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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 48 74
Rank change year-on-year -22 +26 -10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,535 1,275 965
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.38% 4.59% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 5.06% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 998 810 601
10th Percentile £413 £363 £360
25th Percentile £481 £457 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £750
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £563 £571 £558
% change year-on-year -1.49% +2.33% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 25 24
10th Percentile £24.59 £22.16 £30.46
25th Percentile £48.50 £30.61 £40.00
Median hourly rate £78.85 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.61% -11.30% +74.24%
75th Percentile £85.00 £73.75 £62.19
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.40 £73.55
UK median hourly rate £77.35 £50.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +53.93% -12.61% +58.80%

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 38,664 25,206 28,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.74% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,131 16,135 18,803
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £757
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 1,396 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.85 £70.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -38 711 £600 -7.69% 822
North of England -7 272 £514 +0.29% 164
South East +2 248 £575 +4.55% 227
North West -27 137 £525 +3.45% 96
Yorkshire +4 129 £500 -4.76% 53
Midlands -37 105 £575 +22.60% 118
South West -15 104 £570 -0.87% 102
West Midlands -43 84 £563 +12.50% 78
East of England +27 65 £525 -4.55% 54
East Midlands -27 18 £537 +22.94% 40
North East -40 6 £454 -17.50% 16
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 62 (4.04%) Confluence
2 36 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.59%) SAS
4 4 (0.26%) IIS
4 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.065%) Appian
7 1 (0.065%) CMS
7 1 (0.065%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.065%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.065%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.065%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 49 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.26%) Revit
6 4 (0.26%) Trello
7 3 (0.20%) Windchill
8 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.065%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.065%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 31 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.78%) Endur
3 9 (0.59%) Primavera
4 7 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.26%) Actimize
6 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.26%) Magento
6 4 (0.26%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.26%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.26%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.26%) SAP GRC
6 4 (0.26%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.20%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 235 (15.31%) Azure
2 161 (10.49%) AWS
3 68 (4.43%) GCP
4 52 (3.39%) Power Platform
5 51 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (3.26%) Entra ID
7 43 (2.80%) SaaS
8 32 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
10 22 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
11 18 (1.17%) PaaS
12 17 (1.11%) Azure AI
12 17 (1.11%) GitHub
13 16 (1.04%) OCI
14 12 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
14 12 (0.78%) IaaS
14 12 (0.78%) Serverless
15 10 (0.65%) Copilot Studio
15 10 (0.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.06%) Network Security
2 38 (2.48%) Firewall
3 16 (1.04%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.91%) DNS
4 14 (0.91%) WAN
5 13 (0.85%) 5G
5 13 (0.85%) DHCP
6 12 (0.78%) LAN
7 11 (0.72%) 4G
8 9 (0.59%) BIG-IP
8 9 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (0.39%) HTTP
11 5 (0.33%) 3G
11 5 (0.33%) Internet
11 5 (0.33%) NAS
11 5 (0.33%) NGFW
11 5 (0.33%) SAN
11 5 (0.33%) VPN
12 4 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (2.41%) Power BI
2 28 (1.82%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.56%) Metadata
4 15 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (0.98%) Relational Database
5 11 (0.72%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (0.65%) RDBMS
7 9 (0.59%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.46%) Big Data
8 7 (0.46%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.33%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.33%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 5 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.26%) Oracle Exadata
10 4 (0.26%) Tableau
11 3 (0.20%) Db2
Development Applications
1 103 (6.71%) JIRA
2 20 (1.30%) Git
3 18 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.72%) Selenium
5 7 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.39%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.39%) GitLab
6 6 (0.39%) Postman
6 6 (0.39%) WebDriver
7 5 (0.33%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (0.26%) DbUnit
8 4 (0.26%) jMock
8 4 (0.26%) JUnit
8 4 (0.26%) Maven
8 4 (0.26%) Mockito
8 4 (0.26%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.26%) Subversion
8 4 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 587 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 551 (35.90%) Finance
3 237 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
4 177 (11.53%) Public Sector
5 165 (10.75%) Banking
6 114 (7.43%) Legal
7 61 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
8 60 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
9 44 (2.87%) Front Office
10 41 (2.67%) Aerospace
11 39 (2.54%) Telecoms
12 37 (2.41%) Financial Institution
13 36 (2.35%) Retail
14 32 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
15 30 (1.95%) Military
15 30 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
16 27 (1.76%) Manufacturing
17 25 (1.63%) Law
18 23 (1.50%) Investment Banking
19 22 (1.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 210 (13.68%) Lead
2 177 (11.53%) Project Manager
3 176 (11.47%) Architect
4 164 (10.68%) Senior
5 136 (8.86%) Analyst
6 100 (6.51%) Consultant
7 76 (4.95%) Security Architect
8 66 (4.30%) Programme Manager
9 59 (3.84%) Senior Manager
10 53 (3.45%) Developer
11 49 (3.19%) Business Analyst
11 49 (3.19%) Risk Manager
12 43 (2.80%) Security Consultant
13 41 (2.67%) Delivery Manager
13 41 (2.67%) IT Manager
14 36 (2.35%) Security Manager
15 35 (2.28%) Security Engineer
16 32 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
17 29 (1.89%) Product Manager
18 28 (1.82%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.69%) .NET
2 25 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 24 (1.56%) REST
4 18 (1.17%) Middleware
5 14 (0.91%) OAuth
6 13 (0.85%) XML
7 12 (0.78%) JSON
7 12 (0.78%) OpenID
7 12 (0.78%) SAML
8 11 (0.72%) Azure Blueprints
8 11 (0.72%) Kafka
8 11 (0.72%) Leaflet
8 11 (0.72%) React
8 11 (0.72%) SOAP
9 9 (0.59%) LDAP
9 9 (0.59%) SLSA
10 8 (0.52%) PySpark
10 8 (0.52%) RESTful
10 8 (0.52%) SailPoint
10 8 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 102 (6.64%) Management Information System
2 85 (5.54%) Onboarding
3 77 (5.02%) Product Ownership
4 68 (4.43%) Cloud Native
4 68 (4.43%) Security Posture
5 51 (3.32%) Operational Technology
6 44 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
7 40 (2.61%) Data Centre
8 30 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
9 28 (1.82%) AI Agents
10 26 (1.69%) Market Risk
10 26 (1.69%) PMI
11 24 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (1.50%) Derivative
13 22 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
14 20 (1.30%) Fixed Income
14 20 (1.30%) NHS
15 17 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
15 17 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 16 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.32%) Windows
2 44 (2.87%) Linux
3 26 (1.69%) Unix
4 20 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.33%) zOS
7 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.20%) AIX
8 3 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.065%) Android
9 1 (0.065%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 580 (37.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 367 (23.91%) Agile
3 355 (23.13%) Cybersecurity
4 336 (21.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 333 (21.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 235 (15.31%) Decision-Making
7 232 (15.11%) Project Management
8 215 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
9 212 (13.81%) Roadmaps
10 202 (13.16%) Information Security
11 201 (13.09%) AI
12 160 (10.42%) Project Delivery
13 154 (10.03%) Change Management
14 139 (9.06%) Migration
15 138 (8.99%) DevOps
16 130 (8.47%) Vulnerability Management
17 122 (7.95%) CI/CD
17 122 (7.95%) PRINCE2
18 121 (7.88%) Analytics
19 110 (7.17%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 96 (6.25%) Python
2 77 (5.02%) SQL
3 41 (2.67%) Java
4 35 (2.28%) PowerShell
5 26 (1.69%) C#
6 16 (1.04%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.72%) VBA
8 9 (0.59%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.46%) Bash
10 6 (0.39%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.33%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.26%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.26%) Bicep
12 4 (0.26%) CLIST
12 4 (0.26%) JCL
12 4 (0.26%) REXX
13 3 (0.20%) C
13 3 (0.20%) C++
13 3 (0.20%) Go
13 3 (0.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 398 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 297 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 165 (10.75%) Degree
4 151 (9.84%) CISSP
5 98 (6.38%) DV Cleared
6 94 (6.12%) CISM
7 74 (4.82%) PMI Certification
8 71 (4.63%) PMP
9 47 (3.06%) CRISC
10 31 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 30 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (1.89%) CISA
13 27 (1.76%) Master's Degree
14 26 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
14 26 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 23 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 21 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
17 17 (1.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 15 (0.98%) CESG Certified Professional
18 15 (0.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (13.03%) NIST
2 199 (12.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 155 (10.10%) GRC
4 102 (6.64%) GDPR
5 80 (5.21%) QA
6 65 (4.23%) PMO
7 56 (3.65%) Data Quality
8 48 (3.13%) NCSC
9 34 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 34 (2.21%) JSP 440
10 33 (2.15%) PCI DSS
11 29 (1.89%) SLA
11 29 (1.89%) SOC 2
12 27 (1.76%) NIST 800
13 16 (1.04%) COBIT
13 16 (1.04%) Def Stans
14 15 (0.98%) Accessibility
15 13 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 12 (0.78%) ISO 31000
16 12 (0.78%) RMADS
System Software
1 34 (2.21%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.85%) Docker
3 9 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.26%) Postfix
4 4 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
4 4 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.13%) FreeRADIUS
6 2 (0.13%) NFS
6 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (1.63%) Terraform
2 24 (1.56%) Kubernetes
3 22 (1.43%) Ansible
4 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.59%) SCCM
6 8 (0.52%) Grafana
6 8 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.26%) Control-M
9 4 (0.26%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.26%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.26%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.20%) CASB
11 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.13%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 214 (13.94%) Microsoft
2 85 (5.54%) ServiceNow
3 73 (4.76%) SAP
4 62 (4.04%) Oracle
5 35 (2.28%) Google
6 21 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.11%) Splunk
8 15 (0.98%) Foundry
8 15 (0.98%) Workday
9 14 (0.91%) Cisco
10 13 (0.85%) Qualys
11 11 (0.72%) Murex
12 10 (0.65%) F5
12 10 (0.65%) IBM
13 9 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.59%) Databricks
13 9 (0.59%) Infoblox
13 9 (0.59%) Tenable
14 8 (0.52%) Okta
14 8 (0.52%) OpenAI