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 7 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 107 104
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 +74
Contract jobs citing Credit Risk 13 12 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.70% 0.61% 1.07%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% 1.97% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 13
10th Percentile £150 £445 £514
25th Percentile £216 £491 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £589 £725
Median % change year-on-year -22.90% -18.83% +3.57%
75th Percentile £493 £691 £875
90th Percentile £675 £742 £905
Central London median daily rate £454 £589 £725
% change year-on-year -22.90% -18.83% +3.57%

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 685 610 771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.09% 31.22% 31.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 380 510
10th Percentile £354 £375 £307
25th Percentile £441 £475 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £688 £710 £714
90th Percentile £788 £825 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £591 £600
% change year-on-year -6.86% -1.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £20.30 - -
25th Percentile £22.18 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £85.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.35% +240.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £38.69 £92.50 £36.50
90th Percentile £41.85 - £52.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £55.40 £24.00
% change year-on-year -52.87% +130.81% -42.51%

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 7 January 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:

Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 13 (100.00%) Finance
2 7 (53.85%) Banking
3 5 (38.46%) Legal
4 3 (23.08%) Billing
4 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (7.69%) Back Office
6 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
6 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Business Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Risk Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Risk Business Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Credit Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Credit Risk Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Scrum Master
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Risk Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
1 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
1 1 (7.69%) RESTful
1 1 (7.69%) WinForms
1 1 (7.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Derivative
1 2 (15.38%) Fixed Income
1 2 (15.38%) Market Risk
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
2 3 (23.08%) Accounts Receivable
2 3 (23.08%) ERP
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (15.38%) Data Lineage
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Due Diligence
3 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
3 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Greeks
3 2 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (15.38%) KYC
3 2 (15.38%) Microservices
3 2 (15.38%) Regulatory Change
3 2 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (15.38%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (7.69%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) C
2 1 (7.69%) C++
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Basel III
2 2 (15.38%) GDPR
2 2 (15.38%) PSD2
3 1 (7.69%) CRD IV
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) IBM
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft