Risk Consultant Contracts in London

Risk Consultant
England > London

The median Risk Consultant daily rate in London is £628, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 385 474
Rank change year-on-year +51 +89 +114
Contract jobs requiring a Risk Consultant 19 10 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.056% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.060% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 19
10th Percentile £403 - £423
25th Percentile £519 £235 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £500 £620
Median % change year-on-year +25.50% -19.35% +3.33%
75th Percentile £809 £522 £668
90th Percentile £838 £633 £785
England median daily rate £628 £520 £625
% change year-on-year +20.67% -16.80% +6.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,753 16,611 25,696
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 93.26% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,049 12,008 18,613
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £679 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 338 287
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.05 £20.02 £22.57
Median hourly rate £34.33 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.88 £64.67 £76.10
England median hourly rate £30.78 £36.02 £44.77
% change year-on-year -14.55% -19.53% +98.96%

Risk Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Risk Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Consultant in London

Risk Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Consultant in London.

Daily rate trend for Risk Consultant in London

Risk Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Consultant in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Consultant in London

Risk Consultant
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 Risk Consultant within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +11 6 £703 +40.50% 1
Risk Consultant
England

Risk Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Risk Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Risk Consultant in the job title.

1 11 (57.89%) Finance
1 11 (57.89%) Banking
2 9 (47.37%) Risk Management
3 7 (36.84%) Scenario Testing
4 6 (31.58%) Investment Banking
5 5 (26.32%) Market Risk
5 5 (26.32%) Information Security
5 5 (26.32%) SQL
5 5 (26.32%) Basel II
5 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
5 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
6 4 (21.05%) Power BI
6 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (21.05%) Stress Testing
7 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
7 3 (15.79%) Scrum
7 3 (15.79%) Agile
7 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (15.79%) Data Mining
7 3 (15.79%) ITIL
7 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
7 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (15.79%) SDLC
7 3 (15.79%) SaaS
7 3 (15.79%) Analytics
7 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (15.79%) GRC
8 2 (10.53%) Major Incident Management

Risk Consultant Skill Set
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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.79%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Power BI
2 3 (15.79%) Data Mining
3 2 (10.53%) Data Mart
3 2 (10.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Ant
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 11 (57.89%) Banking
1 11 (57.89%) Finance
2 6 (31.58%) Investment Banking
3 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
5 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Market Risk
2 2 (10.53%) Credit Risk
2 2 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) e-Learning
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Risk Management
2 7 (36.84%) Scenario Testing
3 5 (26.32%) Information Security
3 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (21.05%) Stress Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
5 3 (15.79%) ITIL
5 3 (15.79%) Scrum
5 3 (15.79%) SDLC
5 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
6 2 (10.53%) Business Continuity
6 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (10.53%) Cyber Resilience
6 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (10.53%) Project Management
6 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) Basel II
2 3 (15.79%) GRC
3 2 (10.53%) Basel III
4 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.26%) NIST
4 1 (5.26%) NIST 800
4 1 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (5.26%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Control-M
1 2 (10.53%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Calypso
1 2 (10.53%) Murex
2 1 (5.26%) Alteryx
2 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow