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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 45 69
Rank change year-on-year -25 +24 -6
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,383 1,132 1,085
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.31% 4.73% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 5.18% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 927 719 721
10th Percentile £406 £371 £363
25th Percentile £478 £467 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £684 £763 £725
90th Percentile £826 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 27 32
10th Percentile £20.27 £46.30 £16.18
25th Percentile £28.00 £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% +370.37%
75th Percentile £105.25 £78.38 £60.31
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.23 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% +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 35,508 21,848 31,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 91.31% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,529 14,223 20,659
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 949 2,294
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.59 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.34% -24.42% +1.04%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -38 669 £600 -9.88% 352
North of England -8 238 £513 +0.26% 124
South East -7 201 £550 - 149
Yorkshire +8 127 £500 -1.23% 36
North West -7 110 £550 +7.57% 79
Midlands -36 107 £537 +10.21% 66
South West +3 89 £570 +26.67% 60
West Midlands -41 74 £525 +5.00% 39
East of England -6 48 £525 -4.55% 34
East Midlands -20 33 £550 +22.63% 27
North East -36 1 £480 -16.52% 9
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 64 (4.63%) Confluence
2 37 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.58%) SAS
4 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.14%) IIS
7 1 (0.072%) Appian
7 1 (0.072%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.072%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.072%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.072%) nginx
7 1 (0.072%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.072%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 51 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
3 38 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.36%) Revit
7 4 (0.29%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.29%) Trello
8 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.14%) Windchill
10 1 (0.072%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.072%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.072%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 22 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.65%) Endur
3 7 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.51%) Summit
4 6 (0.43%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.36%) Actimize
5 5 (0.36%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.29%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.22%) Findur
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.22%) Primavera
7 3 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 170 (12.29%) Azure
2 131 (9.47%) AWS
3 58 (4.19%) GCP
4 54 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (3.18%) Power Platform
6 38 (2.75%) Entra ID
7 33 (2.39%) SaaS
8 23 (1.66%) Microsoft Purview
9 22 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (1.52%) Google Workspace
11 19 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
12 18 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (1.30%) Google Sheets
13 17 (1.23%) PaaS
14 15 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
15 11 (0.80%) GitHub
15 11 (0.80%) OpenShift
16 10 (0.72%) Amazon S3
16 10 (0.72%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.96%) Network Security
2 25 (1.81%) Firewall
3 17 (1.23%) DNS
4 14 (1.01%) DHCP
5 12 (0.87%) BIG-IP
6 11 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
8 7 (0.51%) 5G
9 6 (0.43%) HTTP
9 6 (0.43%) Internet
9 6 (0.43%) WAN
10 5 (0.36%) 3G
10 5 (0.36%) 4G
11 4 (0.29%) LAN
11 4 (0.29%) NAS
11 4 (0.29%) NGFW
11 4 (0.29%) SAN
12 3 (0.22%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (2.53%) Power BI
2 28 (2.02%) Metadata
3 16 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (0.94%) SQL Server
6 11 (0.80%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.58%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.51%) RDBMS
9 6 (0.43%) Big Data
9 6 (0.43%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.36%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.36%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.36%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (0.36%) Tableau
11 4 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.22%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 115 (8.32%) JIRA
2 11 (0.80%) Git
3 10 (0.72%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.43%) GitLab
5 5 (0.36%) Selenium
6 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (0.29%) DbUnit
6 4 (0.29%) jMock
6 4 (0.29%) JUnit
6 4 (0.29%) Maven
6 4 (0.29%) Mockito
6 4 (0.29%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.29%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.22%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.14%) MLflow
8 2 (0.14%) TestRail
8 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.072%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.072%) Flyway
9 1 (0.072%) Liquibase
General
1 512 (37.02%) Social Skills
2 507 (36.66%) Finance
3 218 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (10.99%) Banking
5 147 (10.63%) Public Sector
6 111 (8.03%) Legal
7 46 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 43 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
9 34 (2.46%) Financial Institution
10 33 (2.39%) Telecoms
11 30 (2.17%) Retail
12 29 (2.10%) Front Office
12 29 (2.10%) Investment Banking
13 28 (2.02%) Military
14 23 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (1.52%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.45%) Law
18 18 (1.30%) Local Government
18 18 (1.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 179 (12.94%) Project Manager
2 176 (12.73%) Lead
3 140 (10.12%) Architect
4 139 (10.05%) Senior
5 124 (8.97%) Analyst
6 85 (6.15%) Consultant
7 64 (4.63%) Programme Manager
8 63 (4.56%) Business Analyst
9 58 (4.19%) Developer
10 54 (3.90%) Security Architect
11 47 (3.40%) Senior Manager
12 46 (3.33%) Risk Manager
13 37 (2.68%) Delivery Manager
14 36 (2.60%) Security Consultant
14 36 (2.60%) Security Engineer
15 32 (2.31%) Security Manager
16 30 (2.17%) Risk Analyst
17 27 (1.95%) Solutions Architect
18 26 (1.88%) IT Manager
19 25 (1.81%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (1.30%) REST
3 17 (1.23%) .NET
4 15 (1.08%) Middleware
4 15 (1.08%) XML
5 13 (0.94%) JSON
5 13 (0.94%) Kafka
6 11 (0.80%) Azure Blueprints
6 11 (0.80%) Leaflet
7 8 (0.58%) OAuth
7 8 (0.58%) React
8 7 (0.51%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.51%) LDAP
8 7 (0.51%) OpenID
8 7 (0.51%) RESTful
8 7 (0.51%) SOAP
9 6 (0.43%) J2EE
9 6 (0.43%) JSP
9 6 (0.43%) SAML
9 6 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 100 (7.23%) Management Information System
2 63 (4.56%) Product Ownership
3 57 (4.12%) Onboarding
4 52 (3.76%) Security Posture
5 45 (3.25%) Cloud Native
6 44 (3.18%) Derivative
7 42 (3.04%) Operational Technology
8 41 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
9 38 (2.75%) Data Centre
10 33 (2.39%) Market Risk
11 23 (1.66%) Credit Risk
12 22 (1.59%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.59%) NHS
13 21 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
13 21 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.45%) Data Structures
15 19 (1.37%) Equities
15 19 (1.37%) Fixed Income
16 18 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 17 (1.23%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 43 (3.11%) Windows
2 32 (2.31%) Linux
3 17 (1.23%) Unix
4 13 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.43%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.43%) zOS
6 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (30.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 343 (24.80%) Agile
3 276 (19.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 272 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 261 (18.87%) Cybersecurity
6 233 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
7 228 (16.49%) Project Management
8 208 (15.04%) Decision-Making
9 170 (12.29%) Information Security
10 167 (12.08%) Roadmaps
11 153 (11.06%) AI
11 153 (11.06%) Change Management
12 135 (9.76%) Project Delivery
13 126 (9.11%) Migration
14 122 (8.82%) Analytics
15 120 (8.68%) Regulatory Compliance
16 112 (8.10%) PRINCE2
17 111 (8.03%) Data Protection
18 107 (7.74%) DevOps
19 101 (7.30%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 93 (6.72%) SQL
2 89 (6.44%) Python
3 47 (3.40%) Java
4 30 (2.17%) PowerShell
5 19 (1.37%) C#
6 13 (0.94%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.87%) C++
7 12 (0.87%) VBA
8 7 (0.51%) Bash
8 7 (0.51%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.43%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.22%) Assembly Language
11 3 (0.22%) Bicep
11 3 (0.22%) CLIST
11 3 (0.22%) JCL
11 3 (0.22%) REXX
12 2 (0.14%) Korn
12 2 (0.14%) Perl
12 2 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 325 (23.50%) Security Cleared
2 235 (16.99%) SC Cleared
3 189 (13.67%) Degree
4 114 (8.24%) CISSP
5 85 (6.15%) CISM
6 77 (5.57%) DV Cleared
7 65 (4.70%) PMP
8 64 (4.63%) PMI Certification
9 42 (3.04%) CRISC
10 31 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
12 23 (1.66%) CISA
13 22 (1.59%) Master's Degree
14 20 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 16 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 14 (1.01%) GIAC
18 13 (0.94%) CESG Certified Professional
18 13 (0.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
19 10 (0.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (12.36%) NIST
2 165 (11.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 122 (8.82%) GRC
4 100 (7.23%) GDPR
5 77 (5.57%) PMO
6 69 (4.99%) QA
7 56 (4.05%) Data Quality
8 47 (3.40%) NCSC
9 44 (3.18%) PCI DSS
10 34 (2.46%) JSP 440
11 31 (2.24%) SLA
12 30 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
13 27 (1.95%) SOC 2
14 22 (1.59%) NIST 800
15 21 (1.52%) COBIT
16 16 (1.16%) RMADS
17 14 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
17 14 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 12 (0.87%) Def Stans
19 11 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 28 (2.02%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.94%) Docker
3 8 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.29%) Postfix
5 4 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.072%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.072%) NFS
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (1.66%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.08%) Ansible
2 15 (1.08%) Terraform
3 10 (0.72%) SCCM
4 9 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.36%) Control-M
6 5 (0.36%) Grafana
6 5 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.29%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.22%) CASB
8 3 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.22%) Nessus
8 3 (0.22%) OMEGAMON
9 2 (0.14%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.14%) NSN NetAct
9 2 (0.14%) OpenVAS
9 2 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 187 (13.52%) Microsoft
2 77 (5.57%) ServiceNow
3 65 (4.70%) Oracle
3 65 (4.70%) SAP
4 44 (3.18%) Google
5 21 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 21 (1.52%) Workday
6 20 (1.45%) Murex
7 14 (1.01%) F5
8 13 (0.94%) Cisco
9 11 (0.80%) VMware
10 10 (0.72%) Databricks
10 10 (0.72%) Infoblox
10 10 (0.72%) Splunk
11 9 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (0.65%) Remedy
12 7 (0.51%) Foundry
12 7 (0.51%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.51%) Qualys
13 6 (0.43%) Tenable