Risk Management Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Risk Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Risk Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 47 62
Rank change year-on-year -24 +15 +2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 164 138 142
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.45% 4.09% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 4.68% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 77 92
10th Percentile £398 £363 £183
25th Percentile £447 £445 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% +7.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £553 £638 £588
90th Percentile £658 £755 £675
England median daily rate £550 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.39% -4.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile - £26.93 £17.97
25th Percentile £22.16 £44.62 £20.56
Median hourly rate £22.32 £60.00 £26.73
Median % change year-on-year -62.81% +124.51% +172.70%
75th Percentile £40.00 £74.16 £33.51
90th Percentile £41.16 £82.05 £36.46
England median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £66.66
% change year-on-year -44.17% -9.98% +580.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,182 2,951 4,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.10% 87.54% 87.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,769 1,688 2,663
10th Percentile £225 £263 £286
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £594
90th Percentile £638 £670 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.43% -2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 136 199
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.11 £17.21 £17.74
Median hourly rate £32.43 £27.26 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.99% -22.13% +55.56%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.18 £46.91
90th Percentile £69.25 £66.96 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -23.60% +27.14%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Risk Management job vacancy trend in the North of England

Risk Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Risk Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in the North of England

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Risk Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Management in the North of England

Risk Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
Yorkshire +11 82 £492 -10.55% 49
North West -39 80 £488 -2.01% 50
North East -19 2 £550 -13.73% 8
Risk Management
England

Risk Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 12 (7.32%) Confluence
2 4 (2.44%) CICS
2 4 (2.44%) CMS
2 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.22%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.61%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.44%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.44%) VisionPLUS
2 2 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.61%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 24 (14.63%) GCP
2 23 (14.02%) AWS
3 19 (11.59%) Azure
4 8 (4.88%) GitHub
5 7 (4.27%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.66%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (3.05%) Apigee
7 5 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.05%) Datadog
7 5 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.05%) OpenShift
7 5 (3.05%) PaaS
7 5 (3.05%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.05%) SaaS
7 5 (3.05%) Serverless
8 4 (2.44%) Loggly
8 4 (2.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.49%) Kerberos
2 4 (2.44%) Internet
2 4 (2.44%) LAN
2 4 (2.44%) WAN
3 2 (1.22%) DKIM
3 2 (1.22%) DMARC
3 2 (1.22%) DNS
3 2 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.22%) SMTP
3 2 (1.22%) SSH
3 2 (1.22%) VPN
4 1 (0.61%) Network Security
4 1 (0.61%) PABX
4 1 (0.61%) SAN
4 1 (0.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.66%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.05%) BigQuery
3 5 (3.05%) DynamoDB
3 5 (3.05%) MySQL
4 4 (2.44%) MS Access
4 4 (2.44%) Power BI
4 4 (2.44%) RDBMS
4 4 (2.44%) Redis
4 4 (2.44%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.22%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.61%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (9.76%) JIRA
2 6 (3.66%) Git
2 6 (3.66%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.05%) SonarQube
4 4 (2.44%) Gradle
4 4 (2.44%) Maven
4 4 (2.44%) SonarLint
5 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.61%) JMeter
5 1 (0.61%) Postman
5 1 (0.61%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.61%) Selenium
General
1 75 (45.73%) Social Skills
2 53 (32.32%) Finance
3 26 (15.85%) Banking
4 25 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (11.59%) Legal
6 16 (9.76%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.05%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.44%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.83%) Law
10 3 (1.83%) Retail
11 2 (1.22%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.22%) Military
11 2 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.61%) Local Government
12 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (14.02%) Architect
2 19 (11.59%) Project Manager
3 14 (8.54%) Senior
4 13 (7.93%) Analyst
4 13 (7.93%) Lead
5 10 (6.10%) Consultant
6 9 (5.49%) Design Engineer
6 9 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (4.88%) Governance Manager
7 8 (4.88%) Security Analyst
7 8 (4.88%) Technical Architect
8 7 (4.27%) Developer
8 7 (4.27%) Security Architect
9 6 (3.66%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 6 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
10 5 (3.05%) Java Architect
10 5 (3.05%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (3.05%) Voice Design Engineer
10 5 (3.05%) Voice Engineer
11 4 (2.44%) IT Audit Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.10%) OAuth
2 9 (5.49%) SAML
3 6 (3.66%) RESTful
4 5 (3.05%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.44%) Celery
5 4 (2.44%) Dropwizard
5 4 (2.44%) J2EE
5 4 (2.44%) JWT
5 4 (2.44%) LDAP
5 4 (2.44%) Micronaut
6 3 (1.83%) GraphQL
6 3 (1.83%) OpenID
6 3 (1.83%) REST
7 2 (1.22%) Flash
7 2 (1.22%) Kafka
7 2 (1.22%) LangChain
7 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.22%) Middleware
7 2 (1.22%) Smart Contracts
7 2 (1.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.63%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.93%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.10%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.49%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.88%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.44%) N-Tier
7 4 (2.44%) VSAM
8 3 (1.83%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.83%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.22%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.22%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.22%) Machine to Machine
9 2 (1.22%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.22%) VMS
2 1 (0.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.61%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (30.49%) Stakeholder Management
2 48 (29.27%) Cybersecurity
3 38 (23.17%) Agile
3 38 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (17.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 29 (17.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 25 (15.24%) Incident Response
5 25 (15.24%) Project Management
6 23 (14.02%) Migration
7 22 (13.41%) Decision-Making
8 21 (12.80%) Roadmaps
9 18 (10.98%) Information Security
9 18 (10.98%) SDLC
10 17 (10.37%) Identity Access Management
11 16 (9.76%) DevOps
12 15 (9.15%) Change Control
12 15 (9.15%) Security Operations
12 15 (9.15%) Vulnerability Management
13 14 (8.54%) Mentoring
13 14 (8.54%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.10%) Python
2 6 (3.66%) Java
3 5 (3.05%) JCL
4 4 (2.44%) COBOL
4 4 (2.44%) SQL
5 2 (1.22%) C#
5 2 (1.22%) C++
5 2 (1.22%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.22%) Rust
5 2 (1.22%) Solidity
6 1 (0.61%) Assembly Language
6 1 (0.61%) CLIST
6 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.61%) REXX
Qualifications
1 28 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.98%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (8.54%) CISM
4 14 (8.54%) CISSP
5 12 (7.32%) Degree
6 6 (3.66%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (2.44%) CISA
7 4 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.44%) PhD
7 4 (2.44%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.44%) PMP
8 3 (1.83%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.22%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.22%) CCSK
9 2 (1.22%) CEH
9 2 (1.22%) MCP
9 2 (1.22%) OSCP
10 1 (0.61%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.46%) NIST
2 18 (10.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (7.32%) GDPR
3 12 (7.32%) GRC
4 8 (4.88%) QA
5 6 (3.66%) NCSC
5 6 (3.66%) PCI DSS
6 5 (3.05%) Accessibility
7 4 (2.44%) P3O
8 3 (1.83%) PMO
8 3 (1.83%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.22%) COBIT
9 2 (1.22%) SLA
9 2 (1.22%) WCAG
10 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.61%) FIPS 140-2
10 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.61%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (4.27%) Docker
2 6 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.61%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 9 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.88%) Terraform
3 7 (4.27%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (1.83%) Ansible
5 1 (0.61%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 31 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.32%) Google
3 8 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.66%) SAP
5 5 (3.05%) BiZZdesign
6 4 (2.44%) Gigya
7 3 (1.83%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.83%) Databricks
7 3 (1.83%) IBM
8 2 (1.22%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.22%) Citrix
8 2 (1.22%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.22%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.22%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.22%) Workday
9 1 (0.61%) Avaya
9 1 (0.61%) Centrify
9 1 (0.61%) Nortel
9 1 (0.61%) Progress
9 1 (0.61%) Zscaler