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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 49 58
Rank change year-on-year -16 +9 +16
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,152 1,131 1,287
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.64% 4.22% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 4.74% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 735 637 881
10th Percentile £390 £373 £413
25th Percentile £460 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.21%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £863 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 38 50
10th Percentile £21.87 £26.08 £40.31
25th Percentile - £40.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £60.75 £66.66
Median % change year-on-year -44.85% -8.86% +580.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £83.40
90th Percentile £95.25 £80.96 £83.41
UK median hourly rate £34.75 £60.75 £61.50
% change year-on-year -42.80% -1.22% +527.55%

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 27,954 23,866 31,707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.33% 89.11% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,831 14,651 21,413
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,737 769 1,474
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.60 £14.23
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.79 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -8 623 £601 -3.06% 168
North of England -24 170 £492 -8.04% 83
South East -15 147 £511 -11.09% 182
Yorkshire +11 84 £492 -9.31% 36
North West -29 84 £490 -1.56% 42
Midlands -51 75 £500 -13.04% 71
South West -10 71 £562 +15.28% 50
West Midlands -56 45 £550 -4.35% 45
East of England -30 36 £553 -3.83% 53
East Midlands -21 30 £450 -5.26% 26
North East -19 2 £550 -13.73% 6
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 47 (4.08%) Confluence
2 22 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.87%) SAS
6 8 (0.69%) CMS
7 7 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.35%) CICS
9 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.17%) IIS
9 2 (0.17%) nginx
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.087%) Camunda
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
Applications
1 73 (6.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (4.08%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (1.30%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.35%) Revit
6 4 (0.35%) Trello
7 3 (0.26%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.17%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 24 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.61%) SAP CO
3 7 (0.61%) SAP FI
3 7 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.43%) Endur
6 4 (0.35%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.35%) Primavera
6 4 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.35%) VisionPLUS
7 3 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.26%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.17%) SAP GTS
8 2 (0.17%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 116 (10.07%) Azure
2 112 (9.72%) AWS
3 55 (4.77%) GCP
4 43 (3.73%) Power Platform
5 31 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (2.52%) SaaS
7 26 (2.26%) Entra ID
8 19 (1.65%) GitHub
9 17 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (1.04%) Google Workspace
12 10 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (0.87%) Google Sheets
12 10 (0.87%) OCI
13 8 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (0.69%) dbt
13 8 (0.69%) PaaS
14 7 (0.61%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (0.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.21%) Firewall
2 22 (1.91%) Network Security
3 9 (0.78%) Internet
3 9 (0.78%) Kerberos
4 7 (0.61%) LAN
4 7 (0.61%) WAN
4 7 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.52%) VPN
6 5 (0.43%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.43%) DNS
6 5 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.35%) 5G
8 3 (0.26%) Broadband
8 3 (0.26%) HTTP
8 3 (0.26%) Multicast
8 3 (0.26%) S/MIME
8 3 (0.26%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.26%) SSL
9 2 (0.17%) DHCP
9 2 (0.17%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.21%) Power BI
2 33 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.74%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.04%) Metadata
5 12 (1.04%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.87%) NoSQL
6 10 (0.87%) Tableau
7 8 (0.69%) KDB
7 8 (0.69%) Kdb+
8 7 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.61%) Apache Arrow
8 7 (0.61%) Apache Iceberg
8 7 (0.61%) Big Data
8 7 (0.61%) Dremio
8 7 (0.61%) MySQL
9 6 (0.52%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.43%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 109 (9.46%) JIRA
2 17 (1.48%) Git
3 11 (0.95%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.78%) SpecFlow
5 6 (0.52%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.43%) QUnit
7 4 (0.35%) Gradle
7 4 (0.35%) Maven
7 4 (0.35%) SonarLint
8 3 (0.26%) GCC
8 3 (0.26%) GDB
8 3 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.17%) GitLab
9 2 (0.17%) Postman
10 1 (0.087%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.087%) MLflow
10 1 (0.087%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.087%) SoapUI
General
1 489 (42.45%) Social Skills
2 468 (40.63%) Finance
3 198 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 177 (15.36%) Banking
5 108 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 94 (8.16%) Legal
7 57 (4.95%) Front Office
8 49 (4.25%) Influencing Skills
9 48 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (3.47%) Investment Banking
11 31 (2.69%) Financial Institution
12 25 (2.17%) Retail
13 21 (1.82%) Law
13 21 (1.82%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (1.74%) Telecoms
15 19 (1.65%) Local Government
16 18 (1.56%) Military
17 15 (1.30%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 150 (13.02%) Analyst
2 140 (12.15%) Project Manager
3 119 (10.33%) Senior
4 104 (9.03%) Lead
5 102 (8.85%) Developer
6 99 (8.59%) Consultant
7 85 (7.38%) Architect
8 57 (4.95%) Business Analyst
9 46 (3.99%) Programme Manager
10 39 (3.39%) Senior Developer
11 38 (3.30%) Security Consultant
12 37 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
13 34 (2.95%) Risk Analyst
14 33 (2.86%) Senior Manager
15 32 (2.78%) Security Analyst
16 31 (2.69%) Security Architect
17 30 (2.60%) Risk Manager
18 29 (2.52%) IT Manager
18 29 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
19 26 (2.26%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.00%) Kafka
2 17 (1.48%) REST
3 16 (1.39%) NumPy
3 16 (1.39%) Pandas
4 15 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
5 14 (1.22%) .NET
5 14 (1.22%) RESTful
6 13 (1.13%) .NET Framework
6 13 (1.13%) Middleware
6 13 (1.13%) OAuth
7 12 (1.04%) AngularJS
7 12 (1.04%) SAML
7 12 (1.04%) XML
8 11 (0.95%) React
9 10 (0.87%) Playwright
10 9 (0.78%) COM
10 9 (0.78%) Dask
10 9 (0.78%) Entity Framework
10 9 (0.78%) NHibernate
11 7 (0.61%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 134 (11.63%) Management Information System
2 60 (5.21%) Product Ownership
2 60 (5.21%) Security Posture
3 59 (5.12%) Derivative
4 50 (4.34%) Onboarding
5 45 (3.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 40 (3.47%) Equities
7 37 (3.21%) Market Risk
8 30 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (2.43%) Algorithms
9 28 (2.43%) Fixed Income
10 27 (2.34%) Cloud Native
10 27 (2.34%) Credit Risk
10 27 (2.34%) Data Centre
11 24 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
13 17 (1.48%) Hedge funds
14 16 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
15 15 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
16 14 (1.22%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.69%) Linux
2 23 (2.00%) Windows
3 17 (1.48%) Unix
4 4 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.26%) VMS
6 2 (0.17%) zOS
7 1 (0.087%) Android
7 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (27.08%) Stakeholder Management
2 291 (25.26%) Agile
3 234 (20.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 227 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
5 188 (16.32%) Cybersecurity
6 182 (15.80%) Project Management
7 163 (14.15%) Decision-Making
8 159 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 143 (12.41%) Information Security
10 115 (9.98%) Project Delivery
11 104 (9.03%) Change Management
12 102 (8.85%) Migration
13 101 (8.77%) Roadmaps
14 97 (8.42%) Analytics
15 94 (8.16%) AI
16 93 (8.07%) Regulatory Compliance
17 89 (7.73%) PRINCE2
18 83 (7.20%) Incident Response
18 83 (7.20%) Scrum
19 80 (6.94%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 111 (9.64%) Python
2 108 (9.38%) SQL
3 49 (4.25%) Java
4 28 (2.43%) C++
5 25 (2.17%) C#
6 22 (1.91%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.13%) VBA
8 12 (1.04%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.78%) R
10 7 (0.61%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.43%) JCL
11 5 (0.43%) Korn
12 4 (0.35%) COBOL
13 3 (0.26%) Bash
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
1 225 (19.53%) Security Cleared
2 201 (17.45%) Degree
3 165 (14.32%) SC Cleared
4 100 (8.68%) CISSP
5 72 (6.25%) CISM
6 70 (6.08%) PMI Certification
7 66 (5.73%) PMP
8 54 (4.69%) DV Cleared
8 54 (4.69%) Master's Degree
9 33 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 26 (2.26%) CISA
12 23 (2.00%) CRISC
13 21 (1.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 16 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (1.30%) Numerate Degree
15 15 (1.30%) PhD
16 10 (0.87%) GIAC
17 9 (0.78%) CESG Certified Professional
18 8 (0.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (12.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 137 (11.89%) NIST
3 97 (8.42%) GDPR
4 86 (7.47%) GRC
5 65 (5.64%) PMO
6 62 (5.38%) QA
7 38 (3.30%) PCI DSS
8 34 (2.95%) Data Quality
9 32 (2.78%) NCSC
10 27 (2.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 19 (1.65%) COBIT
12 16 (1.39%) EU AI Act
13 14 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 12 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (1.04%) SLA
16 11 (0.95%) Def Stans
16 11 (0.95%) JSP 440
17 10 (0.87%) Accessibility
17 10 (0.87%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (2.34%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.56%) Docker
3 6 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.087%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.087%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.087%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (1.74%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.48%) Terraform
3 10 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.61%) Ansible
5 6 (0.52%) RSA Archer
6 5 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.26%) QRadar
7 3 (0.26%) SCCM
8 2 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.17%) Grafana
8 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.087%) Consul
9 1 (0.087%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.087%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.087%) OMEGAMON
9 1 (0.087%) TeamSite
9 1 (0.087%) WSUS
Vendors
1 135 (11.72%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.12%) SAP
3 51 (4.43%) ServiceNow
4 47 (4.08%) Oracle
5 29 (2.52%) Google
6 18 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.13%) Murex
8 12 (1.04%) Splunk
9 11 (0.95%) Databricks
10 9 (0.78%) Workday
11 8 (0.69%) CyberArk
11 8 (0.69%) IBM
12 7 (0.61%) Citrix
13 6 (0.52%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.52%) Informatica
14 5 (0.43%) Ariba
14 5 (0.43%) BiZZdesign
14 5 (0.43%) Cisco
14 5 (0.43%) Solace
15 4 (0.35%) Gigya