Credit Risk Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Credit Risk
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Credit Risk in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Credit Risk over the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 107 123
Rank change year-on-year -17 +16 +35
Contract jobs citing Credit Risk 8 12 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.38% 0.68% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.12% 1.97% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 6
10th Percentile £460 £635 £513
25th Percentile £525 £650 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +15.38% -8.77%
75th Percentile £624 £763 £669
90th Percentile £675 £800 £725
Central London median daily rate £550 £750 £650
% change year-on-year -26.67% +15.38% -8.77%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Credit 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 715 609 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 33.90% 34.27% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 394 496
10th Percentile £356 £375 £269
25th Percentile £457 £463 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £578
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.43% -6.55%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £700
90th Percentile £788 £783 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile £18.71 - £12.75
25th Percentile £20.45 - £14.88
Median hourly rate £34.25 £31.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +63.16% -63.11%
75th Percentile £46.39 - £38.88
90th Percentile £64.83 - £59.65
Central London median hourly rate £27.06 £30.04 £19.00
% change year-on-year -9.92% +58.08% -45.71%

Credit Risk
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Credit Risk relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Credit Risk job vacancy trend in the City of London

Credit Risk
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Credit Risk.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Credit Risk

Credit Risk
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Credit Risk in the City of London over the 6 months to 23 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Credit Risk in the City of London

Credit Risk
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Credit Risk.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Credit Risk

Credit Risk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Collibra
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 6 (75.00%) Banking
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Investment Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Legal
4 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
5 1 (12.50%) Front Office
5 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Risk Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) MiFID Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Risk Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Summit Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) WinForms
1 1 (12.50%) WPF
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Market Risk
2 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (12.50%) Derivative
3 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
3 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Data Lineage
2 2 (25.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Due Diligence
2 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (25.00%) KYC
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (25.00%) SDLC
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) OO
3 1 (12.50%) OOP
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) PSD2
2 1 (12.50%) Basel III
2 1 (12.50%) CRD IV
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle