Risk Management Contract Job Trends in London

Risk Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Risk Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 39 66
Rank change year-on-year -31 +27 +5
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 656 682 591
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.68% 5.43% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 5.88% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 434 406
10th Percentile £413 £400 £394
25th Percentile £500 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £750 £800 £770
90th Percentile £950 £875 £844
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile £70.92 £48.08 £24.67
25th Percentile £73.27 £48.25 £28.18
Median hourly rate £79.68 £73.60 £33.23
Median % change year-on-year +8.26% +121.50% -50.77%
75th Percentile £88.59 £89.10 £39.44
90th Percentile £92.44 £97.00 £45.03
England median hourly rate £74.31 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +20.83% +17.13% +393.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Risk Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,735 11,590 15,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 92.20% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,521 7,861 11,249
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 172 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.34
90th Percentile £74.63 £63.75 £65.68
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Risk Management job vacancy trend in London

Risk Management
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in London over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in London

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Management in London over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Management in London

Risk Management
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 Management within the London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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 -24 97 £600 - 98
East London -1 10 £630 +5.00% 8
West London -21 9 £544 +147.16% 10
South London -30 7 £500 -14.53%
North London - 3 £325 - 1
Risk Management
England

Risk Management
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 29 (4.42%) Confluence
2 11 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.22%) SAS
4 4 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.15%) nginx
6 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.15%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 43 (6.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (4.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.83%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.22%) Endur
3 7 (1.07%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.07%) Summit
4 6 (0.91%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.61%) Actimize
5 4 (0.61%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.46%) Dynamics SL
6 3 (0.46%) Findur
6 3 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite
6 3 (0.46%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.30%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 81 (12.35%) Azure
2 68 (10.37%) AWS
3 22 (3.35%) GCP
4 20 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (3.05%) Power Platform
5 14 (2.13%) SaaS
6 12 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (1.52%) Entra ID
9 9 (1.37%) GitHub
9 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (1.07%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.07%) SuccessFactors
11 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (0.91%) Snowflake
12 5 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (0.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.83%) Firewall
2 7 (1.07%) Network Security
3 2 (0.30%) Internet
3 2 (0.30%) LAN
3 2 (0.30%) NAS
3 2 (0.30%) SAN
3 2 (0.30%) VLAN
3 2 (0.30%) VPN
3 2 (0.30%) WAN
3 2 (0.30%) WLAN
4 1 (0.15%) 5G
4 1 (0.15%) Broadband
4 1 (0.15%) DHCP
4 1 (0.15%) DMZ
4 1 (0.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
1 16 (2.44%) Power BI
2 14 (2.13%) Metadata
3 11 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (1.52%) Relational Database
4 10 (1.52%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.91%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.76%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.76%) Tableau
7 3 (0.46%) Big Data
7 3 (0.46%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (0.46%) Data Mart
7 3 (0.46%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.30%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.30%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 61 (9.30%) JIRA
2 12 (1.83%) Git
3 8 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.76%) GitLab
5 4 (0.61%) Selenium
6 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.46%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.46%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.15%) Appium
7 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.15%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.15%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.15%) ERwin
7 1 (0.15%) jMock
7 1 (0.15%) JUnit
7 1 (0.15%) Maven
7 1 (0.15%) MLflow
7 1 (0.15%) Mockito
7 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 301 (45.88%) Finance
2 251 (38.26%) Social Skills
3 123 (18.75%) Banking
4 121 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 56 (8.54%) Legal
7 29 (4.42%) Front Office
7 29 (4.42%) Investment Banking
8 26 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (3.81%) Financial Institution
10 23 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (2.90%) Retail
13 12 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.83%) Marketing
14 11 (1.68%) Law
14 11 (1.68%) Military
15 10 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.37%) Back Office
16 9 (1.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 90 (13.72%) Lead
1 90 (13.72%) Senior
2 76 (11.59%) Analyst
3 68 (10.37%) Project Manager
4 61 (9.30%) Developer
5 55 (8.38%) Architect
6 53 (8.08%) Business Analyst
7 43 (6.55%) Consultant
8 34 (5.18%) Programme Manager
9 24 (3.66%) Security Architect
9 24 (3.66%) Senior Developer
10 20 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
11 19 (2.90%) Risk Analyst
12 17 (2.59%) Senior Manager
13 16 (2.44%) Java Developer
13 16 (2.44%) Risk Business Analyst
13 16 (2.44%) Risk Manager
14 15 (2.29%) Security Consultant
14 15 (2.29%) Security Specialist
15 14 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (2.29%) .NET
3 13 (1.98%) Kafka
4 11 (1.68%) REST
5 8 (1.22%) Middleware
5 8 (1.22%) XML
6 7 (1.07%) React
7 6 (0.91%) .NET Framework
7 6 (0.91%) J2EE
7 6 (0.91%) JSP
7 6 (0.91%) RESTful
8 5 (0.76%) .NET Core
8 5 (0.76%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (0.61%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.61%) Dask
9 4 (0.61%) WinForms
9 4 (0.61%) WPF
10 3 (0.46%) COM
10 3 (0.46%) NumPy
10 3 (0.46%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.69%) Management Information System
2 49 (7.47%) Derivative
3 34 (5.18%) Market Risk
4 29 (4.42%) Product Ownership
4 29 (4.42%) Security Posture
5 27 (4.12%) Credit Risk
5 27 (4.12%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.81%) Cloud Native
7 23 (3.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 22 (3.35%) Equities
9 19 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.90%) Fixed Income
10 18 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (2.13%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.98%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.83%) AI Agents
15 11 (1.68%) Equity Derivative
16 10 (1.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.59%) Windows
2 16 (2.44%) Linux
3 11 (1.68%) Unix
4 2 (0.30%) zOS
5 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (29.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 177 (26.98%) Agile
3 136 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
4 114 (17.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 110 (16.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 95 (14.48%) Project Management
7 89 (13.57%) Roadmaps
8 87 (13.26%) Decision-Making
9 83 (12.65%) Cybersecurity
10 81 (12.35%) Information Security
11 80 (12.20%) Analytics
12 79 (12.04%) AI
13 76 (11.59%) Project Delivery
14 59 (8.99%) ERP
14 59 (8.99%) Regulatory Compliance
15 58 (8.84%) DevOps
15 58 (8.84%) Migration
16 54 (8.23%) Change Management
16 54 (8.23%) Data Protection
17 52 (7.93%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 71 (10.82%) SQL
2 70 (10.67%) Python
3 43 (6.55%) Java
4 15 (2.29%) C#
5 13 (1.98%) C++
6 11 (1.68%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.91%) VBA
8 5 (0.76%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.76%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.61%) Perl
10 3 (0.46%) Korn
10 3 (0.46%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.46%) Scala
10 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.30%) Bash
11 2 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.30%) R
11 2 (0.30%) RPG
12 1 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 111 (16.92%) Degree
2 90 (13.72%) Security Cleared
3 66 (10.06%) SC Cleared
4 53 (8.08%) CISSP
5 36 (5.49%) PMI Certification
6 34 (5.18%) CISM
6 34 (5.18%) PMP
7 19 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.74%) CRISC
9 14 (2.13%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.98%) DV Cleared
11 12 (1.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 11 (1.68%) CISA
13 9 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 9 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
14 6 (0.91%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.91%) RIBA
15 5 (0.76%) APMG
16 4 (0.61%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (11.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 60 (9.15%) NIST
3 55 (8.38%) GRC
4 46 (7.01%) QA
5 44 (6.71%) GDPR
6 35 (5.34%) PMO
7 31 (4.73%) Data Quality
8 29 (4.42%) PCI DSS
9 23 (3.51%) SLA
10 14 (2.13%) COBIT
10 14 (2.13%) NCSC
11 12 (1.83%) SOC 2
12 11 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (1.22%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.76%) GMP
15 5 (0.76%) GxP
16 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 7 (1.07%) Active Directory
1 7 (1.07%) Docker
2 3 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.15%) NFS
4 1 (0.15%) Postfix
4 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (1.37%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.07%) Terraform
3 4 (0.61%) Control-M
3 4 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.46%) Ansible
4 3 (0.46%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.15%) Avamar
5 1 (0.15%) CASB
5 1 (0.15%) Consul
5 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.15%) Grafana
5 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.15%) Packer
5 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 76 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.32%) Oracle
3 43 (6.55%) SAP
4 34 (5.18%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.20%) Murex
6 17 (2.59%) Workday
7 16 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.22%) Databricks
9 6 (0.91%) Ariba
9 6 (0.91%) Google
10 5 (0.76%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.76%) Charles River
10 5 (0.76%) Informatica
10 5 (0.76%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.76%) OpenLink
10 5 (0.76%) Splunk
11 4 (0.61%) Foundry
11 4 (0.61%) IBM
12 3 (0.46%) Remedy
12 3 (0.46%) Sage