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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 50 64
Rank change year-on-year -18 +14 +4
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,317 1,075 1,185
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.38% 4.41% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 4.85% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 887 663 802
10th Percentile £409 £363 £394
25th Percentile £466 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £686 £725 £725
90th Percentile £839 £838 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 37 33
10th Percentile £20.27 £28.94 £16.87
25th Percentile £36.00 £46.30 £35.00
Median hourly rate £74.31 £60.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.84% +4.35% +440.92%
75th Percentile £100.00 £78.36 £61.25
90th Percentile £107.00 £85.97 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £74.31 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +20.83% +22.99% +370.37%

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 33,455 22,163 32,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.84% 90.86% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,444 14,600 21,357
10th Percentile £313 £311 £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 2,067 867 2,171
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.54 £19.00 £15.87
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.69% -1.52% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.59 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.80 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £31.51 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.25% -4.52% -11.53%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -26 663 £600 -4.76% 260
North of England -16 212 £509 -0.54% 112
South East -6 202 £543 -5.65% 145
North West -6 109 £540 +8.00% 65
Midlands -44 109 £536 +7.20% 70
Yorkshire -5 101 £500 - 39
West Midlands -36 77 £518 +0.78% 56
South West -1 69 £550 +22.11% 37
East of England -27 37 £525 -0.94% 31
East Midlands -28 32 £544 +21.79% 14
North East -26 2 £480 -16.52% 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 63 (4.78%) Confluence
2 24 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.53%) SAS
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.076%) CMS
8 1 (0.076%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.076%) IIS
8 1 (0.076%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.076%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.076%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.076%) Tomcat
Applications
1 59 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (3.80%) Microsoft Project
3 31 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.99%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.30%) Trello
7 2 (0.15%) Revit
7 2 (0.15%) Windchill
8 1 (0.076%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.076%) Navisworks
Business Applications
1 15 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.61%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.46%) Summit
6 5 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.38%) Primavera
7 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.30%) Endur
7 4 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.23%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.15%) Actimize
9 2 (0.15%) Findur
9 2 (0.15%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.15%) Global One
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 150 (11.39%) Azure
2 125 (9.49%) AWS
3 47 (3.57%) GCP
3 47 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (3.49%) Power Platform
5 31 (2.35%) Entra ID
6 28 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
7 26 (1.97%) SaaS
8 21 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
8 21 (1.59%) Google Workspace
9 19 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (1.37%) Google Sheets
11 15 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (0.99%) GitHub
13 11 (0.84%) OCI
14 9 (0.68%) Amazon S3
14 9 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (0.68%) OpenShift
14 9 (0.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.81%) Network Security
2 25 (1.90%) Firewall
3 13 (0.99%) DNS
4 10 (0.76%) DHCP
5 9 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (0.61%) BIG-IP
6 8 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
7 7 (0.53%) 5G
7 7 (0.53%) Internet
8 6 (0.46%) HTTP
8 6 (0.46%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
9 4 (0.30%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.30%) LAN
9 4 (0.30%) SAN
9 4 (0.30%) WAN
10 3 (0.23%) 4G
10 3 (0.23%) Broadband
10 3 (0.23%) NAS
10 3 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (2.73%) Power BI
2 24 (1.82%) Metadata
3 19 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (0.91%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.84%) SQL Server
7 8 (0.61%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.61%) Tableau
8 6 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.46%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.38%) Big Data
9 5 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.38%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.30%) Data Mart
10 4 (0.30%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.30%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (0.23%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 125 (9.49%) JIRA
2 16 (1.21%) Git
3 10 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.38%) GitLab
5 3 (0.23%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (0.23%) DbUnit
5 3 (0.23%) jMock
5 3 (0.23%) JUnit
5 3 (0.23%) Maven
5 3 (0.23%) Mockito
5 3 (0.23%) Selenium
5 3 (0.23%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.23%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.076%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.076%) ERwin
6 1 (0.076%) GCC
6 1 (0.076%) GDB
6 1 (0.076%) SpecFlow
General
1 505 (38.34%) Social Skills
2 479 (36.37%) Finance
3 216 (16.40%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (12.98%) Banking
5 132 (10.02%) Public Sector
6 107 (8.12%) Legal
7 44 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
8 43 (3.26%) Front Office
9 37 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
10 35 (2.66%) Investment Banking
11 34 (2.58%) Financial Institution
12 30 (2.28%) Retail
13 28 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
13 28 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.67%) Military
14 22 (1.67%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.52%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.37%) Marketing
17 17 (1.29%) Aerospace
17 17 (1.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 171 (12.98%) Project Manager
2 154 (11.69%) Lead
3 138 (10.48%) Senior
4 136 (10.33%) Analyst
5 119 (9.04%) Architect
6 105 (7.97%) Consultant
7 74 (5.62%) Developer
8 64 (4.86%) Business Analyst
9 62 (4.71%) Programme Manager
10 52 (3.95%) Security Architect
11 47 (3.57%) Senior Manager
12 46 (3.49%) Security Consultant
13 42 (3.19%) Delivery Manager
14 40 (3.04%) Risk Manager
15 31 (2.35%) Risk Analyst
15 31 (2.35%) Senior Developer
15 31 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (2.20%) Security Engineer
17 28 (2.13%) Security Manager
18 24 (1.82%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (1.59%) REST
3 16 (1.21%) Kafka
4 15 (1.14%) .NET
5 12 (0.91%) XML
6 11 (0.84%) Middleware
7 10 (0.76%) Leaflet
8 9 (0.68%) COM
8 9 (0.68%) Dask
8 9 (0.68%) NumPy
8 9 (0.68%) OAuth
8 9 (0.68%) Pandas
9 8 (0.61%) RESTful
10 7 (0.53%) .NET Framework
10 7 (0.53%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.53%) PyTorch
10 7 (0.53%) SAML
11 6 (0.46%) JSP
11 6 (0.46%) scikit-learn
11 6 (0.46%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 115 (8.73%) Management Information System
2 63 (4.78%) Product Ownership
3 60 (4.56%) Derivative
3 60 (4.56%) Security Posture
4 53 (4.02%) Onboarding
5 41 (3.11%) Cloud Native
6 36 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 34 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
7 34 (2.58%) Market Risk
8 33 (2.51%) Equities
9 32 (2.43%) Data Centre
10 28 (2.13%) Operational Technology
11 23 (1.75%) Credit Risk
11 23 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
12 21 (1.59%) Algorithms
12 21 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
12 21 (1.59%) NHS
13 20 (1.52%) Fixed Income
14 18 (1.37%) AI Agents
14 18 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.35%) Windows
2 26 (1.97%) Linux
3 13 (0.99%) Unix
4 7 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.30%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
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 (0.15%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.076%) Android
8 1 (0.076%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.076%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (30.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 333 (25.28%) Agile
3 252 (19.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 245 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
5 229 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 216 (16.40%) Cybersecurity
7 213 (16.17%) Project Management
8 179 (13.59%) Decision-Making
9 158 (12.00%) Information Security
10 151 (11.47%) Roadmaps
11 143 (10.86%) Change Management
12 137 (10.40%) AI
13 130 (9.87%) Project Delivery
14 118 (8.96%) Analytics
14 118 (8.96%) Regulatory Compliance
15 117 (8.88%) Migration
16 108 (8.20%) Data Protection
17 105 (7.97%) PRINCE2
18 96 (7.29%) DevOps
18 96 (7.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 118 (8.96%) SQL
2 107 (8.12%) Python
3 50 (3.80%) Java
4 32 (2.43%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.59%) C++
6 19 (1.44%) C#
7 17 (1.29%) VBA
8 9 (0.68%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.46%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.38%) Bash
10 5 (0.38%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.30%) Perl
11 4 (0.30%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.23%) Korn
12 3 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.15%) R
13 2 (0.15%) RPG
13 2 (0.15%) Rust
13 2 (0.15%) Scala
13 2 (0.15%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 289 (21.94%) Security Cleared
2 212 (16.10%) SC Cleared
3 207 (15.72%) Degree
4 108 (8.20%) CISSP
5 81 (6.15%) CISM
6 71 (5.39%) DV Cleared
7 70 (5.32%) PMP
8 66 (5.01%) PMI Certification
9 37 (2.81%) CRISC
10 33 (2.51%) Master's Degree
11 32 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
13 19 (1.44%) CISA
14 14 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
14 14 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 12 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 11 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.84%) PhD
17 10 (0.76%) CESG Certified Professional
17 10 (0.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (13.14%) NIST
2 166 (12.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 116 (8.81%) GRC
4 112 (8.50%) GDPR
5 81 (6.15%) PMO
6 67 (5.09%) QA
7 50 (3.80%) PCI DSS
8 46 (3.49%) Data Quality
9 41 (3.11%) NCSC
10 27 (2.05%) SLA
10 27 (2.05%) SOC 2
11 25 (1.90%) JSP 440
12 20 (1.52%) NIST 800
13 19 (1.44%) COBIT
14 18 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
15 17 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 16 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 16 (1.21%) RMADS
16 16 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.99%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 27 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.84%) Docker
3 7 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.23%) Postfix
5 3 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.23%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.076%) NFS
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.076%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.076%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (1.37%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.99%) Terraform
3 10 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.68%) Ansible
4 9 (0.68%) SCCM
5 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.30%) Control-M
6 4 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.23%) CASB
7 3 (0.23%) Grafana
7 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.15%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.15%) Nessus
8 2 (0.15%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.15%) OpenVAS
8 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.076%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 160 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 68 (5.16%) Oracle
2 68 (5.16%) ServiceNow
3 48 (3.64%) SAP
4 38 (2.89%) Google
5 23 (1.75%) Murex
6 18 (1.37%) Workday
7 16 (1.21%) Salesforce
8 11 (0.84%) F5
9 10 (0.76%) Databricks
9 10 (0.76%) VMware
10 9 (0.68%) Cisco
10 9 (0.68%) Splunk
11 8 (0.61%) Foundry
12 7 (0.53%) IBM
12 7 (0.53%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.46%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.46%) Infoblox
13 6 (0.46%) Informatica
14 5 (0.38%) Atlassian