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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 50 66
Rank change year-on-year -20 +16 -3
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,591 1,229 1,044
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.49% 4.49% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 4.94% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,001 791 637
10th Percentile £413 £363 £383
25th Percentile £481 £453 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £577
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -0.35% -3.83%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £738
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £571 £560
% change year-on-year -3.68% +1.96% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 19 23
10th Percentile £24.03 £22.16 £30.35
25th Percentile £46.25 £24.20 £40.00
Median hourly rate £64.09 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.67% -11.30% +15.00%
75th Percentile £80.00 £69.38 £66.25
90th Percentile £87.16 £87.30 £75.32
UK median hourly rate £64.09 £49.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +29.47% -13.91% +17.35%

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 38,700 24,856 28,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.77% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,864 15,818 18,112
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,605 1,463 1,438
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.56
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -27 771 £600 -7.69% 2,117
North of England -11 268 £510 +2.00% 320
South East +12 242 £575 +4.55% 348
North West -22 134 £525 +2.68% 200
Yorkshire +1 128 £497 -0.60% 98
South West -15 112 £600 +2.13% 222
Midlands -45 101 £550 +17.27% 175
West Midlands -37 78 £525 +5.00% 104
East of England +6 65 £513 -14.58% 118
East Midlands -27 20 £547 +36.07% 71
North East -44 6 £454 - 28
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 (3.96%) Confluence
2 39 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.63%) SAS
4 4 (0.25%) IIS
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.13%) CMS
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.063%) Apache
7 1 (0.063%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.063%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.063%) Appian
7 1 (0.063%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.063%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.063%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.063%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 59 (3.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.25%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.25%) Revit
7 3 (0.19%) Windchill
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.063%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.063%) Trello
Business Applications
1 38 (2.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.82%) Endur
3 11 (0.69%) SAP GRC
4 9 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.50%) Primavera
6 7 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.31%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.25%) Actimize
9 4 (0.25%) Magento
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.19%) Findur
10 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.19%) Summit
10 3 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 234 (14.71%) Azure
2 159 (9.99%) AWS
3 70 (4.40%) GCP
4 65 (4.09%) Power Platform
5 54 (3.39%) Entra ID
6 50 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
7 47 (2.95%) SaaS
8 30 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
10 21 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
11 19 (1.19%) OCI
12 18 (1.13%) Azure AI
12 18 (1.13%) PaaS
13 15 (0.94%) GitHub
14 12 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
14 12 (0.75%) IaaS
15 11 (0.69%) Copilot Studio
15 11 (0.69%) PowerApps
15 11 (0.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 56 (3.52%) Network Security
2 40 (2.51%) Firewall
3 18 (1.13%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.01%) DNS
5 15 (0.94%) WAN
6 14 (0.88%) DHCP
6 14 (0.88%) LAN
7 13 (0.82%) 5G
8 11 (0.69%) 4G
9 8 (0.50%) BIG-IP
10 7 (0.44%) VPN
11 6 (0.38%) Cisco IPT
11 6 (0.38%) Internet
11 6 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.31%) 3G
12 5 (0.31%) Wireless
13 4 (0.25%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
13 4 (0.25%) SAN
13 4 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.08%) Power BI
2 31 (1.95%) Metadata
2 31 (1.95%) SQL Server
3 17 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (0.94%) Relational Database
5 11 (0.69%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.63%) Oracle Database
7 9 (0.57%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.57%) RDBMS
8 7 (0.44%) Big Data
8 7 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (0.31%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.31%) Tableau
11 4 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.25%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.25%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (0.25%) Power Query
12 3 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 104 (6.54%) JIRA
2 19 (1.19%) Git
3 18 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.69%) Selenium
5 8 (0.50%) Cypress.io
6 7 (0.44%) Postman
7 6 (0.38%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.38%) GitLab
7 6 (0.38%) WebDriver
8 5 (0.31%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.25%) Maven
9 4 (0.25%) Subversion
10 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.19%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.19%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.19%) jMock
10 3 (0.19%) JUnit
10 3 (0.19%) Mockito
General
1 635 (39.91%) Social Skills
2 574 (36.08%) Finance
3 258 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (11.88%) Public Sector
5 172 (10.81%) Banking
6 120 (7.54%) Legal
7 75 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
8 63 (3.96%) Front Office
8 63 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
9 47 (2.95%) Aerospace
10 40 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
11 39 (2.45%) Telecoms
12 37 (2.33%) Manufacturing
12 37 (2.33%) Military
13 36 (2.26%) Financial Institution
13 36 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (2.26%) Retail
14 32 (2.01%) Investment Banking
14 32 (2.01%) Law
15 23 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 210 (13.20%) Lead
2 187 (11.75%) Architect
3 170 (10.69%) Project Manager
4 157 (9.87%) Senior
5 152 (9.55%) Analyst
6 97 (6.10%) Consultant
7 81 (5.09%) Security Architect
8 72 (4.53%) Programme Manager
9 54 (3.39%) Developer
10 53 (3.33%) Business Analyst
11 52 (3.27%) Senior Manager
12 46 (2.89%) IT Manager
13 42 (2.64%) Risk Manager
14 39 (2.45%) Security Consultant
15 38 (2.39%) Delivery Manager
16 35 (2.20%) Security Engineer
16 35 (2.20%) Security Manager
17 31 (1.95%) Risk Analyst
18 30 (1.89%) Solutions Architect
18 30 (1.89%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.20%) Terraform
2 31 (1.95%) .NET
3 28 (1.76%) REST
4 22 (1.38%) Middleware
4 22 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
5 14 (0.88%) OAuth
6 13 (0.82%) XML
7 12 (0.75%) JSON
7 12 (0.75%) Kafka
7 12 (0.75%) SAML
8 11 (0.69%) OpenID
8 11 (0.69%) React
8 11 (0.69%) SLSA
9 10 (0.63%) SOAP
10 9 (0.57%) LDAP
10 9 (0.57%) Leaflet
10 9 (0.57%) SailPoint
11 8 (0.50%) Azure Blueprints
11 8 (0.50%) RESTful
12 7 (0.44%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 96 (6.03%) Management Information System
2 94 (5.91%) Onboarding
3 75 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 71 (4.46%) Security Posture
5 61 (3.83%) Cloud Native
6 49 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
7 45 (2.83%) Operational Technology
8 36 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
8 36 (2.26%) Data Centre
9 31 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
10 30 (1.89%) Market Risk
11 29 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (1.63%) AI Agents
13 25 (1.57%) Derivative
14 23 (1.45%) PMI
15 22 (1.38%) Credit Risk
15 22 (1.38%) Fixed Income
15 22 (1.38%) NHS
16 21 (1.32%) Data Structures
17 19 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 59 (3.71%) Windows
2 43 (2.70%) Linux
3 29 (1.82%) Unix
4 20 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.38%) zOS
7 5 (0.31%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.19%) AIX
9 3 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.063%) Android
11 1 (0.063%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (40.04%) Stakeholder Management
2 401 (25.20%) Cybersecurity
3 381 (23.95%) Agile
4 353 (22.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 352 (22.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 263 (16.53%) Decision-Making
7 234 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
8 225 (14.14%) Project Management
9 219 (13.76%) AI
10 214 (13.45%) Roadmaps
11 196 (12.32%) Information Security
12 185 (11.63%) Project Delivery
13 153 (9.62%) Migration
14 147 (9.24%) Change Management
15 145 (9.11%) DevOps
16 140 (8.80%) Analytics
17 139 (8.74%) Vulnerability Management
18 134 (8.42%) PRINCE2
19 133 (8.36%) CI/CD
20 120 (7.54%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 109 (6.85%) Python
2 82 (5.15%) SQL
3 35 (2.20%) PowerShell
4 34 (2.14%) Java
5 28 (1.76%) C#
6 16 (1.01%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.69%) Bash
7 11 (0.69%) VBA
8 8 (0.50%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.38%) Go
11 5 (0.31%) Bicep
11 5 (0.31%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.31%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.25%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.25%) C++
12 4 (0.25%) CLIST
12 4 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.25%) JCL
12 4 (0.25%) REXX
Qualifications
1 428 (26.90%) Security Cleared
2 313 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 160 (10.06%) Degree
4 145 (9.11%) CISSP
5 109 (6.85%) DV Cleared
6 95 (5.97%) CISM
7 82 (5.15%) PMI Certification
8 79 (4.97%) PMP
9 49 (3.08%) CRISC
10 34 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
12 30 (1.89%) CISA
12 30 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 22 (1.38%) Master's Degree
14 22 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 22 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
15 20 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (1.01%) AWS Certification
17 15 (0.94%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (12.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 190 (11.94%) NIST
3 169 (10.62%) GRC
4 96 (6.03%) GDPR
5 93 (5.85%) QA
6 63 (3.96%) NCSC
6 63 (3.96%) PMO
7 60 (3.77%) Data Quality
8 35 (2.20%) JSP 440
9 32 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (1.32%) NIST 800
11 20 (1.26%) SLA
12 18 (1.13%) SOC 2
13 16 (1.01%) COBIT
14 15 (0.94%) PCI DSS
15 14 (0.88%) Accessibility
15 14 (0.88%) Def Stans
16 13 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 13 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 13 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (2.39%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.94%) Docker
3 10 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
5 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.19%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (0.19%) Postfix
6 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.13%) Firmware
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
7 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.13%) vSphere
8 1 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 35 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.70%) Ansible
3 11 (0.69%) SCCM
4 10 (0.63%) Grafana
4 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.38%) Control-M
7 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.25%) Data Guard
8 4 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.19%) Puppet
10 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.13%) NSN NetAct
10 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 239 (15.02%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.85%) ServiceNow
3 77 (4.84%) SAP
4 62 (3.90%) Oracle
5 37 (2.33%) Google
6 20 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.19%) Splunk
8 14 (0.88%) Foundry
9 13 (0.82%) Cisco
9 13 (0.82%) Qualys
10 12 (0.75%) IBM
11 11 (0.69%) Databricks
11 11 (0.69%) Murex
11 11 (0.69%) VMware
12 10 (0.63%) Workday
13 9 (0.57%) BeyondTrust
13 9 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.57%) F5
13 9 (0.57%) Tenable
14 8 (0.50%) Okta