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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 45 69
Rank change year-on-year -24 +24 -9
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 816 708 544
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.04% 5.26% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 5.68% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 458 331
10th Percentile £413 £389 £396
25th Percentile £500 £485 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £725 £801 £763
90th Percentile £838 £891 £875
England median daily rate £558 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -3.04% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 3
10th Percentile £31.92 £39.45 £22.02
25th Percentile £32.55 £48.25 £25.06
Median hourly rate £33.60 £65.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -48.31% +115.80% +38.48%
75th Percentile £44.13 - £39.44
90th Percentile £49.90 £79.00 £45.02
England median hourly rate £64.09 £33.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +91.31% -41.74% -4.17%

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 17,959 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,244 9,685
10th Percentile £360 £327 £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 £663 £675 £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 302 252 179
10th Percentile £16.52 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -9.58%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +2 118 £545 -12.80% 233
West London -17 15 £500 +17.65% 60
East London +2 5 £670 +55.81% 14
South London -18 4 £495 -14.86% 16
North London -1 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 33 (4.04%) Confluence
2 14 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.74%) SAS
4 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.25%) CMS
5 2 (0.25%) IIS
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.12%) Appian
6 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.12%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 30 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.23%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.25%) Windchill
7 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.72%) Endur
3 5 (0.61%) SAP GRC
4 4 (0.49%) Actimize
4 4 (0.49%) Front Arena
4 4 (0.49%) Magento
4 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.37%) Findur
5 3 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.37%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.37%) Summit
6 2 (0.25%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.25%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.25%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.25%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.25%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 125 (15.32%) Azure
2 102 (12.50%) AWS
3 40 (4.90%) GCP
4 36 (4.41%) Entra ID
5 31 (3.80%) SaaS
6 27 (3.31%) Power Platform
7 25 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (2.08%) GitHub
9 16 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
10 13 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
11 11 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (1.35%) OCI
12 10 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (0.98%) PaaS
15 7 (0.86%) Azure AI
15 7 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (0.86%) Collibra
15 7 (0.86%) SuccessFactors
16 6 (0.74%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.70%) Firewall
2 15 (1.84%) Network Security
3 9 (1.10%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.74%) 4G
4 6 (0.74%) 5G
4 6 (0.74%) Internet
4 6 (0.74%) LAN
4 6 (0.74%) WAN
5 5 (0.61%) Cisco IPT
5 5 (0.61%) DNS
5 5 (0.61%) VPN
6 4 (0.49%) DHCP
6 4 (0.49%) Wireless
7 3 (0.37%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.37%) Modbus
7 3 (0.37%) VoLTE
7 3 (0.37%) WinSCP
8 2 (0.25%) NAS
8 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.19%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.45%) Power BI
3 15 (1.84%) Metadata
4 13 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.10%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.10%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.98%) Oracle Database
7 6 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.61%) Big Data
8 5 (0.61%) Db2
8 5 (0.61%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.49%) Ataccama
9 4 (0.49%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.37%) ClickHouse
10 3 (0.37%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.37%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.37%) KDB
10 3 (0.37%) Kdb+
10 3 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (6.99%) JIRA
2 18 (2.21%) Git
3 13 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.61%) Selenium
5 4 (0.49%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.49%) GitLab
5 4 (0.49%) Gradle
5 4 (0.49%) Subversion
6 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.37%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.37%) MLflow
7 2 (0.25%) QUnit
7 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.25%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.25%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.12%) eggPlant
8 1 (0.12%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.12%) NeoLoad
General
1 379 (46.45%) Finance
2 307 (37.62%) Social Skills
3 142 (17.40%) Banking
4 138 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (10.91%) Public Sector
6 82 (10.05%) Legal
7 68 (8.33%) Front Office
8 38 (4.66%) Influencing Skills
9 32 (3.92%) Investment Banking
9 32 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (2.57%) Telecoms
12 20 (2.45%) Financial Institution
13 17 (2.08%) Law
14 16 (1.96%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.72%) Marketing
15 14 (1.72%) Retail
16 13 (1.59%) Back Office
16 13 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 102 (12.50%) Lead
2 100 (12.25%) Senior
3 93 (11.40%) Analyst
4 91 (11.15%) Architect
5 68 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 51 (6.25%) Developer
7 44 (5.39%) Business Analyst
7 44 (5.39%) Programme Manager
8 36 (4.41%) Security Architect
9 32 (3.92%) Consultant
10 25 (3.06%) IT Manager
11 23 (2.82%) Delivery Manager
11 23 (2.82%) Risk Analyst
11 23 (2.82%) Senior Manager
12 21 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
14 18 (2.21%) Security Engineer
15 17 (2.08%) Security Manager
15 17 (2.08%) Technical Manager
16 16 (1.96%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (4.17%) .NET
2 30 (3.68%) Terraform
3 25 (3.06%) REST
4 19 (2.33%) Middleware
5 15 (1.84%) Kafka
6 11 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
7 10 (1.23%) React
8 8 (0.98%) .NET Core
8 8 (0.98%) Azure Blueprints
9 7 (0.86%) PySpark
9 7 (0.86%) SailPoint
10 6 (0.74%) SOAP
10 6 (0.74%) Spring
10 6 (0.74%) Spring Boot
10 6 (0.74%) XGBoost
11 5 (0.61%) JSON
11 5 (0.61%) OAuth
11 5 (0.61%) Web Services
12 4 (0.49%) Node.js
12 4 (0.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 41 (5.02%) Cloud Native
3 39 (4.78%) Security Posture
4 38 (4.66%) Management Information System
5 37 (4.53%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (3.06%) Market Risk
8 22 (2.70%) Credit Risk
9 21 (2.57%) Data Centre
9 21 (2.57%) Derivative
9 21 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (2.45%) Fixed Income
10 20 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 16 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.84%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.72%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.59%) NHS
14 13 (1.59%) Operational Technology
15 12 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (1.35%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.90%) Windows
2 28 (3.43%) Linux
3 24 (2.94%) Unix
4 14 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.25%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (41.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 214 (26.23%) Agile
3 169 (20.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 163 (19.98%) Cybersecurity
5 149 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 142 (17.40%) Decision-Making
7 136 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 134 (16.42%) AI
8 134 (16.42%) Roadmaps
9 98 (12.01%) Information Security
10 95 (11.64%) Migration
10 95 (11.64%) Project Management
11 92 (11.27%) Analytics
12 83 (10.17%) Project Delivery
13 81 (9.93%) DevOps
14 80 (9.80%) CI/CD
15 70 (8.58%) Change Management
16 67 (8.21%) Data Protection
17 65 (7.97%) Regulatory Compliance
17 65 (7.97%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 82 (10.05%) Python
2 77 (9.44%) SQL
3 28 (3.43%) Java
4 25 (3.06%) C#
5 23 (2.82%) PowerShell
6 10 (1.23%) Bash
6 10 (1.23%) Shell Script
7 7 (0.86%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.74%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.61%) Bicep
9 5 (0.61%) Korn
10 4 (0.49%) C++
10 4 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.49%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.49%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.49%) VBA
11 3 (0.37%) C
11 3 (0.37%) R
11 3 (0.37%) Scala
11 3 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 148 (18.14%) Security Cleared
2 110 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 94 (11.52%) Degree
4 66 (8.09%) CISSP
5 39 (4.78%) PMI Certification
6 38 (4.66%) PMP
7 37 (4.53%) CISM
8 33 (4.04%) DV Cleared
9 19 (2.33%) Master's Degree
10 18 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (1.96%) CRISC
12 14 (1.72%) CISA
13 12 (1.47%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (1.23%) AWS Certification
14 10 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 7 (0.86%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (11.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 77 (9.44%) NIST
3 73 (8.95%) GRC
4 61 (7.48%) QA
5 40 (4.90%) Data Quality
6 35 (4.29%) GDPR
7 27 (3.31%) PMO
8 23 (2.82%) NCSC
9 15 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (1.47%) SLA
10 12 (1.47%) SOC 2
11 11 (1.35%) COBIT
12 9 (1.10%) Basel III
12 9 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (1.10%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.74%) ITGC
14 6 (0.74%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 24 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.35%) Docker
3 9 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) NFS
5 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) vSphere
6 1 (0.12%) IAG
6 1 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.08%) Ansible
3 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.61%) Grafana
4 5 (0.61%) SCCM
5 4 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.37%) Control-M
6 3 (0.37%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.37%) Puppet
6 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.25%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.12%) Argo
8 1 (0.12%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.12%) Istio
8 1 (0.12%) Nessus
8 1 (0.12%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 126 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.86%) ServiceNow
3 42 (5.15%) SAP
4 39 (4.78%) Oracle
5 16 (1.96%) Google
5 16 (1.96%) Murex
6 15 (1.84%) Splunk
7 12 (1.47%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.23%) CyberArk
8 10 (1.23%) Qualys
9 9 (1.10%) Databricks
9 9 (1.10%) Tenable
10 7 (0.86%) Bloomberg
10 7 (0.86%) OpenLink
10 7 (0.86%) Rapid7
10 7 (0.86%) Sybase
10 7 (0.86%) Workday
11 6 (0.74%) Cisco
11 6 (0.74%) Informatica
11 6 (0.74%) Siemens