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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 36 74
Rank change year-on-year -41 +38 -8
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 685 723 548
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.55% 5.57% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 6.04% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 464 359
10th Percentile £413 £406 £367
25th Percentile £513 £505 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £667 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.08% +11.21% -6.98%
75th Percentile £737 £813 £753
90th Percentile £888 £875 £850
England median daily rate £569 £583 £571
% change year-on-year -2.51% +2.12% -4.79%
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 17,155 11,979 15,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.25% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,402 8,003 11,123
10th Percentile £358 £335 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% - -6.38%
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 267 225 302
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £23.33 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +9.63% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £68.68
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +85.35% -34.02% +1.65%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -20 102 £550 -12.00% 75
West London -13 14 £506 +19.12% 19
East London +1 10 £633 +5.42% 10
South London -17 3 £569 -2.11% 8
North London 0 1 £325 -40.91%
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 30 (4.38%) 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%) CMS
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 28 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.75%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.29%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.75%) Endur
3 6 (0.88%) Actimize
3 6 (0.88%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.88%) Summit
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 96 (14.01%) Azure
2 78 (11.39%) AWS
3 28 (4.09%) GCP
4 25 (3.65%) SaaS
5 23 (3.36%) Entra ID
6 16 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (2.34%) Power Platform
7 13 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (1.90%) GitHub
8 9 (1.31%) SuccessFactors
9 8 (1.17%) OCI
10 7 (1.02%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (1.02%) PaaS
11 6 (0.88%) AWS Control Tower
11 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.34%) 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%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.34%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.75%) Metadata
3 12 (1.75%) Relational Database
4 11 (1.61%) Power BI
5 7 (1.02%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.02%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.73%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.58%) Big Data
8 3 (0.44%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (0.44%) Db2
8 3 (0.44%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.44%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.44%) Tableau
9 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.29%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 52 (7.59%) JIRA
2 13 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.75%) Git
4 6 (0.88%) 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
8 2 (0.29%) Subversion
9 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.15%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.15%) ERwin
9 1 (0.15%) Gradle
9 1 (0.15%) jMock
9 1 (0.15%) JUnit
9 1 (0.15%) Maven
9 1 (0.15%) Mockito
9 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
General
1 329 (48.03%) Finance
2 253 (36.93%) Social Skills
3 120 (17.52%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (17.23%) Banking
5 72 (10.51%) Legal
6 69 (10.07%) Public Sector
7 36 (5.26%) Front Office
8 25 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (3.50%) Investment Banking
9 24 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (3.21%) Financial Institution
10 22 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.48%) Retail
12 16 (2.34%) Marketing
13 13 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (1.90%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.75%) Local Government
15 10 (1.46%) Back Office
15 10 (1.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 100 (14.60%) Lead
2 88 (12.85%) Senior
3 69 (10.07%) Analyst
3 69 (10.07%) Architect
4 64 (9.34%) Project Manager
5 51 (7.45%) Developer
6 43 (6.28%) Business Analyst
7 37 (5.40%) Consultant
8 34 (4.96%) Security Architect
9 31 (4.53%) Programme Manager
10 25 (3.65%) Senior Manager
11 21 (3.07%) IT Manager
12 19 (2.77%) Risk Analyst
13 17 (2.48%) Delivery Manager
13 17 (2.48%) Risk Business Analyst
14 14 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (1.90%) Risk Manager
15 13 (1.90%) Security Engineer
16 12 (1.75%) Senior Developer
16 12 (1.75%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.36%) .NET
2 17 (2.48%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (1.90%) Kafka
3 13 (1.90%) Middleware
3 13 (1.90%) REST
4 11 (1.61%) Azure Blueprints
5 9 (1.31%) React
5 9 (1.31%) XML
6 8 (1.17%) PySpark
7 7 (1.02%) SOAP
8 6 (0.88%) J2EE
8 6 (0.88%) JSP
9 4 (0.58%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.58%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.58%) JSON
9 4 (0.58%) OAuth
9 4 (0.58%) OpenID
9 4 (0.58%) RESTful
9 4 (0.58%) SAML
10 3 (0.44%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.28%) Management Information System
2 37 (5.40%) Cloud Native
3 33 (4.82%) Onboarding
3 33 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 31 (4.53%) Security Posture
5 30 (4.38%) Derivative
6 26 (3.80%) Market Risk
7 23 (3.36%) Fixed Income
8 21 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (2.92%) Credit Risk
10 17 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (2.04%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.90%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.90%) Equities
12 13 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.75%) Data Centre
14 11 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.61%) NHS
14 11 (1.61%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.50%) Linux
1 24 (3.50%) Windows
2 16 (2.34%) Unix
3 10 (1.46%) 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
1 233 (34.01%) Stakeholder Management
2 174 (25.40%) Agile
3 144 (21.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 130 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 123 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
6 116 (16.93%) Roadmaps
7 108 (15.77%) Cybersecurity
8 107 (15.62%) Decision-Making
9 92 (13.43%) AI
10 87 (12.70%) Project Management
11 85 (12.41%) Information Security
12 75 (10.95%) Analytics
13 72 (10.51%) Project Delivery
14 71 (10.36%) Regulatory Compliance
15 69 (10.07%) DevOps
15 69 (10.07%) Migration
16 61 (8.91%) CI/CD
17 60 (8.76%) Change Management
18 55 (8.03%) Data Protection
19 54 (7.88%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 63 (9.20%) SQL
2 61 (8.91%) Python
3 34 (4.96%) Java
4 18 (2.63%) C#
5 15 (2.19%) 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%) Korn
10 2 (0.29%) Perl
10 2 (0.29%) ProC
10 2 (0.29%) RPG
11 1 (0.15%) C++
11 1 (0.15%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 101 (14.74%) Security Cleared
2 90 (13.14%) Degree
3 71 (10.36%) SC Cleared
4 57 (8.32%) CISSP
5 32 (4.67%) CISM
6 26 (3.80%) PMI Certification
7 23 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 23 (3.36%) PMP
8 22 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (2.77%) CISA
10 17 (2.48%) CRISC
11 14 (2.04%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 8 (1.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 6 (0.88%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.88%) RIBA
15 5 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (10.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 67 (9.78%) GRC
3 66 (9.64%) NIST
4 47 (6.86%) QA
5 40 (5.84%) GDPR
6 31 (4.53%) PMO
7 30 (4.38%) Data Quality
8 26 (3.80%) PCI DSS
9 24 (3.50%) SLA
10 19 (2.77%) SOC 2
11 17 (2.48%) NCSC
12 14 (2.04%) COBIT
13 9 (1.31%) NIST 800
14 8 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.73%) ITGC
16 5 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 4 (0.58%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 10 (1.46%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.31%) Docker
3 8 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.29%) NFS
5 1 (0.15%) Postfix
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (2.19%) Terraform
2 12 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.02%) 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 83 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.86%) Oracle
3 41 (5.99%) SAP
4 40 (5.84%) ServiceNow
5 16 (2.34%) Murex
5 16 (2.34%) Workday
6 15 (2.19%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.46%) Google
7 10 (1.46%) Splunk
8 7 (1.02%) OpenLink
8 7 (1.02%) Qualys
8 7 (1.02%) Tenable
9 6 (0.88%) Databricks
9 6 (0.88%) OpenAI
9 6 (0.88%) Rapid7
9 6 (0.88%) Sitecore
9 6 (0.88%) Sybase
10 5 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.58%) Adaptive Insights
11 4 (0.58%) CyberArk