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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 49 59
Rank change year-on-year -17 +10 +22
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,153 1,148 1,302
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.67% 4.18% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 4.70% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 739 645 886
10th Percentile £385 £389 £406
25th Percentile £458 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £693 £700 £700
90th Percentile £861 £834 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 36 52
10th Percentile £22.16 £26.06 £40.90
25th Percentile - £40.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £66.66
Median % change year-on-year -44.17% -9.98% +580.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.10 £83.40
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.60 £83.41
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -44.17% -2.44% +527.55%

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 27,843 24,416 31,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.51% 88.85% 88.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,784 15,001 21,658
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,756 802 1,433
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.34 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +23.66%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -5 626 £601 -3.92% 242
North of England -22 164 £492 -8.04% 95
South East -16 151 £511 -9.31% 155
Yorkshire +10 82 £492 -10.55% 46
North West -31 80 £488 -2.01% 44
Midlands -52 74 £475 -17.39% 59
South West +1 72 £575 +17.95% 43
West Midlands -59 47 £500 -13.98% 43
East of England -27 36 £553 -3.83% 39
East Midlands -24 27 £437 -8.00% 15
North East -19 2 £550 -13.73% 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 45 (3.90%) Confluence
2 22 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.87%) SAS
6 8 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.69%) CMS
7 4 (0.35%) CICS
8 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.17%) IIS
8 2 (0.17%) nginx
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.087%) Camunda
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
Applications
1 76 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (4.16%) Microsoft Project
3 43 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.35%) Revit
6 4 (0.35%) Trello
7 3 (0.26%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.17%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 24 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.61%) Endur
3 7 (0.61%) SAP CO
3 7 (0.61%) SAP FI
3 7 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.35%) Primavera
5 4 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.35%) VisionPLUS
6 3 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.26%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.26%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.17%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 117 (10.15%) Azure
2 114 (9.89%) AWS
3 57 (4.94%) GCP
4 44 (3.82%) Power Platform
5 31 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (2.25%) Entra ID
6 26 (2.25%) SaaS
7 20 (1.73%) GitHub
8 16 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (0.95%) OCI
11 10 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (0.78%) dbt
12 9 (0.78%) Google Workspace
13 8 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (0.69%) OpenShift
14 7 (0.61%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (0.61%) Google Sheets
15 6 (0.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.30%) Firewall
2 23 (1.99%) Network Security
3 9 (0.78%) Internet
3 9 (0.78%) Kerberos
4 7 (0.61%) LAN
4 7 (0.61%) WAN
4 7 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.52%) VPN
6 5 (0.43%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.43%) DNS
6 5 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.35%) 5G
7 4 (0.35%) Multicast
8 3 (0.26%) Broadband
8 3 (0.26%) HTTP
8 3 (0.26%) S/MIME
8 3 (0.26%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.26%) SSL
9 2 (0.17%) DHCP
9 2 (0.17%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (3.30%) Power BI
2 34 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.73%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.04%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.95%) Metadata
7 10 (0.87%) NoSQL
7 10 (0.87%) Tableau
8 8 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (0.69%) Apache Arrow
8 8 (0.69%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (0.69%) Dremio
8 8 (0.69%) KDB
8 8 (0.69%) Kdb+
9 7 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.61%) Big Data
9 7 (0.61%) MySQL
10 6 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.52%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.43%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 106 (9.19%) JIRA
2 17 (1.47%) Git
3 11 (0.95%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.78%) SpecFlow
5 6 (0.52%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.43%) QUnit
7 4 (0.35%) GCC
7 4 (0.35%) GDB
7 4 (0.35%) Gradle
7 4 (0.35%) Maven
7 4 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.35%) SonarLint
8 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.17%) GitLab
9 2 (0.17%) Postman
10 1 (0.087%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.087%) MLflow
10 1 (0.087%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.087%) SoapUI
General
1 487 (42.24%) Social Skills
2 469 (40.68%) Finance
3 200 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (15.26%) Banking
5 109 (9.45%) Public Sector
6 97 (8.41%) Legal
7 58 (5.03%) Front Office
8 48 (4.16%) Influencing Skills
8 48 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
9 40 (3.47%) Investment Banking
10 30 (2.60%) Financial Institution
11 23 (1.99%) Retail
11 23 (1.99%) Telecoms
12 22 (1.91%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.73%) Law
15 19 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
15 19 (1.65%) Local Government
16 17 (1.47%) Military
17 16 (1.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 153 (13.27%) Analyst
2 142 (12.32%) Project Manager
3 117 (10.15%) Senior
4 105 (9.11%) Developer
5 103 (8.93%) Lead
6 95 (8.24%) Consultant
7 87 (7.55%) Architect
8 54 (4.68%) Business Analyst
9 42 (3.64%) Programme Manager
10 39 (3.38%) Senior Developer
11 36 (3.12%) Delivery Manager
11 36 (3.12%) Risk Analyst
11 36 (3.12%) Security Consultant
12 32 (2.78%) Security Analyst
12 32 (2.78%) Senior Manager
13 31 (2.69%) Security Architect
14 30 (2.60%) Risk Manager
15 29 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
16 26 (2.25%) Java Developer
16 26 (2.25%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.99%) Kafka
2 17 (1.47%) NumPy
2 17 (1.47%) Pandas
2 17 (1.47%) REST
3 14 (1.21%) .NET
3 14 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (1.21%) RESTful
4 13 (1.13%) .NET Framework
4 13 (1.13%) AngularJS
4 13 (1.13%) OAuth
4 13 (1.13%) React
5 12 (1.04%) Middleware
5 12 (1.04%) SAML
6 11 (0.95%) XML
7 10 (0.87%) Playwright
8 9 (0.78%) COM
8 9 (0.78%) Dask
8 9 (0.78%) Entity Framework
8 9 (0.78%) NHibernate
9 8 (0.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 134 (11.62%) Management Information System
2 61 (5.29%) Product Ownership
3 60 (5.20%) Security Posture
4 59 (5.12%) Derivative
5 48 (4.16%) Onboarding
6 46 (3.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 41 (3.56%) Equities
8 36 (3.12%) Market Risk
9 31 (2.69%) Data Centre
10 29 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 29 (2.52%) Fixed Income
11 28 (2.43%) Algorithms
12 27 (2.34%) Cloud Native
12 27 (2.34%) Credit Risk
13 25 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
15 18 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
16 17 (1.47%) Hedge funds
16 17 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
17 14 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.95%) Linux
2 23 (1.99%) Windows
3 18 (1.56%) Unix
4 4 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.26%) VMS
6 1 (0.087%) Android
6 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.087%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (26.19%) Stakeholder Management
2 289 (25.07%) Agile
3 231 (20.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 229 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
5 191 (16.57%) Cybersecurity
6 184 (15.96%) Project Management
7 159 (13.79%) Decision-Making
8 157 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 141 (12.23%) Information Security
10 117 (10.15%) Project Delivery
11 102 (8.85%) Change Management
11 102 (8.85%) Migration
12 97 (8.41%) Roadmaps
13 96 (8.33%) Analytics
14 92 (7.98%) AI
15 91 (7.89%) PRINCE2
16 87 (7.55%) Incident Response
17 86 (7.46%) Regulatory Compliance
18 82 (7.11%) Scrum
19 79 (6.85%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 116 (10.06%) Python
2 108 (9.37%) SQL
3 50 (4.34%) Java
4 29 (2.52%) C++
5 26 (2.25%) C#
6 24 (2.08%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.13%) JavaScript
7 13 (1.13%) VBA
8 9 (0.78%) R
9 8 (0.69%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.43%) JCL
10 5 (0.43%) Korn
11 4 (0.35%) COBOL
12 3 (0.26%) Bash
12 3 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.17%) Perl
13 2 (0.17%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.17%) Rust
13 2 (0.17%) Scala
13 2 (0.17%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 222 (19.25%) Security Cleared
2 197 (17.09%) Degree
3 164 (14.22%) SC Cleared
4 104 (9.02%) CISSP
5 74 (6.42%) CISM
6 70 (6.07%) PMI Certification
7 66 (5.72%) PMP
8 54 (4.68%) Master's Degree
9 52 (4.51%) DV Cleared
10 33 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 29 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (2.17%) CISA
12 25 (2.17%) CRISC
13 19 (1.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 16 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (1.30%) Numerate Degree
15 15 (1.30%) PhD
16 12 (1.04%) GIAC
17 10 (0.87%) CESG Certified Professional
18 9 (0.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (12.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 139 (12.06%) NIST
3 99 (8.59%) GDPR
4 83 (7.20%) GRC
5 67 (5.81%) PMO
6 65 (5.64%) QA
7 39 (3.38%) PCI DSS
8 32 (2.78%) NCSC
9 31 (2.69%) Data Quality
10 25 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (1.47%) COBIT
12 16 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (1.39%) EU AI Act
13 15 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 14 (1.21%) SLA
15 13 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 12 (1.04%) Def Stans
17 11 (0.95%) Accessibility
18 10 (0.87%) Basel III
18 10 (0.87%) RMADS
System Software
1 27 (2.34%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.65%) Docker
3 6 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.087%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.087%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.087%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (1.82%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.56%) Terraform
3 10 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.78%) Ansible
5 6 (0.52%) RSA Archer
6 5 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 3 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.26%) QRadar
9 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.17%) Grafana
9 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.087%) Consul
10 1 (0.087%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.087%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.087%) OMEGAMON
10 1 (0.087%) SCCM
10 1 (0.087%) TeamSite
10 1 (0.087%) WSUS
Vendors
1 141 (12.23%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.03%) SAP
3 48 (4.16%) ServiceNow
4 44 (3.82%) Oracle
5 26 (2.25%) Google
6 18 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.30%) Splunk
8 11 (0.95%) Databricks
8 11 (0.95%) Murex
9 8 (0.69%) CyberArk
9 8 (0.69%) IBM
10 7 (0.61%) Citrix
11 6 (0.52%) Bloomberg
11 6 (0.52%) Cisco
11 6 (0.52%) Informatica
11 6 (0.52%) Solace
11 6 (0.52%) Workday
12 5 (0.43%) Ariba
12 5 (0.43%) BiZZdesign
12 5 (0.43%) LogRhythm