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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 48 77
Rank change year-on-year -22 +29 -12
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,493 1,239 1,026
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.34% 4.56% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 5.03% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 775 650
10th Percentile £413 £388 £360
25th Percentile £487 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £750
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £569 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -1.09% +4.55% -6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 24 30
10th Percentile £22.86 £24.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £49.06 £46.30 £33.86
Median hourly rate £80.00 £53.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% +6.00% +318.76%
75th Percentile £85.84 £76.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £105.63 £87.43 £67.75
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £53.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +41.51% +11.58% +297.82%

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 38,234 24,648 31,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.43% 90.68% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,071 15,798 20,362
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 1,309 2,214
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.70 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -34 698 £600 -10.91% 348
North of England -9 261 £514 - 121
South East -1 237 £575 +4.55% 144
North West -20 132 £533 +4.15% 74
Yorkshire -1 127 £500 -4.76% 38
Midlands -42 114 £550 +15.79% 63
South West -5 93 £570 -0.87% 64
West Midlands -38 87 £540 +8.00% 37
East of England +15 59 £525 -4.55% 36
East Midlands -15 26 £550 +23.66% 26
North East -42 4 £454 -17.50% 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 59 (3.95%) Confluence
2 34 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.60%) SAS
4 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.27%) IIS
6 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.067%) Appian
8 1 (0.067%) CMS
8 1 (0.067%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.067%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.067%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.067%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.067%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 47 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (2.28%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.27%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.27%) Revit
6 4 (0.27%) Trello
7 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.20%) Windchill
8 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.067%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 32 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.80%) Endur
3 7 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.40%) Actimize
4 6 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.40%) Primavera
5 5 (0.33%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.33%) Summit
6 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.27%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.27%) Magento
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.27%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.27%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 224 (15.00%) Azure
2 151 (10.11%) AWS
3 68 (4.55%) GCP
4 51 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (3.42%) Power Platform
5 50 (3.35%) Entra ID
6 38 (2.55%) SaaS
7 29 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (1.88%) Microsoft Purview
9 23 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
10 18 (1.21%) PaaS
11 17 (1.14%) GitHub
12 15 (1.00%) Azure AI
12 15 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (0.87%) Google Workspace
13 13 (0.87%) IaaS
14 12 (0.80%) OCI
15 10 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (0.67%) Copilot Studio
15 10 (0.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.08%) Network Security
2 35 (2.34%) Firewall
3 15 (1.00%) DNS
3 15 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.94%) DHCP
5 11 (0.74%) 5G
5 11 (0.74%) BIG-IP
5 11 (0.74%) WAN
6 9 (0.60%) 4G
6 9 (0.60%) LAN
6 9 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (0.40%) HTTP
9 5 (0.33%) 3G
9 5 (0.33%) Internet
9 5 (0.33%) NAS
9 5 (0.33%) NGFW
9 5 (0.33%) SAN
9 5 (0.33%) VPN
10 4 (0.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (2.34%) Power BI
2 27 (1.81%) Metadata
3 22 (1.47%) SQL Server
4 15 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (1.00%) Relational Database
5 12 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (0.67%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.67%) RDBMS
7 8 (0.54%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.47%) Big Data
9 5 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.33%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.33%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.33%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.27%) Tableau
11 3 (0.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 101 (6.76%) JIRA
2 19 (1.27%) Git
2 19 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 8 (0.54%) Selenium
4 7 (0.47%) GitLab
5 5 (0.33%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.27%) DbUnit
6 4 (0.27%) jMock
6 4 (0.27%) JUnit
6 4 (0.27%) Maven
6 4 (0.27%) Mockito
6 4 (0.27%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.27%) Subversion
6 4 (0.27%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.20%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.20%) MLflow
7 3 (0.20%) Postman
General
1 565 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 551 (36.91%) Finance
3 224 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (11.45%) Public Sector
5 162 (10.85%) Banking
6 120 (8.04%) Legal
7 59 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
8 55 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
9 39 (2.61%) Financial Institution
9 39 (2.61%) Front Office
10 36 (2.41%) Aerospace
10 36 (2.41%) Telecoms
11 34 (2.28%) Retail
12 31 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
13 28 (1.88%) Military
14 26 (1.74%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.67%) Law
16 24 (1.61%) Investment Banking
17 22 (1.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 207 (13.86%) Lead
2 177 (11.86%) Project Manager
3 172 (11.52%) Architect
4 150 (10.05%) Senior
5 132 (8.84%) Analyst
6 84 (5.63%) Consultant
7 71 (4.76%) Security Architect
8 66 (4.42%) Programme Manager
9 60 (4.02%) Senior Manager
10 55 (3.68%) Developer
11 54 (3.62%) Business Analyst
12 47 (3.15%) Risk Manager
13 37 (2.48%) IT Manager
14 36 (2.41%) Delivery Manager
14 36 (2.41%) Security Engineer
15 34 (2.28%) Security Consultant
15 34 (2.28%) Security Manager
16 29 (1.94%) Senior Project Manager
16 29 (1.94%) Solutions Architect
17 27 (1.81%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.67%) .NET
1 25 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (1.41%) REST
3 17 (1.14%) Middleware
4 15 (1.00%) XML
5 13 (0.87%) JSON
6 12 (0.80%) Kafka
6 12 (0.80%) OAuth
7 11 (0.74%) Azure Blueprints
7 11 (0.74%) Leaflet
7 11 (0.74%) OpenID
7 11 (0.74%) React
7 11 (0.74%) SAML
7 11 (0.74%) SOAP
8 9 (0.60%) LDAP
8 9 (0.60%) SLSA
8 9 (0.60%) Web Services
9 8 (0.54%) PySpark
9 8 (0.54%) RESTful
10 7 (0.47%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 98 (6.56%) Management Information System
2 81 (5.43%) Onboarding
3 75 (5.02%) Product Ownership
4 61 (4.09%) Security Posture
5 60 (4.02%) Cloud Native
6 50 (3.35%) Operational Technology
7 47 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
8 41 (2.75%) Data Centre
9 30 (2.01%) Market Risk
10 28 (1.88%) Derivative
11 26 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
11 26 (1.74%) PMI
12 25 (1.67%) AI Agents
13 24 (1.61%) Fixed Income
14 23 (1.54%) NHS
15 22 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
16 17 (1.14%) Credit Risk
16 17 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
16 17 (1.14%) SCADA
16 17 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (3.35%) Windows
2 40 (2.68%) Linux
3 26 (1.74%) Unix
4 20 (1.34%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.33%) zOS
8 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.067%) AIX
11 1 (0.067%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (35.16%) Stakeholder Management
2 357 (23.91%) Agile
3 333 (22.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 323 (21.63%) Cybersecurity
5 316 (21.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 233 (15.61%) Project Management
7 224 (15.00%) Decision-Making
8 213 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
9 210 (14.07%) Roadmaps
10 189 (12.66%) Information Security
11 187 (12.53%) AI
12 163 (10.92%) Change Management
13 145 (9.71%) Project Delivery
14 138 (9.24%) Migration
15 129 (8.64%) Analytics
16 127 (8.51%) DevOps
17 117 (7.84%) PRINCE2
18 116 (7.77%) Vulnerability Management
19 114 (7.64%) CI/CD
20 113 (7.57%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 99 (6.63%) Python
2 87 (5.83%) SQL
3 42 (2.81%) Java
4 36 (2.41%) PowerShell
5 23 (1.54%) C#
6 16 (1.07%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.80%) VBA
8 9 (0.60%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.47%) Bash
9 7 (0.47%) Shell Script
9 7 (0.47%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.27%) Assembly Language
10 4 (0.27%) Bicep
10 4 (0.27%) CLIST
10 4 (0.27%) Go
10 4 (0.27%) JCL
10 4 (0.27%) REXX
11 3 (0.20%) C
11 3 (0.20%) Scala
12 2 (0.13%) ProC
Qualifications
1 376 (25.18%) Security Cleared
2 278 (18.62%) SC Cleared
3 176 (11.79%) Degree
4 146 (9.78%) CISSP
5 93 (6.23%) DV Cleared
6 86 (5.76%) CISM
7 75 (5.02%) PMI Certification
8 70 (4.69%) PMP
9 38 (2.55%) CRISC
10 33 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 27 (1.81%) Master's Degree
13 26 (1.74%) CISA
14 25 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 23 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
16 21 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 21 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
17 14 (0.94%) AWS Certification
17 14 (0.94%) CESG Certified Professional
17 14 (0.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (12.39%) NIST
2 184 (12.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 143 (9.58%) GRC
4 104 (6.97%) GDPR
5 71 (4.76%) QA
6 67 (4.49%) PMO
7 56 (3.75%) Data Quality
8 47 (3.15%) NCSC
9 35 (2.34%) PCI DSS
10 33 (2.21%) JSP 440
11 30 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials
11 30 (2.01%) SOC 2
12 29 (1.94%) NIST 800
13 28 (1.88%) SLA
14 17 (1.14%) Def Stans
15 15 (1.00%) COBIT
16 14 (0.94%) RMADS
17 13 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 12 (0.80%) Accessibility
18 12 (0.80%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 35 (2.34%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.94%) Docker
3 9 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.27%) Postfix
5 4 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.067%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.067%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.41%) Terraform
3 20 (1.34%) Ansible
4 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.74%) SCCM
6 8 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.47%) Grafana
7 7 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.27%) Control-M
9 4 (0.27%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.20%) CASB
11 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.13%) Nessus
11 2 (0.13%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 213 (14.27%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.43%) ServiceNow
3 71 (4.76%) SAP
4 62 (4.15%) Oracle
5 42 (2.81%) Google
6 19 (1.27%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.14%) Cisco
8 16 (1.07%) Workday
9 15 (1.00%) Splunk
10 14 (0.94%) Foundry
11 13 (0.87%) F5
12 12 (0.80%) Murex
12 12 (0.80%) Qualys
13 11 (0.74%) VMware
14 10 (0.67%) IBM
14 10 (0.67%) Infoblox
15 9 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
15 9 (0.60%) Tenable
16 8 (0.54%) Databricks
16 8 (0.54%) OpenAI