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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 47 75
Rank change year-on-year -23 +28 -12
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,372 1,114 1,067
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.29% 4.65% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 5.09% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 923 706 700
10th Percentile £405 £386 £363
25th Percentile £480 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £560
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +5.90% -6.75%
75th Percentile £686 £763 £725
90th Percentile £825 £875 £839
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 23 32
10th Percentile £20.27 £46.30 £16.18
25th Percentile £28.00 £47.91 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% +22.99% +370.37%
75th Percentile £105.25 £76.08 £60.31
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.41 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% +370.37%

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 35,462 21,869 31,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.04% 91.35% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,467 14,201 20,640
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,230 965 2,327
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.69 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.54%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.91 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.85 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.27% -23.70% +1.39%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -37 664 £600 -11.11% 472
North of England -15 235 £514 +0.53% 146
South East -9 198 £550 - 162
Yorkshire +3 124 £500 -1.23% 43
North West -12 110 £550 +8.37% 92
Midlands -33 106 £539 +10.51% 80
South West +4 89 £570 +26.67% 78
West Midlands -39 73 £525 +5.00% 48
East of England -7 48 £525 -4.55% 45
East Midlands -21 33 £550 +22.63% 32
North East -38 1 £480 -18.30% 11
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 (4.66%) Confluence
2 37 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.51%) SAS
4 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.073%) Appian
6 1 (0.073%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.073%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.073%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.073%) nginx
6 1 (0.073%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.073%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 46 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
3 37 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
4 32 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.36%) Revit
7 4 (0.29%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.29%) Trello
8 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.15%) Windchill
10 1 (0.073%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.073%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 22 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.66%) Endur
3 7 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.51%) Summit
4 6 (0.44%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.36%) Actimize
5 5 (0.36%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.29%) Primavera
6 4 (0.29%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.22%) Findur
7 3 (0.22%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 172 (12.54%) Azure
2 134 (9.77%) AWS
3 60 (4.37%) GCP
4 53 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (3.21%) Power Platform
6 38 (2.77%) Entra ID
7 35 (2.55%) SaaS
8 24 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
9 22 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.60%) Google Workspace
10 19 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
11 18 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (1.31%) Google Sheets
11 18 (1.31%) PaaS
12 15 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (0.87%) GitHub
14 11 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
14 11 (0.80%) IaaS
15 10 (0.73%) Amazon S3
16 9 (0.66%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.13%) Network Security
2 26 (1.90%) Firewall
3 17 (1.24%) DNS
4 14 (1.02%) DHCP
5 12 (0.87%) BIG-IP
6 11 (0.80%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
9 7 (0.51%) 5G
10 6 (0.44%) HTTP
10 6 (0.44%) Internet
10 6 (0.44%) WAN
11 5 (0.36%) 3G
11 5 (0.36%) 4G
12 4 (0.29%) LAN
12 4 (0.29%) NAS
12 4 (0.29%) NGFW
12 4 (0.29%) SAN
13 3 (0.22%) Kerberos
13 3 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (2.55%) Power BI
2 28 (2.04%) Metadata
3 16 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (1.02%) SQL Server
6 11 (0.80%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.58%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.51%) RDBMS
9 6 (0.44%) Big Data
9 6 (0.44%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.36%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.36%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.36%) Tableau
11 4 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.22%) Metadata Repository
12 3 (0.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 111 (8.09%) JIRA
2 11 (0.80%) Git
2 11 (0.80%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.44%) GitLab
4 5 (0.36%) Selenium
5 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (0.29%) DbUnit
5 4 (0.29%) jMock
5 4 (0.29%) JUnit
5 4 (0.29%) Maven
5 4 (0.29%) Mockito
5 4 (0.29%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.29%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.22%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.15%) MLflow
7 2 (0.15%) TestRail
8 1 (0.073%) Appium
8 1 (0.073%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.073%) Flyway
8 1 (0.073%) Liquibase
General
1 509 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 504 (36.73%) Finance
3 220 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (11.44%) Banking
5 148 (10.79%) Public Sector
6 110 (8.02%) Legal
7 47 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
8 42 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
9 33 (2.41%) Financial Institution
9 33 (2.41%) Telecoms
10 30 (2.19%) Front Office
11 29 (2.11%) Retail
12 28 (2.04%) Investment Banking
12 28 (2.04%) Military
13 24 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
15 22 (1.60%) Law
15 22 (1.60%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (1.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 176 (12.83%) Lead
1 176 (12.83%) Project Manager
2 141 (10.28%) Architect
3 139 (10.13%) Senior
4 123 (8.97%) Analyst
5 83 (6.05%) Consultant
6 65 (4.74%) Programme Manager
7 63 (4.59%) Business Analyst
8 56 (4.08%) Developer
9 54 (3.94%) Security Architect
10 47 (3.43%) Risk Manager
10 47 (3.43%) Senior Manager
11 38 (2.77%) Security Engineer
12 35 (2.55%) Delivery Manager
12 35 (2.55%) Security Consultant
13 33 (2.41%) Security Manager
14 31 (2.26%) Risk Analyst
15 28 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
16 27 (1.97%) IT Manager
17 24 (1.75%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (1.38%) REST
3 17 (1.24%) .NET
4 16 (1.17%) XML
5 15 (1.09%) Middleware
6 13 (0.95%) JSON
6 13 (0.95%) Kafka
7 11 (0.80%) Azure Blueprints
7 11 (0.80%) Leaflet
8 8 (0.58%) OAuth
8 8 (0.58%) React
8 8 (0.58%) SOAP
9 7 (0.51%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.51%) LDAP
9 7 (0.51%) OpenID
9 7 (0.51%) RESTful
10 6 (0.44%) J2EE
10 6 (0.44%) JSP
10 6 (0.44%) SAML
10 6 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 99 (7.22%) Management Information System
2 61 (4.45%) Product Ownership
3 56 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 53 (3.86%) Security Posture
5 48 (3.50%) Cloud Native
6 42 (3.06%) Operational Technology
7 40 (2.92%) Derivative
8 39 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
9 37 (2.70%) Data Centre
10 32 (2.33%) Market Risk
11 24 (1.75%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.60%) Credit Risk
13 21 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
13 21 (1.53%) NHS
14 20 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
15 19 (1.38%) Data Structures
15 19 (1.38%) Fixed Income
16 18 (1.31%) Equities
16 18 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 18 (1.31%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 45 (3.28%) Windows
2 34 (2.48%) Linux
3 18 (1.31%) Unix
4 15 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.44%) zOS
7 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.073%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (31.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 339 (24.71%) Agile
3 281 (20.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 274 (19.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 261 (19.02%) Cybersecurity
6 227 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
7 224 (16.33%) Project Management
8 207 (15.09%) Decision-Making
9 172 (12.54%) Information Security
10 168 (12.24%) Roadmaps
11 154 (11.22%) Change Management
12 151 (11.01%) AI
13 131 (9.55%) Project Delivery
14 122 (8.89%) Migration
15 120 (8.75%) Regulatory Compliance
16 118 (8.60%) Analytics
17 111 (8.09%) PRINCE2
18 109 (7.94%) DevOps
19 107 (7.80%) Data Protection
20 99 (7.22%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 94 (6.85%) SQL
2 83 (6.05%) Python
3 47 (3.43%) Java
4 30 (2.19%) PowerShell
5 18 (1.31%) C#
6 13 (0.95%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.87%) VBA
8 10 (0.73%) C++
9 7 (0.51%) Bash
9 7 (0.51%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.44%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.36%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.22%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.22%) Bicep
12 3 (0.22%) CLIST
12 3 (0.22%) JCL
12 3 (0.22%) REXX
13 2 (0.15%) Go
13 2 (0.15%) Korn
13 2 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 322 (23.47%) Security Cleared
2 232 (16.91%) SC Cleared
3 177 (12.90%) Degree
4 114 (8.31%) CISSP
5 85 (6.20%) CISM
6 75 (5.47%) DV Cleared
7 65 (4.74%) PMI Certification
7 65 (4.74%) PMP
8 42 (3.06%) CRISC
9 33 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (1.68%) CISA
12 20 (1.46%) Master's Degree
13 19 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 17 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (0.95%) CESG Certified Professional
16 13 (0.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 11 (0.80%) GIAC
18 10 (0.73%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (12.54%) NIST
2 167 (12.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 125 (9.11%) GRC
4 98 (7.14%) GDPR
5 75 (5.47%) PMO
6 68 (4.96%) QA
7 55 (4.01%) Data Quality
8 47 (3.43%) NCSC
9 42 (3.06%) PCI DSS
10 34 (2.48%) JSP 440
11 31 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 29 (2.11%) SLA
13 27 (1.97%) SOC 2
14 22 (1.60%) NIST 800
15 21 (1.53%) COBIT
16 16 (1.17%) RMADS
17 15 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 13 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
19 12 (0.87%) Def Stans
20 11 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 28 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.02%) Docker
3 8 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.29%) Postfix
5 4 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.073%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.073%) NFS
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.073%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.17%) Terraform
3 15 (1.09%) Ansible
4 10 (0.73%) SCCM
5 9 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.44%) Grafana
7 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.36%) Control-M
9 4 (0.29%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.22%) CASB
10 3 (0.22%) Nessus
10 3 (0.22%) OMEGAMON
11 2 (0.15%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.15%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.15%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.15%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.15%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 188 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.90%) ServiceNow
3 65 (4.74%) SAP
4 61 (4.45%) Oracle
5 46 (3.35%) Google
6 21 (1.53%) Murex
6 21 (1.53%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.53%) Workday
7 14 (1.02%) Cisco
7 14 (1.02%) F5
8 11 (0.80%) Databricks
8 11 (0.80%) Splunk
8 11 (0.80%) VMware
9 10 (0.73%) Infoblox
10 9 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
10 9 (0.66%) Remedy
11 8 (0.58%) Qualys
12 7 (0.51%) Foundry
12 7 (0.51%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.51%) Rapid7