Risk Management Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Risk Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Risk Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 34 37
Rank change year-on-year -15 +3 +16
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 79 107 119
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.35% 5.70% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% 6.19% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 50 78
10th Percentile £314 £408 £356
25th Percentile £459 £450 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £788 £734 £773
90th Percentile £938 £793 £883
Central London median daily rate £625 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 - -

All Process & 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 1,626 1,728 2,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.59% 92.01% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,052 1,547
10th Percentile £350 £372 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £765 £790 £800
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -6.52% +0.44% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +46.67% -37.13%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £137.50 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -32.10%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Risk Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Risk Management job vacancy trend in the City of London

Risk Management
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Risk Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Risk Management

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 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in the City of London

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Risk Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Risk Management

Risk Management
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 7 (8.86%) Confluence
2 3 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.27%) CMS
3 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.27%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.27%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.46%) AWS
1 13 (16.46%) Azure
2 10 (12.66%) GCP
3 7 (8.86%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (2.53%) OCI
6 1 (1.27%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.27%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.27%) Cloud Run
6 1 (1.27%) GitHub
6 1 (1.27%) Google Gemini
6 1 (1.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.27%) Lucidchart
6 1 (1.27%) Pulumi
6 1 (1.27%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) Firewall
2 1 (1.27%) DHCP
2 1 (1.27%) DNS
2 1 (1.27%) Internet
2 1 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.27%) Network Security
2 1 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.86%) Power BI
2 4 (5.06%) Big Data
2 4 (5.06%) KDB
2 4 (5.06%) Kdb+
3 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.53%) Tableau
5 1 (1.27%) Metadata
5 1 (1.27%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (13.92%) JIRA
2 4 (5.06%) Git
3 3 (3.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.53%) QUnit
5 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.27%) GitLab
5 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (54.43%) Finance
2 23 (29.11%) Social Skills
3 14 (17.72%) Banking
4 12 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.13%) Front Office
6 7 (8.86%) Legal
7 5 (6.33%) Financial Institution
7 5 (6.33%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.53%) Law
10 1 (1.27%) Back Office
10 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.27%) Marketing
10 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (13.92%) Analyst
1 11 (13.92%) Lead
2 9 (11.39%) Architect
3 8 (10.13%) Business Analyst
3 8 (10.13%) Programme Manager
3 8 (10.13%) Senior
4 7 (8.86%) Project Manager
5 6 (7.59%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.33%) Consultant
6 5 (6.33%) Developer
6 5 (6.33%) Security Architect
7 4 (5.06%) Risk Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) Coordinator
8 3 (3.80%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 3 (3.80%) KDB Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Project Coordinator
8 3 (3.80%) Project Support Coordinator
8 3 (3.80%) Risk Business Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.80%) Dask
1 3 (3.80%) Google JAX
1 3 (3.80%) JAX
1 3 (3.80%) LightGBM
1 3 (3.80%) PyTorch
1 3 (3.80%) scikit-learn
1 3 (3.80%) TensorFlow
1 3 (3.80%) XGBoost
2 2 (2.53%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.27%) .NET
3 1 (1.27%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.27%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.27%) Faiss
3 1 (1.27%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.27%) Middleware
3 1 (1.27%) Murex MxML
3 1 (1.27%) RESTful
3 1 (1.27%) WinForms
3 1 (1.27%) WPF
3 1 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Management Information System
2 7 (8.86%) Algorithms
2 7 (8.86%) Derivative
2 7 (8.86%) Fixed Income
3 5 (6.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (5.06%) Credit Risk
4 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.80%) Equities
5 3 (3.80%) Market Risk
5 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.80%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.80%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.53%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.27%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.86%) Linux
2 6 (7.59%) Unix
3 4 (5.06%) Windows
4 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 18 (22.78%) Agile
3 17 (21.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (17.72%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (15.19%) Analytics
7 10 (12.66%) Project Management
8 9 (11.39%) CI/CD
8 9 (11.39%) Decision-Making
8 9 (11.39%) DevOps
9 8 (10.13%) Machine Learning
9 8 (10.13%) Migration
10 7 (8.86%) Change Management
10 7 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (8.86%) SDLC
11 6 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (7.59%) Low Latency
11 6 (7.59%) Project Delivery
11 6 (7.59%) Regulatory Change
11 6 (7.59%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.19%) Python
2 9 (11.39%) SQL
3 3 (3.80%) C++
3 3 (3.80%) Korn
4 2 (2.53%) C#
4 2 (2.53%) Perl
5 1 (1.27%) Fortran
5 1 (1.27%) Java
5 1 (1.27%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.27%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (17.72%) SC Cleared
1 14 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.46%) Degree
3 7 (8.86%) CISSP
4 4 (5.06%) PMI Certification
4 4 (5.06%) PMP
5 3 (3.80%) CISM
5 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.80%) GIAC
5 3 (3.80%) ISACA
6 2 (2.53%) APMG
6 2 (2.53%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (2.53%) CISA
6 2 (2.53%) CRISC
6 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.53%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.27%) CFA
7 1 (1.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (1.27%) MCP
7 1 (1.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.33%) NIST
2 5 (6.33%) QA
3 4 (5.06%) Basel III
3 4 (5.06%) GDPR
3 4 (5.06%) GRC
4 3 (3.80%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.80%) EU AI Act
4 3 (3.80%) PMO
5 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.53%) COBIT
5 2 (2.53%) ITGC
5 2 (2.53%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.27%) CRD IV
6 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.27%) EMIR
6 1 (1.27%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (1.27%) ISO 14001
6 1 (1.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.80%) Ansible
2 2 (2.53%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.53%) Terraform
3 1 (1.27%) Grafana
3 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.27%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 15 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.33%) Oracle
3 4 (5.06%) Databricks
4 3 (3.80%) Bloomberg
4 3 (3.80%) Google
5 2 (2.53%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.53%) IBM
5 2 (2.53%) MarketAxess
5 2 (2.53%) Murex
5 2 (2.53%) SAP
5 2 (2.53%) Splunk
5 2 (2.53%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.27%) Datto
6 1 (1.27%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.27%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.27%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.27%) Planview
6 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.27%) Veeam
6 1 (1.27%) Workday