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 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 474 375
Rank change year-on-year +55 -99 +180
Contract jobs citing Market Risk 93 54 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.16% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.93% 0.53% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 31 164
10th Percentile £524 £438 £519
25th Percentile £650 £600 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £750
75th Percentile £925 £828 £960
90th Percentile £988 £875 £1,000
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £750
% change year-on-year - -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 9,971 10,152 13,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.88% 30.82% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,272 6,271 9,491
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £408 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £792
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 414 412
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.61 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +11.11% +69.81%

Market Risk
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Market Risk 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 2025.

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 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 +60 91 £750 - 20
North West - 2 £612 -
North of England - 2 £612 -
Market Risk
UK

Market 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 6 (6.45%) Apache
1 6 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.38%) Confluence
3 1 (1.08%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 11 (11.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (7.53%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Endur
2 2 (2.15%) Kondor
3 1 (1.08%) Bankmaster
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.28%) AWS
2 11 (11.83%) Power Platform
3 7 (7.53%) SaaS
4 4 (4.30%) Azure
4 4 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.15%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.15%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.15%) Serverless
5 2 (2.15%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.08%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) SSH
2 1 (1.08%) HTTP
2 1 (1.08%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.28%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.83%) Power BI
3 10 (10.75%) Big Data
4 8 (8.60%) Data Mining
4 8 (8.60%) Hadoop
5 5 (5.38%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.38%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.23%) Data Mart
7 3 (3.23%) MS Access
7 3 (3.23%) Tableau
8 2 (2.15%) Apache Hive
8 2 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.15%) Impala
8 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (8.60%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.53%) Git
2 7 (7.53%) JIRA
3 2 (2.15%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.15%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.08%) Ant
4 1 (1.08%) Subversion
General
1 65 (69.89%) Finance
2 53 (56.99%) Banking
3 39 (41.94%) Social Skills
4 38 (40.86%) Investment Banking
5 25 (26.88%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (16.13%) Front Office
7 7 (7.53%) Back Office
7 7 (7.53%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.08%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.08%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 37 (39.78%) Developer
2 35 (37.63%) Senior
3 24 (25.81%) Analyst
4 23 (24.73%) Java Developer
5 20 (21.51%) Business Analyst
5 20 (21.51%) Senior Developer
6 18 (19.35%) Senior Java Developer
7 17 (18.28%) Analytics Developer
7 17 (18.28%) AWS Developer
7 17 (18.28%) Kafka Developer
7 17 (18.28%) PostgreSQL Developer
8 12 (12.90%) Risk Analyst
9 10 (10.75%) Consultant
10 9 (9.68%) Project Manager
10 9 (9.68%) Risk Business Analyst
10 9 (9.68%) Risk Manager
10 9 (9.68%) Risk Project Manager
10 9 (9.68%) Senior Consultant
11 7 (7.53%) Risk Consultant
12 6 (6.45%) Apache Spark Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.28%) Kafka
2 6 (6.45%) Spark Streaming
3 4 (4.30%) .NET
3 4 (4.30%) REST
4 2 (2.15%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.15%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.15%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (2.15%) RESTful
4 2 (2.15%) SOAP
4 2 (2.15%) STL
4 2 (2.15%) WPF
5 1 (1.08%) NumPy
5 1 (1.08%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 28 (30.11%) Derivative
2 24 (25.81%) Credit Risk
3 17 (18.28%) Management Information System
4 7 (7.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (7.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (6.45%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (4.30%) Equities
7 3 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.23%) Fixed Income
7 3 (3.23%) Reference Data
7 3 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.15%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (2.15%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (2.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.08%) OTC Derivatives
9 1 (1.08%) Pricing Data
9 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) Linux
1 4 (4.30%) Unix
2 2 (2.15%) Windows
2 2 (2.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (53.76%) Risk Management
2 35 (37.63%) Analytics
3 29 (31.18%) Agile
4 27 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (20.43%) Stress Testing
5 19 (20.43%) TDD
6 16 (17.20%) SDLC
7 13 (13.98%) Project Management
8 12 (12.90%) Regulatory Compliance
8 12 (12.90%) Scrum
9 11 (11.83%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (10.75%) CI/CD
11 9 (9.68%) Mathematics
11 9 (9.68%) Scenario Testing
12 8 (8.60%) Business Analysis
12 8 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (8.60%) Greeks
12 8 (8.60%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (8.60%) Process Improvement
12 8 (8.60%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 55 (59.14%) SQL
2 28 (30.11%) Python
3 27 (29.03%) Java
4 4 (4.30%) C#
5 3 (3.23%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.23%) VBA
6 2 (2.15%) C
6 2 (2.15%) C++
6 2 (2.15%) Haskell
6 2 (2.15%) Jython
6 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (12.90%) Degree
2 3 (3.23%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.15%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.08%) CBAP
4 1 (1.08%) CFA
4 1 (1.08%) ISEB
4 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.60%) Basel II
2 6 (6.45%) Basel III
3 4 (4.30%) COREP
4 3 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.23%) PMO
4 3 (3.23%) QA
4 3 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.15%) MiFID
6 1 (1.08%) EMIR
System Software
1 2 (2.15%) Docker
1 2 (2.15%) HDFS
2 1 (1.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (2.15%) Ansible
1 2 (2.15%) Kibana
1 2 (2.15%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.08%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (7.53%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.45%) Oracle
3 4 (4.30%) Murex
4 2 (2.15%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.15%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.15%) OpenLink
4 2 (2.15%) Sybase
5 1 (1.08%) Calypso
5 1 (1.08%) Cisco
5 1 (1.08%) Reuters
5 1 (1.08%) Salesforce