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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 51 66
Rank change year-on-year -19 +15 -5
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,582 1,242 1,044
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.46% 4.50% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 4.96% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 997 798 635
10th Percentile £412 £363 £382
25th Percentile £481 £454 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £577
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -0.35% -3.83%
75th Percentile £685 £738 £738
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £565 £560
% change year-on-year -2.65% +0.89% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 19 25
10th Percentile £24.03 £22.16 £24.05
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 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £87.30 £75.24
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 38,738 25,035 28,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.79% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,882 15,942 18,107
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% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,595 1,467 1,443
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.63
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 £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.39% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -29 760 £600 -7.69% 1,950
North of England -12 267 £507 +1.30% 321
South East +8 244 £575 +4.55% 344
North West -29 134 £525 +2.68% 195
Yorkshire +1 127 £492 -1.60% 97
South West -13 113 £600 +2.13% 223
Midlands -47 101 £550 +17.27% 164
West Midlands -41 78 £525 +5.00% 98
East of England +5 65 £513 -14.58% 112
East Midlands -26 20 £547 +36.07% 66
North East -44 6 £454 - 33
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 (4.05%) Confluence
2 39 (2.47%) 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 58 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.83%) 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 39 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.82%) Endur
3 11 (0.70%) SAP GRC
4 9 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.51%) 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 (0.32%) 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
1 233 (14.73%) Azure
2 157 (9.92%) AWS
3 69 (4.36%) GCP
4 65 (4.11%) Power Platform
5 53 (3.35%) Entra ID
6 50 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
7 46 (2.91%) SaaS
8 31 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
10 21 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
11 19 (1.20%) OCI
12 18 (1.14%) Azure AI
12 18 (1.14%) PaaS
13 15 (0.95%) GitHub
14 12 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
14 12 (0.76%) IaaS
15 11 (0.70%) Copilot Studio
15 11 (0.70%) PowerApps
15 11 (0.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.48%) Network Security
2 40 (2.53%) Firewall
3 18 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.01%) DNS
5 15 (0.95%) WAN
6 14 (0.88%) DHCP
6 14 (0.88%) LAN
7 13 (0.82%) 5G
8 11 (0.70%) 4G
9 8 (0.51%) 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 (0.32%) 3G
12 5 (0.32%) 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 (3.10%) Power BI
2 31 (1.96%) Metadata
2 31 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 18 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (0.95%) Relational Database
5 11 (0.70%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.63%) Oracle Database
7 9 (0.57%) RDBMS
8 8 (0.51%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.44%) Big Data
9 7 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.32%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.32%) Tableau
12 4 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.25%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.25%) Oracle Exadata
13 3 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.19%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.19%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 105 (6.64%) JIRA
2 17 (1.07%) Git
2 17 (1.07%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.70%) Selenium
4 8 (0.51%) Cypress.io
5 7 (0.44%) Postman
6 6 (0.38%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.38%) GitLab
6 6 (0.38%) WebDriver
7 5 (0.32%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.25%) Maven
8 4 (0.25%) Subversion
9 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.19%) DbUnit
9 3 (0.19%) jMock
9 3 (0.19%) JUnit
9 3 (0.19%) MLflow
9 3 (0.19%) Mockito
9 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 633 (40.01%) Social Skills
2 569 (35.97%) Finance
3 257 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 169 (10.68%) Banking
6 119 (7.52%) Legal
7 75 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
8 63 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
9 61 (3.86%) Front Office
10 47 (2.97%) Aerospace
11 40 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
12 39 (2.47%) Telecoms
13 37 (2.34%) Manufacturing
13 37 (2.34%) Military
14 36 (2.28%) Financial Institution
14 36 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
14 36 (2.28%) Retail
15 32 (2.02%) Law
16 30 (1.90%) Investment Banking
17 23 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 212 (13.40%) Lead
2 185 (11.69%) Architect
3 169 (10.68%) Project Manager
4 154 (9.73%) Senior
5 149 (9.42%) Analyst
6 98 (6.19%) Consultant
7 80 (5.06%) Security Architect
8 71 (4.49%) Programme Manager
9 54 (3.41%) Developer
10 53 (3.35%) Business Analyst
11 52 (3.29%) Senior Manager
12 46 (2.91%) IT Manager
13 42 (2.65%) Risk Manager
14 40 (2.53%) Security Consultant
15 37 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
16 35 (2.21%) Security Engineer
16 35 (2.21%) Security Manager
17 30 (1.90%) Solutions Architect
18 29 (1.83%) Risk Analyst
19 28 (1.77%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.15%) Terraform
2 31 (1.96%) .NET
3 28 (1.77%) REST
4 24 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
5 22 (1.39%) Middleware
6 13 (0.82%) OAuth
6 13 (0.82%) XML
7 12 (0.76%) JSON
8 11 (0.70%) Kafka
8 11 (0.70%) SAML
8 11 (0.70%) SLSA
9 10 (0.63%) OpenID
9 10 (0.63%) React
9 10 (0.63%) SOAP
10 9 (0.57%) LDAP
10 9 (0.57%) Leaflet
10 9 (0.57%) SailPoint
11 8 (0.51%) Azure Blueprints
11 8 (0.51%) RESTful
12 7 (0.44%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 95 (6.01%) Management Information System
2 92 (5.82%) Onboarding
3 73 (4.61%) Product Ownership
4 70 (4.42%) Security Posture
5 60 (3.79%) Cloud Native
6 49 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
7 46 (2.91%) Operational Technology
8 37 (2.34%) Data Centre
9 36 (2.28%) Cyber Threat
10 31 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
11 29 (1.83%) Market Risk
12 28 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
13 26 (1.64%) AI Agents
14 25 (1.58%) Derivative
15 23 (1.45%) PMI
16 21 (1.33%) Credit Risk
16 21 (1.33%) Fixed Income
16 21 (1.33%) NHS
17 19 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 18 (1.14%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 59 (3.73%) Windows
2 43 (2.72%) Linux
3 28 (1.77%) Unix
4 20 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.38%) zOS
7 5 (0.32%) 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
1 632 (39.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 397 (25.09%) Cybersecurity
3 377 (23.83%) Agile
4 352 (22.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 350 (22.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 262 (16.56%) Decision-Making
7 232 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
8 224 (14.16%) Project Management
9 216 (13.65%) AI
10 211 (13.34%) Roadmaps
11 193 (12.20%) Information Security
12 183 (11.57%) Project Delivery
13 152 (9.61%) Migration
14 150 (9.48%) Change Management
15 145 (9.17%) DevOps
16 137 (8.66%) Analytics
17 136 (8.60%) Vulnerability Management
18 133 (8.41%) PRINCE2
19 127 (8.03%) CI/CD
20 120 (7.59%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 105 (6.64%) Python
2 80 (5.06%) SQL
3 34 (2.15%) PowerShell
4 33 (2.09%) Java
5 28 (1.77%) C#
6 16 (1.01%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.70%) Bash
7 11 (0.70%) VBA
8 8 (0.51%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.38%) Go
9 6 (0.38%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.32%) Bicep
10 5 (0.32%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.25%) Assembly Language
11 4 (0.25%) C++
11 4 (0.25%) CLIST
11 4 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.25%) JCL
11 4 (0.25%) REXX
11 4 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 428 (27.05%) Security Cleared
2 313 (19.79%) SC Cleared
3 158 (9.99%) Degree
4 143 (9.04%) CISSP
5 111 (7.02%) DV Cleared
6 93 (5.88%) CISM
7 81 (5.12%) PMI Certification
8 78 (4.93%) PMP
9 47 (2.97%) CRISC
10 34 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
12 29 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 29 (1.83%) CISA
12 29 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 22 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
14 21 (1.33%) Master's Degree
15 19 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (1.01%) AWS Certification
17 15 (0.95%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (12.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 189 (11.95%) NIST
3 165 (10.43%) GRC
4 95 (6.01%) GDPR
5 91 (5.75%) QA
6 63 (3.98%) NCSC
6 63 (3.98%) PMO
7 56 (3.54%) Data Quality
8 36 (2.28%) JSP 440
9 32 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (1.33%) NIST 800
11 19 (1.20%) SLA
12 18 (1.14%) SOC 2
13 16 (1.01%) COBIT
14 15 (0.95%) 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
17 12 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (2.34%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.95%) 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 34 (2.15%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.71%) Ansible
3 11 (0.70%) 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 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
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
8 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
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 (15.11%) Microsoft
2 89 (5.63%) ServiceNow
3 79 (4.99%) SAP
4 64 (4.05%) Oracle
5 36 (2.28%) Google
6 20 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.20%) Splunk
8 14 (0.88%) Foundry
9 13 (0.82%) Cisco
9 13 (0.82%) Qualys
10 12 (0.76%) IBM
11 11 (0.70%) Databricks
11 11 (0.70%) Murex
11 11 (0.70%) Workday
12 10 (0.63%) VMware
13 9 (0.57%) BeyondTrust
13 9 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.57%) F5
13 9 (0.57%) Tenable
14 8 (0.51%) Okta