Market Risk Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Market Risk
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Market Risk in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Market Risk over the 6 months leading up to 13 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 101 102
Rank change year-on-year -23 +1 +37
Contract jobs citing Market Risk 8 18 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.36% 1.03% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.12% 3.01% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 20
10th Percentile £493 £547 £625
25th Percentile £538 £553 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £643 £813
Median % change year-on-year -12.45% -20.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £664 £747 £838
90th Percentile £912 £846 £875
Central London median daily rate £563 £643 £813
% change year-on-year -12.45% -20.92% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Market 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 713 598 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 32.31% 34.27% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 384 473
10th Percentile £365 £363 £265
25th Percentile £463 £472 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £688 £695 £700
90th Percentile £800 £775 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 9
10th Percentile £18.92 £37.90 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.82 £48.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.07 £65.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.05% +244.74% -58.70%
75th Percentile £41.94 £82.75 £27.50
90th Percentile £63.13 £93.10 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £30.04 £19.00
% change year-on-year -6.78% +58.08% -45.71%

Market Risk
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Market Risk relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Market Risk job vacancy trend in the City of London

Market Risk
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Market Risk.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Market Risk

Market Risk
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Market Risk in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Market Risk in the City of London

Market Risk
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Market Risk.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Market Risk

Market 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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Metadata
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) Tableau
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Front Office
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Back Office
4 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Risk Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Risk Business Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Developer - Commodities
4 1 (12.50%) C# Quant Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Market Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Market Risk Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Quantitative Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Summit Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) WinForms
1 1 (12.50%) WPF
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Credit Risk
2 3 (37.50%) Derivative
2 3 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (12.50%) Equities
3 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
3 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) SDLC
2 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Data Lineage
3 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Quantitative Research
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CFA
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Basel III
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Murex
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle