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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 46 74
Rank change year-on-year -22 +28 -10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,388 1,142 1,064
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.29% 4.67% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 5.11% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 925 725 685
10th Percentile £406 £388 £360
25th Percentile £480 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +4.46% -6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £763 £730
90th Percentile £816 £875 £845
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 22 34
10th Percentile £20.71 £46.30 £17.55
25th Percentile £39.04 £48.06 £36.25
Median hourly rate £64.09 £63.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +26.50% +370.37%
75th Percentile £87.16 £77.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.46 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £64.09 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.40% +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 35,948 22,351 32,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 91.35% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,764 14,463 20,809
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,016 2,371
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -40 666 £600 -11.11% 229
North of England -4 240 £514 +1.28% 102
South East -12 192 £563 +2.27% 144
Yorkshire +4 123 £500 - 40
North West -11 116 £540 +6.40% 51
Midlands -40 111 £550 +12.82% 53
South West +19 97 £570 +20.00% 53
West Midlands -35 78 £550 +10.00% 29
East of England +4 51 £525 -4.55% 32
East Midlands -21 33 £550 +23.04% 24
North East -30 1 £480 -12.73% 11
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 (4.68%) Confluence
2 37 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.50%) SAS
4 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.22%) IIS
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%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.072%) Apache Spark
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%) 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 43 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
3 37 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
4 32 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.79%) 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%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 22 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.65%) Endur
3 7 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.50%) 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
5 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.36%) Primavera
6 4 (0.29%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.22%) Findur
7 3 (0.22%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.22%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 177 (12.75%) Azure
2 135 (9.73%) AWS
3 60 (4.32%) GCP
4 54 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
5 47 (3.39%) Power Platform
6 43 (3.10%) Entra ID
7 35 (2.52%) SaaS
8 24 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
9 22 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (1.51%) Google Workspace
11 18 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
11 18 (1.30%) PaaS
12 17 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
12 17 (1.22%) Google Sheets
12 17 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
13 11 (0.79%) GitHub
13 11 (0.79%) IaaS
14 10 (0.72%) Amazon S3
15 9 (0.65%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.17%) Network Security
2 26 (1.87%) Firewall
3 16 (1.15%) DNS
4 14 (1.01%) DHCP
5 12 (0.86%) BIG-IP
6 11 (0.79%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.58%) 5G
8 8 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
9 7 (0.50%) Internet
10 6 (0.43%) 4G
10 6 (0.43%) HTTP
10 6 (0.43%) WAN
11 5 (0.36%) 3G
11 5 (0.36%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.29%) LAN
12 4 (0.29%) NAS
12 4 (0.29%) NGFW
12 4 (0.29%) SAN
13 3 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (2.59%) Power BI
2 28 (2.02%) Metadata
3 16 (1.15%) SQL Server
4 15 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.58%) MongoDB
6 8 (0.58%) RDBMS
7 7 (0.50%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.43%) Tableau
9 5 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.36%) Big Data
9 5 (0.36%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.29%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.22%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 106 (7.64%) JIRA
2 12 (0.86%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.79%) Git
4 5 (0.36%) GitLab
4 5 (0.36%) Selenium
5 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (0.29%) DbUnit
5 4 (0.29%) jMock
5 4 (0.29%) JUnit
5 4 (0.29%) Maven
5 4 (0.29%) Mockito
5 4 (0.29%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.29%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.29%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.14%) MLflow
6 2 (0.14%) TestRail
7 1 (0.072%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.072%) Flyway
7 1 (0.072%) Liquibase
General
1 520 (37.46%) Social Skills
2 504 (36.31%) Finance
3 227 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (11.31%) Banking
5 149 (10.73%) Public Sector
6 111 (8.00%) Legal
7 46 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
8 41 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
9 35 (2.52%) Telecoms
10 34 (2.45%) Financial Institution
11 29 (2.09%) Front Office
12 28 (2.02%) Military
12 28 (2.02%) Retail
13 26 (1.87%) Investment Banking
13 26 (1.87%) Law
14 25 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
14 25 (1.80%) Manufacturing
14 25 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.44%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 181 (13.04%) Lead
2 173 (12.46%) Project Manager
3 142 (10.23%) Architect
4 139 (10.01%) Senior
5 125 (9.01%) Analyst
6 83 (5.98%) Consultant
7 64 (4.61%) Programme Manager
8 58 (4.18%) Business Analyst
9 56 (4.03%) Developer
10 54 (3.89%) Security Architect
11 49 (3.53%) Senior Manager
12 45 (3.24%) Risk Manager
13 38 (2.74%) Security Engineer
14 35 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
14 35 (2.52%) Security Consultant
14 35 (2.52%) Security Manager
15 30 (2.16%) IT Manager
16 29 (2.09%) Risk Analyst
17 28 (2.02%) Solutions Architect
18 24 (1.73%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.02%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (1.44%) .NET
2 20 (1.44%) REST
3 17 (1.22%) XML
4 15 (1.08%) Middleware
5 14 (1.01%) Kafka
6 13 (0.94%) JSON
6 13 (0.94%) OAuth
7 12 (0.86%) OpenID
8 11 (0.79%) Azure Blueprints
8 11 (0.79%) Leaflet
8 11 (0.79%) SAML
9 10 (0.72%) LDAP
10 9 (0.65%) SOAP
11 8 (0.58%) React
11 8 (0.58%) Web Services
12 7 (0.50%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.50%) RESTful
13 6 (0.43%) J2EE
13 6 (0.43%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 102 (7.35%) Management Information System
2 62 (4.47%) Onboarding
3 61 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 55 (3.96%) Security Posture
5 50 (3.60%) Cloud Native
6 47 (3.39%) Operational Technology
7 40 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
8 35 (2.52%) Derivative
9 34 (2.45%) Data Centre
10 30 (2.16%) Market Risk
11 24 (1.73%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.59%) Credit Risk
12 22 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
12 22 (1.59%) NHS
13 19 (1.37%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
13 19 (1.37%) Fixed Income
13 19 (1.37%) PMI
14 17 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 17 (1.22%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 46 (3.31%) Windows
2 37 (2.67%) Linux
3 20 (1.44%) Unix
4 16 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.43%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.43%) zOS
7 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (31.99%) Stakeholder Management
2 333 (23.99%) Agile
3 289 (20.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 276 (19.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 274 (19.74%) Cybersecurity
6 230 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
7 222 (15.99%) Project Management
8 208 (14.99%) Decision-Making
9 180 (12.97%) Information Security
10 175 (12.61%) Roadmaps
11 157 (11.31%) Change Management
12 152 (10.95%) AI
13 135 (9.73%) Project Delivery
14 127 (9.15%) Migration
15 121 (8.72%) Regulatory Compliance
16 116 (8.36%) Analytics
17 111 (8.00%) DevOps
17 111 (8.00%) PRINCE2
18 106 (7.64%) Data Protection
19 103 (7.42%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 93 (6.70%) SQL
2 83 (5.98%) Python
3 46 (3.31%) Java
4 32 (2.31%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.51%) C#
6 12 (0.86%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.79%) VBA
8 8 (0.58%) C++
8 8 (0.58%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.50%) Bash
9 7 (0.50%) Shell Script
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%) C
12 2 (0.14%) Perl
12 2 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 334 (24.06%) Security Cleared
2 242 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 179 (12.90%) Degree
4 119 (8.57%) CISSP
5 86 (6.20%) CISM
6 75 (5.40%) DV Cleared
7 67 (4.83%) PMI Certification
8 66 (4.76%) PMP
9 44 (3.17%) CRISC
10 33 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.80%) CISA
13 20 (1.44%) Master's Degree
14 19 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 18 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 13 (0.94%) CESG Certified Professional
17 13 (0.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 11 (0.79%) GIAC
19 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (12.90%) NIST
2 173 (12.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 132 (9.51%) GRC
4 98 (7.06%) GDPR
5 73 (5.26%) PMO
6 69 (4.97%) QA
7 57 (4.11%) Data Quality
8 45 (3.24%) NCSC
9 40 (2.88%) PCI DSS
10 35 (2.52%) JSP 440
11 29 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
12 28 (2.02%) SOC 2
13 27 (1.95%) SLA
14 25 (1.80%) NIST 800
15 22 (1.59%) COBIT
16 16 (1.15%) RMADS
17 15 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 13 (0.94%) Def Stans
19 12 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
20 11 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 31 (2.23%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.94%) Docker
3 8 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.29%) Postfix
6 3 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
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 16 (1.15%) Terraform
3 15 (1.08%) Ansible
4 10 (0.72%) SCCM
4 10 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.43%) Grafana
7 6 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.36%) Control-M
9 4 (0.29%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.22%) CASB
10 3 (0.22%) Nessus
10 3 (0.22%) OMEGAMON
11 2 (0.14%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.14%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.14%) OpenVAS
11 2 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 193 (13.90%) Microsoft
2 82 (5.91%) ServiceNow
3 68 (4.90%) Oracle
3 68 (4.90%) SAP
4 45 (3.24%) Google
5 21 (1.51%) Salesforce
6 20 (1.44%) Workday
7 17 (1.22%) Murex
8 14 (1.01%) Cisco
8 14 (1.01%) F5
9 12 (0.86%) Splunk
10 11 (0.79%) VMware
11 10 (0.72%) Databricks
11 10 (0.72%) Infoblox
12 9 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (0.65%) Foundry
12 9 (0.65%) Qualys
12 9 (0.65%) Remedy
13 8 (0.58%) Rapid7
13 8 (0.58%) Tenable