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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 49 59
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 +17
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,137 1,137 1,303
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 4.22% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 4.74% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 644 893
10th Percentile £390 £385 £413
25th Percentile £460 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £579 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% +0.70% -4.25%
75th Percentile £699 £700 £700
90th Percentile £861 £834 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 36 50
10th Percentile £22.16 £26.06 £40.31
25th Percentile - £40.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £66.66
Median % change year-on-year -44.17% -9.98% +580.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.10 £83.40
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.60 £83.41
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -44.17% -2.44% +527.55%

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 27,490 23,991 31,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.32% 89.05% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,508 14,731 21,614
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,729 768 1,481
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.59 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.99 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -6 616 £601 -3.92% 160
North of England -22 162 £490 -8.46% 117
South East -9 147 £511 -9.51% 203
Yorkshire +12 81 £487 -10.23% 53
North West -37 79 £488 -2.01% 54
Midlands -51 74 £475 -17.39% 93
South West -2 72 £575 +17.95% 76
West Midlands -49 46 £500 -13.98% 50
East of England -33 35 £553 -3.83% 73
East Midlands -22 28 £444 -6.63% 41
North East -16 2 £550 -13.73% 10
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 46 (4.05%) Confluence
2 22 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.88%) SAS
6 8 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.70%) CMS
7 4 (0.35%) CICS
8 3 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.18%) IIS
9 2 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.088%) Camunda
10 1 (0.088%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.088%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.088%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.088%) Tomcat
Applications
1 74 (6.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (4.22%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.23%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.35%) Revit
6 4 (0.35%) Trello
7 3 (0.26%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.18%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 24 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.62%) SAP CO
3 7 (0.62%) SAP FI
3 7 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.35%) Endur
5 4 (0.35%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.35%) Primavera
5 4 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.35%) VisionPLUS
6 3 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.26%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.18%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 114 (10.03%) Azure
2 110 (9.67%) AWS
3 56 (4.93%) GCP
4 43 (3.78%) Power Platform
5 31 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (2.29%) Entra ID
6 26 (2.29%) SaaS
7 19 (1.67%) GitHub
8 16 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
9 13 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (0.97%) OCI
11 10 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (0.88%) Google Workspace
12 9 (0.79%) dbt
13 8 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (0.70%) Google Sheets
14 7 (0.62%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (0.62%) OpenShift
15 6 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.25%) Firewall
2 22 (1.93%) Network Security
3 9 (0.79%) Internet
3 9 (0.79%) Kerberos
4 7 (0.62%) LAN
4 7 (0.62%) WAN
4 7 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.53%) VPN
6 5 (0.44%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.44%) DNS
6 5 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.35%) 5G
8 3 (0.26%) Broadband
8 3 (0.26%) HTTP
8 3 (0.26%) Multicast
8 3 (0.26%) S/MIME
8 3 (0.26%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.26%) SSL
9 2 (0.18%) DHCP
9 2 (0.18%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.25%) Power BI
2 33 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.76%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.97%) Metadata
7 10 (0.88%) NoSQL
7 10 (0.88%) Tableau
8 8 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (0.70%) Apache Arrow
8 8 (0.70%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (0.70%) Dremio
8 8 (0.70%) KDB
8 8 (0.70%) Kdb+
9 7 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.62%) Big Data
9 7 (0.62%) MySQL
10 6 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.53%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 108 (9.50%) JIRA
2 17 (1.50%) Git
3 11 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.79%) SpecFlow
5 6 (0.53%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.44%) QUnit
7 4 (0.35%) Gradle
7 4 (0.35%) Maven
7 4 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.35%) SonarLint
8 3 (0.26%) GCC
8 3 (0.26%) GDB
8 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.18%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.18%) GitLab
9 2 (0.18%) Postman
10 1 (0.088%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.088%) MLflow
10 1 (0.088%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.088%) SoapUI
General
1 479 (42.13%) Social Skills
2 461 (40.55%) Finance
3 195 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (15.22%) Banking
5 107 (9.41%) Public Sector
6 95 (8.36%) Legal
7 57 (5.01%) Front Office
8 49 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
9 48 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
10 39 (3.43%) Investment Banking
11 31 (2.73%) Financial Institution
12 23 (2.02%) Retail
13 21 (1.85%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (1.85%) Telecoms
14 20 (1.76%) Law
15 19 (1.67%) Local Government
16 18 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (1.58%) Military
17 15 (1.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 149 (13.10%) Analyst
2 141 (12.40%) Project Manager
3 116 (10.20%) Senior
4 104 (9.15%) Lead
5 103 (9.06%) Developer
6 94 (8.27%) Consultant
7 82 (7.21%) Architect
8 55 (4.84%) Business Analyst
9 44 (3.87%) Programme Manager
10 38 (3.34%) Senior Developer
11 37 (3.25%) Delivery Manager
12 35 (3.08%) Security Consultant
13 34 (2.99%) Risk Analyst
14 32 (2.81%) Security Analyst
14 32 (2.81%) Senior Manager
15 30 (2.64%) Risk Manager
16 29 (2.55%) Security Architect
16 29 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
17 27 (2.37%) IT Manager
18 26 (2.29%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.93%) Kafka
2 17 (1.50%) NumPy
2 17 (1.50%) Pandas
2 17 (1.50%) REST
3 15 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (1.23%) .NET
4 14 (1.23%) RESTful
5 13 (1.14%) .NET Framework
5 13 (1.14%) AngularJS
5 13 (1.14%) OAuth
6 12 (1.06%) React
6 12 (1.06%) SAML
6 12 (1.06%) XML
7 11 (0.97%) Middleware
8 10 (0.88%) Playwright
9 9 (0.79%) COM
9 9 (0.79%) Dask
9 9 (0.79%) Entity Framework
9 9 (0.79%) NHibernate
10 8 (0.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 131 (11.52%) Management Information System
2 59 (5.19%) Product Ownership
2 59 (5.19%) Security Posture
3 58 (5.10%) Derivative
4 48 (4.22%) Onboarding
5 45 (3.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 41 (3.61%) Equities
7 35 (3.08%) Market Risk
8 29 (2.55%) Fixed Income
9 28 (2.46%) Algorithms
9 28 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
10 27 (2.37%) Cloud Native
10 27 (2.37%) Credit Risk
10 27 (2.37%) Data Centre
11 25 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
13 17 (1.50%) Hedge funds
14 16 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
15 15 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
16 13 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.73%) Linux
2 22 (1.93%) Windows
3 18 (1.58%) Unix
4 4 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.26%) VMS
6 1 (0.088%) Android
6 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.088%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (26.47%) Stakeholder Management
2 284 (24.98%) Agile
3 226 (19.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 225 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
5 188 (16.53%) Cybersecurity
6 183 (16.09%) Project Management
7 158 (13.90%) Decision-Making
8 157 (13.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 139 (12.23%) Information Security
10 115 (10.11%) Project Delivery
11 101 (8.88%) Change Management
12 100 (8.80%) Migration
13 97 (8.53%) Roadmaps
14 95 (8.36%) Analytics
15 91 (8.00%) AI
16 88 (7.74%) PRINCE2
17 87 (7.65%) Regulatory Compliance
18 82 (7.21%) Incident Response
19 81 (7.12%) Scrum
20 78 (6.86%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 112 (9.85%) Python
2 106 (9.32%) SQL
3 48 (4.22%) Java
4 28 (2.46%) C++
5 25 (2.20%) C#
6 22 (1.93%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.14%) JavaScript
7 13 (1.14%) VBA
8 9 (0.79%) R
9 8 (0.70%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.44%) JCL
10 5 (0.44%) Korn
11 4 (0.35%) COBOL
12 3 (0.26%) Bash
12 3 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.26%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.18%) Rust
13 2 (0.18%) Scala
13 2 (0.18%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.18%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 220 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 201 (17.68%) Degree
3 163 (14.34%) SC Cleared
4 101 (8.88%) CISSP
5 73 (6.42%) CISM
6 68 (5.98%) PMI Certification
7 64 (5.63%) PMP
8 54 (4.75%) Master's Degree
9 51 (4.49%) DV Cleared
10 33 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (2.20%) CISA
13 23 (2.02%) CRISC
14 20 (1.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 16 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
16 15 (1.32%) PhD
17 10 (0.88%) CESG Certified Professional
17 10 (0.88%) GIAC
18 9 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (12.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 132 (11.61%) NIST
3 97 (8.53%) GDPR
4 84 (7.39%) GRC
5 64 (5.63%) PMO
6 62 (5.45%) QA
7 37 (3.25%) PCI DSS
8 33 (2.90%) NCSC
9 29 (2.55%) Data Quality
10 26 (2.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (1.58%) COBIT
12 16 (1.41%) EU AI Act
13 15 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 12 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
16 11 (0.97%) Def Stans
16 11 (0.97%) SLA
17 10 (0.88%) Accessibility
17 10 (0.88%) Basel III
17 10 (0.88%) RMADS
System Software
1 27 (2.37%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.58%) Docker
3 6 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.088%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.088%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.088%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (1.76%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.50%) Terraform
3 10 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.62%) Ansible
5 6 (0.53%) RSA Archer
6 5 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.26%) QRadar
8 2 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (0.18%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.18%) Grafana
8 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.088%) Consul
9 1 (0.088%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.088%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.088%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.088%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.088%) Packer
9 1 (0.088%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 135 (11.87%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.19%) SAP
3 48 (4.22%) ServiceNow
4 47 (4.13%) Oracle
5 27 (2.37%) Google
6 18 (1.58%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.06%) Murex
7 12 (1.06%) Splunk
8 11 (0.97%) Databricks
9 8 (0.70%) CyberArk
9 8 (0.70%) IBM
10 7 (0.62%) Citrix
11 6 (0.53%) Bloomberg
11 6 (0.53%) Informatica
11 6 (0.53%) Workday
12 5 (0.44%) Ariba
12 5 (0.44%) BiZZdesign
12 5 (0.44%) Cisco
12 5 (0.44%) Solace
13 4 (0.35%) Autodesk