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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 60 59
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +29
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,185 1,094 1,454
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.03% 3.52% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 4.07% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 750 614 981
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £455 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £586 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% -2.33% -
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £875 £831 £850
UK median daily rate £563 £574 £575
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.22% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 26 57
10th Percentile £22.16 £27.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £40.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £57.94 £72.84
Median % change year-on-year -42.18% -20.45% +28.16%
75th Percentile £51.00 £70.73 £83.40
90th Percentile £66.75 £76.90 -
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £57.50 £72.40
% change year-on-year -41.74% -20.57% +44.95%

All Process and 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 26,653 26,912 35,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.59% 86.57% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,923 16,411 24,057
10th Percentile £295 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,722 972 1,474
10th Percentile £14.70 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.04 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.88% -15.48% +28.57%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.40 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.87% -20.54% +27.14%

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 2025. 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 +12 657 £628 +0.48% 658
North of England -13 172 £500 -9.09% 158
South East -13 127 £550 - 540
North West -16 104 £492 -11.35% 87
Midlands -23 91 £463 -7.50% 96
South West +14 86 £600 +23.08% 84
Yorkshire +8 66 £500 -6.54% 64
West Midlands -27 64 £513 +2.50% 59
East of England -28 31 £613 +6.52% 58
East Midlands -9 27 £400 -27.27% 36
North East -8 4 £550 -13.73% 8
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 54 (4.56%) Confluence
2 23 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (1.27%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.18%) CMS
5 9 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.59%) CICS
6 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.51%) SAS
8 2 (0.17%) IIS
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.084%) Apache
9 1 (0.084%) Camunda
Applications
1 64 (5.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.27%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.42%) Trello
7 4 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.25%) Navisworks
8 3 (0.25%) Revit
9 2 (0.17%) GNU Octave
9 2 (0.17%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.084%) CANalyzer
10 1 (0.084%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.084%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 29 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.35%) Endur
3 9 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.68%) SAP CO
4 8 (0.68%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.68%) SAP FI/CO
5 7 (0.59%) VisionPLUS
6 5 (0.42%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.42%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.25%) Primavera
8 3 (0.25%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.17%) Actimize
9 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 139 (11.73%) AWS
2 103 (8.69%) Azure
3 65 (5.49%) GCP
4 41 (3.46%) Power Platform
5 24 (2.03%) dbt
5 24 (2.03%) SaaS
6 22 (1.86%) GitHub
7 21 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (1.43%) Entra ID
9 15 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (0.84%) OCI
11 9 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (0.76%) Miro
12 8 (0.68%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (0.68%) Datadog
12 8 (0.68%) Serverless
13 7 (0.59%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (0.59%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (0.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.88%) Firewall
2 22 (1.86%) Network Security
3 9 (0.76%) Multicast
4 8 (0.68%) WAN
5 6 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (0.51%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.51%) LAN
6 5 (0.42%) VPN
7 4 (0.34%) 5G
7 4 (0.34%) Internet
7 4 (0.34%) S/MIME
7 4 (0.34%) SSL
8 3 (0.25%) Broadband
8 3 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
8 3 (0.25%) HTTP
9 2 (0.17%) MPLS
9 2 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.17%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.17%) SSH
9 2 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (3.29%) Power BI
3 24 (2.03%) SQL Server
4 23 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
4 23 (1.94%) Apache Arrow
4 23 (1.94%) Apache Iceberg
4 23 (1.94%) Dremio
5 15 (1.27%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 10 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (0.84%) Tableau
8 9 (0.76%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.59%) KDB
10 7 (0.59%) Kdb+
11 6 (0.51%) Big Data
11 6 (0.51%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.51%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.51%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 97 (8.19%) JIRA
2 22 (1.86%) Git
3 14 (1.18%) SpecFlow
4 13 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.10%) SonarQube
5 11 (0.93%) Maven
6 9 (0.76%) GCC
6 9 (0.76%) GDB
7 5 (0.42%) Gradle
7 5 (0.42%) QUnit
8 4 (0.34%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.34%) SonarLint
8 4 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.34%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.25%) JUnit
9 3 (0.25%) Mockito
10 2 (0.17%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.17%) MLflow
10 2 (0.17%) Postman
General
1 527 (44.47%) Finance
2 497 (41.94%) Social Skills
3 195 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (14.68%) Banking
5 105 (8.86%) Public Sector
6 88 (7.43%) Front Office
7 83 (7.00%) Legal
8 54 (4.56%) Organisational Skills
9 45 (3.80%) Investment Banking
10 43 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
11 33 (2.78%) Telecoms
12 30 (2.53%) Back Office
13 27 (2.28%) Financial Institution
13 27 (2.28%) Manufacturing
14 24 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
15 23 (1.94%) Retail
16 22 (1.86%) Marketing
17 19 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 17 (1.43%) Local Government
19 15 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 174 (14.68%) Analyst
2 139 (11.73%) Developer
3 137 (11.56%) Project Manager
4 124 (10.46%) Senior
5 119 (10.04%) Lead
6 98 (8.27%) Architect
7 96 (8.10%) Consultant
8 68 (5.74%) Business Analyst
9 46 (3.88%) Programme Manager
10 43 (3.63%) AWS Developer
11 40 (3.38%) Senior Developer
12 39 (3.29%) Security Architect
12 39 (3.29%) Security Consultant
13 38 (3.21%) Risk Analyst
14 36 (3.04%) Java Developer
15 34 (2.87%) IT Manager
16 33 (2.78%) Risk Manager
17 31 (2.62%) Python Developer
17 31 (2.62%) Security Analyst
18 30 (2.53%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (3.88%) AngularJS
2 41 (3.46%) React
3 30 (2.53%) NumPy
4 29 (2.45%) Pandas
5 27 (2.28%) .NET
5 27 (2.28%) REST
6 25 (2.11%) Kafka
6 25 (2.11%) RESTful
7 24 (2.03%) Node.js
7 24 (2.03%) SciPy
8 23 (1.94%) Vue
9 16 (1.35%) .NET Framework
10 15 (1.27%) Playwright
11 14 (1.18%) Entity Framework
11 14 (1.18%) Middleware
11 14 (1.18%) NHibernate
12 13 (1.10%) Spring Boot
13 10 (0.84%) OAuth
14 9 (0.76%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 9 (0.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 151 (12.74%) Management Information System
2 69 (5.82%) Product Ownership
3 61 (5.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 56 (4.73%) Security Posture
5 51 (4.30%) Derivative
6 49 (4.14%) Equities
7 41 (3.46%) Fixed Income
8 39 (3.29%) Market Risk
9 34 (2.87%) Onboarding
10 29 (2.45%) Cloud Native
11 26 (2.19%) Algorithms
11 26 (2.19%) Credit Risk
11 26 (2.19%) Data Centre
12 24 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (2.03%) Security Operations Centre
13 23 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
14 22 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
15 20 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
16 16 (1.35%) Virtual Team
17 15 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.46%) Linux
2 20 (1.69%) Unix
3 19 (1.60%) Windows
4 4 (0.34%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.17%) VMS
5 2 (0.17%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.084%) Android
6 1 (0.084%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.084%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (26.24%) Agile
2 295 (24.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 236 (19.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 210 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
5 206 (17.38%) Cybersecurity
6 204 (17.22%) Project Management
7 161 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 155 (13.08%) Decision-Making
9 136 (11.48%) Information Security
10 128 (10.80%) Change Management
11 121 (10.21%) Project Delivery
12 109 (9.20%) Migration
12 109 (9.20%) Scrum
13 88 (7.43%) Analytics
14 87 (7.34%) Computer Science
15 86 (7.26%) AI
16 83 (7.00%) Incident Response
16 83 (7.00%) Roadmaps
17 77 (6.50%) Regulatory Compliance
18 76 (6.41%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 131 (11.05%) Python
2 104 (8.78%) SQL
3 73 (6.16%) Java
4 33 (2.78%) JavaScript
4 33 (2.78%) TypeScript
5 28 (2.36%) C#
6 26 (2.19%) C++
7 18 (1.52%) PowerShell
8 10 (0.84%) VBA
9 8 (0.68%) JCL
9 8 (0.68%) R
10 7 (0.59%) COBOL
11 4 (0.34%) Haskell
11 4 (0.34%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.25%) Bash
12 3 (0.25%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.25%) OCaml
12 3 (0.25%) Rust
13 2 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.17%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 222 (18.73%) Security Cleared
2 170 (14.35%) Degree
3 162 (13.67%) SC Cleared
4 102 (8.61%) CISSP
5 73 (6.16%) CISM
6 59 (4.98%) DV Cleared
7 53 (4.47%) PMP
8 52 (4.39%) PMI Certification
9 50 (4.22%) Master's Degree
10 35 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 24 (2.03%) CISA
13 19 (1.60%) CRISC
14 18 (1.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 14 (1.18%) CESG Certified Professional
15 14 (1.18%) PhD
16 12 (1.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 11 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
18 9 (0.76%) APMG
18 9 (0.76%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (12.41%) NIST
2 141 (11.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 86 (7.26%) GDPR
4 71 (5.99%) GRC
5 59 (4.98%) QA
6 48 (4.05%) PMO
7 35 (2.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 33 (2.78%) NCSC
9 32 (2.70%) PCI DSS
10 24 (2.03%) Data Quality
11 16 (1.35%) RMADS
12 15 (1.27%) Accessibility
12 15 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (1.27%) NIST 800
12 15 (1.27%) SLA
13 13 (1.10%) EU AI Act
13 13 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 12 (1.01%) COBIT
14 12 (1.01%) Def Stans
14 12 (1.01%) HIPAA
System Software
1 29 (2.45%) Docker
2 21 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.084%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.084%) Postfix
5 1 (0.084%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.084%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.60%) Terraform
3 12 (1.01%) Ansible
3 12 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.68%) Grafana
4 8 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.59%) RSA Archer
6 6 (0.51%) QRadar
7 5 (0.42%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 3 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.084%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.084%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.084%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.084%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.084%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.084%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.084%) OMEGAMON
10 1 (0.084%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.084%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 134 (11.31%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.08%) SAP
3 53 (4.47%) ServiceNow
4 32 (2.70%) Oracle
5 23 (1.94%) Splunk
6 21 (1.77%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.43%) Google
8 11 (0.93%) Solace
9 10 (0.84%) Cisco
9 10 (0.84%) Databricks
10 9 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (0.68%) CyberArk
12 7 (0.59%) ArcSight
12 7 (0.59%) Citrix
12 7 (0.59%) LogRhythm
12 7 (0.59%) Murex
13 6 (0.51%) BiZZdesign
13 6 (0.51%) IBM
14 5 (0.42%) Bloomberg
15 4 (0.34%) Ariba