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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 48 77
Rank change year-on-year -23 +29 -13
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,488 1,242 991
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.32% 4.56% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 5.03% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 980 778 627
10th Percentile £413 £382 £363
25th Percentile £487 £463 £463
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 £565 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -1.74% +4.45% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 25 30
10th Percentile £23.50 £22.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £48.50 £46.30 £35.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 £51.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.86% -2.86% +90.91%
75th Percentile £86.72 £73.75 £60.94
90th Percentile £105.48 £87.40 £70.02
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year +39.30% +0.51% +81.82%

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 38,258 24,707 30,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.66% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 15,833 19,804
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £745 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,373 1,323 1,986
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.22 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.03 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -38 699 £600 -7.69% 542
North of England -9 260 £514 +0.15% 140
South East -6 237 £575 +4.55% 166
North West -24 131 £525 +2.68% 85
Yorkshire -1 127 £500 -4.76% 47
Midlands -35 111 £550 +15.79% 72
South West -14 93 £570 -0.87% 76
West Midlands -36 84 £545 +9.00% 38
East of England +13 59 £525 -4.55% 42
East Midlands -16 25 £550 +23.66% 34
North East -46 4 £454 -17.50% 8
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 (3.97%) Confluence
2 35 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.60%) SAS
4 5 (0.34%) 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 46 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
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 31 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.81%) Endur
3 7 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.40%) Actimize
4 6 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.40%) Primavera
5 5 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.34%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.27%) Magento
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.27%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.27%) Summit
6 4 (0.27%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 223 (14.99%) Azure
2 153 (10.28%) AWS
3 67 (4.50%) GCP
4 48 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 47 (3.16%) Entra ID
6 37 (2.49%) SaaS
7 30 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (1.81%) Microsoft Purview
9 22 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
10 19 (1.28%) PaaS
11 17 (1.14%) GitHub
12 16 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
13 15 (1.01%) Azure AI
14 13 (0.87%) Google Workspace
14 13 (0.87%) IaaS
15 11 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
15 11 (0.74%) OCI
15 11 (0.74%) Serverless
16 10 (0.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.23%) Network Security
2 36 (2.42%) Firewall
3 15 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.94%) DNS
5 13 (0.87%) DHCP
6 11 (0.74%) 5G
6 11 (0.74%) WAN
7 10 (0.67%) BIG-IP
8 9 (0.60%) 4G
8 9 (0.60%) LAN
8 9 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (0.40%) HTTP
11 5 (0.34%) 3G
11 5 (0.34%) Internet
11 5 (0.34%) NAS
11 5 (0.34%) NGFW
11 5 (0.34%) SAN
11 5 (0.34%) VPN
12 4 (0.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (2.15%) Power BI
2 26 (1.75%) Metadata
3 23 (1.55%) SQL Server
4 14 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (0.87%) Relational Database
6 12 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 9 (0.60%) RDBMS
9 8 (0.54%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.47%) Big Data
11 5 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.34%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.34%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.34%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.27%) Tableau
13 3 (0.20%) Db2
13 3 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 99 (6.65%) JIRA
2 19 (1.28%) Git
2 19 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.60%) Selenium
4 7 (0.47%) GitLab
5 5 (0.34%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.34%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
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%) Postman
6 4 (0.27%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.27%) Subversion
6 4 (0.27%) WebDriver
6 4 (0.27%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.20%) MLflow
General
1 564 (37.90%) Social Skills
2 548 (36.83%) Finance
3 222 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (11.16%) Public Sector
5 161 (10.82%) Banking
6 113 (7.59%) Legal
7 59 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
8 56 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
9 39 (2.62%) Front Office
10 38 (2.55%) Financial Institution
11 37 (2.49%) Aerospace
11 37 (2.49%) Telecoms
12 34 (2.28%) Retail
13 32 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
15 26 (1.75%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.75%) Military
16 24 (1.61%) Law
17 23 (1.55%) Investment Banking
18 22 (1.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 204 (13.71%) Lead
2 177 (11.90%) Project Manager
3 169 (11.36%) Architect
4 151 (10.15%) Senior
5 126 (8.47%) Analyst
6 87 (5.85%) Consultant
7 71 (4.77%) Security Architect
8 69 (4.64%) Programme Manager
9 60 (4.03%) Senior Manager
10 55 (3.70%) Developer
11 50 (3.36%) Business Analyst
12 46 (3.09%) Risk Manager
13 37 (2.49%) IT Manager
14 36 (2.42%) Security Engineer
15 35 (2.35%) Delivery Manager
15 35 (2.35%) Security Consultant
16 34 (2.28%) Security Manager
17 29 (1.95%) Senior Project Manager
17 29 (1.95%) Solutions Architect
18 27 (1.81%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.68%) .NET
1 25 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (1.48%) REST
3 17 (1.14%) Middleware
4 14 (0.94%) XML
5 13 (0.87%) JSON
6 12 (0.81%) Kafka
6 12 (0.81%) OAuth
7 11 (0.74%) Azure Blueprints
7 11 (0.74%) Leaflet
7 11 (0.74%) OpenID
7 11 (0.74%) React
7 11 (0.74%) SAML
7 11 (0.74%) SOAP
8 9 (0.60%) LDAP
8 9 (0.60%) SLSA
9 8 (0.54%) PySpark
9 8 (0.54%) RESTful
9 8 (0.54%) Web Services
10 7 (0.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 99 (6.65%) Management Information System
2 80 (5.38%) Onboarding
3 76 (5.11%) Product Ownership
4 63 (4.23%) Cloud Native
5 60 (4.03%) Security Posture
6 50 (3.36%) Operational Technology
7 45 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
8 40 (2.69%) Data Centre
9 29 (1.95%) Market Risk
10 26 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
10 26 (1.75%) Derivative
10 26 (1.75%) PMI
11 25 (1.68%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.48%) Fixed Income
12 22 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
13 21 (1.41%) NHS
14 17 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
14 17 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 17 (1.14%) SCADA
14 17 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (3.36%) Windows
2 41 (2.76%) Linux
3 25 (1.68%) Unix
4 19 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.34%) zOS
7 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.067%) AIX
9 1 (0.067%) Android
9 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (36.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 355 (23.86%) Agile
3 332 (22.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 327 (21.98%) Cybersecurity
5 319 (21.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 233 (15.66%) Project Management
7 222 (14.92%) Decision-Making
8 214 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
9 209 (14.05%) Roadmaps
10 189 (12.70%) Information Security
11 188 (12.63%) AI
12 163 (10.95%) Change Management
13 144 (9.68%) Project Delivery
14 139 (9.34%) Migration
15 131 (8.80%) DevOps
16 124 (8.33%) Analytics
17 118 (7.93%) Vulnerability Management
18 117 (7.86%) CI/CD
19 115 (7.73%) PRINCE2
20 112 (7.53%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 94 (6.32%) Python
2 82 (5.51%) SQL
3 41 (2.76%) Java
4 33 (2.22%) PowerShell
5 23 (1.55%) C#
6 15 (1.01%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.81%) VBA
8 9 (0.60%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.47%) Bash
10 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.40%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.27%) Assembly Language
11 4 (0.27%) Bicep
11 4 (0.27%) CLIST
11 4 (0.27%) Go
11 4 (0.27%) JCL
11 4 (0.27%) REXX
12 3 (0.20%) C
12 3 (0.20%) Scala
13 2 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 374 (25.13%) Security Cleared
2 278 (18.68%) SC Cleared
3 174 (11.69%) Degree
4 144 (9.68%) CISSP
5 92 (6.18%) DV Cleared
6 85 (5.71%) CISM
7 72 (4.84%) PMI Certification
8 68 (4.57%) PMP
9 37 (2.49%) CRISC
10 32 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 30 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 27 (1.81%) CISA
12 27 (1.81%) Master's Degree
13 24 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 23 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
15 21 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 21 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (1.01%) AWS Certification
16 15 (1.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 14 (0.94%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (12.57%) NIST
2 186 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 139 (9.34%) GRC
4 96 (6.45%) GDPR
5 74 (4.97%) QA
6 66 (4.44%) PMO
7 55 (3.70%) Data Quality
8 47 (3.16%) NCSC
9 34 (2.28%) PCI DSS
10 32 (2.15%) JSP 440
11 30 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
11 30 (2.02%) NIST 800
11 30 (2.02%) SOC 2
12 28 (1.88%) SLA
13 18 (1.21%) Def Stans
14 15 (1.01%) COBIT
15 13 (0.87%) Accessibility
15 13 (0.87%) RMADS
16 12 (0.81%) ISO 31000
16 12 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (2.28%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.87%) Docker
3 9 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.27%) Postfix
5 4 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.067%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.067%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (1.48%) Kubernetes
1 22 (1.48%) Terraform
2 20 (1.34%) Ansible
3 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.60%) SCCM
5 8 (0.54%) Grafana
5 8 (0.54%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.27%) Control-M
8 4 (0.27%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.20%) CASB
10 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.13%) Nessus
10 2 (0.13%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 209 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 80 (5.38%) ServiceNow
3 70 (4.70%) SAP
4 58 (3.90%) Oracle
5 42 (2.82%) Google
6 21 (1.41%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.14%) Cisco
8 16 (1.08%) Splunk
8 16 (1.08%) Workday
9 14 (0.94%) Foundry
10 12 (0.81%) F5
10 12 (0.81%) Qualys
11 11 (0.74%) Murex
12 10 (0.67%) IBM
12 10 (0.67%) Infoblox
13 9 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.60%) Tenable
13 9 (0.60%) VMware
14 8 (0.54%) Okta
14 8 (0.54%) OpenAI