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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 35 73
Rank change year-on-year -41 +38 -6
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 688 722 545
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.57% 5.60% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 6.07% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 464 358
10th Percentile £413 £406 £366
25th Percentile £510 £505 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £656 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +9.38% -6.98%
75th Percentile £738 £813 £755
90th Percentile £888 £875 £850
England median daily rate £569 £582 £568
% change year-on-year -2.23% +2.51% -5.42%
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% -23.59%
75th Percentile £95.00 £65.00 £39.44
90th Percentile - £86.00 £45.02
England median hourly rate £64.09 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.22% +22.99% +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 17,131 11,893 15,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.25% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,394 7,948 11,029
10th Percentile £360 £333 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £685
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £23.91 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -26.42%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%

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 1 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 1 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 -15 102 £550 -12.00% 85
West London -10 14 £506 +19.12% 20
East London +3 10 £633 +5.42% 9
South London -16 3 £569 -2.11% 8
North London 0 1 £325 -40.91%
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 (4.36%) Confluence
2 6 (0.87%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.73%) SAS
4 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.15%) Appian
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 Workflow
5 1 (0.15%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 28 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (2.62%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.74%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.29%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.74%) Endur
3 6 (0.87%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.87%) Summit
4 5 (0.73%) Actimize
4 5 (0.73%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.44%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.44%) Dynamics SL
6 3 (0.44%) Findur
6 3 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite
6 3 (0.44%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.44%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.44%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 93 (13.52%) Azure
2 77 (11.19%) AWS
3 28 (4.07%) GCP
4 25 (3.63%) SaaS
5 21 (3.05%) Entra ID
6 16 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (2.18%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (1.89%) GitHub
9 9 (1.31%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (1.02%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (1.02%) OCI
10 7 (1.02%) PaaS
11 6 (0.87%) AWS Control Tower
11 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (0.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.33%) Firewall
2 9 (1.31%) Network Security
3 5 (0.73%) Internet
4 3 (0.44%) 4G
4 3 (0.44%) 5G
4 3 (0.44%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.44%) LAN
4 3 (0.44%) NAS
4 3 (0.44%) SAN
4 3 (0.44%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.44%) VoLTE
4 3 (0.44%) VPN
4 3 (0.44%) WAN
5 2 (0.29%) Intranet
5 2 (0.29%) NGFW
5 2 (0.29%) VLAN
5 2 (0.29%) WinSCP
5 2 (0.29%) X.509
6 1 (0.15%) DMZ
6 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.33%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.74%) Metadata
3 12 (1.74%) Relational Database
4 11 (1.60%) Power BI
5 7 (1.02%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.02%) RDBMS
6 6 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.73%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.58%) Big Data
9 3 (0.44%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.44%) Db2
9 3 (0.44%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.44%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.44%) Tableau
10 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.29%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 52 (7.56%) JIRA
2 12 (1.74%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.60%) Git
4 6 (0.87%) GitLab
5 5 (0.73%) Selenium
5 5 (0.73%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.58%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.44%) MLflow
8 2 (0.29%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.15%) Appium
9 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.15%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.15%) Gradle
9 1 (0.15%) jMock
9 1 (0.15%) Maven
9 1 (0.15%) Mockito
9 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 330 (47.97%) Finance
2 251 (36.48%) Social Skills
3 122 (17.73%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (17.30%) Banking
5 73 (10.61%) Legal
6 69 (10.03%) Public Sector
7 35 (5.09%) Front Office
8 25 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
8 25 (3.63%) Investment Banking
9 24 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (3.20%) Financial Institution
11 21 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.33%) Retail
13 15 (2.18%) Marketing
14 13 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.89%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.74%) Law
15 12 (1.74%) Local Government
16 11 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 102 (14.83%) Lead
2 90 (13.08%) Senior
3 69 (10.03%) Analyst
4 68 (9.88%) Architect
5 64 (9.30%) Project Manager
6 53 (7.70%) Developer
7 43 (6.25%) Business Analyst
8 37 (5.38%) Consultant
9 34 (4.94%) Security Architect
10 30 (4.36%) Programme Manager
11 25 (3.63%) Senior Manager
12 21 (3.05%) IT Manager
13 20 (2.91%) Risk Analyst
14 17 (2.47%) Delivery Manager
14 17 (2.47%) Risk Business Analyst
15 15 (2.18%) Risk Manager
16 14 (2.03%) Senior Developer
16 14 (2.03%) Solutions Architect
17 13 (1.89%) Security Engineer
18 12 (1.74%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.34%) .NET
2 17 (2.47%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (2.03%) Kafka
4 13 (1.89%) Middleware
4 13 (1.89%) REST
5 11 (1.60%) Azure Blueprints
6 9 (1.31%) React
6 9 (1.31%) XML
7 8 (1.16%) PySpark
8 7 (1.02%) SOAP
9 6 (0.87%) J2EE
9 6 (0.87%) JSP
10 4 (0.58%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.58%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.58%) JSON
10 4 (0.58%) OAuth
10 4 (0.58%) OpenID
10 4 (0.58%) RESTful
10 4 (0.58%) SAML
11 3 (0.44%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.54%) Management Information System
2 37 (5.38%) Cloud Native
3 33 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.65%) Derivative
4 32 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 30 (4.36%) Security Posture
6 27 (3.92%) Market Risk
7 22 (3.20%) Fixed Income
8 20 (2.91%) Credit Risk
9 19 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (2.03%) AI Agents
11 14 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (2.03%) Equities
12 13 (1.89%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.74%) Operational Technology
14 11 (1.60%) Data Centre
14 11 (1.60%) NHS
15 10 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.49%) Linux
1 24 (3.49%) Windows
2 16 (2.33%) Unix
3 10 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.44%) Alpine Linux
5 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.29%) zOS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (33.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 174 (25.29%) Agile
3 143 (20.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 129 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 127 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
6 115 (16.72%) Roadmaps
7 107 (15.55%) Cybersecurity
7 107 (15.55%) Decision-Making
8 92 (13.37%) AI
9 87 (12.65%) Project Management
10 86 (12.50%) Information Security
11 75 (10.90%) Analytics
12 72 (10.47%) Project Delivery
13 71 (10.32%) Regulatory Compliance
14 69 (10.03%) DevOps
15 68 (9.88%) Migration
16 62 (9.01%) CI/CD
17 61 (8.87%) Change Management
18 55 (7.99%) Risk Assessment
19 54 (7.85%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 64 (9.30%) SQL
2 62 (9.01%) Python
3 35 (5.09%) Java
4 18 (2.62%) C#
5 15 (2.18%) PowerShell
6 7 (1.02%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.73%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.58%) Bash
8 4 (0.58%) Bicep
8 4 (0.58%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.58%) VBA
9 3 (0.44%) C
9 3 (0.44%) Scala
9 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.29%) C++
10 2 (0.29%) Korn
10 2 (0.29%) Perl
10 2 (0.29%) ProC
10 2 (0.29%) RPG
11 1 (0.15%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 102 (14.83%) Security Cleared
2 93 (13.52%) Degree
3 72 (10.47%) SC Cleared
4 58 (8.43%) CISSP
5 34 (4.94%) CISM
6 27 (3.92%) PMI Certification
7 24 (3.49%) PMP
8 23 (3.34%) DV Cleared
9 22 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (2.91%) CISA
11 19 (2.76%) CRISC
12 15 (2.18%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (1.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 8 (1.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 6 (0.87%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (0.87%) RIBA
17 5 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (10.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 67 (9.74%) GRC
2 67 (9.74%) NIST
3 47 (6.83%) QA
4 40 (5.81%) GDPR
5 31 (4.51%) PMO
6 30 (4.36%) Data Quality
7 26 (3.78%) PCI DSS
8 24 (3.49%) SLA
9 18 (2.62%) NCSC
10 17 (2.47%) SOC 2
11 15 (2.18%) COBIT
12 9 (1.31%) NIST 800
13 8 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.73%) GMP
15 5 (0.73%) ITGC
15 5 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (1.31%) Active Directory
1 9 (1.31%) Docker
2 8 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.29%) NFS
4 1 (0.15%) Postfix
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (2.18%) Terraform
2 12 (1.74%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.02%) Ansible
4 5 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.58%) Control-M
5 4 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.44%) Grafana
6 3 (0.44%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.29%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.15%) Avamar
8 1 (0.15%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.15%) CASB
8 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.15%) Nessus
8 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 81 (11.77%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.83%) Oracle
3 42 (6.10%) SAP
4 40 (5.81%) ServiceNow
5 16 (2.33%) Murex
5 16 (2.33%) Workday
6 15 (2.18%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.45%) Google
7 10 (1.45%) Splunk
8 7 (1.02%) OpenLink
8 7 (1.02%) Qualys
8 7 (1.02%) Tenable
9 6 (0.87%) Databricks
9 6 (0.87%) OpenAI
9 6 (0.87%) Rapid7
9 6 (0.87%) Sitecore
9 6 (0.87%) Sybase
10 5 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.58%) Adaptive Insights
11 4 (0.58%) IFS