Data
10 8 (0.50%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.37%) MySQL
11 6 (0.37%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.31%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (0.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 120 (7.48%) JIRA
2 19 (1.18%) Git
2 19 (1.18%) 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
1 592 (36.88%) Finance
2 591 (36.82%) Social Skills
3 255 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (11.59%) Public Sector
5 184 (11.46%) Banking
6 127 (7.91%) Legal
7 53 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
9 42 (2.62%) Front Office
10 41 (2.55%) Telecoms
11 38 (2.37%) Financial Institution
12 37 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
12 37 (2.31%) Investment Banking
13 34 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
14 33 (2.06%) Retail
15 30 (1.87%) Manufacturing
15 30 (1.87%) Military
16 27 (1.68%) Law
17 24 (1.50%) Aerospace
17 24 (1.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 205 (12.77%) Lead
2 196 (12.21%) Project Manager
3 176 (10.97%) Architect
4 159 (9.91%) Senior
5 154 (9.60%) Analyst
6 87 (5.42%) Consultant
7 71 (4.42%) Security Architect
8 67 (4.17%) Developer
8 67 (4.17%) Programme Manager
9 66 (4.11%) Business Analyst
10 61 (3.80%) Risk Manager
11 57 (3.55%) Senior Manager
12 42 (2.62%) IT Manager
13 39 (2.43%) Delivery Manager
14 38 (2.37%) Security Engineer
15 36 (2.24%) Security Consultant
16 34 (2.12%) Security Manager
17 32 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
18 29 (1.81%) Risk Analyst
19 26 (1.62%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (1.56%) REST
3 23 (1.43%) .NET
4 22 (1.37%) Kafka
5 19 (1.18%) Middleware
6 15 (0.93%) 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
1 126 (7.85%) Management Information System
2 84 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 70 (4.36%) Onboarding
4 63 (3.93%) Security Posture
5 62 (3.86%) Cloud Native
6 59 (3.68%) Operational Technology
7 47 (2.93%) Data Centre
7 47 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
8 42 (2.62%) Derivative
9 31 (1.93%) Market Risk
10 25 (1.56%) AI Agents
10 25 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.56%) PMI
11 24 (1.50%) NHS
12 23 (1.43%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (1.37%) Fixed Income
14 21 (1.31%) Credit Risk
15 18 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
15 18 (1.12%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 52 (3.24%) Windows
2 42 (2.62%) Linux
3 28 (1.74%) Unix
4 18 (1.12%) 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
1 520 (32.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 403 (25.11%) Agile
3 354 (22.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 322 (20.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 316 (19.69%) Cybersecurity
6 259 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
7 240 (14.95%) Decision-Making
8 239 (14.89%) Project Management
9 199 (12.40%) Roadmaps
10 195 (12.15%) Information Security
11 192 (11.96%) AI
12 173 (10.78%) Change Management
13 152 (9.47%) Project Delivery
14 140 (8.72%) Migration
15 136 (8.47%) DevOps
16 133 (8.29%) Analytics
17 132 (8.22%) CI/CD
18 125 (7.79%) Regulatory Compliance
19 121 (7.54%) Data Protection
20 120 (7.48%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 123 (7.66%) Python
2 109 (6.79%) SQL
3 56 (3.49%) Java
4 38 (2.37%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.37%) C#
6 16 (1.00%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.75%) C++
7 12 (0.75%) VBA
8 9 (0.56%) Bash
9 8 (0.50%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.50%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.44%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.31%) Go
12 4 (0.25%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.25%) Bicep
12 4 (0.25%) CLIST
12 4 (0.25%) JCL
12 4 (0.25%) REXX
13 3 (0.19%) Korn
13 3 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 382 (23.80%) Security Cleared
2 282 (17.57%) SC Cleared
3 187 (11.65%) Degree
4 143 (8.91%) CISSP
5 99 (6.17%) CISM
6 90 (5.61%) DV Cleared
7 76 (4.74%) PMI Certification
8 70 (4.36%) PMP
9 45 (2.80%) CRISC
10 41 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 32 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
13 31 (1.93%) CISA
14 28 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 24 (1.50%) Master's Degree
16 22 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 15 (0.93%) AWS Certification
17 15 (0.93%) CCSP
17 15 (0.93%) CESG Certified Professional
18 14 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (12.09%) NIST
2 191 (11.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 152 (9.47%) GRC
4 107 (6.67%) GDPR
5 79 (4.92%) PMO
6 72 (4.49%) QA
7 64 (3.99%) Data Quality
8 57 (3.55%) NCSC
9 39 (2.43%) PCI DSS
10 37 (2.31%) JSP 440
11 30 (1.87%) SLA
12 29 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
12 29 (1.81%) SOC 2
13 27 (1.68%) COBIT
14 25 (1.56%) NIST 800
15 17 (1.06%) ISO 31000
15 17 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 17 (1.06%) RMADS
16 16 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.81%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 32 (1.99%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.93%) 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 27 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.43%) Terraform
3 20 (1.25%) Ansible
4 13 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.81%) SCCM
5 10 (0.62%) Grafana
6 8 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.44%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.31%) Control-M
8 5 (0.31%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.19%) CASB
10 3 (0.19%) Nessus
11 2 (0.12%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.12%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 205 (12.77%) Microsoft
2 95 (5.92%) ServiceNow
3 80 (4.98%) Oracle
3 80 (4.98%) SAP
4 44 (2.74%) Google
5 22 (1.37%) Workday
6 19 (1.18%) IBM
6 19 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.12%) Cisco
8 16 (1.00%) Murex
9 14 (0.87%) Sybase
10 13 (0.81%) Databricks
10 13 (0.81%) F5
10 13 (0.81%) Splunk
10 13 (0.81%) VMware
11 12 (0.75%) Ariba
11 12 (0.75%) Qualys
12 10 (0.62%) Foundry
12 10 (0.62%) Infoblox
13 9 (0.56%) CrowdStrike