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 18 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 298 332
Rank change year-on-year -73 +34 +6
Contract jobs citing Credit Risk 69 71 47
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.34% 0.53% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.91% 1.40% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 51 30
10th Percentile £363 £313 £393
25th Percentile £513 £625 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £738 £813 £801
90th Percentile £844 £900 £881
England median daily rate £575 £700 £540
% change year-on-year -17.86% +29.63% -20.82%

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 7,549 5,086 5,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.57% 37.78% 33.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,719 3,332 3,798
10th Percentile £356 £331 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £720 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 123 81
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.04 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £32.56 £27.50 £30.09
Median % change year-on-year +18.41% -8.61% -14.03%
75th Percentile £56.25 £45.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £42.40 £31.18 £47.50
% change year-on-year +35.98% -34.36% +11.11%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -20 14 £550 -21.43% 8
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 7 (10.14%) Confluence
2 6 (8.70%) SAS
3 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.45%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Summit
2 1 (1.45%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.45%) OneSumX
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.70%) Azure
2 5 (7.25%) SaaS
3 4 (5.80%) AWS
3 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.35%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.45%) Azure AI
5 1 (1.45%) Collibra
5 1 (1.45%) GCP
5 1 (1.45%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) Metadata
2 5 (7.25%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.80%) Power BI
3 4 (5.80%) RDBMS
3 4 (5.80%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.45%) Apache Hudi
5 1 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (23.19%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.45%) ERwin
2 1 (1.45%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (1.45%) ScriptRunner
General
1 57 (82.61%) Finance
2 38 (55.07%) Banking
3 25 (36.23%) Social Skills
4 19 (27.54%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (20.29%) Investment Banking
6 12 (17.39%) Front Office
7 4 (5.80%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.80%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.35%) Legal
9 2 (2.90%) Billing
9 2 (2.90%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.90%) Retail
10 1 (1.45%) Aviation
10 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.45%) Marketing
10 1 (1.45%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (30.43%) Analyst
2 20 (28.99%) Business Analyst
3 14 (20.29%) Risk Analyst
4 13 (18.84%) Risk Business Analyst
5 12 (17.39%) Credit Analyst
5 12 (17.39%) Credit Risk Analyst
6 11 (15.94%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
7 6 (8.70%) Developer
7 6 (8.70%) Lead
7 6 (8.70%) Project Manager
8 5 (7.25%) Data Scientist
9 4 (5.80%) Banking Analyst
9 4 (5.80%) Banking Business Analyst
9 4 (5.80%) Senior
9 4 (5.80%) Summit Business Analyst
10 3 (4.35%) Architect
10 3 (4.35%) Lead Data Scientist
10 3 (4.35%) Product Owner
10 3 (4.35%) Risk Manager
10 3 (4.35%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.25%) XML
2 3 (4.35%) .NET
3 2 (2.90%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.45%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.45%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (1.45%) JSON
4 1 (1.45%) Kafka
4 1 (1.45%) NumPy
4 1 (1.45%) Pandas
4 1 (1.45%) REST
4 1 (1.45%) RESTful
4 1 (1.45%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.45%) Spring
4 1 (1.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.09%) Market Risk
2 16 (23.19%) Derivative
3 10 (14.49%) Product Ownership
4 8 (11.59%) Onboarding
5 5 (7.25%) Fixed Income
6 4 (5.80%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (5.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.90%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.45%) Credit Derivative
8 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.45%) Equities
8 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.45%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (27.54%) Risk Management
3 17 (24.64%) Agile
4 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (20.29%) SDLC
5 13 (18.84%) Project Delivery
6 12 (17.39%) Business Analysis
7 11 (15.94%) Analytics
7 11 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (15.94%) Migration
7 11 (15.94%) Requirements Gathering
7 11 (15.94%) User Acceptance Testing
8 10 (14.49%) AI
8 10 (14.49%) Project Management
8 10 (14.49%) Roadmaps
8 10 (14.49%) Scrum
8 10 (14.49%) Validation
9 9 (13.04%) Credit Risk Management
9 9 (13.04%) Data Analysis
9 9 (13.04%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 25 (36.23%) SQL
2 16 (23.19%) Python
3 4 (5.80%) Java
4 3 (4.35%) VBA
5 2 (2.90%) C#
5 2 (2.90%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.45%) C
6 1 (1.45%) C++
6 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (7.25%) Degree
2 2 (2.90%) PMI Certification
2 2 (2.90%) PMP
2 2 (2.90%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (1.45%) ACCA
3 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.45%) CIMA
3 1 (1.45%) CSPO
3 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.04%) QA
2 6 (8.70%) Basel III
3 4 (5.80%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.35%) IFRS
5 2 (2.90%) GRC
5 2 (2.90%) IFRS 9
5 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.45%) Basel II
6 1 (1.45%) COREP
6 1 (1.45%) FINREP
6 1 (1.45%) GDPR
6 1 (1.45%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 1 (1.45%) Control-M
1 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.45%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 6 (8.70%) Murex
2 5 (7.25%) Oracle
3 4 (5.80%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.35%) Databricks
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.45%) BT
5 1 (1.45%) Foundry
5 1 (1.45%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.45%) Plaid
5 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.45%) Wolters Kluwer