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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 116 126
Rank change year-on-year +20 +10 +45
Contract jobs citing Credit Risk 26 11 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.48% 0.53% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.93% 1.77% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 15
10th Percentile £150 £211 £516
25th Percentile £216 £396 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £427 £775
Median % change year-on-year +31.15% -44.90% +8.84%
75th Percentile £700 £644 £875
90th Percentile £763 £723 £913
Central London median daily rate £560 £427 £775
% change year-on-year +31.15% -44.90% +8.84%

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 662 622 997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.64% 30.06% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 382 654
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £453 £482 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £695 £723 £738
90th Percentile £808 £838 £838
Central London median daily rate £585 £589 £600
% change year-on-year -0.59% -1.92% +3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 9
10th Percentile £16.96 £18.40 £16.92
25th Percentile £19.79 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -22.86% -28.57%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £42.32
90th Percentile £91.00 £66.30 £56.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £31.25
% change year-on-year +2.56% -17.47% -36.22%

Credit Risk
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Credit Risk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Credit Risk 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 16 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in the City of 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 (19.23%) Apache Spark
2 3 (11.54%) SAS
3 1 (3.85%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.85%) AWS
1 1 (3.85%) Azure
1 1 (3.85%) GCP
1 1 (3.85%) GitHub
1 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
1 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
1 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Big Data
2 4 (15.38%) Hadoop
3 3 (11.54%) Apache Hive
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.85%) MySQL
5 1 (3.85%) Power BI
5 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 21 (80.77%) Finance
2 11 (42.31%) Banking
3 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Billing
3 5 (19.23%) Legal
4 4 (15.38%) Financial Institution
5 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Back Office
6 1 (3.85%) Front Office
6 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Business Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Python Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Data Scientist
4 2 (7.69%) Gen AI Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Lead Data Scientist
4 2 (7.69%) Quantitative Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Risk Business Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Big Data Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Big Data Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Scala Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) PySpark
1 4 (15.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Market Risk
2 3 (11.54%) Algorithms
2 3 (11.54%) Derivative
3 2 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (7.69%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Risk Management
2 8 (30.77%) Credit Risk Management
3 7 (26.92%) Analytics
4 5 (19.23%) Accounts Receivable
4 5 (19.23%) Agile
4 5 (19.23%) Data Science
4 5 (19.23%) ERP
4 5 (19.23%) Machine Learning
4 5 (19.23%) Stress Testing
5 4 (15.38%) Generative AI
5 4 (15.38%) LLM
5 4 (15.38%) Mathematics
6 3 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
6 3 (11.54%) Data Extraction
6 3 (11.54%) Portfolio Management
7 2 (7.69%) Greeks
7 2 (7.69%) Risk Analysis
7 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) SQL
3 1 (3.85%) C
3 1 (3.85%) C#
3 1 (3.85%) C++
3 1 (3.85%) CodeQL
3 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) Master's Degree
2 3 (11.54%) PhD
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) IFRS
1 3 (11.54%) IFRS 9
2 2 (7.69%) Basel III
3 1 (3.85%) Basel II
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) IBM
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Alteryx
2 1 (3.85%) Google