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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 49 57
Rank change year-on-year -17 +8 +24
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,162 1,182 1,381
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.70% 4.10% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.18% 4.63% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 733 677 939
10th Percentile £368 £390 £413
25th Percentile £458 £463 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £862 £838 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £572 £575
% change year-on-year -3.80% -0.57% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 35 55
10th Percentile £22.16 £27.00 £34.62
25th Percentile £27.34 £40.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.17% - +34.00%
75th Percentile £64.75 £75.00 £83.40
90th Percentile £94.63 £81.92 £83.41
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £60.75
% change year-on-year -44.17% -1.23% +58.25%

All Process and 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 27,831 25,521 32,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.70% 88.62% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,689 15,759 22,371
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,818 840 1,378
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.88 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 2025. 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 -4 640 £624 -0.24% 141
North of England -21 167 £498 -7.01% 82
South East -17 151 £514 -8.26% 122
North West -27 90 £481 -3.27% 52
Midlands -52 76 £475 -14.87% 40
Yorkshire +1 75 £500 -7.83% 29
South West -13 66 £588 +20.51% 40
West Midlands -50 50 £525 -7.33% 31
East of England -37 33 £553 +7.38% 28
East Midlands -21 26 £402 -26.91% 9
North East -13 2 £550 -13.73% 1
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 48 (4.13%) Confluence
2 17 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.86%) SAS
5 8 (0.69%) CMS
6 4 (0.34%) CICS
7 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.17%) IIS
7 2 (0.17%) nginx
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.086%) Camunda
8 1 (0.086%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.086%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.086%) Tomcat
Applications
1 73 (6.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (3.53%) Microsoft Project
4 36 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.43%) Trello
7 4 (0.34%) Revit
8 3 (0.26%) Navisworks
8 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.17%) GNU Octave
9 2 (0.17%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.086%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 24 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.95%) Endur
3 9 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.60%) SAP CO
4 7 (0.60%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
5 6 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.34%) Primavera
6 4 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.34%) VisionPLUS
7 3 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.26%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.26%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 119 (10.24%) AWS
1 119 (10.24%) Azure
2 58 (4.99%) GCP
3 44 (3.79%) Power Platform
4 28 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (2.15%) Entra ID
5 25 (2.15%) SaaS
6 21 (1.81%) GitHub
7 16 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (0.95%) dbt
8 11 (0.95%) OCI
9 10 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (0.86%) OpenShift
10 9 (0.77%) Google Workspace
11 8 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (0.69%) Miro
12 7 (0.60%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (0.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 41 (3.53%) Firewall
2 21 (1.81%) Network Security
3 9 (0.77%) Internet
3 9 (0.77%) Kerberos
4 7 (0.60%) LAN
4 7 (0.60%) WAN
4 7 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.52%) Multicast
5 6 (0.52%) VPN
6 5 (0.43%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.34%) 5G
7 4 (0.34%) Broadband
7 4 (0.34%) DNS
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%) SMTP
9 2 (0.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (3.27%) Power BI
2 36 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (1.98%) SQL Server
4 15 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.03%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.95%) Metadata
6 11 (0.95%) NoSQL
7 10 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (0.86%) Apache Arrow
7 10 (0.86%) Apache Iceberg
7 10 (0.86%) Dremio
7 10 (0.86%) Tableau
8 8 (0.69%) Big Data
8 8 (0.69%) KDB
8 8 (0.69%) Kdb+
9 7 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.60%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.60%) MySQL
9 7 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 108 (9.29%) JIRA
2 17 (1.46%) Git
3 11 (0.95%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.95%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.52%) GCC
4 6 (0.52%) GDB
4 6 (0.52%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.43%) Gradle
5 5 (0.43%) QUnit
6 4 (0.34%) Maven
6 4 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.34%) SonarLint
7 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.17%) GitLab
8 2 (0.17%) Postman
9 1 (0.086%) CANoe
9 1 (0.086%) JMeter
9 1 (0.086%) MLflow
9 1 (0.086%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.086%) Snyk
General
1 504 (43.37%) Social Skills
2 493 (42.43%) Finance
3 194 (16.70%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (15.06%) Banking
5 102 (8.78%) Public Sector
6 93 (8.00%) Legal
7 62 (5.34%) Front Office
8 48 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
9 47 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
10 41 (3.53%) Investment Banking
11 31 (2.67%) Financial Institution
12 26 (2.24%) Retail
13 25 (2.15%) Manufacturing
13 25 (2.15%) Telecoms
14 24 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.64%) Back Office
15 19 (1.64%) Marketing
16 17 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (1.46%) Law
17 16 (1.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 165 (14.20%) Analyst
2 139 (11.96%) Project Manager
3 124 (10.67%) Senior
4 114 (9.81%) Developer
5 103 (8.86%) Lead
6 100 (8.61%) Consultant
7 87 (7.49%) Architect
8 60 (5.16%) Business Analyst
9 40 (3.44%) Programme Manager
10 39 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
10 39 (3.36%) Senior Developer
11 38 (3.27%) Risk Analyst
11 38 (3.27%) Security Consultant
12 36 (3.10%) Senior Manager
13 35 (3.01%) Security Analyst
14 31 (2.67%) Security Architect
15 30 (2.58%) AWS Developer
15 30 (2.58%) Python Developer
16 27 (2.32%) Java Developer
16 27 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.98%) Kafka
2 19 (1.64%) AngularJS
2 19 (1.64%) NumPy
2 19 (1.64%) Pandas
2 19 (1.64%) React
3 18 (1.55%) .NET
3 18 (1.55%) REST
4 16 (1.38%) RESTful
5 15 (1.29%) .NET Framework
6 14 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (1.12%) OAuth
8 12 (1.03%) Middleware
8 12 (1.03%) Playwright
8 12 (1.03%) SAML
9 11 (0.95%) Entity Framework
9 11 (0.95%) NHibernate
9 11 (0.95%) XML
10 10 (0.86%) Node.js
10 10 (0.86%) SciPy
10 10 (0.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 132 (11.36%) Management Information System
2 61 (5.25%) Security Posture
3 60 (5.16%) Derivative
3 60 (5.16%) Product Ownership
4 51 (4.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 44 (3.79%) Onboarding
6 41 (3.53%) Equities
7 36 (3.10%) Market Risk
8 33 (2.84%) Data Centre
9 32 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 31 (2.67%) Fixed Income
11 28 (2.41%) Credit Risk
12 26 (2.24%) Algorithms
13 25 (2.15%) Cloud Native
14 21 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
15 20 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
15 20 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
16 19 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
17 17 (1.46%) Hedge funds
18 16 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 39 (3.36%) Linux
2 26 (2.24%) Windows
3 19 (1.64%) Unix
4 5 (0.43%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.34%) VMS
6 2 (0.17%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.086%) Android
7 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.086%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (25.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 294 (25.30%) Agile
3 239 (20.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 222 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
5 195 (16.78%) Cybersecurity
6 184 (15.83%) Project Management
7 160 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 149 (12.82%) Decision-Making
9 140 (12.05%) Information Security
10 114 (9.81%) Project Delivery
11 107 (9.21%) Migration
12 105 (9.04%) Change Management
13 96 (8.26%) AI
14 94 (8.09%) Incident Response
15 93 (8.00%) Analytics
16 89 (7.66%) Roadmaps
17 88 (7.57%) Scrum
18 86 (7.40%) Regulatory Compliance
19 81 (6.97%) Computer Science
19 81 (6.97%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 132 (11.36%) Python
2 112 (9.64%) SQL
3 55 (4.73%) Java
4 28 (2.41%) C#
5 27 (2.32%) C++
6 26 (2.24%) PowerShell
7 15 (1.29%) JavaScript
8 13 (1.12%) VBA
9 12 (1.03%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.86%) R
11 5 (0.43%) JCL
12 4 (0.34%) COBOL
13 3 (0.26%) Bash
13 3 (0.26%) Korn
13 3 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.17%) Perl
14 2 (0.17%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.17%) Rust
14 2 (0.17%) Scala
14 2 (0.17%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 224 (19.28%) Security Cleared
2 187 (16.09%) Degree
3 169 (14.54%) SC Cleared
4 109 (9.38%) CISSP
5 72 (6.20%) CISM
6 64 (5.51%) PMI Certification
7 61 (5.25%) PMP
8 53 (4.56%) DV Cleared
9 52 (4.48%) Master's Degree
10 33 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (2.07%) CISA
12 19 (1.64%) CRISC
12 19 (1.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 16 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (1.29%) PhD
15 13 (1.12%) CESG Certified Professional
15 13 (1.12%) GIAC
15 13 (1.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 13 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (13.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 142 (12.22%) NIST
3 103 (8.86%) GDPR
4 79 (6.80%) GRC
5 67 (5.77%) QA
6 59 (5.08%) PMO
7 40 (3.44%) PCI DSS
8 32 (2.75%) NCSC
9 31 (2.67%) Data Quality
10 25 (2.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (1.38%) EU AI Act
13 15 (1.29%) SLA
14 14 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 13 (1.12%) Accessibility
15 13 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (1.12%) COBIT
16 12 (1.03%) Def Stans
16 12 (1.03%) RMADS
17 10 (0.86%) Basel III
System Software
1 26 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.81%) Docker
3 6 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.086%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.086%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.086%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (1.81%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.72%) Terraform
3 15 (1.29%) Ansible
4 9 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.60%) RSA Archer
6 5 (0.43%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 5 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.34%) QRadar
8 3 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.17%) Grafana
9 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.086%) Consul
10 1 (0.086%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.086%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.086%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.086%) OMEGAMON
10 1 (0.086%) TeamSite
10 1 (0.086%) WSUS
Vendors
1 140 (12.05%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.16%) SAP
3 54 (4.65%) ServiceNow
4 45 (3.87%) Oracle
5 26 (2.24%) Google
6 19 (1.64%) Splunk
7 17 (1.46%) Salesforce
8 11 (0.95%) Murex
9 9 (0.77%) Cisco
10 8 (0.69%) CyberArk
10 8 (0.69%) Databricks
10 8 (0.69%) IBM
10 8 (0.69%) Solace
11 7 (0.60%) ArcSight
11 7 (0.60%) Bloomberg
11 7 (0.60%) Citrix
11 7 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (0.60%) LogRhythm
12 6 (0.52%) Informatica
13 5 (0.43%) BiZZdesign