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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 48 75
Rank change year-on-year -21 +27 -10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,510 1,254 965
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.34% 4.56% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 5.02% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 795 600
10th Percentile £413 £363 £360
25th Percentile £481 £456 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £750
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £563 £555 £550
% change year-on-year +1.35% +0.91% -7.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 25 27
10th Percentile £24.59 £22.16 £19.60
25th Percentile £48.50 £30.61 £37.50
Median hourly rate £78.85 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.61% -11.30% +98.34%
75th Percentile £85.30 £73.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.40 £72.11
UK median hourly rate £77.35 £50.25 £56.25
% change year-on-year +53.93% -10.67% +87.50%

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 38,532 24,959 29,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.75% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,999 19,151
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,365 1,791
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.22 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -37 701 £600 -7.69% 647
North of England -13 264 £514 +0.15% 137
South East 0 244 £575 +4.55% 200
North West -27 131 £525 +2.68% 79
Yorkshire +5 130 £500 -4.76% 46
Midlands -46 105 £563 +19.94% 82
South West -11 102 £570 -0.87% 83
West Midlands -46 85 £550 +10.00% 51
East of England +22 64 £525 -4.55% 47
East Midlands -24 17 £537 +22.38% 31
North East -48 5 £454 -17.50% 13
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 62 (4.11%) Confluence
2 35 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.60%) SAS
4 4 (0.26%) IIS
4 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.066%) Appian
7 1 (0.066%) CMS
7 1 (0.066%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.066%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.066%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.066%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.066%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 48 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 31 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
5 4 (0.26%) Revit
5 4 (0.26%) Trello
6 3 (0.20%) Windchill
7 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.066%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.066%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 31 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.79%) Endur
3 9 (0.60%) Primavera
4 7 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.33%) Actimize
6 5 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.26%) Magento
7 4 (0.26%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.26%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.26%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.26%) SAP GRC
7 4 (0.26%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 229 (15.17%) Azure
2 158 (10.46%) AWS
3 69 (4.57%) GCP
4 52 (3.44%) Power Platform
5 50 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (3.25%) Entra ID
7 43 (2.85%) SaaS
8 31 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
10 22 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (1.19%) PaaS
13 17 (1.13%) Azure AI
13 17 (1.13%) GitHub
14 14 (0.93%) OCI
15 12 (0.79%) IaaS
16 11 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
16 11 (0.73%) Serverless
17 10 (0.66%) Copilot Studio
17 10 (0.66%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.18%) Network Security
2 36 (2.38%) Firewall
3 16 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 15 (0.99%) DNS
5 14 (0.93%) DHCP
6 12 (0.79%) 5G
6 12 (0.79%) WAN
7 10 (0.66%) 4G
7 10 (0.66%) BIG-IP
7 10 (0.66%) LAN
8 9 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (0.40%) HTTP
11 5 (0.33%) 3G
11 5 (0.33%) Internet
11 5 (0.33%) NAS
11 5 (0.33%) NGFW
11 5 (0.33%) SAN
11 5 (0.33%) VPN
12 4 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (2.45%) Power BI
2 26 (1.72%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.59%) Metadata
4 15 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.93%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.73%) Data Lake
6 11 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.60%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.60%) RDBMS
8 7 (0.46%) Big Data
9 6 (0.40%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.33%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.33%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (0.26%) Tableau
12 3 (0.20%) Db2
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 101 (6.69%) JIRA
2 20 (1.32%) Git
3 19 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.66%) Selenium
5 7 (0.46%) GitLab
6 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.33%) Postman
7 5 (0.33%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.33%) WebDriver
8 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (0.26%) DbUnit
8 4 (0.26%) jMock
8 4 (0.26%) JUnit
8 4 (0.26%) Maven
8 4 (0.26%) Mockito
8 4 (0.26%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.26%) Subversion
8 4 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 570 (37.75%) Social Skills
2 548 (36.29%) Finance
3 226 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (11.26%) Public Sector
5 164 (10.86%) Banking
6 112 (7.42%) Legal
7 61 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
8 59 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
9 42 (2.78%) Front Office
10 41 (2.72%) Aerospace
11 39 (2.58%) Telecoms
12 38 (2.52%) Financial Institution
13 35 (2.32%) Retail
14 31 (2.05%) Military
15 30 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
16 29 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
17 27 (1.79%) Manufacturing
18 25 (1.66%) Law
19 24 (1.59%) Investment Banking
20 22 (1.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 212 (14.04%) Lead
2 178 (11.79%) Project Manager
3 174 (11.52%) Architect
4 159 (10.53%) Senior
5 130 (8.61%) Analyst
6 97 (6.42%) Consultant
7 77 (5.10%) Security Architect
8 63 (4.17%) Programme Manager
9 56 (3.71%) Senior Manager
10 54 (3.58%) Developer
11 48 (3.18%) Business Analyst
11 48 (3.18%) Risk Manager
12 42 (2.78%) Security Consultant
13 40 (2.65%) IT Manager
14 39 (2.58%) Delivery Manager
15 36 (2.38%) Security Manager
16 34 (2.25%) Security Engineer
17 31 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
18 28 (1.85%) Product Manager
18 28 (1.85%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.72%) .NET
2 24 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
2 24 (1.59%) REST
3 18 (1.19%) Middleware
4 14 (0.93%) OAuth
5 13 (0.86%) JSON
5 13 (0.86%) XML
6 12 (0.79%) Kafka
6 12 (0.79%) OpenID
6 12 (0.79%) SAML
7 11 (0.73%) Azure Blueprints
7 11 (0.73%) Leaflet
7 11 (0.73%) React
7 11 (0.73%) SOAP
8 9 (0.60%) LDAP
8 9 (0.60%) SLSA
9 8 (0.53%) PySpark
9 8 (0.53%) RESTful
9 8 (0.53%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 101 (6.69%) Management Information System
2 82 (5.43%) Onboarding
3 77 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 66 (4.37%) Cloud Native
5 65 (4.30%) Security Posture
6 50 (3.31%) Operational Technology
7 46 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
8 39 (2.58%) Data Centre
9 28 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
10 26 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 26 (1.72%) Market Risk
10 26 (1.72%) PMI
11 24 (1.59%) Derivative
12 22 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
13 21 (1.39%) Fixed Income
13 21 (1.39%) NHS
14 18 (1.19%) Virtual Team
15 17 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
15 17 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.38%) Windows
2 41 (2.72%) Linux
3 25 (1.66%) Unix
4 19 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.33%) zOS
7 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.066%) Android
10 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (37.35%) Stakeholder Management
2 362 (23.97%) Agile
3 341 (22.58%) Cybersecurity
4 330 (21.85%) Continuous Improvement
5 329 (21.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 233 (15.43%) Project Management
7 229 (15.17%) Decision-Making
8 213 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
9 207 (13.71%) Roadmaps
10 195 (12.91%) AI
11 191 (12.65%) Information Security
12 157 (10.40%) Project Delivery
13 152 (10.07%) Change Management
14 134 (8.87%) DevOps
15 133 (8.81%) Migration
16 124 (8.21%) Vulnerability Management
17 122 (8.08%) Analytics
17 122 (8.08%) CI/CD
18 119 (7.88%) PRINCE2
19 111 (7.35%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 97 (6.42%) Python
2 76 (5.03%) SQL
3 43 (2.85%) Java
4 35 (2.32%) PowerShell
5 25 (1.66%) C#
6 16 (1.06%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.79%) VBA
8 9 (0.60%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.46%) Bash
10 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.40%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.26%) Assembly Language
11 4 (0.26%) Bicep
11 4 (0.26%) CLIST
11 4 (0.26%) JCL
11 4 (0.26%) REXX
12 3 (0.20%) C
12 3 (0.20%) C++
12 3 (0.20%) Go
12 3 (0.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 389 (25.76%) Security Cleared
2 292 (19.34%) SC Cleared
3 164 (10.86%) Degree
4 146 (9.67%) CISSP
5 94 (6.23%) DV Cleared
6 88 (5.83%) CISM
7 74 (4.90%) PMI Certification
8 70 (4.64%) PMP
9 40 (2.65%) CRISC
10 30 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 29 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 29 (1.92%) CISA
12 26 (1.72%) Master's Degree
12 26 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 25 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 21 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (0.99%) CESG Certified Professional
17 14 (0.93%) AWS Certification
17 14 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (12.78%) NIST
2 191 (12.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 147 (9.74%) GRC
4 99 (6.56%) GDPR
5 78 (5.17%) QA
6 64 (4.24%) PMO
7 56 (3.71%) Data Quality
8 48 (3.18%) NCSC
9 34 (2.25%) JSP 440
10 33 (2.19%) PCI DSS
11 29 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
11 29 (1.92%) SOC 2
12 28 (1.85%) NIST 800
12 28 (1.85%) SLA
13 17 (1.13%) Def Stans
14 14 (0.93%) Accessibility
14 14 (0.93%) COBIT
15 13 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 12 (0.79%) ISO 31000
16 12 (0.79%) RMADS
System Software
1 34 (2.25%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.93%) Docker
3 9 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.26%) Postfix
4 4 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
4 4 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.13%) FreeRADIUS
6 2 (0.13%) NFS
6 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (1.66%) Kubernetes
2 24 (1.59%) Terraform
3 22 (1.46%) Ansible
4 11 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.66%) SCCM
6 8 (0.53%) Grafana
6 8 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.26%) Control-M
9 4 (0.26%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.26%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.20%) CASB
10 3 (0.20%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.13%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 207 (13.71%) Microsoft
2 83 (5.50%) ServiceNow
3 73 (4.83%) SAP
4 59 (3.91%) Oracle
5 36 (2.38%) Google
6 19 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.06%) Splunk
8 15 (0.99%) Foundry
8 15 (0.99%) Workday
9 14 (0.93%) Cisco
10 12 (0.79%) Qualys
11 11 (0.73%) F5
12 10 (0.66%) IBM
12 10 (0.66%) Infoblox
13 9 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.60%) Databricks
13 9 (0.60%) Murex
13 9 (0.60%) Tenable
14 8 (0.53%) Okta
14 8 (0.53%) OpenAI