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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 50 60
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 +10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,293 1,073 1,268
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 4.20% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 4.64% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 624 854
10th Percentile £408 £363 £400
25th Percentile £464 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +4.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £833 £834 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.77% -6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 41 49
10th Percentile £23.94 £28.50 £31.25
25th Percentile £33.50 £46.12 £42.25
Median hourly rate £52.64 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% - +464.44%
75th Percentile £98.13 £75.00 £83.40
90th Percentile £107.00 £83.20 -
UK median hourly rate £57.25 £61.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -6.90% +6.95% +440.92%

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 31,620 23,110 32,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.89% 90.44% 87.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,216 14,677 21,786
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £617 £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 1,956 785 2,096
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% +2.94% -4.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.11
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.15 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.85% -1.52% -5.71%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -13 691 £600 -4.00% 220
South East -13 189 £525 -8.70% 150
North of England -18 189 £507 -3.43% 93
Midlands -40 101 £550 +3.29% 67
Yorkshire +3 95 £500 -5.48% 33
North West -13 92 £525 +5.00% 55
West Midlands -38 68 £533 -11.25% 48
South West -5 62 £513 +3.80% 64
East Midlands -21 33 £550 +22.22% 19
East of England -33 32 £510 +8.97% 27
North East -24 2 £550 -4.35% 5
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 58 (4.49%) Confluence
2 23 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.46%) SAS
6 3 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.15%) nginx
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.077%) Camunda
8 1 (0.077%) CMS
8 1 (0.077%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.077%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 68 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (4.10%) Microsoft Project
3 36 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (1.08%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.23%) Trello
8 2 (0.15%) Revit
9 1 (0.077%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.077%) Navisworks
Business Applications
1 17 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.70%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.46%) Primavera
5 5 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.31%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.31%) Summit
7 3 (0.23%) Endur
7 3 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.15%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 145 (11.21%) Azure
2 122 (9.44%) AWS
3 54 (4.18%) GCP
4 45 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
5 42 (3.25%) Power Platform
6 31 (2.40%) Entra ID
6 31 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
7 25 (1.93%) SaaS
8 22 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (1.55%) Google Workspace
10 18 (1.39%) Google Sheets
11 16 (1.24%) GitHub
12 14 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (0.85%) OCI
15 10 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (0.77%) OpenShift
16 8 (0.62%) Collibra
17 7 (0.54%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.09%) Firewall
2 33 (2.55%) Network Security
3 9 (0.70%) DNS
3 9 (0.70%) Internet
3 9 (0.70%) Kerberos
3 9 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (0.62%) Structured Cabling
5 6 (0.46%) DHCP
5 6 (0.46%) HTTP
5 6 (0.46%) LAN
5 6 (0.46%) WAN
6 5 (0.39%) BIG-IP
6 5 (0.39%) Cisco IPT
7 4 (0.31%) 5G
8 3 (0.23%) Broadband
8 3 (0.23%) NGFW
8 3 (0.23%) SAN
8 3 (0.23%) VPN
9 2 (0.15%) SSL
9 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (2.71%) Power BI
2 21 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (1.24%) SQL Server
4 15 (1.16%) Metadata
5 13 (1.01%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.46%) KDB
6 6 (0.46%) Kdb+
6 6 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (0.39%) Big Data
7 5 (0.39%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.39%) Tableau
8 4 (0.31%) Data Mart
8 4 (0.31%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.31%) MS Access
8 4 (0.31%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 119 (9.20%) JIRA
2 13 (1.01%) Git
3 10 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.46%) SpecFlow
5 5 (0.39%) GitLab
6 3 (0.23%) QUnit
6 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.15%) GCC
7 2 (0.15%) GDB
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.15%) Selenium
8 1 (0.077%) Appium
8 1 (0.077%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.077%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.077%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.077%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.077%) jMock
8 1 (0.077%) Mockito
8 1 (0.077%) Zephyr
General
1 515 (39.83%) Social Skills
2 494 (38.21%) Finance
3 211 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (13.38%) Banking
5 120 (9.28%) Public Sector
6 108 (8.35%) Legal
7 51 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
7 51 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
8 49 (3.79%) Front Office
9 40 (3.09%) Investment Banking
10 39 (3.02%) Financial Institution
11 34 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (2.24%) Retail
13 22 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
14 19 (1.47%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.39%) Military
16 16 (1.24%) Law
17 15 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (1.16%) Marketing
18 14 (1.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 157 (12.14%) Analyst
2 150 (11.60%) Project Manager
3 147 (11.37%) Lead
4 137 (10.60%) Senior
5 104 (8.04%) Architect
6 102 (7.89%) Consultant
7 81 (6.26%) Developer
8 64 (4.95%) Programme Manager
9 61 (4.72%) Business Analyst
10 47 (3.63%) Security Architect
11 45 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
11 45 (3.48%) Senior Manager
12 40 (3.09%) Security Consultant
13 38 (2.94%) Risk Analyst
14 36 (2.78%) Risk Manager
15 32 (2.47%) Senior Developer
16 30 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
17 27 (2.09%) Security Analyst
18 25 (1.93%) Java Developer
18 25 (1.93%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.70%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (1.55%) Kafka
3 19 (1.47%) REST
4 15 (1.16%) OAuth
5 14 (1.08%) .NET
6 13 (1.01%) SAML
7 12 (0.93%) Middleware
8 11 (0.85%) .NET Framework
8 11 (0.85%) XML
9 10 (0.77%) NumPy
9 10 (0.77%) Pandas
10 9 (0.70%) COM
10 9 (0.70%) Dask
11 8 (0.62%) PyTorch
12 7 (0.54%) OpenID
12 7 (0.54%) Playwright
12 7 (0.54%) TensorFlow
13 6 (0.46%) Entity Framework
13 6 (0.46%) LDAP
13 6 (0.46%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 140 (10.83%) Management Information System
2 67 (5.18%) Product Ownership
3 64 (4.95%) Derivative
3 64 (4.95%) Security Posture
4 49 (3.79%) Onboarding
5 39 (3.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 37 (2.86%) Equities
6 37 (2.86%) Market Risk
7 36 (2.78%) Cloud Native
8 33 (2.55%) Data Centre
9 31 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (2.17%) Algorithms
11 25 (1.93%) Fixed Income
11 25 (1.93%) Operational Technology
12 24 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.86%) Credit Risk
13 20 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
14 18 (1.39%) Data Structures
15 17 (1.31%) Hedge funds
15 17 (1.31%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.78%) Linux
2 28 (2.17%) Windows
3 15 (1.16%) Unix
4 4 (0.31%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.23%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.23%) VMS
5 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.23%) zOS
6 1 (0.077%) Android
6 1 (0.077%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.077%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (28.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 299 (23.12%) Agile
3 255 (19.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 233 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
5 215 (16.63%) Cybersecurity
6 213 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 200 (15.47%) Project Management
8 175 (13.53%) Decision-Making
9 168 (12.99%) Information Security
10 141 (10.90%) Roadmaps
11 139 (10.75%) Change Management
12 117 (9.05%) AI
12 117 (9.05%) Regulatory Compliance
13 116 (8.97%) Project Delivery
14 115 (8.89%) Migration
15 113 (8.74%) Analytics
16 101 (7.81%) Data Protection
17 95 (7.35%) PRINCE2
17 95 (7.35%) Scrum
18 84 (6.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 119 (9.20%) SQL
2 107 (8.28%) Python
3 47 (3.63%) Java
4 34 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 27 (2.09%) C#
6 26 (2.01%) C++
7 16 (1.24%) VBA
8 9 (0.70%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.39%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.31%) Bash
10 4 (0.31%) Korn
11 3 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.15%) Perl
12 2 (0.15%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.15%) R
12 2 (0.15%) RPG
12 2 (0.15%) Rust
12 2 (0.15%) Scala
12 2 (0.15%) Solidity
12 2 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 276 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 226 (17.48%) Degree
3 207 (16.01%) SC Cleared
4 117 (9.05%) CISSP
5 87 (6.73%) CISM
6 65 (5.03%) DV Cleared
7 63 (4.87%) PMI Certification
8 61 (4.72%) PMP
9 53 (4.10%) Master's Degree
10 37 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (2.55%) CRISC
12 30 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
13 24 (1.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 23 (1.78%) CISA
15 15 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
15 15 (1.16%) PhD
16 12 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 10 (0.77%) CESG Certified Professional
18 9 (0.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (13.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 172 (13.30%) NIST
3 121 (9.36%) GRC
4 112 (8.66%) GDPR
5 77 (5.96%) PMO
6 66 (5.10%) QA
7 56 (4.33%) PCI DSS
8 44 (3.40%) Data Quality
9 36 (2.78%) NCSC
10 28 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (1.70%) SOC 2
12 21 (1.62%) SLA
13 20 (1.55%) NIST 800
14 18 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (1.39%) COBIT
14 18 (1.39%) Def Stans
15 16 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 15 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 13 (1.01%) EU AI Act
17 13 (1.01%) RMADS
System Software
1 28 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.85%) Docker
3 7 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.23%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.077%) Postfix
5 1 (0.077%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.077%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.16%) Terraform
3 13 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.62%) SCCM
6 7 (0.54%) Ansible
7 4 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.23%) CASB
8 3 (0.23%) Kubeflow
8 3 (0.23%) QRadar
8 3 (0.23%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.15%) Grafana
9 2 (0.15%) Nessus
9 2 (0.15%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.15%) OpenVAS
9 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.077%) Control-M
Vendors
1 160 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.72%) Oracle
3 59 (4.56%) ServiceNow
4 52 (4.02%) SAP
5 43 (3.33%) Google
6 21 (1.62%) Murex
7 16 (1.24%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.24%) Workday
8 11 (0.85%) Splunk
9 10 (0.77%) Cisco
10 9 (0.70%) CyberArk
10 9 (0.70%) Databricks
10 9 (0.70%) VMware
11 8 (0.62%) F5
11 8 (0.62%) Informatica
12 7 (0.54%) Ariba
13 6 (0.46%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.46%) Citrix
13 6 (0.46%) IBM
14 5 (0.39%) Charles River