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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 48 79
Rank change year-on-year -20 +31 -14
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,501 1,243 1,022
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.35% 4.55% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 5.02% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 992 778 647
10th Percentile £411 £388 £358
25th Percentile £487 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £581 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +1.11% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £750
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £569 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -1.09% +4.55% -6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 26 30
10th Percentile £22.53 £26.39 £15.50
25th Percentile £48.13 £46.68 £33.86
Median hourly rate £74.68 £58.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% +16.50% +318.76%
75th Percentile £85.40 £73.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £105.70 £87.38 £67.75
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £61.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +13.83% +29.46% +297.82%

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 38,320 24,760 31,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.73% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,128 15,919 20,389
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,284 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.33 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.08 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -40 706 £600 -7.69% 752
North of England -8 264 £514 +0.15% 153
South East -11 233 £575 +4.55% 176
North West -19 136 £540 +5.62% 89
Yorkshire +1 126 £500 -4.76% 54
Midlands -39 118 £550 +15.79% 68
South West +1 93 £570 +9.62% 164
West Midlands -44 89 £550 +10.00% 38
East of England +14 57 £525 -4.55% 38
East Midlands -17 28 £550 +23.66% 30
North East -38 4 £454 -17.50% 10
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 59 (3.93%) Confluence
2 33 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.67%) SAS
4 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.27%) IIS
6 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.067%) Appian
8 1 (0.067%) CMS
8 1 (0.067%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.067%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.067%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.067%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.067%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 43 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 43 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
3 33 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.87%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.27%) Navisworks
5 4 (0.27%) Revit
5 4 (0.27%) Trello
6 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.20%) Windchill
7 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.067%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 30 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.87%) Endur
3 7 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.47%) Primavera
3 7 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.40%) Actimize
4 6 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.40%) Summit
5 5 (0.33%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.33%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.27%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.27%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.20%) Findur
7 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 221 (14.72%) Azure
2 152 (10.13%) AWS
3 68 (4.53%) GCP
4 53 (3.53%) Power Platform
5 50 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 50 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (2.66%) SaaS
7 29 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
9 18 (1.20%) PaaS
10 17 (1.13%) GitHub
11 16 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (1.00%) Azure AI
13 14 (0.93%) Google Workspace
14 13 (0.87%) IaaS
15 12 (0.80%) OCI
16 10 (0.67%) Copilot Studio
16 10 (0.67%) PowerApps
16 10 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.20%) Network Security
2 34 (2.27%) Firewall
3 15 (1.00%) DNS
4 14 (0.93%) DHCP
4 14 (0.93%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.73%) 5G
5 11 (0.73%) BIG-IP
6 10 (0.67%) WAN
7 9 (0.60%) 4G
7 9 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.53%) LAN
9 7 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (0.40%) HTTP
11 5 (0.33%) 3G
11 5 (0.33%) Internet
11 5 (0.33%) NAS
11 5 (0.33%) NGFW
11 5 (0.33%) SAN
11 5 (0.33%) VPN
12 4 (0.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (2.47%) Power BI
2 28 (1.87%) Metadata
3 22 (1.47%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.07%) Relational Database
5 15 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (0.67%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.67%) RDBMS
8 8 (0.53%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.40%) Big Data
9 6 (0.40%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.33%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.33%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (0.27%) Tableau
12 3 (0.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 104 (6.93%) JIRA
2 18 (1.20%) Git
2 18 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 8 (0.53%) Selenium
4 7 (0.47%) GitLab
5 5 (0.33%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.27%) DbUnit
6 4 (0.27%) jMock
6 4 (0.27%) JUnit
6 4 (0.27%) Maven
6 4 (0.27%) Mockito
6 4 (0.27%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.27%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.20%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.20%) MLflow
7 3 (0.20%) Postman
7 3 (0.20%) Subversion
7 3 (0.20%) WebDriver
General
1 567 (37.77%) Social Skills
2 555 (36.98%) Finance
3 232 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (11.06%) Public Sector
5 165 (10.99%) Banking
6 121 (8.06%) Legal
7 58 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
8 54 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
9 40 (2.66%) Financial Institution
9 40 (2.66%) Front Office
10 35 (2.33%) Telecoms
11 34 (2.27%) Aerospace
12 32 (2.13%) Retail
13 30 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
13 30 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.87%) Military
15 27 (1.80%) Manufacturing
16 26 (1.73%) Law
17 25 (1.67%) Investment Banking
18 22 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 202 (13.46%) Lead
2 180 (11.99%) Project Manager
3 170 (11.33%) Architect
4 152 (10.13%) Senior
5 137 (9.13%) Analyst
6 89 (5.93%) Consultant
7 71 (4.73%) Security Architect
8 63 (4.20%) Programme Manager
9 59 (3.93%) Business Analyst
9 59 (3.93%) Senior Manager
10 58 (3.86%) Developer
11 47 (3.13%) Risk Manager
12 37 (2.47%) Security Consultant
13 36 (2.40%) IT Manager
13 36 (2.40%) Security Engineer
14 33 (2.20%) Delivery Manager
14 33 (2.20%) Security Manager
15 29 (1.93%) Solutions Architect
16 28 (1.87%) Senior Project Manager
17 26 (1.73%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.73%) .NET
2 25 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 21 (1.40%) REST
4 17 (1.13%) Middleware
5 15 (1.00%) XML
6 13 (0.87%) JSON
6 13 (0.87%) Kafka
7 12 (0.80%) OAuth
8 11 (0.73%) Azure Blueprints
8 11 (0.73%) Leaflet
8 11 (0.73%) OpenID
8 11 (0.73%) React
8 11 (0.73%) SAML
8 11 (0.73%) SOAP
9 9 (0.60%) LDAP
9 9 (0.60%) Web Services
10 8 (0.53%) PySpark
10 8 (0.53%) RESTful
10 8 (0.53%) SLSA
11 7 (0.47%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 103 (6.86%) Management Information System
2 79 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 75 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 62 (4.13%) Security Posture
5 59 (3.93%) Cloud Native
6 53 (3.53%) Operational Technology
7 47 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
8 39 (2.60%) Data Centre
9 32 (2.13%) Market Risk
10 31 (2.07%) Derivative
11 26 (1.73%) PMI
12 25 (1.67%) Fixed Income
13 24 (1.60%) AI Agents
13 24 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
14 23 (1.53%) NHS
15 22 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
16 20 (1.33%) Credit Risk
17 18 (1.20%) Data Structures
17 18 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 17 (1.13%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 49 (3.26%) Windows
2 41 (2.73%) Linux
3 25 (1.67%) Unix
4 19 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.47%) zOS
7 6 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.067%) AIX
11 1 (0.067%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 521 (34.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 362 (24.12%) Agile
3 334 (22.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 323 (21.52%) Cybersecurity
5 313 (20.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 234 (15.59%) Project Management
7 224 (14.92%) Decision-Making
7 224 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
8 207 (13.79%) Roadmaps
9 195 (12.99%) Information Security
10 183 (12.19%) AI
11 165 (10.99%) Change Management
12 147 (9.79%) Project Delivery
13 136 (9.06%) Migration
14 128 (8.53%) DevOps
15 127 (8.46%) Analytics
16 119 (7.93%) Regulatory Compliance
17 118 (7.86%) PRINCE2
18 115 (7.66%) Vulnerability Management
19 114 (7.59%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 102 (6.80%) Python
2 93 (6.20%) SQL
3 45 (3.00%) Java
4 38 (2.53%) PowerShell
5 23 (1.53%) C#
6 16 (1.07%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.87%) VBA
8 9 (0.60%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.47%) Bash
9 7 (0.47%) Shell Script
9 7 (0.47%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.27%) Assembly Language
10 4 (0.27%) Bicep
10 4 (0.27%) CLIST
10 4 (0.27%) Go
10 4 (0.27%) JCL
10 4 (0.27%) REXX
11 3 (0.20%) C
11 3 (0.20%) Scala
12 2 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 374 (24.92%) Security Cleared
2 273 (18.19%) SC Cleared
3 179 (11.93%) Degree
4 147 (9.79%) CISSP
5 92 (6.13%) DV Cleared
6 88 (5.86%) CISM
7 74 (4.93%) PMI Certification
8 69 (4.60%) PMP
9 39 (2.60%) CRISC
10 33 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 32 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 27 (1.80%) Master's Degree
13 25 (1.67%) CISA
14 23 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 22 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
16 20 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 19 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
18 14 (0.93%) AWS Certification
18 14 (0.93%) CESG Certified Professional
19 13 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (12.46%) NIST
2 186 (12.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 142 (9.46%) GRC
4 102 (6.80%) GDPR
5 71 (4.73%) QA
6 69 (4.60%) PMO
7 59 (3.93%) Data Quality
8 45 (3.00%) NCSC
9 36 (2.40%) PCI DSS
10 35 (2.33%) JSP 440
11 31 (2.07%) SOC 2
12 30 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
12 30 (2.00%) SLA
13 28 (1.87%) NIST 800
14 16 (1.07%) Def Stans
15 15 (1.00%) COBIT
16 14 (0.93%) RMADS
17 13 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 12 (0.80%) Accessibility
18 12 (0.80%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 35 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.93%) Docker
3 9 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.27%) Postfix
5 4 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.067%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.067%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.40%) Terraform
3 20 (1.33%) Ansible
4 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.73%) SCCM
6 8 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.47%) Grafana
7 7 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.33%) Control-M
9 4 (0.27%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.20%) CASB
10 3 (0.20%) Nessus
11 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.13%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.13%) OpenVAS
11 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 213 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.40%) ServiceNow
3 73 (4.86%) SAP
4 66 (4.40%) Oracle
5 43 (2.86%) Google
6 19 (1.27%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.27%) Workday
7 17 (1.13%) Cisco
8 15 (1.00%) Murex
9 14 (0.93%) Foundry
9 14 (0.93%) Splunk
10 13 (0.87%) F5
10 13 (0.87%) Qualys
11 11 (0.73%) VMware
12 10 (0.67%) IBM
12 10 (0.67%) Infoblox
13 9 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.60%) Rapid7
13 9 (0.60%) Tenable
14 7 (0.47%) OpenAI