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 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 99 123
Rank change year-on-year -26 +24 +12
Contract jobs citing Credit Risk 13 28 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.55% 1.50% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.60% 4.10% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 4
10th Percentile £475 £150 £180
25th Percentile £513 £281 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £412
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +69.80% -46.81%
75th Percentile £788 £750 £491
90th Percentile £850 £763 £583
Central London median daily rate £550 £700 £412
% change year-on-year -21.43% +69.80% -46.81%

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 811 683 649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.41% 36.60% 31.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 461 424
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +2.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £710
90th Percentile £775 £813 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.29% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 5
10th Percentile £19.36 £17.02 £18.40
25th Percentile £21.75 £20.34 £22.00
Median hourly rate £28.07 £29.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +8.33% -27.84%
75th Percentile £41.69 £58.18 -
90th Percentile £62.80 £89.88 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £35.41 £27.50 £25.79
% change year-on-year +28.76% +6.63% -26.31%

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 13 August 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 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Collibra
1 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Front Office
4 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Legal
5 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Risk Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Business Analyst
4 3 (23.08%) Credit Analyst
4 3 (23.08%) Credit Risk Analyst
4 3 (23.08%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
4 3 (23.08%) Risk Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Actuary
5 1 (7.69%) Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) KYC Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) MiFID Project Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Murex Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Product Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Product Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Product Owner
5 1 (7.69%) Summit Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Market Risk
2 2 (15.38%) Derivative
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Fixed Income
3 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
1 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) AI
2 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis
2 3 (23.08%) Scrum
2 3 (23.08%) SDLC
3 2 (15.38%) Analytics
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
3 2 (15.38%) Data Lineage
3 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Microservices
3 2 (15.38%) Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Product Management
3 2 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
3 2 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Basel III
2 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) QA
3 1 (7.69%) GRC
3 1 (7.69%) IFRS
3 1 (7.69%) IFRS 9
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.69%) MiFID
3 1 (7.69%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Murex
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle