Market Risk Contracts 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 462 385
Rank change year-on-year +73 -77 +236
Contract jobs citing Market Risk 86 80 286
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.22% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.05% 0.71% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 54 219
10th Percentile £558 £566 £511
25th Percentile £650 £625 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £788 £775
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.61% +10.71%
75th Percentile £834 £850 £950
90th Percentile £904 £968 £1,000
UK median daily rate £738 £763 £764
% change year-on-year -3.28% -0.20% +9.14%

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 8,211 11,268 16,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.01% 30.65% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,374 7,395 11,501
10th Percentile £300 £268 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 822 584
10th Percentile £15.92 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.81 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £34.50 £32.31 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.79% +43.68% -16.69%
75th Percentile £64.51 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £84.35 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £31.25 £22.49
% change year-on-year +2.56% +38.98% -18.24%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Market Risk in England

Market Risk
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Market Risk in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Market Risk in England

Market Risk
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Market Risk in England

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 13 May 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 +41 85 £750 -4.76% 65
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -
North of England - 1 £650 -
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 10 (11.63%) Apache Spark
2 8 (9.30%) Apache
3 2 (2.33%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (1.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Endur
2 1 (1.16%) Bankmaster
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.14%) AWS
1 7 (8.14%) Azure
1 7 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (5.81%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.65%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.28%) Big Data
2 10 (11.63%) Hadoop
3 7 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.81%) Data Mining
4 5 (5.81%) Power BI
5 4 (4.65%) Data Mart
5 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.49%) MS Access
6 3 (3.49%) Redis
6 3 (3.49%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.33%) Tableau
8 1 (1.16%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.16%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (1.16%) Presto
Development Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Git
1 8 (9.30%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.49%) JIRA
3 2 (2.33%) Ant
4 1 (1.16%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (63.95%) Finance
2 49 (56.98%) Banking
3 35 (40.70%) Social Skills
4 28 (32.56%) Investment Banking
5 25 (29.07%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (23.26%) Front Office
7 3 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.49%) Legal
8 1 (1.16%) Back Office
8 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.16%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.16%) International Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (52.33%) Developer
2 21 (24.42%) Analyst
3 18 (20.93%) Business Analyst
3 18 (20.93%) Senior
4 15 (17.44%) Java Developer
5 13 (15.12%) Senior Developer
6 11 (12.79%) C# Developer
7 10 (11.63%) Lead
7 10 (11.63%) Python Developer
8 9 (10.47%) Risk Analyst
9 8 (9.30%) Apache Spark Developer
9 8 (9.30%) Lead Developer
10 7 (8.14%) .NET Developer
10 7 (8.14%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (8.14%) Risk Business Analyst
11 6 (6.98%) Change Analyst
11 6 (6.98%) Consultant
11 6 (6.98%) Quantitative Developer
11 6 (6.98%) Risk Consultant
11 6 (6.98%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.79%) .NET
2 9 (10.47%) Kafka
2 9 (10.47%) Spark Streaming
3 7 (8.14%) ASP.NET
4 5 (5.81%) AngularJS
5 4 (4.65%) .NET Framework
5 4 (4.65%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (4.65%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 4 (4.65%) WPF
6 3 (3.49%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (3.49%) Java Concurrency
7 2 (2.33%) PySpark
8 1 (1.16%) HTML
8 1 (1.16%) HTML5
8 1 (1.16%) JSON
8 1 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.16%) React
8 1 (1.16%) Vue
8 1 (1.16%) WebSockets
8 1 (1.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.26%) Derivative
2 17 (19.77%) Credit Risk
3 10 (11.63%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (9.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (6.98%) Equities
5 6 (6.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (4.65%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.49%) Fixed Income
7 3 (3.49%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.33%) Hedge funds
8 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.16%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.16%) Pricing Data
9 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (48.84%) Risk Management
2 39 (45.35%) Analytics
3 31 (36.05%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (30.23%) Agile
5 20 (23.26%) Mathematics
6 18 (20.93%) Stress Testing
7 15 (17.44%) Code Quality
8 14 (16.28%) Greeks
8 14 (16.28%) Regulatory Compliance
8 14 (16.28%) Risk Analytics
9 11 (12.79%) TDD
10 10 (11.63%) CI/CD
10 10 (11.63%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (11.63%) Project Management
11 9 (10.47%) Memory Management
11 9 (10.47%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (10.47%) Risk Analysis
12 8 (9.30%) Computer Science
12 8 (9.30%) DevOps
12 8 (9.30%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 32 (37.21%) Python
2 30 (34.88%) SQL
3 15 (17.44%) Java
4 11 (12.79%) C#
5 4 (4.65%) Haskell
6 3 (3.49%) Jython
7 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.33%) VBA
8 1 (1.16%) Bash
8 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (18.60%) Degree
2 9 (10.47%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.16%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) Basel II
2 5 (5.81%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.65%) COREP
4 3 (3.49%) Basel III
5 2 (2.33%) PMO
6 1 (1.16%) EMIR
6 1 (1.16%) MiFID
6 1 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.33%) Control-M
2 1 (1.16%) Grafana
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 6 (6.98%) Murex
2 4 (4.65%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.65%) Oracle
3 2 (2.33%) Calypso
4 1 (1.16%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.16%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.16%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.16%) OpenLink
4 1 (1.16%) Solace
4 1 (1.16%) TIBCO