Market Risk Contract Job Trends in England

Market Risk
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Market Risk in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Market Risk over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 424 473
Rank change year-on-year -137 +49 -85
Contract jobs citing Market Risk 62 95 53
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.34% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.95% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 74 31
10th Percentile £350 £511 £438
25th Percentile £471 £650 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £738 £924 £828
90th Percentile £830 £988 £875
UK median daily rate £670 £725 £725
% change year-on-year -7.59% - -3.33%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15,646 10,012 10,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.89% 36.00% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,463 6,294 6,274
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £540
% change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,063 498 415
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.48 £15.11
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.03 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.55% -42.41% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.50% -40.00% +11.11%

Market Risk
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Market Risk relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Market Risk job vacancy trend in England

Market Risk
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Market Risk.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Market Risk

Market Risk
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Market Risk in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Market Risk in England

Market Risk
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Market Risk.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Market Risk

Market 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 Market Risk within the England region over the 6 months to 18 September 2026. 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 -110 57 £700 -6.67% 125
North of England -63 3 £400 -34.64%
Yorkshire - 3 £400 -
South West - 1 - - 4
Market Risk
UK

Market Risk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (11.29%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Aligne
1 1 (1.61%) Endur
1 1 (1.61%) Loan IQ
1 1 (1.61%) OneSumX
1 1 (1.61%) Summit
1 1 (1.61%) ZaiNet
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.06%) Azure
2 4 (6.45%) Azure AI
3 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (3.23%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.61%) AWS
5 1 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.61%) GitHub
5 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.61%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.61%) LangSmith
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.84%) Power BI
3 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.61%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.61%) Metadata
4 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (17.74%) JIRA
2 3 (4.84%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.61%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (88.71%) Finance
2 35 (56.45%) Banking
3 27 (43.55%) Social Skills
4 23 (37.10%) Front Office
5 21 (33.87%) Investment Banking
6 19 (30.65%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (8.06%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Advertising
9 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (30.65%) Analyst
2 18 (29.03%) Business Analyst
3 17 (27.42%) Risk Analyst
4 15 (24.19%) Risk Business Analyst
5 14 (22.58%) Developer
6 13 (20.97%) Senior
7 8 (12.90%) Market Risk Analyst
7 8 (12.90%) Python Developer
8 7 (11.29%) Market Risk Business Analyst
8 7 (11.29%) Senior Developer
8 7 (11.29%) Technical Analyst
9 6 (9.68%) Applications Specialist
9 6 (9.68%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
9 6 (9.68%) Quantitative Specialist
9 6 (9.68%) Risk Management Specialist
9 6 (9.68%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 6 (9.68%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 6 (9.68%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 6 (9.68%) Technical Business Analyst
9 6 (9.68%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) FastAPI
1 7 (11.29%) Flask
2 6 (9.68%) Django
2 6 (9.68%) NumPy
2 6 (9.68%) Pandas
2 6 (9.68%) REST
3 5 (8.06%) .NET
3 5 (8.06%) PySpark
4 4 (6.45%) LangChain
4 4 (6.45%) LangGraph
4 4 (6.45%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (3.23%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.23%) RESTful
5 2 (3.23%) XML
6 1 (1.61%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 18 (29.03%) Credit Risk
2 15 (24.19%) Derivative
3 11 (17.74%) Data Structures
3 11 (17.74%) Fixed Income
4 8 (12.90%) AI Agents
5 5 (8.06%) Product Ownership
6 4 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (4.84%) Equities
8 2 (3.23%) Algorithms
8 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.61%) Credit Derivative
9 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.61%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 1 (1.61%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.90%) Unix
2 7 (11.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.77%) Risk Management
2 27 (43.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (30.65%) AI
4 18 (29.03%) Agile
4 18 (29.03%) Analytics
5 13 (20.97%) Validation
6 12 (19.35%) Business Analysis
7 11 (17.74%) Generative AI
7 11 (17.74%) Requirements Gathering
8 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (14.52%) Financial Modelling
9 9 (14.52%) Project Management
9 9 (14.52%) Test Automation
10 8 (12.90%) CI/CD
10 8 (12.90%) Code Quality
10 8 (12.90%) Data Engineering
10 8 (12.90%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (11.29%) Fintech
11 7 (11.29%) LLM
11 7 (11.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 25 (40.32%) Python
2 22 (35.48%) SQL
3 6 (9.68%) Shell Script
4 5 (8.06%) C#
5 2 (3.23%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.61%) Bash
6 1 (1.61%) C
6 1 (1.61%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (9.68%) Degree
2 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.13%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) Basel III
3 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Control-M
1 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (9.68%) Murex
2 4 (6.45%) Foundry
2 4 (6.45%) OpenAI
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.61%) BMC
4 1 (1.61%) Calypso
4 1 (1.61%) Databricks
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle