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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 47 60
Rank change year-on-year -19 +13 +12
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,201 1,118 1,311
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.66% 4.23% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 4.72% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 771 633 899
10th Percentile £400 £377 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% -7.26%
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 30 35 52
10th Percentile £32.08 £26.05 £33.63
25th Percentile £33.50 £40.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £40.97 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.72% - +464.44%
75th Percentile £78.56 £74.88 £83.40
90th Percentile £100.55 £79.36 -
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £60.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.28% +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 28,832 23,662 32,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.89% 89.43% 87.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,449 14,467 21,997
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £642 £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 1,786 760 1,829
10th Percentile £15.05 £15.62 £13.99
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.98
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.67% +12.44%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -3 660 £625 - 170
North of England -30 169 £492 -8.04% 75
South East -17 156 £525 -8.70% 199
Midlands -46 87 £537 -6.61% 75
Yorkshire +6 84 £492 -8.04% 20
North West -38 83 £484 -2.76% 47
South West -14 62 £513 +5.13% 58
West Midlands -51 51 £530 -8.82% 48
East Midlands -26 36 £537 +13.65% 27
East of England -25 35 £575 - 54
North East -22 2 £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 50 (4.16%) Confluence
2 23 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.92%) SAS
5 5 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.42%) CMS
6 4 (0.33%) CICS
7 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.17%) nginx
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.083%) Camunda
8 1 (0.083%) IIS
8 1 (0.083%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.083%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.083%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.083%) Tomcat
Applications
1 75 (6.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (4.41%) Microsoft Project
3 39 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.33%) Revit
6 4 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.25%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.25%) Trello
8 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.17%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 25 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.58%) SAP CO
3 7 (0.58%) SAP FI
3 7 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (0.50%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.42%) Endur
5 5 (0.42%) Primavera
6 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.33%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.33%) Summit
6 4 (0.33%) VisionPLUS
7 3 (0.25%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.25%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 125 (10.41%) Azure
2 115 (9.58%) AWS
3 54 (4.50%) GCP
4 49 (4.08%) Power Platform
5 35 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (2.58%) SaaS
7 30 (2.50%) Entra ID
8 24 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (1.67%) GitHub
9 20 (1.67%) Google Workspace
9 20 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
10 18 (1.50%) Google Sheets
11 11 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (0.75%) OCI
12 9 (0.75%) PaaS
13 8 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (0.58%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (0.58%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (0.58%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.91%) Firewall
2 22 (1.83%) Network Security
3 9 (0.75%) Internet
3 9 (0.75%) Kerberos
4 7 (0.58%) LAN
4 7 (0.58%) VPN
4 7 (0.58%) WAN
4 7 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.50%) DNS
6 5 (0.42%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.33%) 5G
8 3 (0.25%) Broadband
8 3 (0.25%) DHCP
8 3 (0.25%) HTTP
8 3 (0.25%) Multicast
8 3 (0.25%) S/MIME
8 3 (0.25%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.25%) SSL
9 2 (0.17%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (3.50%) Power BI
2 32 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.67%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.33%) Relational Database
6 12 (1.00%) Metadata
7 10 (0.83%) NoSQL
8 9 (0.75%) Tableau
9 8 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (0.67%) KDB
9 8 (0.67%) Kdb+
9 8 (0.67%) RDBMS
10 7 (0.58%) Big Data
10 7 (0.58%) MySQL
11 5 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.42%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.42%) Dremio
11 5 (0.42%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 114 (9.49%) JIRA
2 17 (1.42%) Git
3 11 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.75%) SpecFlow
5 6 (0.50%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.42%) QUnit
7 4 (0.33%) Gradle
7 4 (0.33%) Maven
7 4 (0.33%) SonarLint
8 3 (0.25%) GCC
8 3 (0.25%) GDB
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.17%) GitLab
9 2 (0.17%) Postman
10 1 (0.083%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.083%) MLflow
10 1 (0.083%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.083%) SoapUI
General
1 509 (42.38%) Social Skills
2 486 (40.47%) Finance
3 209 (17.40%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (14.57%) Banking
5 117 (9.74%) Public Sector
6 104 (8.66%) Legal
7 55 (4.58%) Front Office
8 52 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
9 42 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
9 42 (3.50%) Investment Banking
10 33 (2.75%) Financial Institution
11 26 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (2.00%) Retail
13 21 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
13 21 (1.75%) Manufacturing
14 20 (1.67%) Law
14 20 (1.67%) Telecoms
15 19 (1.58%) Local Government
16 18 (1.50%) Military
17 15 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 158 (13.16%) Analyst
2 138 (11.49%) Project Manager
3 123 (10.24%) Senior
4 119 (9.91%) Lead
5 101 (8.41%) Developer
6 98 (8.16%) Consultant
7 96 (7.99%) Architect
8 60 (5.00%) Business Analyst
9 58 (4.83%) Programme Manager
10 40 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
11 38 (3.16%) Senior Developer
12 37 (3.08%) Security Consultant
12 37 (3.08%) Senior Manager
13 36 (3.00%) Risk Analyst
13 36 (3.00%) Security Architect
14 31 (2.58%) Security Analyst
15 30 (2.50%) Risk Manager
15 30 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
16 26 (2.16%) Java Developer
16 26 (2.16%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.92%) Kafka
2 17 (1.42%) REST
3 16 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (1.25%) .NET
5 14 (1.17%) NumPy
5 14 (1.17%) Pandas
5 14 (1.17%) RESTful
6 13 (1.08%) .NET Framework
6 13 (1.08%) Middleware
6 13 (1.08%) OAuth
7 12 (1.00%) SAML
8 10 (0.83%) AngularJS
8 10 (0.83%) Playwright
8 10 (0.83%) XML
9 9 (0.75%) COM
9 9 (0.75%) Dask
9 9 (0.75%) Entity Framework
9 9 (0.75%) NHibernate
9 9 (0.75%) React
10 6 (0.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 137 (11.41%) Management Information System
2 65 (5.41%) Derivative
3 64 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 62 (5.16%) Security Posture
5 52 (4.33%) Onboarding
6 42 (3.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 40 (3.33%) Market Risk
8 39 (3.25%) Equities
9 35 (2.91%) Credit Risk
10 31 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 30 (2.50%) Cloud Native
12 29 (2.41%) Algorithms
12 29 (2.41%) Data Centre
12 29 (2.41%) Fixed Income
13 26 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
15 17 (1.42%) Data Structures
15 17 (1.42%) Hedge funds
16 16 (1.33%) Operational Technology
17 15 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.75%) Linux
2 27 (2.25%) Windows
3 19 (1.58%) Unix
4 5 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.25%) VMS
5 3 (0.25%) zOS
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.083%) Android
7 1 (0.083%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.083%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (27.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 290 (24.15%) Agile
3 248 (20.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 237 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
5 195 (16.24%) Cybersecurity
6 185 (15.40%) Project Management
7 169 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 166 (13.82%) Decision-Making
9 150 (12.49%) Information Security
10 116 (9.66%) Change Management
10 116 (9.66%) Project Delivery
11 112 (9.33%) Roadmaps
12 111 (9.24%) Regulatory Compliance
13 109 (9.08%) Analytics
14 106 (8.83%) Migration
15 99 (8.24%) AI
16 92 (7.66%) PRINCE2
17 85 (7.08%) Scrum
18 82 (6.83%) Incident Response
18 82 (6.83%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (10.41%) SQL
2 115 (9.58%) Python
3 51 (4.25%) Java
4 27 (2.25%) C++
4 27 (2.25%) PowerShell
5 26 (2.16%) C#
6 14 (1.17%) VBA
7 12 (1.00%) JavaScript
8 8 (0.67%) R
9 6 (0.50%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.42%) JCL
10 5 (0.42%) Korn
11 4 (0.33%) COBOL
12 3 (0.25%) Bash
12 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.25%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.17%) Perl
13 2 (0.17%) Rust
13 2 (0.17%) Scala
13 2 (0.17%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 231 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 216 (17.99%) Degree
3 166 (13.82%) SC Cleared
4 104 (8.66%) CISSP
5 75 (6.24%) CISM
6 71 (5.91%) PMI Certification
7 67 (5.58%) PMP
8 57 (4.75%) DV Cleared
9 55 (4.58%) Master's Degree
10 35 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 27 (2.25%) CRISC
12 26 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (1.83%) CISA
14 20 (1.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 16 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
16 15 (1.25%) PhD
17 10 (0.83%) GIAC
18 9 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 8 (0.67%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (12.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 142 (11.82%) NIST
3 107 (8.91%) GDPR
4 97 (8.08%) GRC
5 67 (5.58%) PMO
6 61 (5.08%) QA
7 41 (3.41%) PCI DSS
8 35 (2.91%) Data Quality
9 31 (2.58%) NCSC
10 28 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (1.50%) COBIT
12 16 (1.33%) EU AI Act
13 14 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
13 14 (1.17%) Def Stans
13 14 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 14 (1.17%) SLA
14 12 (1.00%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.83%) Basel III
16 10 (0.83%) RMADS
System Software
1 29 (2.41%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.58%) Docker
3 7 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.083%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.083%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.083%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.42%) Terraform
3 11 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.42%) Ansible
5 5 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
5 5 (0.42%) RSA Archer
5 5 (0.42%) SCCM
6 3 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.25%) 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 (0.083%) Consul
8 1 (0.083%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.083%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.083%) OpenVAS
8 1 (0.083%) Packer
8 1 (0.083%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 150 (12.49%) Microsoft
2 57 (4.75%) SAP
3 53 (4.41%) Oracle
3 53 (4.41%) ServiceNow
4 37 (3.08%) Google
5 20 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 17 (1.42%) Murex
7 11 (0.92%) Splunk
8 10 (0.83%) Databricks
8 10 (0.83%) Workday
9 8 (0.67%) Citrix
9 8 (0.67%) CyberArk
9 8 (0.67%) IBM
9 8 (0.67%) Informatica
10 7 (0.58%) Ariba
10 7 (0.58%) Bloomberg
11 6 (0.50%) Cisco
11 6 (0.50%) VMware
12 5 (0.42%) F5
12 5 (0.42%) Solace