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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 49 54
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +25
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 659 574 723
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.43% 4.21% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 4.65% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 348 519
10th Percentile £416 £400 £413
25th Percentile £500 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £775 £763 £750
90th Percentile £988 £850 £825
England median daily rate £550 £600 £568
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.73% -9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 5
10th Percentile - £25.40 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £29.94 £21.50
Median hourly rate £67.18 £61.55 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year +9.14% +175.53% -67.51%
75th Percentile £75.46 £82.00 £36.34
90th Percentile £86.43 £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 13,506 12,355 16,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.78% 90.53% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,992 7,845 11,870
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 207 153 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.80 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.00 £19.28
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -19 89 £600 +4.35% 72
West London -18 7 £619 +71.81% 8
South London -25 7 £551 -8.25% 3
East London +1 5 £675 - 7
North London - 4 £513 -
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 (3.79%) Confluence
2 11 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.76%) SAS
5 4 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.46%) 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 52 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (4.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (1.37%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.46%) 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 12 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.06%) Loan IQ
3 4 (0.61%) Endur
3 4 (0.61%) Summit
4 3 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.46%) 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 92 (13.96%) Azure
2 75 (11.38%) AWS
3 28 (4.25%) GCP
4 26 (3.95%) Power Platform
5 18 (2.73%) Entra ID
6 17 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (1.97%) SaaS
8 12 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (1.67%) GitHub
10 10 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (0.91%) Collibra
14 4 (0.61%) Alation
14 4 (0.61%) Azure AI
14 4 (0.61%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (0.61%) dbt
14 4 (0.61%) Miro
14 4 (0.61%) OCI
14 4 (0.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.34%) Firewall
2 5 (0.76%) Network Security
3 4 (0.61%) 5G
3 4 (0.61%) VPN
4 3 (0.46%) Broadband
4 3 (0.46%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (0.46%) Multicast
4 3 (0.46%) S/MIME
4 3 (0.46%) 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 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (3.34%) Power BI
3 17 (2.58%) SQL Server
4 11 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.67%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.52%) Metadata
6 8 (1.21%) KDB
6 8 (1.21%) Kdb+
6 8 (1.21%) Tableau
7 5 (0.76%) Big Data
8 4 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (0.61%) Apache Arrow
8 4 (0.61%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (0.61%) Data Mart
8 4 (0.61%) Dremio
9 3 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.46%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.46%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.46%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 62 (9.41%) JIRA
2 11 (1.67%) Git
3 7 (1.06%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.76%) QUnit
6 3 (0.46%) GCC
6 3 (0.46%) GDB
6 3 (0.46%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.30%) GitLab
8 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.15%) MLflow
8 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 317 (48.10%) Finance
2 282 (42.79%) Social Skills
3 139 (21.09%) Banking
4 115 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (8.65%) Legal
6 54 (8.19%) Front Office
7 44 (6.68%) Public Sector
8 41 (6.22%) Investment Banking
9 27 (4.10%) Financial Institution
10 23 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.82%) Law
14 11 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.67%) Retail
15 9 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.21%) Military
17 7 (1.06%) Back Office
17 7 (1.06%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 95 (14.42%) Analyst
2 88 (13.35%) Developer
2 88 (13.35%) Senior
3 74 (11.23%) Lead
4 67 (10.17%) Project Manager
5 57 (8.65%) Consultant
6 49 (7.44%) Business Analyst
7 43 (6.53%) Architect
8 36 (5.46%) Senior Developer
9 33 (5.01%) Programme Manager
10 27 (4.10%) Java Developer
10 27 (4.10%) Risk Analyst
11 23 (3.49%) Senior Manager
12 22 (3.34%) AWS Developer
12 22 (3.34%) Delivery Manager
13 21 (3.19%) Security Architect
14 20 (3.03%) Python Developer
15 19 (2.88%) Senior Java Developer
16 18 (2.73%) Security Consultant
16 18 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.34%) Kafka
2 13 (1.97%) NumPy
2 13 (1.97%) Pandas
2 13 (1.97%) REST
3 12 (1.82%) .NET
4 11 (1.67%) .NET Framework
4 11 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 9 (1.37%) COM
5 9 (1.37%) Dask
5 9 (1.37%) XML
6 8 (1.21%) Middleware
7 7 (1.06%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.06%) Entity Framework
7 7 (1.06%) NHibernate
7 7 (1.06%) Playwright
7 7 (1.06%) React
8 6 (0.91%) RESTful
9 5 (0.76%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (0.76%) PyTorch
9 5 (0.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 84 (12.75%) Management Information System
2 66 (10.02%) Derivative
3 43 (6.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 39 (5.92%) Market Risk
5 38 (5.77%) Equities
6 30 (4.55%) Algorithms
6 30 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 30 (4.55%) Security Posture
7 29 (4.40%) Fixed Income
8 26 (3.95%) Credit Risk
9 22 (3.34%) Cloud Native
9 22 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (2.73%) Onboarding
12 17 (2.58%) Hedge funds
13 15 (2.28%) Data Structures
14 11 (1.67%) Equity Derivative
15 10 (1.52%) NHS
15 10 (1.52%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.40%) Linux
2 18 (2.73%) Unix
3 17 (2.58%) Windows
4 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.30%) zOS
5 1 (0.15%) Android
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
5 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (28.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 161 (24.43%) Agile
3 141 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
4 118 (17.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 98 (14.87%) Project Management
6 92 (13.96%) Analytics
7 89 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
8 82 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 73 (11.08%) AI
9 73 (11.08%) Decision-Making
10 71 (10.77%) Information Security
11 68 (10.32%) Project Delivery
12 59 (8.95%) Change Management
13 58 (8.80%) Roadmaps
14 56 (8.50%) Computer Science
14 56 (8.50%) Regulatory Compliance
14 56 (8.50%) Scrum
15 49 (7.44%) Machine Learning
16 48 (7.28%) Data Analysis
17 47 (7.13%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 95 (14.42%) Python
2 87 (13.20%) SQL
3 39 (5.92%) Java
4 25 (3.79%) C++
5 22 (3.34%) C#
6 16 (2.43%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.12%) VBA
8 10 (1.52%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.76%) Korn
9 5 (0.76%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.46%) Bash
10 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.30%) Perl
11 2 (0.30%) R
11 2 (0.30%) RPG
11 2 (0.30%) Scala
12 1 (0.15%) Bicep
12 1 (0.15%) Go
12 1 (0.15%) VC++
Qualifications
1 140 (21.24%) Degree
2 81 (12.29%) Security Cleared
3 67 (10.17%) SC Cleared
4 61 (9.26%) CISSP
5 54 (8.19%) PMI Certification
6 50 (7.59%) PMP
7 38 (5.77%) CISM
7 38 (5.77%) Master's Degree
8 19 (2.88%) DV Cleared
9 16 (2.43%) CRISC
10 15 (2.28%) Numerate Degree
11 12 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (1.67%) PhD
13 10 (1.52%) CISA
13 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (1.21%) CESG Certified Professional
15 7 (1.06%) Azure Certification
15 7 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (1.06%) FFIEC
15 7 (1.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (11.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (10.62%) NIST
3 53 (8.04%) GRC
4 52 (7.89%) GDPR
5 37 (5.61%) QA
6 28 (4.25%) Data Quality
7 27 (4.10%) PMO
8 20 (3.03%) PCI DSS
9 18 (2.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (1.67%) EU AI Act
10 11 (1.67%) NCSC
11 9 (1.37%) COBIT
11 9 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 9 (1.37%) SLA
12 8 (1.21%) Basel III
13 7 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (1.06%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.76%) GMP
15 4 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 15 (2.28%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.82%) Docker
3 7 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (1.97%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.37%) Terraform
3 5 (0.76%) Ansible
3 5 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.30%) Grafana
5 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.30%) RSA Archer
5 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.15%) Consul
6 1 (0.15%) Control-M
6 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.15%) Packer
6 1 (0.15%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 70 (10.62%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.55%) Oracle
3 27 (4.10%) SAP
4 24 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 18 (2.73%) Murex
6 17 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.06%) Informatica
8 6 (0.91%) Bloomberg
8 6 (0.91%) Databricks
8 6 (0.91%) Workday
9 5 (0.76%) Ariba
9 5 (0.76%) Citrix
9 5 (0.76%) Google
9 5 (0.76%) Solace
10 4 (0.61%) Charles River
11 3 (0.46%) Cisco
11 3 (0.46%) Foundry
11 3 (0.46%) HubSpot
11 3 (0.46%) Remedy
11 3 (0.46%) Splunk