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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 39 82
Rank change year-on-year -42 +43 -16
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 691 742 497
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.49% 5.45% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 5.92% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 478 320
10th Percentile £418 £404 £380
25th Percentile £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £725 £813 £774
90th Percentile £865 £875 £851
England median daily rate £569 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -1.09% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £48.00 £23.90
25th Percentile £85.00 £48.25 £26.23
Median hourly rate £90.00 £49.51 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +81.80% +64.36% -4.05%
75th Percentile £95.00 £65.00 £39.44
90th Percentile - £86.00 £45.02
England median hourly rate £80.00 £51.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +56.86% -2.86% +90.91%

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 17,636 12,537 14,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.16% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,638 8,379 10,607
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £686
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 237 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.39
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.81 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.92% -9.40% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 23 July 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
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 23 July 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 -17 104 £550 -12.00% 59
West London -6 15 £506 +19.12% 19
East London +3 8 £588 +6.82% 5
South London -25 3 £569 -1.60% 6
North London -3 1 £325 -40.91% 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 30 (4.34%) Confluence
2 9 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.58%) SAS
4 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.14%) Appian
5 1 (0.14%) CMS
5 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.14%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 26 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (1.74%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.29%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.59%) Endur
3 6 (0.87%) Actimize
4 4 (0.58%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.58%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.58%) Magento
4 4 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.58%) Summit
5 3 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.43%) Findur
5 3 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.43%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.43%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 100 (14.47%) Azure
2 79 (11.43%) AWS
3 32 (4.63%) GCP
4 25 (3.62%) SaaS
5 24 (3.47%) Entra ID
6 19 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (2.46%) Power Platform
8 14 (2.03%) GitHub
9 13 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.30%) PaaS
11 8 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.01%) OCI
12 7 (1.01%) Snowflake
13 6 (0.87%) Amazon S3
13 6 (0.87%) AWS Control Tower
13 6 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.46%) Firewall
2 9 (1.30%) Network Security
3 5 (0.72%) 4G
3 5 (0.72%) 5G
3 5 (0.72%) Internet
4 4 (0.58%) LAN
4 4 (0.58%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.58%) WAN
5 3 (0.43%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.43%) NAS
5 3 (0.43%) SAN
5 3 (0.43%) VoLTE
5 3 (0.43%) VPN
5 3 (0.43%) WinSCP
6 2 (0.29%) Intranet
6 2 (0.29%) NGFW
6 2 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.29%) VLAN
6 2 (0.29%) X.509
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.46%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (1.59%) Power BI
4 10 (1.45%) Metadata
4 10 (1.45%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.01%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.87%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.72%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.58%) Big Data
9 3 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.43%) Db2
9 3 (0.43%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.43%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.43%) Tableau
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.29%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 53 (7.67%) JIRA
2 15 (2.17%) Git
2 15 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.87%) GitLab
4 5 (0.72%) Selenium
4 5 (0.72%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.58%) Subversion
5 4 (0.58%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.43%) MLflow
7 2 (0.29%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.29%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.14%) Appium
8 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.14%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.14%) Gradle
8 1 (0.14%) Maven
8 1 (0.14%) Mockito
8 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 330 (47.76%) Finance
2 245 (35.46%) Social Skills
3 117 (16.93%) Banking
4 111 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (10.27%) Legal
6 68 (9.84%) Public Sector
7 39 (5.64%) Front Office
8 25 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (3.33%) Investment Banking
11 22 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (2.89%) Financial Institution
13 19 (2.75%) Marketing
13 19 (2.75%) Retail
14 16 (2.32%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.74%) Local Government
17 11 (1.59%) Law
18 10 (1.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 98 (14.18%) Lead
2 89 (12.88%) Senior
3 70 (10.13%) Architect
4 68 (9.84%) Project Manager
5 63 (9.12%) Analyst
6 49 (7.09%) Developer
7 38 (5.50%) Programme Manager
8 36 (5.21%) Business Analyst
9 35 (5.07%) Security Architect
10 34 (4.92%) Consultant
11 28 (4.05%) Senior Manager
12 19 (2.75%) IT Manager
12 19 (2.75%) Risk Analyst
13 17 (2.46%) Delivery Manager
14 16 (2.32%) Risk Business Analyst
15 14 (2.03%) Security Engineer
15 14 (2.03%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (1.88%) Enterprise Architect
16 13 (1.88%) Security Manager
17 12 (1.74%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.33%) .NET
2 18 (2.60%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (2.03%) Middleware
3 14 (2.03%) REST
4 12 (1.74%) Kafka
5 11 (1.59%) Azure Blueprints
6 9 (1.30%) React
7 8 (1.16%) PySpark
7 8 (1.16%) XML
8 7 (1.01%) SOAP
9 5 (0.72%) VML
10 4 (0.58%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.58%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.58%) Jakarta EE
10 4 (0.58%) JSON
10 4 (0.58%) JSP
10 4 (0.58%) OAuth
10 4 (0.58%) OpenID
10 4 (0.58%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.58%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.50%) Cloud Native
1 38 (5.50%) Management Information System
2 35 (5.07%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.78%) Onboarding
4 28 (4.05%) Security Posture
5 26 (3.76%) Derivative
5 26 (3.76%) Market Risk
6 22 (3.18%) Fixed Income
7 19 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (2.32%) Credit Risk
8 16 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (2.03%) AI Agents
9 14 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.59%) Equities
11 11 (1.59%) Operational Technology
12 10 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.45%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.91%) Windows
2 25 (3.62%) Linux
3 17 (2.46%) Unix
4 12 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.43%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (35.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 175 (25.33%) Agile
3 145 (20.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 128 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 115 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
6 114 (16.50%) Roadmaps
7 108 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
8 107 (15.48%) Decision-Making
9 96 (13.89%) Project Management
10 95 (13.75%) AI
11 81 (11.72%) Information Security
12 76 (11.00%) Analytics
13 75 (10.85%) Migration
14 74 (10.71%) Project Delivery
15 70 (10.13%) DevOps
16 65 (9.41%) Regulatory Compliance
17 60 (8.68%) Change Management
17 60 (8.68%) CI/CD
18 52 (7.53%) SDLC
19 51 (7.38%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 57 (8.25%) Python
1 57 (8.25%) SQL
2 32 (4.63%) Java
3 17 (2.46%) C#
4 16 (2.32%) PowerShell
5 7 (1.01%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.58%) Bash
6 4 (0.58%) Bicep
6 4 (0.58%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.43%) C
7 3 (0.43%) Scala
7 3 (0.43%) VBA
8 2 (0.29%) C++
8 2 (0.29%) Delphi
8 2 (0.29%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.29%) Korn
8 2 (0.29%) Perl
8 2 (0.29%) ProC
8 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 105 (15.20%) Security Cleared
2 90 (13.02%) Degree
3 73 (10.56%) SC Cleared
4 56 (8.10%) CISSP
5 28 (4.05%) CISM
5 28 (4.05%) PMI Certification
6 27 (3.91%) DV Cleared
7 25 (3.62%) PMP
8 18 (2.60%) CISA
8 18 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.17%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.74%) CRISC
11 11 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 8 (1.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 6 (0.87%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.87%) RIBA
15 5 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (10.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (10.13%) NIST
3 65 (9.41%) GRC
4 52 (7.53%) QA
5 33 (4.78%) GDPR
6 30 (4.34%) PMO
7 26 (3.76%) Data Quality
8 22 (3.18%) PCI DSS
9 21 (3.04%) SLA
10 18 (2.60%) SOC 2
11 17 (2.46%) NCSC
12 12 (1.74%) COBIT
13 9 (1.30%) NIST 800
14 8 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 5 (0.72%) ITGC
18 4 (0.58%) EU AI Act
19 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (1.74%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.16%) Docker
4 2 (0.29%) NFS
5 1 (0.14%) Postfix
5 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (2.46%) Terraform
2 10 (1.45%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.16%) Ansible
4 5 (0.72%) Grafana
4 5 (0.72%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.43%) Control-M
6 3 (0.43%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.29%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.14%) Avamar
8 1 (0.14%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) CASB
8 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.14%) Nessus
8 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.14%) Puppet
8 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 87 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.93%) Oracle
2 41 (5.93%) ServiceNow
3 35 (5.07%) SAP
4 17 (2.46%) Salesforce
5 13 (1.88%) Google
5 13 (1.88%) Workday
6 11 (1.59%) Murex
6 11 (1.59%) Splunk
7 8 (1.16%) Qualys
7 8 (1.16%) Tenable
8 7 (1.01%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.01%) Rapid7
9 6 (0.87%) Sitecore
9 6 (0.87%) Sybase
10 5 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (0.72%) Databricks
10 5 (0.72%) Okta
10 5 (0.72%) OpenLink
11 4 (0.58%) Zscaler