Risk Management Contracts

Risk Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Risk Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Risk Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 74 65
Rank change year-on-year +27 -9 +25
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,380 1,215 1,900
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.48% 2.81% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 3.30% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 750 1,130
10th Percentile £375 £356 £400
25th Percentile £455 £463 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.90%
75th Percentile £738 £712 £725
90th Percentile £875 £838 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.95% -1.82% +0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 41 211
10th Percentile £46.30 £12.25 -
25th Percentile £48.13 £22.34 £9.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +370.37% -67.29%
75th Percentile £80.24 £61.25 £14.61
90th Percentile £87.35 £80.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £10.63
% change year-on-year +30.00% +370.37% -76.13%

All Process and 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 27,997 36,800 49,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.87% 85.25% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,653 23,447 34,408
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,376 2,552 1,712
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.74 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.78 £61.30 £64.72
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Risk Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Management.

Daily rate trend for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Risk Management.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Management over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Top 17 Contract 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 1 July 2025. 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 +31 1,193 £582 +2.51% 5,948
London +38 722 £656 +9.38% 3,549
UK excluding London +13 541 £513 -4.95% 2,822
Work from Home +25 412 £598 +8.64% 2,533
North of England +4 152 £513 -21.15% 687
South East +39 125 £550 +4.76% 786
Midlands +38 95 £475 -7.32% 389
North West -11 90 £511 -26.43% 407
Scotland +18 83 £471 +4.67% 216
West Midlands +22 63 £500 +5.26% 253
Yorkshire +14 56 £525 +5.00% 237
South West +6 54 £520 - 326
East Midlands +20 30 £443 -23.38% 134
East of England +11 19 £550 +62.96% 270
Northern Ireland -11 13 £550 +26.44% 78
Wales +2 8 £450 -25.00% 81
North East +1 8 £550 -6.78% 43

Risk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 53 (3.84%) Confluence
2 32 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (1.81%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.65%) Apache
6 8 (0.58%) CMS
7 6 (0.43%) SAS
8 5 (0.36%) CICS
9 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.072%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.072%) JBoss
12 1 (0.072%) Kentico
12 1 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.072%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.072%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.072%) WebSphere
Applications
1 61 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.97%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
4 29 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (1.09%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.22%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Simulink
7 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.072%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.072%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 32 (2.32%) Endur
1 32 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.58%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 7 (0.51%) Kondor
4 6 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.36%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.36%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.29%) ION Anvil
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.29%) SAP GRC
7 3 (0.22%) Primavera
7 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.22%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.22%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.22%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.22%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 156 (11.30%) AWS
2 152 (11.01%) Azure
3 62 (4.49%) GCP
4 44 (3.19%) Power Platform
5 31 (2.25%) dbt
6 28 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (1.96%) SaaS
8 21 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
9 16 (1.16%) Amazon S3
10 14 (1.01%) Entra ID
11 13 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
12 11 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (0.72%) Google Workspace
14 9 (0.65%) GitHub
15 8 (0.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (0.58%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (0.58%) OCI
16 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.99%) Firewall
2 39 (2.83%) Network Security
3 13 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (0.51%) 5G
4 7 (0.51%) WAN
5 6 (0.43%) SAN
6 5 (0.36%) Multicast
6 5 (0.36%) VPN
7 4 (0.29%) LAN
7 4 (0.29%) NAS
8 3 (0.22%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (0.22%) S/MIME
8 3 (0.22%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.22%) SSL
8 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.14%) BGP
9 2 (0.14%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.14%) Internet
9 2 (0.14%) MPLS
9 2 (0.14%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (3.04%) Power BI
3 36 (2.61%) SQL Server
4 31 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
4 31 (2.25%) Apache Arrow
4 31 (2.25%) Apache Iceberg
4 31 (2.25%) Dremio
5 20 (1.45%) Big Data
6 17 (1.23%) Hadoop
7 16 (1.16%) Relational Database
8 12 (0.87%) Tableau
9 11 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (0.58%) Apache Hive
11 7 (0.51%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.51%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.51%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.43%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 103 (7.46%) JIRA
2 41 (2.97%) Git
3 23 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.16%) JUnit
5 14 (1.01%) Maven
5 14 (1.01%) TeamCity
6 13 (0.94%) SonarQube
7 11 (0.80%) Selenium
8 10 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.65%) Mockito
10 6 (0.43%) MSTest
10 6 (0.43%) NUnit
10 6 (0.43%) Postman
10 6 (0.43%) Ranorex
11 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (0.36%) DbUnit
11 5 (0.36%) GCC
11 5 (0.36%) GDB
11 5 (0.36%) IntelliJ
11 5 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 592 (42.90%) Finance
2 560 (40.58%) Social Skills
3 266 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
4 229 (16.59%) Banking
5 117 (8.48%) Front Office
6 106 (7.68%) Public Sector
7 86 (6.23%) Legal
8 76 (5.51%) Investment Banking
9 39 (2.83%) Telecoms
10 38 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (2.46%) Manufacturing
13 33 (2.39%) Back Office
14 32 (2.32%) Retail Banking
15 31 (2.25%) Financial Institution
15 31 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
16 30 (2.17%) Marketing
17 25 (1.81%) Law
18 20 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 20 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 181 (13.12%) Analyst
2 169 (12.25%) Developer
3 166 (12.03%) Project Manager
4 147 (10.65%) Senior
5 130 (9.42%) Architect
6 118 (8.55%) Lead
7 113 (8.19%) Business Analyst
8 93 (6.74%) Consultant
9 61 (4.42%) Programme Manager
10 59 (4.28%) IT Manager
11 58 (4.20%) Security Architect
12 49 (3.55%) Java Developer
13 43 (3.12%) AWS Developer
13 43 (3.12%) Risk Manager
13 43 (3.12%) Security Consultant
14 39 (2.83%) Delivery Manager
15 36 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
16 35 (2.54%) Python Developer
16 35 (2.54%) Risk Analyst
17 33 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (4.06%) React
2 55 (3.99%) AngularJS
3 39 (2.83%) .NET
4 38 (2.75%) Node.js
4 38 (2.75%) NumPy
4 38 (2.75%) REST
5 37 (2.68%) Pandas
6 33 (2.39%) SciPy
7 31 (2.25%) Vue
8 28 (2.03%) Kafka
9 25 (1.81%) SOAP
10 21 (1.52%) RESTful
11 14 (1.01%) Web Services
12 13 (0.94%) Spring Boot
13 12 (0.87%) PySpark
14 11 (0.80%) Playwright
15 10 (0.72%) Middleware
15 10 (0.72%) Spring
15 10 (0.72%) TensorFlow
16 9 (0.65%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 132 (9.57%) Management Information System
2 66 (4.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 60 (4.35%) Market Risk
4 57 (4.13%) Derivative
5 54 (3.91%) Security Posture
6 47 (3.41%) Fixed Income
7 46 (3.33%) Product Ownership
8 41 (2.97%) Equities
9 38 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
10 36 (2.61%) Data Centre
11 32 (2.32%) Credit Risk
12 28 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
13 27 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
14 26 (1.88%) Onboarding
15 20 (1.45%) Algorithms
16 19 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
16 19 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
17 17 (1.23%) Cloud Native
17 17 (1.23%) Operational Technology
17 17 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.83%) Linux
1 39 (2.83%) Windows
2 20 (1.45%) Unix
3 7 (0.51%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.51%) zOS
4 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.22%) Windows 7
5 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.072%) Android
7 1 (0.072%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.072%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.072%) VMS
7 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (26.59%) Agile
2 349 (25.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 311 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
4 288 (20.87%) Project Management
5 220 (15.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 195 (14.13%) Cybersecurity
7 180 (13.04%) Decision-Making
8 174 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 143 (10.36%) Change Management
10 126 (9.13%) Project Delivery
11 123 (8.91%) Scrum
12 119 (8.62%) Analytics
12 119 (8.62%) Information Security
13 113 (8.19%) Migration
14 109 (7.90%) DevOps
15 92 (6.67%) Roadmaps
16 86 (6.23%) Risk Assessment
17 81 (5.87%) Data Analysis
17 81 (5.87%) Resource Allocation
17 81 (5.87%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 166 (12.03%) Python
2 129 (9.35%) SQL
3 105 (7.61%) Java
4 71 (5.14%) JavaScript
5 64 (4.64%) TypeScript
6 46 (3.33%) C#
7 32 (2.32%) C++
8 16 (1.16%) PowerShell
9 10 (0.72%) JCL
10 9 (0.65%) Haskell
11 7 (0.51%) REXX
11 7 (0.51%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.36%) CLIST
13 4 (0.29%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.29%) Bash
13 4 (0.29%) Go
13 4 (0.29%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.22%) COBOL
14 3 (0.22%) OCaml
14 3 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 200 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 176 (12.75%) Degree
3 144 (10.43%) SC Cleared
4 106 (7.68%) CISSP
5 86 (6.23%) CISM
6 54 (3.91%) DV Cleared
7 50 (3.62%) PMI Certification
7 50 (3.62%) PMP
8 42 (3.04%) CRISC
9 39 (2.83%) CISA
10 33 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 33 (2.39%) Master's Degree
11 20 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.16%) CBAP
13 15 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 14 (1.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 14 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
15 13 (0.94%) AWS Certification
15 13 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.87%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (9.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 127 (9.20%) NIST
2 84 (6.09%) QA
3 82 (5.94%) GDPR
4 66 (4.78%) GRC
5 47 (3.41%) PMO
6 39 (2.83%) PCI DSS
7 38 (2.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 31 (2.25%) Data Quality
9 29 (2.10%) HIPAA
10 28 (2.03%) NCSC
11 25 (1.81%) MiFID
11 25 (1.81%) NIST 800
12 18 (1.30%) Accessibility
13 16 (1.16%) Basel III
14 15 (1.09%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.94%) SLA
16 11 (0.80%) EMIR
17 9 (0.65%) COBIT
17 9 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 32 (2.32%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.59%) Docker
3 9 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.51%) Time Sharing Option
5 6 (0.43%) Postfix
6 3 (0.22%) Firmware
6 3 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.14%) IAG
7 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.072%) HDFS
8 1 (0.072%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.072%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.072%) Microcode
8 1 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (1.01%) Grafana
2 12 (0.87%) Prometheus
3 11 (0.80%) Ansible
3 11 (0.80%) Kubernetes
4 9 (0.65%) Terraform
5 6 (0.43%) Amdocs OSS
6 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.29%) OMEGAMON
8 3 (0.22%) CASB
8 3 (0.22%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.22%) Puppet
8 3 (0.22%) QRadar
9 2 (0.14%) OPNET
9 2 (0.14%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.14%) SCCM
10 1 (0.072%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.072%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.072%) Nessus
Vendors
1 133 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 88 (6.38%) SAP
3 78 (5.65%) ServiceNow
4 47 (3.41%) Oracle
5 24 (1.74%) Cisco
6 20 (1.45%) Google
7 19 (1.38%) Splunk
8 18 (1.30%) Databricks
9 17 (1.23%) OpenLink
10 16 (1.16%) Ariba
10 16 (1.16%) Salesforce
11 13 (0.94%) Murex
11 13 (0.94%) Qualys
11 13 (0.94%) Sybase
12 12 (0.87%) Workday
13 11 (0.80%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.80%) IBM
14 10 (0.72%) VMware
15 9 (0.65%) CyberArk
15 9 (0.65%) Darktrace