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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 52 71
Rank change year-on-year -20 +19 0
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,744 1,468 1,154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.30% 4.46% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 4.93% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,098 907 695
10th Percentile £406 £363 £363
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £570 £558
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +2.15% -7.00%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £788 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 29 28
10th Percentile £27.02 £22.16 £30.91
25th Percentile £50.75 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £78.85 £49.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.29% -13.91% +45.20%
75th Percentile £85.10 £75.24 £65.63
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.30 £81.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £53.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +50.94% -7.83% -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 44,879 29,748 33,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.93% 90.41% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,704 18,653 21,488
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
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 2,741 1,659 1,873
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.30 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.05 £40.94
% change year-on-year +90.72% -43.70% +3.38%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 1,531 £570 -0.87% 1,475
UK excluding London -8 905 £525 +2.44% 776
London -38 710 £600 -7.69% 837
Work from Home -22 500 £550 -4.35% 653
North of England -9 271 £514 +0.90% 161
South East 0 245 £575 +4.55% 244
North West -27 137 £525 +4.58% 94
Yorkshire +2 128 £500 -4.76% 56
Scotland +8 108 £475 +1.71% 66
Midlands -42 106 £575 +21.82% 108
South West -20 103 £570 -0.87% 105
West Midlands -41 84 £578 +15.50% 72
East of England +20 65 £525 -4.55% 59
East Midlands -18 19 £537 +26.41% 36
Northern Ireland -2 9 £394 -28.41% 31
Wales -17 8 £650 +45.74% 13
North East -42 6 £454 -17.50% 12

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 73 (4.19%) Confluence
2 39 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.52%) SAS
4 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.23%) IIS
6 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.057%) Apache
8 1 (0.057%) Appian
8 1 (0.057%) CMS
8 1 (0.057%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.057%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.057%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.057%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.057%) WebSphere
Applications
1 53 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 35 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.23%) Navisworks
5 4 (0.23%) Revit
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.17%) Trello
6 3 (0.17%) Windchill
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.057%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.057%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 40 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.69%) Endur
3 11 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.57%) Primavera
5 9 (0.52%) SAP GRC
6 7 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.29%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.23%) Actimize
9 4 (0.23%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.23%) Magento
9 4 (0.23%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 264 (15.14%) Azure
2 190 (10.89%) AWS
3 81 (4.64%) GCP
4 70 (4.01%) Power Platform
5 61 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (3.15%) Entra ID
7 50 (2.87%) SaaS
8 38 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (1.95%) GitHub
10 25 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
11 23 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
13 21 (1.20%) Snowflake
14 19 (1.09%) OCI
14 19 (1.09%) PaaS
15 18 (1.03%) Azure AI
16 17 (0.97%) Serverless
17 16 (0.92%) Anthropic Claude
18 14 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
19 12 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.33%) Network Security
2 40 (2.29%) Firewall
3 20 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.03%) WAN
5 15 (0.86%) DNS
5 15 (0.86%) LAN
6 14 (0.80%) 5G
7 12 (0.69%) 4G
7 12 (0.69%) DHCP
7 12 (0.69%) HTTP
8 10 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.46%) BIG-IP
10 7 (0.40%) Internet
10 7 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
11 6 (0.34%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.34%) VPN
12 5 (0.29%) 3G
12 5 (0.29%) NAS
12 5 (0.29%) SAN
12 5 (0.29%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.04%) Power BI
2 33 (1.89%) Relational Database
2 33 (1.89%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.83%) Metadata
4 18 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (0.97%) MongoDB
6 13 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 13 (0.75%) Db2
7 11 (0.63%) Tableau
8 10 (0.57%) Big Data
8 10 (0.57%) RDBMS
9 7 (0.40%) MySQL
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.29%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 120 (6.88%) JIRA
2 26 (1.49%) Git
3 22 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.69%) Selenium
5 8 (0.46%) GitLab
5 8 (0.46%) Postman
6 7 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 7 (0.40%) WebDriver
6 7 (0.40%) Zephyr
7 6 (0.34%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.29%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.23%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.23%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.23%) jMock
9 4 (0.23%) JUnit
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
9 4 (0.23%) Mockito
9 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 670 (38.42%) Social Skills
2 635 (36.41%) Finance
3 278 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
4 204 (11.70%) Public Sector
5 194 (11.12%) Banking
6 130 (7.45%) Legal
7 72 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
8 69 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
9 55 (3.15%) Front Office
10 46 (2.64%) Telecoms
11 44 (2.52%) Aerospace
12 42 (2.41%) Retail
13 41 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
14 40 (2.29%) Financial Institution
15 38 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
16 35 (2.01%) Investment Banking
17 33 (1.89%) Military
18 28 (1.61%) Manufacturing
19 27 (1.55%) Law
20 24 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 231 (13.25%) Lead
2 213 (12.21%) Architect
3 204 (11.70%) Project Manager
4 181 (10.38%) Senior
5 161 (9.23%) Analyst
6 105 (6.02%) Consultant
7 92 (5.28%) Security Architect
8 73 (4.19%) Programme Manager
9 71 (4.07%) Developer
10 64 (3.67%) Senior Manager
11 61 (3.50%) Business Analyst
12 58 (3.33%) Risk Manager
13 50 (2.87%) Delivery Manager
14 48 (2.75%) IT Manager
15 44 (2.52%) Security Consultant
16 38 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
17 36 (2.06%) Security Manager
18 34 (1.95%) Security Engineer
19 32 (1.83%) Product Manager
20 30 (1.72%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.66%) REST
2 27 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 26 (1.49%) .NET
4 20 (1.15%) Middleware
5 18 (1.03%) Kafka
6 17 (0.97%) OAuth
7 13 (0.75%) XML
8 12 (0.69%) OpenID
8 12 (0.69%) SAML
8 12 (0.69%) Spring
9 11 (0.63%) Azure Blueprints
9 11 (0.63%) JSON
9 11 (0.63%) Leaflet
9 11 (0.63%) React
9 11 (0.63%) RESTful
9 11 (0.63%) SOAP
10 9 (0.52%) LDAP
10 9 (0.52%) PyTorch
10 9 (0.52%) SailPoint
10 9 (0.52%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 122 (7.00%) Management Information System
2 91 (5.22%) Onboarding
3 88 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 77 (4.42%) Cloud Native
5 71 (4.07%) Security Posture
6 59 (3.38%) Operational Technology
7 51 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
8 46 (2.64%) Data Centre
9 34 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
10 32 (1.83%) AI Agents
11 31 (1.78%) Derivative
12 28 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
13 27 (1.55%) Market Risk
14 25 (1.43%) PMI
15 24 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
16 23 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
17 22 (1.26%) NHS
18 21 (1.20%) Fixed Income
19 20 (1.15%) Data Structures
20 19 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (3.10%) Linux
2 53 (3.04%) Windows
3 35 (2.01%) Unix
4 21 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.29%) zOS
7 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.17%) AIX
8 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.057%) Android
9 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (36.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 428 (24.54%) Agile
3 393 (22.53%) Cybersecurity
4 389 (22.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 369 (21.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 258 (14.79%) Decision-Making
7 255 (14.62%) Project Management
8 253 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
9 240 (13.76%) AI
10 223 (12.79%) Roadmaps
11 212 (12.16%) Information Security
12 183 (10.49%) Project Delivery
13 166 (9.52%) Change Management
14 163 (9.35%) Migration
15 156 (8.94%) CI/CD
16 155 (8.89%) DevOps
17 139 (7.97%) Vulnerability Management
18 133 (7.63%) PRINCE2
19 132 (7.57%) Analytics
20 128 (7.34%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 126 (7.22%) Python
2 89 (5.10%) SQL
3 58 (3.33%) Java
4 37 (2.12%) PowerShell
5 26 (1.49%) C#
6 17 (0.97%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.75%) C++
8 10 (0.57%) VBA
9 9 (0.52%) Bash
9 9 (0.52%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.52%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.34%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.29%) Go
12 4 (0.23%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.23%) Bicep
12 4 (0.23%) CLIST
12 4 (0.23%) JCL
12 4 (0.23%) REXX
12 4 (0.23%) Scala
13 3 (0.17%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 455 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 340 (19.50%) SC Cleared
3 179 (10.26%) Degree
4 167 (9.58%) CISSP
5 111 (6.36%) CISM
5 111 (6.36%) DV Cleared
6 80 (4.59%) PMI Certification
7 77 (4.42%) PMP
8 51 (2.92%) CRISC
9 43 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 38 (2.18%) CISA
11 37 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
12 32 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 31 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
14 29 (1.66%) Master's Degree
14 29 (1.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 22 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
16 18 (1.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 17 (0.97%) AWS Certification
17 17 (0.97%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (12.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 218 (12.50%) NIST
3 170 (9.75%) GRC
4 120 (6.88%) GDPR
5 88 (5.05%) QA
6 69 (3.96%) Data Quality
7 67 (3.84%) PMO
8 60 (3.44%) NCSC
9 37 (2.12%) PCI DSS
10 35 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials
10 35 (2.01%) JSP 440
11 31 (1.78%) SOC 2
12 29 (1.66%) SLA
13 25 (1.43%) NIST 800
14 22 (1.26%) COBIT
15 18 (1.03%) ISO 31000
16 17 (0.97%) Accessibility
17 16 (0.92%) Def Stans
17 16 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 14 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 37 (2.12%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.15%) Docker
3 10 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.23%) Postfix
5 4 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.11%) FreeRADIUS
7 2 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.057%) Ceph
8 1 (0.057%) IAG
8 1 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (1.83%) Terraform
2 31 (1.78%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.38%) Ansible
4 12 (0.69%) Grafana
5 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.52%) SCCM
7 7 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.29%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.23%) Control-M
9 4 (0.23%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.23%) Nessus
9 4 (0.23%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.17%) CASB
10 3 (0.17%) Istio
11 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 231 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 97 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 83 (4.76%) SAP
4 78 (4.47%) Oracle
5 41 (2.35%) Google
6 21 (1.20%) IBM
7 20 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.97%) Splunk
9 16 (0.92%) Cisco
9 16 (0.92%) Foundry
9 16 (0.92%) Sybase
9 16 (0.92%) Workday
10 13 (0.75%) Qualys
11 12 (0.69%) Databricks
11 12 (0.69%) Murex
12 10 (0.57%) Ariba
12 10 (0.57%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.52%) Okta
13 9 (0.52%) Tenable