Risk Analyst Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Risk Analyst
Central London > City of London

The median Risk Analyst daily rate in the City of London is £594, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 113 121
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Risk Analyst 17 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.74% 0.23% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.24% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 7
10th Percentile £476 £548 £346
25th Percentile £500 £572 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% -20.63%
75th Percentile £749 £675 £662
90th Percentile £841 £698 £811
Central London median daily rate £575 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +25.00% -18.03%

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,176 1,634 2,073
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 93.00% 95.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,450 1,027 1,469
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 15
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £15.62
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £31.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +34.78% -34.29%
75th Percentile £52.41 £48.75 £27.25
90th Percentile £62.36 £92.75 £40.00
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £25.78
% change year-on-year -10.18% +12.76% -26.34%

Risk Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Risk Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Risk Analyst job vacancy trend in the City of London

Risk Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Risk Analyst job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Risk Analyst job vacancies in the City of London

Risk Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Analyst in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Analyst in the City of London

Risk Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Risk Analyst job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Risk Analyst job vacancies in the City of London

Risk Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 11 May 2026, Risk Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Risk Analyst in the job title.

1 5 (29.41%) Risk Management
2 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
2 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) Change Management
3 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
3 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
3 3 (17.65%) Data Lineage
3 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
3 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
3 3 (17.65%) JIRA
3 3 (17.65%) Metadata
3 3 (17.65%) MS Visio
3 3 (17.65%) Power BI
3 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 3 (17.65%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (17.65%) Scrum
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (17.65%) Tableau
3 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (11.76%) AI
4 2 (11.76%) Attestation
4 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) CISA
4 2 (11.76%) CISSP
4 2 (11.76%) COBIT
4 2 (11.76%) Collibra

Risk Analyst Skill Set
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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) MS Visio
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Collibra
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Metadata
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
1 3 (17.65%) Tableau
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
General
1 12 (70.59%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) Banking
3 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
4 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Front Office
5 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.88%) Back Office
6 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Credit Risk
2 3 (17.65%) Market Risk
3 2 (11.76%) Equities
3 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.88%) Derivative
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Risk Management
2 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
2 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) Change Management
3 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
3 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
3 3 (17.65%) Data Lineage
3 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
3 3 (17.65%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (17.65%) Scrum
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (11.76%) AI
4 2 (11.76%) Attestation
4 2 (11.76%) Data Management
4 2 (11.76%) Generative AI
4 2 (11.76%) Regulatory Change
4 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Scala
2 1 (5.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) CISA
2 2 (11.76%) CISSP
2 2 (11.76%) CRISC
3 1 (5.88%) CFA
3 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) COBIT
2 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.76%) ITGC
2 2 (11.76%) NIST
2 2 (11.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.88%) Basel III
3 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Murex
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks