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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 57 67
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,706 1,205 1,086
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.67% 4.33% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 4.76% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,060 760 615
10th Percentile £402 £363 £366
25th Percentile £475 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% - -1.88%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £788 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £570 £560
% change year-on-year -3.51% +1.79% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 28 26
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £32.75
25th Percentile £45.31 £29.52 £40.94
Median hourly rate £67.05 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +100.13% -41.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80.00 £54.50 £66.88
90th Percentile £88.20 £77.80 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £64.09 £33.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +91.31% -41.74% +16.16%

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 39,385 25,311 28,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,009 16,087 17,408
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -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 2,837 1,536 1,254
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.22 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -17 839 £600 -7.69% 2,112
North of England -1 268 £507 +1.30% 336
South East +10 259 £575 +4.55% 430
North West -26 131 £525 +2.68% 210
Yorkshire +14 130 £494 -1.20% 98
Midlands -28 113 £525 +15.07% 224
South West -22 110 £570 -0.87% 210
West Midlands -13 91 £500 - 144
East of England +1 72 £513 -16.33% 118
East Midlands -24 19 £549 +36.44% 80
North East -40 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 65 (3.81%) 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
10 3 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.18%) Front Arena
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.18%) SAP HCM
10 3 (0.18%) Summit
10 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 267 (15.65%) Azure
2 188 (11.02%) AWS
3 87 (5.10%) GCP
4 74 (4.34%) Power Platform
5 65 (3.81%) Entra ID
6 50 (2.93%) SaaS
7 49 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (1.58%) Microsoft Purview
10 26 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
12 23 (1.35%) GitHub
13 21 (1.23%) OCI
14 20 (1.17%) Azure AI
15 18 (1.06%) PaaS
16 15 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
17 14 (0.82%) Serverless
18 12 (0.70%) IaaS
18 12 (0.70%) Power Automate
19 11 (0.64%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 61 (3.58%) Network Security
2 51 (2.99%) 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 10 (0.59%) 4G
9 10 (0.59%) VPN
10 8 (0.47%) BIG-IP
11 7 (0.41%) Cisco IPT
12 6 (0.35%) Internet
12 6 (0.35%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.29%) Softphone
13 5 (0.29%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.29%) Wireless
14 4 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
14 4 (0.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (3.34%) Power BI
2 38 (2.23%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.82%) Metadata
4 18 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (0.76%) Data Lake
5 13 (0.76%) Relational Database
6 12 (0.70%) Oracle Database
7 10 (0.59%) Big Data
7 10 (0.59%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.41%) RDBMS
9 6 (0.35%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.35%) Db2
9 6 (0.35%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.23%) Ataccama
10 4 (0.23%) Neo4j
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.23%) Power Query
10 4 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 111 (6.51%) 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%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 686 (40.21%) Social Skills
2 622 (36.46%) Finance
3 285 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
4 214 (12.54%) Public Sector
5 197 (11.55%) Banking
6 133 (7.80%) Legal
7 90 (5.28%) Influencing Skills
8 70 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
9 69 (4.04%) Front Office
10 48 (2.81%) Aerospace
11 47 (2.75%) Military
12 45 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
13 40 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (2.29%) Manufacturing
15 37 (2.17%) Telecoms
16 35 (2.05%) Financial Institution
16 35 (2.05%) Law
17 34 (1.99%) Retail
18 31 (1.82%) Investment Banking
19 26 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 226 (13.25%) Lead
2 213 (12.49%) Architect
3 174 (10.20%) Senior
4 171 (10.02%) Analyst
5 163 (9.55%) Project Manager
6 94 (5.51%) Consultant
7 83 (4.87%) Security Architect
8 70 (4.10%) Programme Manager
9 61 (3.58%) Business Analyst
10 57 (3.34%) Developer
11 51 (2.99%) Senior Manager
12 48 (2.81%) IT Manager
13 45 (2.64%) Risk Manager
14 41 (2.40%) Security Engineer
15 40 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
16 38 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
17 35 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
18 34 (1.99%) Security Consultant
18 34 (1.99%) Service Manager
19 33 (1.93%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.87%) Terraform
2 38 (2.23%) .NET
3 33 (1.93%) 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%) React
8 12 (0.70%) SAML
9 11 (0.64%) SLSA
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%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 117 (6.86%) Onboarding
2 101 (5.92%) Management Information System
3 87 (5.10%) 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 38 (2.23%) Cyber Threat
11 33 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
12 32 (1.88%) Market Risk
13 27 (1.58%) AI Agents
13 27 (1.58%) Credit Risk
14 23 (1.35%) PMI
15 22 (1.29%) NHS
16 21 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
17 20 (1.17%) Data Structures
17 20 (1.17%) Derivative
17 20 (1.17%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.10%) Windows
2 54 (3.17%) Linux
3 37 (2.17%) 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
1 712 (41.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 442 (25.91%) Cybersecurity
3 410 (24.03%) Agile
4 397 (23.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 358 (20.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 288 (16.88%) Decision-Making
7 252 (14.77%) AI
8 250 (14.65%) Roadmaps
9 248 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
10 231 (13.54%) Project Management
11 205 (12.02%) Information Security
12 198 (11.61%) Project Delivery
13 166 (9.73%) DevOps
14 163 (9.55%) Migration
15 158 (9.26%) Change Management
16 155 (9.09%) CI/CD
17 152 (8.91%) Vulnerability Management
18 144 (8.44%) Analytics
19 138 (8.09%) Data Protection
20 136 (7.97%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 127 (7.44%) Python
2 93 (5.45%) SQL
3 42 (2.46%) PowerShell
4 38 (2.23%) Java
5 37 (2.17%) C#
6 20 (1.17%) JavaScript
7 19 (1.11%) Bash
8 13 (0.76%) Shell Script
9 12 (0.70%) VBA
10 10 (0.59%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.41%) Go
12 6 (0.35%) Bicep
12 6 (0.35%) JCL
12 6 (0.35%) Korn
12 6 (0.35%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.29%) Assembly Language
13 5 (0.29%) CLIST
13 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.29%) REXX
14 4 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 467 (27.37%) Security Cleared
2 340 (19.93%) SC Cleared
3 172 (10.08%) Degree
4 155 (9.09%) CISSP
5 110 (6.45%) DV Cleared
6 98 (5.74%) CISM
7 83 (4.87%) PMI Certification
8 77 (4.51%) PMP
9 49 (2.87%) CRISC
10 46 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 30 (1.76%) CISA
14 29 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
14 29 (1.70%) Master's Degree
15 26 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
16 24 (1.41%) AWS Certification
16 24 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
16 24 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 22 (1.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (12.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 194 (11.37%) NIST
3 184 (10.79%) GRC
4 105 (6.15%) QA
5 96 (5.63%) GDPR
6 73 (4.28%) 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 12 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 12 (0.70%) PCI DSS
16 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%) NFS
9 2 (0.12%) Postfix
9 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (2.87%) Kubernetes
2 33 (1.93%) Ansible
3 13 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.59%) SCCM
5 9 (0.53%) Grafana
6 7 (0.41%) Control-M
7 6 (0.35%) 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
1 262 (15.36%) Microsoft
2 107 (6.27%) ServiceNow
3 81 (4.75%) SAP
4 59 (3.46%) Oracle
5 45 (2.64%) 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
11 15 (0.88%) 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%) F5