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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 57 65
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,699 1,208 1,066
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 4.38% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 4.82% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 760 610
10th Percentile £404 £363 £371
25th Percentile £476 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% - -3.00%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £734
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £568 £560
% change year-on-year -3.08% +1.34% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 28 25
10th Percentile £24.72 £22.16 £32.75
25th Percentile £45.31 £29.52 £43.75
Median hourly rate £67.05 £33.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +100.13% -41.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80.00 £54.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £88.20 £77.80 £75.24
UK median hourly rate £64.09 £33.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +91.31% -41.74% +16.16%

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 39,416 25,077 27,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.84% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,046 15,915 17,172
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,836 1,513 1,250
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.58
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -20 834 £600 -7.69% 1,871
North of England -10 269 £508 +1.65% 355
South East +13 256 £575 +10.84% 455
Yorkshire +8 131 £497 -0.60% 104
North West -20 131 £525 +2.68% 221
Midlands -29 113 £525 +16.67% 226
South West -21 110 £570 -0.87% 219
West Midlands -8 91 £500 - 146
East of England +4 71 £513 -14.58% 120
East Midlands -32 19 £549 +36.44% 80
North East -35 8 £454 -17.50% 34
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 62 (3.65%) Confluence
2 39 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.71%) SAS
4 4 (0.24%) IIS
4 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
4 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.12%) CMS
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.059%) Apache
7 1 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.059%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.059%) Appian
7 1 (0.059%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.059%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.059%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 60 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.00%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.24%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.24%) Revit
7 3 (0.18%) Windchill
8 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.059%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.059%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 40 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.82%) Endur
3 11 (0.65%) SAP GRC
4 9 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.47%) Primavera
6 7 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.24%) Actimize
9 4 (0.24%) Magento
10 3 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.18%) Front Arena
10 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.18%) SAP HCM
10 3 (0.18%) Summit
10 3 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 264 (15.54%) Azure
2 187 (11.01%) AWS
3 87 (5.12%) GCP
4 73 (4.30%) Power Platform
5 65 (3.83%) Entra ID
6 51 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
7 50 (2.94%) SaaS
8 32 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
10 26 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
12 22 (1.29%) GitHub
13 21 (1.24%) OCI
14 19 (1.12%) Azure AI
15 18 (1.06%) PaaS
16 15 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
17 14 (0.82%) Serverless
18 12 (0.71%) IaaS
18 12 (0.71%) Power Automate
19 11 (0.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.47%) Network Security
2 50 (2.94%) Firewall
3 19 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.06%) WAN
5 17 (1.00%) DNS
6 16 (0.94%) LAN
7 13 (0.77%) DHCP
8 12 (0.71%) 5G
9 10 (0.59%) 4G
9 10 (0.59%) VPN
10 8 (0.47%) BIG-IP
11 7 (0.41%) Cisco IPT
12 6 (0.35%) Internet
12 6 (0.35%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.29%) Wireless
14 4 (0.24%) 3G
14 4 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
14 4 (0.24%) SAN
14 4 (0.24%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (3.30%) Power BI
2 38 (2.24%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.82%) Metadata
4 18 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (0.77%) Data Lake
5 13 (0.77%) Relational Database
6 12 (0.71%) Oracle Database
7 11 (0.65%) Big Data
8 10 (0.59%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.41%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.35%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.35%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.29%) Db2
12 4 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.24%) Ataccama
12 4 (0.24%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 108 (6.36%) JIRA
2 23 (1.35%) Git
3 18 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.77%) Selenium
5 11 (0.65%) Cypress.io
6 9 (0.53%) Postman
7 8 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.47%) WebDriver
8 5 (0.29%) Artifactory
8 5 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.29%) Claude Code
8 5 (0.29%) GitLab
8 5 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.24%) Gradle
9 4 (0.24%) Maven
9 4 (0.24%) Subversion
9 4 (0.24%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.18%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.18%) jMock
10 3 (0.18%) Mockito
General
1 683 (40.20%) Social Skills
2 623 (36.67%) Finance
3 284 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
4 212 (12.48%) Public Sector
5 198 (11.65%) Banking
6 131 (7.71%) Legal
7 91 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
8 70 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
9 69 (4.06%) Front Office
10 49 (2.88%) Aerospace
11 46 (2.71%) Military
12 44 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
13 40 (2.35%) Manufacturing
13 40 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
14 37 (2.18%) Telecoms
15 35 (2.06%) Financial Institution
15 35 (2.06%) Retail
16 34 (2.00%) Law
17 31 (1.82%) Investment Banking
18 26 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 222 (13.07%) Lead
2 214 (12.60%) Architect
3 173 (10.18%) Senior
4 171 (10.06%) Analyst
5 165 (9.71%) Project Manager
6 92 (5.41%) Consultant
7 85 (5.00%) Security Architect
8 70 (4.12%) Programme Manager
9 60 (3.53%) Business Analyst
10 58 (3.41%) Developer
11 51 (3.00%) Senior Manager
12 47 (2.77%) IT Manager
13 46 (2.71%) Risk Manager
14 40 (2.35%) Delivery Manager
15 39 (2.30%) Security Engineer
16 38 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
17 36 (2.12%) Security Consultant
18 35 (2.06%) Senior Analyst
19 34 (2.00%) Security Manager
19 34 (2.00%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.83%) Terraform
2 38 (2.24%) .NET
3 34 (2.00%) REST
4 23 (1.35%) Middleware
5 20 (1.18%) Kafka
6 17 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (0.88%) OAuth
8 12 (0.71%) JSON
8 12 (0.71%) OpenID
8 12 (0.71%) React
8 12 (0.71%) SAML
9 11 (0.65%) SLSA
9 11 (0.65%) SOAP
10 10 (0.59%) Spring
10 10 (0.59%) Web Services
10 10 (0.59%) XML
11 9 (0.53%) .NET Core
11 9 (0.53%) LDAP
11 9 (0.53%) SailPoint
11 9 (0.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 116 (6.83%) Onboarding
2 100 (5.89%) Management Information System
3 85 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 80 (4.71%) Security Posture
5 68 (4.00%) Cloud Native
6 53 (3.12%) Data Protection Act
7 48 (2.83%) Data Centre
8 45 (2.65%) Operational Technology
9 39 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (2.24%) Cyber Threat
11 34 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (1.77%) Market Risk
13 26 (1.53%) AI Agents
14 25 (1.47%) Credit Risk
15 22 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
15 22 (1.29%) PMI
16 21 (1.24%) NHS
17 20 (1.18%) Data Structures
17 20 (1.18%) Derivative
17 20 (1.18%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 68 (4.00%) Windows
2 53 (3.12%) Linux
3 35 (2.06%) Unix
4 23 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.41%) zOS
7 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.18%) AIX
9 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.12%) Android
11 1 (0.059%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 707 (41.61%) Stakeholder Management
2 442 (26.02%) Cybersecurity
3 410 (24.13%) Agile
4 394 (23.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 362 (21.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 293 (17.25%) Decision-Making
7 249 (14.66%) Roadmaps
8 247 (14.54%) AI
9 242 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
10 230 (13.54%) Project Management
11 204 (12.01%) Information Security
12 193 (11.36%) Project Delivery
13 164 (9.65%) DevOps
14 161 (9.48%) Migration
15 157 (9.24%) CI/CD
16 156 (9.18%) Change Management
17 151 (8.89%) Vulnerability Management
18 144 (8.48%) Analytics
19 137 (8.06%) PRINCE2
19 137 (8.06%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 125 (7.36%) Python
2 92 (5.41%) SQL
3 42 (2.47%) PowerShell
4 40 (2.35%) Java
5 36 (2.12%) C#
6 19 (1.12%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.00%) Bash
8 13 (0.77%) Shell Script
9 12 (0.71%) VBA
10 9 (0.53%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.41%) Go
12 6 (0.35%) Bicep
12 6 (0.35%) Korn
12 6 (0.35%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.29%) Assembly Language
13 5 (0.29%) CLIST
13 5 (0.29%) JCL
13 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.29%) REXX
14 4 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 462 (27.19%) Security Cleared
2 335 (19.72%) SC Cleared
3 169 (9.95%) Degree
4 155 (9.12%) CISSP
5 111 (6.53%) DV Cleared
6 98 (5.77%) CISM
7 84 (4.94%) PMI Certification
8 79 (4.65%) PMP
9 48 (2.83%) CRISC
10 46 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (2.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 29 (1.71%) CISA
13 29 (1.71%) Master's Degree
14 27 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
15 26 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
16 24 (1.41%) AWS Certification
16 24 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
16 24 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 22 (1.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (12.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 194 (11.42%) NIST
3 184 (10.83%) GRC
4 103 (6.06%) QA
5 98 (5.77%) GDPR
6 74 (4.36%) Data Quality
7 68 (4.00%) NCSC
8 62 (3.65%) PMO
9 36 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials
10 29 (1.71%) JSP 440
11 21 (1.24%) NIST 800
12 17 (1.00%) Accessibility
12 17 (1.00%) SOC 2
13 16 (0.94%) SLA
14 14 (0.82%) COBIT
14 14 (0.82%) Def Stans
15 13 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 13 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 13 (0.77%) PCI DSS
16 11 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.06%) Docker
3 11 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.47%) vSphere
6 7 (0.41%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.29%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.24%) FreeRADIUS
9 3 (0.18%) Firmware
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.18%) Postfix
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.12%) NFS
10 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.059%) IAG
11 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 33 (1.94%) Ansible
3 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.59%) Grafana
4 10 (0.59%) SCCM
5 7 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.29%) Control-M
7 5 (0.29%) OMEGAMON
8 4 (0.24%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.18%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.18%) Puppet
9 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.12%) NSN NetAct
10 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.059%) Nessus
Vendors
1 262 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 103 (6.06%) ServiceNow
3 80 (4.71%) SAP
4 59 (3.47%) Oracle
5 45 (2.65%) Google
6 23 (1.35%) Splunk
7 20 (1.18%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.12%) VMware
9 15 (0.88%) Cisco
9 15 (0.88%) Databricks
9 15 (0.88%) Foundry
9 15 (0.88%) Murex
9 15 (0.88%) Qualys
10 14 (0.82%) BeyondTrust
10 14 (0.82%) IBM
11 13 (0.77%) CyberArk
12 11 (0.65%) Tenable
13 10 (0.59%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.59%) Workday
14 9 (0.53%) F5