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 28 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 406 490
Rank change year-on-year -158 +84 -148
Contract jobs citing Market Risk 61 106 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.39% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 1.11% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 79 34
10th Percentile £404 £550 £551
25th Percentile £531 £650 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £738 £838 £873
90th Percentile £883 £988 £947
UK median daily rate £700 £725 £725
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -6.45%

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 15,004 9,564 10,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.28% 34.86% 31.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,297 6,038 6,938
10th Percentile £318 £306 £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 £525 £542
% change year-on-year - -3.13% -1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 822 481 623
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.48 £12.40
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.86
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.71 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.39% -27.31% +11.23%
75th Percentile £71.00 £60.00 £66.38
90th Percentile £86.23 £80.00 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +11.89%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -115 54 £700 -6.67% 35
Midlands - 3 - -
West Midlands - 3 - -
Yorkshire -40 2 - -
North of England -74 2 - -
South West - 1 - -
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 5 (8.20%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.64%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Summit
2 1 (1.64%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.92%) AWS
1 3 (4.92%) Azure
1 3 (4.92%) Azure AI
2 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
2 2 (3.28%) Snowflake
3 1 (1.64%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) Metadata
2 4 (6.56%) RDBMS
2 4 (6.56%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.28%) Power BI
3 2 (3.28%) Tableau
4 1 (1.64%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (14.75%) JIRA
2 2 (3.28%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.64%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (1.64%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (81.97%) Finance
2 40 (65.57%) Banking
3 26 (42.62%) Social Skills
4 22 (36.07%) Investment Banking
5 19 (31.15%) Front Office
6 16 (26.23%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (6.56%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.92%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.64%) Advertising
9 1 (1.64%) Legal
9 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (32.79%) Business Analyst
2 18 (29.51%) Analyst
3 14 (22.95%) Risk Analyst
3 14 (22.95%) Risk Business Analyst
4 13 (21.31%) Senior
5 12 (19.67%) Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Market Risk Analyst
6 7 (11.48%) Market Risk Business Analyst
6 7 (11.48%) Senior Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Technical Analyst
6 7 (11.48%) Technical Business Analyst
7 6 (9.84%) Applications Specialist
7 6 (9.84%) Lead
7 6 (9.84%) Python Developer
7 6 (9.84%) Quantitative Specialist
7 6 (9.84%) Risk Management Specialist
7 6 (9.84%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 6 (9.84%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 6 (9.84%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
7 6 (9.84%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) Django
1 5 (8.20%) FastAPI
1 5 (8.20%) Flask
1 5 (8.20%) NumPy
1 5 (8.20%) Pandas
1 5 (8.20%) REST
1 5 (8.20%) XML
2 4 (6.56%) PySpark
3 3 (4.92%) LangChain
3 3 (4.92%) LangGraph
3 3 (4.92%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (3.28%) .NET
4 2 (3.28%) Kafka
4 2 (3.28%) RESTful
5 1 (1.64%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (31.15%) Derivative
2 15 (24.59%) Credit Risk
2 15 (24.59%) Fixed Income
3 11 (18.03%) Data Structures
4 6 (9.84%) AI Agents
4 6 (9.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.92%) Equities
6 2 (3.28%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.64%) CUDA
7 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.64%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.64%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.39%) Unix
2 6 (9.84%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (44.26%) Risk Management
2 24 (39.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (27.87%) Analytics
4 16 (26.23%) AI
5 15 (24.59%) Validation
6 12 (19.67%) Business Analysis
6 12 (19.67%) Requirements Gathering
7 11 (18.03%) Agile
8 10 (16.39%) Generative AI
8 10 (16.39%) Project Management
8 10 (16.39%) Quantitative Risk Management
9 9 (14.75%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (11.48%) Data Engineering
11 7 (11.48%) Financial Modelling
11 7 (11.48%) Fintech
11 7 (11.48%) Low Latency
11 7 (11.48%) Project Delivery
11 7 (11.48%) SDLC
11 7 (11.48%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 22 (36.07%) SQL
2 20 (32.79%) Python
3 5 (8.20%) Shell Script
4 3 (4.92%) C#
5 2 (3.28%) Java
6 1 (1.64%) Bash
6 1 (1.64%) C++
6 1 (1.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) Degree
2 2 (3.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.75%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.92%) MiFID
3 1 (1.64%) Basel III
3 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (9.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (6.56%) Murex
1 4 (6.56%) Oracle
2 3 (4.92%) Foundry
2 3 (4.92%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.64%) Databricks