Risk Register Contract Job Trends in England

Risk Register
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Risk Register skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 431 452
Rank change year-on-year -26 +21 +136
Contract jobs citing Risk Register 96 87 104
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.34% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 44 65
10th Percentile £313 £366 £275
25th Percentile £404 £446 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.68%
75th Percentile £613 £631 £609
90th Percentile £694 £700 £698
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £31.17 £64.20 -
25th Percentile £32.00 £66.00 £76.59
Median hourly rate £36.00 £69.00 £78.19
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% -11.75% +117.18%
75th Percentile £92.50 £72.00 £83.22
90th Percentile £96.25 £73.80 £85.28
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £63.00 £78.19
% change year-on-year -42.86% -19.42% +117.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Risk Register 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 28,041 25,399 32,549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.71% 88.67% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,829 15,672 22,137
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,820 835 1,372
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +20.52%
75th Percentile £55.21 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £74.95 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%

Risk Register
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Risk Register relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Risk Register job vacancy trend in England

Risk Register
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Risk Register.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Risk Register

Risk Register
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Register in England over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Register in England

Risk Register
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Risk Register.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Risk Register

Risk Register
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Register in England over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Register in England

Risk Register
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 Register within the England region over the 6 months to 23 December 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 -4 38 £538 -2.27% 43
South East -15 18 £470 -1.05% 42
North of England -31 18 £468 +10.12% 35
South West -12 12 £644 +33.21% 25
Yorkshire - 10 £417 - 17
North West -22 8 £600 +41.18% 17
Midlands -33 8 £394 -10.00% 30
West Midlands -22 7 £450 -10.00% 15
East Midlands -17 2 £403 +7.40% 12
East of England -22 1 - - 27
Risk Register
UK

Risk Register
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 3 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.04%) Primavera
2 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.58%) Azure
2 10 (10.42%) AWS
3 8 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 8 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.21%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (5.21%) SaaS
6 4 (4.17%) Azure AI
6 4 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (3.13%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (3.13%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.13%) IaaS
7 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (3.13%) PaaS
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.04%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (1.04%) LAN
2 1 (1.04%) Network Security
2 1 (1.04%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.04%) VLAN
2 1 (1.04%) VPN
2 1 (1.04%) VSAN
2 1 (1.04%) VXLAN
2 1 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.21%) Power BI
2 1 (1.04%) MySQL
2 1 (1.04%) Power Query
2 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 50 (52.08%) Social Skills
2 27 (28.13%) Finance
3 21 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (16.67%) Legal
5 12 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.29%) Local Government
7 6 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (5.21%) Banking
8 5 (5.21%) Marketing
9 4 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (3.13%) Military
10 3 (3.13%) Retail
11 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.04%) Investment Banking
12 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (21.88%) Analyst
2 18 (18.75%) Project Manager
3 17 (17.71%) Risk Analyst
4 14 (14.58%) Lead
5 13 (13.54%) Senior
6 8 (8.33%) Compliance Analyst
6 8 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
7 7 (7.29%) Consultant
7 7 (7.29%) Risk Support Analyst
7 7 (7.29%) Support Analyst
8 6 (6.25%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 5 (5.21%) Architect
9 5 (5.21%) Governance Manager
9 5 (5.21%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (5.21%) Service Transition Manager
9 5 (5.21%) Transition Manager
10 4 (4.17%) Security Manager
10 4 (4.17%) Senior Manager
10 4 (4.17%) Senior Risk Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.13%) OAuth
2 1 (1.04%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.21%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (4.17%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.08%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.08%) NHS
6 2 (2.08%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.08%) PKI
6 2 (2.08%) Replication
7 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.04%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.04%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.04%) SCADA
7 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.04%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.08%) VMS
2 1 (1.04%) Android
2 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (43.75%) Risk Management
2 25 (26.04%) Decision-Making
3 20 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (20.83%) Project Management
4 18 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 18 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (17.71%) PRINCE2
5 17 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (16.67%) Migration
6 16 (16.67%) Project Delivery
7 15 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (15.63%) Information Security
8 13 (13.54%) Risk Analysis
8 13 (13.54%) Roadmaps
9 12 (12.50%) Agile
9 12 (12.50%) Cloud Security
9 12 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
10 11 (11.46%) Incident Response
11 10 (10.42%) Data Protection
12 8 (8.33%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (1.04%) Java
2 1 (1.04%) Korn
2 1 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.46%) PMI Certification
3 11 (11.46%) PMP
4 9 (9.38%) CISSP
4 9 (9.38%) Degree
5 6 (6.25%) CISM
6 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.17%) CISA
7 4 (4.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (2.08%) CRISC
9 1 (1.04%) APMG
9 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.04%) CEH
9 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.04%) PCI QSA
9 1 (1.04%) VCAP
9 1 (1.04%) VCDX
9 1 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (17.71%) NIST
3 16 (16.67%) GDPR
4 11 (11.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (10.42%) PMO
6 8 (8.33%) GRC
7 5 (5.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 4 (4.17%) EU AI Act
8 4 (4.17%) ISO 31000
8 4 (4.17%) NCSC
8 4 (4.17%) PCI DSS
9 3 (3.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (2.08%) COBIT
10 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (2.08%) NIST 800
10 2 (2.08%) P3O
10 2 (2.08%) PERC
10 2 (2.08%) QA
10 2 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.04%) SRDF
1 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.04%) VMware NSX
1 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (4.17%) CSIRT
1 4 (4.17%) QRadar
2 3 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.04%) AirWatch
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (23.96%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.17%) Fortinet
2 4 (4.17%) Splunk
3 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.08%) Foundry
4 2 (2.08%) Oracle
4 2 (2.08%) SAP
5 1 (1.04%) Dell
5 1 (1.04%) EMC
5 1 (1.04%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.04%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.04%) Percona
5 1 (1.04%) Samsung
5 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.04%) VMware