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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 52 68
Rank change year-on-year -22 +16 -2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,779 1,478 1,163
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.32% 4.48% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 4.95% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,100 912 711
10th Percentile £406 £361 £363
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £552 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% +0.27% -6.26%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £714
90th Percentile £788 £875 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £512 £550
% change year-on-year +2.56% -6.93% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 29 28
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £30.91
25th Percentile £50.00 £23.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £73.00 £49.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.47% -13.91% +0.75%
75th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £68.17
90th Percentile £98.15 £87.30 £81.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £51.00 £58.38
% change year-on-year +49.02% -12.63% -14.49%

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 45,525 29,831 33,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.86% 90.51% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,003 18,596 21,236
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £424 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
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 2,834 1,716 1,828
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -39.40% -1.19%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.71 £68.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -23 1,562 £570 -0.87% 2,916
UK excluding London -5 923 £525 +2.56% 1,362
London -38 726 £600 -7.69% 1,899
Work from Home -24 490 £550 -4.35% 1,222
North of England -14 273 £503 -0.84% 278
South East +6 251 £575 +4.55% 340
Yorkshire +5 134 £500 - 77
North West -36 133 £525 +2.68% 173
South West -19 115 £570 -0.87% 187
Scotland +9 110 £475 +1.33% 196
Midlands -39 102 £575 +21.82% 160
West Midlands -34 81 £563 +12.50% 94
East of England +12 66 £519 -9.78% 114
East Midlands -28 18 £542 +34.89% 66
Northern Ireland -3 9 £394 -28.41% 59
Wales -18 7 £650 +48.57% 38
North East -44 6 £454 -22.77% 29

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 78 (4.38%) Confluence
2 42 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.56%) SAS
4 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.22%) IIS
6 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.11%) CMS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.056%) Apache
8 1 (0.056%) Appian
8 1 (0.056%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.056%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.056%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.056%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.056%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.056%) WebSphere
Applications
1 57 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.22%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.22%) Revit
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.17%) Trello
7 3 (0.17%) Windchill
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.056%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.056%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 41 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.73%) Endur
3 12 (0.67%) SAP GRC
4 11 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.62%) Primavera
5 8 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.22%) Actimize
8 4 (0.22%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.22%) Magento
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.17%) Loan IQ
9 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 262 (14.73%) Azure
2 190 (10.68%) AWS
3 84 (4.72%) GCP
4 73 (4.10%) Power Platform
5 64 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
6 60 (3.37%) Entra ID
7 51 (2.87%) SaaS
8 37 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (1.85%) GitHub
10 26 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
12 23 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
13 21 (1.18%) OCI
13 21 (1.18%) Snowflake
14 19 (1.07%) Azure AI
14 19 (1.07%) PaaS
15 16 (0.90%) Anthropic Claude
15 16 (0.90%) Serverless
16 14 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
17 12 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 67 (3.77%) Network Security
2 41 (2.30%) Firewall
3 21 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.01%) WAN
5 16 (0.90%) DNS
5 16 (0.90%) LAN
6 14 (0.79%) 5G
7 13 (0.73%) DHCP
8 12 (0.67%) 4G
8 12 (0.67%) HTTP
9 9 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.45%) BIG-IP
11 7 (0.39%) Internet
11 7 (0.39%) VPN
12 6 (0.34%) HTTPS
12 6 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
13 5 (0.28%) NAS
13 5 (0.28%) NGFW
13 5 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
13 5 (0.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.09%) Power BI
2 37 (2.08%) Metadata
3 33 (1.85%) SQL Server
4 32 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.96%) MongoDB
6 17 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (0.79%) Data Lake
8 13 (0.73%) Db2
9 11 (0.62%) Tableau
10 10 (0.56%) Big Data
10 10 (0.56%) RDBMS
11 8 (0.45%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.39%) MySQL
13 6 (0.34%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.28%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 4 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 124 (6.97%) JIRA
2 27 (1.52%) Git
3 20 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.73%) Selenium
5 9 (0.51%) Postman
5 9 (0.51%) Zephyr
6 8 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.39%) GitLab
7 7 (0.39%) WebDriver
8 6 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.22%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.22%) jMock
9 4 (0.22%) JUnit
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) Mockito
9 4 (0.22%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.22%) Subversion
9 4 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 685 (38.50%) Social Skills
2 649 (36.48%) Finance
3 283 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 210 (11.80%) Public Sector
5 197 (11.07%) Banking
6 130 (7.31%) Legal
7 76 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
8 72 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
9 61 (3.43%) Front Office
10 47 (2.64%) Aerospace
11 45 (2.53%) Retail
11 45 (2.53%) Telecoms
12 44 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
13 39 (2.19%) Financial Institution
13 39 (2.19%) Investment Banking
13 39 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
14 35 (1.97%) Military
15 30 (1.69%) Law
15 30 (1.69%) Manufacturing
16 25 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 230 (12.93%) Lead
2 222 (12.48%) Architect
3 204 (11.47%) Project Manager
4 173 (9.72%) Senior
5 160 (8.99%) Analyst
6 107 (6.01%) Consultant
7 99 (5.56%) Security Architect
8 76 (4.27%) Programme Manager
9 70 (3.93%) Developer
10 62 (3.49%) Business Analyst
11 60 (3.37%) Senior Manager
12 55 (3.09%) Risk Manager
13 50 (2.81%) IT Manager
14 49 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
15 46 (2.59%) Security Consultant
16 38 (2.14%) Security Manager
16 38 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
17 34 (1.91%) Security Engineer
18 32 (1.80%) Technical Manager
19 29 (1.63%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.91%) REST
2 27 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
3 26 (1.46%) .NET
4 23 (1.29%) Middleware
5 17 (0.96%) OAuth
6 16 (0.90%) Kafka
7 13 (0.73%) JSON
7 13 (0.73%) XML
8 12 (0.67%) SAML
8 12 (0.67%) SOAP
8 12 (0.67%) Spring
9 11 (0.62%) Leaflet
9 11 (0.62%) OpenID
9 11 (0.62%) RESTful
10 10 (0.56%) SLSA
11 9 (0.51%) Azure Blueprints
11 9 (0.51%) LDAP
11 9 (0.51%) PyTorch
11 9 (0.51%) React
11 9 (0.51%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 122 (6.86%) Management Information System
2 93 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 89 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 76 (4.27%) Cloud Native
5 75 (4.22%) Security Posture
6 54 (3.04%) Operational Technology
7 52 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
8 45 (2.53%) Data Centre
9 37 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
10 34 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
11 33 (1.85%) AI Agents
12 32 (1.80%) Derivative
13 28 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
14 26 (1.46%) Market Risk
15 24 (1.35%) PMI
16 23 (1.29%) NHS
17 22 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
18 21 (1.18%) Data Structures
18 21 (1.18%) Fixed Income
19 20 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 57 (3.20%) Windows
2 54 (3.04%) Linux
3 36 (2.02%) Unix
4 21 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.28%) zOS
7 4 (0.22%) Windows 10
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 Server 2012
9 2 (0.11%) Android
10 1 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 662 (37.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 436 (24.51%) Agile
3 408 (22.93%) Cybersecurity
4 400 (22.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 373 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 262 (14.73%) Decision-Making
7 257 (14.45%) Project Management
8 254 (14.28%) Problem-Solving
9 246 (13.83%) AI
10 222 (12.48%) Roadmaps
11 203 (11.41%) Information Security
12 192 (10.79%) Project Delivery
13 168 (9.44%) Migration
14 161 (9.05%) Change Management
14 161 (9.05%) DevOps
15 159 (8.94%) CI/CD
16 140 (7.87%) PRINCE2
17 139 (7.81%) Analytics
18 136 (7.64%) Vulnerability Management
19 134 (7.53%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 129 (7.25%) Python
2 89 (5.00%) SQL
3 54 (3.04%) Java
4 36 (2.02%) PowerShell
5 27 (1.52%) C#
6 17 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.73%) C++
8 12 (0.67%) Bash
9 11 (0.62%) VBA
10 9 (0.51%) Shell Script
11 8 (0.45%) Go
11 8 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.34%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.28%) Bicep
14 4 (0.22%) Assembly Language
14 4 (0.22%) CLIST
14 4 (0.22%) JCL
14 4 (0.22%) REXX
14 4 (0.22%) Scala
15 3 (0.17%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 462 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 332 (18.66%) SC Cleared
3 174 (9.78%) Degree
4 163 (9.16%) CISSP
5 119 (6.69%) DV Cleared
6 111 (6.24%) CISM
7 85 (4.78%) PMI Certification
8 83 (4.67%) PMP
9 49 (2.75%) CRISC
10 45 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
12 34 (1.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 34 (1.91%) CISA
13 30 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
14 28 (1.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 26 (1.46%) Master's Degree
16 22 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
17 18 (1.01%) AWS Certification
17 18 (1.01%) CESG Certified Professional
17 18 (1.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (12.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 214 (12.03%) NIST
3 172 (9.67%) GRC
4 121 (6.80%) GDPR
5 95 (5.34%) QA
6 72 (4.05%) Data Quality
7 69 (3.88%) NCSC
8 64 (3.60%) PMO
9 38 (2.14%) JSP 440
10 34 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
11 28 (1.57%) PCI DSS
12 25 (1.41%) SOC 2
13 23 (1.29%) SLA
14 20 (1.12%) NIST 800
15 19 (1.07%) COBIT
16 17 (0.96%) Accessibility
16 17 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.90%) ISO 31000
17 16 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 14 (0.79%) Def Stans
System Software
1 38 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.12%) Docker
3 9 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.22%) Postfix
5 4 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.17%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.11%) NFS
7 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.056%) Ceph
8 1 (0.056%) IAG
8 1 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.056%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (2.02%) Kubernetes
1 36 (2.02%) Terraform
2 27 (1.52%) Ansible
3 12 (0.67%) Grafana
3 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.56%) SCCM
5 9 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.22%) Control-M
8 4 (0.22%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.22%) OMEGAMON
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.17%) CASB
9 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.17%) Nessus
9 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 247 (13.88%) Microsoft
2 98 (5.51%) ServiceNow
3 82 (4.61%) SAP
4 80 (4.50%) Oracle
5 45 (2.53%) Google
6 21 (1.18%) IBM
7 19 (1.07%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.96%) Cisco
8 17 (0.96%) Splunk
9 16 (0.90%) Sybase
9 16 (0.90%) Workday
10 15 (0.84%) Foundry
11 14 (0.79%) Databricks
12 13 (0.73%) Murex
13 12 (0.67%) Qualys
14 10 (0.56%) VMware
15 9 (0.51%) Ariba
15 9 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
15 9 (0.51%) F5
15 9 (0.51%) Okta