Risk Register Contract Job Trends

Risk Register
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Risk Register skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 450 497
Rank change year-on-year -32 +47 +111
Contract jobs citing Risk Register 110 93 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.31% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 47 70
10th Percentile £304 £358 £273
25th Percentile £403 £430 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -9.17%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £594
90th Percentile £689 £700 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £498 £450
% change year-on-year -5.73% +10.56% -24.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £31.17 £45.60 -
25th Percentile £32.00 £52.13 £76.59
Median hourly rate £36.00 £63.00 £78.19
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -19.42% +117.18%
75th Percentile £92.50 £69.00 £83.22
90th Percentile £96.25 £72.60 £85.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £69.00 £78.19
% change year-on-year -47.83% -11.75% +117.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Risk Register 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 32,672 29,808 38,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.28% 88.28% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,566 18,179 25,645
10th Percentile £300 £307 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.70% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,089 966 1,478
10th Percentile £14.60 £15.62 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%
75th Percentile £51.02 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.88 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £31.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.40% -30.00% +40.63%

Risk Register
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Risk Register relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Risk Register job vacancy trend in the UK

Risk Register
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Risk Register.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Risk Register

Risk Register
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Register over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Register in the UK

Risk Register
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Risk Register.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Risk Register

Risk Register
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Register over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Register in the UK

Risk Register
Top 16 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 Register within the UK over the 6 months to 23 December 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 -26 96 £500 - 195
UK excluding London -28 66 £469 -5.73% 180
London -4 38 £538 -2.27% 43
Work from Home -1 22 £500 -4.76% 114
South East -15 18 £470 -1.05% 42
North of England -31 18 £468 +10.12% 35
South West -12 12 £644 +33.21% 25
Yorkshire - 10 £417 - 17
North West -22 8 £600 +41.18% 17
Midlands -33 8 £394 -10.00% 30
West Midlands -22 7 £450 -10.00% 15
Scotland +8 5 £425 +18.88% 8
Wales +2 4 £308 - 6
East Midlands -17 2 £403 +7.40% 12
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 - 10
East of England -22 1 - - 27

Risk Register
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 5 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.36%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.91%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.91%) Primavera
2 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.55%) Azure
2 10 (9.09%) AWS
3 8 (7.27%) Azure Sentinel
3 8 (7.27%) OpenShift
3 8 (7.27%) Power Platform
4 6 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (4.55%) SaaS
6 4 (3.64%) Azure AI
7 3 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.73%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (2.73%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (2.73%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.73%) IaaS
7 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (2.73%) PaaS
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.91%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.73%) VPN
2 2 (1.82%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (1.82%) Firewall
3 1 (0.91%) LAN
3 1 (0.91%) Network Security
3 1 (0.91%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.91%) VLAN
3 1 (0.91%) VSAN
3 1 (0.91%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.91%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.55%) Power BI
2 1 (0.91%) MySQL
2 1 (0.91%) Power Query
2 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.64%) JIRA
General
1 53 (48.18%) Social Skills
2 29 (26.36%) Finance
3 22 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (14.55%) Legal
4 16 (14.55%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (6.36%) Local Government
7 6 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.55%) Banking
8 5 (4.55%) Marketing
9 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.73%) Military
9 3 (2.73%) Retail
10 1 (0.91%) Back Office
10 1 (0.91%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.91%) Law
10 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.91%) Police
10 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (21.82%) Analyst
2 21 (19.09%) Project Manager
3 18 (16.36%) Risk Analyst
4 14 (12.73%) Lead
4 14 (12.73%) Senior
5 9 (8.18%) Consultant
6 8 (7.27%) Compliance Analyst
6 8 (7.27%) Infrastructure Manager
7 7 (6.36%) Risk Support Analyst
7 7 (6.36%) Support Analyst
8 6 (5.45%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 5 (4.55%) Architect
9 5 (4.55%) Governance Manager
9 5 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (4.55%) Senior Manager
9 5 (4.55%) Service Transition Manager
9 5 (4.55%) Transition Manager
10 4 (3.64%) Security Manager
10 4 (3.64%) Senior Risk Analyst
10 4 (3.64%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.73%) OAuth
2 1 (0.91%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.91%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.27%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (3.64%) NHS
4 4 (3.64%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.82%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.82%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.82%) PKI
5 2 (1.82%) Replication
6 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.91%) SCADA
6 1 (0.91%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.91%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.82%) VMS
2 1 (0.91%) Android
2 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (44.55%) Risk Management
2 27 (24.55%) Cybersecurity
3 25 (22.73%) Decision-Making
4 22 (20.00%) Project Management
4 22 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 20 (18.18%) Agile
5 20 (18.18%) PRINCE2
5 20 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (16.36%) Project Delivery
7 17 (15.45%) Migration
8 16 (14.55%) Information Security
9 15 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (12.73%) Incident Response
11 13 (11.82%) Data Protection
11 13 (11.82%) Risk Analysis
11 13 (11.82%) Roadmaps
12 12 (10.91%) Cloud Security
12 12 (10.91%) Regulatory Compliance
13 10 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.73%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (0.91%) Java
2 1 (0.91%) Korn
2 1 (0.91%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (24.55%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.27%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.73%) PMP
4 13 (11.82%) PMI Certification
5 9 (8.18%) CISSP
5 9 (8.18%) Degree
6 6 (5.45%) CISM
7 5 (4.55%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.64%) CISA
8 4 (3.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.82%) CRISC
10 1 (0.91%) APMG
10 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.91%) CEH
10 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.91%) VCAP
10 1 (0.91%) VCDX
10 1 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (20.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (20.00%) NIST
3 20 (18.18%) GDPR
4 12 (10.91%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (10.00%) GRC
5 11 (10.00%) PMO
6 6 (5.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 5 (4.55%) NCSC
7 5 (4.55%) NIST 800
7 5 (4.55%) PCI DSS
8 4 (3.64%) EU AI Act
8 4 (3.64%) ISO 31000
8 4 (3.64%) SLA
9 3 (2.73%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (1.82%) COBIT
10 2 (1.82%) P3O
10 2 (1.82%) PERC
10 2 (1.82%) QA
10 2 (1.82%) RMADS
System Software
1 2 (1.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) SRDF
2 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.91%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.64%) CSIRT
2 4 (3.64%) QRadar
3 3 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.82%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.91%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (25.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.64%) Fortinet
2 4 (3.64%) Splunk
3 3 (2.73%) OneTrust
3 3 (2.73%) Oracle
3 3 (2.73%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.82%) Foundry
4 2 (1.82%) SAP
5 1 (0.91%) Dell
5 1 (0.91%) EMC
5 1 (0.91%) JD Edwards
5 1 (0.91%) Percona
5 1 (0.91%) Samsung
5 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.91%) VMware