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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 50 70
Rank change year-on-year -24 +20 -1
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,685 1,443 1,194
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.19% 4.40% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 4.87% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,079 881 737
10th Percentile £411 £370 £363
25th Percentile £481 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £716
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +4.88% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 30 40
10th Percentile £24.81 £22.16 £12.39
25th Percentile £50.00 £34.53 £30.97
Median hourly rate £67.05 £50.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.42% +0.51% +120.46%
75th Percentile £85.40 £74.87 £61.25
90th Percentile £105.25 £87.28 £80.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +45.45% +4.76% -27.48%

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 44,857 29,633 35,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.35% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,817 18,625 22,863
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.02%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,658 1,571 2,253
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.82
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.05 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.41 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +87.50% -37.04% -6.09%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 1,489 £570 -0.87% 720
UK excluding London -6 868 £538 +4.88% 429
London -42 695 £600 -7.69% 367
Work from Home -25 488 £550 -6.86% 306
North of England -13 262 £514 +0.15% 110
South East -4 236 £575 +4.55% 138
North West -21 132 £533 +4.15% 67
Yorkshire -3 128 £500 -4.76% 37
Midlands -29 113 £550 +15.79% 63
Scotland -1 99 £475 +1.71% 19
South West -11 93 £570 -0.87% 56
West Midlands -41 86 £545 +9.00% 37
East of England +19 59 £525 -4.55% 35
East Midlands -17 25 £550 +23.66% 26
Northern Ireland -3 9 £394 -28.41% 7
Wales -20 7 £725 +61.83% 8
North East -40 4 £454 -17.50% 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 68 (4.04%) Confluence
2 37 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.53%) SAS
4 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.24%) IIS
6 3 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.059%) Apache
8 1 (0.059%) Appian
8 1 (0.059%) CMS
8 1 (0.059%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.059%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.059%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.059%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.059%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.059%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 49 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 49 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
3 35 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.77%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.24%) Navisworks
5 4 (0.24%) Revit
5 4 (0.24%) Trello
6 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.18%) Windchill
7 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.059%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 38 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.71%) Endur
3 10 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.36%) Actimize
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.36%) Primavera
5 6 (0.36%) SAP GRC
6 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.24%) Loan IQ
7 4 (0.24%) Magento
7 4 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.24%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.24%) Summit
7 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 251 (14.90%) Azure
2 175 (10.39%) AWS
3 78 (4.63%) GCP
4 67 (3.98%) Power Platform
5 61 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (3.20%) Entra ID
7 43 (2.55%) SaaS
8 35 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (1.96%) GitHub
10 31 (1.84%) Microsoft Purview
11 23 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
12 20 (1.19%) PaaS
12 20 (1.19%) Snowflake
13 17 (1.01%) Azure AI
13 17 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
14 16 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
14 16 (0.95%) Serverless
15 14 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
15 14 (0.83%) Google Workspace
16 13 (0.77%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.44%) Network Security
2 40 (2.37%) Firewall
3 17 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 15 (0.89%) DNS
4 15 (0.89%) WAN
5 13 (0.77%) DHCP
6 12 (0.71%) 5G
6 12 (0.71%) LAN
7 10 (0.59%) 4G
7 10 (0.59%) BIG-IP
7 10 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.53%) HTTP
9 7 (0.42%) Internet
9 7 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (0.36%) VPN
11 5 (0.30%) 3G
11 5 (0.30%) NAS
11 5 (0.30%) NGFW
11 5 (0.30%) SAN
11 5 (0.30%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (2.91%) Power BI
2 33 (1.96%) Metadata
3 31 (1.84%) Relational Database
4 29 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 21 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (0.95%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (0.77%) Db2
9 12 (0.71%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.59%) Big Data
10 10 (0.59%) Tableau
11 9 (0.53%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.36%) MySQL
12 6 (0.36%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.30%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.30%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 116 (6.88%) JIRA
2 26 (1.54%) Git
3 23 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.53%) GitLab
4 9 (0.53%) Selenium
5 6 (0.36%) TeamCity
5 6 (0.36%) Zephyr
6 5 (0.30%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.30%) JUnit
6 5 (0.30%) Mockito
6 5 (0.30%) Postman
7 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.24%) DbUnit
7 4 (0.24%) jMock
7 4 (0.24%) Maven
7 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.24%) Subversion
7 4 (0.24%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.18%) Artifactory
General
1 638 (37.86%) Social Skills
2 626 (37.15%) Finance
3 258 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (11.87%) Public Sector
5 187 (11.10%) Banking
6 130 (7.72%) Legal
7 63 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
8 61 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (2.97%) Front Office
10 42 (2.49%) Telecoms
11 41 (2.43%) Financial Institution
12 39 (2.31%) Aerospace
12 39 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
12 39 (2.31%) Retail
13 38 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
14 35 (2.08%) Investment Banking
15 31 (1.84%) Military
16 27 (1.60%) Manufacturing
17 24 (1.42%) Law
18 23 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 220 (13.06%) Lead
2 205 (12.17%) Project Manager
3 200 (11.87%) Architect
4 166 (9.85%) Senior
5 154 (9.14%) Analyst
6 89 (5.28%) Consultant
7 84 (4.99%) Security Architect
8 73 (4.33%) Programme Manager
9 72 (4.27%) Developer
10 66 (3.92%) Senior Manager
11 65 (3.86%) Business Analyst
12 55 (3.26%) Risk Manager
13 46 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
14 44 (2.61%) IT Manager
15 36 (2.14%) Security Engineer
15 36 (2.14%) Security Manager
16 35 (2.08%) Security Consultant
16 35 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
17 30 (1.78%) Product Manager
18 29 (1.72%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (1.48%) .NET
2 25 (1.48%) REST
3 19 (1.13%) Kafka
4 18 (1.07%) Middleware
5 15 (0.89%) OAuth
6 14 (0.83%) XML
7 13 (0.77%) JSON
8 12 (0.71%) RESTful
8 12 (0.71%) SOAP
8 12 (0.71%) Spring
9 11 (0.65%) Azure Blueprints
9 11 (0.65%) Leaflet
9 11 (0.65%) OpenID
9 11 (0.65%) React
9 11 (0.65%) SAML
10 9 (0.53%) LDAP
10 9 (0.53%) SLSA
10 9 (0.53%) Web Services
11 8 (0.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 118 (7.00%) Management Information System
2 87 (5.16%) Onboarding
2 87 (5.16%) Product Ownership
3 69 (4.09%) Cloud Native
4 64 (3.80%) Security Posture
5 61 (3.62%) Operational Technology
6 51 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
7 47 (2.79%) Data Centre
8 33 (1.96%) Derivative
9 30 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
10 29 (1.72%) Market Risk
11 28 (1.66%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.54%) PMI
13 25 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
14 23 (1.36%) Fixed Income
14 23 (1.36%) NHS
15 22 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
16 20 (1.19%) Data Structures
17 19 (1.13%) Virtual Team
18 18 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 52 (3.09%) Windows
2 48 (2.85%) Linux
3 34 (2.02%) Unix
4 20 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.30%) zOS
7 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.059%) AIX
9 1 (0.059%) Android
9 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (34.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 413 (24.51%) Agile
3 389 (23.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 357 (21.19%) Cybersecurity
5 353 (20.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 253 (15.01%) Project Management
7 250 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
8 249 (14.78%) Decision-Making
9 226 (13.41%) AI
10 223 (13.23%) Roadmaps
11 201 (11.93%) Information Security
12 180 (10.68%) Change Management
13 161 (9.55%) Project Delivery
14 155 (9.20%) Migration
15 150 (8.90%) CI/CD
16 147 (8.72%) DevOps
17 135 (8.01%) Analytics
18 128 (7.60%) Vulnerability Management
19 124 (7.36%) PRINCE2
20 123 (7.30%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 126 (7.48%) Python
2 97 (5.76%) SQL
3 59 (3.50%) Java
4 37 (2.20%) PowerShell
5 24 (1.42%) C#
6 18 (1.07%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.71%) VBA
8 10 (0.59%) C++
8 10 (0.59%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.53%) Bash
9 9 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.42%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.36%) Go
12 4 (0.24%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.24%) Bicep
12 4 (0.24%) CLIST
12 4 (0.24%) JCL
12 4 (0.24%) REXX
12 4 (0.24%) Scala
13 3 (0.18%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 422 (25.04%) Security Cleared
2 313 (18.58%) SC Cleared
3 184 (10.92%) Degree
4 162 (9.61%) CISSP
5 104 (6.17%) DV Cleared
6 101 (5.99%) CISM
7 80 (4.75%) PMI Certification
8 76 (4.51%) PMP
9 40 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 39 (2.31%) CRISC
11 34 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
12 33 (1.96%) CISA
13 31 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
14 30 (1.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 29 (1.72%) Master's Degree
16 27 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 21 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
18 16 (0.95%) AWS Certification
18 16 (0.95%) CESG Certified Professional
18 16 (0.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (12.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 205 (12.17%) NIST
3 156 (9.26%) GRC
4 117 (6.94%) GDPR
5 81 (4.81%) QA
6 68 (4.04%) PMO
7 65 (3.86%) Data Quality
8 59 (3.50%) NCSC
9 36 (2.14%) PCI DSS
10 33 (1.96%) JSP 440
11 32 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
11 32 (1.90%) SOC 2
12 29 (1.72%) NIST 800
13 28 (1.66%) SLA
14 21 (1.25%) COBIT
15 18 (1.07%) ISO 31000
16 17 (1.01%) Def Stans
17 16 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 15 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 13 (0.77%) RMADS
System Software
1 38 (2.26%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.19%) Docker
3 10 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.24%) Postfix
5 4 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.059%) Ceph
8 1 (0.059%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.059%) IAG
8 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.72%) Terraform
3 23 (1.36%) Ansible
4 12 (0.71%) Grafana
4 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.59%) SCCM
6 9 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.24%) Control-M
9 4 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.24%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.18%) CASB
10 3 (0.18%) Nessus
11 2 (0.12%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.12%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 229 (13.59%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.52%) ServiceNow
3 80 (4.75%) SAP
4 74 (4.39%) Oracle
5 47 (2.79%) Google
6 21 (1.25%) IBM
7 20 (1.19%) Cisco
7 20 (1.19%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.01%) Workday
9 16 (0.95%) Foundry
9 16 (0.95%) Splunk
9 16 (0.95%) Sybase
10 12 (0.71%) F5
10 12 (0.71%) Qualys
11 11 (0.65%) Databricks
11 11 (0.65%) Murex
11 11 (0.65%) OpenAI
11 11 (0.65%) VMware
12 10 (0.59%) Infoblox
13 9 (0.53%) Ariba