The first table below looks at the demand for the Risk Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Risk Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Risk Analyst
Rank 256 199 198
Rank change year-on-year
-57 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Risk Analyst 129 241 279
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.597% 0.900% 0.893%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.647% 0.972% 0.965%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 192 223
Average daily rate £525 £500 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £378 £375 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £649 £660
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £400 £325
% change year-on-year
-22.50% +23.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £63.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.50 - £18.00
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19929 24797 28916
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.30% 92.59% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13475 15993 18573
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 606 683
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Risk Analyst
England

Risk Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Risk Analyst across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Risk Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Risk Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Risk Analyst across the London region.

London Risk Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Risk Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Risk Analyst across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Risk Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Risk Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Risk Analyst across the London region.

London Risk Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Risk Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Analyst within the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London -32 47 £500 +11.11%
Canary Wharf -9 1 - -
Risk Analyst
England

Risk Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Risk Analyst in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Risk Analyst in their job title.

1 101 (48.56%) Credit Risk
2 100 (48.08%) Banking
3 86 (41.35%) Investment Banking
4 85 (40.87%) Market Risk
5 78 (37.50%) SQL
6 72 (34.62%) Finance
7 63 (30.29%) Risk Management
8 49 (23.56%) User Acceptance Testing
9 45 (21.63%) Data Modelling
10 44 (21.15%) Business Analysis
11 38 (18.27%) Degree
12 36 (17.31%) Front Office
13 33 (15.87%) Analytics
14 31 (14.90%) Data Analysis
15 29 (13.94%) MS Excel
16 28 (13.46%) MS Office
17 27 (12.98%) Stress Testing
18 26 (12.50%) Derivative
18 26 (12.50%) VBA
18 26 (12.50%) UML
19 24 (11.54%) Basel II
19 24 (11.54%) Basel III
20 23 (11.06%) Data Warehouse
20 23 (11.06%) MS Visio
20 23 (11.06%) Migration
21 22 (10.58%) Data Migration
22 21 (10.10%) Python
23 20 (9.615%) Validation
23 20 (9.615%) BPEL
23 20 (9.615%) Monte Carlo Method

Risk Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Risk Analyst in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Risk Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (3.846%) FpML
2 6 (2.885%) .NET
3 4 (1.923%) ASP.NET
4 3 (1.442%) SciPy
5 2 (0.962%) COM
5 2 (0.962%) MDX
6 1 (0.481%) Apache Flex
6 1 (0.481%) HTML5
6 1 (0.481%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 10 (4.808%) SAS
2 3 (1.442%) SharePoint
Applications
1 29 (13.94%) MS Excel
2 28 (13.46%) MS Office
3 23 (11.06%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.885%) MS PowerPoint
5 2 (0.962%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.962%) Summit
2 1 (0.481%) Adaptiv
2 1 (0.481%) Bloomberg TOMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.442%) HTTP
2 2 (0.962%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.481%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.06%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (3.846%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.885%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 6 (2.885%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 5 (2.404%) Data Mining
5 4 (1.923%) TOAD
6 2 (0.962%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.962%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.962%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.962%) OLAP
6 2 (0.962%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (0.481%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 8 (3.846%) JIRA
2 5 (2.404%) ClearCase
3 4 (1.923%) ERwin
4 1 (0.481%) Subversion
4 1 (0.481%) TestDirector
4 1 (0.481%) Balsamiq Mockups
4 1 (0.481%) GitHub
General
1 100 (48.08%) Banking
2 86 (41.35%) Investment Banking
3 72 (34.62%) Finance
4 36 (17.31%) Front Office
5 9 (4.327%) French Language
6 7 (3.365%) Legal
7 4 (1.923%) Retail
7 4 (1.923%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.442%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.442%) Back Office
9 1 (0.481%) Advertising
9 1 (0.481%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.481%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.481%) Private Banking
Miscellaneous
1 101 (48.56%) Credit Risk
2 85 (40.87%) Market Risk
3 26 (12.50%) Derivative
4 19 (9.135%) Fixed Income
5 11 (5.288%) Credit Derivative
6 9 (4.327%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (3.365%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.404%) Equities
9 4 (1.923%) Physics
9 4 (1.923%) Computer Science
10 3 (1.442%) Swaptions
10 3 (1.442%) Statistics
11 2 (0.962%) Mathematics
11 2 (0.962%) Economics
11 2 (0.962%) Exotic Derivative
11 2 (0.962%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.481%) Replication
12 1 (0.481%) RIA
12 1 (0.481%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.481%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.962%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (30.29%) Risk Management
2 49 (23.56%) User Acceptance Testing
3 45 (21.63%) Data Modelling
4 44 (21.15%) Business Analysis
5 33 (15.87%) Analytics
6 31 (14.90%) Data Analysis
7 27 (12.98%) Stress Testing
8 26 (12.50%) UML
9 23 (11.06%) Migration
10 22 (10.58%) Data Migration
11 20 (9.615%) Monte Carlo Method
11 20 (9.615%) Validation
11 20 (9.615%) BPEL
12 18 (8.654%) Risk Analytics
13 13 (6.250%) Greeks
14 12 (5.769%) Change Control
14 12 (5.769%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (5.288%) Release Management
16 10 (4.808%) Use Case
16 10 (4.808%) OO
Programming Languages
1 78 (37.50%) SQL
2 26 (12.50%) VBA
3 21 (10.10%) Python
4 17 (8.173%) C#
5 15 (7.212%) Java
6 9 (4.327%) Jython
7 7 (3.365%) C++
8 4 (1.923%) Perl
8 4 (1.923%) R
9 3 (1.442%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.481%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.481%) VBScript
10 1 (0.481%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.481%) C
Qualifications
1 38 (18.27%) Degree
2 3 (1.442%) CGEIT
3 2 (0.962%) CRISC
3 2 (0.962%) OCP
3 2 (0.962%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.481%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.481%) CFA
4 1 (0.481%) Postgraduate
4 1 (0.481%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.54%) Basel II
1 24 (11.54%) Basel III
2 6 (2.885%) QA
3 5 (2.404%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.404%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 3 (1.442%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (3.365%) Business Objects
1 7 (3.365%) Murex
2 5 (2.404%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.404%) Teradata
3 4 (1.923%) Bloomberg
3 4 (1.923%) Calypso
4 3 (1.442%) Sybase
5 2 (0.962%) SAP
5 2 (0.962%) Wall Street Systems
5 2 (0.962%) Reuters
5 2 (0.962%) Twitter
6 1 (0.481%) iRise
6 1 (0.481%) StatPro
6 1 (0.481%) Symantec
6 1 (0.481%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.481%) Oracle
6 1 (0.481%) SunGard
6 1 (0.481%) EMC
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