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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 51 67
Rank change year-on-year -17 +16 -5
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,600 1,246 1,043
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.49% 4.49% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 4.95% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,009 802 638
10th Percentile £411 £363 £378
25th Percentile £481 £454 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £684 £738 £738
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £570 £559
% change year-on-year -3.51% +1.97% -5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 20 25
10th Percentile £24.03 £22.16 £24.05
25th Percentile £46.25 £25.23 £40.00
Median hourly rate £64.09 £56.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.94% -2.18% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £87.28 £75.24
UK median hourly rate £64.09 £50.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +27.54% -12.61% +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 38,963 25,189 28,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.89% 90.78% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,049 16,044 18,122
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 £632 £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 2,587 1,471 1,456
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -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 £42.03
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -29 767 £600 -7.69% 1,850
North of England -14 268 £500 -1.12% 276
South East +12 249 £575 +4.55% 323
North West -28 134 £525 +2.68% 162
Yorkshire -2 128 £492 -1.60% 89
South West -10 117 £585 -0.43% 210
Midlands -44 101 £550 +17.27% 150
West Midlands -30 78 £525 +5.00% 85
East of England +7 67 £513 -14.58% 112
East Midlands -26 20 £547 +36.07% 64
North East -37 6 £454 -27.40% 29
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 (4.00%) Confluence
2 40 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.63%) SAS
4 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.25%) IIS
6 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.13%) CMS
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.063%) Apache
8 1 (0.063%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.063%) Appian
8 1 (0.063%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.063%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.063%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.063%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.063%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 60 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.00%) 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 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.81%) Endur
3 11 (0.69%) SAP GRC
4 9 (0.56%) 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 EBS
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 General Ledger
10 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.19%) SAP HCM
10 3 (0.19%) Summit
10 3 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 236 (14.75%) Azure
2 162 (10.13%) AWS
3 71 (4.44%) GCP
4 63 (3.94%) Power Platform
5 54 (3.38%) Entra ID
6 51 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
7 46 (2.88%) SaaS
8 32 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
10 21 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
10 21 (1.31%) OCI
11 18 (1.13%) Azure AI
11 18 (1.13%) PaaS
12 16 (1.00%) GitHub
13 12 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (0.75%) IaaS
14 11 (0.69%) Copilot Studio
14 11 (0.69%) Serverless
15 10 (0.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 56 (3.50%) Network Security
2 41 (2.56%) Firewall
3 18 (1.13%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.00%) DNS
5 15 (0.94%) WAN
6 14 (0.88%) DHCP
6 14 (0.88%) LAN
7 13 (0.81%) 5G
8 11 (0.69%) 4G
9 8 (0.50%) BIG-IP
9 8 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.44%) VPN
11 6 (0.38%) Cisco IPT
11 6 (0.38%) Internet
11 6 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
12 5 (0.31%) 3G
12 5 (0.31%) SAN
12 5 (0.31%) Wireless
13 4 (0.25%) HTTP
13 4 (0.25%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (2.94%) Power BI
2 31 (1.94%) Metadata
2 31 (1.94%) SQL Server
3 17 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (0.94%) Relational Database
5 11 (0.69%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.63%) Oracle Database
7 9 (0.56%) RDBMS
8 8 (0.50%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.44%) Big Data
9 7 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.31%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.31%) Tableau
12 4 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.25%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.25%) Oracle Exadata
12 4 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.19%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 107 (6.69%) JIRA
2 18 (1.13%) Git
3 17 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.75%) 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
7 6 (0.38%) 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%) Mockito
9 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 642 (40.13%) Social Skills
2 570 (35.63%) Finance
3 258 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (11.56%) Public Sector
5 168 (10.50%) Banking
6 119 (7.44%) Legal
7 75 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
8 64 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 61 (3.81%) Front Office
10 47 (2.94%) Aerospace
11 40 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
12 39 (2.44%) Telecoms
13 37 (2.31%) Military
13 37 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
14 36 (2.25%) Manufacturing
14 36 (2.25%) Retail
15 35 (2.19%) Financial Institution
16 32 (2.00%) Law
17 29 (1.81%) Investment Banking
18 23 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 217 (13.56%) Lead
2 185 (11.56%) Architect
3 173 (10.81%) Project Manager
4 154 (9.63%) Senior
5 149 (9.31%) Analyst
6 100 (6.25%) Consultant
7 80 (5.00%) Security Architect
8 72 (4.50%) Programme Manager
9 54 (3.38%) Developer
10 52 (3.25%) Business Analyst
11 51 (3.19%) Senior Manager
12 45 (2.81%) IT Manager
13 43 (2.69%) Risk Manager
14 41 (2.56%) Security Consultant
15 37 (2.31%) Delivery Manager
16 35 (2.19%) Security Engineer
16 35 (2.19%) Security Manager
17 30 (1.88%) Solutions Architect
18 29 (1.81%) Risk Analyst
19 28 (1.75%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.13%) Terraform
2 31 (1.94%) .NET
3 28 (1.75%) REST
4 24 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
5 22 (1.38%) Middleware
6 13 (0.81%) OAuth
6 13 (0.81%) XML
7 12 (0.75%) JSON
8 11 (0.69%) Kafka
8 11 (0.69%) Leaflet
8 11 (0.69%) SAML
8 11 (0.69%) SLSA
9 10 (0.63%) OpenID
9 10 (0.63%) React
9 10 (0.63%) SOAP
10 9 (0.56%) LDAP
10 9 (0.56%) SailPoint
11 8 (0.50%) Azure Blueprints
11 8 (0.50%) RESTful
12 7 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 97 (6.06%) Management Information System
2 92 (5.75%) Onboarding
3 75 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 70 (4.38%) Security Posture
5 60 (3.75%) Cloud Native
6 48 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
7 45 (2.81%) Operational Technology
8 39 (2.44%) Data Centre
9 36 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
10 32 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
11 28 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (1.75%) Market Risk
12 26 (1.63%) AI Agents
13 25 (1.56%) Derivative
14 23 (1.44%) PMI
15 22 (1.38%) Credit Risk
15 22 (1.38%) NHS
16 21 (1.31%) Fixed Income
17 19 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 18 (1.13%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 60 (3.75%) Windows
2 44 (2.75%) Linux
3 28 (1.75%) Unix
4 20 (1.25%) 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
1 640 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 400 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 378 (23.63%) Agile
4 354 (22.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 352 (22.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 261 (16.31%) Decision-Making
7 236 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
8 230 (14.38%) Project Management
9 218 (13.63%) AI
10 214 (13.38%) Roadmaps
11 194 (12.13%) Information Security
12 183 (11.44%) Project Delivery
13 159 (9.94%) Change Management
14 156 (9.75%) Migration
15 146 (9.13%) DevOps
16 139 (8.69%) Analytics
17 136 (8.50%) PRINCE2
18 135 (8.44%) Vulnerability Management
19 127 (7.94%) CI/CD
20 121 (7.56%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 107 (6.69%) Python
2 80 (5.00%) SQL
3 36 (2.25%) PowerShell
4 35 (2.19%) Java
5 31 (1.94%) C#
6 16 (1.00%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.69%) Bash
7 11 (0.69%) VBA
8 8 (0.50%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.38%) Go
9 6 (0.38%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.31%) Bicep
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
11 4 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 433 (27.06%) Security Cleared
2 317 (19.81%) SC Cleared
3 162 (10.13%) Degree
4 145 (9.06%) CISSP
5 111 (6.94%) DV Cleared
6 95 (5.94%) CISM
7 83 (5.19%) PMI Certification
8 80 (5.00%) PMP
9 49 (3.06%) CRISC
10 34 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
12 29 (1.81%) CISA
12 29 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
13 28 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 24 (1.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 22 (1.38%) Master's Degree
15 22 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
16 19 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
17 16 (1.00%) AWS Certification
17 16 (1.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (12.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 193 (12.06%) NIST
3 166 (10.38%) GRC
4 96 (6.00%) GDPR
5 94 (5.88%) QA
6 63 (3.94%) NCSC
6 63 (3.94%) PMO
7 59 (3.69%) Data Quality
8 38 (2.38%) JSP 440
9 32 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (1.31%) NIST 800
11 19 (1.19%) SLA
12 18 (1.13%) SOC 2
13 17 (1.06%) COBIT
13 17 (1.06%) PCI DSS
14 14 (0.88%) Accessibility
14 14 (0.88%) Def Stans
15 13 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 13 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 13 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (2.38%) 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 34 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.69%) Ansible
3 11 (0.69%) SCCM
4 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.56%) Grafana
6 7 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.38%) Control-M
8 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.25%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.19%) Puppet
11 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.13%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 241 (15.06%) Microsoft
2 91 (5.69%) ServiceNow
3 78 (4.88%) SAP
4 67 (4.19%) Oracle
5 38 (2.38%) Google
6 20 (1.25%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.19%) Splunk
8 14 (0.88%) Cisco
8 14 (0.88%) Foundry
8 14 (0.88%) Workday
9 13 (0.81%) Qualys
10 12 (0.75%) IBM
10 12 (0.75%) Murex
11 11 (0.69%) Databricks
11 11 (0.69%) VMware
12 9 (0.56%) BeyondTrust
12 9 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (0.56%) F5
12 9 (0.56%) Tenable
13 8 (0.50%) CyberArk