Market Risk Contracts in Central London

Market Risk
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Market Risk in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Market Risk over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 106 135
Rank change year-on-year 0 +29 +36
Contract jobs citing Market Risk 21 24 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.05% 0.99% 1.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.10% 3.21% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 26
10th Percentile £550 £643 £683
25th Percentile £559 £725 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £825 £750
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +0.91%
75th Percentile £838 £838 £800
90th Percentile - £875 £849
London median daily rate £750 £788 £764
% change year-on-year -4.76% +3.08% +9.14%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Market Risk falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 678 747 1,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.88% 30.79% 36.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 524 950
10th Percentile £360 £266 £313
25th Percentile £475 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £611
Median % change year-on-year - -5.93% +6.30%
75th Percentile £696 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 17
10th Percentile £23.78 £12.75 £18.78
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.73 £25.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -26.32%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.25 £83.75
90th Percentile £72.40 £29.78 £88.30
London median hourly rate £35.45 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +36.33% -25.71% -20.05%

Market Risk
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Market Risk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Market Risk in Central London

Market Risk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Market Risk in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Market Risk in Central London

Market Risk
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Market Risk in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Market Risk in Central London

Market Risk
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Market Risk in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Market Risk in Central London

Market Risk
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Market Risk within the Central London region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
City of London 0 21 £675 -18.18% 1
Market Risk
London

Market Risk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (23.81%) Apache
1 5 (23.81%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
2 3 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) Big Data
2 5 (23.81%) Hadoop
3 4 (19.05%) Data Mining
3 4 (19.05%) Power BI
4 2 (9.52%) Tableau
5 1 (4.76%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Git
1 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Ant
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 12 (57.14%) Finance
2 9 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Front Office
4 4 (19.05%) Banking
4 4 (19.05%) Investment Banking
5 3 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (14.29%) Legal
6 1 (4.76%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Apache Spark Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Java Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Consultant
3 4 (19.05%) Risk Consultant
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Front Office Business Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Market Risk Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Market Risk Project Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Quantitative Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Risk Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Risk Project Manager
6 1 (4.76%) PMO Project Manager
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (23.81%) Credit Risk
1 5 (23.81%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (9.52%) Fixed Income
2 2 (9.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.76%) Equities
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Analytics
2 11 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (47.62%) Risk Management
3 10 (47.62%) Stress Testing
4 6 (28.57%) Risk Analytics
5 5 (23.81%) Batch Processing
5 5 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
5 5 (23.81%) Code Quality
5 5 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (23.81%) Greeks
5 5 (23.81%) Mathematics
5 5 (23.81%) Memory Management
5 5 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (23.81%) Project Management
5 5 (23.81%) Regulatory Compliance
5 5 (23.81%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Agile
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (19.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) SQL
3 5 (23.81%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Basel II
1 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) Basel III
2 1 (4.76%) PMO
2 1 (4.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Alteryx
1 1 (4.76%) Calypso
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.76%) Murex