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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 49 65
Rank change year-on-year -23 +16 +2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,500 1,275 1,313
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.15% 4.40% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 4.84% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 789 850
10th Percentile £404 £366 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £700
90th Percentile £838 £850 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 34 46
10th Percentile £20.56 £40.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £38.45 £47.87 £30.96
Median hourly rate £80.04 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.14% +30.00% +370.37%
75th Percentile £103.94 £82.00 £60.94
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.37 £81.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.04 £63.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +27.05% +20.00% +435.71%

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 40,111 26,361 36,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 90.96% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,183 16,941 23,723
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +2.71% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,380 1,073 2,431
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.41 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.78 £38.00
% change year-on-year +74.59% -32.17% +8.57%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 1,325 £550 -4.35% 690
UK excluding London -12 733 £525 - 431
London -35 638 £600 -7.69% 321
Work from Home -10 436 £550 -5.66% 340
North of England -6 225 £513 - 98
South East -9 200 £556 -3.26% 155
Yorkshire -3 114 £485 -4.20% 45
North West -8 109 £550 +7.57% 51
Midlands -40 106 £537 +7.40% 58
South West +2 81 £560 +24.44% 53
Scotland +9 80 £470 -6.00% 17
West Midlands -32 74 £525 +5.00% 41
East of England -17 42 £525 -2.78% 44
East Midlands -28 32 £550 +22.22% 16
Northern Ireland -2 6 £450 -23.73% 6
North East -28 2 £480 -16.52% 3
Wales -15 1 - - 7

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 67 (4.47%) Confluence
2 37 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.47%) SAS
5 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.20%) nginx
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.13%) Apache
6 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.13%) IIS
7 1 (0.067%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.067%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.067%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.067%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 67 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (3.47%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.33%) Revit
7 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.27%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.27%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.13%) Windchill
9 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.067%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.067%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 27 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.53%) Endur
4 7 (0.47%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.47%) Summit
5 6 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.33%) Actimize
6 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.33%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.27%) Primavera
7 4 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.20%) Findur
8 3 (0.20%) SAP GRC
8 3 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
8 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 188 (12.53%) Azure
2 145 (9.67%) AWS
3 67 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (4.40%) Power Platform
5 58 (3.87%) GCP
6 40 (2.67%) SaaS
7 37 (2.47%) Entra ID
8 24 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
9 23 (1.53%) GitHub
10 20 (1.33%) Google Workspace
11 19 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
11 19 (1.27%) Snowflake
12 18 (1.20%) Google Sheets
12 18 (1.20%) PaaS
13 17 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (0.73%) OpenShift
16 10 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
16 10 (0.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.33%) Network Security
2 31 (2.07%) Firewall
3 20 (1.33%) DNS
4 12 (0.80%) DHCP
4 12 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.67%) BIG-IP
6 9 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
6 9 (0.60%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.60%) WAN
7 7 (0.47%) 5G
7 7 (0.47%) HTTP
7 7 (0.47%) LAN
8 6 (0.40%) Internet
9 5 (0.33%) 3G
9 5 (0.33%) 4G
10 4 (0.27%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.20%) NAS
11 3 (0.20%) NGFW
11 3 (0.20%) SAN
11 3 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.53%) Power BI
2 37 (2.47%) Metadata
3 26 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (1.67%) Relational Database
5 20 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (1.00%) SQL Server
7 11 (0.73%) MongoDB
7 11 (0.73%) Tableau
8 9 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.47%) MySQL
9 7 (0.47%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.40%) Big Data
10 6 (0.40%) DB2
10 6 (0.40%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.33%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.33%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.27%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 128 (8.53%) JIRA
2 19 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.20%) Git
4 10 (0.67%) GitLab
5 5 (0.33%) JUnit
5 5 (0.33%) Mockito
5 5 (0.33%) Zephyr
6 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (0.27%) DbUnit
6 4 (0.27%) jMock
6 4 (0.27%) Maven
6 4 (0.27%) Selenium
6 4 (0.27%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.27%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.067%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.067%) Flyway
7 1 (0.067%) MLflow
7 1 (0.067%) Postman
7 1 (0.067%) TestRail
General
1 551 (36.73%) Finance
2 545 (36.33%) Social Skills
3 231 (15.40%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (12.00%) Banking
5 165 (11.00%) Public Sector
6 103 (6.87%) Legal
7 48 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
8 47 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
9 38 (2.53%) Investment Banking
10 36 (2.40%) Front Office
11 35 (2.33%) Retail
12 34 (2.27%) Financial Institution
13 33 (2.20%) Telecoms
14 31 (2.07%) Military
14 31 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
15 29 (1.93%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.27%) Marketing
17 18 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 16 (1.07%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 197 (13.13%) Project Manager
2 190 (12.67%) Lead
3 152 (10.13%) Architect
4 147 (9.80%) Senior
5 145 (9.67%) Analyst
6 90 (6.00%) Consultant
7 75 (5.00%) Programme Manager
8 71 (4.73%) Business Analyst
9 67 (4.47%) Developer
10 63 (4.20%) Security Architect
11 49 (3.27%) Risk Manager
11 49 (3.27%) Senior Manager
12 45 (3.00%) Delivery Manager
13 37 (2.47%) Security Consultant
14 34 (2.27%) IT Manager
14 34 (2.27%) Security Engineer
15 32 (2.13%) Risk Analyst
16 30 (2.00%) Security Manager
17 28 (1.87%) Solutions Architect
18 27 (1.80%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (1.40%) REST
3 18 (1.20%) Kafka
4 15 (1.00%) .NET
5 13 (0.87%) XML
6 12 (0.80%) Middleware
7 11 (0.73%) Leaflet
7 11 (0.73%) RESTful
8 10 (0.67%) JSON
9 8 (0.53%) LDAP
9 8 (0.53%) OAuth
9 8 (0.53%) React
9 8 (0.53%) SOAP
10 7 (0.47%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.47%) PyTorch
10 7 (0.47%) Web Services
11 6 (0.40%) JSP
11 6 (0.40%) scikit-learn
11 6 (0.40%) Spring
11 6 (0.40%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 119 (7.93%) Management Information System
2 62 (4.13%) Product Ownership
3 61 (4.07%) Onboarding
4 53 (3.53%) Derivative
5 51 (3.40%) Security Posture
6 49 (3.27%) Operational Technology
7 45 (3.00%) Data Centre
8 41 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
9 40 (2.67%) Cloud Native
10 35 (2.33%) Market Risk
11 26 (1.73%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.60%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.53%) Credit Risk
14 22 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
15 20 (1.33%) Fixed Income
15 20 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (1.33%) NHS
16 19 (1.27%) Equities
16 19 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 17 (1.13%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 41 (2.73%) Windows
2 38 (2.53%) Linux
3 23 (1.53%) Unix
4 8 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.20%) zOS
8 2 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (30.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 381 (25.40%) Agile
3 297 (19.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 279 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 262 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
6 253 (16.87%) Cybersecurity
7 242 (16.13%) Project Management
8 207 (13.80%) Decision-Making
9 177 (11.80%) Information Security
10 173 (11.53%) AI
11 166 (11.07%) Roadmaps
12 165 (11.00%) Change Management
13 154 (10.27%) Project Delivery
14 142 (9.47%) Migration
15 129 (8.60%) Analytics
16 125 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
17 118 (7.87%) PRINCE2
18 117 (7.80%) Data Protection
19 115 (7.67%) DevOps
20 109 (7.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 118 (7.87%) SQL
2 114 (7.60%) Python
3 55 (3.67%) Java
4 30 (2.00%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.40%) C++
6 18 (1.20%) C#
7 14 (0.93%) JavaScript
8 11 (0.73%) VBA
9 8 (0.53%) Bash
9 8 (0.53%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.40%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.27%) Perl
12 2 (0.13%) Go
12 2 (0.13%) Korn
12 2 (0.13%) RPG
12 2 (0.13%) Scala
13 1 (0.067%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.067%) R
Qualifications
1 340 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 253 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 205 (13.67%) Degree
4 128 (8.53%) CISSP
5 94 (6.27%) CISM
6 77 (5.13%) DV Cleared
7 76 (5.07%) PMP
8 72 (4.80%) PMI Certification
9 39 (2.60%) CRISC
10 34 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 29 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 27 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
13 23 (1.53%) CISA
14 22 (1.47%) Master's Degree
15 19 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 15 (1.00%) CESG Certified Professional
16 15 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 14 (0.93%) GIAC
18 13 (0.87%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (12.27%) NIST
2 183 (12.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 123 (8.20%) GRC
4 110 (7.33%) GDPR
5 89 (5.93%) PMO
6 77 (5.13%) QA
7 59 (3.93%) Data Quality
8 46 (3.07%) PCI DSS
9 44 (2.93%) NCSC
10 32 (2.13%) SLA
11 31 (2.07%) JSP 440
12 28 (1.87%) COBIT
13 26 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
13 26 (1.73%) SOC 2
14 23 (1.53%) NIST 800
15 18 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
15 18 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 17 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (1.07%) ISO 31000
17 16 (1.07%) RMADS
System Software
1 32 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.93%) Docker
3 10 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.27%) Postfix
5 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.067%) Ceph
7 1 (0.067%) NFS
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.067%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (1.53%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.93%) Ansible
3 12 (0.80%) Terraform
4 10 (0.67%) SCCM
5 9 (0.60%) Grafana
5 9 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.33%) Control-M
8 5 (0.33%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.20%) CASB
10 3 (0.20%) WSUS
11 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.13%) Nessus
11 2 (0.13%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.13%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.13%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 199 (13.27%) Microsoft
2 88 (5.87%) Oracle
3 83 (5.53%) SAP
4 81 (5.40%) ServiceNow
5 41 (2.73%) Google
6 24 (1.60%) Workday
7 21 (1.40%) Murex
8 19 (1.27%) Salesforce
9 17 (1.13%) Ariba
10 16 (1.07%) Databricks
11 13 (0.87%) VMware
12 12 (0.80%) Cisco
12 12 (0.80%) F5
12 12 (0.80%) IBM
13 9 (0.60%) Splunk
14 8 (0.53%) Infoblox
15 7 (0.47%) Bloomberg
15 7 (0.47%) Foundry
15 7 (0.47%) HP
15 7 (0.47%) Sybase