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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 57 62
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,982 1,336 1,268
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.63% 4.04% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 4.47% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 818 709
10th Percentile £400 £360 £363
25th Percentile £475 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £555 £551
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% +0.82% -4.26%
75th Percentile £675 £716 £700
90th Percentile £788 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 32 30
10th Percentile £38.03 £22.16 £33.95
25th Percentile £51.00 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £74.84 £33.50 £57.94
Median % change year-on-year +123.40% -42.18% -3.44%
75th Percentile £84.65 £54.25 £72.72
90th Percentile £89.80 £72.88 £78.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.35 £33.50 £58.38
% change year-on-year +130.90% -42.61% -19.37%

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 46,126 29,916 32,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.50% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,740 18,573 19,640
10th Percentile £325 £295 £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 £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,322 1,863 1,307
10th Percentile £13.63 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.95 £65.23 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.32 £42.50
% change year-on-year +68.05% -47.49% -

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 1,730 £568 -1.30% 3,730
UK excluding London -4 946 £525 +3.96% 1,632
London -9 872 £600 -6.25% 2,298
Work from Home -19 535 £550 -8.18% 1,401
North of England -3 274 £500 - 359
South East +11 256 £575 +4.55% 399
North West -18 138 £525 +5.85% 199
Yorkshire +11 129 £489 -2.20% 135
Scotland +18 122 £500 +11.11% 169
Midlands -32 107 £513 +7.89% 220
South West -28 100 £600 - 222
West Midlands -23 84 £498 -0.50% 126
East of England -1 72 £513 -16.33% 130
East Midlands -23 20 £550 +36.82% 94
Wales -7 15 £600 +45.45% 44
Northern Ireland +6 9 £505 -8.18% 95
North East -36 8 £450 -18.18% 25
Channel Islands - 2 £600 - 2

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 77 (3.88%) Confluence
2 39 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.61%) SAS
4 6 (0.30%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.20%) IIS
6 4 (0.20%) nginx
7 3 (0.15%) CMS
8 2 (0.10%) Apache
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.050%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.050%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.050%) Appian
9 1 (0.050%) CICS
9 1 (0.050%) Documentum
9 1 (0.050%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.050%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 63 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (1.11%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.15%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.15%) Revit
8 2 (0.10%) Windchill
9 1 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.050%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.050%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.050%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.050%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 50 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.76%) SAP GRC
3 12 (0.61%) Endur
4 10 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.50%) Primavera
5 9 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.30%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.25%) SAP HCM
8 4 (0.20%) Actimize
8 4 (0.20%) Magento
8 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.15%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.15%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 305 (15.39%) Azure
2 213 (10.75%) AWS
3 104 (5.25%) GCP
4 85 (4.29%) Power Platform
5 74 (3.73%) Entra ID
6 65 (3.28%) SaaS
7 61 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
8 52 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (1.97%) GitHub
10 29 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
11 28 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
12 27 (1.36%) OCI
13 23 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
14 20 (1.01%) Snowflake
15 18 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
15 18 (0.91%) Serverless
16 17 (0.86%) Azure AI
16 17 (0.86%) PaaS
17 16 (0.81%) Anthropic Claude
17 16 (0.81%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.68%) Network Security
2 56 (2.83%) Firewall
3 24 (1.21%) WAN
4 22 (1.11%) LAN
5 21 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 17 (0.86%) VPN
7 15 (0.76%) DNS
8 11 (0.55%) 5G
9 10 (0.50%) DHCP
10 9 (0.45%) 4G
11 8 (0.40%) Cisco IPT
12 7 (0.35%) Internet
12 7 (0.35%) Kerberos
13 6 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.25%) BIG-IP
14 5 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
14 5 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
14 5 (0.25%) Softphone
14 5 (0.25%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (3.33%) Power BI
2 46 (2.32%) SQL Server
3 38 (1.92%) Metadata
4 29 (1.46%) Relational Database
5 24 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.86%) MongoDB
6 17 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (0.76%) Data Lake
7 15 (0.76%) Db2
8 14 (0.71%) Oracle Database
9 13 (0.66%) Big Data
10 9 (0.45%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.40%) MySQL
11 8 (0.40%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.40%) Tableau
12 6 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.30%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.25%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (0.20%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 142 (7.16%) JIRA
2 32 (1.61%) Git
3 22 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.71%) Selenium
5 12 (0.61%) Cypress.io
6 11 (0.55%) Postman
7 10 (0.50%) GitLab
8 9 (0.45%) WebDriver
9 8 (0.40%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.35%) Claude Code
10 7 (0.35%) Zephyr
11 5 (0.25%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.20%) Gradle
12 4 (0.20%) Subversion
13 3 (0.15%) JMeter
13 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.15%) TestRail
14 2 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 808 (40.77%) Social Skills
2 752 (37.94%) Finance
3 345 (17.41%) Analytical Skills
4 257 (12.97%) Public Sector
5 243 (12.26%) Banking
6 152 (7.67%) Legal
7 112 (5.65%) Influencing Skills
8 92 (4.64%) Organisational Skills
9 80 (4.04%) Front Office
10 57 (2.88%) Aerospace
11 54 (2.72%) Military
12 52 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
13 49 (2.47%) Manufacturing
14 48 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
15 44 (2.22%) Investment Banking
16 42 (2.12%) Financial Institution
17 40 (2.02%) Telecoms
18 38 (1.92%) Law
19 37 (1.87%) Retail
20 28 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 264 (13.32%) Lead
2 229 (11.55%) Architect
3 208 (10.49%) Analyst
4 205 (10.34%) Senior
5 200 (10.09%) Project Manager
6 107 (5.40%) Consultant
7 92 (4.64%) Security Architect
8 88 (4.44%) Programme Manager
9 73 (3.68%) Developer
10 70 (3.53%) Business Analyst
11 59 (2.98%) Senior Manager
12 57 (2.88%) IT Manager
13 55 (2.77%) Delivery Manager
14 50 (2.52%) Risk Manager
15 47 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
16 42 (2.12%) Technical Manager
17 41 (2.07%) Security Engineer
18 40 (2.02%) Risk Analyst
18 40 (2.02%) Solutions Architect
19 38 (1.92%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (3.28%) Terraform
2 42 (2.12%) REST
3 37 (1.87%) .NET
4 27 (1.36%) Middleware
5 24 (1.21%) Kafka
6 20 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
7 19 (0.96%) OAuth
8 13 (0.66%) SAML
8 13 (0.66%) Spring
9 12 (0.61%) JSON
9 12 (0.61%) OpenID
9 12 (0.61%) React
10 11 (0.55%) SLSA
11 10 (0.50%) SailPoint
11 10 (0.50%) SOAP
11 10 (0.50%) XGBoost
12 9 (0.45%) ADO
12 9 (0.45%) LDAP
12 9 (0.45%) Web Services
12 9 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 131 (6.61%) Onboarding
2 127 (6.41%) Management Information System
3 106 (5.35%) Product Ownership
4 83 (4.19%) Security Posture
5 74 (3.73%) Cloud Native
6 65 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
7 58 (2.93%) Data Centre
8 56 (2.83%) Operational Technology
9 48 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
10 46 (2.32%) Cyber Threat
11 37 (1.87%) Market Risk
12 36 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
13 35 (1.77%) AI Agents
14 29 (1.46%) Credit Risk
14 29 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
15 27 (1.36%) Data Structures
16 26 (1.31%) Derivative
16 26 (1.31%) NHS
17 24 (1.21%) PKI
18 22 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 76 (3.83%) Linux
2 72 (3.63%) Windows
3 44 (2.22%) Unix
4 23 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.40%) zOS
7 7 (0.35%) 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%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.050%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.050%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 827 (41.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 510 (25.73%) Cybersecurity
3 484 (24.42%) Agile
4 472 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 431 (21.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 332 (16.75%) Decision-Making
7 299 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
8 292 (14.73%) Roadmaps
9 289 (14.58%) AI
10 263 (13.27%) Project Management
11 236 (11.91%) Project Delivery
12 229 (11.55%) Information Security
13 201 (10.14%) DevOps
14 199 (10.04%) CI/CD
14 199 (10.04%) Migration
15 175 (8.83%) Analytics
16 174 (8.78%) Change Management
17 168 (8.48%) Vulnerability Management
18 164 (8.27%) Data Protection
19 155 (7.82%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 174 (8.78%) Python
2 113 (5.70%) SQL
3 50 (2.52%) Java
3 50 (2.52%) PowerShell
4 43 (2.17%) C#
5 25 (1.26%) Bash
6 21 (1.06%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.86%) Shell Script
8 15 (0.76%) C++
9 10 (0.50%) Go
10 8 (0.40%) VBA
11 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.35%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.30%) Bicep
12 6 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.30%) JCL
12 6 (0.30%) Korn
13 5 (0.25%) Assembly Language
13 5 (0.25%) CLIST
13 5 (0.25%) REXX
Qualifications
1 548 (27.65%) Security Cleared
2 398 (20.08%) SC Cleared
3 196 (9.89%) Degree
4 171 (8.63%) CISSP
5 125 (6.31%) DV Cleared
6 115 (5.80%) CISM
7 98 (4.94%) PMI Certification
8 90 (4.54%) PMP
9 60 (3.03%) CRISC
10 57 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 49 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (2.37%) CISA
13 44 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 33 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
15 31 (1.56%) Master's Degree
16 26 (1.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 25 (1.26%) AWS Certification
17 25 (1.26%) CCSP
17 25 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
17 25 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (12.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 220 (11.10%) NIST
3 200 (10.09%) GRC
4 123 (6.21%) QA
5 111 (5.60%) GDPR
6 100 (5.05%) Data Quality
7 95 (4.79%) NCSC
8 71 (3.58%) PMO
9 46 (2.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 28 (1.41%) JSP 440
11 25 (1.26%) NIST 800
12 19 (0.96%) Accessibility
13 17 (0.86%) COBIT
13 17 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 15 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 15 (0.76%) Def Stans
14 15 (0.76%) PCI DSS
15 14 (0.71%) SLA
16 13 (0.66%) ISO 31000
16 13 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.46%) Docker
3 17 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.50%) vSphere
5 7 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.25%) FreeRADIUS
7 5 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.15%) Firmware
9 3 (0.15%) IAG
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.050%) NFS
10 1 (0.050%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 60 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 37 (1.87%) Ansible
3 17 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.66%) Grafana
5 12 (0.61%) SCCM
6 8 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.35%) Control-M
7 7 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.25%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.25%) Nessus
8 5 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
8 5 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
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%) Puppet
9 3 (0.15%) QRadar
10 2 (0.10%) Istio
Vendors
1 304 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 118 (5.95%) ServiceNow
3 102 (5.15%) SAP
4 77 (3.88%) Oracle
5 54 (2.72%) Google
6 26 (1.31%) VMware
7 25 (1.26%) IBM
8 24 (1.21%) Murex
8 24 (1.21%) Splunk
9 23 (1.16%) Cisco
10 21 (1.06%) Salesforce
11 18 (0.91%) Databricks
12 17 (0.86%) Ariba
12 17 (0.86%) Qualys
13 14 (0.71%) BeyondTrust
13 14 (0.71%) Sybase
14 13 (0.66%) CyberArk
14 13 (0.66%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.66%) Workday
15 12 (0.61%) Foundry