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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 52 58
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,188 1,203 1,388
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.81% 3.93% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 4.48% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 673 952
10th Percentile £367 £399 £413
25th Percentile £456 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £589
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -2.34% -1.88%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £862 £825 £849
UK median daily rate £550 £573 £575
% change year-on-year -3.93% -0.43% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 36 53
10th Percentile £22.16 £27.25 £34.05
25th Percentile £29.52 £40.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £73.31
Median % change year-on-year -44.17% -18.16% +46.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £83.40
90th Percentile £94.38 £81.60 £83.41
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £73.31
% change year-on-year -44.17% -18.16% +66.61%

All Process and 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 27,869 26,864 33,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.46% 87.86% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,747 16,503 22,915
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,797 957 1,425
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.90%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.35 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £43.63
% change year-on-year -23.21% -24.93% +24.64%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 0 660 £624 +1.80% 242
North of England -18 170 £500 -9.09% 203
South East -14 149 £525 -6.46% 288
North West -18 94 £481 -9.20% 109
Midlands -44 82 £475 -14.87% 159
Yorkshire +11 74 £500 -6.54% 85
South West -5 74 £600 +23.08% 99
West Midlands -46 57 £525 -8.70% 89
East of England -35 30 £600 +16.50% 100
East Midlands -19 25 £400 -27.27% 63
North East -15 2 £550 -4.35% 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 55 (4.63%) Confluence
2 18 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.01%) CMS
5 11 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.84%) SAS
7 9 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.34%) CICS
9 2 (0.17%) IIS
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.084%) Camunda
10 1 (0.084%) nginx
Applications
1 68 (5.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (3.79%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.18%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.42%) Trello
7 3 (0.25%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.25%) Revit
7 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.17%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.17%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.084%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 30 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.09%) Endur
3 9 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.59%) SAP CO
4 7 (0.59%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
5 5 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.42%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.34%) Primavera
6 4 (0.34%) VisionPLUS
7 3 (0.25%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.25%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.25%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 131 (11.03%) AWS
2 114 (9.60%) Azure
3 59 (4.97%) GCP
4 41 (3.45%) Power Platform
5 27 (2.27%) SaaS
6 26 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (1.68%) GitHub
8 19 (1.60%) Entra ID
9 16 (1.35%) dbt
10 15 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
11 10 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (0.84%) OCI
12 9 (0.76%) Miro
13 8 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (0.67%) OpenShift
13 8 (0.67%) PaaS
14 7 (0.59%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (0.51%) Power Automate
15 6 (0.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.70%) Firewall
2 19 (1.60%) Network Security
3 9 (0.76%) WAN
4 8 (0.67%) Multicast
5 7 (0.59%) Kerberos
5 7 (0.59%) LAN
6 6 (0.51%) VPN
7 5 (0.42%) Internet
8 4 (0.34%) 5G
8 4 (0.34%) Broadband
8 4 (0.34%) Cisco IPT
8 4 (0.34%) S/MIME
8 4 (0.34%) SSL
8 4 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.25%) HTTP
9 3 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.25%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.17%) SSH
10 2 (0.17%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (2.95%) Power BI
3 22 (1.85%) SQL Server
4 15 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (1.26%) Apache Arrow
4 15 (1.26%) Apache Iceberg
4 15 (1.26%) Dremio
5 13 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (1.01%) NoSQL
7 11 (0.93%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.84%) Metadata
9 9 (0.76%) Tableau
10 8 (0.67%) KDB
10 8 (0.67%) Kdb+
10 8 (0.67%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.59%) Big Data
11 7 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.51%) MySQL
12 6 (0.51%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 110 (9.26%) JIRA
2 21 (1.77%) Git
3 13 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.93%) SpecFlow
5 8 (0.67%) GCC
5 8 (0.67%) GDB
6 7 (0.59%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.42%) Gradle
7 5 (0.42%) Maven
7 5 (0.42%) QUnit
8 4 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.34%) SonarLint
9 2 (0.17%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.17%) Postman
9 2 (0.17%) Snyk
9 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.084%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.084%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.084%) Selenium
10 1 (0.084%) TeamCity
General
1 510 (42.93%) Social Skills
2 503 (42.34%) Finance
3 201 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (15.32%) Banking
5 105 (8.84%) Public Sector
6 89 (7.49%) Legal
7 68 (5.72%) Front Office
8 48 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
9 45 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
10 39 (3.28%) Investment Banking
11 30 (2.53%) Financial Institution
11 30 (2.53%) Telecoms
12 28 (2.36%) Manufacturing
13 26 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (2.10%) Retail
15 22 (1.85%) Marketing
16 20 (1.68%) Back Office
17 19 (1.60%) Local Government
18 17 (1.43%) Law
19 16 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (13.89%) Analyst
2 141 (11.87%) Project Manager
3 126 (10.61%) Senior
4 122 (10.27%) Developer
5 119 (10.02%) Lead
6 101 (8.50%) Consultant
7 93 (7.83%) Architect
8 58 (4.88%) Business Analyst
9 46 (3.87%) Programme Manager
10 43 (3.62%) Security Consultant
11 36 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
11 36 (3.03%) Senior Developer
12 35 (2.95%) AWS Developer
12 35 (2.95%) Security Analyst
12 35 (2.95%) Security Architect
12 35 (2.95%) Senior Manager
13 34 (2.86%) Risk Analyst
14 33 (2.78%) Python Developer
15 30 (2.53%) IT Manager
16 29 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.78%) React
2 32 (2.69%) AngularJS
3 26 (2.19%) .NET
4 25 (2.10%) Kafka
4 25 (2.10%) NumPy
5 24 (2.02%) Pandas
5 24 (2.02%) REST
6 20 (1.68%) RESTful
7 16 (1.35%) Node.js
7 16 (1.35%) SciPy
8 15 (1.26%) .NET Framework
8 15 (1.26%) Vue
9 13 (1.09%) Middleware
10 12 (1.01%) Playwright
11 11 (0.93%) Entity Framework
11 11 (0.93%) NHibernate
11 11 (0.93%) OAuth
12 10 (0.84%) SAML
13 9 (0.76%) COM
13 9 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 145 (12.21%) Management Information System
2 67 (5.64%) Product Ownership
3 59 (4.97%) Security Posture
4 56 (4.71%) Derivative
5 52 (4.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 41 (3.45%) Equities
7 40 (3.37%) Onboarding
8 36 (3.03%) Fixed Income
8 36 (3.03%) Market Risk
9 31 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 29 (2.44%) Credit Risk
10 29 (2.44%) Data Centre
11 27 (2.27%) Cloud Native
12 24 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
13 23 (1.94%) Algorithms
14 21 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.77%) Security Operations Centre
15 20 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
16 16 (1.35%) Hedge funds
17 15 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.45%) Linux
2 25 (2.10%) Windows
3 18 (1.52%) Unix
4 5 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.25%) VMS
6 2 (0.17%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.084%) Android
7 1 (0.084%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.084%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (26.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 310 (26.09%) Agile
3 247 (20.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 225 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
5 205 (17.26%) Cybersecurity
6 197 (16.58%) Project Management
7 164 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 144 (12.12%) Decision-Making
9 142 (11.95%) Information Security
10 127 (10.69%) Project Delivery
11 118 (9.93%) Migration
12 116 (9.76%) Change Management
13 95 (8.00%) AI
13 95 (8.00%) Scrum
14 91 (7.66%) Incident Response
15 90 (7.58%) Analytics
16 88 (7.41%) Roadmaps
17 82 (6.90%) Computer Science
18 79 (6.65%) Regulatory Compliance
19 75 (6.31%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 141 (11.87%) Python
2 103 (8.67%) SQL
3 66 (5.56%) Java
4 27 (2.27%) C#
5 26 (2.19%) C++
6 25 (2.10%) TypeScript
7 23 (1.94%) PowerShell
8 22 (1.85%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.01%) VBA
10 10 (0.84%) R
11 5 (0.42%) JCL
12 4 (0.34%) COBOL
13 3 (0.25%) Bash
13 3 (0.25%) Korn
13 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.17%) Perl
14 2 (0.17%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.17%) Rust
14 2 (0.17%) Scala
14 2 (0.17%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 229 (19.28%) Security Cleared
2 180 (15.15%) Degree
3 164 (13.80%) SC Cleared
4 110 (9.26%) CISSP
5 72 (6.06%) CISM
6 62 (5.22%) DV Cleared
7 61 (5.13%) PMI Certification
8 60 (5.05%) PMP
9 54 (4.55%) Master's Degree
10 32 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (2.10%) CISA
13 19 (1.60%) CRISC
13 19 (1.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 16 (1.35%) PhD
15 13 (1.09%) CESG Certified Professional
15 13 (1.09%) GIAC
15 13 (1.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 13 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (12.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 149 (12.54%) NIST
3 97 (8.16%) GDPR
4 77 (6.48%) GRC
5 67 (5.64%) QA
6 60 (5.05%) PMO
7 37 (3.11%) PCI DSS
8 31 (2.61%) NCSC
8 31 (2.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 27 (2.27%) Data Quality
10 17 (1.43%) RMADS
11 16 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (1.35%) SLA
12 15 (1.26%) Accessibility
12 15 (1.26%) EU AI Act
13 14 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 14 (1.18%) NIST 800
14 13 (1.09%) COBIT
15 12 (1.01%) Def Stans
16 10 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 24 (2.02%) Docker
2 23 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.084%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.084%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.084%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (1.85%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.77%) Terraform
3 15 (1.26%) Ansible
4 9 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.59%) RSA Archer
6 6 (0.51%) QRadar
7 5 (0.42%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 5 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.17%) Grafana
9 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.084%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.084%) Consul
10 1 (0.084%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.084%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.084%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.084%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.084%) Packer
10 1 (0.084%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 138 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 71 (5.98%) SAP
3 61 (5.13%) ServiceNow
4 37 (3.11%) Oracle
5 21 (1.77%) Splunk
6 18 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.43%) Google
8 10 (0.84%) Cisco
8 10 (0.84%) Databricks
8 10 (0.84%) Solace
9 9 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (0.67%) CyberArk
10 8 (0.67%) IBM
11 7 (0.59%) ArcSight
11 7 (0.59%) Bloomberg
11 7 (0.59%) Citrix
11 7 (0.59%) LogRhythm
12 6 (0.51%) BiZZdesign
12 6 (0.51%) Informatica
13 5 (0.42%) Ariba