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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 58 66
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,955 1,358 1,254
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.56% 4.12% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 4.55% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,187 838 709
10th Percentile £400 £360 £374
25th Percentile £474 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £560
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +1.34% -2.61%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £788 £875 £826
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 31 29
10th Percentile £25.78 £22.16 £34.25
25th Percentile £47.13 £23.50 £43.75
Median hourly rate £64.09 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.31% -41.74% +16.16%
75th Percentile £80.00 £50.88 £70.18
90th Percentile £89.20 £73.75 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £33.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +126.87% -44.17% -

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 46,342 29,835 32,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.41% 90.50% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,074 18,533 19,873
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
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 £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,192 1,836 1,405
10th Percentile £13.74 £14.31 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.32 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -48.10% +1.18%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -7 1,706 £551 -4.26% 3,648
UK excluding London +1 960 £525 +3.96% 1,709
London -19 839 £600 -7.69% 2,233
Work from Home -23 520 £550 -7.95% 1,388
North of England -3 270 £507 +1.30% 363
South East +15 256 £575 +10.84% 472
Yorkshire +15 132 £494 -1.20% 105
North West -23 131 £525 +2.68% 226
Scotland +15 126 £500 +9.59% 173
Midlands -25 114 £525 +16.67% 225
South West -19 110 £570 -0.87% 233
West Midlands -11 92 £500 - 145
East of England +3 72 £513 -14.58% 129
East Midlands -31 19 £549 +36.44% 80
Wales -13 12 £600 +45.45% 42
Northern Ireland +2 10 £500 -9.09% 84
North East -41 8 £454 -17.50% 35
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 75 (3.84%) Confluence
2 44 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.61%) SAS
4 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.20%) IIS
5 4 (0.20%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.10%) CMS
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.051%) Apache
8 1 (0.051%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.051%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.051%) Appian
8 1 (0.051%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.051%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.051%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 67 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.20%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.20%) Revit
7 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.15%) Windchill
8 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.051%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.051%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.051%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 49 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.82%) SAP GRC
3 14 (0.72%) Endur
4 10 (0.51%) Primavera
5 9 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.20%) Actimize
9 4 (0.20%) Magento
9 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.15%) Aladdin
10 3 (0.15%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.15%) SAP HCM
10 3 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 298 (15.24%) Azure
2 212 (10.84%) AWS
3 98 (5.01%) GCP
4 93 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 73 (3.73%) Entra ID
6 62 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
7 61 (3.12%) SaaS
8 42 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (1.89%) GitHub
10 28 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
11 27 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
13 23 (1.18%) OCI
14 21 (1.07%) Azure AI
15 20 (1.02%) PaaS
15 20 (1.02%) Snowflake
16 18 (0.92%) Serverless
17 17 (0.87%) Anthropic Claude
17 17 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
18 16 (0.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.58%) Network Security
2 54 (2.76%) Firewall
3 24 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 24 (1.23%) WAN
4 21 (1.07%) LAN
5 17 (0.87%) DNS
6 13 (0.66%) 5G
6 13 (0.66%) DHCP
7 12 (0.61%) VPN
8 11 (0.56%) 4G
9 8 (0.41%) BIG-IP
10 7 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
10 7 (0.36%) Internet
11 6 (0.31%) HTTP
11 6 (0.31%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
12 5 (0.26%) Softphone
12 5 (0.26%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (3.68%) Power BI
2 43 (2.20%) SQL Server
3 40 (2.05%) Metadata
4 31 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 21 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (0.82%) MongoDB
7 14 (0.72%) Big Data
7 14 (0.72%) Data Lake
7 14 (0.72%) Db2
7 14 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.61%) Oracle Database
9 10 (0.51%) Tableau
10 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.36%) MySQL
10 7 (0.36%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.31%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.20%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 132 (6.75%) JIRA
2 31 (1.59%) Git
3 22 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.72%) Selenium
5 11 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 10 (0.51%) Postman
7 9 (0.46%) WebDriver
8 8 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.41%) Zephyr
9 7 (0.36%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.36%) GitLab
10 5 (0.26%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.26%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.20%) Gradle
11 4 (0.20%) Maven
11 4 (0.20%) Subversion
12 3 (0.15%) DbUnit
12 3 (0.15%) jMock
12 3 (0.15%) Mockito
General
1 790 (40.41%) Social Skills
2 717 (36.68%) Finance
3 332 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
4 251 (12.84%) Public Sector
5 219 (11.20%) Banking
6 150 (7.67%) Legal
7 106 (5.42%) Influencing Skills
8 81 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
9 77 (3.94%) Front Office
10 54 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
11 53 (2.71%) Military
12 52 (2.66%) Aerospace
13 48 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
14 42 (2.15%) Investment Banking
15 41 (2.10%) Manufacturing
15 41 (2.10%) Telecoms
16 39 (1.99%) Law
17 38 (1.94%) Retail
18 37 (1.89%) Financial Institution
19 29 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 256 (13.09%) Lead
2 242 (12.38%) Architect
3 203 (10.38%) Analyst
4 198 (10.13%) Senior
5 192 (9.82%) Project Manager
6 103 (5.27%) Consultant
7 94 (4.81%) Security Architect
8 75 (3.84%) Developer
9 74 (3.79%) Programme Manager
10 71 (3.63%) Business Analyst
11 57 (2.92%) Risk Manager
12 56 (2.86%) IT Manager
12 56 (2.86%) Senior Manager
13 51 (2.61%) Delivery Manager
14 43 (2.20%) Solutions Architect
15 41 (2.10%) Security Consultant
15 41 (2.10%) Security Engineer
15 41 (2.10%) Senior Analyst
16 37 (1.89%) Risk Analyst
16 37 (1.89%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (2.76%) Terraform
2 41 (2.10%) REST
3 38 (1.94%) .NET
4 26 (1.33%) Middleware
5 25 (1.28%) Kafka
6 18 (0.92%) OAuth
6 18 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (0.77%) JSON
7 15 (0.77%) Spring
8 12 (0.61%) OpenID
8 12 (0.61%) React
8 12 (0.61%) SAML
8 12 (0.61%) SOAP
9 11 (0.56%) RESTful
9 11 (0.56%) SLSA
9 11 (0.56%) Spring Boot
10 10 (0.51%) SailPoint
10 10 (0.51%) Web Services
10 10 (0.51%) XML
11 9 (0.46%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 127 (6.50%) Onboarding
2 123 (6.29%) Management Information System
3 99 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 86 (4.40%) Security Posture
5 78 (3.99%) Cloud Native
6 61 (3.12%) Data Protection Act
7 56 (2.86%) Operational Technology
8 55 (2.81%) Data Centre
9 44 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
10 43 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
12 33 (1.69%) AI Agents
13 32 (1.64%) Market Risk
14 31 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
15 27 (1.38%) Credit Risk
15 27 (1.38%) Derivative
15 27 (1.38%) NHS
16 26 (1.33%) Data Structures
17 23 (1.18%) PMI
18 22 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (3.63%) Windows
2 67 (3.43%) Linux
3 45 (2.30%) Unix
4 24 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.36%) zOS
8 5 (0.26%) Android
8 5 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.15%) AIX
10 3 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 789 (40.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 499 (25.52%) Cybersecurity
3 478 (24.45%) Agile
4 442 (22.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 425 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 320 (16.37%) Decision-Making
7 292 (14.94%) AI
8 285 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
9 272 (13.91%) Roadmaps
10 258 (13.20%) Project Management
11 222 (11.36%) Information Security
12 218 (11.15%) Project Delivery
13 192 (9.82%) CI/CD
14 188 (9.62%) DevOps
15 186 (9.51%) Migration
16 170 (8.70%) Change Management
17 167 (8.54%) Vulnerability Management
18 162 (8.29%) Data Protection
19 159 (8.13%) Analytics
20 151 (7.72%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 160 (8.18%) Python
2 110 (5.63%) SQL
3 53 (2.71%) Java
4 46 (2.35%) PowerShell
5 37 (1.89%) C#
6 21 (1.07%) JavaScript
7 18 (0.92%) Bash
8 17 (0.87%) Shell Script
9 13 (0.66%) C++
10 12 (0.61%) VBA
11 10 (0.51%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.46%) Go
13 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.31%) Bicep
14 6 (0.31%) Korn
15 5 (0.26%) Assembly Language
15 5 (0.26%) CLIST
15 5 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.26%) JCL
15 5 (0.26%) REXX
Qualifications
1 542 (27.72%) Security Cleared
2 390 (19.95%) SC Cleared
3 186 (9.51%) Degree
4 176 (9.00%) CISSP
5 123 (6.29%) DV Cleared
6 120 (6.14%) CISM
7 88 (4.50%) PMI Certification
8 82 (4.19%) PMP
9 59 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 55 (2.81%) CRISC
11 49 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
12 44 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 41 (2.10%) CISA
14 31 (1.59%) Master's Degree
15 29 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
16 27 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 27 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
17 26 (1.33%) AWS Certification
18 25 (1.28%) Azure Certification
18 25 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (12.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 223 (11.41%) NIST
3 205 (10.49%) GRC
4 119 (6.09%) GDPR
5 116 (5.93%) QA
6 96 (4.91%) Data Quality
7 85 (4.35%) NCSC
8 66 (3.38%) PMO
9 40 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
10 31 (1.59%) JSP 440
11 23 (1.18%) NIST 800
12 20 (1.02%) Accessibility
12 20 (1.02%) COBIT
13 19 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 17 (0.87%) SOC 2
15 16 (0.82%) ISO 31000
15 16 (0.82%) SLA
16 15 (0.77%) PCI DSS
17 14 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 14 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (2.46%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.28%) Docker
3 15 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.46%) vSphere
6 7 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.26%) FreeRADIUS
7 5 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.15%) Firmware
9 3 (0.15%) IAG
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.15%) Postfix
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.10%) NFS
Systems Management
1 57 (2.92%) Kubernetes
2 37 (1.89%) Ansible
3 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.72%) Grafana
5 12 (0.61%) SCCM
6 8 (0.41%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.31%) Control-M
7 6 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.26%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.26%) Nessus
8 5 (0.26%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.15%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.15%) Puppet
11 2 (0.10%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.10%) Istio
11 2 (0.10%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 291 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 118 (6.04%) ServiceNow
3 93 (4.76%) SAP
4 73 (3.73%) Oracle
5 50 (2.56%) Google
6 24 (1.23%) VMware
7 23 (1.18%) IBM
7 23 (1.18%) Splunk
8 21 (1.07%) Cisco
9 20 (1.02%) Salesforce
10 18 (0.92%) Databricks
11 16 (0.82%) Foundry
11 16 (0.82%) Murex
11 16 (0.82%) Qualys
11 16 (0.82%) Sybase
12 14 (0.72%) BeyondTrust
13 13 (0.66%) CyberArk
14 12 (0.61%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.56%) Ariba
15 11 (0.56%) Tenable