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

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 344 334
Rank change year-on-year +51 -10 +61
Contract jobs citing Credit Risk 67 52 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.50% 0.32% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.30% 0.95% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 33 74
10th Percentile £313 £400 £512
25th Percentile £600 £450 £599
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £763 £775 £865
90th Percentile £900 £875 £997
England median daily rate £682 £600 £690
% change year-on-year +13.67% -13.04% +1.47%

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 5,148 5,471 7,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.27% 33.62% 35.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,334 3,654 5,725
10th Percentile £335 £325 £350
25th Percentile £438 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £738 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 68 86
10th Percentile £15.91 £17.25 £18.29
25th Percentile £23.71 £23.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.81 £31.31 £34.81
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% -10.05% +16.03%
75th Percentile £46.55 £54.06 £58.44
90th Percentile £67.31 £71.44 £75.63
England median hourly rate £32.89 £57.35 £46.18
% change year-on-year -42.65% +24.19% +77.62%

Credit Risk
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Credit Risk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Credit Risk 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 13 September 2025.

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 13 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
Central London +27 28 £675 +58.08% 31
Credit Risk
England

Credit Risk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (11.94%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.97%) Confluence
2 4 (5.97%) SAS
3 2 (2.99%) Apache
4 1 (1.49%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Endur
2 1 (1.49%) Aligne
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.96%) Power Platform
2 5 (7.46%) SaaS
3 2 (2.99%) Azure
3 2 (2.99%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.49%) Apigee
4 1 (1.49%) AWS
4 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.49%) dbt
4 1 (1.49%) GCP
4 1 (1.49%) GitHub
4 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.49%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) Hadoop
2 6 (8.96%) Apache Hive
2 6 (8.96%) Power BI
3 5 (7.46%) Big Data
3 5 (7.46%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (7.46%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.48%) Data Mining
4 3 (4.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (4.48%) Tableau
5 2 (2.99%) MySQL
5 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.99%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.49%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.49%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) JIRA
2 1 (1.49%) Ant
2 1 (1.49%) Git
General
1 47 (70.15%) Finance
2 28 (41.79%) Banking
3 23 (34.33%) Social Skills
4 16 (23.88%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (17.91%) Front Office
6 11 (16.42%) Financial Institution
7 6 (8.96%) Investment Banking
8 5 (7.46%) Billing
8 5 (7.46%) Legal
9 3 (4.48%) Back Office
10 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.49%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (23.88%) Analyst
2 12 (17.91%) Business Analyst
3 11 (16.42%) Developer
3 11 (16.42%) Risk Analyst
4 10 (14.93%) Risk Business Analyst
5 9 (13.43%) Project Manager
5 9 (13.43%) Risk Manager
5 9 (13.43%) Risk Project Manager
6 7 (10.45%) Python Developer
7 6 (8.96%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
8 5 (7.46%) Gen AI Specialist
9 4 (5.97%) Credit Analyst
9 4 (5.97%) Credit Risk Analyst
9 4 (5.97%) Credit Risk Developer
9 4 (5.97%) Market Risk Developer
10 3 (4.48%) Business IT Analyst
10 3 (4.48%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 3 (4.48%) IT Analyst
10 3 (4.48%) IT Project Manager
10 3 (4.48%) IT Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.45%) PySpark
1 7 (10.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (37.31%) Market Risk
2 8 (11.94%) Derivative
3 5 (7.46%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.97%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.48%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.99%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.49%) Credit Derivative
7 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.49%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.49%) OTC Derivatives
7 1 (1.49%) PMI
7 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (46.27%) Risk Management
2 17 (25.37%) Agile
3 16 (23.88%) Analytics
3 16 (23.88%) Credit Risk Management
4 12 (17.91%) Project Management
5 9 (13.43%) SDLC
6 8 (11.94%) Data Science
6 8 (11.94%) Generative AI
6 8 (11.94%) Machine Learning
6 8 (11.94%) Mathematics
6 8 (11.94%) Stress Testing
7 7 (10.45%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (10.45%) LLM
7 7 (10.45%) Project Delivery
7 7 (10.45%) Regulatory Compliance
7 7 (10.45%) Scrum
8 6 (8.96%) Data Protection
8 6 (8.96%) Portfolio Management
8 6 (8.96%) Project Governance
8 6 (8.96%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (40.30%) SQL
2 23 (34.33%) Python
3 4 (5.97%) C++
4 3 (4.48%) Jython
5 2 (2.99%) C#
6 1 (1.49%) C
6 1 (1.49%) CodeQL
6 1 (1.49%) Scala
6 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (19.40%) Degree
2 8 (11.94%) Master's Degree
3 6 (8.96%) PhD
4 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.49%) CBAP
5 1 (1.49%) CFA
5 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) Basel III
2 5 (7.46%) Basel II
3 4 (5.97%) IFRS
3 4 (5.97%) IFRS 9
4 3 (4.48%) QA
4 3 (4.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.99%) PMO
6 1 (1.49%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (1.49%) EMIR
Systems Management
1 1 (1.49%) Control-M
1 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.99%) Alteryx
2 2 (2.99%) IBM
2 2 (2.99%) Murex
3 1 (1.49%) Calypso
3 1 (1.49%) Cisco
3 1 (1.49%) Databricks
3 1 (1.49%) Google
3 1 (1.49%) OpenLink
3 1 (1.49%) Salesforce