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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 47 75
Rank change year-on-year -23 +28 -11
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,429 1,157 1,034
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.31% 4.65% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% 5.08% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 955 730 658
10th Percentile £411 £388 £360
25th Percentile £481 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £593 £564
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +5.23% -6.04%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £738
90th Percentile £808 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 24 31
10th Percentile £21.03 £46.30 £15.50
25th Percentile £41.45 £48.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.09 £63.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +26.50% +370.37%
75th Percentile £87.16 £80.11 £60.63
90th Percentile £106.90 £87.43 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £64.09 £65.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -1.40% +33.33% +358.61%

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 36,836 22,759 32,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 91.40% 85.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,282 14,723 20,802
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.19% -4.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,303 1,078 2,398
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%
75th Percentile £68.75 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +72.39% -32.00% +7.05%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -39 679 £600 -11.11% 254
North of England -10 248 £511 -0.13% 98
South East -17 206 £563 +2.27% 136
Yorkshire +4 125 £500 - 30
North West -18 121 £540 +5.62% 59
Midlands -38 118 £550 +12.82% 48
South West +9 99 £570 +14.00% 51
West Midlands -36 87 £540 +8.00% 24
East of England -1 52 £525 -4.55% 34
East Midlands -15 31 £550 +23.04% 24
North East -39 4 £454 -17.50% 11
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 64 (4.48%) Confluence
2 35 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.70%) SAS
4 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.21%) IIS
5 3 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.070%) Appian
7 1 (0.070%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.070%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.070%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.070%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.070%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 42 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
3 38 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
4 31 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.28%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.28%) Revit
6 4 (0.28%) Trello
7 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.14%) Windchill
9 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.070%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 22 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.70%) Endur
3 7 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.42%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.42%) Summit
5 5 (0.35%) Actimize
5 5 (0.35%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.35%) Primavera
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.28%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.21%) Dynamics SL
7 3 (0.21%) Findur
7 3 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 193 (13.51%) Azure
2 145 (10.15%) AWS
3 63 (4.41%) GCP
4 51 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (3.15%) Power Platform
6 42 (2.94%) SaaS
7 41 (2.87%) Entra ID
8 25 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
9 18 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
9 18 (1.26%) PaaS
10 17 (1.19%) Google Workspace
11 16 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (0.98%) GitHub
13 14 (0.98%) Google Sheets
14 11 (0.77%) IaaS
15 10 (0.70%) Amazon S3
15 10 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (0.70%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.22%) Network Security
2 30 (2.10%) Firewall
3 15 (1.05%) DNS
4 14 (0.98%) DHCP
5 12 (0.84%) BIG-IP
5 12 (0.84%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.63%) 5G
6 9 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.49%) 4G
7 7 (0.49%) Structured Cabling
7 7 (0.49%) WAN
8 6 (0.42%) HTTP
9 5 (0.35%) 3G
9 5 (0.35%) LAN
9 5 (0.35%) NGFW
9 5 (0.35%) VPN
10 4 (0.28%) NAS
10 4 (0.28%) SAN
11 3 (0.21%) Internet
11 3 (0.21%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (2.38%) Power BI
2 27 (1.89%) Metadata
3 17 (1.19%) SQL Server
4 15 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (0.77%) Relational Database
7 10 (0.70%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.56%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.56%) RDBMS
9 6 (0.42%) Big Data
10 5 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.35%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.35%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (0.35%) Tableau
11 4 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 106 (7.42%) JIRA
2 13 (0.91%) Jenkins
3 12 (0.84%) Git
4 6 (0.42%) GitLab
4 6 (0.42%) Selenium
5 4 (0.28%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (0.28%) DbUnit
5 4 (0.28%) jMock
5 4 (0.28%) JUnit
5 4 (0.28%) Maven
5 4 (0.28%) Mockito
5 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.28%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.21%) MLflow
7 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.14%) TestRail
7 2 (0.14%) Vite
8 1 (0.070%) Gradle
General
1 531 (37.16%) Social Skills
2 518 (36.25%) Finance
3 233 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (11.27%) Banking
4 161 (11.27%) Public Sector
5 116 (8.12%) Legal
6 51 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 44 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
8 38 (2.66%) Telecoms
9 34 (2.38%) Financial Institution
10 31 (2.17%) Front Office
11 28 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
11 28 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (1.96%) Retail
12 27 (1.89%) Law
12 27 (1.89%) Military
13 25 (1.75%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.68%) Investment Banking
15 22 (1.54%) Aerospace
16 21 (1.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 188 (13.16%) Lead
2 175 (12.25%) Project Manager
3 152 (10.64%) Architect
4 141 (9.87%) Senior
5 128 (8.96%) Analyst
6 83 (5.81%) Consultant
7 63 (4.41%) Programme Manager
8 57 (3.99%) Business Analyst
8 57 (3.99%) Security Architect
9 56 (3.92%) Developer
10 51 (3.57%) Risk Manager
11 49 (3.43%) Senior Manager
12 37 (2.59%) Security Engineer
13 35 (2.45%) Security Consultant
14 34 (2.38%) IT Manager
14 34 (2.38%) Security Manager
15 31 (2.17%) Delivery Manager
16 27 (1.89%) Solutions Architect
17 26 (1.82%) Risk Analyst
18 24 (1.68%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (1.54%) .NET
3 19 (1.33%) REST
4 18 (1.26%) Middleware
5 15 (1.05%) Kafka
5 15 (1.05%) XML
6 13 (0.91%) JSON
7 11 (0.77%) Azure Blueprints
7 11 (0.77%) Leaflet
7 11 (0.77%) OAuth
7 11 (0.77%) OpenID
7 11 (0.77%) React
7 11 (0.77%) SAML
8 9 (0.63%) SOAP
9 8 (0.56%) LDAP
9 8 (0.56%) PySpark
9 8 (0.56%) Web Services
10 7 (0.49%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.49%) LangChain
10 7 (0.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 108 (7.56%) Management Information System
2 78 (5.46%) Product Ownership
3 63 (4.41%) Onboarding
4 59 (4.13%) Security Posture
5 56 (3.92%) Cloud Native
6 47 (3.29%) Operational Technology
7 42 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
8 36 (2.52%) Data Centre
9 34 (2.38%) Derivative
10 30 (2.10%) Market Risk
11 24 (1.68%) NHS
11 24 (1.68%) PMI
12 23 (1.61%) AI Agents
13 22 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.47%) Fixed Income
15 20 (1.40%) Credit Risk
16 19 (1.33%) Data Structures
16 19 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
17 17 (1.19%) SCADA
18 16 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 46 (3.22%) Windows
2 37 (2.59%) Linux
3 19 (1.33%) Unix
4 16 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.49%) zOS
7 6 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.21%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (33.17%) Stakeholder Management
2 351 (24.56%) Agile
3 309 (21.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 295 (20.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 287 (20.08%) Cybersecurity
6 232 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
7 222 (15.54%) Project Management
8 217 (15.19%) Decision-Making
9 189 (13.23%) Roadmaps
10 185 (12.95%) Information Security
11 159 (11.13%) AI
12 158 (11.06%) Change Management
13 137 (9.59%) Project Delivery
14 124 (8.68%) Migration
15 122 (8.54%) Analytics
16 119 (8.33%) DevOps
17 118 (8.26%) Regulatory Compliance
18 114 (7.98%) PRINCE2
19 108 (7.56%) Data Protection
20 105 (7.35%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 95 (6.65%) Python
2 94 (6.58%) SQL
3 45 (3.15%) Java
4 33 (2.31%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.47%) C#
6 13 (0.91%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.84%) VBA
8 8 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.49%) Bash
9 7 (0.49%) Shell Script
9 7 (0.49%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.35%) C++
11 4 (0.28%) Assembly Language
11 4 (0.28%) Bicep
11 4 (0.28%) CLIST
11 4 (0.28%) Go
11 4 (0.28%) JCL
11 4 (0.28%) REXX
12 3 (0.21%) Korn
12 3 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 348 (24.35%) Security Cleared
2 251 (17.56%) SC Cleared
3 180 (12.60%) Degree
4 128 (8.96%) CISSP
5 87 (6.09%) CISM
6 84 (5.88%) DV Cleared
7 71 (4.97%) PMI Certification
8 66 (4.62%) PMP
9 45 (3.15%) CRISC
10 37 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
12 26 (1.82%) CISA
13 24 (1.68%) Master's Degree
14 20 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
15 19 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 18 (1.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 14 (0.98%) AWS Certification
18 13 (0.91%) CESG Certified Professional
18 13 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
19 11 (0.77%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (12.74%) NIST
2 176 (12.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 140 (9.80%) GRC
4 95 (6.65%) GDPR
5 76 (5.32%) PMO
6 66 (4.62%) QA
7 55 (3.85%) Data Quality
8 47 (3.29%) NCSC
9 38 (2.66%) PCI DSS
10 36 (2.52%) JSP 440
11 29 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
12 28 (1.96%) SLA
12 28 (1.96%) SOC 2
13 25 (1.75%) NIST 800
14 21 (1.47%) COBIT
15 17 (1.19%) RMADS
16 15 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.91%) Def Stans
18 11 (0.77%) ISO 31000
18 11 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 30 (2.10%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.91%) Docker
3 8 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.28%) Postfix
5 4 (0.28%) Time Sharing Option
5 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.070%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.070%) NFS
7 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.070%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (1.61%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.33%) Terraform
3 17 (1.19%) Ansible
4 13 (0.91%) SCCM
5 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.42%) Grafana
7 6 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.35%) Control-M
9 4 (0.28%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.28%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.21%) CASB
10 3 (0.21%) Nessus
11 2 (0.14%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.14%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.14%) OpenVAS
11 2 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 195 (13.65%) Microsoft
2 88 (6.16%) ServiceNow
3 70 (4.90%) SAP
4 64 (4.48%) Oracle
5 41 (2.87%) Google
6 21 (1.47%) Workday
7 20 (1.40%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.12%) Cisco
8 16 (1.12%) Murex
9 14 (0.98%) F5
10 12 (0.84%) Qualys
10 12 (0.84%) Splunk
10 12 (0.84%) VMware
11 11 (0.77%) Databricks
12 10 (0.70%) Foundry
12 10 (0.70%) IBM
12 10 (0.70%) Infoblox
13 9 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.63%) Remedy
14 8 (0.56%) OpenAI