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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 52 62
Rank change year-on-year -18 +10 +8
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,268 1,026 1,252
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.44% 4.15% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 4.58% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 613 854
10th Percentile £410 £363 £400
25th Percentile £474 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% -9.27%
75th Percentile £684 £725 £700
90th Percentile £838 £838 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 40 41
10th Percentile £21.33 £28.26 £16.25
25th Percentile £33.50 £44.73 £40.75
Median hourly rate £74.31 £60.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.32% +21.50% +370.37%
75th Percentile £102.63 £75.84 £70.00
90th Percentile £107.00 £83.41 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £74.31 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +20.83% +22.99% +370.37%

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 31,861 22,379 32,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.57% 86.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,379 14,469 21,822
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £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 1,986 803 2,148
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.32 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 14 March 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 March 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 March 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 -16 673 £600 -7.69% 211
North of England -12 190 £523 -0.48% 93
South East -8 188 £543 -5.65% 136
Midlands -42 100 £550 +3.29% 59
North West -15 96 £540 +7.57% 54
Yorkshire +5 92 £500 -4.76% 35
West Midlands -49 67 £540 -9.05% 43
South West -7 56 £525 +5.00% 58
East Midlands -27 33 £550 +22.22% 16
East of England -28 33 £510 -3.77% 19
North East -24 2 £550 -4.35% 4
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 (4.81%) Confluence
2 23 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.47%) SAS
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.16%) nginx
8 1 (0.079%) Camunda
8 1 (0.079%) CMS
8 1 (0.079%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.079%) IIS
8 1 (0.079%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.079%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.079%) Tomcat
Applications
1 64 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (3.86%) Microsoft Project
3 33 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.32%) Trello
7 2 (0.16%) Revit
8 1 (0.079%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.079%) Navisworks
Business Applications
1 15 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.63%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.47%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.39%) Primavera
7 4 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
7 4 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.32%) Summit
8 3 (0.24%) Endur
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.16%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.16%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 143 (11.28%) Azure
2 124 (9.78%) AWS
3 52 (4.10%) GCP
4 46 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
5 42 (3.31%) Power Platform
6 32 (2.52%) Entra ID
6 32 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
7 26 (2.05%) SaaS
8 22 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (1.58%) Google Workspace
10 18 (1.42%) Google Sheets
11 15 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (1.18%) GitHub
12 12 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (0.87%) OCI
14 10 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (0.79%) OpenShift
15 8 (0.63%) Collibra
16 7 (0.55%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.68%) Firewall
1 34 (2.68%) Network Security
2 10 (0.79%) DNS
2 10 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (0.71%) Internet
3 9 (0.71%) Kerberos
4 8 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
5 7 (0.55%) DHCP
5 7 (0.55%) HTTP
5 7 (0.55%) LAN
5 7 (0.55%) WAN
6 5 (0.39%) BIG-IP
6 5 (0.39%) Cisco IPT
7 4 (0.32%) 5G
8 3 (0.24%) Broadband
8 3 (0.24%) NGFW
8 3 (0.24%) SAN
8 3 (0.24%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.24%) VPN
9 2 (0.16%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (2.76%) Power BI
2 20 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (1.42%) Metadata
4 13 (1.03%) SQL Server
5 12 (0.95%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.47%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.47%) KDB
6 6 (0.47%) Kdb+
7 5 (0.39%) Big Data
7 5 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.39%) Tableau
8 4 (0.32%) Data Mart
8 4 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (0.32%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.32%) MS Access
8 4 (0.32%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 123 (9.70%) JIRA
2 13 (1.03%) Git
3 9 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.39%) GitLab
5 3 (0.24%) QUnit
5 3 (0.24%) Selenium
5 3 (0.24%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.24%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.16%) GCC
6 2 (0.16%) GDB
6 2 (0.16%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.079%) Appium
7 1 (0.079%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.079%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.079%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.079%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.079%) jMock
7 1 (0.079%) JUnit
7 1 (0.079%) Mockito
General
1 493 (38.88%) Social Skills
2 485 (38.25%) Finance
3 214 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (13.41%) Banking
5 122 (9.62%) Public Sector
6 105 (8.28%) Legal
7 52 (4.10%) Front Office
8 51 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
9 42 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
10 38 (3.00%) Investment Banking
11 35 (2.76%) Financial Institution
12 32 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (2.29%) Retail
14 23 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
15 19 (1.50%) Military
15 19 (1.50%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.34%) Marketing
17 16 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (1.26%) Law
18 15 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 153 (12.07%) Project Manager
2 151 (11.91%) Lead
3 144 (11.36%) Analyst
4 139 (10.96%) Senior
5 105 (8.28%) Architect
6 97 (7.65%) Consultant
7 79 (6.23%) Developer
8 64 (5.05%) Programme Manager
9 62 (4.89%) Business Analyst
10 49 (3.86%) Security Architect
11 45 (3.55%) Senior Manager
12 43 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
13 40 (3.15%) Security Consultant
14 36 (2.84%) Risk Analyst
15 35 (2.76%) Risk Manager
16 33 (2.60%) Senior Developer
17 29 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
18 28 (2.21%) Security Engineer
19 24 (1.89%) Java Developer
20 23 (1.81%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.97%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (1.58%) Kafka
3 18 (1.42%) REST
4 15 (1.18%) OAuth
5 13 (1.03%) SAML
6 11 (0.87%) .NET
6 11 (0.87%) Middleware
6 11 (0.87%) XML
7 9 (0.71%) COM
7 9 (0.71%) Dask
7 9 (0.71%) NumPy
7 9 (0.71%) Pandas
8 8 (0.63%) .NET Framework
8 8 (0.63%) PyTorch
9 7 (0.55%) OpenID
9 7 (0.55%) TensorFlow
10 6 (0.47%) LDAP
10 6 (0.47%) RESTful
10 6 (0.47%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.39%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 133 (10.49%) Management Information System
2 66 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 65 (5.13%) Derivative
4 59 (4.65%) Security Posture
5 47 (3.71%) Onboarding
6 39 (3.08%) Cloud Native
7 38 (3.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 37 (2.92%) Equities
9 36 (2.84%) Market Risk
10 30 (2.37%) Data Centre
11 29 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
12 27 (2.13%) Algorithms
13 25 (1.97%) Fixed Income
13 25 (1.97%) Operational Technology
14 24 (1.89%) Credit Risk
15 23 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
16 20 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
17 18 (1.42%) Data Structures
17 18 (1.42%) NHS
18 17 (1.34%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.44%) Linux
2 27 (2.13%) Windows
3 14 (1.10%) Unix
4 5 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.24%) VMS
6 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.24%) zOS
7 2 (0.16%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.079%) Android
8 1 (0.079%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (28.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 303 (23.90%) Agile
3 255 (20.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 238 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
5 213 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 197 (15.54%) Cybersecurity
7 190 (14.98%) Project Management
8 175 (13.80%) Decision-Making
9 162 (12.78%) Information Security
10 142 (11.20%) Roadmaps
11 140 (11.04%) Change Management
12 118 (9.31%) AI
12 118 (9.31%) Regulatory Compliance
13 117 (9.23%) Analytics
13 117 (9.23%) Project Delivery
14 115 (9.07%) Migration
15 99 (7.81%) Data Protection
16 98 (7.73%) PRINCE2
17 91 (7.18%) Scrum
18 88 (6.94%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 120 (9.46%) SQL
2 106 (8.36%) Python
3 48 (3.79%) Java
4 33 (2.60%) PowerShell
5 25 (1.97%) C++
6 23 (1.81%) C#
7 15 (1.18%) VBA
8 7 (0.55%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.39%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.32%) Bash
10 4 (0.32%) Korn
11 3 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.24%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.16%) Perl
12 2 (0.16%) R
12 2 (0.16%) RPG
12 2 (0.16%) Rust
12 2 (0.16%) Scala
12 2 (0.16%) Solidity
13 1 (0.079%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 274 (21.61%) Security Cleared
2 220 (17.35%) Degree
3 202 (15.93%) SC Cleared
4 111 (8.75%) CISSP
5 81 (6.39%) CISM
6 67 (5.28%) DV Cleared
6 67 (5.28%) PMI Certification
7 64 (5.05%) PMP
8 46 (3.63%) Master's Degree
9 30 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (2.37%) CRISC
10 27 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (1.42%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 17 (1.34%) CISA
13 15 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
13 15 (1.18%) PhD
14 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 11 (0.87%) CESG Certified Professional
17 9 (0.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (12.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 159 (12.54%) NIST
2 111 (8.75%) GDPR
3 105 (8.28%) GRC
4 74 (5.84%) PMO
5 68 (5.36%) QA
6 50 (3.94%) PCI DSS
7 45 (3.55%) Data Quality
8 38 (3.00%) NCSC
9 26 (2.05%) SLA
10 23 (1.81%) SOC 2
11 22 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (1.66%) NIST 800
13 18 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
14 17 (1.34%) COBIT
14 17 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
15 16 (1.26%) JSP 440
16 15 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 13 (1.03%) Def Stans
17 13 (1.03%) RMADS
System Software
1 28 (2.21%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.87%) Docker
3 7 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.24%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.079%) Postfix
5 1 (0.079%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.079%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (1.58%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (1.10%) Terraform
3 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.71%) SCCM
5 6 (0.47%) Ansible
6 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.24%) CASB
6 3 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.24%) QRadar
7 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.16%) Grafana
7 2 (0.16%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.16%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.16%) Nessus
7 2 (0.16%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.16%) OpenVAS
7 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.079%) Control-M
8 1 (0.079%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 154 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 63 (4.97%) Oracle
3 56 (4.42%) ServiceNow
4 50 (3.94%) SAP
5 41 (3.23%) Google
6 22 (1.74%) Murex
7 18 (1.42%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.34%) Workday
9 10 (0.79%) Cisco
9 10 (0.79%) Splunk
10 9 (0.71%) CyberArk
10 9 (0.71%) Databricks
10 9 (0.71%) VMware
11 8 (0.63%) F5
11 8 (0.63%) Informatica
12 7 (0.55%) IBM
13 6 (0.47%) Ariba
13 6 (0.47%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.47%) Charles River
13 6 (0.47%) Citrix