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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 58 66
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,708 1,205 1,081
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.67% 4.31% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 4.74% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 755 607
10th Percentile £406 £363 £380
25th Percentile £480 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £687 £738 £717
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £560 £563 £560
% change year-on-year -0.44% +0.45% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 29 28
10th Percentile £30.68 £22.16 £30.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £30.61 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.96% -41.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.00 £68.17
90th Percentile £88.40 £76.45 £75.12
UK median hourly rate £64.09 £33.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +91.31% -41.74% +4.55%

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 39,431 25,424 27,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 90.99% 86.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,955 16,149 17,033
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,897 1,546 1,199
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -11 859 £600 -7.69% 2,345
North of England -5 261 £510 +2.00% 367
South East +11 254 £575 +9.52% 478
North West -22 128 £525 +5.85% 225
Yorkshire +17 126 £500 - 118
Midlands -35 108 £525 +10.53% 241
South West -25 107 £600 +4.35% 250
West Midlands -14 86 £500 - 149
East of England +7 71 £513 -16.33% 132
East Midlands -28 19 £549 +36.44% 92
North East -34 8 £454 -17.50% 26
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 61 (3.57%) Confluence
2 38 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.64%) SAS
4 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.23%) IIS
5 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) CMS
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.059%) Apache
8 1 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.059%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.059%) Appian
8 1 (0.059%) CICS
8 1 (0.059%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.059%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 60 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.05%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.23%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.23%) Revit
7 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Windchill
9 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.059%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.059%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 41 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.76%) Endur
3 11 (0.64%) SAP GRC
4 9 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.47%) Primavera
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.23%) Actimize
8 4 (0.23%) Magento
8 4 (0.23%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.18%) Front Arena
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.18%) Summit
9 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 264 (15.46%) Azure
2 180 (10.54%) AWS
3 90 (5.27%) GCP
4 71 (4.16%) Power Platform
5 64 (3.75%) Entra ID
6 51 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
6 51 (2.99%) SaaS
7 37 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
9 27 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (1.35%) GitHub
10 23 (1.35%) OCI
11 22 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (0.94%) Azure AI
12 16 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
12 16 (0.94%) PaaS
13 13 (0.76%) Serverless
14 12 (0.70%) Power Automate
15 10 (0.59%) IaaS
15 10 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 62 (3.63%) Network Security
2 53 (3.10%) Firewall
3 20 (1.17%) WAN
4 18 (1.05%) LAN
5 17 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.88%) DNS
7 12 (0.70%) VPN
8 11 (0.64%) 5G
8 11 (0.64%) DHCP
9 9 (0.53%) 4G
10 7 (0.41%) Cisco IPT
11 6 (0.35%) BIG-IP
11 6 (0.35%) Internet
11 6 (0.35%) Kerberos
12 5 (0.29%) Softphone
12 5 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
12 5 (0.29%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.29%) Wireless
13 4 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (3.34%) Power BI
2 39 (2.28%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.81%) Metadata
4 20 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (0.76%) Relational Database
6 12 (0.70%) Data Lake
7 11 (0.64%) Big Data
7 11 (0.64%) Oracle Database
8 10 (0.59%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.41%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.35%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.35%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (0.29%) Db2
11 5 (0.29%) Tableau
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.23%) Ataccama
12 4 (0.23%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.23%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 111 (6.50%) JIRA
2 23 (1.35%) Git
3 17 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.76%) Selenium
5 11 (0.64%) Cypress.io
6 9 (0.53%) Postman
7 8 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.47%) WebDriver
8 6 (0.35%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.29%) Artifactory
9 5 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.29%) GitLab
9 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.23%) Gradle
10 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.23%) Subversion
11 3 (0.18%) JMeter
11 3 (0.18%) Maven
12 2 (0.12%) jMock
12 2 (0.12%) LoadRunner
General
1 683 (39.99%) Social Skills
2 637 (37.30%) Finance
3 284 (16.63%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (12.47%) Public Sector
5 204 (11.94%) Banking
6 132 (7.73%) Legal
7 91 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
8 73 (4.27%) Front Office
8 73 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
9 49 (2.87%) Aerospace
10 48 (2.81%) Military
11 45 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
12 42 (2.46%) Manufacturing
13 41 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
14 36 (2.11%) Financial Institution
15 35 (2.05%) Retail
16 34 (1.99%) Telecoms
17 32 (1.87%) Investment Banking
18 31 (1.81%) Law
19 26 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 223 (13.06%) Lead
2 207 (12.12%) Architect
3 183 (10.71%) Senior
4 173 (10.13%) Project Manager
5 167 (9.78%) Analyst
6 93 (5.44%) Consultant
7 83 (4.86%) Security Architect
8 75 (4.39%) Programme Manager
9 62 (3.63%) Business Analyst
10 57 (3.34%) Senior Manager
11 56 (3.28%) Developer
12 46 (2.69%) IT Manager
13 44 (2.58%) Risk Manager
14 40 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
14 40 (2.34%) Security Engineer
15 38 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
16 35 (2.05%) Service Manager
16 35 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
17 32 (1.87%) Security Manager
17 32 (1.87%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.93%) Terraform
2 33 (1.93%) .NET
3 30 (1.76%) REST
4 25 (1.46%) Middleware
5 20 (1.17%) Kafka
6 18 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (0.88%) OAuth
8 12 (0.70%) OpenID
8 12 (0.70%) SAML
9 11 (0.64%) SLSA
10 10 (0.59%) JSON
10 10 (0.59%) SOAP
10 10 (0.59%) XML
11 9 (0.53%) LDAP
11 9 (0.53%) React
11 9 (0.53%) SailPoint
11 9 (0.53%) Spring
11 9 (0.53%) Web Services
11 9 (0.53%) XGBoost
12 8 (0.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 119 (6.97%) Onboarding
2 102 (5.97%) Management Information System
3 90 (5.27%) Product Ownership
4 72 (4.22%) Security Posture
5 65 (3.81%) Cloud Native
6 52 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
7 51 (2.99%) Data Centre
8 44 (2.58%) Operational Technology
9 41 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (2.28%) Cyber Threat
11 36 (2.11%) Market Risk
12 32 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
13 27 (1.58%) AI Agents
13 27 (1.58%) Credit Risk
14 22 (1.29%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.29%) Fixed Income
14 22 (1.29%) PMI
15 21 (1.23%) NHS
16 20 (1.17%) Derivative
16 20 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 65 (3.81%) Windows
2 55 (3.22%) Linux
3 37 (2.17%) Unix
4 21 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.47%) zOS
7 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.18%) AIX
8 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.12%) Android
10 1 (0.059%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 719 (42.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 437 (25.59%) Cybersecurity
3 411 (24.06%) Agile
4 404 (23.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 360 (21.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 287 (16.80%) Decision-Making
7 259 (15.16%) Roadmaps
8 253 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 249 (14.58%) AI
10 232 (13.58%) Project Management
11 207 (12.12%) Information Security
12 203 (11.89%) Project Delivery
13 169 (9.89%) DevOps
14 167 (9.78%) Migration
15 156 (9.13%) Change Management
16 152 (8.90%) CI/CD
17 149 (8.72%) Vulnerability Management
18 146 (8.55%) Analytics
19 139 (8.14%) PRINCE2
20 135 (7.90%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 130 (7.61%) Python
2 94 (5.50%) SQL
3 42 (2.46%) PowerShell
4 37 (2.17%) Java
5 36 (2.11%) C#
6 21 (1.23%) Bash
7 18 (1.05%) JavaScript
8 13 (0.76%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.53%) VBA
10 7 (0.41%) Go
10 7 (0.41%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.35%) Bicep
11 6 (0.35%) JCL
11 6 (0.35%) Korn
11 6 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.29%) Assembly Language
12 5 (0.29%) C++
12 5 (0.29%) CLIST
12 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.29%) REXX
Qualifications
1 463 (27.11%) Security Cleared
2 337 (19.73%) SC Cleared
3 173 (10.13%) Degree
4 148 (8.67%) CISSP
5 110 (6.44%) DV Cleared
6 94 (5.50%) CISM
7 85 (4.98%) PMI Certification
8 79 (4.63%) PMP
9 47 (2.75%) CRISC
10 45 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 30 (1.76%) CISA
14 29 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
14 29 (1.70%) Master's Degree
15 25 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
16 24 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
16 24 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 22 (1.29%) AWS Certification
18 21 (1.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (12.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 184 (10.77%) NIST
3 177 (10.36%) GRC
4 107 (6.26%) QA
5 88 (5.15%) GDPR
6 74 (4.33%) Data Quality
7 72 (4.22%) NCSC
8 66 (3.86%) PMO
9 37 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 26 (1.52%) JSP 440
11 22 (1.29%) NIST 800
12 17 (1.00%) Accessibility
13 15 (0.88%) Def Stans
14 14 (0.82%) COBIT
14 14 (0.82%) SLA
15 12 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 12 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 12 (0.70%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.64%) PCI DSS
17 10 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (2.40%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.05%) Docker
3 12 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.53%) vSphere
6 7 (0.41%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.29%) FreeRADIUS
7 5 (0.29%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (0.18%) Firmware
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.12%) IAG
9 2 (0.12%) Postfix
9 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.059%) NFS
10 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 47 (2.75%) Kubernetes
2 32 (1.87%) Ansible
3 13 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.59%) SCCM
5 9 (0.53%) Grafana
6 7 (0.41%) Control-M
6 7 (0.41%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.29%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.29%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.18%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.18%) Puppet
10 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.12%) NSN NetAct
10 2 (0.12%) QRadar
10 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.059%) Nessus
Vendors
1 267 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 105 (6.15%) ServiceNow
3 84 (4.92%) SAP
4 61 (3.57%) Oracle
5 47 (2.75%) Google
6 23 (1.35%) Splunk
7 22 (1.29%) Murex
8 20 (1.17%) VMware
9 19 (1.11%) Salesforce
10 18 (1.05%) Cisco
11 16 (0.94%) Databricks
12 15 (0.88%) IBM
12 15 (0.88%) Qualys
13 13 (0.76%) BeyondTrust
13 13 (0.76%) CyberArk
14 11 (0.64%) Foundry
14 11 (0.64%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.64%) Tenable
15 10 (0.59%) Ariba
15 10 (0.59%) Workday