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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 49 52
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +29
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 672 572 717
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.38% 4.20% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 4.64% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 351 512
10th Percentile £424 £400 £413
25th Percentile £500 £500 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £763 £763 £750
90th Percentile £988 £850 £825
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 5
10th Percentile £71.74 £25.40 -
25th Percentile £75.31 £29.94 £21.50
Median hourly rate £87.50 £61.55 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year +42.16% +175.53% -66.90%
75th Percentile £94.38 £82.00 £36.34
90th Percentile £94.75 £84.38 £50.54
England median hourly rate £41.94 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -30.10% - +464.44%

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 13,905 12,332 16,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.68% 90.64% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,265 7,884 11,766
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 153 341
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.25 £50.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -18 90 £600 +4.35% 29
West London -22 7 £575 +59.72% 14
South London -30 7 £551 -8.25% 3
East London +1 5 £675 - 10
North London - 4 £513 - 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 25 (3.72%) Confluence
2 10 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.74%) SAS
5 4 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.15%) Camunda
7 1 (0.15%) IIS
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 49 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (3.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (2.83%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (1.34%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.30%) Trello
8 1 (0.15%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.15%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.04%) Loan IQ
3 4 (0.60%) Endur
3 4 (0.60%) Summit
4 3 (0.45%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.30%) Actimize
5 2 (0.30%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.30%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.15%) Maximo
6 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.15%) Primavera
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 94 (13.99%) Azure
2 79 (11.76%) AWS
3 28 (4.17%) GCP
4 25 (3.72%) Power Platform
5 17 (2.53%) Entra ID
5 17 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
7 12 (1.79%) SaaS
8 10 (1.49%) GitHub
9 9 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (0.89%) Collibra
13 4 (0.60%) Alation
13 4 (0.60%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (0.60%) dbt
13 4 (0.60%) Miro
13 4 (0.60%) OCI
13 4 (0.60%) Serverless
13 4 (0.60%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.42%) Firewall
2 5 (0.74%) Network Security
3 4 (0.60%) 5G
3 4 (0.60%) VPN
4 3 (0.45%) Broadband
4 3 (0.45%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (0.45%) Multicast
4 3 (0.45%) S/MIME
4 3 (0.45%) SSL
5 2 (0.30%) Internet
5 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.30%) WAN
5 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.15%) DHCP
6 1 (0.15%) DNS
6 1 (0.15%) Intranet
6 1 (0.15%) LAN
6 1 (0.15%) MPLS
6 1 (0.15%) Wireless
6 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (3.13%) Power BI
3 16 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 12 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (1.64%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.49%) Metadata
7 8 (1.19%) Tableau
8 7 (1.04%) KDB
8 7 (1.04%) Kdb+
9 5 (0.74%) Big Data
10 4 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.60%) Apache Arrow
10 4 (0.60%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (0.60%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.60%) Data Mart
10 4 (0.60%) Dremio
11 3 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.45%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 59 (8.78%) JIRA
2 11 (1.64%) Git
3 8 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.04%) SpecFlow
5 4 (0.60%) QUnit
6 3 (0.45%) GCC
6 3 (0.45%) GDB
6 3 (0.45%) GitLab
6 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.15%) Appium
7 1 (0.15%) MLflow
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 326 (48.51%) Finance
2 285 (42.41%) Social Skills
3 139 (20.68%) Banking
4 120 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (8.63%) Legal
6 52 (7.74%) Front Office
7 46 (6.85%) Public Sector
8 42 (6.25%) Investment Banking
9 26 (3.87%) Financial Institution
10 24 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.79%) Law
14 12 (1.79%) Retail
15 9 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.19%) Military
17 7 (1.04%) Back Office
17 7 (1.04%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 94 (13.99%) Analyst
2 91 (13.54%) Senior
3 84 (12.50%) Developer
4 78 (11.61%) Lead
5 70 (10.42%) Project Manager
6 60 (8.93%) Consultant
7 51 (7.59%) Business Analyst
8 46 (6.85%) Architect
9 35 (5.21%) Senior Developer
10 33 (4.91%) Programme Manager
11 27 (4.02%) Risk Analyst
12 26 (3.87%) Java Developer
13 23 (3.42%) Security Architect
13 23 (3.42%) Senior Manager
14 22 (3.27%) AWS Developer
14 22 (3.27%) Delivery Manager
15 21 (3.13%) Security Specialist
16 20 (2.98%) Python Developer
17 19 (2.83%) Security Consultant
17 19 (2.83%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.27%) Kafka
2 13 (1.93%) .NET
2 13 (1.93%) NumPy
2 13 (1.93%) Pandas
2 13 (1.93%) REST
3 11 (1.64%) .NET Framework
3 11 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 9 (1.34%) COM
4 9 (1.34%) Dask
4 9 (1.34%) React
4 9 (1.34%) XML
5 8 (1.19%) Middleware
6 7 (1.04%) AngularJS
6 7 (1.04%) Entity Framework
6 7 (1.04%) NHibernate
6 7 (1.04%) Playwright
7 6 (0.89%) RESTful
8 5 (0.74%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (0.74%) PyTorch
8 5 (0.74%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 82 (12.20%) Management Information System
2 66 (9.82%) Derivative
3 44 (6.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 40 (5.95%) Market Risk
5 38 (5.65%) Equities
6 30 (4.46%) Product Ownership
7 29 (4.32%) Algorithms
7 29 (4.32%) Fixed Income
7 29 (4.32%) Security Posture
8 26 (3.87%) Credit Risk
9 24 (3.57%) Cloud Native
10 22 (3.27%) Onboarding
11 21 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (2.53%) Hedge funds
14 15 (2.23%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.64%) Equity Derivative
16 10 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (1.49%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.17%) Linux
2 17 (2.53%) Unix
2 17 (2.53%) Windows
3 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.30%) zOS
4 1 (0.15%) Android
4 1 (0.15%) VMS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (28.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 167 (24.85%) Agile
3 140 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 121 (18.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 95 (14.14%) Project Management
6 93 (13.84%) Analytics
7 92 (13.69%) Cybersecurity
8 88 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 82 (12.20%) AI
10 79 (11.76%) Decision-Making
11 72 (10.71%) Information Security
12 67 (9.97%) Project Delivery
13 63 (9.38%) Roadmaps
14 57 (8.48%) Change Management
14 57 (8.48%) Regulatory Compliance
15 56 (8.33%) Scrum
16 55 (8.18%) Computer Science
17 52 (7.74%) Data Protection
18 49 (7.29%) Machine Learning
19 48 (7.14%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 98 (14.58%) Python
2 88 (13.10%) SQL
3 40 (5.95%) Java
4 25 (3.72%) C++
5 22 (3.27%) C#
6 16 (2.38%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.08%) VBA
8 10 (1.49%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.60%) Korn
11 3 (0.45%) Bash
11 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.30%) Perl
12 2 (0.30%) R
12 2 (0.30%) RPG
12 2 (0.30%) Scala
13 1 (0.15%) Bicep
13 1 (0.15%) Go
13 1 (0.15%) VC++
Qualifications
1 142 (21.13%) Degree
2 89 (13.24%) Security Cleared
3 74 (11.01%) SC Cleared
4 62 (9.23%) CISSP
5 50 (7.44%) PMI Certification
6 45 (6.70%) PMP
7 40 (5.95%) CISM
8 37 (5.51%) Master's Degree
9 22 (3.27%) DV Cleared
10 20 (2.98%) CRISC
11 15 (2.23%) Numerate Degree
12 14 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (1.93%) CISA
14 11 (1.64%) PhD
15 10 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (1.19%) CESG Certified Professional
17 7 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
17 7 (1.04%) FFIEC
17 7 (1.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 7 (1.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (12.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 77 (11.46%) NIST
3 61 (9.08%) GRC
4 51 (7.59%) GDPR
5 40 (5.95%) QA
6 28 (4.17%) PMO
7 27 (4.02%) Data Quality
7 27 (4.02%) PCI DSS
8 18 (2.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (1.93%) SLA
9 13 (1.93%) SOC 2
10 11 (1.64%) NCSC
11 10 (1.49%) COBIT
11 10 (1.49%) EU AI Act
12 9 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 8 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (1.19%) Basel III
14 5 (0.74%) GMP
14 5 (0.74%) ISO 31000
14 5 (0.74%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (2.23%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.64%) Docker
3 7 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (1.93%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.79%) Terraform
3 5 (0.74%) Ansible
3 5 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.30%) Grafana
6 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.30%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.15%) Consul
7 1 (0.15%) Control-M
7 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) Packer
Vendors
1 67 (9.97%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.46%) Oracle
3 27 (4.02%) SAP
4 24 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.83%) Murex
6 16 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.04%) Informatica
8 6 (0.89%) Bloomberg
8 6 (0.89%) Databricks
8 6 (0.89%) Workday
9 5 (0.74%) Ariba
9 5 (0.74%) Citrix
9 5 (0.74%) Google
9 5 (0.74%) Solace
10 4 (0.60%) Charles River
10 4 (0.60%) Foundry
11 3 (0.45%) Cisco
11 3 (0.45%) IBM
11 3 (0.45%) Remedy
11 3 (0.45%) Splunk