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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 310 336
Rank change year-on-year -69 +26 +7
Contract jobs citing Credit Risk 78 63 54
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.39% 0.47% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.01% 1.21% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 46 30
10th Percentile £352 £232 £393
25th Percentile £513 £507 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £686 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% +14.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £756 £772
90th Percentile £818 £900 £875
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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 7,719 5,216 5,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.30% 38.91% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,898 3,360 3,530
10th Percentile £354 £344 £325
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% -3.26% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £730
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.27% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 122 71
10th Percentile £16.96 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.71 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.08% -19.70% +13.30%
75th Percentile £57.44 £46.94 £56.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £77.63 £78.40
England median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.30% -47.69% +24.59%

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 5 October 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 5 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
Central London -34 12 £525 +12.30% 38
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 11 (14.10%) Confluence
2 5 (6.41%) SAS
3 1 (1.28%) CMS
3 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.28%) LaTeX
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Loan IQ
1 1 (1.28%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.26%) Azure
2 7 (8.97%) GCP
3 6 (7.69%) SaaS
4 5 (6.41%) AWS
5 3 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.56%) Azure AI
6 2 (2.56%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Databricks
7 1 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.28%) GitHub
7 1 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.28%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.28%) LangSmith
7 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.97%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.85%) Data Mart
2 3 (3.85%) Power BI
3 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.28%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.28%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.28%) Metadata
4 1 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.28%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 17 (21.79%) JIRA
2 6 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (1.28%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (87.18%) Finance
2 42 (53.85%) Banking
3 28 (35.90%) Social Skills
4 26 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (20.51%) Front Office
6 10 (12.82%) Investment Banking
7 4 (5.13%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.85%) Legal
9 2 (2.56%) Billing
9 2 (2.56%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.56%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (2.56%) Retail
10 1 (1.28%) Aviation
10 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.28%) Marketing
10 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (23.08%) Analyst
2 13 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 10 (12.82%) Credit Analyst
3 10 (12.82%) Risk Analyst
4 9 (11.54%) Credit Risk Analyst
4 9 (11.54%) Developer
5 8 (10.26%) Risk Business Analyst
6 7 (8.97%) Senior
7 6 (7.69%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
7 6 (7.69%) Lead
8 5 (6.41%) Credit Risk Developer
8 5 (6.41%) Data Scientist
8 5 (6.41%) Project Manager
9 4 (5.13%) Consultant
9 4 (5.13%) Murex Consultant
10 3 (3.85%) Agile Project Manager
10 3 (3.85%) Credit Risk Modeller
10 3 (3.85%) Product Owner
10 3 (3.85%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.85%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.41%) .NET
1 5 (6.41%) .NET Core
1 5 (6.41%) XGBoost
2 3 (3.85%) ADO
2 3 (3.85%) REST
3 2 (2.56%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.56%) JSON
3 2 (2.56%) Kafka
3 2 (2.56%) Murex Flex
3 2 (2.56%) RESTful
3 2 (2.56%) Spring
3 2 (2.56%) XML
4 1 (1.28%) Flask
4 1 (1.28%) LangChain
4 1 (1.28%) LangGraph
4 1 (1.28%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (1.28%) NumPy
4 1 (1.28%) Pandas
4 1 (1.28%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (1.28%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.92%) Market Risk
2 12 (15.38%) Derivative
3 11 (14.10%) Product Ownership
4 8 (10.26%) Onboarding
5 5 (6.41%) Algorithms
5 5 (6.41%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (3.85%) Fixed Income
8 2 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.56%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.28%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.28%) Swaptions
9 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.82%) Unix
2 3 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 27 (34.62%) Risk Management
3 22 (28.21%) Agile
4 19 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (23.08%) AI
6 17 (21.79%) Analytics
6 17 (21.79%) CI/CD
7 16 (20.51%) Roadmaps
8 15 (19.23%) SDLC
9 14 (17.95%) Migration
9 14 (17.95%) Validation
10 12 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
10 12 (15.38%) Scrum
10 12 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
10 12 (15.38%) Workflow
11 11 (14.10%) Requirements Gathering
12 10 (12.82%) Machine Learning
12 10 (12.82%) Project Delivery
13 9 (11.54%) Business Analysis
13 9 (11.54%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 30 (38.46%) SQL
2 17 (21.79%) Python
3 5 (6.41%) C#
3 5 (6.41%) Java
3 5 (6.41%) Shell Script
4 3 (3.85%) Bash
4 3 (3.85%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.28%) C
5 1 (1.28%) C++
5 1 (1.28%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (20.51%) Degree
2 7 (8.97%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.56%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.56%) PMP
4 2 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.28%) CSPO
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.67%) Basel III
2 8 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 8 (10.26%) QA
3 2 (2.56%) GRC
3 2 (2.56%) IFRS
3 2 (2.56%) IFRS 9
3 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.28%) Basel II
4 1 (1.28%) GDPR
4 1 (1.28%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 4 (5.13%) Control-M
2 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.28%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 8 (10.26%) Murex
2 5 (6.41%) Atlassian
3 4 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.13%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.85%) Databricks
5 2 (2.56%) Foundry
5 2 (2.56%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.28%) Google
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle
6 1 (1.28%) Plaid
6 1 (1.28%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.28%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.28%) Wolters Kluwer