Credit Risk Contracts in England

Credit Risk
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Credit Risk in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Credit Risk over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 456 502
Rank change year-on-year +36 +46 +73
Contract jobs citing Credit Risk 74 98 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% 0.86% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 60 92
10th Percentile £506 £350 £400
25th Percentile £650 £445 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £518 £679
Median % change year-on-year +40.10% -23.78% -3.00%
75th Percentile £828 £629 £842
90th Percentile £875 £825 £950
UK median daily rate £700 £510 £679
% change year-on-year +37.25% -24.89% +0.59%

All Generic Skills
England

Credit 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,900 11,350 15,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.70% 30.57% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,691 7,308 10,971
10th Percentile £305 £280 £313
25th Percentile £408 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 840 524
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.23 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £32.81 £37.00 £23.33
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% +58.63% -11.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.97
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.50 £77.13
UK median hourly rate £30.90 £35.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year -13.32% +58.44% -16.64%

Credit Risk
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Credit Risk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Credit Risk in England

Credit Risk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Credit Risk in England.

Daily rate trend for Credit Risk in England

Credit Risk
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Credit Risk in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Credit Risk in England

Credit Risk
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Credit Risk in England.

Hourly rate trend for Credit Risk in England

Credit Risk
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Credit Risk within the England region over the 6 months to 1 July 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 +54 58 £750 +25.00% 486
South East +31 8 £650 +13.04% 50
North of England +11 4 £642 +38.06% 37
Midlands +3 3 £463 +1.65% 16
East Midlands -4 3 £463 +1.65% 14
North West +9 2 £315 -32.26% 26
Yorkshire +2 2 £646 +17.45% 11
South West +35 1 £563 +25.00% 4
Credit Risk
UK

Credit Risk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (17.57%) SAS
2 9 (12.16%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.05%) Apache
3 3 (4.05%) Confluence
4 2 (2.70%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Endur
2 1 (1.35%) Aligne
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.41%) SaaS
2 2 (2.70%) Apigee
2 2 (2.70%) AWS
2 2 (2.70%) Azure
3 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.35%) GCP
3 1 (1.35%) GitHub
3 1 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.35%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.81%) Hadoop
2 7 (9.46%) Apache Hive
2 7 (9.46%) Big Data
3 4 (5.41%) Data Mart
4 3 (4.05%) Data Mining
4 3 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.70%) MySQL
6 1 (1.35%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (1.35%) Power BI
6 1 (1.35%) Presto
6 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) JIRA
2 3 (4.05%) Ant
General
1 44 (59.46%) Finance
2 36 (48.65%) Banking
3 25 (33.78%) Social Skills
4 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (16.22%) Front Office
5 7 (9.46%) Financial Institution
6 6 (8.11%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.05%) Retail
8 2 (2.70%) Legal
8 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.70%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.35%) Back Office
9 1 (1.35%) Billing
9 1 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.35%) International Banking
9 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (1.35%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (24.32%) Analyst
1 18 (24.32%) Developer
2 13 (17.57%) Risk Analyst
3 9 (12.16%) Business Analyst
3 9 (12.16%) Python Developer
3 9 (12.16%) Risk Manager
4 8 (10.81%) Project Manager
4 8 (10.81%) Quantitative Developer
4 8 (10.81%) Risk Project Manager
5 7 (9.46%) Credit Analyst
5 7 (9.46%) Credit Risk Analyst
5 7 (9.46%) Risk Business Analyst
6 5 (6.76%) Consultant
6 5 (6.76%) Credit Risk Developer
6 5 (6.76%) Gen AI Specialist
6 5 (6.76%) Market Risk Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Credit Risk Manager
7 4 (5.41%) Senior
8 3 (4.05%) Credit Risk Project Manager
8 3 (4.05%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.46%) PySpark
1 7 (9.46%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.35%) Kafka
2 1 (1.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (35.14%) Market Risk
2 5 (6.76%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.76%) Derivative
2 5 (6.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (5.41%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.70%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.70%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.35%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.35%) Equities
6 1 (1.35%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.35%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.59%) Analytics
2 30 (40.54%) Risk Management
3 25 (33.78%) Credit Risk Management
4 16 (21.62%) Agile
5 15 (20.27%) Stress Testing
6 13 (17.57%) Portfolio Management
7 11 (14.86%) Project Management
7 11 (14.86%) Validation
8 10 (13.51%) Computer Science
9 8 (10.81%) Data Science
9 8 (10.81%) Machine Learning
9 8 (10.81%) SDLC
10 7 (9.46%) Business Analysis
10 7 (9.46%) Generative AI
10 7 (9.46%) LLM
10 7 (9.46%) Mathematics
11 6 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence
11 6 (8.11%) Credit Risk Modelling
11 6 (8.11%) Decision-Making
11 6 (8.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (36.49%) SQL
2 22 (29.73%) Python
3 6 (8.11%) C++
4 3 (4.05%) Java
4 3 (4.05%) Jython
4 3 (4.05%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.35%) Bash
5 1 (1.35%) CodeQL
5 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.35%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.35%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.35%) Scala
5 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (16.22%) Degree
2 6 (8.11%) Master's Degree
2 6 (8.11%) PhD
3 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.57%) IFRS
1 13 (17.57%) IFRS 9
2 7 (9.46%) Basel II
2 7 (9.46%) Basel III
3 2 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.70%) PMO
3 2 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.35%) CRD IV
4 1 (1.35%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.35%) EMIR
4 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (4.05%) Control-M
2 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 6 (8.11%) Murex
2 3 (4.05%) Calypso
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.70%) Alteryx
3 2 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (1.35%) Cisco
4 1 (1.35%) Google
4 1 (1.35%) OpenLink
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle
4 1 (1.35%) Salesforce