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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 47 73
Rank change year-on-year -22 +26 -9
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,391 1,138 1,062
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.28% 4.67% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 5.12% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 721 686
10th Percentile £411 £388 £361
25th Percentile £481 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +5.36% -6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £763 £729
90th Percentile £818 £875 £844
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 23 34
10th Percentile £20.42 £46.30 £17.55
25th Percentile £30.00 £47.91 £36.25
Median hourly rate £58.00 £61.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +22.99% +370.37%
75th Percentile £95.00 £76.08 £60.00
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.41 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -10.77% +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 36,103 22,244 31,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.27% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,869 14,374 20,646
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £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 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,001 2,353
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%

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 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 9 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 9 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 -36 669 £600 -11.11% 234
North of England -9 238 £514 +1.28% 104
South East -8 196 £563 +2.27% 145
Yorkshire +5 123 £500 - 37
North West -10 114 £545 +7.76% 55
Midlands -37 113 £550 +10.00% 59
South West +10 94 £570 +26.67% 53
West Midlands -41 78 £550 +10.00% 32
East of England -6 49 £525 -16.00% 35
East Midlands -19 35 £550 +22.63% 27
North East -33 1 £480 -18.30% 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 65 (4.67%) Confluence
2 37 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.50%) SAS
4 3 (0.22%) IIS
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.072%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.072%) Appian
6 1 (0.072%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.072%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.072%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.072%) nginx
6 1 (0.072%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 46 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
3 37 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
4 32 (2.30%) 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 (1.58%) 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
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%) Findur
7 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
7 3 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 178 (12.80%) Azure
2 135 (9.71%) AWS
3 60 (4.31%) GCP
4 54 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
5 46 (3.31%) Power Platform
6 42 (3.02%) Entra ID
7 35 (2.52%) SaaS
8 24 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
9 22 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.58%) Google Workspace
10 19 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
11 18 (1.29%) Google Sheets
11 18 (1.29%) PaaS
12 17 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
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 (3.16%) Network Security
2 26 (1.87%) Firewall
3 17 (1.22%) 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 35 (2.52%) Power BI
2 28 (2.01%) Metadata
3 15 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (1.08%) SQL Server
4 12 (0.86%) Relational Database
5 8 (0.58%) RDBMS
6 7 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.50%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.36%) Big Data
7 5 (0.36%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 5 (0.36%) Tableau
8 4 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (0.29%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.22%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 109 (7.84%) JIRA
2 12 (0.86%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.79%) Git
4 6 (0.43%) 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 (0.14%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.14%) MLflow
7 2 (0.14%) TestRail
8 1 (0.072%) Appium
8 1 (0.072%) Flyway
8 1 (0.072%) Liquibase
General
1 518 (37.24%) Social Skills
2 509 (36.59%) Finance
3 226 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (11.29%) Banking
5 148 (10.64%) Public Sector
6 111 (7.98%) Legal
7 47 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
8 41 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
9 35 (2.52%) Financial Institution
9 35 (2.52%) Telecoms
10 29 (2.08%) Front Office
10 29 (2.08%) Retail
11 28 (2.01%) Military
12 26 (1.87%) Investment Banking
12 26 (1.87%) Law
13 25 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
14 24 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
14 24 (1.73%) Manufacturing
15 19 (1.37%) Aerospace
15 19 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 180 (12.94%) Lead
2 174 (12.51%) Project Manager
3 142 (10.21%) Architect
4 140 (10.06%) Senior
5 128 (9.20%) Analyst
6 83 (5.97%) Consultant
7 64 (4.60%) Programme Manager
8 61 (4.39%) Business Analyst
9 58 (4.17%) Developer
10 54 (3.88%) Security Architect
11 49 (3.52%) Senior Manager
12 44 (3.16%) Risk Manager
13 38 (2.73%) Security Engineer
14 36 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
15 35 (2.52%) Security Consultant
15 35 (2.52%) Security Manager
16 30 (2.16%) IT Manager
16 30 (2.16%) Risk Analyst
17 28 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
18 24 (1.73%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.01%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (1.44%) REST
3 19 (1.37%) .NET
4 17 (1.22%) XML
5 15 (1.08%) Middleware
6 14 (1.01%) Kafka
7 13 (0.93%) JSON
8 12 (0.86%) OAuth
9 11 (0.79%) Azure Blueprints
9 11 (0.79%) Leaflet
9 11 (0.79%) OpenID
10 10 (0.72%) LDAP
10 10 (0.72%) SAML
11 9 (0.65%) SOAP
12 8 (0.58%) React
13 7 (0.50%) AngularJS
13 7 (0.50%) RESTful
13 7 (0.50%) Web Services
14 6 (0.43%) J2EE
14 6 (0.43%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 102 (7.33%) Management Information System
2 62 (4.46%) Onboarding
2 62 (4.46%) Product Ownership
3 55 (3.95%) Security Posture
4 50 (3.59%) Cloud Native
5 43 (3.09%) Operational Technology
6 40 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
7 37 (2.66%) Derivative
8 35 (2.52%) Data Centre
9 30 (2.16%) Market Risk
10 24 (1.73%) AI Agents
11 22 (1.58%) Credit Risk
11 22 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
11 22 (1.58%) NHS
12 21 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
13 19 (1.37%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.29%) Fixed Income
14 18 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 18 (1.29%) PMI
15 17 (1.22%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 47 (3.38%) Windows
2 38 (2.73%) Linux
3 21 (1.51%) 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
1 443 (31.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 336 (24.16%) Agile
3 287 (20.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 275 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 270 (19.41%) Cybersecurity
6 227 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
7 223 (16.03%) Project Management
8 206 (14.81%) Decision-Making
9 178 (12.80%) Information Security
10 174 (12.51%) Roadmaps
11 156 (11.21%) Change Management
12 152 (10.93%) AI
13 135 (9.71%) Project Delivery
14 128 (9.20%) Migration
15 122 (8.77%) Regulatory Compliance
16 117 (8.41%) Analytics
17 111 (7.98%) DevOps
18 110 (7.91%) PRINCE2
19 107 (7.69%) Data Protection
20 101 (7.26%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 96 (6.90%) SQL
2 85 (6.11%) Python
3 48 (3.45%) Java
4 31 (2.23%) PowerShell
5 20 (1.44%) C#
6 12 (0.86%) JavaScript
6 12 (0.86%) VBA
7 10 (0.72%) 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%) Korn
12 2 (0.14%) RPG
12 2 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 327 (23.51%) Security Cleared
2 236 (16.97%) SC Cleared
3 182 (13.08%) Degree
4 119 (8.55%) CISSP
5 86 (6.18%) CISM
6 75 (5.39%) DV Cleared
7 65 (4.67%) PMI Certification
7 65 (4.67%) PMP
8 44 (3.16%) CRISC
9 33 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.80%) CISA
10 25 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (1.37%) Master's Degree
11 19 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 18 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 13 (0.93%) CESG Certified Professional
14 13 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 11 (0.79%) GIAC
16 10 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (12.58%) NIST
2 170 (12.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 130 (9.35%) GRC
4 99 (7.12%) GDPR
5 74 (5.32%) PMO
6 69 (4.96%) QA
7 57 (4.10%) Data Quality
8 45 (3.24%) NCSC
9 40 (2.88%) PCI DSS
10 35 (2.52%) JSP 440
11 30 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 29 (2.08%) SLA
13 28 (2.01%) SOC 2
14 22 (1.58%) COBIT
14 22 (1.58%) NIST 800
15 16 (1.15%) RMADS
16 15 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.93%) Def Stans
18 12 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
19 11 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 31 (2.23%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.01%) 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 (1.65%) 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%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.14%) NSN NetAct
11 2 (0.14%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 192 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 83 (5.97%) ServiceNow
3 68 (4.89%) Oracle
4 66 (4.74%) SAP
5 46 (3.31%) Google
6 21 (1.51%) Salesforce
7 20 (1.44%) Workday
8 19 (1.37%) Murex
9 14 (1.01%) Cisco
9 14 (1.01%) F5
10 12 (0.86%) Splunk
11 11 (0.79%) VMware
12 10 (0.72%) Databricks
12 10 (0.72%) Infoblox
13 9 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.65%) Foundry
13 9 (0.65%) Qualys
13 9 (0.65%) Remedy
14 8 (0.58%) Rapid7
14 8 (0.58%) Tenable