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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 36 70
Rank change year-on-year -38 +34 -2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 688 720 550
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.59% 5.65% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 6.12% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 465 361
10th Percentile £413 £409 £363
25th Percentile £506 £506 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £737 £813 £756
90th Percentile £888 £875 £850
England median daily rate £563 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.74% -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% -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 17,053 11,769 15,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.41% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,360 7,875 11,093
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.34%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 221 300
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.36 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -19 102 £550 -12.00% 32
West London -14 14 £506 +19.12% 14
East London +3 10 £588 -2.08% 12
South London -18 4 £500 -13.94% 7
North London 0 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 28 (4.07%) Confluence
2 7 (1.02%) 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 29 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.49%) 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 18 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (2.33%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.74%) GitHub
10 9 (1.31%) SuccessFactors
11 8 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.02%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.02%) OCI
12 7 (1.02%) PaaS
13 6 (0.87%) AWS Control Tower
13 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
13 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%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.33%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (1.74%) Metadata
2 12 (1.74%) Power BI
2 12 (1.74%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.02%) Data Lake
3 7 (1.02%) RDBMS
4 6 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.73%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.58%) Big Data
7 3 (0.44%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (0.44%) Db2
7 3 (0.44%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.44%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.44%) Tableau
8 2 (0.29%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (7.56%) JIRA
2 11 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.45%) 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%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.15%) Gradle
9 1 (0.15%) jMock
9 1 (0.15%) Mockito
9 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.15%) TestRail
General
1 329 (47.82%) Finance
2 251 (36.48%) Social Skills
3 121 (17.59%) 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 24 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (3.49%) Investment Banking
8 24 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
9 22 (3.20%) Financial Institution
9 22 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (2.33%) Retail
11 14 (2.03%) Marketing
12 13 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.89%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.74%) Law
13 12 (1.74%) Local Government
14 10 (1.45%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 102 (14.83%) Lead
2 91 (13.23%) Senior
3 70 (10.17%) Analyst
4 68 (9.88%) Architect
5 62 (9.01%) Project Manager
6 52 (7.56%) Developer
7 44 (6.40%) Business Analyst
8 37 (5.38%) Consultant
9 33 (4.80%) Security Architect
10 32 (4.65%) Programme Manager
11 25 (3.63%) Senior Manager
12 21 (3.05%) IT Manager
13 20 (2.91%) Risk Analyst
14 18 (2.62%) Delivery Manager
15 17 (2.47%) Risk Business Analyst
16 15 (2.18%) Risk Manager
16 15 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
17 14 (2.03%) Senior Developer
18 13 (1.89%) Security Engineer
19 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%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.69%) Management Information System
2 36 (5.23%) Cloud Native
3 33 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.65%) Derivative
5 31 (4.51%) Onboarding
6 30 (4.36%) Security Posture
7 27 (3.92%) Market Risk
8 22 (3.20%) Fixed Income
9 20 (2.91%) Credit Risk
10 19 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 15 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (2.03%) AI Agents
13 14 (2.03%) Equities
14 13 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (1.74%) Data Structures
15 12 (1.74%) Operational Technology
16 11 (1.60%) Data Centre
16 11 (1.60%) NHS
17 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
1 228 (33.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 173 (25.15%) Agile
3 141 (20.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 129 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 128 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 115 (16.72%) Roadmaps
7 107 (15.55%) Cybersecurity
8 106 (15.41%) Decision-Making
9 90 (13.08%) AI
10 88 (12.79%) Project Management
11 85 (12.35%) Information Security
12 74 (10.76%) Analytics
13 71 (10.32%) Project Delivery
14 70 (10.17%) Regulatory Compliance
15 69 (10.03%) DevOps
16 68 (9.88%) Migration
17 62 (9.01%) CI/CD
18 61 (8.87%) Change Management
19 54 (7.85%) Data Protection
19 54 (7.85%) Risk Assessment
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 57 (8.28%) CISSP
5 34 (4.94%) CISM
6 28 (4.07%) PMI Certification
7 25 (3.63%) 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 14 (2.03%) 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%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (10.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 67 (9.74%) GRC
3 66 (9.59%) NIST
4 47 (6.83%) QA
5 40 (5.81%) GDPR
6 31 (4.51%) PMO
7 30 (4.36%) Data Quality
8 26 (3.78%) PCI DSS
9 24 (3.49%) SLA
10 18 (2.62%) NCSC
11 17 (2.47%) SOC 2
12 15 (2.18%) COBIT
13 9 (1.31%) NIST 800
14 8 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.73%) ITGC
16 5 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 4 (0.58%) GMP
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 6 (0.87%) 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 85 (12.35%) 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%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.33%) Workday
6 10 (1.45%) Splunk
7 9 (1.31%) Google
8 7 (1.02%) Databricks
8 7 (1.02%) OpenLink
8 7 (1.02%) Qualys
8 7 (1.02%) Tenable
9 6 (0.87%) OpenAI
9 6 (0.87%) Rapid7
9 6 (0.87%) Sitecore
9 6 (0.87%) Sybase
10 5 (0.73%) Ariba
10 5 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.58%) IFS