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 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 103 117
Rank change year-on-year -27 +14 +7
Contract jobs citing Market Risk 9 20 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.39% 1.11% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.09% 2.89% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 8
10th Percentile £395 - £492
25th Percentile £481 £673 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £755 £835
Median % change year-on-year -27.15% -9.61% +11.37%
75th Percentile £719 £838 £867
90th Percentile £890 - £877
Central London median daily rate £550 £755 £835
% change year-on-year -27.15% -9.61% +11.37%

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 824 692 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.14% 38.49% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 475 400
10th Percentile £365 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £458 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £594
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.01% -1.00%
75th Percentile £688 £698 £714
90th Percentile £775 £800 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £583 £590
% change year-on-year -5.58% -1.27% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 5
10th Percentile £19.34 £16.96 £18.40
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.79 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.13 £27.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +1.85% -25.00%
75th Percentile £37.17 £65.57 -
90th Percentile £43.00 £91.00 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £33.53 £26.98 £25.79
% change year-on-year +24.31% +4.59% -26.31%

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 10 September 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 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Collibra
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Metadata
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Front Office
3 3 (33.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) Murex Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) Risk Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) IT Risk Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Summit Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Credit Risk
2 2 (22.22%) Derivative
3 1 (11.11%) AI Agents
3 1 (11.11%) Fixed Income
3 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) AI
1 3 (33.33%) Business Analysis
1 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (22.22%) Generative AI
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) PnL Attribution
2 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
2 2 (22.22%) SDLC
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Use Case
2 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (22.22%) User Stories
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) LLM
3 1 (11.11%) Product Backlog
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Basel III
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Murex
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle