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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 50 66
Rank change year-on-year -24 +16 +8
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,481 1,274 1,369
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.23% 4.35% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.79% 4.79% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 961 771 896
10th Percentile £400 £363 £369
25th Percentile £463 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £838 £838 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 41 45
10th Percentile £20.27 £29.23 £12.25
25th Percentile £37.00 £46.30 £30.12
Median hourly rate £71.83 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.81% +17.13% +393.89%
75th Percentile £99.38 £78.36 £63.25
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.05 £83.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.49 £61.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +21.14% +6.95% +486.73%

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 39,056 26,574 37,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.05% 90.71% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,707 17,203 24,522
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,310 1,024 2,401
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.93 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.54 £18.51 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.16 £30.45 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +22.04% -9.24% -7.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.83
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £29.00 £33.07
% change year-on-year +31.90% -12.29% -8.47%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 1,310 £550 -4.35% 586
UK excluding London -19 701 £525 +0.96% 417
London -26 650 £600 -4.00% 261
Work from Home -2 427 £550 -2.22% 311
North of England -14 208 £507 -1.05% 92
South East -8 204 £550 -2.22% 141
Midlands -46 109 £530 +6.00% 61
North West -11 105 £545 +9.00% 51
Yorkshire -9 101 £492 -2.81% 34
West Midlands -33 78 £518 +0.78% 40
South West -4 71 £525 +16.67% 46
Scotland -7 60 £425 -15.00% 20
East of England -19 43 £525 +12.18% 46
East Midlands -32 31 £544 +21.59% 20
Northern Ireland -1 8 £500 -4.76% 9
Wales -9 8 £214 -59.69% 10
North East -29 2 £480 -16.52% 8

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 60 (4.05%) Confluence
2 30 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.47%) SAS
6 4 (0.27%) nginx
7 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.14%) Apache
8 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.068%) CMS
9 1 (0.068%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.068%) IIS
9 1 (0.068%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.068%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.068%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 66 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (3.58%) Microsoft Project
3 37 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.27%) Trello
7 3 (0.20%) Revit
8 2 (0.14%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.14%) Windchill
9 1 (0.068%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.068%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.068%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 20 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.54%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.47%) Summit
5 6 (0.41%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.41%) Endur
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.27%) Primavera
8 3 (0.20%) Findur
8 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.20%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.20%) SAP GRC
8 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.14%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 171 (11.55%) Azure
2 141 (9.52%) AWS
3 58 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
4 57 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 49 (3.31%) GCP
6 35 (2.36%) Entra ID
7 33 (2.23%) SaaS
8 29 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
9 22 (1.49%) GitHub
9 22 (1.49%) Google Workspace
10 20 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
11 19 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (1.22%) Google Sheets
13 16 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
15 12 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
15 12 (0.81%) Snowflake
16 10 (0.68%) Amazon S3
16 10 (0.68%) OCI
16 10 (0.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.31%) Network Security
2 35 (2.36%) Firewall
3 18 (1.22%) DNS
4 11 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.68%) DHCP
6 9 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
7 8 (0.54%) 5G
7 8 (0.54%) BIG-IP
7 8 (0.54%) Internet
8 7 (0.47%) HTTP
8 7 (0.47%) LAN
9 6 (0.41%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.34%) WAN
11 4 (0.27%) 3G
11 4 (0.27%) 4G
11 4 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
12 3 (0.20%) Broadband
12 3 (0.20%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.20%) NAS
12 3 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.04%) Power BI
2 31 (2.09%) Metadata
3 24 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.42%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (1.01%) SQL Server
7 10 (0.68%) Tableau
8 9 (0.61%) Data Lake
8 9 (0.61%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (0.47%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.41%) Big Data
10 6 (0.41%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.41%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.34%) DB2
11 5 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.34%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.27%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 126 (8.51%) JIRA
2 23 (1.55%) Git
3 18 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.61%) GitLab
5 5 (0.34%) JUnit
5 5 (0.34%) Mockito
5 5 (0.34%) 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%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.27%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.20%) Selenium
8 1 (0.068%) ERwin
8 1 (0.068%) Flyway
8 1 (0.068%) MLflow
8 1 (0.068%) Postman
8 1 (0.068%) TestRail
General
1 553 (37.34%) Social Skills
2 531 (35.85%) Finance
3 239 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (12.49%) Banking
5 165 (11.14%) Public Sector
6 106 (7.16%) Legal
7 49 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
8 44 (2.97%) Front Office
9 42 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (2.70%) Investment Banking
11 38 (2.57%) Retail
12 37 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
13 34 (2.30%) Financial Institution
14 31 (2.09%) Manufacturing
15 29 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.96%) Telecoms
16 28 (1.89%) Military
17 20 (1.35%) Aerospace
17 20 (1.35%) Marketing
18 19 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 198 (13.37%) Project Manager
2 173 (11.68%) Lead
3 153 (10.33%) Analyst
4 147 (9.93%) Senior
5 140 (9.45%) Architect
6 106 (7.16%) Consultant
7 80 (5.40%) Developer
8 72 (4.86%) Programme Manager
9 71 (4.79%) Business Analyst
10 68 (4.59%) Security Architect
11 52 (3.51%) Senior Manager
12 48 (3.24%) Risk Manager
13 47 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
14 43 (2.90%) Security Consultant
15 32 (2.16%) Risk Analyst
15 32 (2.16%) Security Engineer
16 30 (2.03%) IT Manager
17 29 (1.96%) Security Manager
17 29 (1.96%) Senior Developer
18 27 (1.82%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (1.69%) REST
3 20 (1.35%) Kafka
4 17 (1.15%) .NET
5 12 (0.81%) RESTful
6 11 (0.74%) Leaflet
6 11 (0.74%) Middleware
6 11 (0.74%) XML
7 9 (0.61%) OAuth
8 8 (0.54%) COM
8 8 (0.54%) LDAP
8 8 (0.54%) NumPy
8 8 (0.54%) Pandas
9 7 (0.47%) .NET Framework
9 7 (0.47%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.47%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (0.47%) JSON
9 7 (0.47%) PyTorch
9 7 (0.47%) React
10 6 (0.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 137 (9.25%) Management Information System
2 64 (4.32%) Security Posture
3 62 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 59 (3.98%) Onboarding
5 58 (3.92%) Derivative
6 41 (2.77%) Data Centre
6 41 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
7 40 (2.70%) Cloud Native
8 35 (2.36%) Market Risk
9 33 (2.23%) Operational Technology
10 32 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 27 (1.82%) Credit Risk
11 27 (1.82%) Equities
12 25 (1.69%) NHS
13 23 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
14 22 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.42%) AI Agents
15 21 (1.42%) Data Structures
16 19 (1.28%) Fixed Income
17 18 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.63%) Windows
2 33 (2.23%) Linux
3 15 (1.01%) Unix
4 8 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.20%) zOS
8 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.14%) VMS
8 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.068%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (30.52%) Stakeholder Management
2 371 (25.05%) Agile
3 284 (19.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 271 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
5 257 (17.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 245 (16.54%) Cybersecurity
7 239 (16.14%) Project Management
8 190 (12.83%) Decision-Making
9 183 (12.36%) Information Security
10 168 (11.34%) Change Management
11 157 (10.60%) Roadmaps
12 150 (10.13%) AI
13 149 (10.06%) Project Delivery
14 143 (9.66%) Migration
15 127 (8.58%) Data Protection
16 121 (8.17%) Regulatory Compliance
17 118 (7.97%) PRINCE2
18 117 (7.90%) Analytics
19 112 (7.56%) DevOps
20 100 (6.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 126 (8.51%) SQL
2 114 (7.70%) Python
3 57 (3.85%) Java
4 35 (2.36%) PowerShell
5 23 (1.55%) C++
6 21 (1.42%) C#
7 16 (1.08%) VBA
8 12 (0.81%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.41%) Bash
9 6 (0.41%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.41%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.41%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.27%) Perl
11 3 (0.20%) Korn
11 3 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.14%) Go
12 2 (0.14%) RPG
12 2 (0.14%) Rust
12 2 (0.14%) Scala
12 2 (0.14%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 327 (22.08%) Security Cleared
2 245 (16.54%) SC Cleared
3 204 (13.77%) Degree
4 123 (8.31%) CISSP
5 89 (6.01%) CISM
6 79 (5.33%) DV Cleared
7 77 (5.20%) PMP
8 74 (5.00%) PMI Certification
9 37 (2.50%) CRISC
10 34 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (2.16%) Master's Degree
12 25 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
13 21 (1.42%) CISA
14 17 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 15 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 12 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 12 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
18 10 (0.68%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (13.17%) NIST
2 187 (12.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 130 (8.78%) GRC
4 128 (8.64%) GDPR
5 87 (5.87%) PMO
6 74 (5.00%) QA
7 53 (3.58%) Data Quality
8 52 (3.51%) PCI DSS
9 48 (3.24%) NCSC
10 29 (1.96%) JSP 440
10 29 (1.96%) SLA
11 28 (1.89%) SOC 2
12 26 (1.76%) NIST 800
13 23 (1.55%) COBIT
14 19 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 18 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
16 17 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 17 (1.15%) RMADS
16 17 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.81%) Def Stans
System Software
1 31 (2.09%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.88%) Docker
3 9 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.27%) Postfix
6 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.068%) Ceph
8 1 (0.068%) NFS
8 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.068%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.068%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.28%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.01%) Terraform
3 14 (0.95%) Ansible
4 9 (0.61%) SCCM
4 9 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.54%) Grafana
5 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.34%) Control-M
7 5 (0.34%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.27%) RSA Archer
9 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.20%) CASB
9 3 (0.20%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.20%) WSUS
10 2 (0.14%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.14%) Nessus
10 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.14%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 183 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.47%) ServiceNow
3 80 (5.40%) Oracle
4 71 (4.79%) SAP
5 43 (2.90%) Google
6 22 (1.49%) Murex
7 21 (1.42%) Workday
8 15 (1.01%) Ariba
8 15 (1.01%) Salesforce
9 12 (0.81%) Databricks
9 12 (0.81%) IBM
9 12 (0.81%) VMware
10 11 (0.74%) F5
11 10 (0.68%) Splunk
12 8 (0.54%) Cisco
12 8 (0.54%) Foundry
13 7 (0.47%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.41%) Infoblox
14 6 (0.41%) Informatica
14 6 (0.41%) Sybase