Market Risk Contracts 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 115 121
Rank change year-on-year +17 +6 +49
Contract jobs citing Market Risk 27 14 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.44% 0.65% 1.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.03% 2.06% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 31
10th Percentile £550 £525 £613
25th Percentile £623 £706 £685
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £825 £753
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +9.56% +3.22%
75th Percentile £838 £871 £819
90th Percentile - £875 £883
Central London median daily rate £713 £825 £753
% change year-on-year -13.64% +9.56% +3.22%

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 670 680 1,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.77% 31.58% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 445 799
10th Percentile £357 £291 £325
25th Percentile £463 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £750
90th Percentile £808 £838 £861
Central London median daily rate £600 £570 £610
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.56% +6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £12.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £20.77 £15.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -52.15% +14.84%
75th Percentile £71.37 £32.81 £87.16
90th Percentile £92.13 £62.93 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.80 £39.83
% change year-on-year +22.14% -40.25% -12.46%

Market Risk
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Market Risk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Market Risk in the City of London

Market Risk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Market Risk in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Market Risk in the City of London

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 12 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Market Risk in the City of London

Market Risk
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Market Risk in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Market Risk in the City of London

Market Risk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (18.52%) Apache
1 5 (18.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Power Platform
2 7 (25.93%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Big Data
2 8 (29.63%) Data Mining
2 8 (29.63%) Power BI
3 5 (18.52%) Hadoop
4 2 (7.41%) Tableau
5 1 (3.70%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git
1 5 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Ant
General
1 13 (48.15%) Finance
1 13 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 9 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (29.63%) Banking
3 8 (29.63%) Investment Banking
4 6 (22.22%) Front Office
5 3 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 9 (33.33%) Senior
3 8 (29.63%) Consultant
3 8 (29.63%) Risk Consultant
4 7 (25.93%) Senior Consultant
5 5 (18.52%) Apache Spark Developer
5 5 (18.52%) Java Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Analyst
6 3 (11.11%) Python Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Front Office Business Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Market Risk Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
7 2 (7.41%) Risk Manager
7 2 (7.41%) Risk Project Manager
8 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk Manager
8 1 (3.70%) Market Risk Project Manager
8 1 (3.70%) PMO Project Manager
8 1 (3.70%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Credit Risk
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (18.52%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (7.41%) Fixed Income
3 2 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.70%) Derivative
4 1 (3.70%) Equities
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) Analytics
2 15 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (48.15%) Stress Testing
4 10 (37.04%) Risk Management
5 9 (33.33%) Agile
5 9 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
5 9 (33.33%) SDLC
6 8 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (29.63%) Scrum
6 8 (29.63%) Service Delivery
7 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
7 5 (18.52%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (18.52%) Greeks
7 5 (18.52%) Mathematics
7 5 (18.52%) Memory Management
7 5 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (18.52%) Project Management
7 5 (18.52%) Regulatory Compliance
7 5 (18.52%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 10 (37.04%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) Basel II
2 4 (14.81%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.41%) PMO
4 1 (3.70%) Basel III
4 1 (3.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) Alteryx
1 1 (3.70%) Calypso
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.70%) Murex