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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 47 64
Rank change year-on-year -22 +17 0
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,329 1,122 1,129
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.27% 4.62% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 5.06% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 882 710 758
10th Percentile £406 £370 £370
25th Percentile £471 £469 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £685 £750 £725
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 32 36
10th Percentile £20.37 £40.00 £18.92
25th Percentile £34.50 £47.45 £35.00
Median hourly rate £80.04 £62.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.58% +18.57% +393.89%
75th Percentile £105.25 £78.80 £60.31
90th Percentile £107.00 £87.46 £70.09
UK median hourly rate £74.68 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +14.89% +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 34,368 22,176 31,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.22% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,897 14,509 20,833
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -2.69% -1.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 935 2,251
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.45 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.40 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.48% -21.23% +0.29%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -33 635 £600 -7.69% 309
North of England -12 225 £511 -0.24% 109
South East -7 206 £550 -4.35% 156
Yorkshire -2 113 £487 -2.60% 52
North West -6 110 £550 +7.57% 50
Midlands -39 105 £537 +7.40% 63
South West -2 81 £560 +24.44% 67
West Midlands -40 74 £525 +5.00% 38
East of England -11 44 £525 -0.94% 61
East Midlands -32 31 £544 +20.83% 24
North East -30 2 £480 -16.52% 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 63 (4.74%) Confluence
2 35 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.53%) SAS
5 3 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.15%) IIS
7 1 (0.075%) CMS
7 1 (0.075%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.075%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.075%) nginx
7 1 (0.075%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.075%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.075%) Tomcat
Applications
1 59 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (3.84%) Microsoft Project
3 39 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.90%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.38%) Revit
7 4 (0.30%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.30%) Trello
8 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.15%) Windchill
9 1 (0.075%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.075%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.075%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 22 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.60%) Endur
2 8 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.53%) Loan IQ
3 7 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (0.53%) Summit
4 6 (0.45%) Aladdin
4 6 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.38%) Actimize
6 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.30%) Primavera
6 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.30%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.23%) Findur
7 3 (0.23%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 155 (11.66%) Azure
2 124 (9.33%) AWS
3 56 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (3.91%) GCP
5 46 (3.46%) Power Platform
6 35 (2.63%) SaaS
7 32 (2.41%) Entra ID
8 23 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
9 20 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (1.50%) Google Workspace
10 18 (1.35%) Google Sheets
10 18 (1.35%) PaaS
11 15 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (0.83%) GitHub
14 10 (0.75%) Amazon S3
14 10 (0.75%) IaaS
14 10 (0.75%) OpenShift
15 9 (0.68%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 41 (3.09%) Network Security
2 23 (1.73%) Firewall
3 15 (1.13%) DNS
4 12 (0.90%) DHCP
4 12 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.75%) BIG-IP
6 9 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
6 9 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.53%) 5G
8 6 (0.45%) HTTP
8 6 (0.45%) WAN
9 5 (0.38%) 3G
9 5 (0.38%) 4G
9 5 (0.38%) Internet
9 5 (0.38%) LAN
10 3 (0.23%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.23%) NAS
10 3 (0.23%) NGFW
10 3 (0.23%) SAN
10 3 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (2.63%) Power BI
2 31 (2.33%) Metadata
3 19 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (0.90%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.60%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.60%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.53%) RDBMS
8 6 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.38%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.38%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.38%) Tableau
10 4 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.30%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (0.23%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (0.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 119 (8.95%) JIRA
2 12 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.83%) Git
4 6 (0.45%) GitLab
5 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (0.30%) DbUnit
5 4 (0.30%) jMock
5 4 (0.30%) JUnit
5 4 (0.30%) Maven
5 4 (0.30%) Mockito
5 4 (0.30%) Selenium
5 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.23%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.075%) Appium
7 1 (0.075%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.075%) ERwin
7 1 (0.075%) MLflow
7 1 (0.075%) SoapUI
General
1 501 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 488 (36.72%) Finance
3 208 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (12.34%) Banking
5 136 (10.23%) Public Sector
6 98 (7.37%) Legal
7 44 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
8 43 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
9 32 (2.41%) Financial Institution
10 31 (2.33%) Retail
11 29 (2.18%) Military
12 28 (2.11%) Telecoms
13 27 (2.03%) Front Office
13 27 (2.03%) Investment Banking
14 26 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
16 20 (1.50%) Manufacturing
17 18 (1.35%) Marketing
18 17 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 17 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 172 (12.94%) Project Manager
2 171 (12.87%) Lead
3 131 (9.86%) Senior
4 129 (9.71%) Architect
5 126 (9.48%) Analyst
6 85 (6.40%) Consultant
7 69 (5.19%) Programme Manager
8 62 (4.67%) Business Analyst
9 58 (4.36%) Developer
10 44 (3.31%) Security Architect
11 41 (3.09%) Senior Manager
12 40 (3.01%) Risk Manager
13 39 (2.93%) Delivery Manager
14 36 (2.71%) Security Consultant
15 33 (2.48%) Security Engineer
16 29 (2.18%) Security Manager
17 27 (2.03%) Risk Analyst
18 26 (1.96%) Solutions Architect
19 25 (1.88%) IT Manager
20 23 (1.73%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.26%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (1.05%) REST
3 13 (0.98%) XML
4 12 (0.90%) .NET
4 12 (0.90%) Middleware
5 11 (0.83%) Kafka
5 11 (0.83%) Leaflet
6 9 (0.68%) JSON
7 7 (0.53%) AngularJS
7 7 (0.53%) OAuth
7 7 (0.53%) React
7 7 (0.53%) SOAP
8 6 (0.45%) J2EE
8 6 (0.45%) JSP
8 6 (0.45%) LDAP
9 5 (0.38%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (0.38%) OpenID
9 5 (0.38%) RESTful
9 5 (0.38%) SAML
9 5 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 101 (7.60%) Management Information System
2 54 (4.06%) Onboarding
3 50 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 47 (3.54%) Security Posture
5 46 (3.46%) Derivative
6 40 (3.01%) Operational Technology
7 38 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
8 36 (2.71%) Cloud Native
9 35 (2.63%) Data Centre
10 32 (2.41%) Market Risk
11 22 (1.66%) AI Agents
11 22 (1.66%) Credit Risk
12 21 (1.58%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
12 21 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 20 (1.50%) Equities
14 19 (1.43%) NHS
15 18 (1.35%) Fixed Income
16 17 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
17 16 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 35 (2.63%) Windows
2 28 (2.11%) Linux
3 16 (1.20%) Unix
4 7 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.23%) zOS
8 2 (0.15%) VMS
9 1 (0.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (31.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 335 (25.21%) Agile
3 263 (19.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 253 (19.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 236 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
6 228 (17.16%) Cybersecurity
7 223 (16.78%) Project Management
8 190 (14.30%) Decision-Making
9 166 (12.49%) Information Security
10 158 (11.89%) Roadmaps
11 143 (10.76%) AI
12 141 (10.61%) Change Management
13 139 (10.46%) Project Delivery
14 122 (9.18%) Migration
15 119 (8.95%) Analytics
16 117 (8.80%) Regulatory Compliance
17 114 (8.58%) PRINCE2
18 106 (7.98%) Data Protection
19 101 (7.60%) DevOps
20 99 (7.45%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 101 (7.60%) SQL
2 89 (6.70%) Python
3 48 (3.61%) Java
4 27 (2.03%) PowerShell
5 15 (1.13%) C#
5 15 (1.13%) C++
6 12 (0.90%) JavaScript
6 12 (0.90%) VBA
7 7 (0.53%) Shell Script
8 6 (0.45%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.38%) Bash
9 5 (0.38%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.30%) Perl
11 2 (0.15%) Go
11 2 (0.15%) Korn
11 2 (0.15%) RPG
11 2 (0.15%) Scala
12 1 (0.075%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.075%) R
Qualifications
1 307 (23.10%) Security Cleared
2 222 (16.70%) SC Cleared
3 191 (14.37%) Degree
4 109 (8.20%) CISSP
5 81 (6.09%) CISM
6 71 (5.34%) DV Cleared
6 71 (5.34%) PMP
7 67 (5.04%) PMI Certification
8 39 (2.93%) CRISC
9 29 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (1.43%) Master's Degree
12 18 (1.35%) CISA
13 17 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 14 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 14 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
14 14 (1.05%) GIAC
15 13 (0.98%) CESG Certified Professional
15 13 (0.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 10 (0.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (12.94%) NIST
2 171 (12.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 114 (8.58%) GRC
4 100 (7.52%) GDPR
5 85 (6.40%) PMO
6 68 (5.12%) QA
7 52 (3.91%) Data Quality
8 46 (3.46%) PCI DSS
9 38 (2.86%) NCSC
10 32 (2.41%) JSP 440
11 31 (2.33%) SLA
12 26 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
13 25 (1.88%) SOC 2
14 22 (1.66%) COBIT
14 22 (1.66%) NIST 800
15 16 (1.20%) RMADS
15 16 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
17 13 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 11 (0.83%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 28 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.83%) Docker
3 7 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.30%) Postfix
4 4 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.23%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.075%) NFS
6 1 (0.075%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.075%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.83%) Ansible
3 10 (0.75%) SCCM
4 9 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.68%) Terraform
5 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.38%) Control-M
7 4 (0.30%) Grafana
7 4 (0.30%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.23%) CASB
9 2 (0.15%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.15%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.15%) Nessus
9 2 (0.15%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.15%) NSN NetAct
9 2 (0.15%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.075%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 177 (13.32%) Microsoft
2 72 (5.42%) ServiceNow
3 69 (5.19%) Oracle
4 66 (4.97%) SAP
5 40 (3.01%) Google
6 22 (1.66%) Workday
7 21 (1.58%) Murex
8 18 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 12 (0.90%) F5
10 11 (0.83%) Cisco
10 11 (0.83%) Databricks
11 10 (0.75%) VMware
12 9 (0.68%) Splunk
13 8 (0.60%) Infoblox
14 7 (0.53%) Ariba
14 7 (0.53%) Bloomberg
14 7 (0.53%) Foundry
14 7 (0.53%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (0.45%) Remedy