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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 59 61
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 2,008 1,319 1,264
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.66% 4.01% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 4.43% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,223 814 705
10th Percentile £400 £362 £363
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £568 £554
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +2.44% -3.65%
75th Percentile £675 £715 £688
90th Percentile £788 £875 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £519 £525
% change year-on-year +1.25% -1.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 33 28
10th Percentile £38.03 £22.16 £33.35
25th Percentile £51.00 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £74.68 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +122.93% -41.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £84.31 £64.00 £73.86
90th Percentile £89.60 £82.75 £78.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.35 £33.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +130.90% -41.74% -20.57%

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 46,512 29,792 32,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.69% 90.47% 86.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,938 18,529 19,417
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,382 1,881 1,250
10th Percentile £13.63 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.03
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.54 £65.14 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -7.83%

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Top 18 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 13 October 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 -3 1,751 £570 -0.87% 2,106
UK excluding London +2 958 £525 +1.25% 926
London -6 883 £613 -5.77% 1,303
Work from Home -13 546 £550 -8.26% 876
North of England -5 279 £510 +2.00% 219
South East +12 260 £575 +4.55% 235
Yorkshire +17 136 £497 -0.60% 80
North West -23 136 £525 +3.83% 126
Scotland +22 123 £500 +11.11% 102
Midlands -27 106 £500 +5.26% 112
South West -17 105 £600 - 117
West Midlands -27 83 £495 -3.41% 71
East of England +11 71 £513 -16.33% 61
East Midlands -18 20 £550 +37.50% 41
Wales -15 15 £600 +45.45% 24
Northern Ireland +2 10 £505 -8.18% 62
North East -38 8 £450 -18.18% 13
Channel Islands - 2 £600 -

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 82 (4.08%) Confluence
2 38 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.65%) SAS
4 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.20%) CMS
6 4 (0.20%) IIS
6 4 (0.20%) nginx
7 2 (0.100%) Apache
7 2 (0.100%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.050%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.050%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.050%) Appian
8 1 (0.050%) CICS
8 1 (0.050%) Documentum
8 1 (0.050%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.050%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 61 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.100%) Gliffy
8 2 (0.100%) LaTeX
8 2 (0.100%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.100%) Revit
8 2 (0.100%) Windchill
9 1 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 53 (2.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.75%) SAP GRC
3 12 (0.60%) Endur
4 10 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.50%) Primavera
5 6 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.30%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.25%) SAP HCM
6 5 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.20%) Actimize
7 4 (0.20%) Magento
7 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.15%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.15%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 303 (15.09%) Azure
2 217 (10.81%) AWS
3 104 (5.18%) GCP
4 81 (4.03%) Power Platform
5 74 (3.69%) SaaS
6 72 (3.59%) Entra ID
7 62 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
8 55 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (2.04%) GitHub
10 30 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
11 28 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
11 28 (1.39%) OCI
12 24 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
13 19 (0.95%) Snowflake
14 18 (0.90%) Serverless
15 17 (0.85%) Azure AI
15 17 (0.85%) PaaS
16 16 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
16 16 (0.80%) IaaS
17 15 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.59%) Network Security
2 55 (2.74%) Firewall
3 23 (1.15%) WAN
4 21 (1.05%) LAN
4 21 (1.05%) TCP/IP
5 18 (0.90%) DNS
6 17 (0.85%) VPN
7 11 (0.55%) 5G
7 11 (0.55%) DHCP
8 9 (0.45%) 4G
9 8 (0.40%) Cisco IPT
9 8 (0.40%) Internet
9 8 (0.40%) Kerberos
10 6 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.25%) BIG-IP
11 5 (0.25%) HTTP
11 5 (0.25%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
11 5 (0.25%) Softphone
11 5 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (3.09%) Power BI
2 47 (2.34%) SQL Server
3 35 (1.74%) Metadata
4 27 (1.34%) Relational Database
5 24 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (0.80%) MongoDB
7 16 (0.80%) Oracle Database
8 15 (0.75%) Data Lake
9 14 (0.70%) Db2
10 13 (0.65%) Big Data
11 9 (0.45%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.40%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.35%) MySQL
13 7 (0.35%) Tableau
14 6 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.30%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.25%) Snowflake Schema
16 4 (0.20%) Neo4j
16 4 (0.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 149 (7.42%) JIRA
2 30 (1.49%) Git
3 24 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 15 (0.75%) Selenium
5 12 (0.60%) Cypress.io
6 11 (0.55%) Postman
7 10 (0.50%) GitLab
8 9 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.45%) WebDriver
9 7 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.35%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.35%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.25%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.20%) Gradle
11 4 (0.20%) JMeter
11 4 (0.20%) Subversion
12 3 (0.15%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.15%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.15%) TestRail
General
1 819 (40.79%) Social Skills
2 768 (38.25%) Finance
3 351 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
4 256 (12.75%) Public Sector
5 255 (12.70%) Banking
6 151 (7.52%) Legal
7 111 (5.53%) Influencing Skills
8 93 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
9 82 (4.08%) Front Office
10 57 (2.84%) Aerospace
11 54 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
11 54 (2.69%) Military
12 50 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
13 49 (2.44%) Manufacturing
14 46 (2.29%) Financial Institution
15 45 (2.24%) Investment Banking
16 41 (2.04%) Telecoms
17 38 (1.89%) Law
18 36 (1.79%) Retail
19 26 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 268 (13.35%) Lead
2 228 (11.35%) Architect
3 211 (10.51%) Analyst
4 203 (10.11%) Senior
5 201 (10.01%) Project Manager
6 111 (5.53%) Consultant
7 92 (4.58%) Programme Manager
8 91 (4.53%) Security Architect
9 74 (3.69%) Developer
10 71 (3.54%) Business Analyst
11 59 (2.94%) Senior Manager
12 58 (2.89%) IT Manager
13 56 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
14 52 (2.59%) Risk Manager
15 49 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
16 45 (2.24%) Risk Analyst
17 42 (2.09%) Solutions Architect
18 41 (2.04%) Technical Manager
19 40 (1.99%) Security Engineer
20 38 (1.89%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (3.39%) Terraform
2 46 (2.29%) REST
3 40 (1.99%) .NET
4 27 (1.34%) Middleware
5 25 (1.25%) Kafka
6 20 (1.00%) OAuth
6 20 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
7 14 (0.70%) SAML
8 13 (0.65%) OpenID
8 13 (0.65%) Spring
9 12 (0.60%) JSON
9 12 (0.60%) React
10 11 (0.55%) SLSA
10 11 (0.55%) Web Services
11 10 (0.50%) SailPoint
11 10 (0.50%) SOAP
11 10 (0.50%) XGBoost
12 9 (0.45%) ADO
12 9 (0.45%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 131 (6.52%) Onboarding
2 128 (6.37%) Management Information System
3 111 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 81 (4.03%) Security Posture
5 71 (3.54%) Cloud Native
6 64 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
7 57 (2.84%) Data Centre
7 57 (2.84%) Operational Technology
8 49 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
10 37 (1.84%) Market Risk
11 36 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
12 35 (1.74%) AI Agents
13 30 (1.49%) Credit Risk
13 30 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
14 28 (1.39%) Derivative
15 26 (1.29%) NHS
16 25 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 25 (1.25%) PKI
16 25 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 77 (3.83%) Linux
2 74 (3.69%) Windows
3 43 (2.14%) Unix
4 25 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.40%) zOS
7 6 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.25%) Android
8 5 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.15%) AIX
9 3 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.100%) macOS
11 1 (0.050%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.050%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (42.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 522 (26.00%) Cybersecurity
3 496 (24.70%) Agile
4 476 (23.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 426 (21.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 341 (16.98%) Decision-Making
7 301 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
8 297 (14.79%) Roadmaps
9 285 (14.19%) AI
10 264 (13.15%) Project Management
11 239 (11.90%) Project Delivery
12 226 (11.25%) Information Security
13 203 (10.11%) CI/CD
13 203 (10.11%) DevOps
14 200 (9.96%) Migration
15 177 (8.81%) Change Management
16 176 (8.76%) Analytics
17 170 (8.47%) Vulnerability Management
18 160 (7.97%) Data Protection
19 159 (7.92%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 174 (8.67%) Python
2 115 (5.73%) SQL
3 53 (2.64%) Java
4 50 (2.49%) PowerShell
5 47 (2.34%) C#
6 25 (1.25%) Bash
7 22 (1.10%) JavaScript
8 17 (0.85%) Shell Script
9 16 (0.80%) C++
10 10 (0.50%) Go
11 8 (0.40%) VBA
12 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.35%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.30%) Bicep
13 6 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.30%) JCL
13 6 (0.30%) Korn
14 5 (0.25%) Assembly Language
14 5 (0.25%) R
14 5 (0.25%) REXX
Qualifications
1 559 (27.84%) Security Cleared
2 408 (20.32%) SC Cleared
3 195 (9.71%) Degree
4 172 (8.57%) CISSP
5 125 (6.23%) DV Cleared
6 122 (6.08%) CISM
7 102 (5.08%) PMI Certification
8 94 (4.68%) PMP
9 62 (3.09%) CRISC
10 57 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 47 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
12 46 (2.29%) CISA
13 42 (2.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 32 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
15 31 (1.54%) Master's Degree
16 26 (1.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 25 (1.25%) AWS Certification
17 25 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
17 25 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
18 23 (1.15%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (12.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 215 (10.71%) NIST
3 196 (9.76%) GRC
4 124 (6.18%) QA
5 109 (5.43%) GDPR
6 98 (4.88%) Data Quality
6 98 (4.88%) NCSC
7 70 (3.49%) PMO
8 46 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 26 (1.29%) JSP 440
10 24 (1.20%) NIST 800
11 17 (0.85%) Accessibility
11 17 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 16 (0.80%) COBIT
12 16 (0.80%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 15 (0.75%) Def Stans
14 14 (0.70%) SLA
15 13 (0.65%) ISO 31000
15 13 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.49%) Docker
3 18 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.55%) vSphere
5 10 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.25%) FreeRADIUS
8 5 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
8 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.15%) Firmware
10 3 (0.15%) IAG
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.050%) NFS
11 1 (0.050%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 60 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 39 (1.94%) Ansible
3 18 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.65%) Grafana
4 13 (0.65%) SCCM
5 8 (0.40%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.35%) Control-M
6 7 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.25%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.25%) Nessus
8 5 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.15%) Argo
9 3 (0.15%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.15%) Kibana
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.15%) Podman
9 3 (0.15%) Puppet
9 3 (0.15%) QRadar
Vendors
1 305 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 115 (5.73%) ServiceNow
3 103 (5.13%) SAP
4 80 (3.98%) Oracle
5 54 (2.69%) Google
6 27 (1.34%) VMware
7 25 (1.25%) Murex
8 24 (1.20%) IBM
9 23 (1.15%) Cisco
9 23 (1.15%) Splunk
10 22 (1.10%) Salesforce
11 18 (0.90%) Ariba
11 18 (0.90%) Databricks
12 17 (0.85%) Qualys
13 13 (0.65%) BeyondTrust
13 13 (0.65%) CyberArk
13 13 (0.65%) OpenAI
13 13 (0.65%) Sybase
13 13 (0.65%) Workday
14 12 (0.60%) Bloomberg