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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 48 61
Rank change year-on-year -17 +13 +11
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,183 1,112 1,330
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.60% 4.20% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% 4.69% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 758 623 918
10th Percentile £400 £385 £413
25th Percentile £463 £465 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% -7.26%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £698
90th Percentile £866 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 37 53
10th Percentile £32.08 £26.07 £33.78
25th Percentile £33.50 £40.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £40.97 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.72% - +464.44%
75th Percentile £78.56 £74.75 £83.40
90th Percentile £100.55 £79.04 -
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.17% - +464.44%

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 28,849 23,705 33,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.71% 89.48% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,454 14,499 22,354
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £619 £643 £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 1,790 754 1,912
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -6 656 £601 -3.84% 245
North of England -28 165 £498 -6.92% 72
South East -17 154 £525 -8.70% 168
Midlands -52 87 £537 -0.56% 67
Yorkshire +5 85 £492 -7.95% 18
North West -40 78 £498 -0.25% 49
South West -23 54 £513 +5.13% 46
West Midlands -52 53 £510 -11.30% 49
East of England -31 35 £575 - 32
East Midlands -21 34 £544 +14.42% 18
North East -23 2 £550 -13.73% 5
Risk Management
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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 49 (4.14%) Confluence
2 23 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.93%) SAS
5 5 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.42%) CMS
6 4 (0.34%) CICS
7 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.17%) nginx
8 1 (0.085%) Camunda
8 1 (0.085%) IIS
8 1 (0.085%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.085%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.085%) Tomcat
Applications
1 77 (6.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (4.56%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.27%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.34%) Revit
6 4 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.25%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.25%) Trello
8 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.17%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 20 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.59%) Loan IQ
4 5 (0.42%) Endur
4 5 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.42%) Primavera
5 4 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.34%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.34%) Summit
5 4 (0.34%) VisionPLUS
6 3 (0.25%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.17%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.17%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 126 (10.65%) Azure
2 114 (9.64%) AWS
3 55 (4.65%) GCP
4 46 (3.89%) Power Platform
5 35 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (2.62%) SaaS
7 30 (2.54%) Entra ID
8 24 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
9 23 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
10 20 (1.69%) GitHub
10 20 (1.69%) Google Workspace
11 18 (1.52%) Google Sheets
12 12 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (0.76%) OCI
14 9 (0.76%) PaaS
15 8 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (0.68%) OpenShift
16 7 (0.59%) AWS Step Functions
16 7 (0.59%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.13%) Firewall
2 25 (2.11%) Network Security
3 9 (0.76%) Internet
3 9 (0.76%) Kerberos
4 7 (0.59%) VPN
4 7 (0.59%) WAN
5 6 (0.51%) DNS
5 6 (0.51%) LAN
5 6 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.42%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.34%) 5G
8 3 (0.25%) Broadband
8 3 (0.25%) DHCP
8 3 (0.25%) HTTP
8 3 (0.25%) Multicast
8 3 (0.25%) S/MIME
8 3 (0.25%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.25%) SSL
9 2 (0.17%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (3.30%) Power BI
2 30 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (1.52%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (1.35%) Relational Database
5 13 (1.10%) Metadata
6 10 (0.85%) NoSQL
7 9 (0.76%) Tableau
8 8 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.68%) KDB
8 8 (0.68%) Kdb+
8 8 (0.68%) RDBMS
9 7 (0.59%) Big Data
9 7 (0.59%) MySQL
10 5 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (0.42%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.42%) Dremio
10 5 (0.42%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 113 (9.55%) JIRA
2 17 (1.44%) Git
3 12 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.76%) SpecFlow
5 6 (0.51%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.42%) QUnit
7 4 (0.34%) Gradle
7 4 (0.34%) Maven
7 4 (0.34%) SonarLint
8 3 (0.25%) GCC
8 3 (0.25%) GDB
8 3 (0.25%) GitLab
8 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.17%) Postman
10 1 (0.085%) JMeter
10 1 (0.085%) MLflow
10 1 (0.085%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.085%) SoapUI
General
1 502 (42.43%) Social Skills
2 474 (40.07%) Finance
3 208 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
4 172 (14.54%) Banking
5 114 (9.64%) Public Sector
6 103 (8.71%) Legal
7 56 (4.73%) Front Office
8 53 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
9 43 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
10 42 (3.55%) Investment Banking
11 32 (2.70%) Financial Institution
12 28 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (2.03%) Retail
14 21 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
15 19 (1.61%) Law
15 19 (1.61%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.52%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.52%) Military
17 16 (1.35%) Local Government
18 15 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 154 (13.02%) Analyst
2 130 (10.99%) Project Manager
3 122 (10.31%) Lead
3 122 (10.31%) Senior
4 98 (8.28%) Developer
5 95 (8.03%) Consultant
6 94 (7.95%) Architect
7 62 (5.24%) Business Analyst
8 57 (4.82%) Programme Manager
9 39 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
10 38 (3.21%) Senior Manager
11 37 (3.13%) Risk Analyst
11 37 (3.13%) Security Architect
11 37 (3.13%) Senior Developer
12 33 (2.79%) Security Consultant
13 30 (2.54%) Risk Manager
13 30 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
14 26 (2.20%) Technical Manager
15 25 (2.11%) Java Developer
15 25 (2.11%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.86%) Kafka
2 17 (1.44%) REST
3 15 (1.27%) .NET
3 15 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (1.18%) NumPy
4 14 (1.18%) Pandas
4 14 (1.18%) RESTful
5 13 (1.10%) .NET Framework
5 13 (1.10%) Middleware
5 13 (1.10%) OAuth
6 12 (1.01%) SAML
7 10 (0.85%) AngularJS
7 10 (0.85%) Playwright
7 10 (0.85%) XML
8 9 (0.76%) COM
8 9 (0.76%) Dask
8 9 (0.76%) Entity Framework
8 9 (0.76%) NHibernate
9 8 (0.68%) React
10 6 (0.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 132 (11.16%) Management Information System
2 65 (5.49%) Derivative
3 64 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 58 (4.90%) Security Posture
5 46 (3.89%) Onboarding
6 45 (3.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 40 (3.38%) Equities
8 38 (3.21%) Market Risk
9 34 (2.87%) Credit Risk
10 30 (2.54%) Algorithms
10 30 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 30 (2.54%) Cloud Native
10 30 (2.54%) Fixed Income
11 29 (2.45%) Data Centre
12 25 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
14 17 (1.44%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.44%) Hedge funds
15 16 (1.35%) NHS
16 15 (1.27%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.87%) Linux
2 27 (2.28%) Windows
3 18 (1.52%) Unix
4 5 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.25%) VMS
5 3 (0.25%) zOS
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.085%) Android
7 1 (0.085%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.085%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (27.81%) Stakeholder Management
2 285 (24.09%) Agile
3 242 (20.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 229 (19.36%) Problem-Solving
5 189 (15.98%) Cybersecurity
6 184 (15.55%) Project Management
7 167 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 160 (13.52%) Decision-Making
9 141 (11.92%) Information Security
10 116 (9.81%) Change Management
11 112 (9.47%) Analytics
12 111 (9.38%) Roadmaps
13 108 (9.13%) Project Delivery
14 107 (9.04%) Regulatory Compliance
15 106 (8.96%) Migration
16 96 (8.11%) AI
17 91 (7.69%) PRINCE2
18 86 (7.27%) Scrum
19 81 (6.85%) Data Protection
20 80 (6.76%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (10.23%) SQL
2 116 (9.81%) Python
3 51 (4.31%) Java
4 27 (2.28%) C++
4 27 (2.28%) PowerShell
5 26 (2.20%) C#
6 14 (1.18%) VBA
7 11 (0.93%) JavaScript
8 8 (0.68%) R
9 6 (0.51%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.42%) JCL
10 5 (0.42%) Korn
11 4 (0.34%) COBOL
12 3 (0.25%) Bash
12 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.25%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.17%) RPG
13 2 (0.17%) Rust
13 2 (0.17%) Scala
13 2 (0.17%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 224 (18.93%) Security Cleared
2 214 (18.09%) Degree
3 161 (13.61%) SC Cleared
4 99 (8.37%) CISSP
5 73 (6.17%) CISM
6 69 (5.83%) PMI Certification
7 65 (5.49%) PMP
8 58 (4.90%) DV Cleared
9 54 (4.56%) Master's Degree
10 38 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (2.20%) CRISC
12 25 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
13 21 (1.78%) CISA
14 20 (1.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 16 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
16 15 (1.27%) PhD
17 10 (0.85%) GIAC
18 9 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 8 (0.68%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (12.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 133 (11.24%) NIST
3 104 (8.79%) GDPR
4 98 (8.28%) GRC
5 66 (5.58%) PMO
6 60 (5.07%) QA
7 40 (3.38%) PCI DSS
8 37 (3.13%) Data Quality
9 32 (2.70%) NCSC
10 27 (2.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (1.44%) COBIT
12 15 (1.27%) EU AI Act
13 14 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
13 14 (1.18%) Def Stans
13 14 (1.18%) SLA
14 13 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 12 (1.01%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.85%) Basel III
16 10 (0.85%) RMADS
System Software
1 30 (2.54%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.61%) Docker
3 7 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.085%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.085%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.085%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (1.86%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.44%) Terraform
3 11 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.42%) Ansible
5 5 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
5 5 (0.42%) RSA Archer
5 5 (0.42%) SCCM
6 3 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.25%) QRadar
7 2 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.17%) Grafana
7 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.085%) Control-M
8 1 (0.085%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.085%) Nessus
8 1 (0.085%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (0.085%) TeamSite
8 1 (0.085%) WSUS
Vendors
1 152 (12.85%) Microsoft
2 53 (4.48%) ServiceNow
3 51 (4.31%) Oracle
4 50 (4.23%) SAP
5 38 (3.21%) Google
6 19 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.52%) Murex
8 11 (0.93%) Splunk
9 10 (0.85%) Databricks
9 10 (0.85%) Workday
10 9 (0.76%) Cisco
11 8 (0.68%) Citrix
11 8 (0.68%) CyberArk
11 8 (0.68%) IBM
11 8 (0.68%) Informatica
12 7 (0.59%) Ariba
12 7 (0.59%) Bloomberg
12 7 (0.59%) VMware
13 5 (0.42%) F5
13 5 (0.42%) Solace