Risk Management Contract Job Trends in England

Risk Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Risk Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 47 72
Rank change year-on-year -22 +25 -10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,395 1,121 1,079
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.32% 4.67% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 5.11% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 937 710 714
10th Percentile £406 £387 £363
25th Percentile £477 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £685 £759 £725
90th Percentile £825 £875 £846
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 26 32
10th Percentile £20.27 £46.30 £16.18
25th Percentile £28.00 £48.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% +370.37%
75th Percentile £105.25 £78.39 £60.31
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.28 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% +370.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35,705 21,941 31,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.32% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,665 14,273 20,637
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,224 953 2,305
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.26% -23.38% -1.35%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Risk Management job vacancy trend in England

Risk Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Risk Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in England

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Risk Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Management in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Management in England

Risk Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 30 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
London -35 676 £600 -9.88% 357
North of England -11 238 £513 +0.38% 123
South East -10 202 £550 - 146
Yorkshire -1 127 £500 -1.23% 36
North West -20 110 £550 +7.97% 78
Midlands -35 108 £538 +10.26% 68
South West +2 90 £570 +26.67% 65
West Midlands -47 75 £525 +5.00% 40
East of England -9 49 £525 -4.55% 37
East Midlands -17 33 £550 +22.63% 28
North East -33 1 £480 -16.52% 9
Risk Management
UK

Risk Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 64 (4.59%) Confluence
2 37 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.57%) SAS
4 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.14%) IIS
7 1 (0.072%) Appian
7 1 (0.072%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.072%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.072%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.072%) nginx
7 1 (0.072%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.072%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 51 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (3.30%) Microsoft Project
3 38 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.36%) Revit
7 4 (0.29%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.29%) Trello
8 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.14%) Windchill
10 1 (0.072%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.072%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.072%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 23 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.65%) Endur
3 7 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.50%) Summit
4 6 (0.43%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.36%) Actimize
5 5 (0.36%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.29%) Primavera
6 4 (0.29%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.22%) Findur
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 172 (12.33%) Azure
2 133 (9.53%) AWS
3 59 (4.23%) GCP
4 54 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (3.15%) Power Platform
6 38 (2.72%) Entra ID
7 33 (2.37%) SaaS
8 23 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
9 22 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.58%) Google Workspace
10 19 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
11 18 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (1.29%) Google Sheets
12 17 (1.22%) PaaS
13 15 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (0.86%) GitHub
14 12 (0.86%) OpenShift
15 11 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
16 10 (0.72%) Amazon S3
16 10 (0.72%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.01%) Network Security
2 25 (1.79%) Firewall
3 17 (1.22%) DNS
4 14 (1.00%) DHCP
5 12 (0.86%) BIG-IP
6 11 (0.79%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
8 7 (0.50%) 5G
9 6 (0.43%) HTTP
9 6 (0.43%) Internet
9 6 (0.43%) WAN
10 5 (0.36%) 3G
10 5 (0.36%) 4G
11 4 (0.29%) LAN
11 4 (0.29%) NAS
11 4 (0.29%) NGFW
11 4 (0.29%) SAN
12 3 (0.22%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (2.51%) Power BI
2 28 (2.01%) Metadata
3 16 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (1.00%) SQL Server
5 11 (0.79%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.57%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.50%) RDBMS
8 6 (0.43%) Big Data
8 6 (0.43%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.36%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.36%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.36%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (0.36%) Tableau
10 4 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.22%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 115 (8.24%) JIRA
2 11 (0.79%) Git
2 11 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.43%) GitLab
4 5 (0.36%) Selenium
5 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (0.29%) DbUnit
5 4 (0.29%) jMock
5 4 (0.29%) JUnit
5 4 (0.29%) Maven
5 4 (0.29%) Mockito
5 4 (0.29%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.29%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.22%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.14%) MLflow
7 2 (0.14%) TestRail
7 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.072%) Appium
8 1 (0.072%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.072%) Liquibase
General
1 519 (37.20%) Social Skills
2 511 (36.63%) Finance
3 221 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (11.18%) Banking
5 149 (10.68%) Public Sector
6 113 (8.10%) Legal
7 47 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
8 43 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
9 34 (2.44%) Financial Institution
10 33 (2.37%) Telecoms
11 30 (2.15%) Retail
12 29 (2.08%) Front Office
12 29 (2.08%) Investment Banking
13 28 (2.01%) Military
14 23 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (1.51%) Law
16 21 (1.51%) Manufacturing
17 19 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 18 (1.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 180 (12.90%) Project Manager
2 179 (12.83%) Lead
3 140 (10.04%) Architect
3 140 (10.04%) Senior
4 125 (8.96%) Analyst
5 85 (6.09%) Consultant
6 65 (4.66%) Programme Manager
7 63 (4.52%) Business Analyst
8 58 (4.16%) Developer
9 54 (3.87%) Security Architect
10 47 (3.37%) Senior Manager
11 46 (3.30%) Risk Manager
12 38 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
13 37 (2.65%) Security Engineer
14 36 (2.58%) Security Consultant
15 33 (2.37%) Security Manager
16 31 (2.22%) Risk Analyst
17 27 (1.94%) IT Manager
17 27 (1.94%) Solutions Architect
18 25 (1.79%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (1.29%) REST
3 17 (1.22%) .NET
4 15 (1.08%) Middleware
4 15 (1.08%) XML
5 13 (0.93%) JSON
5 13 (0.93%) Kafka
6 11 (0.79%) Azure Blueprints
6 11 (0.79%) Leaflet
7 8 (0.57%) OAuth
7 8 (0.57%) React
8 7 (0.50%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.50%) LDAP
8 7 (0.50%) OpenID
8 7 (0.50%) RESTful
8 7 (0.50%) SOAP
9 6 (0.43%) J2EE
9 6 (0.43%) JSP
9 6 (0.43%) SAML
9 6 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 100 (7.17%) Management Information System
2 63 (4.52%) Product Ownership
3 57 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 54 (3.87%) Security Posture
5 46 (3.30%) Cloud Native
6 44 (3.15%) Derivative
7 42 (3.01%) Operational Technology
8 41 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
9 38 (2.72%) Data Centre
10 33 (2.37%) Market Risk
11 24 (1.72%) AI Agents
12 23 (1.65%) Credit Risk
13 22 (1.58%) NHS
14 21 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (1.43%) Data Structures
16 19 (1.36%) Equities
16 19 (1.36%) Fixed Income
17 18 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 17 (1.22%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 45 (3.23%) Windows
2 34 (2.44%) Linux
3 17 (1.22%) Unix
4 15 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.43%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.43%) zOS
7 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (31.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 346 (24.80%) Agile
3 281 (20.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 276 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 263 (18.85%) Cybersecurity
6 235 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
7 229 (16.42%) Project Management
8 208 (14.91%) Decision-Making
9 171 (12.26%) Information Security
10 169 (12.11%) Roadmaps
11 155 (11.11%) AI
12 154 (11.04%) Change Management
13 135 (9.68%) Project Delivery
14 127 (9.10%) Migration
15 122 (8.75%) Analytics
16 121 (8.67%) Regulatory Compliance
17 113 (8.10%) PRINCE2
18 111 (7.96%) Data Protection
19 109 (7.81%) DevOps
20 101 (7.24%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 94 (6.74%) SQL
2 91 (6.52%) Python
3 47 (3.37%) Java
4 32 (2.29%) PowerShell
5 19 (1.36%) C#
6 13 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.86%) C++
7 12 (0.86%) VBA
8 8 (0.57%) Bash
9 7 (0.50%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.43%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.36%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.22%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.22%) Bicep
12 3 (0.22%) CLIST
12 3 (0.22%) JCL
12 3 (0.22%) REXX
13 2 (0.14%) Korn
13 2 (0.14%) Perl
13 2 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 327 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 236 (16.92%) SC Cleared
3 189 (13.55%) Degree
4 116 (8.32%) CISSP
5 87 (6.24%) CISM
6 77 (5.52%) DV Cleared
7 65 (4.66%) PMP
8 64 (4.59%) PMI Certification
9 42 (3.01%) CRISC
10 32 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 23 (1.65%) CISA
13 22 (1.58%) Master's Degree
14 20 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 16 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 14 (1.00%) GIAC
18 13 (0.93%) CESG Certified Professional
18 13 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
19 10 (0.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (12.33%) NIST
2 167 (11.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 124 (8.89%) GRC
4 101 (7.24%) GDPR
5 78 (5.59%) PMO
6 70 (5.02%) QA
7 56 (4.01%) Data Quality
8 47 (3.37%) NCSC
9 44 (3.15%) PCI DSS
10 34 (2.44%) JSP 440
11 31 (2.22%) SLA
12 30 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 27 (1.94%) SOC 2
14 22 (1.58%) NIST 800
15 21 (1.51%) COBIT
16 16 (1.15%) RMADS
17 15 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 14 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
19 12 (0.86%) Def Stans
20 11 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 28 (2.01%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.00%) Docker
3 8 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.29%) Postfix
5 4 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.072%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.072%) NFS
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.15%) Terraform
3 15 (1.08%) Ansible
4 10 (0.72%) SCCM
5 9 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.43%) Grafana
7 6 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.36%) Control-M
9 4 (0.29%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.22%) CASB
10 3 (0.22%) Nessus
10 3 (0.22%) OMEGAMON
11 2 (0.14%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.14%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.14%) OpenVAS
11 2 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 188 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 79 (5.66%) ServiceNow
3 66 (4.73%) Oracle
3 66 (4.73%) SAP
4 45 (3.23%) Google
5 21 (1.51%) Salesforce
5 21 (1.51%) Workday
6 20 (1.43%) Murex
7 14 (1.00%) F5
8 13 (0.93%) Cisco
9 11 (0.79%) Databricks
9 11 (0.79%) Splunk
9 11 (0.79%) VMware
10 10 (0.72%) Infoblox
11 9 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (0.65%) Remedy
12 8 (0.57%) Qualys
13 7 (0.50%) Foundry
13 7 (0.50%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.50%) Rapid7