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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 49 75
Rank change year-on-year -21 +26 -9
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,542 1,269 964
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.39% 4.60% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 5.07% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,003 806 600
10th Percentile £413 £363 £360
25th Percentile £481 £456 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £750
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £563 £566 £550
% change year-on-year -0.66% +2.95% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 25 27
10th Percentile £24.62 £22.16 £19.60
25th Percentile £49.00 £30.61 £37.50
Median hourly rate £79.00 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% -11.30% +58.80%
75th Percentile £85.20 £73.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.40 £72.11
UK median hourly rate £78.70 £50.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +56.62% -12.61% +45.87%

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 38,823 25,045 28,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.31% 90.74% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,257 16,045 18,963
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
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 £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,475 1,380 1,752
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £17.80
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.65 £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 1 August 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 August 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 August 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 -37 715 £600 -7.69% 752
North of England -6 271 £513 - 154
South East +5 251 £575 +4.55% 227
North West -30 136 £525 +3.45% 96
Yorkshire +10 129 £500 -4.76% 45
Midlands -47 106 £563 +19.94% 106
South West -15 104 £570 -0.87% 96
West Midlands -43 85 £550 +10.00% 67
East of England +21 65 £525 -4.55% 52
East Midlands -26 18 £537 +22.94% 39
North East -41 6 £454 -17.50% 14
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 62 (4.02%) Confluence
2 36 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.58%) SAS
4 4 (0.26%) IIS
4 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.065%) Appian
7 1 (0.065%) CMS
7 1 (0.065%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.065%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.065%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.065%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 49 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 31 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
5 4 (0.26%) Revit
5 4 (0.26%) Trello
6 3 (0.19%) Windchill
7 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.065%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.065%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 31 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.78%) Endur
3 9 (0.58%) Primavera
4 7 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.32%) Actimize
7 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.26%) Magento
7 4 (0.26%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.26%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.26%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.26%) SAP GRC
7 4 (0.26%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 235 (15.24%) Azure
2 161 (10.44%) AWS
3 68 (4.41%) GCP
4 52 (3.37%) Power Platform
5 51 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (3.24%) Entra ID
7 43 (2.79%) SaaS
8 32 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
10 22 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
11 21 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (1.17%) PaaS
13 17 (1.10%) Azure AI
13 17 (1.10%) GitHub
14 15 (0.97%) OCI
15 12 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
15 12 (0.78%) IaaS
15 12 (0.78%) Serverless
16 10 (0.65%) Copilot Studio
16 10 (0.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.11%) Network Security
2 38 (2.46%) Firewall
3 17 (1.10%) TCP/IP
4 15 (0.97%) DNS
5 14 (0.91%) DHCP
5 14 (0.91%) WAN
6 12 (0.78%) 5G
6 12 (0.78%) LAN
7 10 (0.65%) 4G
7 10 (0.65%) BIG-IP
8 9 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (0.39%) HTTP
11 5 (0.32%) 3G
11 5 (0.32%) Internet
11 5 (0.32%) NAS
11 5 (0.32%) NGFW
11 5 (0.32%) SAN
11 5 (0.32%) VPN
12 4 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (2.40%) Power BI
2 28 (1.82%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.56%) Metadata
4 15 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.91%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.71%) Data Lake
6 11 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.58%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.58%) RDBMS
8 7 (0.45%) Big Data
9 6 (0.39%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.32%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.32%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.26%) Tableau
12 3 (0.19%) Db2
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 103 (6.68%) JIRA
2 20 (1.30%) Git
3 18 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.71%) Selenium
5 7 (0.45%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.39%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.39%) GitLab
6 6 (0.39%) Postman
6 6 (0.39%) WebDriver
7 5 (0.32%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (0.26%) DbUnit
8 4 (0.26%) jMock
8 4 (0.26%) JUnit
8 4 (0.26%) Maven
8 4 (0.26%) Mockito
8 4 (0.26%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.26%) Subversion
8 4 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 590 (38.26%) Social Skills
2 556 (36.06%) Finance
3 237 (15.37%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (11.41%) Public Sector
5 168 (10.89%) Banking
6 114 (7.39%) Legal
7 60 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
7 60 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
8 44 (2.85%) Front Office
9 41 (2.66%) Aerospace
10 38 (2.46%) Telecoms
11 37 (2.40%) Financial Institution
11 37 (2.40%) Retail
12 32 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
13 31 (2.01%) Military
14 30 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
15 27 (1.75%) Manufacturing
16 25 (1.62%) Law
17 24 (1.56%) Investment Banking
18 23 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 213 (13.81%) Lead
2 178 (11.54%) Project Manager
3 177 (11.48%) Architect
4 165 (10.70%) Senior
5 137 (8.88%) Analyst
6 100 (6.49%) Consultant
7 76 (4.93%) Security Architect
8 65 (4.22%) Programme Manager
9 59 (3.83%) Senior Manager
10 54 (3.50%) Developer
11 49 (3.18%) Business Analyst
11 49 (3.18%) Risk Manager
12 43 (2.79%) Security Consultant
13 41 (2.66%) Delivery Manager
13 41 (2.66%) IT Manager
14 36 (2.33%) Security Manager
15 35 (2.27%) Security Engineer
16 32 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
17 29 (1.88%) Product Manager
18 28 (1.82%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.69%) .NET
2 25 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 25 (1.62%) REST
3 18 (1.17%) Middleware
4 14 (0.91%) OAuth
5 13 (0.84%) JSON
5 13 (0.84%) XML
6 12 (0.78%) Kafka
6 12 (0.78%) OpenID
6 12 (0.78%) SAML
7 11 (0.71%) Azure Blueprints
7 11 (0.71%) Leaflet
7 11 (0.71%) React
7 11 (0.71%) SOAP
8 9 (0.58%) LDAP
8 9 (0.58%) SLSA
9 8 (0.52%) PySpark
9 8 (0.52%) RESTful
9 8 (0.52%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 104 (6.74%) Management Information System
2 84 (5.45%) Onboarding
3 78 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 68 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 68 (4.41%) Security Posture
5 51 (3.31%) Operational Technology
6 44 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
7 40 (2.59%) Data Centre
8 30 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
9 28 (1.82%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.75%) Market Risk
11 26 (1.69%) PMI
12 24 (1.56%) Derivative
13 23 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
14 22 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
15 20 (1.30%) Fixed Income
15 20 (1.30%) NHS
16 18 (1.17%) Virtual Team
17 17 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
17 17 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 52 (3.37%) Windows
2 43 (2.79%) Linux
3 26 (1.69%) Unix
4 20 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.32%) zOS
7 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.065%) Android
10 1 (0.065%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 584 (37.87%) Stakeholder Management
2 369 (23.93%) Agile
3 355 (23.02%) Cybersecurity
4 338 (21.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 333 (21.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 235 (15.24%) Decision-Making
6 235 (15.24%) Project Management
7 219 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
8 212 (13.75%) Roadmaps
9 202 (13.10%) Information Security
10 201 (13.04%) AI
11 161 (10.44%) Project Delivery
12 153 (9.92%) Change Management
13 138 (8.95%) Migration
14 137 (8.88%) DevOps
15 130 (8.43%) Vulnerability Management
16 123 (7.98%) Analytics
17 122 (7.91%) CI/CD
17 122 (7.91%) PRINCE2
18 110 (7.13%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 97 (6.29%) Python
2 77 (4.99%) SQL
3 42 (2.72%) Java
4 35 (2.27%) PowerShell
5 26 (1.69%) C#
6 17 (1.10%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.78%) VBA
8 9 (0.58%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.45%) Bash
10 6 (0.39%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.39%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.26%) Assembly Language
11 4 (0.26%) Bicep
11 4 (0.26%) CLIST
11 4 (0.26%) JCL
11 4 (0.26%) REXX
12 3 (0.19%) C
12 3 (0.19%) C++
12 3 (0.19%) Go
12 3 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 396 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 295 (19.13%) SC Cleared
3 166 (10.77%) Degree
4 150 (9.73%) CISSP
5 98 (6.36%) DV Cleared
6 93 (6.03%) CISM
7 74 (4.80%) PMI Certification
8 71 (4.60%) PMP
9 46 (2.98%) CRISC
10 31 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 30 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (1.88%) CISA
13 27 (1.75%) Master's Degree
14 26 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 25 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
16 22 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 21 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
18 17 (1.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
19 15 (0.97%) CESG Certified Professional
19 15 (0.97%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (13.04%) NIST
2 198 (12.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 155 (10.05%) GRC
4 102 (6.61%) GDPR
5 82 (5.32%) QA
6 65 (4.22%) PMO
7 56 (3.63%) Data Quality
8 47 (3.05%) NCSC
9 34 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 34 (2.20%) JSP 440
10 33 (2.14%) PCI DSS
11 29 (1.88%) SOC 2
12 28 (1.82%) NIST 800
12 28 (1.82%) SLA
13 17 (1.10%) Def Stans
14 16 (1.04%) COBIT
15 15 (0.97%) Accessibility
16 13 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.78%) ISO 31000
17 12 (0.78%) RMADS
System Software
1 34 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.84%) Docker
3 9 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.26%) Postfix
5 4 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.13%) FreeRADIUS
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
8 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (1.56%) Kubernetes
1 24 (1.56%) Terraform
2 22 (1.43%) Ansible
3 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.65%) SCCM
5 8 (0.52%) Grafana
5 8 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.26%) Control-M
8 4 (0.26%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.26%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.19%) CASB
9 3 (0.19%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.13%) NSN NetAct
10 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 215 (13.94%) Microsoft
2 84 (5.45%) ServiceNow
3 73 (4.73%) SAP
4 61 (3.96%) Oracle
5 35 (2.27%) Google
6 21 (1.36%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.10%) Splunk
8 15 (0.97%) Foundry
8 15 (0.97%) Workday
9 14 (0.91%) Cisco
10 13 (0.84%) Qualys
11 11 (0.71%) F5
11 11 (0.71%) Murex
12 10 (0.65%) IBM
12 10 (0.65%) Infoblox
13 9 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.58%) Databricks
13 9 (0.58%) Tenable
14 8 (0.52%) Okta
14 8 (0.52%) OpenAI