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 20 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 114 117
Rank change year-on-year +11 +3 +51
Contract jobs citing Credit Risk 20 12 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.18% 0.57% 1.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.02% 1.85% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 14
10th Percentile - £211 £515
25th Percentile £150 £396 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £427 £813
Median % change year-on-year +8.90% -47.45% +12.46%
75th Percentile £700 £644 £875
90th Percentile £753 £723 £913
Central London median daily rate £465 £427 £813
% change year-on-year +8.90% -47.45% +12.46%

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 663 648 905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.23% 30.77% 31.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 404 580
10th Percentile £360 £355 £325
25th Percentile £456 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £592 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -1.38% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £738
90th Percentile £775 £838 £831
Central London median daily rate £575 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -0.86% -3.33% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 10
10th Percentile £16.90 £32.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.11 £39.63 £19.31
Median hourly rate £24.75 £56.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.80% +57.75% -29.70%
75th Percentile £43.39 £76.13 £45.64
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £54.58
Central London median hourly rate £25.08 £26.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% -24.59% -30.69%

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 20 October 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 & 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 3 (15.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) AWS
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) GCP
1 1 (5.00%) GitHub
1 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Big Data
2 3 (15.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (10.00%) Apache Hive
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 17 (85.00%) Finance
2 9 (45.00%) Banking
3 5 (25.00%) Billing
3 5 (25.00%) Legal
4 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (15.00%) Financial Institution
6 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
7 1 (5.00%) Back Office
7 1 (5.00%) Front Office
7 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Risk Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Gen AI Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Data Scientist
4 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Risk Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Scala Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Big Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Risk Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Scala Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) PySpark
1 2 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Market Risk
2 3 (15.00%) Derivative
3 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (10.00%) Fixed Income
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Risk Management
2 5 (25.00%) Accounts Receivable
2 5 (25.00%) ERP
3 3 (15.00%) Agile
3 3 (15.00%) Analytics
3 3 (15.00%) Credit Risk Management
3 3 (15.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (15.00%) Stress Testing
4 2 (10.00%) AI
4 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (10.00%) Data Extraction
4 2 (10.00%) Data Science
4 2 (10.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (10.00%) Greeks
4 2 (10.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (10.00%) Regulatory Change
4 2 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) C
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) C++
3 1 (5.00%) CodeQL
3 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (10.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Basel III
2 1 (5.00%) CRD IV
2 1 (5.00%) IFRS
2 1 (5.00%) IFRS 9
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) IBM
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Google