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 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 106 104
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 +36
Contract jobs citing Market Risk 7 11 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.34% 0.61% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.01% 1.82% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 19
10th Percentile £488 £541 £625
25th Percentile £513 £550 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £800
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -24.38% +7.38%
75th Percentile £578 £697 £838
90th Percentile £741 £781 £869
Central London median daily rate £550 £605 £800
% change year-on-year -9.09% -24.38% +7.38%

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 694 606 716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 33.72% 33.80% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 394 494
10th Percentile £350 £375 £266
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -6.00%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £705
90th Percentile £800 £800 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 10
10th Percentile £19.39 - £12.75
25th Percentile £23.66 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £31.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.65% +63.16% -49.67%
75th Percentile £50.83 - £41.94
90th Percentile £66.53 - £52.60
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 14 March 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 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Metadata
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) Tableau
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 1 (14.29%) Redis
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Front Office
3 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Back Office
4 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# Developer - Commodities
4 1 (14.29%) C# Quant Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Market Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Market Risk Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Market Risk Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Quantitative Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Risk Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Summit Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) WinForms
1 1 (14.29%) WPF
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Credit Risk
2 3 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (28.57%) Derivative
4 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
4 1 (14.29%) Equities
4 1 (14.29%) Fixed Income
4 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
1 4 (57.14%) SDLC
2 3 (42.86%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) AI
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Data Lineage
3 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Quantitative Research
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (14.29%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CFA
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
1 1 (14.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Basel III
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) CRD IV
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Murex
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle