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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 50 62
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 +4
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,279 1,045 1,225
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.41% 4.30% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 4.74% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 641 835
10th Percentile £406 £363 £400
25th Percentile £474 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £713
90th Percentile £838 £834 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 38 35
10th Percentile £21.33 £27.79 £15.80
25th Percentile £40.97 £46.30 £35.67
Median hourly rate £74.68 £60.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.94% +1.25% +464.44%
75th Percentile £102.63 £77.52 £76.09
90th Percentile £107.00 £83.82 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £74.68 £61.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +21.44% +6.95% +440.92%

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 32,391 22,052 32,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.35% 90.83% 86.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,759 14,493 21,652
10th Percentile £313 £312 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £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 1,980 839 2,155
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.56 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.25 £32.81 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -0.58% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £75.44 £77.25 £71.89
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year - - -9.72%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -21 666 £600 -4.76% 260
North of England -6 202 £523 +3.31% 112
South East -9 188 £550 -4.35% 143
Midlands -44 105 £537 +6.97% 70
North West -9 103 £540 +8.32% 65
Yorkshire -1 98 £500 - 39
West Midlands -36 72 £510 -5.12% 55
South West -1 57 £537 +8.76% 40
East of England -31 35 £518 -8.41% 31
East Midlands -30 33 £550 +22.22% 15
North East -24 1 - - 8
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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 23 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.47%) SAS
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.16%) nginx
8 1 (0.078%) CMS
8 1 (0.078%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.078%) IIS
8 1 (0.078%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.078%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.078%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 61 (4.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (4.07%) Microsoft Project
3 32 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.31%) Trello
7 2 (0.16%) Revit
7 2 (0.16%) Windchill
8 1 (0.078%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.078%) Navisworks
Business Applications
1 14 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.63%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.47%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.47%) Primavera
5 6 (0.47%) Summit
6 5 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.23%) Endur
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.23%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.16%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.16%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 140 (10.95%) Azure
2 121 (9.46%) AWS
3 49 (3.83%) GCP
4 45 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (3.13%) Power Platform
6 30 (2.35%) Entra ID
7 29 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (1.80%) SaaS
9 22 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
10 21 (1.64%) Google Workspace
11 18 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (1.41%) Google Sheets
12 15 (1.17%) GitHub
13 12 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (0.86%) OCI
15 10 (0.78%) OpenShift
16 9 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
17 8 (0.63%) Amazon S3
17 8 (0.63%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.74%) Network Security
2 29 (2.27%) Firewall
3 10 (0.78%) DNS
3 10 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (0.70%) Internet
4 9 (0.70%) Kerberos
5 8 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
6 7 (0.55%) DHCP
7 6 (0.47%) HTTP
7 6 (0.47%) LAN
7 6 (0.47%) WAN
8 5 (0.39%) 5G
8 5 (0.39%) BIG-IP
9 4 (0.31%) Cisco IPT
10 3 (0.23%) Broadband
10 3 (0.23%) NGFW
10 3 (0.23%) SAN
10 3 (0.23%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.23%) VPN
11 2 (0.16%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (2.58%) Power BI
2 21 (1.64%) Metadata
3 19 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (1.02%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.86%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.47%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.47%) RDBMS
7 6 (0.47%) Tableau
8 5 (0.39%) Big Data
8 5 (0.39%) KDB
8 5 (0.39%) Kdb+
8 5 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.31%) Data Mart
9 4 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.31%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.31%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 126 (9.85%) JIRA
2 15 (1.17%) Git
3 9 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.39%) GitLab
5 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (0.16%) DbUnit
6 2 (0.16%) jMock
6 2 (0.16%) JUnit
6 2 (0.16%) Maven
6 2 (0.16%) Mockito
6 2 (0.16%) QUnit
6 2 (0.16%) Selenium
6 2 (0.16%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.16%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.16%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.078%) Appium
7 1 (0.078%) Flyway
7 1 (0.078%) Liquibase
General
1 486 (38.00%) Social Skills
2 484 (37.84%) Finance
3 215 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (13.37%) Banking
5 128 (10.01%) Public Sector
6 104 (8.13%) Legal
7 51 (3.99%) Influencing Skills
8 48 (3.75%) Front Office
9 38 (2.97%) Investment Banking
10 37 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (2.81%) Financial Institution
12 33 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (2.42%) Retail
14 25 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
15 20 (1.56%) Telecoms
16 19 (1.49%) Military
17 18 (1.41%) Marketing
18 17 (1.33%) Aerospace
19 16 (1.25%) Manufacturing
20 14 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 165 (12.90%) Project Manager
2 155 (12.12%) Lead
3 138 (10.79%) Analyst
4 136 (10.63%) Senior
5 108 (8.44%) Architect
6 100 (7.82%) Consultant
7 73 (5.71%) Developer
8 65 (5.08%) Programme Manager
9 62 (4.85%) Business Analyst
10 52 (4.07%) Security Architect
11 47 (3.67%) Senior Manager
12 43 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
13 42 (3.28%) Security Consultant
14 37 (2.89%) Risk Manager
15 33 (2.58%) Risk Analyst
16 31 (2.42%) Senior Developer
17 29 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
18 27 (2.11%) Security Engineer
19 25 (1.95%) Security Manager
20 23 (1.80%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.03%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (1.33%) Kafka
3 16 (1.25%) REST
4 14 (1.09%) OAuth
5 13 (1.02%) XML
6 12 (0.94%) SAML
7 10 (0.78%) .NET
7 10 (0.78%) Middleware
8 9 (0.70%) COM
8 9 (0.70%) Dask
8 9 (0.70%) NumPy
8 9 (0.70%) Pandas
9 8 (0.63%) Leaflet
10 7 (0.55%) .NET Framework
10 7 (0.55%) PyTorch
10 7 (0.55%) RESTful
11 6 (0.47%) LDAP
11 6 (0.47%) OpenID
11 6 (0.47%) scikit-learn
11 6 (0.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 126 (9.85%) Management Information System
2 68 (5.32%) Product Ownership
3 62 (4.85%) Derivative
4 55 (4.30%) Security Posture
5 48 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 39 (3.05%) Cloud Native
7 36 (2.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 35 (2.74%) Equities
8 35 (2.74%) Market Risk
9 32 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
10 31 (2.42%) Data Centre
11 26 (2.03%) Operational Technology
12 25 (1.95%) Algorithms
13 24 (1.88%) Fixed Income
14 23 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
14 23 (1.80%) Credit Risk
15 22 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
16 19 (1.49%) NHS
17 17 (1.33%) Hedge funds
18 16 (1.25%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.27%) Linux
2 25 (1.95%) Windows
3 14 (1.09%) Unix
4 5 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.23%) VMS
6 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.23%) zOS
7 2 (0.16%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.078%) Android
8 1 (0.078%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (29.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 315 (24.63%) Agile
3 259 (20.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 242 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
5 221 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 205 (16.03%) Cybersecurity
7 201 (15.72%) Project Management
8 175 (13.68%) Decision-Making
9 154 (12.04%) Information Security
10 145 (11.34%) Roadmaps
11 140 (10.95%) Change Management
12 126 (9.85%) Project Delivery
13 117 (9.15%) AI
13 117 (9.15%) Analytics
13 117 (9.15%) Migration
14 114 (8.91%) Regulatory Compliance
15 103 (8.05%) PRINCE2
16 99 (7.74%) Data Protection
17 93 (7.27%) Scrum
18 90 (7.04%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 120 (9.38%) SQL
2 102 (7.97%) Python
3 47 (3.67%) Java
4 32 (2.50%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.72%) C++
6 21 (1.64%) C#
7 14 (1.09%) VBA
8 6 (0.47%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.39%) Bash
9 5 (0.39%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.39%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.31%) Korn
11 3 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.23%) Perl
12 2 (0.16%) R
12 2 (0.16%) RPG
12 2 (0.16%) Rust
12 2 (0.16%) Scala
12 2 (0.16%) Solidity
13 1 (0.078%) Go
Qualifications
1 284 (22.20%) Security Cleared
2 211 (16.50%) Degree
3 209 (16.34%) SC Cleared
4 109 (8.52%) CISSP
5 79 (6.18%) CISM
6 71 (5.55%) DV Cleared
7 68 (5.32%) PMI Certification
7 68 (5.32%) PMP
8 39 (3.05%) Master's Degree
9 34 (2.66%) CRISC
10 27 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (1.41%) CISA
13 15 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
14 14 (1.09%) PhD
15 12 (0.94%) CESG Certified Professional
15 12 (0.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 10 (0.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (12.43%) NIST
2 152 (11.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 105 (8.21%) GDPR
4 104 (8.13%) GRC
5 83 (6.49%) PMO
6 67 (5.24%) QA
7 50 (3.91%) PCI DSS
8 44 (3.44%) Data Quality
9 41 (3.21%) NCSC
10 25 (1.95%) SLA
11 23 (1.80%) SOC 2
12 22 (1.72%) JSP 440
13 21 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 20 (1.56%) COBIT
14 20 (1.56%) NIST 800
15 19 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
16 16 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 15 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (1.17%) RMADS
18 11 (0.86%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 25 (1.95%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.78%) Docker
3 7 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.23%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.16%) Postfix
7 1 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.078%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.078%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (1.41%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.25%) Terraform
3 15 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.70%) SCCM
5 7 (0.55%) Ansible
6 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.23%) CASB
6 3 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.23%) QRadar
7 2 (0.16%) Control-M
7 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.16%) Grafana
7 2 (0.16%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.16%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.16%) Nessus
7 2 (0.16%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.16%) OpenVAS
7 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.16%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 154 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 67 (5.24%) Oracle
3 57 (4.46%) ServiceNow
4 49 (3.83%) SAP
5 42 (3.28%) Google
6 22 (1.72%) Murex
7 18 (1.41%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.41%) Workday
8 10 (0.78%) Cisco
8 10 (0.78%) Splunk
9 9 (0.70%) Databricks
9 9 (0.70%) VMware
10 8 (0.63%) F5
10 8 (0.63%) Informatica
11 7 (0.55%) CyberArk
11 7 (0.55%) IBM
11 7 (0.55%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.47%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.47%) Charles River
13 5 (0.39%) Ariba