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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 54 60
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +28
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,187 1,154 1,428
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.90% 3.74% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 4.28% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 640 977
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £456 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £875 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 29 54
10th Percentile £22.16 £28.00 £34.00
25th Percentile £29.52 £40.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £76.03
Median % change year-on-year -44.17% -21.08% +33.77%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.75 £83.40
90th Percentile £94.38 £80.64 £83.41
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £73.31
% change year-on-year -44.17% -18.16% +46.78%

All Process and 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 27,406 26,969 34,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.94% 87.30% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,388 16,451 23,708
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,797 990 1,453
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.10 £14.59
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 +2 661 £624 -0.24% 244
North of England -19 170 £500 -9.09% 101
South East -9 146 £515 -8.24% 211
North West -18 97 £475 -11.21% 62
Midlands -45 80 £469 -14.77% 58
South West -1 75 £600 +23.08% 61
Yorkshire +9 71 £500 -6.54% 34
West Midlands -39 54 £525 -5.91% 37
East of England -33 29 £600 +16.50% 40
East Midlands -17 26 £400 -27.27% 21
North East -13 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 56 (4.72%) Confluence
2 19 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.18%) CMS
5 11 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.67%) SAS
8 6 (0.51%) CICS
9 2 (0.17%) IIS
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.084%) Camunda
10 1 (0.084%) nginx
Applications
1 64 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (3.29%) Microsoft Project
4 31 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.18%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.42%) Trello
7 4 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.25%) Navisworks
8 3 (0.25%) Revit
9 2 (0.17%) GNU Octave
9 2 (0.17%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.084%) CANalyzer
10 1 (0.084%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 29 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.10%) Endur
3 9 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.67%) SAP CO
4 8 (0.67%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
5 6 (0.51%) VisionPLUS
6 5 (0.42%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.34%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.34%) Primavera
8 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.25%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.25%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 135 (11.37%) AWS
2 111 (9.35%) Azure
3 62 (5.22%) GCP
4 42 (3.54%) Power Platform
5 28 (2.36%) SaaS
6 26 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (1.60%) Entra ID
7 19 (1.60%) GitHub
8 18 (1.52%) dbt
9 16 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (0.76%) Miro
11 9 (0.76%) OCI
12 8 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (0.67%) PaaS
13 7 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (0.59%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (0.59%) Serverless
14 6 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.79%) Firewall
2 20 (1.68%) Network Security
3 9 (0.76%) Multicast
3 9 (0.76%) WAN
4 7 (0.59%) Kerberos
4 7 (0.59%) LAN
5 6 (0.51%) VPN
6 5 (0.42%) Internet
6 5 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.34%) 5G
7 4 (0.34%) Broadband
7 4 (0.34%) S/MIME
7 4 (0.34%) SSL
8 3 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
8 3 (0.25%) HTTP
8 3 (0.25%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.17%) SSH
10 1 (0.084%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (3.12%) Power BI
3 22 (1.85%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (1.43%) Apache Arrow
4 17 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
4 17 (1.43%) Dremio
5 12 (1.01%) NoSQL
5 12 (1.01%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.84%) Tableau
7 9 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.67%) KDB
8 8 (0.67%) Kdb+
8 8 (0.67%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.59%) Big Data
10 6 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (0.51%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.51%) MySQL
10 6 (0.51%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 107 (9.01%) JIRA
2 22 (1.85%) Git
3 12 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.93%) SpecFlow
5 9 (0.76%) GCC
5 9 (0.76%) GDB
6 8 (0.67%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.51%) Maven
8 5 (0.42%) Gradle
8 5 (0.42%) QUnit
9 4 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.34%) SonarLint
10 2 (0.17%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.17%) Postman
10 2 (0.17%) Snyk
11 1 (0.084%) DbUnit
11 1 (0.084%) jMock
11 1 (0.084%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.084%) Selenium
11 1 (0.084%) TeamCity
General
1 519 (43.72%) Finance
2 507 (42.71%) Social Skills
3 202 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (15.33%) Banking
5 103 (8.68%) Public Sector
6 89 (7.50%) Legal
7 75 (6.32%) Front Office
8 48 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
9 43 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
10 41 (3.45%) Investment Banking
11 30 (2.53%) Telecoms
12 28 (2.36%) Financial Institution
12 28 (2.36%) Manufacturing
13 26 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (2.11%) Retail
15 21 (1.77%) Back Office
15 21 (1.77%) Marketing
16 19 (1.60%) Local Government
17 16 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (1.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 174 (14.66%) Analyst
2 138 (11.63%) Project Manager
3 128 (10.78%) Developer
3 128 (10.78%) Senior
4 122 (10.28%) Lead
5 98 (8.26%) Consultant
6 95 (8.00%) Architect
7 66 (5.56%) Business Analyst
8 45 (3.79%) Programme Manager
9 40 (3.37%) Security Consultant
9 40 (3.37%) Senior Developer
10 38 (3.20%) AWS Developer
11 37 (3.12%) Risk Analyst
11 37 (3.12%) Security Architect
12 35 (2.95%) Senior Manager
13 34 (2.86%) Security Analyst
14 32 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
14 32 (2.70%) Java Developer
15 30 (2.53%) IT Manager
15 30 (2.53%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.95%) AngularJS
1 35 (2.95%) React
2 27 (2.27%) .NET
2 27 (2.27%) NumPy
3 26 (2.19%) Kafka
3 26 (2.19%) Pandas
3 26 (2.19%) REST
4 22 (1.85%) RESTful
5 18 (1.52%) Node.js
5 18 (1.52%) SciPy
6 17 (1.43%) Vue
7 16 (1.35%) .NET Framework
8 15 (1.26%) Middleware
9 12 (1.01%) Playwright
10 11 (0.93%) Entity Framework
10 11 (0.93%) NHibernate
11 10 (0.84%) FIX Protocol
11 10 (0.84%) OAuth
12 9 (0.76%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 9 (0.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 151 (12.72%) Management Information System
2 69 (5.81%) Product Ownership
3 58 (4.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 57 (4.80%) Security Posture
5 53 (4.47%) Derivative
6 44 (3.71%) Equities
7 38 (3.20%) Onboarding
8 36 (3.03%) Fixed Income
9 35 (2.95%) Market Risk
10 30 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 27 (2.27%) Cloud Native
11 27 (2.27%) Credit Risk
12 26 (2.19%) Data Centre
13 22 (1.85%) Algorithms
13 22 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.77%) Security Operations Centre
15 20 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
16 16 (1.35%) Hedge funds
17 15 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (3.71%) Linux
2 25 (2.11%) Windows
3 17 (1.43%) Unix
4 5 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.17%) VMS
5 2 (0.17%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.084%) Android
6 1 (0.084%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.084%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (26.20%) Stakeholder Management
2 305 (25.70%) Agile
3 242 (20.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 211 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
5 205 (17.27%) Cybersecurity
6 198 (16.68%) Project Management
7 164 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 148 (12.47%) Decision-Making
9 144 (12.13%) Information Security
10 127 (10.70%) Project Delivery
11 122 (10.28%) Change Management
12 107 (9.01%) Migration
13 97 (8.17%) Scrum
14 89 (7.50%) Roadmaps
15 88 (7.41%) AI
16 87 (7.33%) Analytics
16 87 (7.33%) Incident Response
17 83 (6.99%) Computer Science
18 78 (6.57%) Regulatory Compliance
19 73 (6.15%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 132 (11.12%) Python
2 105 (8.85%) SQL
3 70 (5.90%) Java
4 28 (2.36%) C#
5 27 (2.27%) C++
5 27 (2.27%) TypeScript
6 23 (1.94%) JavaScript
7 20 (1.68%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.01%) VBA
9 10 (0.84%) R
10 7 (0.59%) JCL
11 6 (0.51%) COBOL
12 3 (0.25%) Korn
12 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.25%) Rust
13 2 (0.17%) Bash
13 2 (0.17%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.17%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.17%) Scala
13 2 (0.17%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 223 (18.79%) Security Cleared
2 170 (14.32%) Degree
3 158 (13.31%) SC Cleared
4 109 (9.18%) CISSP
5 72 (6.07%) CISM
6 62 (5.22%) DV Cleared
7 61 (5.14%) PMI Certification
8 59 (4.97%) PMP
9 52 (4.38%) Master's Degree
10 34 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (2.11%) CISA
13 19 (1.60%) CRISC
13 19 (1.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 15 (1.26%) PhD
15 14 (1.18%) CESG Certified Professional
16 13 (1.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 12 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
18 10 (0.84%) GIAC
19 8 (0.67%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (12.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 148 (12.47%) NIST
3 91 (7.67%) GDPR
4 77 (6.49%) GRC
5 64 (5.39%) QA
6 56 (4.72%) PMO
7 34 (2.86%) PCI DSS
8 33 (2.78%) NCSC
9 30 (2.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 29 (2.44%) Data Quality
11 17 (1.43%) RMADS
12 16 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 15 (1.26%) Accessibility
13 15 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 14 (1.18%) SLA
15 13 (1.10%) COBIT
15 13 (1.10%) EU AI Act
15 13 (1.10%) NIST 800
16 12 (1.01%) Def Stans
17 9 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 25 (2.11%) Docker
2 23 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.084%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.084%) Postfix
5 1 (0.084%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.084%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (1.77%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.68%) Terraform
3 14 (1.18%) Ansible
4 9 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.59%) RSA Archer
6 6 (0.51%) QRadar
7 5 (0.42%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.25%) Grafana
9 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.25%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.084%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.084%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.084%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.084%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.084%) OMEGAMON
11 1 (0.084%) Packer
11 1 (0.084%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.084%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 141 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.07%) SAP
3 61 (5.14%) ServiceNow
4 32 (2.70%) Oracle
5 20 (1.68%) Salesforce
5 20 (1.68%) Splunk
6 18 (1.52%) Google
7 11 (0.93%) Solace
8 10 (0.84%) Cisco
8 10 (0.84%) Databricks
9 9 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (0.59%) ArcSight
10 7 (0.59%) Citrix
10 7 (0.59%) CyberArk
10 7 (0.59%) LogRhythm
11 6 (0.51%) BiZZdesign
11 6 (0.51%) Bloomberg
11 6 (0.51%) IBM
12 5 (0.42%) Ariba
12 5 (0.42%) Workday