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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 47 64
Rank change year-on-year -22 +17 +3
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,326 1,108 1,180
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.36% 4.52% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 4.97% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 687 799
10th Percentile £402 £363 £377
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £686 £738 £728
90th Percentile £846 £838 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 34 36
10th Percentile £20.27 £40.00 £18.92
25th Percentile £33.00 £47.87 £36.00
Median hourly rate £74.31 £60.75 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.32% +8.00% +429.16%
75th Percentile £102.63 £77.52 £61.25
90th Percentile £107.00 £86.51 £82.79
UK median hourly rate £69.36 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +12.79% +17.13% +393.89%

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 33,684 22,303 32,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.31% 91.07% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,561 14,661 21,238
10th Percentile £314 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 892 2,221
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% -9.60% -6.17%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.23 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -2.78%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -24 661 £600 -4.00% 251
North of England -17 210 £507 -1.32% 105
South East -8 201 £550 -2.22% 140
Midlands -41 112 £525 +5.00% 60
North West -12 106 £550 +8.75% 58
Yorkshire -6 102 £492 -2.81% 40
West Midlands -38 79 £510 -2.86% 36
South West +2 72 £525 +16.67% 55
East of England -13 44 £525 +12.18% 44
East Midlands -30 33 £537 +20.13% 23
North East -27 2 £480 -16.52% 9
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 58 (4.37%) Confluence
2 28 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.60%) SAS
5 7 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.075%) CMS
8 1 (0.075%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.075%) IIS
8 1 (0.075%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.075%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.075%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.075%) Tomcat
Applications
1 60 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
3 33 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.30%) Trello
6 3 (0.23%) Revit
7 2 (0.15%) Navisworks
7 2 (0.15%) Windchill
8 1 (0.075%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.075%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.075%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 15 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.60%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.53%) Endur
4 7 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.53%) Summit
5 6 (0.45%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.30%) Primavera
8 3 (0.23%) Findur
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.23%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.15%) Actimize
9 2 (0.15%) Global One
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 146 (11.01%) Azure
2 123 (9.28%) AWS
3 52 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (3.47%) Power Platform
5 45 (3.39%) GCP
6 30 (2.26%) Entra ID
6 30 (2.26%) SaaS
7 28 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
8 21 (1.58%) Google Workspace
9 20 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
10 18 (1.36%) Google Sheets
11 16 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
13 13 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (0.90%) GitHub
15 11 (0.83%) PaaS
16 10 (0.75%) Amazon S3
16 10 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
16 10 (0.75%) OpenShift
17 9 (0.68%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.79%) Network Security
2 24 (1.81%) Firewall
3 13 (0.98%) DNS
4 11 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.75%) DHCP
6 9 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
7 8 (0.60%) 5G
7 8 (0.60%) BIG-IP
8 7 (0.53%) Internet
9 6 (0.45%) HTTP
9 6 (0.45%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.30%) 3G
10 4 (0.30%) 4G
10 4 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
11 3 (0.23%) Broadband
11 3 (0.23%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.23%) NAS
11 3 (0.23%) NGFW
11 3 (0.23%) SAN
11 3 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (2.64%) Power BI
2 26 (1.96%) Metadata
3 20 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.83%) SQL Server
7 8 (0.60%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.60%) RDBMS
8 6 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.45%) Tableau
9 5 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.38%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.38%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.30%) Data Mart
10 4 (0.30%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.30%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 119 (8.97%) JIRA
2 17 (1.28%) Git
3 12 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.38%) GitLab
5 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (0.30%) DbUnit
5 4 (0.30%) jMock
5 4 (0.30%) JUnit
5 4 (0.30%) Maven
5 4 (0.30%) Mockito
5 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.23%) Selenium
6 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.23%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.075%) Appium
7 1 (0.075%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.075%) ERwin
7 1 (0.075%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.075%) MLflow
General
1 501 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 485 (36.58%) Finance
3 211 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 172 (12.97%) Banking
5 140 (10.56%) Public Sector
6 101 (7.62%) Legal
7 47 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
8 40 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
9 38 (2.87%) Front Office
10 33 (2.49%) Financial Institution
11 32 (2.41%) Investment Banking
12 31 (2.34%) Retail
13 28 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
14 26 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
15 24 (1.81%) Military
16 23 (1.73%) Telecoms
17 19 (1.43%) Manufacturing
18 18 (1.36%) Law
18 18 (1.36%) Marketing
19 16 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 173 (13.05%) Project Manager
2 164 (12.37%) Lead
3 137 (10.33%) Senior
4 136 (10.26%) Analyst
5 119 (8.97%) Architect
6 96 (7.24%) Consultant
7 74 (5.58%) Developer
8 67 (5.05%) Business Analyst
9 64 (4.83%) Programme Manager
10 47 (3.54%) Security Architect
11 44 (3.32%) Senior Manager
12 42 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
13 40 (3.02%) Security Consultant
14 39 (2.94%) Risk Manager
15 32 (2.41%) Security Engineer
16 29 (2.19%) Risk Analyst
16 29 (2.19%) Security Manager
16 29 (2.19%) Senior Developer
17 25 (1.89%) IT Manager
17 25 (1.89%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (1.51%) REST
3 15 (1.13%) .NET
4 14 (1.06%) Kafka
5 12 (0.90%) Middleware
6 11 (0.83%) Leaflet
6 11 (0.83%) XML
7 9 (0.68%) RESTful
8 8 (0.60%) COM
8 8 (0.60%) NumPy
8 8 (0.60%) OAuth
8 8 (0.60%) Pandas
9 7 (0.53%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.45%) .NET Framework
10 6 (0.45%) J2EE
10 6 (0.45%) JSON
10 6 (0.45%) JSP
10 6 (0.45%) LDAP
10 6 (0.45%) OpenID
10 6 (0.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.60%) Management Information System
2 59 (4.45%) Security Posture
3 57 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 54 (4.07%) Derivative
5 52 (3.92%) Onboarding
6 39 (2.94%) Cloud Native
7 37 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
7 37 (2.79%) Market Risk
8 33 (2.49%) Data Centre
9 31 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 29 (2.19%) Equities
11 28 (2.11%) Operational Technology
12 27 (2.04%) Credit Risk
13 22 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (1.58%) NHS
15 20 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
15 20 (1.51%) Data Structures
15 20 (1.51%) Fixed Income
16 19 (1.43%) AI Agents
17 18 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.34%) Windows
2 24 (1.81%) Linux
3 12 (0.90%) Unix
4 7 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.23%) zOS
8 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.15%) VMS
8 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.075%) Android
9 1 (0.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (31.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 337 (25.41%) Agile
3 255 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 248 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
5 236 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 217 (16.37%) Project Management
7 211 (15.91%) Cybersecurity
8 180 (13.57%) Decision-Making
9 168 (12.67%) Information Security
10 156 (11.76%) Roadmaps
11 147 (11.09%) Change Management
12 136 (10.26%) Project Delivery
13 133 (10.03%) AI
14 123 (9.28%) Migration
15 117 (8.82%) Analytics
16 115 (8.67%) Regulatory Compliance
17 113 (8.52%) Data Protection
18 110 (8.30%) PRINCE2
19 100 (7.54%) DevOps
20 98 (7.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 111 (8.37%) SQL
2 100 (7.54%) Python
3 52 (3.92%) Java
4 31 (2.34%) PowerShell
5 18 (1.36%) C#
6 17 (1.28%) C++
7 16 (1.21%) VBA
8 9 (0.68%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.53%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.45%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.38%) Bash
11 5 (0.38%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.30%) Perl
13 3 (0.23%) Korn
13 3 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.15%) Go
14 2 (0.15%) R
14 2 (0.15%) RPG
14 2 (0.15%) Rust
14 2 (0.15%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 289 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 209 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 194 (14.63%) Degree
4 103 (7.77%) CISSP
5 75 (5.66%) CISM
6 69 (5.20%) PMP
7 68 (5.13%) DV Cleared
8 64 (4.83%) PMI Certification
9 36 (2.71%) CRISC
10 30 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 27 (2.04%) Master's Degree
12 23 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
13 19 (1.43%) CISA
14 17 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 12 (0.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 12 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
16 10 (0.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.68%) APMG
18 8 (0.60%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (12.97%) NIST
2 167 (12.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 121 (9.13%) GRC
4 114 (8.60%) GDPR
5 81 (6.11%) PMO
6 66 (4.98%) QA
7 50 (3.77%) PCI DSS
8 48 (3.62%) Data Quality
9 40 (3.02%) NCSC
10 27 (2.04%) JSP 440
10 27 (2.04%) SLA
10 27 (2.04%) SOC 2
11 20 (1.51%) NIST 800
12 19 (1.43%) COBIT
13 18 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (1.28%) RMADS
14 17 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 16 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 14 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 10 (0.75%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 26 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.83%) Docker
3 7 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.30%) Postfix
6 3 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.075%) NFS
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.075%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.075%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (1.28%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.83%) Terraform
3 10 (0.75%) Ansible
4 9 (0.68%) SCCM
4 9 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.38%) Control-M
7 4 (0.30%) Grafana
7 4 (0.30%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.23%) CASB
9 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.15%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.15%) Nessus
9 2 (0.15%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.15%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.075%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.075%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 164 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 74 (5.58%) ServiceNow
3 68 (5.13%) Oracle
4 57 (4.30%) SAP
5 40 (3.02%) Google
6 22 (1.66%) Murex
7 20 (1.51%) Workday
8 15 (1.13%) Salesforce
9 11 (0.83%) F5
10 10 (0.75%) VMware
11 9 (0.68%) Splunk
12 8 (0.60%) Cisco
12 8 (0.60%) Databricks
12 8 (0.60%) Foundry
13 7 (0.53%) IBM
13 7 (0.53%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.45%) Ariba
14 6 (0.45%) Bloomberg
14 6 (0.45%) Infoblox
14 6 (0.45%) Informatica