Credit Risk Contract Job Trends in London

Credit Risk
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Credit Risk in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Credit Risk over the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 313 339
Rank change year-on-year -29 +26 +6
Contract jobs citing Credit Risk 56 39 54
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.35% 0.30% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.94% 0.86% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 21 31
10th Percentile £470 £489 £513
25th Percentile £525 £570 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -9.91%
75th Percentile £720 £838 £794
90th Percentile £785 £863 £850
England median daily rate £613 £664 £600
% change year-on-year -7.76% +10.67% -10.45%

All Generic Skills
London

Credit 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,975 4,515 5,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.89% 34.97% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,884 2,986 4,207
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £439 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £702
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -6.31% -0.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 68 179
10th Percentile £17.60 £20.02 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.70 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.76% +27.48% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57.00 £57.81 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £80.75 £65.35
England median hourly rate £36.32 £34.25 £28.50
% change year-on-year +6.04% +20.18% +26.67%

Credit Risk
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Credit Risk job vacancy trend in London

Credit Risk
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Credit Risk.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Credit Risk

Credit Risk
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Credit Risk in London over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Credit Risk in London

Credit Risk
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Credit Risk.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Credit Risk

Credit Risk
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Credit Risk within the London region over the 6 months to 12 March 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
Central London -17 8 £550 -15.38% 16
East London - 2 £675 -
Credit Risk
England

Credit Risk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (1.79%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (1.79%) SAS
1 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Summit
2 2 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.79%) Loan IQ
3 1 (1.79%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.86%) Azure
2 8 (14.29%) AWS
3 4 (7.14%) SaaS
4 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.57%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.79%) Alation
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.79%) Collibra
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.71%) Metadata
3 3 (5.36%) Oracle Database
3 3 (5.36%) Power BI
3 3 (5.36%) RDBMS
3 3 (5.36%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (5.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (3.57%) Tableau
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.79%) Apache Hudi
5 1 (1.79%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.79%) Big Data
5 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.79%) ERwin
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) PowerDesigner
General
1 42 (75.00%) Finance
2 31 (55.36%) Banking
3 23 (41.07%) Social Skills
4 19 (33.93%) Investment Banking
5 18 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 7 (12.50%) Front Office
7 3 (5.36%) Legal
8 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.57%) Marketing
8 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.57%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (35.71%) Analyst
2 19 (33.93%) Business Analyst
3 13 (23.21%) Developer
4 9 (16.07%) Risk Analyst
4 9 (16.07%) Risk Business Analyst
5 7 (12.50%) .NET Developer
5 7 (12.50%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
6 5 (8.93%) Senior
7 4 (7.14%) Credit Analyst
7 4 (7.14%) Credit Risk Analyst
7 4 (7.14%) Report Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Market Risk Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Summit Business Analyst
9 2 (3.57%) Lead
9 2 (3.57%) Project Manager
9 2 (3.57%) Python Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.43%) .NET
2 5 (8.93%) .NET Core
2 5 (8.93%) .NET Framework
2 5 (8.93%) RESTful
2 5 (8.93%) WPF
3 4 (7.14%) WinForms
4 3 (5.36%) REST
4 3 (5.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (41.07%) Market Risk
2 10 (17.86%) Derivative
3 7 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.36%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.36%) Fixed Income
5 3 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.57%) Equities
6 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.79%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 1 (1.79%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.93%) Windows
2 3 (5.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) Risk Management
2 19 (33.93%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (23.21%) Credit Risk Management
3 13 (23.21%) Validation
4 12 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
4 12 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (17.86%) Model Validation
6 9 (16.07%) Agile
6 9 (16.07%) Business Analysis
6 9 (16.07%) SDLC
7 8 (14.29%) Data Analysis
7 8 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 7 (12.50%) Data Modelling
8 7 (12.50%) DevOps
9 6 (10.71%) Analytics
9 6 (10.71%) CI/CD
9 6 (10.71%) Collaborative Culture
9 6 (10.71%) Data Integration
9 6 (10.71%) Design Patterns
10 5 (8.93%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.86%) SQL
2 10 (17.86%) Python
3 8 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (3.57%) C++
4 2 (3.57%) VBA
5 1 (1.79%) C
5 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.57%) Degree
1 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.14%) Basel III
3 3 (5.36%) QA
4 2 (3.57%) CRD IV
4 2 (3.57%) GDPR
4 2 (3.57%) GRC
4 2 (3.57%) MiFID
4 2 (3.57%) PSD2
4 2 (3.57%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.79%) EMIR
5 1 (1.79%) IFRS
5 1 (1.79%) IFRS 9
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (14.29%) Murex
2 6 (10.71%) Oracle
3 3 (5.36%) Algorithmics
3 3 (5.36%) Bloomberg
3 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.36%) Temenos
3 3 (5.36%) Wolters Kluwer
4 1 (1.79%) Databricks
4 1 (1.79%) SAP
4 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.79%) Snow