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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 49 69
Rank change year-on-year -22 +20 -4
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,554 1,284 980
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.40% 4.62% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 5.09% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,000 816 611
10th Percentile £412 £366 £363
25th Percentile £481 £458 £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 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% -7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 23 22
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £30.23
25th Percentile £49.50 £28.43 £40.00
Median hourly rate £77.35 £49.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.26% -13.91% +40.07%
75th Percentile £85.00 £73.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.45 £74.52
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £49.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +53.54% -13.91% +45.20%

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 39,011 25,247 28,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.77% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,277 16,138 18,662
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 £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,537 1,415 1,657
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £14.13
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.87 £18.32
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +1.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +72.96% -38.57% -3.67%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -40 729 £600 -7.69% 976
North of England -17 269 £513 +0.24% 170
South East +1 243 £572 +4.00% 243
North West -29 134 £525 +3.45% 103
Yorkshire +2 129 £500 -4.76% 52
Midlands -39 109 £575 +21.05% 110
South West -15 108 £570 -0.87% 128
West Midlands -35 85 £578 +15.50% 66
East of England +16 66 £525 -12.50% 69
East Midlands -18 21 £538 +26.47% 44
North East -44 6 £454 -22.77% 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 64 (4.12%) Confluence
2 36 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.64%) SAS
4 4 (0.26%) IIS
4 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.13%) CMS
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.064%) Appian
7 1 (0.064%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.064%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.064%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.064%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 47 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 47 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
3 32 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.90%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
5 4 (0.26%) Revit
6 3 (0.19%) Trello
6 3 (0.19%) Windchill
7 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.064%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.064%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 31 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.84%) Endur
3 9 (0.58%) Primavera
4 7 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.32%) SAP GRC
7 4 (0.26%) Actimize
7 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.26%) Magento
7 4 (0.26%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.26%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.26%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.26%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 233 (14.99%) Azure
2 164 (10.55%) AWS
3 68 (4.38%) GCP
4 52 (3.35%) Entra ID
4 52 (3.35%) Power Platform
5 51 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (2.77%) SaaS
7 32 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
9 23 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
10 18 (1.16%) Azure AI
10 18 (1.16%) OCI
10 18 (1.16%) PaaS
11 16 (1.03%) GitHub
12 12 (0.77%) IaaS
12 12 (0.77%) Serverless
13 11 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (0.64%) Copilot Studio
14 10 (0.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.09%) Network Security
2 36 (2.32%) Firewall
3 16 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 15 (0.97%) DNS
5 14 (0.90%) WAN
6 13 (0.84%) 5G
6 13 (0.84%) DHCP
7 12 (0.77%) LAN
8 11 (0.71%) 4G
9 9 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.51%) BIG-IP
11 7 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
12 6 (0.39%) HTTP
12 6 (0.39%) VPN
13 5 (0.32%) 3G
13 5 (0.32%) Internet
13 5 (0.32%) NAS
13 5 (0.32%) NGFW
13 5 (0.32%) SAN
14 4 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (2.45%) Power BI
2 27 (1.74%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.54%) Metadata
4 16 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.90%) Relational Database
6 12 (0.77%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (0.64%) RDBMS
8 9 (0.58%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.45%) Big Data
9 7 (0.45%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.32%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.32%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.26%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (0.26%) Tableau
12 3 (0.19%) Db2
Development Applications
1 103 (6.63%) JIRA
2 19 (1.22%) Git
3 18 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.71%) Selenium
5 7 (0.45%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.39%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.39%) GitLab
6 6 (0.39%) Postman
6 6 (0.39%) WebDriver
7 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.26%) DbUnit
7 4 (0.26%) jMock
7 4 (0.26%) JUnit
7 4 (0.26%) Maven
7 4 (0.26%) Mockito
7 4 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.26%) Subversion
7 4 (0.26%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 595 (38.29%) Social Skills
2 555 (35.71%) Finance
3 241 (15.51%) Analytical Skills
4 177 (11.39%) Public Sector
5 168 (10.81%) Banking
6 119 (7.66%) Legal
7 64 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
8 60 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
9 47 (3.02%) Front Office
10 43 (2.77%) Telecoms
11 41 (2.64%) Aerospace
12 40 (2.57%) Retail
13 38 (2.45%) Financial Institution
14 33 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
15 31 (1.99%) Military
15 31 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
16 29 (1.87%) Manufacturing
17 27 (1.74%) Law
18 24 (1.54%) Investment Banking
19 23 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 215 (13.84%) Lead
2 183 (11.78%) Project Manager
3 182 (11.71%) Architect
4 161 (10.36%) Senior
5 135 (8.69%) Analyst
6 103 (6.63%) Consultant
7 78 (5.02%) Security Architect
8 71 (4.57%) Programme Manager
9 58 (3.73%) Senior Manager
10 51 (3.28%) Developer
11 49 (3.15%) Business Analyst
12 48 (3.09%) Risk Manager
13 45 (2.90%) Security Consultant
14 41 (2.64%) IT Manager
15 40 (2.57%) Delivery Manager
16 35 (2.25%) Security Manager
17 33 (2.12%) Security Engineer
18 32 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
19 29 (1.87%) Senior Project Manager
20 28 (1.80%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.67%) .NET
1 26 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (1.61%) REST
3 18 (1.16%) Middleware
4 14 (0.90%) OAuth
5 13 (0.84%) XML
6 12 (0.77%) OpenID
6 12 (0.77%) SAML
7 11 (0.71%) Azure Blueprints
7 11 (0.71%) JSON
7 11 (0.71%) Leaflet
7 11 (0.71%) React
7 11 (0.71%) SOAP
8 10 (0.64%) Kafka
9 9 (0.58%) LDAP
9 9 (0.58%) SLSA
10 8 (0.51%) PySpark
10 8 (0.51%) RESTful
10 8 (0.51%) SailPoint
10 8 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 102 (6.56%) Management Information System
2 85 (5.47%) Onboarding
3 78 (5.02%) Product Ownership
4 68 (4.38%) Cloud Native
4 68 (4.38%) Security Posture
5 48 (3.09%) Operational Technology
6 46 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
7 42 (2.70%) Data Centre
8 30 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
9 29 (1.87%) AI Agents
10 26 (1.67%) Derivative
10 26 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.67%) Market Risk
11 25 (1.61%) PMI
12 23 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (1.35%) Fixed Income
14 20 (1.29%) NHS
15 19 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 18 (1.16%) Credit Risk
17 16 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (3.41%) Windows
2 42 (2.70%) Linux
3 26 (1.67%) Unix
4 20 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.32%) zOS
7 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.19%) AIX
8 3 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.064%) Android
9 1 (0.064%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (37.52%) Stakeholder Management
2 374 (24.07%) Agile
3 360 (23.17%) Cybersecurity
4 344 (22.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 332 (21.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 231 (14.86%) Decision-Making
7 230 (14.80%) Project Management
8 213 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
9 206 (13.26%) Roadmaps
10 203 (13.06%) AI
11 199 (12.81%) Information Security
12 167 (10.75%) Project Delivery
13 151 (9.72%) Change Management
14 148 (9.52%) Migration
15 140 (9.01%) DevOps
16 127 (8.17%) Vulnerability Management
17 124 (7.98%) PRINCE2
18 122 (7.85%) CI/CD
19 121 (7.79%) Analytics
20 115 (7.40%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 96 (6.18%) Python
2 75 (4.83%) SQL
3 39 (2.51%) Java
4 35 (2.25%) PowerShell
5 25 (1.61%) C#
6 15 (0.97%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.64%) VBA
8 9 (0.58%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.45%) Bash
10 6 (0.39%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.32%) 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 (0.19%) C
13 3 (0.19%) C++
13 3 (0.19%) Go
13 3 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 393 (25.29%) Security Cleared
2 292 (18.79%) SC Cleared
3 168 (10.81%) Degree
4 152 (9.78%) CISSP
5 101 (6.50%) DV Cleared
6 95 (6.11%) CISM
7 77 (4.95%) PMI Certification
8 74 (4.76%) PMP
9 49 (3.15%) CRISC
10 31 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 30 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (1.87%) CISA
13 27 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
13 27 (1.74%) Master's Degree
14 26 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 24 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 21 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
17 17 (1.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 16 (1.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
19 15 (0.97%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (12.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 198 (12.74%) NIST
2 157 (10.10%) GRC
3 101 (6.50%) GDPR
4 79 (5.08%) QA
5 66 (4.25%) PMO
6 52 (3.35%) Data Quality
7 48 (3.09%) NCSC
8 34 (2.19%) JSP 440
8 34 (2.19%) PCI DSS
9 33 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials
10 29 (1.87%) SOC 2
11 28 (1.80%) SLA
12 26 (1.67%) NIST 800
13 16 (1.03%) COBIT
13 16 (1.03%) Def Stans
14 15 (0.97%) Accessibility
15 14 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 12 (0.77%) ISO 31000
16 12 (0.77%) RMADS
System Software
1 35 (2.25%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.84%) Docker
3 9 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.26%) Postfix
4 4 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
5 3 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.13%) FreeRADIUS
6 2 (0.13%) NFS
6 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (1.67%) Terraform
2 23 (1.48%) Kubernetes
3 22 (1.42%) Ansible
4 10 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.58%) SCCM
6 8 (0.51%) Grafana
6 8 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.32%) 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 (0.19%) CASB
11 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.13%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 220 (14.16%) Microsoft
2 86 (5.53%) ServiceNow
3 72 (4.63%) SAP
4 65 (4.18%) Oracle
5 35 (2.25%) Google
6 20 (1.29%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.09%) Splunk
8 15 (0.97%) Foundry
8 15 (0.97%) Workday
9 13 (0.84%) Murex
9 13 (0.84%) Qualys
10 12 (0.77%) Cisco
11 10 (0.64%) Databricks
11 10 (0.64%) IBM
12 9 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (0.58%) F5
12 9 (0.58%) Tenable
13 8 (0.51%) Infoblox
13 8 (0.51%) Okta
13 8 (0.51%) OpenAI