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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 49 53
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +25
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 684 581 710
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.37% 4.29% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 4.73% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 359 508
10th Percentile £431 £400 £413
25th Percentile £500 £500 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.91%
75th Percentile £753 £764 £750
90th Percentile £988 £850 £825
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile £71.74 £25.40 £25.14
25th Percentile £75.31 £29.94 £29.34
Median hourly rate £87.50 £61.55 £36.34
Median % change year-on-year +42.16% +69.40% -46.17%
75th Percentile £94.38 £82.00 £48.17
90th Percentile £94.75 £84.38 £55.27
England median hourly rate £45.78 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -23.70% - +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 14,143 12,286 16,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.44% 90.69% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,444 7,897 11,628
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 219 156 343
10th Percentile £18.21 £20.23 £16.02
25th Percentile £24.81 £24.73 £19.53
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +23.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.73 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.58 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% - -

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -15 92 £600 +4.35% 50
West London -23 7 £575 +59.72% 15
South London -30 7 £551 -8.25% 2
East London 0 5 £675 - 8
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 26 (3.80%) Confluence
2 10 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.73%) SAS
5 3 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.15%) Camunda
6 1 (0.15%) nginx
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 47 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.15%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.15%) Revit
8 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.02%) Loan IQ
3 4 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.58%) Endur
3 4 (0.58%) Summit
4 3 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.44%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.44%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.29%) Actimize
5 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics SL
6 1 (0.15%) Maximo
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.15%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 95 (13.89%) Azure
2 76 (11.11%) AWS
3 28 (4.09%) GCP
4 26 (3.80%) Power Platform
5 19 (2.78%) Entra ID
5 19 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
7 13 (1.90%) SaaS
8 11 (1.61%) GitHub
9 10 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (0.88%) Collibra
13 5 (0.73%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (0.58%) Alation
14 4 (0.58%) Miro
14 4 (0.58%) OCI
14 4 (0.58%) Serverless
14 4 (0.58%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.58%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.51%) Firewall
2 6 (0.88%) Network Security
3 4 (0.58%) 5G
4 3 (0.44%) Broadband
4 3 (0.44%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (0.44%) Multicast
4 3 (0.44%) S/MIME
4 3 (0.44%) SSL
4 3 (0.44%) VPN
5 2 (0.29%) Internet
5 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.15%) BGP
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%) RSVP
6 1 (0.15%) Wireless
6 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
1 22 (3.22%) Power BI
2 14 (2.05%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.61%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.46%) Metadata
6 7 (1.02%) Tableau
7 6 (0.88%) KDB
7 6 (0.88%) Kdb+
8 5 (0.73%) Big Data
8 5 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.58%) Data Mart
10 3 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.44%) Apache Arrow
10 3 (0.44%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (0.44%) Dremio
10 3 (0.44%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.44%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.44%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 59 (8.63%) JIRA
2 11 (1.61%) Git
3 8 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.02%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.44%) GCC
5 3 (0.44%) GDB
5 3 (0.44%) GitLab
5 3 (0.44%) QUnit
5 3 (0.44%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.15%) Appium
6 1 (0.15%) MLflow
6 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 331 (48.39%) Finance
2 282 (41.23%) Social Skills
3 140 (20.47%) Banking
4 124 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (8.77%) Legal
6 50 (7.31%) Front Office
7 45 (6.58%) Public Sector
8 43 (6.29%) Investment Banking
9 27 (3.95%) Financial Institution
10 25 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.19%) Retail
14 13 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.75%) Law
16 8 (1.17%) Military
16 8 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (1.02%) Back Office
17 7 (1.02%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 96 (14.04%) Senior
2 94 (13.74%) Analyst
3 84 (12.28%) Lead
4 82 (11.99%) Developer
5 74 (10.82%) Project Manager
6 61 (8.92%) Consultant
7 52 (7.60%) Business Analyst
8 46 (6.73%) Architect
9 35 (5.12%) Programme Manager
9 35 (5.12%) Senior Developer
10 26 (3.80%) Java Developer
10 26 (3.80%) Risk Analyst
11 25 (3.65%) Senior Manager
12 23 (3.36%) Security Architect
13 22 (3.22%) Delivery Manager
13 22 (3.22%) Security Specialist
14 21 (3.07%) AWS Developer
14 21 (3.07%) Security Consultant
15 19 (2.78%) Python Developer
15 19 (2.78%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.22%) Kafka
2 14 (2.05%) .NET
3 13 (1.90%) REST
4 12 (1.75%) .NET Framework
4 12 (1.75%) NumPy
4 12 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
4 12 (1.75%) Pandas
5 9 (1.32%) COM
5 9 (1.32%) Dask
5 9 (1.32%) Middleware
5 9 (1.32%) XML
6 8 (1.17%) React
7 7 (1.02%) Entity Framework
7 7 (1.02%) NHibernate
7 7 (1.02%) Playwright
8 6 (0.88%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.88%) RESTful
9 5 (0.73%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (0.73%) PyTorch
9 5 (0.73%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 82 (11.99%) Management Information System
2 66 (9.65%) Derivative
3 43 (6.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 40 (5.85%) Market Risk
5 38 (5.56%) Equities
6 32 (4.68%) Product Ownership
7 29 (4.24%) Security Posture
8 28 (4.09%) Algorithms
8 28 (4.09%) Fixed Income
9 25 (3.65%) Cloud Native
9 25 (3.65%) Credit Risk
10 24 (3.51%) Onboarding
11 22 (3.22%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
13 18 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (2.49%) Hedge funds
15 15 (2.19%) Data Structures
16 11 (1.61%) Equity Derivative
17 10 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
17 10 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.95%) Linux
2 16 (2.34%) Unix
2 16 (2.34%) Windows
3 2 (0.29%) zOS
4 1 (0.15%) Android
4 1 (0.15%) VMS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (28.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 171 (25.00%) Agile
3 141 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
4 123 (17.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 97 (14.18%) Project Management
6 96 (14.04%) Cybersecurity
7 93 (13.60%) Analytics
7 93 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 84 (12.28%) AI
9 83 (12.13%) Decision-Making
10 74 (10.82%) Information Security
11 69 (10.09%) Project Delivery
11 69 (10.09%) Roadmaps
12 57 (8.33%) Computer Science
12 57 (8.33%) Scrum
13 56 (8.19%) Change Management
13 56 (8.19%) Regulatory Compliance
14 54 (7.89%) Data Protection
15 50 (7.31%) DevOps
16 49 (7.16%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 97 (14.18%) Python
2 89 (13.01%) SQL
3 40 (5.85%) Java
4 25 (3.65%) C++
5 22 (3.22%) C#
6 17 (2.49%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.05%) VBA
8 9 (1.32%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.58%) Korn
9 4 (0.58%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.44%) Bash
10 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.29%) Perl
11 2 (0.29%) R
11 2 (0.29%) RPG
11 2 (0.29%) Scala
12 1 (0.15%) Bicep
12 1 (0.15%) Go
12 1 (0.15%) VC++
Qualifications
1 145 (21.20%) Degree
2 91 (13.30%) Security Cleared
3 76 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 62 (9.06%) CISSP
5 51 (7.46%) PMI Certification
6 46 (6.73%) PMP
7 41 (5.99%) CISM
8 38 (5.56%) Master's Degree
9 23 (3.36%) DV Cleared
10 21 (3.07%) CRISC
11 15 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (2.19%) Numerate Degree
12 13 (1.90%) CISA
13 11 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.61%) PhD
14 8 (1.17%) CESG Certified Professional
15 7 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (1.02%) FFIEC
15 7 (1.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 7 (1.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (11.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 79 (11.55%) NIST
3 63 (9.21%) GRC
4 51 (7.46%) GDPR
5 40 (5.85%) QA
6 30 (4.39%) PCI DSS
6 30 (4.39%) PMO
7 27 (3.95%) Data Quality
8 17 (2.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (2.05%) SLA
9 14 (2.05%) SOC 2
10 11 (1.61%) COBIT
11 10 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
11 10 (1.46%) EU AI Act
11 10 (1.46%) NCSC
12 9 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 8 (1.17%) Basel III
14 5 (0.73%) GMP
14 5 (0.73%) ISO 31000
14 5 (0.73%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.46%) Docker
3 7 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (2.05%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.75%) Terraform
3 5 (0.73%) Ansible
3 5 (0.73%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.29%) Grafana
5 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
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%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 69 (10.09%) Microsoft
2 31 (4.53%) Oracle
3 30 (4.39%) SAP
4 24 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 20 (2.92%) Murex
6 14 (2.05%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.02%) Informatica
7 7 (1.02%) Workday
8 6 (0.88%) Bloomberg
8 6 (0.88%) Databricks
8 6 (0.88%) Google
9 5 (0.73%) Ariba
9 5 (0.73%) Charles River
9 5 (0.73%) Citrix
9 5 (0.73%) Solace
10 4 (0.58%) Foundry
10 4 (0.58%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.44%) HubSpot
11 3 (0.44%) IBM
11 3 (0.44%) Splunk