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 9 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 428 465
Rank change year-on-year -127 +37 -68
Contract jobs citing Market Risk 70 86 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.31% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 0.84% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 70 35
10th Percentile £361 £563 £415
25th Percentile £544 £650 £596
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £738 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.18% +5.46% -
75th Percentile £738 £988 £825
90th Percentile £810 - £871
UK median daily rate £700 £713 £675
% change year-on-year -1.75% +5.56% -3.57%

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 15,907 10,228 10,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.42% 36.40% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,560 6,400 6,068
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £541
Median % change year-on-year - -3.00% -1.59%
75th Percentile £645 £644 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,168 533 364
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.13 £15.94
25th Percentile £17.45 £18.82 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -44.44% +17.31%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.62 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +30.91% -42.11% +6.15%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -109 67 £700 -6.67% 132
North of England -65 1 £400 -34.64%
South West - 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £400 -
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 11 (15.71%) Confluence
2 2 (2.86%) CMS
3 1 (1.43%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.29%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.86%) LaTeX
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Aligne
1 1 (1.43%) Endur
1 1 (1.43%) Loan IQ
1 1 (1.43%) OneSumX
1 1 (1.43%) ZaiNet
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.57%) Azure
2 4 (5.71%) Azure AI
3 3 (4.29%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (2.86%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.43%) AWS
5 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.43%) GitHub
5 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.43%) LangSmith
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.43%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.71%) Data Mart
3 3 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.29%) Power BI
4 1 (1.43%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (15.71%) JIRA
2 4 (5.71%) Git
3 1 (1.43%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.43%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (91.43%) Finance
2 38 (54.29%) Banking
3 29 (41.43%) Front Office
4 25 (35.71%) Social Skills
5 24 (34.29%) Investment Banking
6 20 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (8.57%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Advertising
9 1 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (28.57%) Analyst
2 18 (25.71%) Developer
3 17 (24.29%) Risk Analyst
4 15 (21.43%) Business Analyst
4 15 (21.43%) Senior
5 12 (17.14%) Risk Business Analyst
6 10 (14.29%) Python Developer
7 9 (12.86%) Market Risk Analyst
7 9 (12.86%) Technical Analyst
8 8 (11.43%) Consultant
8 8 (11.43%) Murex Consultant
8 8 (11.43%) Senior Developer
9 7 (10.00%) Market Risk Business Analyst
9 7 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
10 4 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (5.71%) C# Developer
10 4 (5.71%) Credit Analyst
10 4 (5.71%) Credit Risk Analyst
10 4 (5.71%) Senior C# Developer
10 4 (5.71%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.86%) FastAPI
1 9 (12.86%) Flask
2 8 (11.43%) Django
2 8 (11.43%) NumPy
2 8 (11.43%) Pandas
2 8 (11.43%) REST
3 7 (10.00%) .NET
3 7 (10.00%) PySpark
4 4 (5.71%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.71%) ADO
4 4 (5.71%) LangChain
4 4 (5.71%) LangGraph
4 4 (5.71%) Model Context Protocol
5 3 (4.29%) Murex Flex
6 2 (2.86%) RESTful
7 1 (1.43%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (1.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (31.43%) Credit Risk
2 15 (21.43%) Derivative
3 14 (20.00%) Fixed Income
4 8 (11.43%) AI Agents
4 8 (11.43%) Data Structures
5 7 (10.00%) Product Ownership
6 6 (8.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (4.29%) Algorithms
7 3 (4.29%) Equities
8 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.86%) Swaptions
9 1 (1.43%) Credit Derivative
9 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.43%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 1 (1.43%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.57%) Linux
1 13 (18.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 24 (34.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (32.86%) Agile
3 23 (32.86%) Analytics
4 18 (25.71%) AI
5 17 (24.29%) Validation
6 14 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 12 (17.14%) SDLC
8 11 (15.71%) Business Analysis
8 11 (15.71%) Migration
8 11 (15.71%) Test Automation
9 10 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 10 (14.29%) Code Quality
9 10 (14.29%) Generative AI
9 10 (14.29%) Mathematics
9 10 (14.29%) Stress Testing
9 10 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (12.86%) Project Management
10 9 (12.86%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 33 (47.14%) Python
2 32 (45.71%) SQL
3 8 (11.43%) Shell Script
4 7 (10.00%) C#
5 5 (7.14%) Bash
6 4 (5.71%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.86%) Java
8 1 (1.43%) C
8 1 (1.43%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) Degree
2 6 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.43%) QA
2 5 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.29%) Basel III
4 2 (2.86%) MiFID
5 1 (1.43%) IFRS
5 1 (1.43%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.43%) ITGC
System Software
1 6 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.57%) Control-M
2 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) Murex
2 4 (5.71%) Foundry
2 4 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.71%) OpenAI
2 4 (5.71%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.86%) Databricks
4 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.43%) BMC
4 1 (1.43%) Calypso
4 1 (1.43%) Splunk
4 1 (1.43%) Wolters Kluwer