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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 49 67
Rank change year-on-year -21 +18 -2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,510 1,299 1,311
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.14% 4.45% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 4.89% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 986 805 849
10th Percentile £404 £370 £362
25th Percentile £471 £463 £450
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 £828 £850 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 35 44
10th Percentile £20.27 £40.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £30.00 £47.91 £28.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% +370.37%
75th Percentile £105.25 £80.80 £61.25
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.32 £82.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £64.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -14.06% +28.00% +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 40,582 26,548 36,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.29% 91.02% 86.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,477 17,040 23,631
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,387 1,106 2,443
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.80 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.17 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +50.90% -21.86% +0.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.70 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -32.93% +7.14%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -24 1,335 £550 -5.01% 648
UK excluding London -5 746 £525 - 444
London -36 641 £600 -7.69% 285
Work from Home -14 437 £550 -5.82% 296
North of England -8 230 £514 - 108
South East -12 195 £563 - 155
Yorkshire -2 119 £487 -3.80% 38
North West -11 109 £550 +7.57% 63
Midlands -39 107 £537 +7.45% 57
Scotland +6 85 £475 -2.06% 24
South West -6 84 £570 +26.67% 53
West Midlands -33 74 £525 +5.00% 40
East of England -10 45 £525 -4.55% 37
East Midlands -24 33 £550 +22.22% 17
Northern Ireland -6 6 £450 -21.05% 7
Wales -14 2 £600 +26.32% 9
North East -33 2 £480 -16.52% 7

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 68 (4.50%) Confluence
2 38 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.46%) SAS
5 4 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.20%) nginx
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.13%) Apache
7 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.066%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.066%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.066%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.066%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.066%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 64 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.33%) Revit
7 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.26%) Trello
8 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.13%) Windchill
10 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.066%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.066%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 25 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.60%) 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 (0.26%) Primavera
7 4 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.20%) Findur
8 3 (0.20%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.20%) SAP GRC
8 3 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
8 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 195 (12.91%) Azure
2 146 (9.67%) AWS
3 65 (4.30%) Power Platform
4 62 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
5 61 (4.04%) GCP
6 38 (2.52%) Entra ID
6 38 (2.52%) SaaS
7 27 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
9 22 (1.46%) GitHub
10 21 (1.39%) Google Workspace
11 19 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
11 19 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (1.26%) Snowflake
12 18 (1.19%) Google Sheets
12 18 (1.19%) PaaS
13 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (0.73%) OpenShift
15 10 (0.66%) Amazon S3
15 10 (0.66%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.31%) Network Security
2 31 (2.05%) Firewall
3 19 (1.26%) DNS
4 12 (0.79%) DHCP
5 11 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (0.66%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
7 9 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.53%) WAN
9 7 (0.46%) 5G
9 7 (0.46%) HTTP
10 6 (0.40%) LAN
11 5 (0.33%) 3G
11 5 (0.33%) 4G
11 5 (0.33%) Internet
12 4 (0.26%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.26%) NAS
12 4 (0.26%) SAN
13 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.58%) Power BI
2 36 (2.38%) Metadata
3 24 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.52%) Relational Database
5 20 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (0.99%) SQL Server
7 11 (0.73%) MongoDB
7 11 (0.73%) Tableau
8 9 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.53%) Big Data
10 7 (0.46%) MySQL
10 7 (0.46%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.40%) DB2
11 6 (0.40%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.33%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.33%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 129 (8.54%) JIRA
2 18 (1.19%) Git
2 18 (1.19%) Jenkins
3 10 (0.66%) GitLab
4 5 (0.33%) JUnit
4 5 (0.33%) Mockito
4 5 (0.33%) Zephyr
5 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (0.26%) DbUnit
5 4 (0.26%) jMock
5 4 (0.26%) Maven
5 4 (0.26%) Selenium
5 4 (0.26%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.26%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.066%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.066%) Flyway
6 1 (0.066%) MLflow
6 1 (0.066%) Postman
6 1 (0.066%) TestRail
General
1 554 (36.69%) Finance
2 539 (35.70%) Social Skills
3 230 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (11.46%) Banking
5 166 (10.99%) Public Sector
6 109 (7.22%) Legal
7 50 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
8 47 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
9 39 (2.58%) Investment Banking
10 36 (2.38%) Retail
11 35 (2.32%) Front Office
12 34 (2.25%) Financial Institution
13 33 (2.19%) Military
13 33 (2.19%) Telecoms
14 30 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
14 30 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.92%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.19%) Marketing
17 17 (1.13%) Aerospace
17 17 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 196 (12.98%) Project Manager
2 185 (12.25%) Lead
3 154 (10.20%) Architect
4 150 (9.93%) Senior
5 146 (9.67%) Analyst
6 91 (6.03%) Consultant
7 74 (4.90%) Programme Manager
8 72 (4.77%) Business Analyst
9 66 (4.37%) Developer
10 63 (4.17%) Security Architect
11 51 (3.38%) Risk Manager
12 50 (3.31%) Senior Manager
13 44 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
14 37 (2.45%) Security Consultant
15 36 (2.38%) Security Engineer
16 34 (2.25%) Risk Analyst
17 33 (2.19%) IT Manager
18 30 (1.99%) Security Manager
19 29 (1.92%) Solutions Architect
20 26 (1.72%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.25%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (1.46%) REST
3 19 (1.26%) Kafka
4 16 (1.06%) .NET
5 14 (0.93%) XML
6 13 (0.86%) Middleware
7 11 (0.73%) Leaflet
8 10 (0.66%) JSON
8 10 (0.66%) RESTful
9 9 (0.60%) 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
11 7 (0.46%) Web Services
12 6 (0.40%) J2EE
12 6 (0.40%) JSP
12 6 (0.40%) OpenID
12 6 (0.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 115 (7.62%) Management Information System
2 64 (4.24%) Product Ownership
3 59 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 54 (3.58%) Security Posture
5 51 (3.38%) Derivative
6 50 (3.31%) Operational Technology
7 49 (3.25%) Data Centre
8 43 (2.85%) Cloud Native
9 42 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
10 34 (2.25%) Market Risk
11 25 (1.66%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.59%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.52%) Credit Risk
14 22 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
16 20 (1.32%) Fixed Income
17 19 (1.26%) Equities
17 19 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 18 (1.19%) NHS
19 17 (1.13%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 42 (2.78%) Windows
2 36 (2.38%) Linux
3 23 (1.52%) Unix
4 9 (0.60%) 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%) 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%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (30.26%) Stakeholder Management
2 383 (25.36%) Agile
3 297 (19.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 275 (18.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 267 (17.68%) Cybersecurity
6 258 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
7 243 (16.09%) Project Management
8 211 (13.97%) Decision-Making
9 177 (11.72%) AI
10 172 (11.39%) Information Security
11 165 (10.93%) Roadmaps
12 164 (10.86%) Change Management
13 148 (9.80%) Project Delivery
14 143 (9.47%) Migration
15 130 (8.61%) Analytics
16 125 (8.28%) Regulatory Compliance
17 117 (7.75%) PRINCE2
18 116 (7.68%) Data Protection
18 116 (7.68%) DevOps
19 110 (7.28%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 113 (7.48%) Python
1 113 (7.48%) SQL
2 55 (3.64%) Java
3 30 (1.99%) PowerShell
4 20 (1.32%) C++
5 18 (1.19%) C#
6 13 (0.86%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.66%) VBA
8 8 (0.53%) Bash
8 8 (0.53%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.33%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.20%) 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%) C
13 1 (0.066%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 346 (22.91%) Security Cleared
2 255 (16.89%) SC Cleared
3 203 (13.44%) Degree
4 126 (8.34%) CISSP
5 93 (6.16%) CISM
6 82 (5.43%) DV Cleared
7 72 (4.77%) PMP
8 71 (4.70%) PMI Certification
9 40 (2.65%) CRISC
10 34 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 29 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 26 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
14 23 (1.52%) CISA
14 23 (1.52%) Master's Degree
15 20 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 15 (0.99%) CESG Certified Professional
17 14 (0.93%) GIAC
18 13 (0.86%) CCSP
18 13 (0.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (12.19%) NIST
2 179 (11.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 123 (8.15%) GRC
4 109 (7.22%) GDPR
5 84 (5.56%) PMO
6 75 (4.97%) QA
7 62 (4.11%) Data Quality
8 47 (3.11%) NCSC
9 44 (2.91%) PCI DSS
10 34 (2.25%) JSP 440
11 32 (2.12%) SLA
12 28 (1.85%) COBIT
13 26 (1.72%) SOC 2
14 25 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
15 22 (1.46%) NIST 800
16 17 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
16 17 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 17 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (1.06%) ISO 31000
17 16 (1.06%) RMADS
System Software
1 30 (1.99%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.93%) Docker
3 11 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.26%) Postfix
5 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.066%) Ceph
7 1 (0.066%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.066%) NFS
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.066%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (1.59%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.93%) Ansible
3 13 (0.86%) 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 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.20%) CASB
10 3 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.20%) Nessus
10 3 (0.20%) WSUS
11 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.13%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.13%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.13%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 197 (13.05%) Microsoft
2 86 (5.70%) Oracle
3 81 (5.36%) ServiceNow
4 78 (5.17%) SAP
5 42 (2.78%) Google
6 22 (1.46%) Workday
7 21 (1.39%) Murex
8 20 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 15 (0.99%) Ariba
9 15 (0.99%) Databricks
10 14 (0.93%) VMware
11 13 (0.86%) Cisco
12 12 (0.79%) F5
13 11 (0.73%) IBM
14 8 (0.53%) Infoblox
14 8 (0.53%) Splunk
15 7 (0.46%) Foundry
15 7 (0.46%) HP
15 7 (0.46%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.46%) Sybase