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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 49 67
Rank change year-on-year -20 +18 -5
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,610 1,230 1,035
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.53% 4.52% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 4.98% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,014 785 630
10th Percentile £406 £363 £384
25th Percentile £481 £450 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £685 £738 £738
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £574 £560
% change year-on-year -4.10% +2.41% -6.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 19 23
10th Percentile £24.37 £22.16 £30.35
25th Percentile £46.25 £24.20 £40.00
Median hourly rate £67.05 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.46% -11.30% +15.00%
75th Percentile £80.00 £69.38 £66.25
90th Percentile £87.19 £87.30 £75.32
UK median hourly rate £64.09 £49.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +29.47% -13.91% +17.35%

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 38,742 24,707 27,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,892 15,711 17,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,598 1,453 1,393
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.41
25th Percentile £18.34 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -28 776 £600 -7.69% 2,137
North of England -10 269 £511 +2.26% 323
South East +10 248 £575 +4.55% 351
North West -16 136 £525 +2.68% 200
Yorkshire +2 127 £500 - 97
South West -17 113 £600 +4.35% 208
Midlands -42 103 £550 +17.27% 186
West Midlands -31 80 £525 +5.00% 108
East of England +7 65 £513 -14.58% 108
East Midlands -34 20 £547 +36.07% 78
North East -36 6 £454 - 31
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 61 (3.79%) Confluence
2 40 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.62%) SAS
4 4 (0.25%) IIS
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.12%) CMS
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.062%) Apache
7 1 (0.062%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.062%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.062%) Appian
7 1 (0.062%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.062%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.062%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.062%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.062%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 60 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.25%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.25%) Revit
7 3 (0.19%) Windchill
8 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.062%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 39 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.87%) Endur
3 11 (0.68%) SAP GRC
4 9 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.50%) Primavera
6 7 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.25%) Actimize
8 4 (0.25%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.25%) Magento
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.19%) Findur
9 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.19%) Summit
9 3 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 238 (14.78%) Azure
2 163 (10.12%) AWS
3 70 (4.35%) GCP
4 67 (4.16%) Power Platform
5 55 (3.42%) Entra ID
6 50 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
7 47 (2.92%) SaaS
8 30 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
10 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
11 20 (1.24%) OCI
12 18 (1.12%) Azure AI
12 18 (1.12%) PaaS
13 15 (0.93%) GitHub
14 12 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
14 12 (0.75%) IaaS
15 11 (0.68%) Copilot Studio
15 11 (0.68%) PowerApps
15 11 (0.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 56 (3.48%) Network Security
2 40 (2.48%) Firewall
3 18 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.99%) DNS
5 15 (0.93%) WAN
6 14 (0.87%) DHCP
6 14 (0.87%) LAN
7 13 (0.81%) 5G
8 11 (0.68%) 4G
9 8 (0.50%) BIG-IP
10 7 (0.43%) VPN
11 6 (0.37%) Cisco IPT
11 6 (0.37%) Internet
11 6 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.31%) 3G
12 5 (0.31%) Kerberos
12 5 (0.31%) Wireless
13 4 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
13 4 (0.25%) SAN
13 4 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.17%) Power BI
2 34 (2.11%) Metadata
3 32 (1.99%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.93%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.68%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.62%) MongoDB
7 10 (0.62%) Oracle Database
8 9 (0.56%) RDBMS
9 7 (0.43%) Big Data
9 7 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.31%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (0.31%) Tableau
11 4 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.25%) Ataccama
11 4 (0.25%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.25%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (0.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 105 (6.52%) JIRA
2 19 (1.18%) Git
3 17 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.68%) Selenium
5 9 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 7 (0.43%) Postman
7 6 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.37%) WebDriver
8 5 (0.31%) GitLab
8 5 (0.31%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.25%) Maven
9 4 (0.25%) Subversion
10 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.19%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.19%) Gradle
10 3 (0.19%) jMock
10 3 (0.19%) JUnit
10 3 (0.19%) Mockito
General
1 642 (39.88%) Social Skills
2 575 (35.71%) Finance
3 263 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (11.99%) Public Sector
5 173 (10.75%) Banking
6 121 (7.52%) Legal
7 74 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
9 62 (3.85%) Front Office
10 47 (2.92%) Aerospace
11 42 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
12 39 (2.42%) Military
12 39 (2.42%) Telecoms
13 38 (2.36%) Manufacturing
14 36 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
14 36 (2.24%) Retail
15 35 (2.17%) Financial Institution
16 32 (1.99%) Law
17 31 (1.93%) Investment Banking
18 22 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 214 (13.29%) Lead
2 193 (11.99%) Architect
3 169 (10.50%) Project Manager
4 156 (9.69%) Senior
5 154 (9.57%) Analyst
6 97 (6.02%) Consultant
7 83 (5.16%) Security Architect
8 72 (4.47%) Programme Manager
9 55 (3.42%) Developer
10 53 (3.29%) Business Analyst
11 51 (3.17%) Senior Manager
12 47 (2.92%) IT Manager
13 42 (2.61%) Risk Manager
14 39 (2.42%) Security Consultant
15 37 (2.30%) Delivery Manager
16 35 (2.17%) Security Engineer
17 33 (2.05%) Security Manager
18 31 (1.93%) Risk Analyst
19 30 (1.86%) Solutions Architect
19 30 (1.86%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.17%) Terraform
2 31 (1.93%) .NET
3 28 (1.74%) REST
4 22 (1.37%) Middleware
5 21 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
6 14 (0.87%) Kafka
6 14 (0.87%) OAuth
7 13 (0.81%) XML
8 12 (0.75%) JSON
8 12 (0.75%) SAML
9 11 (0.68%) OpenID
9 11 (0.68%) React
9 11 (0.68%) SLSA
10 10 (0.62%) SOAP
11 9 (0.56%) LDAP
11 9 (0.56%) SailPoint
12 8 (0.50%) Azure Blueprints
12 8 (0.50%) Leaflet
12 8 (0.50%) RESTful
13 7 (0.43%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 100 (6.21%) Onboarding
2 96 (5.96%) Management Information System
3 76 (4.72%) Product Ownership
4 72 (4.47%) Security Posture
5 60 (3.73%) Cloud Native
6 49 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
7 44 (2.73%) Operational Technology
8 37 (2.30%) Data Centre
9 36 (2.24%) Cyber Threat
10 31 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (1.86%) Market Risk
12 26 (1.61%) AI Agents
13 24 (1.49%) Derivative
14 23 (1.43%) PMI
15 22 (1.37%) Credit Risk
16 21 (1.30%) Data Structures
16 21 (1.30%) Fixed Income
16 21 (1.30%) NHS
17 19 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 59 (3.66%) Windows
2 44 (2.73%) Linux
3 30 (1.86%) Unix
4 20 (1.24%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.37%) zOS
7 5 (0.31%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.19%) AIX
9 3 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.062%) Android
11 1 (0.062%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 649 (40.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 408 (25.34%) Cybersecurity
3 388 (24.10%) Agile
4 357 (22.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 350 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 267 (16.58%) Decision-Making
7 232 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
8 225 (13.98%) Project Management
9 221 (13.73%) AI
10 215 (13.35%) Roadmaps
11 200 (12.42%) Information Security
12 186 (11.55%) Project Delivery
13 155 (9.63%) Migration
14 149 (9.25%) DevOps
15 146 (9.07%) Change Management
16 142 (8.82%) Analytics
17 140 (8.70%) Vulnerability Management
18 134 (8.32%) PRINCE2
19 132 (8.20%) CI/CD
20 123 (7.64%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 109 (6.77%) Python
2 82 (5.09%) SQL
3 35 (2.17%) PowerShell
4 34 (2.11%) Java
5 28 (1.74%) C#
6 17 (1.06%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.68%) Bash
7 11 (0.68%) VBA
8 8 (0.50%) PL/SQL
8 8 (0.50%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.37%) Go
9 6 (0.37%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.31%) Bicep
10 5 (0.31%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.25%) Assembly Language
11 4 (0.25%) C++
11 4 (0.25%) CLIST
11 4 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.25%) JCL
11 4 (0.25%) REXX
Qualifications
1 442 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 320 (19.88%) SC Cleared
3 158 (9.81%) Degree
4 145 (9.01%) CISSP
5 110 (6.83%) DV Cleared
6 93 (5.78%) CISM
7 80 (4.97%) PMI Certification
8 77 (4.78%) PMP
9 48 (2.98%) CRISC
10 37 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
12 29 (1.80%) CISA
13 28 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 28 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
14 22 (1.37%) Master's Degree
14 22 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 22 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (0.99%) AWS Certification
17 15 (0.93%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (12.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 191 (11.86%) NIST
3 172 (10.68%) GRC
4 99 (6.15%) QA
5 97 (6.02%) GDPR
6 65 (4.04%) NCSC
6 65 (4.04%) PMO
7 63 (3.91%) Data Quality
8 35 (2.17%) JSP 440
9 32 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (1.37%) NIST 800
11 18 (1.12%) SLA
12 17 (1.06%) SOC 2
13 16 (0.99%) Accessibility
13 16 (0.99%) COBIT
14 15 (0.93%) Def Stans
14 15 (0.93%) PCI DSS
15 13 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 13 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 12 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 40 (2.48%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.87%) Docker
3 10 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.31%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (0.19%) FreeRADIUS
7 3 (0.19%) Postfix
7 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.19%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Firmware
8 2 (0.12%) NFS
8 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 35 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.68%) Ansible
3 11 (0.68%) SCCM
4 10 (0.62%) Grafana
4 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.37%) Control-M
7 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.25%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.19%) Puppet
10 2 (0.12%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.12%) NSN NetAct
10 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 245 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 99 (6.15%) ServiceNow
3 79 (4.91%) SAP
4 61 (3.79%) Oracle
5 36 (2.24%) Google
6 20 (1.24%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.18%) Splunk
8 14 (0.87%) Foundry
9 13 (0.81%) Cisco
9 13 (0.81%) IBM
9 13 (0.81%) Qualys
10 12 (0.75%) VMware
11 11 (0.68%) Databricks
12 10 (0.62%) BeyondTrust
12 10 (0.62%) Murex
12 10 (0.62%) Workday
13 9 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.56%) CyberArk
13 9 (0.56%) F5
13 9 (0.56%) Tenable