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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 50 74
Rank change year-on-year -26 +24 -7
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,691 1,430 1,201
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.20% 4.39% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 4.86% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 871 739
10th Percentile £411 £372 £363
25th Percentile £481 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +4.45% -6.79%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £512 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.93% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 28 40
10th Percentile £24.46 £23.10 £12.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £46.30 £28.18
Median hourly rate £70.00 £53.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.08% +6.00% +318.76%
75th Percentile £85.40 £77.74 £61.25
90th Percentile £105.25 £87.33 £80.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £58.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year +37.34% +16.50% +26.34%

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 45,026 29,407 35,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.11% 90.34% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,974 18,494 23,016
10th Percentile £325 £300 £301
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
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 2,654 1,554 2,302
10th Percentile £14.87 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.37 £16.71
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.55 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.46 £70.00 £73.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.33 £38.20
% change year-on-year +84.96% -36.30% -4.51%

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 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 18 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 18 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 -20 1,494 £570 -0.87% 718
UK excluding London -7 869 £538 +5.00% 430
London -39 701 £600 -7.69% 362
Work from Home -20 487 £550 -6.86% 298
North of England -12 262 £514 +0.15% 118
South East 0 235 £575 +4.55% 132
North West -27 132 £533 +4.15% 70
Yorkshire 0 128 £500 -4.76% 41
Midlands -35 113 £550 +15.79% 61
Scotland +3 101 £475 +1.71% 22
South West -14 93 £570 -0.87% 58
West Midlands -42 87 £540 +8.00% 34
East of England +15 59 £525 -4.55% 34
East Midlands -16 25 £550 +23.66% 27
Northern Ireland -4 9 £394 -28.41% 5
Wales -18 7 £725 +61.83% 7
North East -37 4 £454 -17.50% 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 (4.02%) Confluence
2 36 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.53%) SAS
4 6 (0.35%) 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 50 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
4 35 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.24%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.24%) Revit
6 4 (0.24%) Trello
7 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) Windchill
8 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.059%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 39 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.71%) Endur
3 10 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.35%) Actimize
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.35%) Primavera
5 6 (0.35%) SAP GRC
6 5 (0.30%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.30%) Summit
7 4 (0.24%) Loan IQ
7 4 (0.24%) Magento
7 4 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.24%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 254 (15.02%) Azure
2 176 (10.41%) AWS
3 78 (4.61%) GCP
4 68 (4.02%) Power Platform
5 60 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (3.19%) Entra ID
7 44 (2.60%) SaaS
8 35 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (1.95%) GitHub
10 30 (1.77%) Microsoft Purview
11 23 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
12 20 (1.18%) PaaS
12 20 (1.18%) 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%) Google Workspace
16 13 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
16 13 (0.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.37%) Network Security
2 39 (2.31%) 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 (0.41%) Internet
9 7 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (0.35%) 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 50 (2.96%) Power BI
2 34 (2.01%) Metadata
3 33 (1.95%) Relational Database
4 29 (1.71%) SQL Server
5 21 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (0.95%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (0.77%) Db2
9 11 (0.65%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.59%) Big Data
10 10 (0.59%) RDBMS
10 10 (0.59%) Tableau
11 6 (0.35%) MySQL
11 6 (0.35%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.30%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 116 (6.86%) JIRA
2 26 (1.54%) Git
3 24 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.53%) GitLab
4 9 (0.53%) Selenium
5 6 (0.35%) TeamCity
5 6 (0.35%) 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
1 641 (37.91%) Social Skills
2 628 (37.14%) Finance
3 259 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 203 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 188 (11.12%) Banking
6 132 (7.81%) Legal
7 63 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
8 61 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (2.96%) Front Office
10 42 (2.48%) Financial Institution
11 41 (2.42%) Telecoms
12 40 (2.37%) Retail
13 39 (2.31%) Aerospace
13 39 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
14 38 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
15 36 (2.13%) Investment Banking
16 31 (1.83%) Military
17 27 (1.60%) Manufacturing
18 24 (1.42%) Law
19 23 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 222 (13.13%) Lead
2 205 (12.12%) Project Manager
3 199 (11.77%) Architect
4 166 (9.82%) Senior
5 157 (9.28%) Analyst
6 89 (5.26%) Consultant
7 83 (4.91%) Security Architect
8 72 (4.26%) Developer
8 72 (4.26%) Programme Manager
9 67 (3.96%) Business Analyst
10 66 (3.90%) Senior Manager
11 55 (3.25%) Risk Manager
12 46 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
13 44 (2.60%) IT Manager
14 36 (2.13%) Security Engineer
15 35 (2.07%) Security Consultant
15 35 (2.07%) Security Manager
15 35 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
16 30 (1.77%) Product Manager
17 29 (1.71%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 26 (1.54%) REST
3 25 (1.48%) .NET
4 19 (1.12%) Kafka
5 18 (1.06%) Middleware
6 15 (0.89%) OAuth
6 15 (0.89%) 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 10 (0.59%) Web Services
11 9 (0.53%) LDAP
11 9 (0.53%) SLSA
12 8 (0.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 118 (6.98%) Management Information System
2 88 (5.20%) Onboarding
3 87 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 68 (4.02%) Cloud Native
5 65 (3.84%) Security Posture
6 61 (3.61%) Operational Technology
7 52 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
8 47 (2.78%) Data Centre
9 35 (2.07%) Derivative
10 30 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
10 30 (1.77%) Market Risk
11 28 (1.66%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.54%) PMI
13 25 (1.48%) Fixed Income
13 25 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
14 24 (1.42%) NHS
15 22 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
16 21 (1.24%) Data Structures
17 19 (1.12%) Virtual Team
18 18 (1.06%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 52 (3.08%) Windows
2 48 (2.84%) Linux
3 35 (2.07%) Unix
4 20 (1.18%) 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 (34.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 414 (24.48%) Agile
3 388 (22.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 355 (20.99%) Cybersecurity
5 354 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 254 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
7 253 (14.96%) Project Management
8 252 (14.90%) Decision-Making
9 226 (13.36%) AI
10 223 (13.19%) Roadmaps
11 202 (11.95%) Information Security
12 180 (10.64%) Change Management
13 161 (9.52%) Project Delivery
14 155 (9.17%) Migration
15 150 (8.87%) CI/CD
16 147 (8.69%) DevOps
17 137 (8.10%) Analytics
18 127 (7.51%) Vulnerability Management
19 125 (7.39%) Data Protection
20 124 (7.33%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 128 (7.57%) Python
2 100 (5.91%) SQL
3 59 (3.49%) Java
4 39 (2.31%) PowerShell
5 24 (1.42%) C#
6 18 (1.06%) 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 (0.41%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.35%) 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
1 421 (24.90%) Security Cleared
2 313 (18.51%) SC Cleared
3 184 (10.88%) Degree
4 163 (9.64%) CISSP
5 103 (6.09%) DV Cleared
6 102 (6.03%) CISM
7 80 (4.73%) PMI Certification
8 76 (4.49%) PMP
9 40 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 40 (2.37%) CRISC
10 34 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (1.95%) CISA
12 31 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
13 30 (1.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 29 (1.71%) Master's Degree
15 27 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 21 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
17 16 (0.95%) AWS Certification
17 16 (0.95%) CESG Certified Professional
17 16 (0.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (12.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 204 (12.06%) NIST
3 156 (9.23%) GRC
4 119 (7.04%) GDPR
5 81 (4.79%) QA
6 68 (4.02%) PMO
7 66 (3.90%) Data Quality
8 59 (3.49%) NCSC
9 36 (2.13%) PCI DSS
10 33 (1.95%) JSP 440
11 32 (1.89%) SOC 2
12 31 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
13 29 (1.71%) NIST 800
14 28 (1.66%) SLA
15 21 (1.24%) COBIT
16 18 (1.06%) ISO 31000
17 17 (1.01%) Def Stans
18 16 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27005
19 15 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
20 13 (0.77%) RMADS
System Software
1 38 (2.25%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.18%) Docker
3 10 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.41%) 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 29 (1.71%) Kubernetes
1 29 (1.71%) Terraform
2 24 (1.42%) Ansible
3 13 (0.77%) Grafana
4 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.59%) SCCM
6 7 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.24%) Control-M
8 4 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.24%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.18%) CASB
9 3 (0.18%) Nessus
10 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.12%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.12%) Istio
10 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 229 (13.54%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.50%) ServiceNow
3 81 (4.79%) SAP
4 75 (4.44%) Oracle
5 47 (2.78%) Google
6 21 (1.24%) IBM
7 20 (1.18%) Cisco
7 20 (1.18%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.01%) Workday
9 16 (0.95%) Foundry
9 16 (0.95%) Sybase
10 15 (0.89%) Splunk
11 12 (0.71%) F5
11 12 (0.71%) Qualys
12 11 (0.65%) Databricks
12 11 (0.65%) Murex
12 11 (0.65%) OpenAI
12 11 (0.65%) VMware
13 10 (0.59%) Infoblox
14 9 (0.53%) CrowdStrike