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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 36 68
Rank change year-on-year -36 +32 +3
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 657 685 578
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.61% 5.65% 3.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 6.12% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 449 402
10th Percentile £413 £403 £394
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 £750 £813 £770
90th Percentile £913 £875 £850
England median daily rate £550 £583 £555
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.14% -7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £48.08 £23.90
25th Percentile £85.00 £48.25 £26.23
Median hourly rate £90.00 £65.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +115.80% -52.94%
75th Percentile £95.00 £80.80 £39.44
90th Percentile - £89.92 £45.02
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year -11.64% +24.50% +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 16,108 11,188 15,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.25% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,765 7,537 11,061
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 180 306
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.72
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.90% -28.65%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.30 £66.88
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.67% -21.78% -2.67%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -21 100 £600 -4.00% 84
West London -22 15 £513 +58.91% 11
East London 0 11 £590 -1.67% 1
South London -28 5 £500 -14.24% 9
North London - 1 £325 - 2
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 (3.96%) Confluence
2 10 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.07%) SAS
4 3 (0.46%) Apache Spark
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 Service Bus
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.15%) ThingWorx
5 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 38 (5.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (3.04%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.67%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.30%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.37%) Endur
3 7 (1.07%) Summit
4 6 (0.91%) Aladdin
4 6 (0.91%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.76%) Actimize
5 5 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.61%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.46%) Dynamics SL
7 3 (0.46%) Findur
7 3 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.46%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.46%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.30%) Global One
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 78 (11.87%) Azure
2 61 (9.28%) AWS
3 21 (3.20%) GCP
4 19 (2.89%) Power Platform
5 18 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (2.44%) SaaS
7 12 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (1.52%) Entra ID
9 10 (1.52%) GitHub
10 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (1.07%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (0.91%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (0.76%) PaaS
14 4 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.67%) Firewall
2 6 (0.91%) Network Security
3 2 (0.30%) NAS
3 2 (0.30%) SAN
3 2 (0.30%) VLAN
4 1 (0.15%) DMZ
4 1 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.15%) Internet
4 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.15%) LAN
4 1 (0.15%) NGFW
4 1 (0.15%) RFID
4 1 (0.15%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) WAN
4 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (2.13%) Metadata
2 14 (2.13%) Power BI
3 9 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.37%) Relational Database
3 9 (1.37%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.91%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.76%) RDBMS
5 5 (0.76%) Tableau
6 4 (0.61%) Big Data
7 3 (0.46%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (0.46%) Data Mart
7 3 (0.46%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.46%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.30%) PowerCenter
8 2 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 55 (8.37%) JIRA
2 8 (1.22%) Git
2 8 (1.22%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.76%) GitLab
4 4 (0.61%) Selenium
5 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.46%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.46%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.15%) Appium
6 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.15%) DbUnit
6 1 (0.15%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.15%) ERwin
6 1 (0.15%) jMock
6 1 (0.15%) JUnit
6 1 (0.15%) Maven
6 1 (0.15%) MLflow
6 1 (0.15%) Mockito
6 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 303 (46.12%) Finance
2 243 (36.99%) Social Skills
3 118 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (16.89%) Banking
5 66 (10.05%) Public Sector
6 64 (9.74%) Legal
7 29 (4.41%) Investment Banking
8 26 (3.96%) Front Office
8 26 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (3.04%) Financial Institution
11 19 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.59%) Retail
13 12 (1.83%) Marketing
13 12 (1.83%) Military
14 11 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.67%) Law
14 11 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (14.16%) Lead
2 87 (13.24%) Senior
3 71 (10.81%) Analyst
4 62 (9.44%) Project Manager
5 56 (8.52%) Architect
6 54 (8.22%) Developer
7 49 (7.46%) Business Analyst
8 41 (6.24%) Consultant
9 34 (5.18%) Programme Manager
10 24 (3.65%) Security Architect
11 22 (3.35%) Risk Analyst
12 21 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
13 20 (3.04%) Risk Business Analyst
13 20 (3.04%) Risk Manager
13 20 (3.04%) Senior Developer
14 17 (2.59%) Senior Manager
15 15 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
16 14 (2.13%) IT Manager
16 14 (2.13%) Security Consultant
17 13 (1.98%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.65%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (2.13%) .NET
3 12 (1.83%) Kafka
4 10 (1.52%) Middleware
5 9 (1.37%) REST
6 8 (1.22%) React
6 8 (1.22%) XML
7 6 (0.91%) Azure Blueprints
7 6 (0.91%) J2EE
7 6 (0.91%) JSP
8 5 (0.76%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (0.61%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.61%) PySpark
10 3 (0.46%) JSON
10 3 (0.46%) RESTful
10 3 (0.46%) SOAP
11 2 (0.30%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.30%) FIXML
11 2 (0.30%) NumPy
11 2 (0.30%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.15%) Management Information System
2 45 (6.85%) Derivative
3 30 (4.57%) Market Risk
4 29 (4.41%) Security Posture
5 28 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 28 (4.26%) Product Ownership
6 27 (4.11%) Cloud Native
7 22 (3.35%) Credit Risk
8 19 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (2.89%) Equities
8 19 (2.89%) Fixed Income
8 19 (2.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (2.28%) Data Structures
10 14 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.98%) AI Agents
12 12 (1.83%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.83%) Equity Derivative
13 11 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.13%) Linux
2 13 (1.98%) Windows
3 10 (1.52%) Unix
4 2 (0.30%) zOS
5 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (28.92%) Stakeholder Management
2 177 (26.94%) Agile
3 131 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
4 115 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 115 (17.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 93 (14.16%) Cybersecurity
6 92 (14.00%) Decision-Making
6 92 (14.00%) Roadmaps
7 91 (13.85%) Project Management
8 86 (13.09%) AI
9 78 (11.87%) Information Security
10 73 (11.11%) Analytics
11 68 (10.35%) Project Delivery
12 62 (9.44%) Regulatory Compliance
13 61 (9.28%) ERP
14 57 (8.68%) DevOps
15 56 (8.52%) Migration
16 55 (8.37%) Change Management
17 54 (8.22%) Data Protection
18 53 (8.07%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 63 (9.59%) Python
2 62 (9.44%) SQL
3 38 (5.78%) Java
4 13 (1.98%) C#
5 11 (1.67%) C++
6 10 (1.52%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.76%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.76%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.61%) Bash
8 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.46%) Perl
9 3 (0.46%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.46%) VBA
10 2 (0.30%) Korn
10 2 (0.30%) RPG
10 2 (0.30%) Scala
11 1 (0.15%) C
11 1 (0.15%) Go
11 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 105 (15.98%) Degree
2 100 (15.22%) Security Cleared
3 72 (10.96%) SC Cleared
4 47 (7.15%) CISSP
5 33 (5.02%) CISM
6 30 (4.57%) PMI Certification
7 29 (4.41%) PMP
8 19 (2.89%) CRISC
9 18 (2.74%) DV Cleared
10 17 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (1.98%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (1.67%) CISA
12 11 (1.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 8 (1.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 8 (1.22%) Numerate Degree
14 6 (0.91%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.91%) RIBA
15 5 (0.76%) APMG
15 5 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (10.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 59 (8.98%) NIST
3 58 (8.83%) GRC
4 46 (7.00%) QA
5 40 (6.09%) GDPR
6 35 (5.33%) PMO
7 31 (4.72%) Data Quality
8 27 (4.11%) PCI DSS
9 23 (3.50%) SLA
10 18 (2.74%) NCSC
11 16 (2.44%) COBIT
12 12 (1.83%) SOC 2
13 10 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (1.22%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.76%) GMP
16 5 (0.76%) GxP
17 4 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 8 (1.22%) Docker
2 5 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.15%) NFS
5 1 (0.15%) Postfix
5 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (1.52%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.07%) Terraform
3 4 (0.61%) Control-M
3 4 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.46%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.30%) Ansible
5 2 (0.30%) Grafana
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.30%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.15%) Avamar
6 1 (0.15%) CASB
6 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.15%) Nessus
6 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 74 (11.26%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.76%) Oracle
3 42 (6.39%) SAP
4 32 (4.87%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.20%) Murex
6 17 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 16 (2.44%) Workday
8 8 (1.22%) Databricks
9 6 (0.91%) Google
9 6 (0.91%) Informatica
9 6 (0.91%) OpenLink
10 5 (0.76%) Ariba
10 5 (0.76%) Charles River
10 5 (0.76%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.61%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.61%) Foundry
11 4 (0.61%) Remedy
11 4 (0.61%) Splunk
12 3 (0.46%) Anaplan
12 3 (0.46%) Infor