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 2 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 101 119
Rank change year-on-year -29 +18 +28
Contract jobs citing Credit Risk 10 20 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.41% 1.12% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.30% 3.19% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 5
10th Percentile £394 £630 £211
25th Percentile £475 - £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +33.33% -27.59%
75th Percentile - £763 £644
90th Percentile £648 - £648
Central London median daily rate £500 £700 £525
% change year-on-year -28.57% +33.33% -27.59%

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 772 627 668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.46% 35.24% 31.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 408 439
10th Percentile £350 £350 £285
25th Percentile £463 £475 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £681 £711 £700
90th Percentile £777 £803 £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 7
10th Percentile £19.26 £16.90 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.46 £20.77 £14.38
Median hourly rate £31.03 £32.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +41.30% -55.98%
75th Percentile £47.18 £71.37 £27.00
90th Percentile £64.47 £92.13 £36.30
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £29.07 £23.40
% change year-on-year +36.74% +24.23% -41.25%

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 2 July 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 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Collibra
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Front Office
3 3 (30.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Legal
5 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Risk Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Credit Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Credit Risk Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Risk Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Actuary
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) KYC Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) MiFID Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Murex Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Product Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Summit Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Market Risk
2 2 (20.00%) Derivative
3 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (20.00%) SDLC
2 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (10.00%) Capital Modelling
3 1 (10.00%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (10.00%) Due Diligence
3 1 (10.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Change
3 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum
3 1 (10.00%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (10.00%) Traceability Matrix
3 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Basel III
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) MiFID
1 1 (10.00%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Murex
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle