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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 51 60
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 +10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,275 1,029 1,269
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.54% 4.13% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 4.56% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 618 853
10th Percentile £410 £363 £400
25th Percentile £474 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +4.89% -7.02%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £813 £838 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 39 48
10th Percentile £23.94 £28.02 £30.13
25th Percentile £33.50 £43.15 £42.25
Median hourly rate £61.75 £60.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% +2.13% +452.68%
75th Percentile £98.13 £76.68 £83.18
90th Percentile £107.00 £83.61 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £61.75 £61.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +0.41% +14.41% +405.64%

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 31,205 22,550 33,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.68% 90.54% 86.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,990 14,548 21,873
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £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 1,928 809 2,164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.26 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.80 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.44 £71.83
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.77% - -7.14%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -14 679 £600 -5.59% 161
South East -9 188 £525 -8.70% 177
North of England -7 186 £516 -1.81% 110
Midlands -44 102 £550 +4.76% 76
Yorkshire +7 92 £500 -4.76% 41
North West -9 92 £525 +5.00% 61
West Midlands -34 69 £540 -10.00% 51
South West -8 59 £525 +6.33% 74
East Midlands -31 33 £550 +22.22% 24
East of England -38 32 £510 -3.77% 48
North East -22 2 £550 -4.35% 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 59 (4.63%) Confluence
2 22 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.47%) SAS
6 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.16%) nginx
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.078%) Camunda
8 1 (0.078%) CMS
8 1 (0.078%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.078%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 66 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (3.92%) Microsoft Project
3 35 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.31%) Trello
8 2 (0.16%) Revit
9 1 (0.078%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.078%) Navisworks
Business Applications
1 16 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.71%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.47%) Primavera
5 5 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.31%) Summit
7 3 (0.24%) Endur
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.16%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.16%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.16%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.16%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 144 (11.29%) Azure
2 122 (9.57%) AWS
3 54 (4.24%) GCP
4 45 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (3.22%) Power Platform
6 31 (2.43%) Entra ID
6 31 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
7 25 (1.96%) SaaS
8 22 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (1.57%) Google Workspace
10 18 (1.41%) Google Sheets
11 16 (1.25%) GitHub
12 14 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (0.86%) OCI
15 10 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (0.78%) OpenShift
16 8 (0.63%) Collibra
17 7 (0.55%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.06%) Firewall
2 33 (2.59%) Network Security
3 9 (0.71%) DNS
3 9 (0.71%) Internet
3 9 (0.71%) Kerberos
3 9 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
5 6 (0.47%) DHCP
5 6 (0.47%) HTTP
5 6 (0.47%) LAN
5 6 (0.47%) WAN
6 5 (0.39%) BIG-IP
6 5 (0.39%) Cisco IPT
7 4 (0.31%) 5G
8 3 (0.24%) Broadband
8 3 (0.24%) NGFW
8 3 (0.24%) SAN
8 3 (0.24%) VPN
9 2 (0.16%) SSL
9 2 (0.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (2.67%) Power BI
2 21 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (1.18%) Metadata
4 15 (1.18%) SQL Server
5 12 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.47%) KDB
6 6 (0.47%) Kdb+
6 6 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (0.39%) Big Data
7 5 (0.39%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.39%) Tableau
8 4 (0.31%) Data Mart
8 4 (0.31%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.31%) MS Access
8 4 (0.31%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.24%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 120 (9.41%) JIRA
2 13 (1.02%) Git
3 9 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.39%) GitLab
4 5 (0.39%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.24%) QUnit
5 3 (0.24%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.16%) GCC
6 2 (0.16%) GDB
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.16%) Selenium
7 1 (0.078%) Appium
7 1 (0.078%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.078%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.078%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.078%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.078%) jMock
7 1 (0.078%) Mockito
7 1 (0.078%) Zephyr
General
1 508 (39.84%) Social Skills
2 485 (38.04%) Finance
3 208 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (13.41%) Banking
5 120 (9.41%) Public Sector
6 105 (8.24%) Legal
7 52 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
8 50 (3.92%) Front Office
9 47 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
10 39 (3.06%) Investment Banking
11 35 (2.75%) Financial Institution
12 34 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (2.27%) Retail
14 22 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
15 19 (1.49%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.41%) Military
17 16 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (1.25%) Law
17 16 (1.25%) Marketing
18 14 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 151 (11.84%) Analyst
2 149 (11.69%) Lead
2 149 (11.69%) Project Manager
3 140 (10.98%) Senior
4 103 (8.08%) Architect
5 99 (7.76%) Consultant
6 79 (6.20%) Developer
7 63 (4.94%) Programme Manager
8 61 (4.78%) Business Analyst
9 46 (3.61%) Delivery Manager
9 46 (3.61%) Security Architect
9 46 (3.61%) Senior Manager
10 40 (3.14%) Security Consultant
11 37 (2.90%) Risk Analyst
12 36 (2.82%) Risk Manager
13 32 (2.51%) Senior Developer
14 30 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
15 28 (2.20%) Security Engineer
16 26 (2.04%) Security Analyst
17 24 (1.88%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (1.57%) Kafka
3 19 (1.49%) REST
4 15 (1.18%) OAuth
5 13 (1.02%) .NET
5 13 (1.02%) SAML
6 12 (0.94%) Middleware
7 10 (0.78%) .NET Framework
7 10 (0.78%) NumPy
7 10 (0.78%) Pandas
7 10 (0.78%) XML
8 9 (0.71%) COM
8 9 (0.71%) Dask
9 8 (0.63%) PyTorch
10 7 (0.55%) OpenID
10 7 (0.55%) TensorFlow
11 6 (0.47%) LDAP
11 6 (0.47%) React
11 6 (0.47%) RESTful
11 6 (0.47%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 134 (10.51%) Management Information System
2 68 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 64 (5.02%) Derivative
4 63 (4.94%) Security Posture
5 48 (3.76%) Onboarding
6 39 (3.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 38 (2.98%) Equities
8 37 (2.90%) Cloud Native
8 37 (2.90%) Market Risk
9 31 (2.43%) Data Centre
10 29 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (2.12%) Algorithms
12 26 (2.04%) Fixed Income
13 25 (1.96%) Operational Technology
14 24 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
14 24 (1.88%) Credit Risk
15 20 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
16 18 (1.41%) NHS
17 17 (1.33%) Data Structures
17 17 (1.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.67%) Linux
2 27 (2.12%) Windows
3 15 (1.18%) Unix
4 4 (0.31%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.24%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.24%) VMS
5 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.24%) zOS
6 1 (0.078%) Android
6 1 (0.078%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.078%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (28.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 299 (23.45%) Agile
3 255 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 233 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
5 212 (16.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 203 (15.92%) Cybersecurity
7 197 (15.45%) Project Management
8 172 (13.49%) Decision-Making
9 163 (12.78%) Information Security
10 143 (11.22%) Roadmaps
11 137 (10.75%) Change Management
12 116 (9.10%) AI
12 116 (9.10%) Project Delivery
12 116 (9.10%) Regulatory Compliance
13 113 (8.86%) Analytics
13 113 (8.86%) Migration
14 96 (7.53%) PRINCE2
14 96 (7.53%) Scrum
15 95 (7.45%) Data Protection
16 84 (6.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 119 (9.33%) SQL
2 108 (8.47%) Python
3 46 (3.61%) Java
4 34 (2.67%) PowerShell
5 25 (1.96%) C#
5 25 (1.96%) C++
6 15 (1.18%) VBA
7 9 (0.71%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.39%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.31%) Bash
9 4 (0.31%) Korn
10 3 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.16%) Perl
11 2 (0.16%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.16%) R
11 2 (0.16%) RPG
11 2 (0.16%) Rust
11 2 (0.16%) Scala
11 2 (0.16%) Solidity
11 2 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 276 (21.65%) Security Cleared
2 226 (17.73%) Degree
3 207 (16.24%) SC Cleared
4 116 (9.10%) CISSP
5 86 (6.75%) CISM
6 67 (5.25%) DV Cleared
7 63 (4.94%) PMI Certification
8 61 (4.78%) PMP
9 52 (4.08%) Master's Degree
10 36 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (2.59%) CRISC
12 30 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
13 23 (1.80%) CISA
13 23 (1.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 15 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
14 15 (1.18%) PhD
15 12 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 11 (0.86%) CESG Certified Professional
17 9 (0.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 166 (13.02%) NIST
3 122 (9.57%) GRC
4 111 (8.71%) GDPR
5 75 (5.88%) PMO
6 66 (5.18%) QA
7 56 (4.39%) PCI DSS
8 43 (3.37%) Data Quality
9 37 (2.90%) NCSC
10 28 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 25 (1.96%) SLA
12 22 (1.73%) SOC 2
13 20 (1.57%) NIST 800
14 18 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (1.41%) COBIT
15 17 (1.33%) Def Stans
16 16 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
17 15 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 14 (1.10%) JSP 440
19 12 (0.94%) RMADS
System Software
1 28 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.86%) Docker
3 7 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.24%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.078%) Postfix
5 1 (0.078%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.078%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.18%) Terraform
3 13 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.63%) SCCM
6 6 (0.47%) Ansible
7 4 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.24%) CASB
8 3 (0.24%) Kubeflow
8 3 (0.24%) QRadar
8 3 (0.24%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.16%) Grafana
9 2 (0.16%) Nessus
9 2 (0.16%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.16%) OpenVAS
9 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.078%) Control-M
Vendors
1 155 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.78%) Oracle
3 59 (4.63%) ServiceNow
4 49 (3.84%) SAP
5 43 (3.37%) Google
6 22 (1.73%) Murex
7 16 (1.25%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.25%) Workday
8 11 (0.86%) Splunk
9 10 (0.78%) Cisco
10 9 (0.71%) CyberArk
10 9 (0.71%) Databricks
10 9 (0.71%) VMware
11 8 (0.63%) F5
11 8 (0.63%) Informatica
12 6 (0.47%) Ariba
12 6 (0.47%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.47%) Charles River
12 6 (0.47%) Citrix
12 6 (0.47%) IBM