Risk Management Contracts in the City of London

Risk Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Risk Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Risk Management over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 40 46
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +23
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 102 98 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.88% 4.53% 4.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.28% 5.01% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 72 97
10th Percentile £330 £346 £462
25th Percentile £496 £484 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £610 £675
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -9.63% +14.89%
75th Percentile £744 £752 £788
90th Percentile £813 £836 £866
Central London median daily rate £600 £563 £675
% change year-on-year +6.67% -16.67% +14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £49.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Risk Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,624 1,957 3,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.55% 90.39% 91.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,020 1,377 2,186
10th Percentile £356 £350 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £14.75
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in the City of London

Risk Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Management in the City of London

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in the City of London

Risk Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Risk Management in the City of London

Risk Management
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Management within the City of London region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 - -
Risk Management
Central London

Risk Management
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 11 (10.78%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.88%) Apache
2 6 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.96%) CICS
3 2 (1.96%) Confluence
4 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.98%) CMS
4 1 (0.98%) Kentico
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.98%) SAS
4 1 (0.98%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.98%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) SAP BPC
2 2 (1.96%) Actimize
2 2 (1.96%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.98%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.98%) BASE24
3 1 (0.98%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.98%) PeopleSoft Financials
Cloud Services
1 18 (17.65%) Azure
2 8 (7.84%) AWS
3 6 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.94%) Amazon S3
4 3 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (2.94%) GitHub
5 2 (1.96%) GCP
5 2 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.96%) SaaS
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (0.98%) Apple Pay
6 1 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.98%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.98%) Kong
6 1 (0.98%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.96%) Firewall
1 2 (1.96%) Network Security
2 1 (0.98%) ATM
2 1 (0.98%) LAN
2 1 (0.98%) VPN
2 1 (0.98%) WAN
2 1 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.78%) Big Data
2 10 (9.80%) Hadoop
3 7 (6.86%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.90%) Apache Hive
4 5 (4.90%) Power BI
5 4 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.96%) DataStage
6 2 (1.96%) MySQL
6 2 (1.96%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.96%) OLAP
6 2 (1.96%) OLTP
6 2 (1.96%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (1.96%) SAP BW
6 2 (1.96%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (1.96%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.96%) Spotfire
7 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.98%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (8.82%) JIRA
2 7 (6.86%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.88%) Git
4 1 (0.98%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.98%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.98%) Subversion
4 1 (0.98%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.98%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (57.84%) Finance
2 47 (46.08%) Social Skills
3 27 (26.47%) Banking
4 23 (22.55%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (11.76%) Front Office
6 10 (9.80%) Legal
7 8 (7.84%) Financial Institution
7 8 (7.84%) Investment Banking
8 6 (5.88%) Law
9 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
10 4 (3.92%) Back Office
10 4 (3.92%) International Banking
11 3 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.96%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.96%) Police
12 2 (1.96%) Retail
13 1 (0.98%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.98%) Marketing
13 1 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (16.67%) Analyst
2 13 (12.75%) Developer
3 10 (9.80%) Architect
4 9 (8.82%) Business Analyst
4 9 (8.82%) Lead
5 8 (7.84%) Consultant
5 8 (7.84%) Project Manager
6 7 (6.86%) IT Manager
6 7 (6.86%) Senior
7 6 (5.88%) Java Developer
7 6 (5.88%) Risk Manager
7 6 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.90%) Apache Spark Developer
8 5 (4.90%) IT Risk Manager
9 3 (2.94%) Business Manager
9 3 (2.94%) Data Analyst
9 3 (2.94%) Data Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (2.94%) Information Manager
9 3 (2.94%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.88%) PySpark
1 6 (5.88%) TensorFlow
2 5 (4.90%) Spark Streaming
2 5 (4.90%) Web Services
3 3 (2.94%) .NET
3 3 (2.94%) XML
4 2 (1.96%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.96%) ISPF
4 2 (1.96%) REST
5 1 (0.98%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.98%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.98%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.98%) FpML
5 1 (0.98%) JSON
5 1 (0.98%) Kafka
5 1 (0.98%) NumPy
5 1 (0.98%) Pandas
5 1 (0.98%) pytest
5 1 (0.98%) SciPy
5 1 (0.98%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.80%) Management Information System
2 9 (8.82%) Market Risk
3 8 (7.84%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (6.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (6.86%) Credit Risk
5 5 (4.90%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.90%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.92%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.94%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.94%) Derivative
7 3 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.96%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.96%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (1.96%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.96%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.98%) Equities
9 1 (0.98%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.90%) Windows
2 3 (2.94%) Linux
3 2 (1.96%) Unix
3 2 (1.96%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.96%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (28.43%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (26.47%) Analytics
3 24 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (19.61%) Agile
5 19 (18.63%) Project Management
6 16 (15.69%) Decision-Making
7 15 (14.71%) Regulatory Compliance
8 13 (12.75%) Roadmaps
9 12 (11.76%) Mathematics
10 11 (10.78%) CI/CD
10 11 (10.78%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (9.80%) Machine Learning
12 9 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
12 9 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (8.82%) Data Science
13 8 (7.84%) Change Management
13 8 (7.84%) Data Governance
13 8 (7.84%) Performance Tuning
14 7 (6.86%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 21 (20.59%) SQL
2 20 (19.61%) Python
3 10 (9.80%) Java
4 4 (3.92%) C#
4 4 (3.92%) C++
5 2 (1.96%) JCL
5 2 (1.96%) REXX
5 2 (1.96%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.98%) C
6 1 (0.98%) COBOL
6 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.98%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.98%) R
6 1 (0.98%) Ruby
6 1 (0.98%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (11.76%) Degree
2 7 (6.86%) PMP
3 6 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 6 (5.88%) PhD
3 6 (5.88%) PMI Certification
4 5 (4.90%) CISA
4 5 (4.90%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.92%) CISM
5 4 (3.92%) CISSP
5 4 (3.92%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.96%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.96%) CRISC
8 1 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.98%) CBAP
8 1 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.80%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.82%) GDPR
3 7 (6.86%) NIST
4 6 (5.88%) COBIT
5 5 (4.90%) QA
6 4 (3.92%) EMIR
6 4 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (3.92%) MiFID
6 4 (3.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (2.94%) COSO
7 3 (2.94%) GRC
7 3 (2.94%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.94%) PMO
8 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.98%) Basel II
8 1 (0.98%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.98%) ITGC
8 1 (0.98%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.98%) SLA
8 1 (0.98%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.96%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (0.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.98%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 1 (0.98%) Argo
1 1 (0.98%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (6.86%) Oracle
2 6 (5.88%) Databricks
2 6 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.90%) SAP
4 3 (2.94%) HP
4 3 (2.94%) IBM
4 3 (2.94%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.96%) Dell
5 2 (1.96%) Google
5 2 (1.96%) Informatica
5 2 (1.96%) Pure Storage
5 2 (1.96%) Workday
6 1 (0.98%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.98%) Ariba
6 1 (0.98%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.98%) Citrix
6 1 (0.98%) CQG
6 1 (0.98%) NetApp
6 1 (0.98%) Reuters