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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 57 66
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 -6
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,711 1,205 1,085
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.69% 4.29% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.36% 4.72% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,063 751 608
10th Percentile £405 £363 £369
25th Percentile £480 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £727 £701
90th Percentile £800 £875 £838
UK median daily rate £565 £561 £556
% change year-on-year +0.60% +0.94% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 28 28
10th Percentile £33.39 £22.16 £33.35
25th Percentile £48.50 £25.23 £40.00
Median hourly rate £73.59 £33.50 £57.94
Median % change year-on-year +119.67% -42.18% -3.44%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.25 £71.03
90th Percentile £88.20 £77.80 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £71.25 £33.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +112.69% -41.74% -4.17%

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 39,229 25,540 27,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.96% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,740 16,195 17,136
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £643
90th Percentile £738 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,947 1,574 1,191
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.54 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.62 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.57% -40.82% -

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -8 872 £615 -3.91% 2,433
North of England -6 263 £510 +2.00% 399
South East +8 253 £575 +4.55% 502
Yorkshire +14 129 £492 -1.60% 134
North West -20 128 £525 +5.00% 239
Midlands -31 106 £500 +5.26% 241
South West -25 101 £600 +2.13% 256
West Midlands -24 84 £498 -0.50% 145
East of England +11 70 £513 -16.33% 154
East Midlands -22 19 £549 +36.44% 96
North East -37 7 £450 -18.18% 27
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 63 (3.68%) Confluence
2 35 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.64%) SAS
4 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.23%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.23%) IIS
5 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.12%) Apache
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.058%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.058%) Appian
8 1 (0.058%) CICS
8 1 (0.058%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.058%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.058%) nginx
8 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 58 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (1.11%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.18%) Navisworks
6 3 (0.18%) Revit
6 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) Windchill
8 1 (0.058%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.058%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.058%) LaTeX
8 1 (0.058%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 43 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.76%) Endur
3 11 (0.64%) SAP GRC
4 9 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.47%) Primavera
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.29%) SAP HCM
8 4 (0.23%) Actimize
8 4 (0.23%) Magento
9 3 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.18%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 269 (15.72%) Azure
2 180 (10.52%) AWS
3 90 (5.26%) GCP
4 69 (4.03%) Power Platform
5 65 (3.80%) Entra ID
6 49 (2.86%) SaaS
7 48 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
8 42 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
10 27 (1.58%) GitHub
11 26 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
12 25 (1.46%) OCI
13 22 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
14 16 (0.94%) Azure AI
14 16 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
15 14 (0.82%) PaaS
15 14 (0.82%) Serverless
16 12 (0.70%) Power Automate
17 11 (0.64%) Azure Functions
17 11 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 63 (3.68%) Network Security
2 53 (3.10%) Firewall
3 20 (1.17%) WAN
4 18 (1.05%) LAN
5 16 (0.94%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.88%) DNS
7 12 (0.70%) VPN
8 10 (0.58%) 5G
8 10 (0.58%) DHCP
9 8 (0.47%) 4G
10 7 (0.41%) Cisco IPT
11 6 (0.35%) Internet
11 6 (0.35%) Kerberos
12 5 (0.29%) BIG-IP
12 5 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.29%) Softphone
12 5 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
12 5 (0.29%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.21%) Power BI
2 41 (2.40%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.81%) Metadata
4 20 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.82%) Data Lake
6 13 (0.76%) Oracle Database
6 13 (0.76%) Relational Database
7 12 (0.70%) Big Data
8 11 (0.64%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
9 7 (0.41%) NoSQL
9 7 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.41%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.35%) Db2
11 4 (0.23%) Ataccama
11 4 (0.23%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (0.23%) Power Query
11 4 (0.23%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 114 (6.66%) JIRA
2 23 (1.34%) Git
3 16 (0.94%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.70%) Selenium
5 11 (0.64%) Cypress.io
6 9 (0.53%) Postman
7 8 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.47%) WebDriver
8 6 (0.35%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.29%) Artifactory
9 5 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.29%) GitLab
10 4 (0.23%) Gradle
10 4 (0.23%) Subversion
10 4 (0.23%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.18%) JMeter
11 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.12%) Gatling
12 2 (0.12%) TestRail
12 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 689 (40.27%) Social Skills
2 645 (37.70%) Finance
3 294 (17.18%) Analytical Skills
4 212 (12.39%) Banking
5 211 (12.33%) Public Sector
6 133 (7.77%) Legal
7 92 (5.38%) Influencing Skills
8 75 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
9 73 (4.27%) Front Office
10 49 (2.86%) Aerospace
11 47 (2.75%) Military
12 45 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
13 44 (2.57%) Manufacturing
14 43 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
15 40 (2.34%) Financial Institution
16 35 (2.05%) Retail
17 33 (1.93%) Investment Banking
17 33 (1.93%) Telecoms
18 32 (1.87%) Law
19 26 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 231 (13.50%) Lead
2 202 (11.81%) Architect
3 185 (10.81%) Senior
4 171 (9.99%) Analyst
5 168 (9.82%) Project Manager
6 91 (5.32%) Consultant
7 81 (4.73%) Security Architect
8 80 (4.68%) Programme Manager
9 63 (3.68%) Business Analyst
10 58 (3.39%) Developer
11 56 (3.27%) Senior Manager
12 47 (2.75%) IT Manager
13 42 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
13 42 (2.45%) Risk Manager
14 41 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
15 40 (2.34%) Security Engineer
16 35 (2.05%) Service Manager
17 34 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
17 34 (1.99%) Technical Manager
18 31 (1.81%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (3.16%) Terraform
2 34 (1.99%) .NET
3 31 (1.81%) REST
4 24 (1.40%) Middleware
5 21 (1.23%) Kafka
6 19 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (0.88%) OAuth
8 12 (0.70%) OpenID
8 12 (0.70%) SAML
9 11 (0.64%) SLSA
10 10 (0.58%) XML
11 9 (0.53%) JSON
11 9 (0.53%) LDAP
11 9 (0.53%) React
11 9 (0.53%) SailPoint
11 9 (0.53%) SOAP
11 9 (0.53%) Web Services
11 9 (0.53%) XGBoost
12 8 (0.47%) .NET Core
12 8 (0.47%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 118 (6.90%) Onboarding
2 102 (5.96%) Management Information System
3 90 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 72 (4.21%) Security Posture
5 65 (3.80%) Cloud Native
6 53 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
7 51 (2.98%) Data Centre
8 47 (2.75%) Operational Technology
9 43 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
11 35 (2.05%) Market Risk
12 31 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
13 28 (1.64%) Credit Risk
14 27 (1.58%) AI Agents
15 23 (1.34%) NHS
16 22 (1.29%) Fixed Income
17 21 (1.23%) Derivative
17 21 (1.23%) PMI
18 20 (1.17%) Data Structures
18 20 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 65 (3.80%) Windows
2 56 (3.27%) Linux
3 37 (2.16%) Unix
4 21 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.47%) zOS
7 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.18%) AIX
8 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.12%) Android
10 1 (0.058%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (42.26%) Stakeholder Management
2 443 (25.89%) Cybersecurity
3 414 (24.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 412 (24.08%) Agile
5 366 (21.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 291 (17.01%) Decision-Making
7 262 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
7 262 (15.31%) Roadmaps
8 251 (14.67%) AI
9 233 (13.62%) Project Management
10 210 (12.27%) Information Security
11 208 (12.16%) Project Delivery
12 173 (10.11%) DevOps
13 170 (9.94%) Migration
14 159 (9.29%) CI/CD
15 158 (9.23%) Change Management
16 151 (8.83%) Analytics
17 148 (8.65%) Vulnerability Management
18 140 (8.18%) PRINCE2
19 133 (7.77%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 135 (7.89%) Python
2 96 (5.61%) SQL
3 44 (2.57%) PowerShell
4 39 (2.28%) C#
5 38 (2.22%) Java
6 24 (1.40%) Bash
7 17 (0.99%) JavaScript
8 13 (0.76%) Shell Script
9 8 (0.47%) VBA
10 7 (0.41%) Go
10 7 (0.41%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.35%) Bicep
11 6 (0.35%) C++
11 6 (0.35%) JCL
11 6 (0.35%) Korn
11 6 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.29%) Assembly Language
12 5 (0.29%) CLIST
12 5 (0.29%) R
12 5 (0.29%) REXX
Qualifications
1 465 (27.18%) Security Cleared
2 342 (19.99%) SC Cleared
3 175 (10.23%) Degree
4 149 (8.71%) CISSP
5 110 (6.43%) DV Cleared
6 92 (5.38%) CISM
6 92 (5.38%) PMI Certification
7 85 (4.97%) PMP
8 51 (2.98%) CRISC
9 43 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 39 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (2.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 34 (1.99%) CISA
13 29 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (1.69%) Master's Degree
14 24 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
15 23 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
16 22 (1.29%) AWS Certification
16 22 (1.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 21 (1.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (12.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 186 (10.87%) NIST
3 177 (10.34%) GRC
4 104 (6.08%) QA
5 87 (5.08%) GDPR
6 76 (4.44%) Data Quality
7 72 (4.21%) NCSC
8 67 (3.92%) PMO
9 37 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 25 (1.46%) JSP 440
11 23 (1.34%) NIST 800
12 16 (0.94%) Accessibility
13 15 (0.88%) Def Stans
14 14 (0.82%) COBIT
14 14 (0.82%) SLA
15 12 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 12 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 12 (0.70%) PCI DSS
15 12 (0.70%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.58%) ITGC
System Software
1 41 (2.40%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.05%) Docker
3 12 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.53%) vSphere
6 7 (0.41%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.29%) FreeRADIUS
7 5 (0.29%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (0.18%) Firmware
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.12%) IAG
9 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.058%) NFS
10 1 (0.058%) Postfix
10 1 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (2.92%) Kubernetes
2 32 (1.87%) Ansible
3 13 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (0.64%) Grafana
5 10 (0.58%) SCCM
6 8 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.35%) Control-M
7 6 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.29%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.29%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.18%) Argo
9 3 (0.18%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.18%) Puppet
9 3 (0.18%) QRadar
10 2 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.12%) NSN NetAct
10 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.058%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 274 (16.01%) Microsoft
2 102 (5.96%) ServiceNow
3 87 (5.08%) SAP
4 64 (3.74%) Oracle
5 48 (2.81%) Google
6 24 (1.40%) Splunk
7 21 (1.23%) Murex
8 19 (1.11%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.11%) VMware
9 18 (1.05%) Cisco
9 18 (1.05%) Databricks
10 16 (0.94%) IBM
11 15 (0.88%) Qualys
12 13 (0.76%) BeyondTrust
12 13 (0.76%) CyberArk
13 11 (0.64%) Ariba
13 11 (0.64%) Foundry
13 11 (0.64%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.64%) Tenable
14 10 (0.58%) Workday