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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 47 73
Rank change year-on-year -21 +26 -11
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,375 1,120 1,058
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.28% 4.65% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 5.09% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 927 709 689
10th Percentile £409 £388 £363
25th Percentile £481 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £594 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £684 £763 £738
90th Percentile £825 £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 23 32
10th Percentile £20.27 £46.30 £16.18
25th Percentile £28.00 £47.91 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% +22.99% +370.37%
75th Percentile £105.25 £76.08 £60.31
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.41 £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 35,679 21,999 31,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.05% 91.35% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,608 14,249 20,517
10th Percentile £325 £304 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,238 979 2,317
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.76 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.60 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.93 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -36 663 £600 -11.11% 435
North of England -6 239 £514 +0.53% 139
South East -10 192 £563 +2.27% 163
Yorkshire +6 125 £500 -1.23% 40
North West -11 113 £550 +8.37% 86
Midlands -28 109 £545 +11.79% 74
South West +9 92 £570 +26.67% 70
West Midlands -36 76 £540 +8.00% 44
East of England -5 47 £525 -16.00% 44
East Midlands -17 33 £550 +22.63% 30
North East -36 1 £480 -18.30% 13
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 (4.73%) Confluence
2 37 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.51%) SAS
4 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.22%) IIS
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.073%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.073%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.073%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.073%) nginx
6 1 (0.073%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.073%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 45 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.91%) Microsoft Project
3 36 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
4 31 (2.25%) 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 (0.15%) Windchill
10 1 (0.073%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.073%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 22 (1.60%) 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 (0.44%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.36%) Actimize
5 5 (0.36%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.29%) Primavera
6 4 (0.29%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.22%) Dynamics SL
7 3 (0.22%) Findur
7 3 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
7 3 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 174 (12.65%) Azure
2 134 (9.75%) AWS
3 60 (4.36%) GCP
4 53 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (3.27%) Power Platform
6 38 (2.76%) Entra ID
7 35 (2.55%) SaaS
8 24 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
9 22 (1.60%) Google Workspace
10 21 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
12 18 (1.31%) Google Sheets
12 18 (1.31%) PaaS
13 17 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
13 17 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (0.87%) GitHub
15 11 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
15 11 (0.80%) IaaS
16 10 (0.73%) Amazon S3
17 9 (0.65%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.13%) Network Security
2 26 (1.89%) Firewall
3 17 (1.24%) DNS
4 14 (1.02%) DHCP
5 12 (0.87%) BIG-IP
6 11 (0.80%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.58%) 5G
7 8 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (0.51%) Internet
9 6 (0.44%) 4G
9 6 (0.44%) HTTP
9 6 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
9 6 (0.44%) WAN
10 5 (0.36%) 3G
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 34 (2.47%) Power BI
2 28 (2.04%) Metadata
3 15 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (1.09%) SQL Server
4 12 (0.87%) Relational Database
5 8 (0.58%) RDBMS
6 7 (0.51%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.44%) Big Data
7 6 (0.44%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.36%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.36%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.36%) Tableau
9 4 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.22%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 110 (8.00%) JIRA
2 12 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.80%) Git
4 6 (0.44%) 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%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.29%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.15%) MLflow
7 2 (0.15%) TestRail
8 1 (0.073%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.073%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.073%) SoapUI
General
1 512 (37.24%) Social Skills
2 505 (36.73%) Finance
3 222 (16.15%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (11.42%) Banking
5 149 (10.84%) Public Sector
6 109 (7.93%) Legal
7 47 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
8 42 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
9 34 (2.47%) Financial Institution
9 34 (2.47%) Telecoms
10 30 (2.18%) Front Office
11 29 (2.11%) Retail
12 28 (2.04%) Military
13 27 (1.96%) Investment Banking
14 25 (1.82%) Law
14 25 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
15 23 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (1.67%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (1.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 176 (12.80%) Lead
2 170 (12.36%) Project Manager
3 142 (10.33%) Architect
4 139 (10.11%) Senior
5 125 (9.09%) Analyst
6 82 (5.96%) Consultant
7 64 (4.65%) Programme Manager
8 61 (4.44%) Business Analyst
9 57 (4.15%) Developer
10 54 (3.93%) Security Architect
11 48 (3.49%) Senior Manager
12 44 (3.20%) Risk Manager
13 38 (2.76%) Security Engineer
14 35 (2.55%) Delivery Manager
14 35 (2.55%) Security Consultant
15 33 (2.40%) Security Manager
16 30 (2.18%) Risk Analyst
17 28 (2.04%) IT Manager
17 28 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
18 24 (1.75%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (1.45%) REST
3 19 (1.38%) .NET
4 17 (1.24%) XML
5 15 (1.09%) Middleware
6 13 (0.95%) JSON
7 12 (0.87%) Kafka
8 11 (0.80%) Azure Blueprints
8 11 (0.80%) Leaflet
9 9 (0.65%) SOAP
10 8 (0.58%) OAuth
10 8 (0.58%) React
11 7 (0.51%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.51%) LDAP
11 7 (0.51%) OpenID
11 7 (0.51%) RESTful
11 7 (0.51%) Web Services
12 6 (0.44%) J2EE
12 6 (0.44%) JSP
12 6 (0.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 100 (7.27%) Management Information System
2 61 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 58 (4.22%) Onboarding
4 53 (3.85%) Security Posture
5 49 (3.56%) Cloud Native
6 43 (3.13%) Operational Technology
7 40 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
8 39 (2.84%) Derivative
9 34 (2.47%) Data Centre
10 31 (2.25%) Market Risk
11 24 (1.75%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.60%) Credit Risk
12 22 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
12 22 (1.60%) NHS
13 20 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
14 19 (1.38%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.38%) Fixed Income
15 18 (1.31%) Equities
15 18 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (1.31%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 46 (3.35%) Windows
2 37 (2.69%) Linux
3 20 (1.45%) Unix
4 16 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.44%) 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
9 1 (0.073%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (31.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 336 (24.44%) Agile
3 280 (20.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 275 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 264 (19.20%) Cybersecurity
6 226 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
7 220 (16.00%) Project Management
8 206 (14.98%) Decision-Making
9 178 (12.95%) Information Security
10 169 (12.29%) Roadmaps
11 153 (11.13%) Change Management
12 152 (11.05%) AI
13 132 (9.60%) Project Delivery
14 126 (9.16%) Migration
15 120 (8.73%) Regulatory Compliance
16 117 (8.51%) Analytics
17 110 (8.00%) DevOps
18 107 (7.78%) Data Protection
19 106 (7.71%) PRINCE2
20 100 (7.27%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 96 (6.98%) SQL
2 86 (6.25%) Python
3 46 (3.35%) Java
4 31 (2.25%) PowerShell
5 20 (1.45%) C#
6 13 (0.95%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.87%) VBA
8 10 (0.73%) C++
9 8 (0.58%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.51%) Bash
10 7 (0.51%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.36%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.22%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.22%) Bicep
12 3 (0.22%) CLIST
12 3 (0.22%) JCL
12 3 (0.22%) REXX
13 2 (0.15%) C
13 2 (0.15%) Perl
13 2 (0.15%) RPG
Qualifications
1 323 (23.49%) Security Cleared
2 231 (16.80%) SC Cleared
3 181 (13.16%) Degree
4 116 (8.44%) CISSP
5 85 (6.18%) CISM
6 75 (5.45%) DV Cleared
7 64 (4.65%) PMI Certification
7 64 (4.65%) PMP
8 43 (3.13%) CRISC
9 33 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (1.75%) CISA
12 20 (1.45%) Master's Degree
13 18 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 17 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 13 (0.95%) CESG Certified Professional
15 13 (0.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 11 (0.80%) GIAC
17 10 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (12.51%) NIST
2 167 (12.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 128 (9.31%) GRC
4 98 (7.13%) GDPR
5 74 (5.38%) PMO
6 68 (4.95%) QA
7 57 (4.15%) Data Quality
8 46 (3.35%) NCSC
9 41 (2.98%) PCI DSS
10 33 (2.40%) JSP 440
11 31 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 29 (2.11%) SLA
13 27 (1.96%) SOC 2
14 22 (1.60%) NIST 800
15 21 (1.53%) COBIT
16 16 (1.16%) RMADS
17 15 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 13 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
19 12 (0.87%) Def Stans
20 11 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 28 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.02%) Docker
3 8 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.44%) 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 (0.073%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.073%) NFS
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.073%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.16%) Terraform
3 15 (1.09%) Ansible
4 10 (0.73%) SCCM
4 10 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.44%) Grafana
6 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.36%) Control-M
8 4 (0.29%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.22%) CASB
9 3 (0.22%) Nessus
9 3 (0.22%) OMEGAMON
10 2 (0.15%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.15%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.15%) NSN NetAct
10 2 (0.15%) OpenVAS
10 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 189 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 82 (5.96%) ServiceNow
3 64 (4.65%) Oracle
3 64 (4.65%) SAP
4 46 (3.35%) Google
5 21 (1.53%) Salesforce
6 20 (1.45%) Murex
6 20 (1.45%) Workday
7 14 (1.02%) Cisco
7 14 (1.02%) F5
8 12 (0.87%) Splunk
9 11 (0.80%) VMware
10 10 (0.73%) Databricks
10 10 (0.73%) Infoblox
11 9 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (0.65%) Foundry
11 9 (0.65%) Qualys
11 9 (0.65%) Remedy
12 8 (0.58%) Rapid7
12 8 (0.58%) Tenable