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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 48 60
Rank change year-on-year -17 +12 +12
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,175 1,122 1,319
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.64% 4.24% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 4.74% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 758 635 905
10th Percentile £400 £379 £413
25th Percentile £463 £465 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% -5.35%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £875 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 35 51
10th Percentile £30.65 £26.05 £33.48
25th Percentile £33.50 £40.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - +464.44%
75th Percentile £74.68 £74.88 £83.40
90th Percentile £98.00 £79.36 -
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £60.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +1.25% +464.44%

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 28,352 23,648 32,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.85% 89.40% 87.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,131 14,458 22,099
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,777 764 1,811
10th Percentile £15.05 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -6.70% +7.35%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.02
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.78% +12.89%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -8 644 £625 - 162
North of England -22 167 £492 -8.04% 82
South East -18 152 £525 -8.70% 201
Yorkshire +13 84 £492 -9.31% 27
Midlands -49 84 £525 -5.83% 85
North West -32 81 £488 -2.01% 45
South West -10 62 £513 +5.13% 68
West Midlands -55 49 £505 -12.17% 53
East Midlands -22 35 £531 +12.38% 32
East of England -26 35 £575 - 68
North East -22 2 £550 -13.73% 10
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 47 (4.00%) Confluence
2 23 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.94%) SAS
5 5 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.43%) CMS
6 4 (0.34%) CICS
7 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.17%) nginx
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.085%) Camunda
8 1 (0.085%) IIS
8 1 (0.085%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.085%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.085%) Tomcat
Applications
1 75 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (4.51%) Microsoft Project
3 39 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.34%) Revit
7 3 (0.26%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.26%) Trello
8 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.17%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 24 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.60%) SAP CO
3 7 (0.60%) SAP FI
3 7 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (0.51%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.43%) Endur
5 5 (0.43%) Primavera
6 4 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.34%) VisionPLUS
7 3 (0.26%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.26%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.26%) Summit
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 124 (10.55%) Azure
2 114 (9.70%) AWS
3 54 (4.60%) GCP
4 49 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 35 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (2.64%) SaaS
7 30 (2.55%) Entra ID
8 23 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (1.70%) GitHub
9 20 (1.70%) Microsoft Purview
10 19 (1.62%) Google Workspace
11 17 (1.45%) Google Sheets
12 11 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (0.77%) OCI
14 8 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (0.68%) PaaS
15 7 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (0.60%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (0.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.98%) Firewall
2 22 (1.87%) Network Security
3 9 (0.77%) Internet
3 9 (0.77%) Kerberos
4 7 (0.60%) LAN
4 7 (0.60%) WAN
4 7 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.51%) DNS
5 6 (0.51%) VPN
6 5 (0.43%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.34%) 5G
8 3 (0.26%) Broadband
8 3 (0.26%) DHCP
8 3 (0.26%) HTTP
8 3 (0.26%) Multicast
8 3 (0.26%) S/MIME
8 3 (0.26%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.26%) SSL
9 2 (0.17%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (3.57%) Power BI
2 31 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.70%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (1.28%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.94%) Metadata
7 10 (0.85%) NoSQL
8 9 (0.77%) Tableau
9 8 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (0.68%) KDB
9 8 (0.68%) Kdb+
10 7 (0.60%) Big Data
10 7 (0.60%) MySQL
10 7 (0.60%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.43%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.43%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 111 (9.45%) JIRA
2 17 (1.45%) Git
3 11 (0.94%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.77%) SpecFlow
5 6 (0.51%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.43%) QUnit
7 4 (0.34%) Gradle
7 4 (0.34%) Maven
7 4 (0.34%) SonarLint
8 3 (0.26%) GCC
8 3 (0.26%) GDB
8 3 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.17%) GitLab
9 2 (0.17%) Postman
10 1 (0.085%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.085%) MLflow
10 1 (0.085%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.085%) SoapUI
General
1 498 (42.38%) Social Skills
2 473 (40.26%) Finance
3 204 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (14.38%) Banking
5 115 (9.79%) Public Sector
6 103 (8.77%) Legal
7 55 (4.68%) Front Office
8 51 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
9 42 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
10 40 (3.40%) Investment Banking
11 32 (2.72%) Financial Institution
12 26 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (1.96%) Retail
14 21 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
15 20 (1.70%) Law
15 20 (1.70%) Manufacturing
15 20 (1.70%) Telecoms
16 19 (1.62%) Local Government
17 18 (1.53%) Military
18 14 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 152 (12.94%) Analyst
2 138 (11.74%) Project Manager
3 121 (10.30%) Senior
4 113 (9.62%) Lead
5 100 (8.51%) Developer
6 98 (8.34%) Consultant
7 95 (8.09%) Architect
8 57 (4.85%) Programme Manager
9 56 (4.77%) Business Analyst
10 38 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
11 37 (3.15%) Security Consultant
11 37 (3.15%) Senior Developer
12 36 (3.06%) Security Architect
12 36 (3.06%) Senior Manager
13 35 (2.98%) Risk Analyst
14 31 (2.64%) Security Analyst
15 30 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (2.47%) Risk Manager
17 26 (2.21%) Technical Manager
18 25 (2.13%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.87%) Kafka
2 17 (1.45%) REST
3 15 (1.28%) .NET
3 15 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (1.19%) NumPy
4 14 (1.19%) Pandas
4 14 (1.19%) RESTful
5 13 (1.11%) .NET Framework
5 13 (1.11%) Middleware
5 13 (1.11%) OAuth
6 12 (1.02%) SAML
7 10 (0.85%) AngularJS
7 10 (0.85%) Playwright
8 9 (0.77%) COM
8 9 (0.77%) Dask
8 9 (0.77%) Entity Framework
8 9 (0.77%) NHibernate
8 9 (0.77%) React
8 9 (0.77%) XML
9 6 (0.51%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 134 (11.40%) Management Information System
2 62 (5.28%) Derivative
2 62 (5.28%) Security Posture
3 61 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 50 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 42 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 39 (3.32%) Equities
7 38 (3.23%) Market Risk
8 33 (2.81%) Credit Risk
9 30 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 29 (2.47%) Algorithms
10 29 (2.47%) Cloud Native
10 29 (2.47%) Data Centre
11 28 (2.38%) Fixed Income
12 26 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
14 17 (1.45%) Hedge funds
15 16 (1.36%) Data Structures
16 15 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
16 15 (1.28%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.72%) Linux
2 26 (2.21%) Windows
3 18 (1.53%) Unix
4 5 (0.43%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.26%) VMS
5 3 (0.26%) zOS
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.085%) Android
7 1 (0.085%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (26.98%) Stakeholder Management
2 286 (24.34%) Agile
3 242 (20.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 230 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
5 192 (16.34%) Cybersecurity
6 184 (15.66%) Project Management
7 162 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 162 (13.79%) Decision-Making
8 147 (12.51%) Information Security
9 114 (9.70%) Project Delivery
10 111 (9.45%) Change Management
11 107 (9.11%) Regulatory Compliance
11 107 (9.11%) Roadmaps
12 105 (8.94%) Analytics
13 103 (8.77%) Migration
14 95 (8.09%) AI
15 92 (7.83%) PRINCE2
16 83 (7.06%) Scrum
17 81 (6.89%) Incident Response
17 81 (6.89%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (10.30%) SQL
2 115 (9.79%) Python
3 49 (4.17%) Java
4 27 (2.30%) C++
4 27 (2.30%) PowerShell
5 26 (2.21%) C#
6 14 (1.19%) VBA
7 12 (1.02%) JavaScript
8 8 (0.68%) R
9 6 (0.51%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.43%) JCL
10 5 (0.43%) Korn
11 4 (0.34%) COBOL
12 3 (0.26%) Bash
12 3 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.26%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.17%) Perl
13 2 (0.17%) Rust
13 2 (0.17%) Scala
13 2 (0.17%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 228 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 212 (18.04%) Degree
3 165 (14.04%) SC Cleared
4 104 (8.85%) CISSP
5 75 (6.38%) CISM
6 71 (6.04%) PMI Certification
7 67 (5.70%) PMP
8 56 (4.77%) DV Cleared
9 55 (4.68%) Master's Degree
10 34 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 27 (2.30%) CRISC
12 26 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (1.87%) CISA
14 19 (1.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 16 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
16 15 (1.28%) PhD
17 10 (0.85%) GIAC
18 9 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 8 (0.68%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (12.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 139 (11.83%) NIST
3 106 (9.02%) GDPR
4 94 (8.00%) GRC
5 64 (5.45%) PMO
6 61 (5.19%) QA
7 41 (3.49%) PCI DSS
8 34 (2.89%) Data Quality
9 31 (2.64%) NCSC
10 28 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (1.53%) COBIT
12 16 (1.36%) EU AI Act
13 14 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 14 (1.19%) SLA
14 13 (1.11%) Def Stans
14 13 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 11 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
15 11 (0.94%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.85%) Basel III
16 10 (0.85%) RMADS
System Software
1 29 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.62%) Docker
3 6 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.085%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.085%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.085%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (1.87%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.45%) Terraform
3 11 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.43%) Ansible
5 5 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
5 5 (0.43%) RSA Archer
5 5 (0.43%) SCCM
6 3 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.26%) QRadar
7 2 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.17%) Grafana
7 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.085%) Control-M
8 1 (0.085%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.085%) Nessus
8 1 (0.085%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (0.085%) TeamSite
8 1 (0.085%) WSUS
Vendors
1 149 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 55 (4.68%) SAP
3 52 (4.43%) ServiceNow
4 51 (4.34%) Oracle
5 36 (3.06%) Google
6 20 (1.70%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.36%) Murex
8 11 (0.94%) Splunk
9 10 (0.85%) Databricks
10 9 (0.77%) Workday
11 8 (0.68%) Citrix
11 8 (0.68%) CyberArk
11 8 (0.68%) IBM
12 7 (0.60%) Ariba
12 7 (0.60%) Informatica
13 6 (0.51%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.51%) Cisco
13 6 (0.51%) VMware
14 5 (0.43%) F5
14 5 (0.43%) Solace