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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 57 66
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 -7
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,706 1,209 1,086
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.66% 4.33% 3.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 4.76% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 760 616
10th Percentile £402 £363 £373
25th Percentile £475 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% - -2.59%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £728
90th Percentile £788 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £560
% change year-on-year -2.22% +0.45% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 29 27
10th Percentile £26.85 £22.16 £33.05
25th Percentile £46.25 £30.61 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.96% -41.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £88.40 £76.45 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £64.09 £33.50 £57.00
% change year-on-year +91.31% -41.23% +15.15%

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 39,398 25,390 28,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 16,126 17,350
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,849 1,543 1,244
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%
75th Percentile £67.70 £47.50 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -17 841 £600 -7.69% 2,240
North of England -4 269 £508 +1.65% 367
South East +8 258 £575 +9.52% 454
Yorkshire +15 132 £494 -1.20% 115
North West -20 130 £525 +3.83% 223
Midlands -26 112 £525 +13.51% 237
South West -26 108 £565 -1.74% 225
West Midlands -14 90 £500 - 151
East of England -1 72 £513 -16.33% 127
East Midlands -28 19 £549 +36.44% 86
North East -36 8 £454 -17.50% 32
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 (3.69%) Confluence
2 39 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.70%) SAS
4 4 (0.23%) IIS
4 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
4 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.12%) CMS
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.059%) Apache
7 1 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.059%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.059%) Appian
7 1 (0.059%) CICS
7 1 (0.059%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.059%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 60 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.00%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.23%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.23%) Revit
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) Windchill
8 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.059%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.059%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 41 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.82%) 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 7 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.23%) Actimize
9 4 (0.23%) Magento
9 4 (0.23%) SAP HCM
10 3 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.18%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 267 (15.65%) Azure
2 185 (10.84%) AWS
3 88 (5.16%) GCP
4 74 (4.34%) Power Platform
5 66 (3.87%) Entra ID
6 49 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (2.87%) SaaS
7 34 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (1.58%) Microsoft Purview
9 26 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
11 23 (1.35%) GitHub
12 21 (1.23%) OCI
13 20 (1.17%) Azure AI
14 17 (1.00%) PaaS
15 15 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
16 14 (0.82%) Serverless
17 12 (0.70%) Power Automate
18 11 (0.64%) Copilot Studio
18 11 (0.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 62 (3.63%) Network Security
2 53 (3.11%) Firewall
3 20 (1.17%) WAN
4 19 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.06%) LAN
6 17 (1.00%) DNS
7 13 (0.76%) DHCP
8 12 (0.70%) 5G
9 11 (0.64%) VPN
10 10 (0.59%) 4G
11 8 (0.47%) BIG-IP
12 7 (0.41%) Cisco IPT
13 6 (0.35%) Internet
13 6 (0.35%) Kerberos
14 5 (0.29%) Softphone
14 5 (0.29%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.29%) Wireless
15 4 (0.23%) Modbus
15 4 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (3.34%) Power BI
2 38 (2.23%) SQL Server
3 33 (1.93%) Metadata
4 18 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.82%) Data Lake
6 13 (0.76%) Relational Database
7 12 (0.70%) Oracle Database
8 10 (0.59%) Big Data
8 10 (0.59%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.41%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.35%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.35%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (0.29%) Db2
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.23%) Ataccama
12 4 (0.23%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.23%) Power Query
12 4 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 109 (6.39%) JIRA
2 22 (1.29%) Git
3 17 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.76%) 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
9 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.23%) Gradle
10 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.23%) Subversion
11 3 (0.18%) JMeter
11 3 (0.18%) Maven
11 3 (0.18%) MLflow
12 2 (0.12%) LoadRunner
General
1 687 (40.27%) Social Skills
2 623 (36.52%) Finance
3 286 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
4 214 (12.54%) Public Sector
5 198 (11.61%) Banking
6 135 (7.91%) Legal
7 90 (5.28%) Influencing Skills
8 69 (4.04%) Front Office
8 69 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
9 48 (2.81%) Aerospace
10 47 (2.75%) Military
11 46 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
12 41 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (2.23%) Manufacturing
14 36 (2.11%) Telecoms
15 35 (2.05%) Financial Institution
15 35 (2.05%) Retail
16 34 (1.99%) Law
17 31 (1.82%) Investment Banking
18 26 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 225 (13.19%) Lead
2 213 (12.49%) Architect
3 176 (10.32%) Senior
4 171 (10.02%) Analyst
5 161 (9.44%) Project Manager
6 95 (5.57%) Consultant
7 84 (4.92%) Security Architect
8 70 (4.10%) Programme Manager
9 63 (3.69%) Business Analyst
10 57 (3.34%) Developer
11 51 (2.99%) Senior Manager
12 46 (2.70%) IT Manager
13 44 (2.58%) Risk Manager
14 43 (2.52%) Security Engineer
15 40 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
16 37 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
16 37 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
17 35 (2.05%) Security Consultant
18 34 (1.99%) Service Manager
19 32 (1.88%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.93%) Terraform
2 36 (2.11%) .NET
3 31 (1.82%) REST
4 24 (1.41%) Middleware
5 20 (1.17%) Kafka
6 17 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (0.88%) OAuth
8 12 (0.70%) JSON
8 12 (0.70%) OpenID
8 12 (0.70%) SAML
9 11 (0.64%) SLSA
10 10 (0.59%) React
10 10 (0.59%) SOAP
10 10 (0.59%) XML
11 9 (0.53%) .NET Core
11 9 (0.53%) LDAP
11 9 (0.53%) SailPoint
11 9 (0.53%) Spring
11 9 (0.53%) Web Services
12 8 (0.47%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 118 (6.92%) Onboarding
2 100 (5.86%) Management Information System
3 89 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 77 (4.51%) Security Posture
5 69 (4.04%) Cloud Native
6 53 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
7 49 (2.87%) Data Centre
8 44 (2.58%) Operational Technology
9 40 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
11 33 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
12 32 (1.88%) Market Risk
13 28 (1.64%) AI Agents
14 27 (1.58%) Credit Risk
15 22 (1.29%) NHS
15 22 (1.29%) PMI
16 21 (1.23%) Data Structures
16 21 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
17 20 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
17 20 (1.17%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 69 (4.04%) Windows
2 54 (3.17%) Linux
3 36 (2.11%) Unix
4 23 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.47%) zOS
7 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.18%) AIX
9 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.12%) Android
11 1 (0.059%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 716 (41.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 442 (25.91%) Cybersecurity
3 409 (23.97%) Agile
4 401 (23.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 359 (21.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 291 (17.06%) Decision-Making
7 254 (14.89%) Roadmaps
8 253 (14.83%) AI
9 249 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
10 227 (13.31%) Project Management
11 207 (12.13%) Information Security
12 198 (11.61%) Project Delivery
13 167 (9.79%) DevOps
14 165 (9.67%) Migration
15 159 (9.32%) Change Management
16 156 (9.14%) CI/CD
17 152 (8.91%) Vulnerability Management
18 144 (8.44%) Analytics
19 141 (8.26%) Data Protection
20 138 (8.09%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 127 (7.44%) Python
2 93 (5.45%) SQL
3 43 (2.52%) PowerShell
4 37 (2.17%) C#
5 36 (2.11%) Java
6 20 (1.17%) Bash
6 20 (1.17%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.76%) Shell Script
8 12 (0.70%) VBA
9 8 (0.47%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.41%) Go
11 6 (0.35%) Bicep
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%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.29%) REXX
13 4 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 464 (27.20%) Security Cleared
2 338 (19.81%) SC Cleared
3 172 (10.08%) Degree
4 153 (8.97%) CISSP
5 110 (6.45%) DV Cleared
6 97 (5.69%) CISM
7 80 (4.69%) PMI Certification
8 75 (4.40%) PMP
9 48 (2.81%) CRISC
10 46 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 29 (1.70%) CISA
13 29 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (1.70%) Master's Degree
14 26 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
15 24 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
16 23 (1.35%) AWS Certification
16 23 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 21 (1.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (12.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 194 (11.37%) NIST
3 182 (10.67%) GRC
4 107 (6.27%) QA
5 97 (5.69%) GDPR
6 75 (4.40%) Data Quality
7 68 (3.99%) NCSC
8 62 (3.63%) PMO
9 36 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 28 (1.64%) JSP 440
11 21 (1.23%) NIST 800
12 17 (1.00%) Accessibility
13 16 (0.94%) SLA
13 16 (0.94%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.82%) COBIT
14 14 (0.82%) Def Stans
14 14 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 13 (0.76%) PCI DSS
16 12 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 11 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (2.52%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.00%) Docker
3 12 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.59%) 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%) Postfix
9 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.059%) NFS
10 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (2.87%) Kubernetes
2 34 (1.99%) Ansible
3 13 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.59%) SCCM
5 9 (0.53%) Grafana
6 7 (0.41%) Control-M
6 7 (0.41%) Progress Chef
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%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.18%) Puppet
9 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.12%) NSN NetAct
11 1 (0.059%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.059%) Nessus
Vendors
1 264 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 106 (6.21%) ServiceNow
3 82 (4.81%) SAP
4 59 (3.46%) Oracle
5 46 (2.70%) Google
6 23 (1.35%) Splunk
7 20 (1.17%) VMware
8 19 (1.11%) Salesforce
9 18 (1.06%) Murex
10 17 (1.00%) Cisco
10 17 (1.00%) Databricks
11 15 (0.88%) Foundry
11 15 (0.88%) Qualys
12 14 (0.82%) BeyondTrust
12 14 (0.82%) IBM
13 13 (0.76%) CyberArk
14 11 (0.64%) Tenable
15 10 (0.59%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.59%) Workday
16 9 (0.53%) CrowdStrike