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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 47 77
Rank change year-on-year -22 +30 -13
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,409 1,148 1,025
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.28% 4.64% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 5.08% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 946 726 658
10th Percentile £411 £389 £355
25th Percentile £481 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +5.47% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £763 £738
90th Percentile £815 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 24 31
10th Percentile £20.79 £46.30 £15.50
25th Percentile £39.28 £48.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.09 £63.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +26.50% +370.37%
75th Percentile £87.16 £80.11 £60.63
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.43 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £64.09 £65.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -1.40% +33.33% +358.61%

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 36,560 22,594 31,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.16% 91.33% 85.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,106 14,607 20,685
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £726 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,294 1,062 2,382
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
% change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -39 676 £600 -11.11% 363
North of England -3 245 £512 +0.87% 135
South East -12 194 £563 +2.27% 159
Yorkshire +8 124 £500 -1.23% 40
North West -10 119 £540 +6.77% 81
Midlands -34 116 £545 +11.79% 68
South West +10 97 £570 +11.76% 71
West Midlands -30 84 £525 +5.00% 37
East of England +4 52 £525 -4.55% 38
East Midlands -16 32 £550 +23.04% 31
North East -36 4 £454 -17.50% 15
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 (4.54%) Confluence
2 35 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.57%) SAS
4 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.21%) IIS
5 3 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.071%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.071%) Appian
7 1 (0.071%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.071%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.071%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.071%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
Applications
1 42 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
3 37 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.78%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.28%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.28%) Revit
6 4 (0.28%) Trello
7 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.14%) Windchill
9 1 (0.071%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.071%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 23 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.71%) Endur
3 7 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.50%) Summit
4 6 (0.43%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.35%) Actimize
5 5 (0.35%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.35%) Primavera
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.28%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.21%) Dynamics SL
7 3 (0.21%) Findur
7 3 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 184 (13.06%) Azure
2 135 (9.58%) AWS
3 58 (4.12%) GCP
4 54 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
5 48 (3.41%) Power Platform
6 44 (3.12%) Entra ID
7 37 (2.63%) SaaS
8 28 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
9 25 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (1.35%) Google Workspace
11 18 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
11 18 (1.28%) PaaS
12 17 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (1.14%) Google Sheets
14 13 (0.92%) GitHub
15 11 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
15 11 (0.78%) IaaS
16 10 (0.71%) Amazon S3
16 10 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.26%) Network Security
2 29 (2.06%) Firewall
3 17 (1.21%) DNS
4 14 (0.99%) DHCP
5 12 (0.85%) BIG-IP
5 12 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.64%) 5G
6 9 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.50%) 4G
7 7 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (0.43%) HTTP
8 6 (0.43%) Internet
8 6 (0.43%) WAN
9 5 (0.35%) 3G
10 4 (0.28%) LAN
10 4 (0.28%) NAS
10 4 (0.28%) NGFW
10 4 (0.28%) SAN
10 4 (0.28%) VPN
11 3 (0.21%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (2.63%) Power BI
2 26 (1.85%) Metadata
3 18 (1.28%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (0.85%) Relational Database
7 10 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 9 (0.64%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.57%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.43%) Big Data
10 6 (0.43%) Tableau
11 5 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.35%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.35%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.28%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 105 (7.45%) JIRA
2 12 (0.85%) Git
2 12 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.43%) Selenium
4 5 (0.35%) GitLab
5 4 (0.28%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (0.28%) DbUnit
5 4 (0.28%) jMock
5 4 (0.28%) JUnit
5 4 (0.28%) Maven
5 4 (0.28%) Mockito
5 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.28%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.21%) MLflow
7 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.14%) TestRail
8 1 (0.071%) Gradle
8 1 (0.071%) WebDriver
General
1 520 (36.91%) Social Skills
2 513 (36.41%) Finance
3 231 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (11.14%) Banking
5 156 (11.07%) Public Sector
6 118 (8.37%) Legal
7 49 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
8 40 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
9 38 (2.70%) Telecoms
10 35 (2.48%) Financial Institution
11 31 (2.20%) Front Office
12 28 (1.99%) Retail
13 27 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (1.92%) Law
14 26 (1.85%) Military
14 26 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
15 25 (1.77%) Investment Banking
15 25 (1.77%) Manufacturing
16 21 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 20 (1.42%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 185 (13.13%) Lead
2 173 (12.28%) Project Manager
3 146 (10.36%) Architect
4 141 (10.01%) Senior
5 128 (9.08%) Analyst
6 81 (5.75%) Consultant
7 65 (4.61%) Programme Manager
8 59 (4.19%) Business Analyst
9 55 (3.90%) Developer
10 54 (3.83%) Security Architect
11 51 (3.62%) Senior Manager
12 45 (3.19%) Risk Manager
13 38 (2.70%) Security Engineer
14 35 (2.48%) Security Manager
15 34 (2.41%) IT Manager
15 34 (2.41%) Security Consultant
16 33 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
17 29 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
18 27 (1.92%) Risk Analyst
19 24 (1.70%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (1.56%) .NET
3 20 (1.42%) REST
4 17 (1.21%) Middleware
5 16 (1.14%) XML
6 14 (0.99%) Kafka
7 13 (0.92%) JSON
8 11 (0.78%) Azure Blueprints
8 11 (0.78%) Leaflet
8 11 (0.78%) OAuth
8 11 (0.78%) OpenID
8 11 (0.78%) SAML
9 9 (0.64%) React
9 9 (0.64%) SOAP
10 8 (0.57%) LDAP
10 8 (0.57%) Web Services
11 7 (0.50%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.50%) PySpark
11 7 (0.50%) RESTful
12 6 (0.43%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 102 (7.24%) Management Information System
2 67 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 64 (4.54%) Onboarding
4 56 (3.97%) Security Posture
5 53 (3.76%) Cloud Native
6 47 (3.34%) Operational Technology
7 39 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
8 35 (2.48%) Data Centre
8 35 (2.48%) Derivative
9 31 (2.20%) Market Risk
10 23 (1.63%) AI Agents
11 22 (1.56%) Credit Risk
11 22 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
11 22 (1.56%) NHS
12 21 (1.49%) Fixed Income
13 20 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
14 19 (1.35%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.35%) PMI
15 17 (1.21%) Equities
15 17 (1.21%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 46 (3.26%) Windows
2 37 (2.63%) Linux
3 20 (1.42%) Unix
4 16 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.43%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.43%) zOS
7 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.21%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.21%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.21%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.21%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (32.93%) Stakeholder Management
2 340 (24.13%) Agile
3 300 (21.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 291 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 284 (20.16%) Cybersecurity
6 233 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
7 223 (15.83%) Project Management
8 209 (14.83%) Decision-Making
9 185 (13.13%) Information Security
10 181 (12.85%) Roadmaps
11 160 (11.36%) Change Management
12 153 (10.86%) AI
13 139 (9.87%) Project Delivery
14 128 (9.08%) Migration
15 121 (8.59%) Regulatory Compliance
16 119 (8.45%) Analytics
17 116 (8.23%) DevOps
18 112 (7.95%) PRINCE2
19 106 (7.52%) Data Protection
20 105 (7.45%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 94 (6.67%) SQL
2 87 (6.17%) Python
3 45 (3.19%) Java
4 36 (2.56%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.49%) C#
6 13 (0.92%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.78%) VBA
8 8 (0.57%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.50%) Bash
9 7 (0.50%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.43%) C++
11 5 (0.35%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.28%) Bicep
13 3 (0.21%) Assembly Language
13 3 (0.21%) CLIST
13 3 (0.21%) JCL
13 3 (0.21%) REXX
14 2 (0.14%) C
14 2 (0.14%) Perl
14 2 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 337 (23.92%) Security Cleared
2 243 (17.25%) SC Cleared
3 179 (12.70%) Degree
4 122 (8.66%) CISSP
5 87 (6.17%) CISM
6 78 (5.54%) DV Cleared
7 67 (4.76%) PMI Certification
8 66 (4.68%) PMP
9 45 (3.19%) CRISC
10 37 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
12 26 (1.85%) CISA
13 22 (1.56%) Master's Degree
14 19 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
14 19 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 18 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (0.92%) CESG Certified Professional
17 12 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 11 (0.78%) GIAC
18 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (12.70%) NIST
2 177 (12.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 136 (9.65%) GRC
4 98 (6.96%) GDPR
5 74 (5.25%) PMO
6 68 (4.83%) QA
7 56 (3.97%) Data Quality
8 45 (3.19%) NCSC
9 39 (2.77%) PCI DSS
10 35 (2.48%) JSP 440
11 29 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
12 28 (1.99%) SLA
12 28 (1.99%) SOC 2
13 25 (1.77%) NIST 800
14 22 (1.56%) COBIT
15 16 (1.14%) RMADS
16 15 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.92%) Def Stans
18 12 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
19 11 (0.78%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 31 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.92%) Docker
3 8 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.28%) Postfix
6 3 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.21%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.071%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.071%) NFS
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.071%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (1.63%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.35%) Terraform
3 17 (1.21%) Ansible
4 13 (0.92%) SCCM
5 12 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.43%) Grafana
7 6 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.35%) Control-M
9 4 (0.28%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.21%) CASB
10 3 (0.21%) Nessus
10 3 (0.21%) OMEGAMON
11 2 (0.14%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.14%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.14%) OpenVAS
11 2 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 197 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 85 (6.03%) ServiceNow
3 70 (4.97%) SAP
4 65 (4.61%) Oracle
5 42 (2.98%) Google
6 21 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.49%) Workday
7 17 (1.21%) Murex
8 15 (1.06%) Cisco
9 14 (0.99%) F5
10 12 (0.85%) Qualys
10 12 (0.85%) Splunk
11 11 (0.78%) VMware
12 10 (0.71%) Databricks
12 10 (0.71%) Infoblox
13 9 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.64%) Foundry
13 9 (0.64%) Remedy
14 8 (0.57%) Rapid7
14 8 (0.57%) Tenable