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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 35 69
Rank change year-on-year -38 +34 +1
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 661 686 572
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.63% 5.67% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 6.15% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 450 394
10th Percentile £413 £400 £392
25th Percentile £506 £506 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £656 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +9.38% -7.69%
75th Percentile £750 £813 £767
90th Percentile £913 £875 £850
England median daily rate £555 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% +6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £48.08 £23.90
25th Percentile £85.00 £48.25 £26.23
Median hourly rate £90.00 £65.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +115.80% -52.94%
75th Percentile £95.00 £80.80 £39.44
90th Percentile - £89.92 £45.02
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year -11.64% +24.50% +370.37%

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 16,097 11,157 15,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.20% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,758 7,514 11,083
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £431 £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 £761 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 181 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £30.81 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +20.11% +10.33% -29.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.84 £63.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%

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 26 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
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 26 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 -20 101 £600 -4.00% 82
West London -21 15 £513 +58.91% 11
East London +1 11 £590 -1.67% 3
South London -24 5 £500 -14.24% 10
North London - 1 £325 - 2
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 26 (3.93%) Confluence
2 9 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.91%) SAS
4 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.15%) ThingWorx
5 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 38 (5.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (2.87%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.66%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.30%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.36%) Endur
3 7 (1.06%) Summit
4 6 (0.91%) Aladdin
4 6 (0.91%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.76%) Actimize
5 5 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.61%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.45%) Dynamics SL
7 3 (0.45%) Findur
7 3 (0.45%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.45%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.45%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.30%) Global One
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 79 (11.95%) Azure
2 62 (9.38%) AWS
3 21 (3.18%) GCP
4 19 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (2.87%) Power Platform
5 16 (2.42%) SaaS
6 12 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (1.66%) Entra ID
8 10 (1.51%) GitHub
9 8 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (1.06%) Amazon S3
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
12 5 (0.76%) PaaS
13 4 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.66%) Firewall
2 6 (0.91%) Network Security
3 2 (0.30%) NAS
3 2 (0.30%) SAN
3 2 (0.30%) VLAN
4 1 (0.15%) DMZ
4 1 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.15%) Internet
4 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.15%) LAN
4 1 (0.15%) NGFW
4 1 (0.15%) RFID
4 1 (0.15%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) WAN
4 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
1 14 (2.12%) Metadata
1 14 (2.12%) Power BI
2 10 (1.51%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.36%) Relational Database
4 6 (0.91%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.76%) RDBMS
5 5 (0.76%) Tableau
6 4 (0.61%) Big Data
7 3 (0.45%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (0.45%) Data Mart
7 3 (0.45%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.45%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.30%) PowerCenter
8 2 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (8.47%) JIRA
2 8 (1.21%) Git
2 8 (1.21%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.76%) GitLab
4 4 (0.61%) Selenium
5 3 (0.45%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.45%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.15%) Appium
6 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.15%) DbUnit
6 1 (0.15%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.15%) ERwin
6 1 (0.15%) jMock
6 1 (0.15%) JUnit
6 1 (0.15%) Maven
6 1 (0.15%) MLflow
6 1 (0.15%) Mockito
6 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 307 (46.44%) Finance
2 241 (36.46%) Social Skills
3 116 (17.55%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (16.64%) Banking
5 66 (9.98%) Legal
5 66 (9.98%) Public Sector
6 29 (4.39%) Investment Banking
7 27 (4.08%) Front Office
8 25 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (3.18%) Financial Institution
10 20 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.42%) Retail
13 12 (1.82%) Marketing
13 12 (1.82%) Military
13 12 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.66%) Law
15 10 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (1.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (14.07%) Lead
2 88 (13.31%) Senior
3 71 (10.74%) Analyst
4 61 (9.23%) Project Manager
5 57 (8.62%) Architect
6 54 (8.17%) Developer
7 50 (7.56%) Business Analyst
8 41 (6.20%) Consultant
9 34 (5.14%) Programme Manager
10 25 (3.78%) Security Architect
11 22 (3.33%) Risk Analyst
12 21 (3.18%) Risk Business Analyst
13 20 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
13 20 (3.03%) Senior Developer
14 19 (2.87%) Risk Manager
14 19 (2.87%) Senior Manager
15 15 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
16 14 (2.12%) IT Manager
16 14 (2.12%) Security Consultant
17 13 (1.97%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.63%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (2.27%) .NET
3 13 (1.97%) Kafka
4 10 (1.51%) Middleware
4 10 (1.51%) REST
5 8 (1.21%) React
5 8 (1.21%) XML
6 6 (0.91%) Azure Blueprints
6 6 (0.91%) J2EE
6 6 (0.91%) JSP
7 4 (0.61%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.61%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (0.61%) JSON
7 4 (0.61%) PySpark
7 4 (0.61%) RESTful
8 3 (0.45%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.45%) SOAP
9 2 (0.30%) Dask
9 2 (0.30%) FIXML
9 2 (0.30%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.11%) Management Information System
2 45 (6.81%) Derivative
3 31 (4.69%) Market Risk
4 29 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 29 (4.39%) Security Posture
5 28 (4.24%) Onboarding
6 27 (4.08%) Cloud Native
7 23 (3.48%) Credit Risk
8 20 (3.03%) Fixed Income
9 19 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (2.87%) Equities
10 18 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 15 (2.27%) Data Structures
12 14 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.97%) AI Agents
14 12 (1.82%) Algorithms
14 12 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.82%) Equity Derivative
15 11 (1.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.12%) Linux
2 13 (1.97%) Windows
3 10 (1.51%) Unix
4 2 (0.30%) zOS
5 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (28.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 178 (26.93%) Agile
3 131 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
4 117 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 114 (17.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 93 (14.07%) Cybersecurity
6 93 (14.07%) Decision-Making
7 91 (13.77%) Roadmaps
8 90 (13.62%) Project Management
9 88 (13.31%) AI
10 78 (11.80%) Information Security
11 74 (11.20%) Analytics
12 68 (10.29%) Project Delivery
13 64 (9.68%) Regulatory Compliance
14 61 (9.23%) ERP
15 57 (8.62%) DevOps
15 57 (8.62%) Migration
16 55 (8.32%) Change Management
16 55 (8.32%) Data Protection
17 54 (8.17%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 63 (9.53%) Python
2 61 (9.23%) SQL
3 37 (5.60%) Java
4 14 (2.12%) C#
5 11 (1.66%) C++
6 10 (1.51%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.76%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.76%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.61%) Bash
8 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.45%) Perl
9 3 (0.45%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.45%) VBA
10 2 (0.30%) Korn
10 2 (0.30%) RPG
10 2 (0.30%) Scala
11 1 (0.15%) C
11 1 (0.15%) Go
11 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 104 (15.73%) Degree
2 101 (15.28%) Security Cleared
3 72 (10.89%) SC Cleared
4 48 (7.26%) CISSP
5 33 (4.99%) CISM
6 29 (4.39%) PMI Certification
7 27 (4.08%) PMP
8 18 (2.72%) CRISC
8 18 (2.72%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.97%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.82%) CISA
12 11 (1.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 8 (1.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 8 (1.21%) Numerate Degree
14 6 (0.91%) RIBA
15 5 (0.76%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (10.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 60 (9.08%) GRC
3 59 (8.93%) NIST
4 47 (7.11%) QA
5 40 (6.05%) GDPR
6 34 (5.14%) PMO
7 32 (4.84%) Data Quality
8 27 (4.08%) PCI DSS
9 23 (3.48%) SLA
10 18 (2.72%) NCSC
11 16 (2.42%) COBIT
12 12 (1.82%) SOC 2
13 10 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (1.21%) NIST 800
15 7 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 6 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.76%) GMP
17 5 (0.76%) GxP
System Software
1 8 (1.21%) Docker
2 5 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.76%) 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 10 (1.51%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.06%) Terraform
3 4 (0.61%) Control-M
3 4 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.45%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.30%) Ansible
5 2 (0.30%) Grafana
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.30%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.15%) Avamar
6 1 (0.15%) CASB
6 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.15%) Nessus
6 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 75 (11.35%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.72%) Oracle
3 42 (6.35%) SAP
4 32 (4.84%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.18%) Murex
6 18 (2.72%) Salesforce
7 16 (2.42%) Workday
8 8 (1.21%) Databricks
9 6 (0.91%) Google
9 6 (0.91%) Informatica
9 6 (0.91%) OpenLink
10 5 (0.76%) Ariba
10 5 (0.76%) Charles River
10 5 (0.76%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.61%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.61%) Foundry
11 4 (0.61%) Remedy
11 4 (0.61%) Splunk
12 3 (0.45%) Anaplan
12 3 (0.45%) Infor