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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 49 74
Rank change year-on-year -21 +25 -10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,507 1,242 971
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.34% 4.53% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 5.00% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 985 780 609
10th Percentile £413 £365 £359
25th Percentile £485 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £750
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £563 £553 £551
% change year-on-year +1.72% +0.45% -7.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 27 29
10th Percentile £24.81 £22.16 £20.97
25th Percentile £50.00 £38.46 £40.00
Median hourly rate £79.50 £49.51 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.59% -13.90% +86.99%
75th Percentile £85.40 £73.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £105.13 £87.35 £71.14
UK median hourly rate £78.85 £49.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +59.28% -10.00% +74.60%

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 38,549 24,860 29,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.39% 90.73% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,182 15,935 19,502
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,342 1,889
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.26 £13.67
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.90 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £69.50 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -38 699 £600 -7.69% 562
North of England -15 261 £514 +0.41% 131
South East +1 244 £575 +4.55% 174
North West -27 130 £533 +4.93% 75
Yorkshire +3 128 £500 -4.76% 44
Midlands -35 110 £550 +17.27% 71
South West -10 99 £570 -0.87% 68
West Midlands -34 88 £545 +9.00% 41
East of England +21 63 £525 -4.55% 37
East Midlands -24 20 £550 +24.72% 30
North East -45 5 £454 -17.50% 12
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 (4.25%) Confluence
2 35 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.60%) SAS
4 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.27%) IIS
6 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.066%) Appian
8 1 (0.066%) CMS
8 1 (0.066%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.066%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.066%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.066%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.066%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 46 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.27%) Navisworks
5 4 (0.27%) Revit
5 4 (0.27%) Trello
6 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.20%) Windchill
7 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.066%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 33 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.73%) Endur
3 9 (0.60%) Primavera
4 7 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.40%) Actimize
5 6 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.27%) Loan IQ
7 4 (0.27%) Magento
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.27%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.27%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.27%) SAP GRC
7 4 (0.27%) Summit
7 4 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 223 (14.80%) Azure
2 156 (10.35%) AWS
3 69 (4.58%) GCP
4 51 (3.38%) Power Platform
5 48 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
6 47 (3.12%) Entra ID
7 40 (2.65%) SaaS
8 31 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
10 20 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (1.26%) PaaS
12 17 (1.13%) GitHub
13 15 (1.00%) Azure AI
14 13 (0.86%) IaaS
15 12 (0.80%) OCI
16 11 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
16 11 (0.73%) Serverless
17 10 (0.66%) PowerApps
18 9 (0.60%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.25%) Network Security
2 38 (2.52%) Firewall
3 15 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.93%) DNS
5 13 (0.86%) DHCP
6 12 (0.80%) 5G
6 12 (0.80%) WAN
7 10 (0.66%) 4G
7 10 (0.66%) BIG-IP
7 10 (0.66%) LAN
8 9 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (0.40%) HTTP
11 5 (0.33%) 3G
11 5 (0.33%) Internet
11 5 (0.33%) NAS
11 5 (0.33%) NGFW
11 5 (0.33%) SAN
11 5 (0.33%) VPN
12 4 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (2.39%) Power BI
2 26 (1.73%) Metadata
3 24 (1.59%) SQL Server
4 14 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 12 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (0.73%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.66%) RDBMS
8 8 (0.53%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.46%) Big Data
10 6 (0.40%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.33%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.33%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.27%) Tableau
13 3 (0.20%) Db2
13 3 (0.20%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 103 (6.83%) JIRA
2 19 (1.26%) Git
2 19 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 10 (0.66%) Selenium
4 7 (0.46%) GitLab
5 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.33%) Postman
6 5 (0.33%) TeamCity
6 5 (0.33%) WebDriver
7 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.27%) DbUnit
7 4 (0.27%) jMock
7 4 (0.27%) JUnit
7 4 (0.27%) Maven
7 4 (0.27%) Mockito
7 4 (0.27%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.27%) Subversion
7 4 (0.27%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.20%) Artifactory
General
1 573 (38.02%) Social Skills
2 554 (36.76%) Finance
3 227 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (11.08%) Banking
4 167 (11.08%) Public Sector
5 111 (7.37%) Legal
6 60 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
7 57 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
8 39 (2.59%) Front Office
9 38 (2.52%) Aerospace
9 38 (2.52%) Financial Institution
9 38 (2.52%) Telecoms
10 36 (2.39%) Retail
11 31 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
12 28 (1.86%) Military
13 27 (1.79%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.59%) Law
15 23 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 23 (1.53%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 209 (13.87%) Lead
2 177 (11.75%) Project Manager
3 171 (11.35%) Architect
4 154 (10.22%) Senior
5 129 (8.56%) Analyst
6 91 (6.04%) Consultant
7 74 (4.91%) Security Architect
8 64 (4.25%) Programme Manager
9 58 (3.85%) Senior Manager
10 55 (3.65%) Developer
11 49 (3.25%) Business Analyst
11 49 (3.25%) Risk Manager
12 40 (2.65%) IT Manager
13 38 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
13 38 (2.52%) Security Consultant
14 36 (2.39%) Security Engineer
15 35 (2.32%) Security Manager
16 30 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
17 28 (1.86%) Product Manager
17 28 (1.86%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.66%) .NET
1 25 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
2 23 (1.53%) REST
3 18 (1.19%) Middleware
4 14 (0.93%) XML
5 13 (0.86%) JSON
6 12 (0.80%) Kafka
6 12 (0.80%) OAuth
7 11 (0.73%) Azure Blueprints
7 11 (0.73%) Leaflet
7 11 (0.73%) OpenID
7 11 (0.73%) React
7 11 (0.73%) SAML
7 11 (0.73%) SOAP
8 9 (0.60%) LDAP
8 9 (0.60%) SLSA
9 8 (0.53%) PySpark
9 8 (0.53%) RESTful
9 8 (0.53%) Web Services
10 7 (0.46%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 100 (6.64%) Management Information System
2 82 (5.44%) Onboarding
3 78 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 63 (4.18%) Cloud Native
5 62 (4.11%) Security Posture
6 51 (3.38%) Operational Technology
7 46 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
8 39 (2.59%) Data Centre
9 29 (1.92%) Market Risk
10 27 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
11 26 (1.73%) Derivative
11 26 (1.73%) PMI
12 25 (1.66%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
14 22 (1.46%) Fixed Income
15 21 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
16 20 (1.33%) NHS
17 19 (1.26%) Virtual Team
18 17 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
18 17 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.38%) Windows
2 42 (2.79%) Linux
3 25 (1.66%) Unix
4 19 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.33%) zOS
7 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.066%) Android
10 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 557 (36.96%) Stakeholder Management
2 361 (23.95%) Agile
3 340 (22.56%) Cybersecurity
4 333 (22.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 328 (21.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 237 (15.73%) Project Management
7 232 (15.39%) Decision-Making
8 218 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
9 209 (13.87%) Roadmaps
10 192 (12.74%) AI
11 190 (12.61%) Information Security
12 159 (10.55%) Change Management
13 154 (10.22%) Project Delivery
14 136 (9.02%) Migration
15 134 (8.89%) DevOps
16 125 (8.29%) Analytics
17 118 (7.83%) PRINCE2
17 118 (7.83%) Vulnerability Management
18 117 (7.76%) CI/CD
19 109 (7.23%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 94 (6.24%) Python
2 76 (5.04%) SQL
3 44 (2.92%) Java
4 33 (2.19%) PowerShell
5 24 (1.59%) C#
6 16 (1.06%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.80%) VBA
8 9 (0.60%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.46%) Bash
10 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.40%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.27%) Assembly Language
11 4 (0.27%) Bicep
11 4 (0.27%) CLIST
11 4 (0.27%) JCL
11 4 (0.27%) REXX
12 3 (0.20%) C
12 3 (0.20%) Go
12 3 (0.20%) Scala
13 2 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 380 (25.22%) Security Cleared
2 283 (18.78%) SC Cleared
3 168 (11.15%) Degree
4 146 (9.69%) CISSP
5 95 (6.30%) DV Cleared
6 88 (5.84%) CISM
7 74 (4.91%) PMI Certification
8 70 (4.64%) PMP
9 39 (2.59%) CRISC
10 33 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 29 (1.92%) CISA
11 29 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
12 26 (1.73%) Master's Degree
12 26 (1.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 24 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 21 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
15 15 (1.00%) CESG Certified Professional
15 15 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 14 (0.93%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (12.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 187 (12.41%) NIST
3 147 (9.75%) GRC
4 98 (6.50%) GDPR
5 76 (5.04%) QA
6 69 (4.58%) PMO
7 53 (3.52%) Data Quality
8 47 (3.12%) NCSC
9 34 (2.26%) JSP 440
10 33 (2.19%) PCI DSS
11 31 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
12 29 (1.92%) SOC 2
13 28 (1.86%) NIST 800
13 28 (1.86%) SLA
14 17 (1.13%) Def Stans
15 14 (0.93%) Accessibility
15 14 (0.93%) COBIT
16 13 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.80%) ISO 31000
17 12 (0.80%) RMADS
System Software
1 33 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.93%) Docker
3 9 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.27%) Postfix
5 4 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.13%) FreeRADIUS
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
7 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (1.53%) Terraform
2 22 (1.46%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.39%) Ansible
4 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.60%) SCCM
6 8 (0.53%) Grafana
6 8 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.27%) Control-M
9 4 (0.27%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.20%) CASB
10 3 (0.20%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.13%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 205 (13.60%) Microsoft
2 82 (5.44%) ServiceNow
3 73 (4.84%) SAP
4 60 (3.98%) Oracle
5 39 (2.59%) Google
6 19 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.13%) Cisco
8 16 (1.06%) Splunk
8 16 (1.06%) Workday
9 14 (0.93%) Foundry
10 12 (0.80%) Qualys
11 11 (0.73%) F5
11 11 (0.73%) Murex
12 10 (0.66%) IBM
12 10 (0.66%) Infoblox
13 9 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.60%) Tenable
14 8 (0.53%) Databricks
14 8 (0.53%) Okta
14 8 (0.53%) OpenAI