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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 53 62
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 +8
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,272 1,021 1,249
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.44% 4.17% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 4.60% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 842 618 854
10th Percentile £410 £363 £400
25th Percentile £474 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% +4.22% -9.64%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £836 £838 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 40 36
10th Percentile £20.81 £28.26 £15.88
25th Percentile £42.90 £44.73 £36.00
Median hourly rate £80.04 £60.75 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +31.76% +3.40% +452.68%
75th Percentile £103.94 £75.84 £82.48
90th Percentile £107.00 £83.41 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £77.34 £61.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +25.77% +14.41% +405.64%

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 31,979 22,196 32,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.71% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,491 14,461 21,766
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £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 1,970 819 2,143
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.08 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £31.45 £33.40 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% +2.77% -10.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.20% -8.24%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -15 670 £600 -7.69% 269
North of England -14 196 £519 +1.32% 108
South East -10 191 £550 -4.35% 143
Midlands -44 104 £537 -0.56% 63
North West -9 100 £540 +8.00% 62
Yorkshire +7 94 £500 -2.44% 40
West Midlands -42 71 £518 -13.75% 49
South West -8 51 £525 +6.33% 54
East of England -20 34 £510 -9.73% 32
East Midlands -30 33 £550 +22.22% 14
North East -20 2 £550 -4.35% 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 63 (4.95%) Confluence
2 23 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.47%) SAS
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.16%) nginx
8 1 (0.079%) CMS
8 1 (0.079%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.079%) IIS
8 1 (0.079%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.079%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.079%) Tomcat
Applications
1 64 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (4.09%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.31%) Trello
7 2 (0.16%) Revit
8 1 (0.079%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.079%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.079%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.63%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.47%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.47%) Primavera
5 6 (0.47%) Summit
6 5 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.24%) Endur
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.24%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.16%) Actimize
9 2 (0.16%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.16%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 142 (11.16%) Azure
2 123 (9.67%) AWS
3 51 (4.01%) GCP
4 46 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (3.22%) Power Platform
6 32 (2.52%) Entra ID
6 32 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
7 26 (2.04%) SaaS
8 22 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (1.57%) Google Workspace
10 18 (1.42%) Google Sheets
11 17 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.18%) GitHub
13 12 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (0.86%) OCI
15 10 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (0.79%) OpenShift
16 8 (0.63%) Collibra
17 7 (0.55%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.83%) Network Security
2 32 (2.52%) Firewall
3 10 (0.79%) DNS
3 10 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (0.71%) Internet
4 9 (0.71%) Kerberos
5 8 (0.63%) HTTP
5 8 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
6 7 (0.55%) DHCP
6 7 (0.55%) LAN
6 7 (0.55%) WAN
7 5 (0.39%) BIG-IP
8 4 (0.31%) 5G
8 4 (0.31%) Cisco IPT
9 3 (0.24%) Broadband
9 3 (0.24%) NGFW
9 3 (0.24%) SAN
9 3 (0.24%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.24%) VPN
10 2 (0.16%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (2.67%) Power BI
2 21 (1.65%) Metadata
3 19 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (1.10%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.02%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.55%) RDBMS
8 6 (0.47%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.47%) KDB
8 6 (0.47%) Kdb+
9 5 (0.39%) Big Data
9 5 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (0.39%) Tableau
10 4 (0.31%) Data Mart
10 4 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.31%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.31%) MS Access
10 4 (0.31%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 124 (9.75%) JIRA
2 13 (1.02%) Git
3 8 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.39%) GitLab
5 3 (0.24%) QUnit
5 3 (0.24%) Selenium
5 3 (0.24%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.24%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.16%) GCC
6 2 (0.16%) GDB
6 2 (0.16%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.079%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.079%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.079%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.079%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.079%) jMock
7 1 (0.079%) JUnit
7 1 (0.079%) Mockito
7 1 (0.079%) Oracle Forms
General
1 487 (38.29%) Social Skills
2 485 (38.13%) Finance
3 216 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (13.29%) Banking
5 124 (9.75%) Public Sector
6 104 (8.18%) Legal
7 51 (4.01%) Front Office
7 51 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
8 39 (3.07%) Investment Banking
9 37 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
10 36 (2.83%) Financial Institution
11 33 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (2.28%) Retail
13 23 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (1.57%) Telecoms
15 19 (1.49%) Military
16 17 (1.34%) Marketing
17 16 (1.26%) Law
17 16 (1.26%) Manufacturing
18 15 (1.18%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 161 (12.66%) Project Manager
2 151 (11.87%) Lead
3 142 (11.16%) Analyst
4 138 (10.85%) Senior
5 105 (8.25%) Architect
6 98 (7.70%) Consultant
7 76 (5.97%) Developer
8 64 (5.03%) Programme Manager
9 63 (4.95%) Business Analyst
10 50 (3.93%) Security Architect
11 47 (3.69%) Senior Manager
12 42 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
12 42 (3.30%) Security Consultant
13 35 (2.75%) Risk Manager
14 34 (2.67%) Risk Analyst
15 32 (2.52%) Senior Developer
16 29 (2.28%) Security Engineer
16 29 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
17 23 (1.81%) Java Developer
17 23 (1.81%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (1.42%) Kafka
3 16 (1.26%) REST
4 15 (1.18%) OAuth
5 13 (1.02%) SAML
5 13 (1.02%) XML
6 11 (0.86%) .NET
6 11 (0.86%) Middleware
7 9 (0.71%) COM
7 9 (0.71%) Dask
7 9 (0.71%) NumPy
7 9 (0.71%) Pandas
8 8 (0.63%) .NET Framework
9 7 (0.55%) OpenID
9 7 (0.55%) PyTorch
10 6 (0.47%) LDAP
10 6 (0.47%) Leaflet
10 6 (0.47%) RESTful
10 6 (0.47%) scikit-learn
10 6 (0.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 129 (10.14%) Management Information System
2 67 (5.27%) Product Ownership
3 64 (5.03%) Derivative
4 56 (4.40%) Security Posture
5 46 (3.62%) Onboarding
6 39 (3.07%) Cloud Native
7 36 (2.83%) Equities
7 36 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 36 (2.83%) Market Risk
8 32 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
9 30 (2.36%) Data Centre
10 26 (2.04%) Algorithms
11 25 (1.97%) Credit Risk
11 25 (1.97%) Fixed Income
11 25 (1.97%) Operational Technology
12 23 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
13 20 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
14 19 (1.49%) NHS
15 17 (1.34%) Hedge funds
16 16 (1.26%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.44%) Linux
2 26 (2.04%) Windows
3 16 (1.26%) Unix
4 5 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.24%) VMS
6 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.24%) zOS
7 2 (0.16%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.079%) Android
8 1 (0.079%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (28.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 309 (24.29%) Agile
3 251 (19.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 239 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
5 216 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 202 (15.88%) Project Management
7 200 (15.72%) Cybersecurity
8 172 (13.52%) Decision-Making
9 153 (12.03%) Information Security
10 143 (11.24%) Roadmaps
11 141 (11.08%) Change Management
12 127 (9.98%) Project Delivery
13 118 (9.28%) AI
14 117 (9.20%) Analytics
14 117 (9.20%) Regulatory Compliance
15 116 (9.12%) Migration
16 101 (7.94%) PRINCE2
17 99 (7.78%) Data Protection
18 90 (7.08%) Scrum
19 89 (7.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 121 (9.51%) SQL
2 104 (8.18%) Python
3 45 (3.54%) Java
4 34 (2.67%) PowerShell
5 24 (1.89%) C++
6 23 (1.81%) C#
7 14 (1.10%) VBA
8 6 (0.47%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.39%) Bash
9 5 (0.39%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.31%) Korn
10 4 (0.31%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.16%) Perl
12 2 (0.16%) R
12 2 (0.16%) RPG
12 2 (0.16%) Rust
12 2 (0.16%) Scala
12 2 (0.16%) Solidity
13 1 (0.079%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 278 (21.86%) Security Cleared
2 215 (16.90%) Degree
3 204 (16.04%) SC Cleared
4 112 (8.81%) CISSP
5 81 (6.37%) CISM
6 70 (5.50%) DV Cleared
7 66 (5.19%) PMI Certification
8 65 (5.11%) PMP
9 40 (3.14%) Master's Degree
10 30 (2.36%) CRISC
11 27 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
13 16 (1.26%) CISA
14 15 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
15 14 (1.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (1.10%) PhD
16 12 (0.94%) CESG Certified Professional
16 12 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 9 (0.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (12.50%) NIST
2 155 (12.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 106 (8.33%) GDPR
4 102 (8.02%) GRC
5 82 (6.45%) PMO
6 67 (5.27%) QA
7 50 (3.93%) PCI DSS
8 45 (3.54%) Data Quality
9 40 (3.14%) NCSC
10 26 (2.04%) SLA
11 23 (1.81%) SOC 2
12 22 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 21 (1.65%) NIST 800
14 19 (1.49%) COBIT
15 18 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
15 18 (1.42%) JSP 440
16 17 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 14 (1.10%) RMADS
19 11 (0.86%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 27 (2.12%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.79%) Docker
3 7 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.079%) Postfix
6 1 (0.079%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.079%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.18%) Terraform
3 14 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.71%) SCCM
6 7 (0.55%) Ansible
7 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.24%) CASB
7 3 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.24%) QRadar
8 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.16%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.16%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.16%) Nessus
8 2 (0.16%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.16%) OpenVAS
9 1 (0.079%) Control-M
9 1 (0.079%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.079%) OMEGAMON
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 157 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 67 (5.27%) Oracle
3 55 (4.32%) ServiceNow
4 48 (3.77%) SAP
5 41 (3.22%) Google
6 22 (1.73%) Murex
7 18 (1.42%) Workday
8 17 (1.34%) Salesforce
9 10 (0.79%) Cisco
9 10 (0.79%) Splunk
10 9 (0.71%) Databricks
10 9 (0.71%) VMware
11 8 (0.63%) F5
11 8 (0.63%) Informatica
12 7 (0.55%) IBM
13 6 (0.47%) Ariba
13 6 (0.47%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.47%) Charles River
13 6 (0.47%) CyberArk
13 6 (0.47%) OpenAI