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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 49 67
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 -15
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 875 679 563
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.32% 5.07% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% 5.48% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 442 338
10th Percentile £413 £388 £408
25th Percentile £500 £486 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.12% -1.21%
75th Percentile £725 £800 £769
90th Percentile £825 £923 £875
England median daily rate £568 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -1.30% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £31.92 £37.88 £24.28
25th Percentile £32.55 £55.31 £30.69
Median hourly rate £33.60 £65.00 £54.55
Median % change year-on-year -48.31% +19.16% +150.80%
75th Percentile £44.13 - £79.60
90th Percentile £49.90 - £81.76
England median hourly rate £75.50 £33.50 £58.38
% change year-on-year +125.37% -42.61% -2.71%

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 17,999 12,398 14,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.52% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,778 8,176 9,391
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £664 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 243 184
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.03 £17.33
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.01 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -18.14% -8.18%
75th Percentile £61.50 £47.25 £56.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.55 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 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 -4 115 £550 -15.38% 206
West London -10 17 £650 +52.94% 41
East London +5 4 £750 +108.33% 10
South London -25 3 £495 -14.86% 20
North London -3 1 £550 - 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 36 (4.11%) Confluence
2 14 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.69%) SAS
4 5 (0.57%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.46%) CMS
6 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.34%) nginx
7 2 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.11%) Appian
8 1 (0.11%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 29 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (1.37%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.23%) LaTeX
6 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.37%) Endur
3 5 (0.57%) SAP GRC
3 5 (0.57%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.46%) Actimize
4 4 (0.46%) Magento
4 4 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.23%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.23%) Eikon
6 2 (0.23%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.23%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 134 (15.31%) Azure
2 107 (12.23%) AWS
3 44 (5.03%) GCP
4 36 (4.11%) Entra ID
5 33 (3.77%) SaaS
6 28 (3.20%) Power Platform
7 26 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (2.74%) GitHub
9 17 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (1.83%) OCI
11 13 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
12 11 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
14 8 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (0.91%) Snowflake
15 7 (0.80%) Azure AI
15 7 (0.80%) Collibra
15 7 (0.80%) OpenShift
15 7 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.74%) Firewall
2 20 (2.29%) Network Security
3 10 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.91%) DNS
4 8 (0.91%) LAN
4 8 (0.91%) WAN
5 7 (0.80%) Internet
5 7 (0.80%) VPN
6 6 (0.69%) 4G
6 6 (0.69%) 5G
6 6 (0.69%) Cisco IPT
7 5 (0.57%) DHCP
8 4 (0.46%) Wireless
9 3 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.34%) Modbus
9 3 (0.34%) Multicast
9 3 (0.34%) VoLTE
9 3 (0.34%) WinSCP
10 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (3.54%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.40%) Power BI
3 17 (1.94%) Metadata
4 14 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.14%) Oracle Database
6 9 (1.03%) MongoDB
7 8 (0.91%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.91%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.80%) Big Data
9 6 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.57%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.46%) Ataccama
11 4 (0.46%) Data Mart
11 4 (0.46%) Db2
11 4 (0.46%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.34%) ClickHouse
12 3 (0.34%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.34%) KDB
12 3 (0.34%) Kdb+
12 3 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 63 (7.20%) JIRA
2 22 (2.51%) Git
3 16 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.69%) GitLab
4 6 (0.69%) Selenium
5 5 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.46%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.46%) Claude Code
6 4 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.46%) Gradle
6 4 (0.46%) Subversion
7 3 (0.34%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.23%) GCC
8 2 (0.23%) GDB
8 2 (0.23%) MLflow
8 2 (0.23%) Postman
8 2 (0.23%) QUnit
8 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
General
1 419 (47.89%) Finance
2 340 (38.86%) Social Skills
3 168 (19.20%) Banking
4 156 (17.83%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (10.86%) Public Sector
6 86 (9.83%) Legal
7 75 (8.57%) Front Office
8 43 (4.91%) Influencing Skills
9 38 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (3.77%) Investment Banking
11 25 (2.86%) Financial Institution
11 25 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (2.40%) Law
13 20 (2.29%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.94%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.83%) Marketing
16 14 (1.60%) Retail
17 13 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
18 11 (1.26%) Military
19 9 (1.03%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 112 (12.80%) Senior
2 108 (12.34%) Lead
3 101 (11.54%) Analyst
4 87 (9.94%) Architect
5 85 (9.71%) Project Manager
6 52 (5.94%) Developer
7 50 (5.71%) Business Analyst
8 47 (5.37%) Programme Manager
9 44 (5.03%) Consultant
10 34 (3.89%) Security Architect
11 31 (3.54%) IT Manager
12 29 (3.31%) Senior Manager
13 27 (3.09%) Delivery Manager
13 27 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (2.74%) Risk Analyst
15 21 (2.40%) Senior Business Analyst
15 21 (2.40%) Technical Manager
16 20 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
17 19 (2.17%) Security Engineer
18 17 (1.94%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (4.80%) Terraform
2 35 (4.00%) .NET
3 30 (3.43%) REST
4 18 (2.06%) Kafka
4 18 (2.06%) Middleware
5 13 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
6 9 (1.03%) XGBoost
7 8 (0.91%) .NET Core
7 8 (0.91%) Azure Blueprints
7 8 (0.91%) PySpark
7 8 (0.91%) React
7 8 (0.91%) Web Services
8 6 (0.69%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (0.69%) SailPoint
8 6 (0.69%) SOAP
8 6 (0.69%) Spring
8 6 (0.69%) Spring Boot
9 5 (0.57%) .NET Framework
9 5 (0.57%) OAuth
9 5 (0.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 50 (5.71%) Onboarding
2 43 (4.91%) Cloud Native
2 43 (4.91%) Product Ownership
3 38 (4.34%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.89%) Security Posture
5 33 (3.77%) Market Risk
6 29 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
7 28 (3.20%) Credit Risk
8 26 (2.97%) Data Centre
9 23 (2.63%) Derivative
9 23 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (2.40%) Fixed Income
12 20 (2.29%) AI Agents
13 17 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (1.71%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
14 15 (1.71%) Operational Technology
15 13 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.37%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.80%) Windows
2 38 (4.34%) Linux
3 28 (3.20%) Unix
4 16 (1.83%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (43.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 236 (26.97%) Agile
3 177 (20.23%) Cybersecurity
4 174 (19.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 166 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 149 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
7 147 (16.80%) AI
8 145 (16.57%) Roadmaps
9 140 (16.00%) Decision-Making
10 107 (12.23%) Project Management
11 105 (12.00%) Analytics
11 105 (12.00%) Migration
12 101 (11.54%) Project Delivery
13 98 (11.20%) Information Security
14 94 (10.74%) DevOps
15 92 (10.51%) CI/CD
16 82 (9.37%) Change Management
17 71 (8.11%) Data Protection
18 69 (7.89%) SDLC
18 69 (7.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 102 (11.66%) Python
2 86 (9.83%) SQL
3 34 (3.89%) C#
4 28 (3.20%) Java
5 26 (2.97%) PowerShell
6 17 (1.94%) Bash
7 11 (1.26%) Shell Script
8 8 (0.91%) C++
8 8 (0.91%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.57%) Bicep
9 5 (0.57%) Korn
9 5 (0.57%) R
9 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.46%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.34%) C
11 3 (0.34%) Groovy
11 3 (0.34%) VBA
11 3 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 157 (17.94%) Security Cleared
2 121 (13.83%) SC Cleared
3 108 (12.34%) Degree
4 70 (8.00%) CISSP
5 46 (5.26%) PMI Certification
6 45 (5.14%) PMP
7 43 (4.91%) CISM
8 34 (3.89%) DV Cleared
9 24 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (2.51%) CRISC
11 21 (2.40%) Master's Degree
12 18 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (2.06%) CISA
13 15 (1.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 15 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (1.49%) AWS Certification
15 12 (1.37%) Azure Certification
15 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (1.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 8 (0.91%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 85 (9.71%) NIST
3 74 (8.46%) GRC
4 64 (7.31%) QA
5 47 (5.37%) Data Quality
6 35 (4.00%) GDPR
7 30 (3.43%) PMO
8 25 (2.86%) NCSC
9 16 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (1.26%) COBIT
10 11 (1.26%) SOC 2
11 10 (1.14%) Basel III
11 10 (1.14%) SLA
12 8 (0.91%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 6 (0.69%) ITGC
14 6 (0.69%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 25 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.83%) Docker
3 9 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.57%) vSphere
5 2 (0.23%) IAG
6 1 (0.11%) NFS
6 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (3.20%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.29%) Ansible
3 8 (0.91%) Grafana
3 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.69%) SCCM
5 5 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.46%) Control-M
6 4 (0.46%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.34%) Argo
7 3 (0.34%) Puppet
8 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.23%) Kibana
8 2 (0.23%) Podman
8 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) Nessus
9 1 (0.11%) OMEGAMON
9 1 (0.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 142 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.40%) ServiceNow
3 46 (5.26%) Oracle
4 45 (5.14%) SAP
5 24 (2.74%) Murex
6 21 (2.40%) Google
7 17 (1.94%) Splunk
8 13 (1.49%) Databricks
8 13 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.14%) Bloomberg
9 10 (1.14%) Qualys
10 9 (1.03%) Cisco
10 9 (1.03%) CyberArk
10 9 (1.03%) Tenable
11 8 (0.91%) Workday
12 7 (0.80%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.80%) Rapid7
12 7 (0.80%) VMware
13 6 (0.69%) Calypso
13 6 (0.69%) IBM