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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 53 69
Rank change year-on-year -21 +16 -2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,778 1,470 1,162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.32% 4.47% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 4.94% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,101 908 714
10th Percentile £406 £361 £363
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -1.08% -6.40%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £717
90th Percentile £788 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £512 £550
% change year-on-year +2.56% -6.93% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 29 27
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £30.80
25th Percentile £49.50 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £67.05 £49.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.44% -13.91% +16.16%
75th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £68.84
90th Percentile £87.41 £87.30 £82.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £51.00 £59.19
% change year-on-year +49.02% -13.83% -7.73%

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 45,374 29,740 33,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.47% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,858 18,514 21,188
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,725 1,782
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £18.17
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +19.72%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -21 1,563 £570 -0.87% 744
UK excluding London -4 923 £525 +2.56% 578
London -40 724 £600 -7.69% 306
Work from Home -19 483 £550 -4.35% 347
North of England -19 278 £510 +0.12% 112
South East +3 248 £575 +4.55% 190
North West -28 140 £525 +2.68% 72
Yorkshire -5 132 £497 -0.60% 29
South West -16 115 £570 -0.87% 96
Scotland +12 109 £475 +2.70% 30
Midlands -44 102 £575 +21.82% 66
West Midlands -35 81 £563 +12.50% 41
East of England +9 66 £513 -10.87% 50
East Midlands -31 18 £547 +36.07% 24
Northern Ireland -3 8 £394 -28.41% 23
Wales -23 7 £650 +48.57% 20
North East -40 6 £454 -22.77% 14

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 77 (4.33%) Confluence
2 41 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.56%) SAS
4 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.22%) IIS
6 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.11%) CMS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.056%) Apache
8 1 (0.056%) Appian
8 1 (0.056%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.056%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.056%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.056%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.056%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.056%) WebSphere
Applications
1 56 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.91%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.22%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.22%) Revit
7 3 (0.17%) Trello
7 3 (0.17%) Windchill
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.056%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.056%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 41 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.73%) Endur
3 12 (0.67%) SAP GRC
4 11 (0.62%) Primavera
5 10 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.22%) Actimize
9 4 (0.22%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.22%) Magento
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.17%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.17%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.17%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 257 (14.45%) Azure
2 190 (10.69%) AWS
3 83 (4.67%) GCP
4 73 (4.11%) Power Platform
5 65 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (3.26%) Entra ID
7 50 (2.81%) SaaS
8 37 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (1.80%) GitHub
10 25 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 22 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
11 22 (1.24%) OCI
12 21 (1.18%) Snowflake
13 19 (1.07%) Azure AI
13 19 (1.07%) PaaS
14 16 (0.90%) Anthropic Claude
14 16 (0.90%) Serverless
15 14 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
16 12 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 69 (3.88%) Network Security
2 40 (2.25%) Firewall
3 22 (1.24%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.01%) WAN
5 17 (0.96%) DNS
6 16 (0.90%) LAN
7 14 (0.79%) 5G
7 14 (0.79%) DHCP
8 12 (0.67%) 4G
8 12 (0.67%) HTTP
9 9 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.45%) BIG-IP
10 8 (0.45%) VPN
11 7 (0.39%) Internet
12 6 (0.34%) HTTPS
12 6 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
13 5 (0.28%) NAS
13 5 (0.28%) NGFW
13 5 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
13 5 (0.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.09%) Power BI
2 36 (2.02%) Metadata
3 35 (1.97%) SQL Server
4 32 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.96%) MongoDB
6 17 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (0.73%) Data Lake
7 13 (0.73%) Db2
8 11 (0.62%) Tableau
9 10 (0.56%) Big Data
9 10 (0.56%) RDBMS
10 9 (0.51%) Oracle Database
11 7 (0.39%) MySQL
12 6 (0.34%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 5 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.28%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 124 (6.97%) JIRA
2 27 (1.52%) Git
3 20 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.73%) Selenium
5 9 (0.51%) Postman
5 9 (0.51%) Zephyr
6 8 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.39%) GitLab
7 7 (0.39%) WebDriver
8 6 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.22%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.22%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.22%) jMock
9 4 (0.22%) JUnit
9 4 (0.22%) Mockito
9 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.22%) Subversion
9 4 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 681 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 647 (36.39%) Finance
3 283 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (11.75%) Public Sector
5 196 (11.02%) Banking
6 130 (7.31%) Legal
7 74 (4.16%) Influencing Skills
8 70 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
9 64 (3.60%) Front Office
10 47 (2.64%) Aerospace
11 45 (2.53%) Telecoms
12 44 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
12 44 (2.47%) Retail
13 39 (2.19%) Investment Banking
13 39 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (2.14%) Financial Institution
15 36 (2.02%) Military
16 30 (1.69%) Law
16 30 (1.69%) Manufacturing
17 25 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 227 (12.77%) Lead
2 220 (12.37%) Architect
3 200 (11.25%) Project Manager
4 172 (9.67%) Senior
5 161 (9.06%) Analyst
6 108 (6.07%) Consultant
7 98 (5.51%) Security Architect
8 74 (4.16%) Programme Manager
9 72 (4.05%) Developer
10 62 (3.49%) Business Analyst
11 59 (3.32%) Senior Manager
12 54 (3.04%) Risk Manager
13 50 (2.81%) IT Manager
14 49 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
15 45 (2.53%) Security Consultant
16 38 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
17 37 (2.08%) Security Manager
18 36 (2.02%) Security Engineer
19 31 (1.74%) Technical Manager
20 28 (1.57%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.91%) REST
2 28 (1.57%) .NET
3 27 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (1.24%) Middleware
5 17 (0.96%) OAuth
6 16 (0.90%) Kafka
7 13 (0.73%) JSON
7 13 (0.73%) XML
8 12 (0.67%) SAML
8 12 (0.67%) SOAP
8 12 (0.67%) Spring
9 11 (0.62%) Leaflet
9 11 (0.62%) OpenID
9 11 (0.62%) RESTful
10 10 (0.56%) SLSA
11 9 (0.51%) LDAP
11 9 (0.51%) PyTorch
11 9 (0.51%) React
11 9 (0.51%) SailPoint
12 8 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 122 (6.86%) Management Information System
2 95 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 87 (4.89%) Onboarding
4 76 (4.27%) Security Posture
5 75 (4.22%) Cloud Native
6 54 (3.04%) Operational Technology
7 51 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
8 44 (2.47%) Data Centre
9 38 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
10 35 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
11 32 (1.80%) Derivative
12 31 (1.74%) AI Agents
13 29 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
14 27 (1.52%) Market Risk
15 25 (1.41%) NHS
16 24 (1.35%) PMI
17 22 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
18 21 (1.18%) Credit Risk
18 21 (1.18%) Data Structures
18 21 (1.18%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 58 (3.26%) Windows
2 54 (3.04%) Linux
3 36 (2.02%) Unix
4 21 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.28%) zOS
7 3 (0.17%) AIX
7 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.11%) Android
9 1 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 663 (37.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 437 (24.58%) Agile
3 414 (23.28%) Cybersecurity
4 397 (22.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 377 (21.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 266 (14.96%) Decision-Making
7 256 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
8 252 (14.17%) Project Management
9 248 (13.95%) AI
10 223 (12.54%) Roadmaps
11 200 (11.25%) Information Security
12 195 (10.97%) Project Delivery
13 166 (9.34%) Migration
14 162 (9.11%) CI/CD
15 161 (9.06%) DevOps
16 160 (9.00%) Change Management
17 141 (7.93%) Analytics
18 140 (7.87%) PRINCE2
19 136 (7.65%) Vulnerability Management
20 133 (7.48%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 131 (7.37%) Python
2 91 (5.12%) SQL
3 54 (3.04%) Java
4 37 (2.08%) PowerShell
5 29 (1.63%) C#
6 17 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.73%) C++
8 12 (0.67%) Bash
9 11 (0.62%) VBA
10 9 (0.51%) Shell Script
11 8 (0.45%) Go
11 8 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.34%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.28%) Bicep
14 4 (0.22%) Assembly Language
14 4 (0.22%) CLIST
14 4 (0.22%) JCL
14 4 (0.22%) REXX
14 4 (0.22%) Scala
15 3 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 467 (26.27%) Security Cleared
2 336 (18.90%) SC Cleared
3 174 (9.79%) Degree
4 159 (8.94%) CISSP
5 117 (6.58%) DV Cleared
6 108 (6.07%) CISM
7 85 (4.78%) PMI Certification
8 83 (4.67%) PMP
9 47 (2.64%) CRISC
10 45 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
12 34 (1.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 34 (1.91%) CISA
13 30 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
14 28 (1.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 25 (1.41%) Master's Degree
16 22 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
17 18 (1.01%) AWS Certification
17 18 (1.01%) CCSP
17 18 (1.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (12.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 215 (12.09%) NIST
3 178 (10.01%) GRC
4 123 (6.92%) GDPR
5 95 (5.34%) QA
6 74 (4.16%) NCSC
7 72 (4.05%) Data Quality
8 62 (3.49%) PMO
9 38 (2.14%) JSP 440
10 33 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
11 27 (1.52%) PCI DSS
12 25 (1.41%) SOC 2
13 22 (1.24%) SLA
14 18 (1.01%) COBIT
14 18 (1.01%) NIST 800
15 17 (0.96%) Accessibility
15 17 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 15 (0.84%) ISO 31000
18 14 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 38 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.12%) Docker
3 9 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.22%) Postfix
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.17%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.11%) NFS
7 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.056%) Ceph
8 1 (0.056%) IAG
8 1 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.056%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (2.08%) Terraform
2 36 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.52%) Ansible
4 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.67%) Grafana
6 11 (0.62%) SCCM
7 9 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
8 5 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.22%) Control-M
9 4 (0.22%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.22%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.17%) CASB
10 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.17%) Nessus
10 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 247 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 97 (5.46%) ServiceNow
3 82 (4.61%) SAP
4 81 (4.56%) Oracle
5 45 (2.53%) Google
6 22 (1.24%) IBM
7 19 (1.07%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.96%) Cisco
8 17 (0.96%) Splunk
9 16 (0.90%) Sybase
10 15 (0.84%) Foundry
10 15 (0.84%) Workday
11 14 (0.79%) Databricks
12 13 (0.73%) Murex
13 12 (0.67%) Qualys
14 10 (0.56%) VMware
15 9 (0.51%) Ariba
15 9 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
15 9 (0.51%) F5
15 9 (0.51%) Okta