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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 56 65
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,674 1,212 1,094
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.63% 4.39% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.29% 4.84% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,045 763 632
10th Percentile £402 £363 £375
25th Percentile £475 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% - -3.77%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £728
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £572 £560
% change year-on-year -3.85% +2.14% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 28 25
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £32.75
25th Percentile £45.31 £29.52 £43.75
Median hourly rate £67.05 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +100.13% -41.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80.00 £54.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £88.20 £77.80 £75.24
UK median hourly rate £64.09 £33.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +91.31% -41.74% +16.16%

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 38,989 25,060 28,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.56% 90.87% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,802 15,892 17,554
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £627 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,803 1,513 1,284
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.71 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +0.58%

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 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 21 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 21 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 -20 819 £600 -7.69% 2,854
North of England -5 265 £508 +1.65% 482
South East +10 252 £575 +10.84% 518
Yorkshire +12 129 £497 -0.60% 151
North West -25 129 £525 +2.68% 298
Midlands -31 112 £525 +16.67% 282
South West -17 111 £585 +1.74% 243
West Midlands -17 90 £500 - 176
East of England +4 70 £513 -14.58% 139
East Midlands -27 19 £549 +36.44% 106
North East -36 8 £454 - 39
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 61 (3.64%) Confluence
2 39 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.72%) SAS
4 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
4 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.18%) IIS
6 2 (0.12%) CMS
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.060%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.060%) Apache
7 1 (0.060%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.060%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.060%) Appian
7 1 (0.060%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.060%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.060%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 59 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.24%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.24%) Revit
7 3 (0.18%) Windchill
8 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.060%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 39 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.84%) Endur
3 11 (0.66%) SAP GRC
4 9 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.48%) Primavera
6 7 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.24%) Actimize
9 4 (0.24%) Magento
10 3 (0.18%) Front Arena
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.18%) Summit
10 3 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 261 (15.59%) Azure
2 184 (10.99%) AWS
3 85 (5.08%) GCP
4 72 (4.30%) Power Platform
5 65 (3.88%) Entra ID
6 50 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (2.99%) SaaS
7 31 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
9 26 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
11 21 (1.25%) GitHub
11 21 (1.25%) OCI
12 19 (1.14%) Azure AI
13 18 (1.08%) PaaS
14 15 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
15 14 (0.84%) Serverless
16 12 (0.72%) IaaS
16 12 (0.72%) Power Automate
17 11 (0.66%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.46%) Network Security
2 50 (2.99%) Firewall
3 19 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.08%) WAN
5 17 (1.02%) DNS
6 16 (0.96%) LAN
7 13 (0.78%) DHCP
8 12 (0.72%) 5G
9 10 (0.60%) 4G
9 10 (0.60%) VPN
10 8 (0.48%) BIG-IP
11 7 (0.42%) Cisco IPT
12 6 (0.36%) Internet
12 6 (0.36%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.30%) Wireless
14 4 (0.24%) 3G
14 4 (0.24%) SAN
14 4 (0.24%) Softphone
14 4 (0.24%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.29%) Power BI
2 38 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.85%) Metadata
4 18 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (0.78%) Data Lake
5 13 (0.78%) Relational Database
6 12 (0.72%) Oracle Database
7 11 (0.66%) Big Data
8 10 (0.60%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.42%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.36%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.36%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.30%) Db2
12 4 (0.24%) Ataccama
12 4 (0.24%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.24%) Power Query
12 4 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 107 (6.39%) JIRA
2 22 (1.31%) Git
3 18 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.78%) Selenium
5 11 (0.66%) Cypress.io
6 9 (0.54%) Postman
7 8 (0.48%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.48%) WebDriver
8 5 (0.30%) Artifactory
8 5 (0.30%) Claude Code
8 5 (0.30%) GitLab
8 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.24%) Gradle
9 4 (0.24%) Maven
9 4 (0.24%) Subversion
9 4 (0.24%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.18%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.18%) JUnit
10 3 (0.18%) Mockito
General
1 671 (40.08%) Social Skills
2 609 (36.38%) Finance
3 278 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
4 206 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 191 (11.41%) Banking
6 129 (7.71%) Legal
7 89 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
8 69 (4.12%) Front Office
9 68 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
10 48 (2.87%) Aerospace
11 44 (2.63%) Military
12 43 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
13 40 (2.39%) Manufacturing
14 37 (2.21%) Telecoms
15 36 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
16 35 (2.09%) Financial Institution
16 35 (2.09%) Retail
17 33 (1.97%) Law
18 31 (1.85%) Investment Banking
19 26 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 222 (13.26%) Lead
2 210 (12.54%) Architect
3 171 (10.22%) Senior
4 167 (9.98%) Analyst
5 161 (9.62%) Project Manager
6 91 (5.44%) Consultant
7 81 (4.84%) Security Architect
8 69 (4.12%) Programme Manager
9 58 (3.46%) Developer
10 57 (3.41%) Business Analyst
11 50 (2.99%) Senior Manager
12 46 (2.75%) IT Manager
12 46 (2.75%) Risk Manager
13 39 (2.33%) Security Engineer
14 38 (2.27%) Delivery Manager
15 37 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
16 36 (2.15%) Security Consultant
17 34 (2.03%) Senior Analyst
17 34 (2.03%) Service Manager
18 33 (1.97%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.87%) Terraform
2 38 (2.27%) .NET
3 33 (1.97%) REST
4 23 (1.37%) Middleware
5 19 (1.14%) Kafka
6 17 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (0.90%) OAuth
8 12 (0.72%) JSON
8 12 (0.72%) React
8 12 (0.72%) SAML
9 11 (0.66%) OpenID
9 11 (0.66%) SLSA
9 11 (0.66%) SOAP
10 10 (0.60%) Spring
10 10 (0.60%) Web Services
10 10 (0.60%) XML
11 9 (0.54%) .NET Core
11 9 (0.54%) LDAP
11 9 (0.54%) SailPoint
11 9 (0.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 115 (6.87%) Onboarding
2 98 (5.85%) Management Information System
3 84 (5.02%) Product Ownership
4 80 (4.78%) Security Posture
5 66 (3.94%) Cloud Native
6 53 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
7 45 (2.69%) Data Centre
7 45 (2.69%) Operational Technology
8 38 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
9 37 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
10 33 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.79%) Market Risk
12 26 (1.55%) AI Agents
13 24 (1.43%) Credit Risk
14 22 (1.31%) PMI
15 21 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.25%) NHS
16 20 (1.19%) Data Structures
16 20 (1.19%) Fixed Income
16 20 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (4.00%) Windows
2 52 (3.11%) Linux
3 34 (2.03%) Unix
4 22 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.42%) zOS
7 5 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.18%) AIX
9 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.12%) Android
11 1 (0.060%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 694 (41.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 431 (25.75%) Cybersecurity
3 402 (24.01%) Agile
4 386 (23.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 357 (21.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 288 (17.20%) Decision-Making
7 243 (14.52%) AI
8 242 (14.46%) Roadmaps
9 237 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
10 226 (13.50%) Project Management
11 200 (11.95%) Information Security
12 187 (11.17%) Project Delivery
13 159 (9.50%) DevOps
14 158 (9.44%) Migration
15 154 (9.20%) CI/CD
16 152 (9.08%) Change Management
17 149 (8.90%) Vulnerability Management
18 142 (8.48%) Analytics
19 136 (8.12%) Security Architecture
20 133 (7.95%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 124 (7.41%) Python
2 91 (5.44%) SQL
3 42 (2.51%) PowerShell
4 40 (2.39%) Java
5 36 (2.15%) C#
6 19 (1.14%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.02%) Bash
8 12 (0.72%) Shell Script
8 12 (0.72%) VBA
9 9 (0.54%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.42%) Go
11 6 (0.36%) Bicep
11 6 (0.36%) Korn
11 6 (0.36%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.30%) Assembly Language
12 5 (0.30%) CLIST
12 5 (0.30%) JCL
12 5 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.30%) REXX
13 4 (0.24%) C++
Qualifications
1 455 (27.18%) Security Cleared
2 328 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 162 (9.68%) Degree
4 153 (9.14%) CISSP
5 110 (6.57%) DV Cleared
6 97 (5.79%) CISM
7 81 (4.84%) PMI Certification
8 76 (4.54%) PMP
9 48 (2.87%) CRISC
10 45 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 38 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
12 35 (2.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 28 (1.67%) CISA
14 27 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
15 26 (1.55%) Master's Degree
16 25 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
17 24 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
18 23 (1.37%) AWS Certification
18 23 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 22 (1.31%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (12.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 191 (11.41%) NIST
3 177 (10.57%) GRC
4 100 (5.97%) QA
5 97 (5.79%) GDPR
6 73 (4.36%) Data Quality
7 64 (3.82%) NCSC
8 58 (3.46%) PMO
9 35 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
10 31 (1.85%) JSP 440
11 21 (1.25%) NIST 800
12 17 (1.02%) Accessibility
12 17 (1.02%) SOC 2
13 16 (0.96%) SLA
14 14 (0.84%) Def Stans
15 13 (0.78%) COBIT
15 13 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 13 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 12 (0.72%) PCI DSS
17 11 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.08%) Docker
3 10 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.42%) VMware NSX
4 7 (0.42%) vSphere
5 5 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
6 4 (0.24%) FreeRADIUS
7 3 (0.18%) Firmware
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.18%) Postfix
7 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.12%) NFS
8 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.060%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.060%) IAG
9 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 47 (2.81%) Kubernetes
2 33 (1.97%) Ansible
3 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.60%) Grafana
4 10 (0.60%) SCCM
5 7 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.30%) Control-M
7 5 (0.30%) OMEGAMON
8 4 (0.24%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.18%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.18%) Puppet
9 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.12%) NSN NetAct
10 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.060%) Nessus
Vendors
1 261 (15.59%) Microsoft
2 103 (6.15%) ServiceNow
3 79 (4.72%) SAP
4 59 (3.52%) Oracle
5 45 (2.69%) Google
6 23 (1.37%) Splunk
7 19 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 18 (1.08%) VMware
9 15 (0.90%) Cisco
9 15 (0.90%) Databricks
9 15 (0.90%) Foundry
9 15 (0.90%) Murex
9 15 (0.90%) Qualys
10 14 (0.84%) BeyondTrust
10 14 (0.84%) IBM
11 13 (0.78%) CyberArk
12 11 (0.66%) Tenable
13 10 (0.60%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.60%) Workday
14 9 (0.54%) CrowdStrike