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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 49 70
Rank change year-on-year -22 +21 -4
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,559 1,268 1,017
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.41% 4.60% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 5.06% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 996 805 629
10th Percentile £413 £363 £363
25th Percentile £481 £455 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £738
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -6.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 25 24
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £23.04
25th Percentile £46.25 £30.61 £38.75
Median hourly rate £67.05 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.46% -11.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £86.63 £87.40 £75.28
UK median hourly rate £64.09 £49.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +29.47% -13.91% +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 38,779 25,035 28,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.92% 90.85% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,017 15,949 18,476
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,455 1,574
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.92 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -1.22%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -35 722 £600 -7.69% 334
North of England -13 272 £510 -0.25% 128
South East +9 250 £575 +2.22% 194
North West -25 135 £525 +2.68% 75
Yorkshire -2 131 £493 -1.40% 40
South West -17 114 £570 -2.98% 103
Midlands -43 103 £550 +17.27% 61
West Midlands -36 81 £538 +7.50% 38
East of England +18 67 £513 -10.87% 61
East Midlands -31 19 £549 +36.44% 22
North East -37 6 £454 -22.77% 18
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 65 (4.17%) Confluence
2 37 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.64%) SAS
4 4 (0.26%) IIS
4 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.13%) CMS
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.064%) Appian
7 1 (0.064%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.064%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.064%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.064%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.064%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.064%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 51 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.26%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.26%) Revit
7 3 (0.19%) Trello
7 3 (0.19%) Windchill
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.064%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.064%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.83%) Endur
3 9 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (0.58%) Primavera
4 8 (0.51%) SAP GRC
5 7 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.26%) Actimize
7 4 (0.26%) Magento
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.19%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.19%) SAP HCM
8 3 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 223 (14.30%) Azure
2 161 (10.33%) AWS
3 69 (4.43%) GCP
4 56 (3.59%) Power Platform
5 51 (3.27%) Entra ID
6 50 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
7 44 (2.82%) SaaS
8 30 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
11 19 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (1.22%) OCI
12 18 (1.15%) Azure AI
12 18 (1.15%) PaaS
13 15 (0.96%) GitHub
14 12 (0.77%) IaaS
15 11 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
15 11 (0.71%) Serverless
16 10 (0.64%) Copilot Studio
16 10 (0.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.78%) Network Security
2 38 (2.44%) Firewall
3 17 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.03%) DNS
5 15 (0.96%) WAN
6 14 (0.90%) DHCP
6 14 (0.90%) LAN
7 13 (0.83%) 5G
8 11 (0.71%) 4G
9 8 (0.51%) BIG-IP
9 8 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.45%) VPN
11 6 (0.38%) HTTP
11 6 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
12 5 (0.32%) 3G
12 5 (0.32%) Internet
12 5 (0.32%) NAS
12 5 (0.32%) NGFW
12 5 (0.32%) SAN
12 5 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (2.63%) Power BI
2 30 (1.92%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.86%) Metadata
4 16 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.90%) Relational Database
6 11 (0.71%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.58%) Oracle Database
7 9 (0.58%) RDBMS
8 8 (0.51%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.45%) Big Data
10 6 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.32%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.32%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.32%) Tableau
12 4 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.26%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.26%) Oracle Exadata
12 4 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 105 (6.74%) JIRA
2 19 (1.22%) Git
3 16 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.77%) Selenium
5 8 (0.51%) Cypress.io
6 7 (0.45%) Postman
7 6 (0.38%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.38%) WebDriver
7 6 (0.38%) Zephyr
8 5 (0.32%) GitLab
9 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.26%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.26%) jMock
9 4 (0.26%) JUnit
9 4 (0.26%) Maven
9 4 (0.26%) Mockito
9 4 (0.26%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.26%) Subversion
9 4 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 604 (38.74%) Social Skills
2 556 (35.66%) Finance
3 245 (15.72%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 165 (10.58%) Banking
6 112 (7.18%) Legal
7 67 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
8 62 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
9 55 (3.53%) Front Office
10 44 (2.82%) Aerospace
11 40 (2.57%) Telecoms
12 38 (2.44%) Retail
13 37 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
14 35 (2.25%) Financial Institution
15 34 (2.18%) Military
16 33 (2.12%) Manufacturing
16 33 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
17 30 (1.92%) Law
18 27 (1.73%) Investment Banking
19 23 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 213 (13.66%) Lead
2 183 (11.74%) Architect
3 168 (10.78%) Project Manager
4 151 (9.69%) Senior
5 136 (8.72%) Analyst
6 103 (6.61%) Consultant
7 82 (5.26%) Security Architect
8 71 (4.55%) Programme Manager
9 54 (3.46%) Developer
10 53 (3.40%) Senior Manager
11 50 (3.21%) Business Analyst
12 45 (2.89%) Risk Manager
13 43 (2.76%) Security Consultant
14 42 (2.69%) IT Manager
15 38 (2.44%) Delivery Manager
16 37 (2.37%) Security Manager
17 33 (2.12%) Security Engineer
18 31 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
19 27 (1.73%) Coordinator
20 26 (1.67%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.92%) Terraform
2 28 (1.80%) .NET
3 27 (1.73%) REST
4 25 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
5 20 (1.28%) Middleware
6 13 (0.83%) OAuth
6 13 (0.83%) XML
7 11 (0.71%) JSON
7 11 (0.71%) Leaflet
7 11 (0.71%) SAML
7 11 (0.71%) SOAP
8 10 (0.64%) Kafka
8 10 (0.64%) OpenID
8 10 (0.64%) SLSA
9 9 (0.58%) LDAP
9 9 (0.58%) React
10 8 (0.51%) Azure Blueprints
10 8 (0.51%) RESTful
10 8 (0.51%) SailPoint
10 8 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 98 (6.29%) Management Information System
2 81 (5.20%) Product Ownership
3 80 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 72 (4.62%) Security Posture
5 63 (4.04%) Cloud Native
6 47 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
7 46 (2.95%) Operational Technology
8 39 (2.50%) Data Centre
9 34 (2.18%) Cyber Threat
10 32 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
11 27 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
11 27 (1.73%) Market Risk
12 26 (1.67%) AI Agents
13 24 (1.54%) Derivative
13 24 (1.54%) NHS
13 24 (1.54%) PMI
14 21 (1.35%) Credit Risk
15 20 (1.28%) Fixed Income
16 19 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 17 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 56 (3.59%) Windows
2 42 (2.69%) Linux
3 27 (1.73%) Unix
4 20 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.32%) zOS
7 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.19%) AIX
8 3 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.064%) Android
9 1 (0.064%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (38.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 379 (24.31%) Cybersecurity
3 371 (23.80%) Agile
4 345 (22.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 341 (21.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 244 (15.65%) Decision-Making
7 224 (14.37%) Project Management
8 218 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
9 207 (13.28%) AI
9 207 (13.28%) Roadmaps
10 185 (11.87%) Information Security
11 174 (11.16%) Project Delivery
12 151 (9.69%) Change Management
13 147 (9.43%) Migration
14 140 (8.98%) DevOps
15 131 (8.40%) Analytics
16 128 (8.21%) PRINCE2
17 125 (8.02%) Vulnerability Management
18 124 (7.95%) CI/CD
19 117 (7.50%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 97 (6.22%) Python
2 76 (4.87%) SQL
3 37 (2.37%) Java
4 33 (2.12%) PowerShell
5 29 (1.86%) C#
6 15 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.71%) VBA
8 9 (0.58%) Bash
9 8 (0.51%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.38%) Go
10 6 (0.38%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.32%) Bicep
12 4 (0.26%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.26%) CLIST
12 4 (0.26%) JCL
12 4 (0.26%) REXX
12 4 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.26%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.19%) C
13 3 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 412 (26.43%) Security Cleared
2 299 (19.18%) SC Cleared
3 157 (10.07%) Degree
4 141 (9.04%) CISSP
5 107 (6.86%) DV Cleared
6 91 (5.84%) CISM
7 79 (5.07%) PMI Certification
8 77 (4.94%) PMP
9 43 (2.76%) CRISC
10 32 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 25 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 24 (1.54%) CISA
14 23 (1.48%) Master's Degree
15 21 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
16 16 (1.03%) AWS Certification
16 16 (1.03%) ISTQB
17 15 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (12.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 192 (12.32%) NIST
3 158 (10.13%) GRC
4 96 (6.16%) GDPR
5 87 (5.58%) QA
6 62 (3.98%) NCSC
7 61 (3.91%) PMO
8 54 (3.46%) Data Quality
9 37 (2.37%) JSP 440
10 31 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
11 21 (1.35%) PCI DSS
11 21 (1.35%) SOC 2
12 20 (1.28%) SLA
13 19 (1.22%) NIST 800
14 14 (0.90%) Accessibility
15 13 (0.83%) COBIT
15 13 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 13 (0.83%) Def Stans
15 13 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 12 (0.77%) RMADS
System Software
1 35 (2.25%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.83%) Docker
3 9 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.26%) Postfix
5 4 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.19%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
7 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.064%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (1.86%) Kubernetes
2 24 (1.54%) Ansible
3 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.64%) SCCM
5 8 (0.51%) Grafana
5 8 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.26%) Control-M
7 4 (0.26%) Data Guard
7 4 (0.26%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (0.26%) OMEGAMON
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.19%) CASB
8 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.19%) Puppet
9 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 229 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 86 (5.52%) ServiceNow
3 71 (4.55%) SAP
4 66 (4.23%) Oracle
5 38 (2.44%) Google
6 21 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.09%) Splunk
8 14 (0.90%) Cisco
8 14 (0.90%) Foundry
9 13 (0.83%) Workday
10 12 (0.77%) Murex
10 12 (0.77%) Qualys
11 11 (0.71%) Databricks
11 11 (0.71%) IBM
12 10 (0.64%) VMware
13 9 (0.58%) F5
14 8 (0.51%) Atlassian
14 8 (0.51%) BeyondTrust
14 8 (0.51%) Infoblox
14 8 (0.51%) Tenable