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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 48 79
Rank change year-on-year -20 +31 -14
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,494 1,241 1,023
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.34% 4.57% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 5.04% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 777 648
10th Percentile £413 £388 £359
25th Percentile £487 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £750
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £569 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -1.09% +4.55% -6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 24 30
10th Percentile £22.86 £24.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £49.06 £46.30 £33.86
Median hourly rate £80.00 £53.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% +6.00% +318.76%
75th Percentile £85.84 £76.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £105.63 £87.43 £67.75
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +36.36% +15.79% +297.82%

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 38,219 24,611 31,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.42% 90.71% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,063 15,813 20,400
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,375 1,290 2,230
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.60 £72.58
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -39 700 £600 -10.08% 428
North of England -11 259 £514 +0.15% 172
South East -1 236 £575 +5.02% 195
North West -22 131 £540 +5.62% 102
Yorkshire 0 126 £500 -4.76% 58
Midlands -32 116 £550 +15.79% 90
South West -8 93 £570 -0.87% 80
West Midlands -42 90 £545 +9.00% 47
East of England +16 59 £525 -4.55% 60
East Midlands -17 25 £550 +23.66% 43
North East -43 4 £454 -17.50% 12
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 59 (3.95%) Confluence
2 34 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.67%) SAS
4 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.27%) IIS
6 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.067%) Appian
8 1 (0.067%) CMS
8 1 (0.067%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.067%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.067%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.067%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.067%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 45 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (2.48%) Microsoft Project
4 34 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.27%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.27%) Revit
6 4 (0.27%) Trello
7 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.20%) Windchill
8 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.067%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 31 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.80%) Endur
3 7 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.47%) Primavera
3 7 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.40%) Actimize
4 6 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.33%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.33%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.33%) Summit
6 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.27%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.27%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 221 (14.79%) Azure
2 150 (10.04%) AWS
3 68 (4.55%) GCP
4 52 (3.48%) Power Platform
5 51 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (3.35%) Entra ID
7 39 (2.61%) SaaS
8 29 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (1.87%) Microsoft Purview
10 23 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
11 18 (1.20%) PaaS
12 17 (1.14%) GitHub
13 16 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.00%) Azure AI
15 13 (0.87%) Google Workspace
15 13 (0.87%) IaaS
16 12 (0.80%) OCI
17 10 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
17 10 (0.67%) Copilot Studio
17 10 (0.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.21%) Network Security
2 35 (2.34%) Firewall
3 15 (1.00%) DNS
3 15 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.94%) DHCP
5 11 (0.74%) 5G
5 11 (0.74%) BIG-IP
5 11 (0.74%) WAN
6 9 (0.60%) 4G
6 9 (0.60%) LAN
6 9 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (0.40%) HTTP
9 5 (0.33%) 3G
9 5 (0.33%) Internet
9 5 (0.33%) NAS
9 5 (0.33%) NGFW
9 5 (0.33%) SAN
9 5 (0.33%) VPN
10 4 (0.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (2.41%) Power BI
2 27 (1.81%) Metadata
3 22 (1.47%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.07%) Relational Database
5 15 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (0.67%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.67%) RDBMS
8 8 (0.54%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.47%) Big Data
10 5 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.33%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.33%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.33%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (0.27%) Tableau
12 3 (0.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 104 (6.96%) JIRA
2 18 (1.20%) Git
2 18 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 8 (0.54%) Selenium
4 7 (0.47%) GitLab
5 5 (0.33%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.27%) DbUnit
6 4 (0.27%) jMock
6 4 (0.27%) JUnit
6 4 (0.27%) Maven
6 4 (0.27%) Mockito
6 4 (0.27%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.27%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.20%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.20%) MLflow
7 3 (0.20%) Postman
7 3 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 563 (37.68%) Social Skills
2 551 (36.88%) Finance
3 230 (15.39%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (11.31%) Public Sector
5 164 (10.98%) Banking
6 121 (8.10%) Legal
7 59 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
8 56 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
9 39 (2.61%) Financial Institution
9 39 (2.61%) Front Office
10 36 (2.41%) Aerospace
11 35 (2.34%) Telecoms
12 33 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (2.21%) Retail
13 28 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
13 28 (1.87%) Military
14 27 (1.81%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.67%) Investment Banking
15 25 (1.67%) Law
16 22 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 204 (13.65%) Lead
2 179 (11.98%) Project Manager
3 171 (11.45%) Architect
4 151 (10.11%) Senior
5 135 (9.04%) Analyst
6 85 (5.69%) Consultant
7 70 (4.69%) Security Architect
8 64 (4.28%) Programme Manager
9 60 (4.02%) Senior Manager
10 56 (3.75%) Business Analyst
11 55 (3.68%) Developer
12 47 (3.15%) Risk Manager
13 36 (2.41%) Delivery Manager
13 36 (2.41%) Security Engineer
14 35 (2.34%) IT Manager
15 34 (2.28%) Security Consultant
16 33 (2.21%) Security Manager
17 30 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
18 29 (1.94%) Senior Project Manager
19 27 (1.81%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.74%) .NET
2 25 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 21 (1.41%) REST
4 17 (1.14%) Middleware
5 15 (1.00%) XML
6 13 (0.87%) JSON
7 12 (0.80%) Kafka
7 12 (0.80%) OAuth
8 11 (0.74%) Azure Blueprints
8 11 (0.74%) Leaflet
8 11 (0.74%) OpenID
8 11 (0.74%) React
8 11 (0.74%) SAML
8 11 (0.74%) SOAP
9 9 (0.60%) LDAP
9 9 (0.60%) Web Services
10 8 (0.54%) PySpark
10 8 (0.54%) RESTful
10 8 (0.54%) SLSA
11 7 (0.47%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 100 (6.69%) Management Information System
2 80 (5.35%) Onboarding
3 75 (5.02%) Product Ownership
4 61 (4.08%) Security Posture
5 59 (3.95%) Cloud Native
6 53 (3.55%) Operational Technology
7 47 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
8 41 (2.74%) Data Centre
9 30 (2.01%) Derivative
9 30 (2.01%) Market Risk
10 26 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
10 26 (1.74%) PMI
11 25 (1.67%) Fixed Income
12 24 (1.61%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.54%) NHS
14 22 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
15 19 (1.27%) Credit Risk
16 17 (1.14%) Data Structures
16 17 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
16 17 (1.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 50 (3.35%) Windows
2 40 (2.68%) Linux
3 26 (1.74%) Unix
4 20 (1.34%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.40%) zOS
7 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.067%) AIX
10 1 (0.067%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (34.94%) Stakeholder Management
2 358 (23.96%) Agile
3 331 (22.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 326 (21.82%) Cybersecurity
5 318 (21.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 234 (15.66%) Project Management
7 224 (14.99%) Decision-Making
8 222 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
9 209 (13.99%) Roadmaps
10 191 (12.78%) Information Security
11 187 (12.52%) AI
12 162 (10.84%) Change Management
13 146 (9.77%) Project Delivery
14 138 (9.24%) Migration
15 130 (8.70%) Analytics
16 127 (8.50%) DevOps
17 120 (8.03%) PRINCE2
18 116 (7.76%) Vulnerability Management
19 114 (7.63%) CI/CD
20 113 (7.56%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 101 (6.76%) Python
2 89 (5.96%) SQL
3 43 (2.88%) Java
4 37 (2.48%) PowerShell
5 23 (1.54%) C#
6 16 (1.07%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.87%) VBA
8 9 (0.60%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.47%) Bash
9 7 (0.47%) Shell Script
9 7 (0.47%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.27%) Assembly Language
10 4 (0.27%) Bicep
10 4 (0.27%) CLIST
10 4 (0.27%) Go
10 4 (0.27%) JCL
10 4 (0.27%) REXX
11 3 (0.20%) C
11 3 (0.20%) Scala
12 2 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 372 (24.90%) Security Cleared
2 273 (18.27%) SC Cleared
3 179 (11.98%) Degree
4 148 (9.91%) CISSP
5 91 (6.09%) DV Cleared
6 90 (6.02%) CISM
7 74 (4.95%) PMI Certification
8 70 (4.69%) PMP
9 40 (2.68%) CRISC
10 34 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
12 27 (1.81%) Master's Degree
13 26 (1.74%) CISA
14 24 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 23 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
16 21 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 20 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
18 14 (0.94%) AWS Certification
18 14 (0.94%) CESG Certified Professional
18 14 (0.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (12.32%) NIST
2 183 (12.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 142 (9.50%) GRC
4 104 (6.96%) GDPR
5 71 (4.75%) QA
6 68 (4.55%) PMO
7 57 (3.82%) Data Quality
8 45 (3.01%) NCSC
9 35 (2.34%) PCI DSS
10 33 (2.21%) JSP 440
11 30 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials
11 30 (2.01%) SOC 2
12 29 (1.94%) NIST 800
13 28 (1.87%) SLA
14 17 (1.14%) Def Stans
15 15 (1.00%) COBIT
16 14 (0.94%) RMADS
17 13 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 12 (0.80%) Accessibility
18 12 (0.80%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 35 (2.34%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.94%) Docker
3 9 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.27%) Postfix
5 4 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.067%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.067%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.41%) Terraform
3 20 (1.34%) Ansible
4 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.74%) SCCM
6 8 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.47%) Grafana
7 7 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.33%) Control-M
9 4 (0.27%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.20%) CASB
10 3 (0.20%) Nessus
11 2 (0.13%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.13%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.13%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 215 (14.39%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.42%) ServiceNow
3 70 (4.69%) SAP
4 63 (4.22%) Oracle
5 42 (2.81%) Google
6 19 (1.27%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.14%) Cisco
8 16 (1.07%) Workday
9 15 (1.00%) Splunk
10 14 (0.94%) Foundry
10 14 (0.94%) Murex
11 13 (0.87%) F5
11 13 (0.87%) Qualys
12 11 (0.74%) VMware
13 10 (0.67%) IBM
13 10 (0.67%) Infoblox
14 9 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (0.60%) Rapid7
14 9 (0.60%) Tenable
15 8 (0.54%) Databricks