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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 49 61
Rank change year-on-year -15 +12 +10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,193 1,098 1,308
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.57% 4.18% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 4.66% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 765 620 902
10th Percentile £400 £370 £407
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £596 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% +5.96% -10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £856 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 38 55
10th Percentile £22.10 £26.08 £26.79
25th Percentile £33.50 £40.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £41.94 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.10% - +464.44%
75th Percentile £79.85 £74.45 £83.40
90th Percentile £104.40 £78.88 -
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +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 29,282 23,546 33,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.65% 89.63% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,737 14,474 22,202
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £639 £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 1,833 746 1,958
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +2.66%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.01 £61.96
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -4 661 £600 -4.00% 253
South East -15 160 £523 -9.13% 164
North of England -32 160 £498 -7.01% 71
Midlands -50 90 £531 -0.28% 63
Yorkshire 0 83 £492 -7.95% 22
North West -39 75 £499 -0.25% 44
South West -16 56 £513 +5.13% 52
West Midlands -48 56 £518 -12.84% 49
East Midlands -24 34 £544 +15.64% 14
East of England -37 33 £531 -7.65% 38
North East -22 2 £550 -4.35% 5
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 51 (4.27%) Confluence
2 23 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.92%) SAS
5 10 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.25%) CMS
8 2 (0.17%) CICS
8 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.084%) Camunda
9 1 (0.084%) IIS
9 1 (0.084%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 1 (0.084%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.084%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.084%) Tomcat
Applications
1 76 (6.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (4.61%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (3.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.34%) Revit
6 4 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.34%) Trello
7 3 (0.25%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.17%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 18 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.59%) Loan IQ
4 5 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.42%) Primavera
5 4 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.34%) Endur
5 4 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.34%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.34%) Summit
6 3 (0.25%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.17%) Actimize
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.17%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.17%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.17%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 125 (10.48%) Azure
2 108 (9.05%) AWS
3 49 (4.11%) GCP
4 47 (3.94%) Power Platform
5 36 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (2.51%) Entra ID
7 28 (2.35%) SaaS
8 24 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
8 24 (2.01%) Microsoft Purview
9 20 (1.68%) Google Workspace
10 18 (1.51%) Google Sheets
11 16 (1.34%) GitHub
12 12 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (0.75%) OCI
15 8 (0.67%) OpenShift
16 7 (0.59%) Collibra
17 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Copilot
17 6 (0.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.19%) Firewall
2 27 (2.26%) Network Security
3 9 (0.75%) Internet
3 9 (0.75%) Kerberos
4 8 (0.67%) DNS
5 7 (0.59%) VPN
5 7 (0.59%) WAN
6 6 (0.50%) LAN
6 6 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.42%) Cisco IPT
7 5 (0.42%) DHCP
7 5 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
8 4 (0.34%) 5G
8 4 (0.34%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.25%) Broadband
9 3 (0.25%) HTTP
9 3 (0.25%) Multicast
9 3 (0.25%) S/MIME
9 3 (0.25%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (3.27%) Power BI
2 24 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (1.51%) SQL Server
4 14 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (1.09%) Metadata
6 11 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.75%) Tableau
8 8 (0.67%) KDB
8 8 (0.67%) Kdb+
9 5 (0.42%) Big Data
10 4 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.34%) Apache Arrow
10 4 (0.34%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (0.34%) Data Mart
10 4 (0.34%) Dremio
10 4 (0.34%) MS Access
10 4 (0.34%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 117 (9.81%) JIRA
2 10 (0.84%) Git
3 9 (0.75%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.42%) QUnit
6 3 (0.25%) GCC
6 3 (0.25%) GDB
6 3 (0.25%) GitLab
6 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.17%) Postman
8 1 (0.084%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.084%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.084%) JMeter
8 1 (0.084%) MLflow
8 1 (0.084%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.084%) Selenium
8 1 (0.084%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.084%) SonarQube
General
1 509 (42.67%) Social Skills
2 479 (40.15%) Finance
3 213 (17.85%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (14.50%) Banking
5 113 (9.47%) Public Sector
6 99 (8.30%) Legal
7 53 (4.44%) Front Office
8 51 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
9 43 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
10 41 (3.44%) Investment Banking
11 32 (2.68%) Financial Institution
12 28 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (1.93%) Retail
14 20 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
15 19 (1.59%) Military
16 18 (1.51%) Law
16 18 (1.51%) Telecoms
17 17 (1.42%) Manufacturing
18 16 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 15 (1.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 156 (13.08%) Analyst
2 132 (11.06%) Project Manager
3 127 (10.65%) Lead
4 124 (10.39%) Senior
5 95 (7.96%) Developer
6 91 (7.63%) Consultant
7 88 (7.38%) Architect
8 63 (5.28%) Business Analyst
9 57 (4.78%) Programme Manager
10 41 (3.44%) Delivery Manager
11 40 (3.35%) Risk Analyst
12 39 (3.27%) Senior Manager
13 38 (3.19%) Senior Developer
14 37 (3.10%) Security Architect
15 33 (2.77%) Security Consultant
16 30 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
17 29 (2.43%) Risk Manager
18 26 (2.18%) Java Developer
18 26 (2.18%) Technical Manager
19 25 (2.10%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.84%) Kafka
2 18 (1.51%) REST
3 15 (1.26%) .NET
3 15 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
4 13 (1.09%) .NET Framework
4 13 (1.09%) Middleware
4 13 (1.09%) NumPy
4 13 (1.09%) OAuth
4 13 (1.09%) Pandas
5 12 (1.01%) SAML
6 10 (0.84%) Playwright
6 10 (0.84%) XML
7 9 (0.75%) AngularJS
7 9 (0.75%) COM
7 9 (0.75%) Dask
7 9 (0.75%) Entity Framework
7 9 (0.75%) NHibernate
8 8 (0.67%) RESTful
9 7 (0.59%) React
10 6 (0.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 134 (11.23%) Management Information System
2 66 (5.53%) Derivative
3 59 (4.95%) Security Posture
4 55 (4.61%) Product Ownership
5 46 (3.86%) Onboarding
6 44 (3.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 39 (3.27%) Equities
7 39 (3.27%) Market Risk
8 32 (2.68%) Credit Risk
9 30 (2.51%) Algorithms
9 30 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 29 (2.43%) Data Centre
10 29 (2.43%) Fixed Income
11 27 (2.26%) Cloud Native
12 26 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
13 22 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
14 19 (1.59%) Operational Technology
15 17 (1.42%) Data Structures
15 17 (1.42%) Hedge funds
16 16 (1.34%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 35 (2.93%) Linux
2 29 (2.43%) Windows
3 18 (1.51%) Unix
4 5 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
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 (0.084%) Android
7 1 (0.084%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.084%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (28.16%) Stakeholder Management
2 285 (23.89%) Agile
3 244 (20.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 229 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
5 193 (16.18%) Project Management
6 188 (15.76%) Cybersecurity
7 179 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 163 (13.66%) Decision-Making
9 144 (12.07%) Information Security
10 119 (9.97%) Change Management
11 115 (9.64%) Analytics
12 113 (9.47%) Roadmaps
13 109 (9.14%) Regulatory Compliance
14 108 (9.05%) Project Delivery
15 107 (8.97%) Migration
16 94 (7.88%) AI
17 93 (7.80%) PRINCE2
18 91 (7.63%) Scrum
19 81 (6.79%) Data Analysis
19 81 (6.79%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (10.31%) SQL
2 110 (9.22%) Python
3 46 (3.86%) Java
4 27 (2.26%) C++
4 27 (2.26%) PowerShell
5 26 (2.18%) C#
6 16 (1.34%) VBA
7 12 (1.01%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.59%) R
9 5 (0.42%) Korn
9 5 (0.42%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.34%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.25%) Bash
11 3 (0.25%) JCL
11 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.17%) Perl
12 2 (0.17%) RPG
12 2 (0.17%) Rust
12 2 (0.17%) Scala
12 2 (0.17%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 228 (19.11%) Security Cleared
2 216 (18.11%) Degree
3 167 (14.00%) SC Cleared
4 99 (8.30%) CISSP
5 72 (6.04%) CISM
6 70 (5.87%) PMI Certification
7 66 (5.53%) PMP
8 57 (4.78%) DV Cleared
9 55 (4.61%) Master's Degree
10 39 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (2.10%) CRISC
12 20 (1.68%) CISA
12 20 (1.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 16 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (1.26%) Numerate Degree
14 15 (1.26%) PhD
15 9 (0.75%) GIAC
15 9 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 8 (0.67%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (12.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 138 (11.57%) NIST
3 105 (8.80%) GDPR
4 99 (8.30%) GRC
5 66 (5.53%) PMO
6 64 (5.36%) QA
7 39 (3.27%) Data Quality
8 38 (3.19%) PCI DSS
9 33 (2.77%) NCSC
10 25 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (1.42%) COBIT
12 15 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 14 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
13 14 (1.17%) Def Stans
13 14 (1.17%) EU AI Act
14 13 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (1.09%) SLA
15 12 (1.01%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.92%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.84%) RMADS
System Software
1 30 (2.51%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.09%) Docker
3 9 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.084%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.084%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.084%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (1.42%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.01%) Terraform
3 11 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.59%) Ansible
5 7 (0.59%) SCCM
6 5 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (0.42%) RSA Archer
7 3 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.25%) QRadar
8 2 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.17%) Grafana
8 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.084%) Control-M
9 1 (0.084%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.084%) Nessus
9 1 (0.084%) OMEGAMON
9 1 (0.084%) TeamSite
9 1 (0.084%) WSUS
Vendors
1 156 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 52 (4.36%) ServiceNow
3 51 (4.27%) Oracle
4 48 (4.02%) SAP
5 38 (3.19%) Google
6 20 (1.68%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.51%) Murex
8 11 (0.92%) Splunk
9 10 (0.84%) Cisco
9 10 (0.84%) Citrix
9 10 (0.84%) Workday
10 9 (0.75%) Databricks
10 9 (0.75%) VMware
11 8 (0.67%) CyberArk
11 8 (0.67%) Informatica
12 7 (0.59%) F5
12 7 (0.59%) IBM
13 6 (0.50%) Ariba
13 6 (0.50%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.42%) Solace