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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 59 66
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,768 1,188 1,085
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.78% 4.22% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 4.65% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,102 747 606
10th Percentile £401 £378 £373
25th Percentile £475 £455 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £700
90th Percentile £788 £875 £825
UK median daily rate £565 £573 £554
% change year-on-year -1.38% +3.34% -3.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 29 27
10th Percentile £35.37 £22.16 £33.05
25th Percentile £50.50 £26.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +126.87% -41.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £84.31 £64.00 £74.16
90th Percentile £87.80 £76.45 £79.04
UK median hourly rate £74.84 £33.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +123.40% -41.74% -4.17%

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 39,775 25,570 27,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.94% 90.90% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,015 16,235 16,841
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,044 1,594 1,106
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.41 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.47 £44.80 £66.90
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -7 890 £605 -6.92% 1,286
North of England -4 281 £510 +2.00% 224
South East +14 263 £575 +4.55% 249
Yorkshire +20 138 £494 -1.20% 90
North West -21 136 £525 +3.83% 120
South West -16 107 £600 - 118
Midlands -34 106 £500 +5.26% 127
West Midlands -22 83 £495 -3.41% 85
East of England +6 71 £513 -16.33% 69
East Midlands -24 20 £550 +37.50% 42
North East -38 8 £450 -18.18% 14
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 70 (3.96%) Confluence
2 32 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.74%) SAS
4 6 (0.34%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.23%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.23%) CMS
5 4 (0.23%) IIS
5 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.23%) nginx
6 2 (0.11%) Apache
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.057%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.057%) Appian
7 1 (0.057%) CICS
7 1 (0.057%) Documentum
7 1 (0.057%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 55 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (1.13%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.11%) LaTeX
7 2 (0.11%) Navisworks
7 2 (0.11%) Revit
7 2 (0.11%) Windchill
8 1 (0.057%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 45 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.62%) Endur
2 11 (0.62%) SAP GRC
3 10 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.45%) Primavera
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.28%) SAP HCM
7 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.23%) Actimize
8 4 (0.23%) Magento
9 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.17%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.17%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 271 (15.33%) Azure
2 191 (10.80%) AWS
3 93 (5.26%) GCP
4 66 (3.73%) Entra ID
5 65 (3.68%) Power Platform
6 62 (3.51%) SaaS
7 47 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (1.58%) GitHub
10 27 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
11 26 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
11 26 (1.47%) OCI
12 24 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
13 16 (0.90%) Azure AI
13 16 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
14 15 (0.85%) PaaS
15 14 (0.79%) Serverless
16 12 (0.68%) Power Automate
17 11 (0.62%) Azure Functions
17 11 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.62%) Network Security
2 53 (3.00%) Firewall
3 20 (1.13%) WAN
4 18 (1.02%) DNS
4 18 (1.02%) LAN
5 16 (0.90%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.85%) VPN
7 11 (0.62%) DHCP
8 10 (0.57%) 5G
9 9 (0.51%) Kerberos
10 8 (0.45%) 4G
10 8 (0.45%) Cisco IPT
10 8 (0.45%) Internet
11 5 (0.28%) BIG-IP
11 5 (0.28%) Softphone
11 5 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
11 5 (0.28%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.28%) Wireless
12 4 (0.23%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (2.83%) Power BI
2 44 (2.49%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.58%) Metadata
4 19 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (0.90%) Oracle Database
6 14 (0.79%) Data Lake
7 12 (0.68%) Big Data
7 12 (0.68%) MongoDB
7 12 (0.68%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.45%) BigQuery
9 8 (0.45%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.40%) Db2
11 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.34%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.23%) Data Mart
12 4 (0.23%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.23%) SAP HANA
12 4 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 124 (7.01%) JIRA
2 24 (1.36%) Git
3 20 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.79%) Selenium
5 12 (0.68%) Cypress.io
6 10 (0.57%) Postman
7 9 (0.51%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.45%) GitLab
8 8 (0.45%) WebDriver
9 6 (0.34%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.34%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.28%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.23%) Gradle
11 4 (0.23%) JMeter
11 4 (0.23%) Subversion
11 4 (0.23%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.17%) Gatling
12 3 (0.17%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 712 (40.27%) Social Skills
2 677 (38.29%) Finance
3 305 (17.25%) Analytical Skills
4 230 (13.01%) Banking
5 214 (12.10%) Public Sector
6 134 (7.58%) Legal
7 96 (5.43%) Influencing Skills
8 79 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
9 78 (4.41%) Front Office
10 56 (3.17%) Aerospace
11 48 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
12 47 (2.66%) Manufacturing
12 47 (2.66%) Military
13 45 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (2.49%) Financial Institution
15 36 (2.04%) Investment Banking
15 36 (2.04%) Retail
15 36 (2.04%) Telecoms
16 34 (1.92%) Law
17 23 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 241 (13.63%) Lead
2 196 (11.09%) Architect
3 183 (10.35%) Analyst
4 182 (10.29%) Senior
5 175 (9.90%) Project Manager
6 98 (5.54%) Consultant
7 87 (4.92%) Programme Manager
8 82 (4.64%) Security Architect
9 64 (3.62%) Business Analyst
10 55 (3.11%) Senior Manager
11 54 (3.05%) Developer
12 51 (2.88%) IT Manager
13 48 (2.71%) Delivery Manager
14 45 (2.55%) Risk Manager
15 44 (2.49%) Senior Analyst
16 41 (2.32%) Risk Analyst
17 39 (2.21%) Security Engineer
18 38 (2.15%) Technical Manager
19 36 (2.04%) Service Manager
20 34 (1.92%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.62%) Terraform
2 40 (2.26%) .NET
3 38 (2.15%) REST
4 24 (1.36%) Middleware
5 22 (1.24%) Kafka
6 20 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
7 18 (1.02%) OAuth
8 15 (0.85%) SAML
9 12 (0.68%) OpenID
10 11 (0.62%) React
10 11 (0.62%) SLSA
10 11 (0.62%) Web Services
11 10 (0.57%) XGBoost
12 9 (0.51%) ADO
12 9 (0.51%) Azure Blueprints
12 9 (0.51%) JSON
12 9 (0.51%) LDAP
12 9 (0.51%) SailPoint
12 9 (0.51%) SOAP
12 9 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 121 (6.84%) Onboarding
2 109 (6.17%) Management Information System
3 99 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 70 (3.96%) Security Posture
5 65 (3.68%) Cloud Native
6 53 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
7 52 (2.94%) Data Centre
8 48 (2.71%) Operational Technology
9 45 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (2.32%) Cyber Threat
11 36 (2.04%) Market Risk
12 32 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
13 29 (1.64%) Credit Risk
14 27 (1.53%) AI Agents
15 23 (1.30%) Derivative
15 23 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 22 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
17 21 (1.19%) Fixed Income
17 21 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
17 21 (1.19%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 72 (4.07%) Windows
2 65 (3.68%) Linux
3 37 (2.09%) Unix
4 24 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.45%) zOS
7 4 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.23%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.17%) AIX
8 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.11%) Android
9 2 (0.11%) macOS
10 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 765 (43.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 466 (26.36%) Cybersecurity
3 434 (24.55%) Agile
4 433 (24.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 364 (20.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 307 (17.36%) Decision-Making
7 276 (15.61%) Roadmaps
8 266 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
9 250 (14.14%) AI
10 235 (13.29%) Project Management
11 219 (12.39%) Project Delivery
12 212 (11.99%) Information Security
13 179 (10.12%) DevOps
14 174 (9.84%) Migration
15 167 (9.45%) CI/CD
16 166 (9.39%) Change Management
17 158 (8.94%) Analytics
18 155 (8.77%) Vulnerability Management
19 146 (8.26%) PRINCE2
20 143 (8.09%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 145 (8.20%) Python
2 100 (5.66%) SQL
3 46 (2.60%) C#
3 46 (2.60%) PowerShell
4 39 (2.21%) Java
5 25 (1.41%) Bash
6 21 (1.19%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.74%) Shell Script
8 9 (0.51%) C++
9 8 (0.45%) VBA
10 7 (0.40%) Bicep
10 7 (0.40%) Go
11 6 (0.34%) JCL
11 6 (0.34%) Korn
11 6 (0.34%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.34%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.28%) Assembly Language
12 5 (0.28%) CLIST
12 5 (0.28%) R
12 5 (0.28%) REXX
Qualifications
1 487 (27.55%) Security Cleared
2 361 (20.42%) SC Cleared
3 182 (10.29%) Degree
4 156 (8.82%) CISSP
5 115 (6.50%) DV Cleared
6 105 (5.94%) CISM
7 100 (5.66%) PMI Certification
8 93 (5.26%) PMP
9 55 (3.11%) CRISC
10 44 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 38 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
12 35 (1.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 35 (1.98%) CISA
13 31 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
14 29 (1.64%) Master's Degree
15 25 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
16 24 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
17 23 (1.30%) AWS Certification
17 23 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 20 (1.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (12.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 189 (10.69%) NIST
3 177 (10.01%) GRC
4 113 (6.39%) QA
5 85 (4.81%) GDPR
6 79 (4.47%) NCSC
7 76 (4.30%) Data Quality
8 63 (3.56%) PMO
9 37 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
10 23 (1.30%) JSP 440
11 22 (1.24%) NIST 800
12 15 (0.85%) Def Stans
12 15 (0.85%) SLA
13 14 (0.79%) Accessibility
14 13 (0.74%) COBIT
14 13 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 13 (0.74%) PCI DSS
15 12 (0.68%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 10 (0.57%) ITGC
System Software
1 44 (2.49%) Active Directory
2 23 (1.30%) Docker
3 14 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.62%) vSphere
5 10 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.40%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.28%) FreeRADIUS
8 5 (0.28%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (0.17%) Firmware
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.11%) IAG
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.057%) NFS
11 1 (0.057%) Postfix
11 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 35 (1.98%) Ansible
3 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (0.62%) Grafana
4 11 (0.62%) SCCM
5 8 (0.45%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.40%) Control-M
7 6 (0.34%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.28%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.28%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.17%) Argo
9 3 (0.17%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.17%) Kibana
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.17%) Podman
9 3 (0.17%) Puppet
9 3 (0.17%) QRadar
10 2 (0.11%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 280 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 103 (5.83%) ServiceNow
3 89 (5.03%) SAP
4 72 (4.07%) Oracle
5 50 (2.83%) Google
6 25 (1.41%) Murex
7 24 (1.36%) Splunk
8 22 (1.24%) Salesforce
8 22 (1.24%) VMware
9 19 (1.07%) Cisco
10 17 (0.96%) Databricks
10 17 (0.96%) IBM
10 17 (0.96%) Qualys
11 14 (0.79%) Ariba
12 13 (0.74%) BeyondTrust
12 13 (0.74%) CyberArk
13 12 (0.68%) Bloomberg
13 12 (0.68%) Tenable
13 12 (0.68%) Workday
14 11 (0.62%) OpenAI