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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 52 60
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 +18
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,393 1,230 1,470
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.42% 4.00% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 4.45% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 703 974
10th Percentile £400 £363 £400
25th Percentile £463 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £682 £700 £688
90th Percentile £838 £823 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 40 60
10th Percentile £25.57 £28.26 £15.18
25th Percentile £33.50 £40.94 £41.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% +4.67% +452.68%
75th Percentile £96.25 £75.84 £83.40
90th Percentile £106.80 £83.20 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.86 £61.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -28.68% +6.95% +486.73%

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 35,362 27,619 38,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.73% 89.84% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,416 17,059 25,415
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.34% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 859 2,186
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.46% -6.26% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.30 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -15 1,244 £550 -8.33% 463
London -7 683 £600 -4.00% 178
UK excluding London -26 590 £520 -0.95% 377
Work from Home -1 403 £550 - 243
South East -13 175 £525 -7.89% 158
North of England -21 172 £500 -6.28% 72
Midlands -43 99 £550 -4.35% 53
North West -23 88 £514 +2.96% 41
Yorkshire -9 82 £500 -6.54% 28
West Midlands -52 65 £540 -10.00% 39
South West -11 55 £513 +3.80% 46
Scotland -22 44 £425 -5.56% 13
East Midlands -27 34 £550 +19.57% 14
East of England -34 32 £525 -8.70% 29
Wales +3 11 £293 -44.72% 11
Northern Ireland +2 9 £500 +66.67% 2
North East -29 2 £550 -4.35% 3

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 55 (3.95%) Confluence
2 24 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.79%) SAS
5 4 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.29%) nginx
6 2 (0.14%) Apache
6 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.072%) Camunda
7 1 (0.072%) CMS
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.072%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.072%) WebSphere
Applications
1 76 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (4.16%) Microsoft Project
3 39 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.08%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.29%) Revit
8 3 (0.22%) Navisworks
8 3 (0.22%) Trello
9 2 (0.14%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.072%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 24 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.57%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.36%) Primavera
5 5 (0.36%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.29%) Endur
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.29%) Summit
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.22%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.22%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.22%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.22%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 161 (11.56%) Azure
2 131 (9.40%) AWS
3 54 (3.88%) GCP
4 52 (3.73%) Power Platform
5 51 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (2.37%) Entra ID
7 32 (2.30%) Microsoft Purview
7 32 (2.30%) SaaS
8 26 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
9 21 (1.51%) Google Workspace
10 18 (1.29%) Google Sheets
11 17 (1.22%) GitHub
12 15 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (0.72%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (0.72%) OpenShift
15 9 (0.65%) OCI
16 8 (0.57%) Collibra
17 6 (0.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.59%) Firewall
2 34 (2.44%) Network Security
3 12 (0.86%) DNS
4 10 (0.72%) Internet
4 10 (0.72%) LAN
5 9 (0.65%) Kerberos
6 7 (0.50%) WAN
6 7 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
8 5 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
8 5 (0.36%) DHCP
8 5 (0.36%) VPN
9 4 (0.29%) 5G
9 4 (0.29%) BIG-IP
10 3 (0.22%) Broadband
10 3 (0.22%) HTTP
10 3 (0.22%) Multicast
10 3 (0.22%) S/MIME
10 3 (0.22%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.09%) Power BI
2 25 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (1.29%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.15%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.08%) Metadata
7 7 (0.50%) Tableau
8 6 (0.43%) Big Data
8 6 (0.43%) KDB
8 6 (0.43%) Kdb+
8 6 (0.43%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.36%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.36%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.29%) Data Mart
10 4 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.29%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 117 (8.40%) JIRA
2 13 (0.93%) Git
3 12 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.50%) GitLab
4 7 (0.50%) SpecFlow
5 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.22%) GCC
6 3 (0.22%) GDB
6 3 (0.22%) QUnit
7 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.14%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.072%) Appium
8 1 (0.072%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.072%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.072%) JMeter
8 1 (0.072%) JUnit
8 1 (0.072%) Mockito
8 1 (0.072%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.072%) Selenium
General
1 553 (39.70%) Social Skills
2 532 (38.19%) Finance
3 229 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (13.42%) Banking
5 137 (9.83%) Public Sector
6 113 (8.11%) Legal
7 59 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
8 53 (3.80%) Front Office
9 50 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
10 45 (3.23%) Investment Banking
11 36 (2.58%) Financial Institution
12 33 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (2.23%) Manufacturing
14 30 (2.15%) Retail
15 28 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
16 24 (1.72%) Telecoms
17 20 (1.44%) Military
18 19 (1.36%) Aerospace
19 18 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 18 (1.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 172 (12.35%) Analyst
2 165 (11.84%) Project Manager
3 150 (10.77%) Lead
4 146 (10.48%) Senior
5 118 (8.47%) Architect
6 106 (7.61%) Consultant
7 89 (6.39%) Developer
8 71 (5.10%) Programme Manager
9 68 (4.88%) Business Analyst
10 59 (4.24%) Security Architect
11 51 (3.66%) Senior Manager
12 46 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
13 40 (2.87%) Risk Analyst
13 40 (2.87%) Security Consultant
14 37 (2.66%) Risk Manager
15 34 (2.44%) Senior Developer
16 31 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
17 30 (2.15%) Technical Manager
18 28 (2.01%) Security Analyst
19 27 (1.94%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.79%) Kafka
2 20 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (1.44%) REST
3 19 (1.36%) .NET
4 16 (1.15%) OAuth
5 14 (1.01%) Middleware
6 13 (0.93%) .NET Framework
6 13 (0.93%) SAML
7 12 (0.86%) NumPy
7 12 (0.86%) Pandas
8 11 (0.79%) XML
9 9 (0.65%) COM
9 9 (0.65%) Dask
9 9 (0.65%) React
9 9 (0.65%) RESTful
10 8 (0.57%) Entity Framework
10 8 (0.57%) LDAP
10 8 (0.57%) Playwright
11 7 (0.50%) NHibernate
11 7 (0.50%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 153 (10.98%) Management Information System
2 67 (4.81%) Derivative
3 64 (4.59%) Security Posture
4 61 (4.38%) Product Ownership
5 54 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 42 (3.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 39 (2.80%) Equities
7 39 (2.80%) Market Risk
8 37 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
9 36 (2.58%) Data Centre
10 35 (2.51%) Cloud Native
11 32 (2.30%) Credit Risk
12 30 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
13 28 (2.01%) Algorithms
13 28 (2.01%) Fixed Income
14 25 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
14 25 (1.79%) Operational Technology
15 19 (1.36%) Data Structures
15 19 (1.36%) NHS
16 18 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 41 (2.94%) Linux
2 33 (2.37%) Windows
3 16 (1.15%) Unix
4 4 (0.29%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.22%) VMS
5 3 (0.22%) zOS
6 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.072%) Android
7 1 (0.072%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (28.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 322 (23.12%) Agile
3 277 (19.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 251 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
5 241 (17.30%) Cybersecurity
6 220 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 217 (15.58%) Project Management
8 179 (12.85%) Decision-Making
9 177 (12.71%) Information Security
10 145 (10.41%) Change Management
11 137 (9.83%) Roadmaps
12 130 (9.33%) Migration
12 130 (9.33%) Regulatory Compliance
13 124 (8.90%) Project Delivery
14 118 (8.47%) AI
15 117 (8.40%) Analytics
16 113 (8.11%) Data Protection
17 105 (7.54%) PRINCE2
18 94 (6.75%) Scrum
19 91 (6.53%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 133 (9.55%) SQL
2 123 (8.83%) Python
3 54 (3.88%) Java
4 35 (2.51%) PowerShell
5 28 (2.01%) C#
5 28 (2.01%) C++
6 16 (1.15%) VBA
7 15 (1.08%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.50%) R
8 7 (0.50%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.36%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.29%) Bash
10 4 (0.29%) Korn
11 3 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.14%) Perl
12 2 (0.14%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.14%) RPG
12 2 (0.14%) Rust
12 2 (0.14%) Scala
12 2 (0.14%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 282 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 231 (16.58%) Degree
3 217 (15.58%) SC Cleared
4 123 (8.83%) CISSP
5 87 (6.25%) CISM
6 73 (5.24%) PMI Certification
7 72 (5.17%) DV Cleared
8 67 (4.81%) PMP
9 59 (4.24%) Master's Degree
10 38 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (2.37%) CRISC
12 29 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
13 24 (1.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 23 (1.65%) CISA
15 17 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (1.15%) PhD
17 15 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
18 11 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
19 10 (0.72%) GIAC
19 10 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (12.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 176 (12.63%) NIST
3 121 (8.69%) GRC
4 120 (8.61%) GDPR
5 79 (5.67%) PMO
6 70 (5.03%) QA
7 52 (3.73%) PCI DSS
8 40 (2.87%) Data Quality
9 38 (2.73%) NCSC
10 27 (1.94%) NIST 800
11 25 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 23 (1.65%) SLA
13 21 (1.51%) Def Stans
14 20 (1.44%) COBIT
15 18 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
15 18 (1.29%) SOC 2
16 16 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
16 16 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 12 (0.86%) EU AI Act
17 12 (0.86%) JSP 440
System Software
1 34 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.93%) Docker
3 8 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.072%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.072%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.072%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (1.58%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.15%) Terraform
3 13 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.72%) Ansible
5 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.50%) RSA Archer
6 7 (0.50%) SCCM
7 5 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.22%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.22%) Grafana
8 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.22%) QRadar
8 3 (0.22%) WSUS
9 2 (0.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (0.14%) Nessus
9 2 (0.14%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.072%) Consul
10 1 (0.072%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.072%) Packer
Vendors
1 177 (12.71%) Microsoft
2 71 (5.10%) SAP
3 63 (4.52%) ServiceNow
4 60 (4.31%) Oracle
5 41 (2.94%) Google
6 20 (1.44%) Murex
7 17 (1.22%) Ariba
8 15 (1.08%) Salesforce
9 13 (0.93%) Workday
10 11 (0.79%) Databricks
10 11 (0.79%) Splunk
11 10 (0.72%) CyberArk
12 9 (0.65%) Cisco
12 9 (0.65%) IBM
12 9 (0.65%) VMware
13 8 (0.57%) Citrix
13 8 (0.57%) Informatica
14 7 (0.50%) F5
15 6 (0.43%) Bloomberg
16 5 (0.36%) Charles River