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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 47 70
Rank change year-on-year -11 +23 -15
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 859 696 550
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.22% 5.17% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% 5.58% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 449 331
10th Percentile £413 £387 £408
25th Percentile £505 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £604
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +7.62% -1.39%
75th Percentile £725 £801 £775
90th Percentile £825 £890 £875
England median daily rate £568 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -1.30% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 3
10th Percentile £31.92 £39.45 £22.02
25th Percentile £32.55 £48.25 £25.06
Median hourly rate £33.60 £65.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -48.31% +115.80% +38.48%
75th Percentile £44.13 - £33.44
90th Percentile £49.90 £79.00 £35.42
England median hourly rate £70.00 £33.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +108.96% -41.74% -4.17%

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 18,072 12,468 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.58% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,839 8,220 9,409
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 243 178
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.16
Median hourly rate £32.63 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -4 122 £550 -13.73% 194
West London -14 18 £650 +52.94% 69
East London +4 4 £750 +108.33% 10
South London -15 4 £495 -14.86% 17
North London -1 1 £550 -
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 33 (3.84%) Confluence
2 14 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.58%) SAS
4 4 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.23%) CMS
6 2 (0.23%) IIS
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.12%) Appian
7 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 31 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.28%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 19 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.51%) Endur
3 5 (0.58%) SAP GRC
4 4 (0.47%) Actimize
4 4 (0.47%) Magento
4 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.47%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.35%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.35%) Front Arena
5 3 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.35%) Summit
6 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.23%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 131 (15.25%) Azure
2 104 (12.11%) AWS
3 45 (5.24%) GCP
4 35 (4.07%) Entra ID
5 31 (3.61%) SaaS
6 29 (3.38%) Power Platform
7 25 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (2.21%) GitHub
9 17 (1.98%) Microsoft Purview
10 14 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (1.51%) Azure Sentinel
11 13 (1.51%) OCI
12 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
15 7 (0.81%) Azure AI
15 7 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (0.81%) Collibra
15 7 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (0.81%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.68%) Firewall
2 19 (2.21%) Network Security
3 10 (1.16%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.93%) LAN
4 8 (0.93%) WAN
5 6 (0.70%) 4G
5 6 (0.70%) 5G
5 6 (0.70%) Internet
6 5 (0.58%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.58%) DNS
6 5 (0.58%) VPN
7 4 (0.47%) DHCP
7 4 (0.47%) Wireless
8 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.35%) Modbus
8 3 (0.35%) VoLTE
8 3 (0.35%) WinSCP
9 2 (0.23%) Intranet
9 2 (0.23%) SSL
9 2 (0.23%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (3.26%) SQL Server
2 22 (2.56%) Power BI
3 18 (2.10%) Metadata
4 15 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.05%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.05%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.81%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.81%) Oracle Database
7 6 (0.70%) Big Data
8 5 (0.58%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.47%) Ataccama
9 4 (0.47%) Db2
9 4 (0.47%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.35%) ClickHouse
10 3 (0.35%) Kdb+
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.35%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.35%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 58 (6.75%) JIRA
2 20 (2.33%) Git
3 13 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.58%) Selenium
5 4 (0.47%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.47%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.47%) GitLab
5 4 (0.47%) Gradle
5 4 (0.47%) Subversion
6 3 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.23%) MLflow
7 2 (0.23%) QUnit
7 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.23%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.12%) eggPlant
8 1 (0.12%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.12%) NeoLoad
General
1 402 (46.80%) Finance
2 325 (37.83%) Social Skills
3 153 (17.81%) Banking
4 149 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (10.83%) Public Sector
6 88 (10.24%) Legal
7 73 (8.50%) Front Office
8 42 (4.89%) Influencing Skills
9 38 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
10 32 (3.73%) Investment Banking
11 27 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (2.44%) Financial Institution
13 20 (2.33%) Telecoms
14 18 (2.10%) Law
15 16 (1.86%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.86%) Marketing
16 15 (1.75%) Retail
17 13 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
18 11 (1.28%) Back Office
18 11 (1.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 111 (12.92%) Senior
2 104 (12.11%) Lead
3 99 (11.53%) Analyst
4 91 (10.59%) Architect
5 80 (9.31%) Project Manager
6 52 (6.05%) Developer
7 51 (5.94%) Business Analyst
8 45 (5.24%) Programme Manager
9 39 (4.54%) Consultant
10 37 (4.31%) Security Architect
11 30 (3.49%) IT Manager
12 27 (3.14%) Senior Manager
13 25 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
13 25 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
14 22 (2.56%) Risk Analyst
15 20 (2.33%) Security Engineer
16 19 (2.21%) Senior Business Analyst
16 19 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
17 17 (1.98%) Technical Manager
18 16 (1.86%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (3.96%) Terraform
2 30 (3.49%) .NET
3 23 (2.68%) REST
4 19 (2.21%) Middleware
5 16 (1.86%) Kafka
6 12 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (0.93%) .NET Core
7 8 (0.93%) Azure Blueprints
7 8 (0.93%) XGBoost
8 7 (0.81%) PySpark
8 7 (0.81%) React
9 6 (0.70%) Model Context Protocol
9 6 (0.70%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.70%) SOAP
9 6 (0.70%) Spring
9 6 (0.70%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.58%) JSON
10 5 (0.58%) OAuth
10 5 (0.58%) RESTful
10 5 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.05%) Onboarding
2 43 (5.01%) Cloud Native
3 40 (4.66%) Management Information System
4 38 (4.42%) Product Ownership
5 36 (4.19%) Security Posture
6 32 (3.73%) Market Risk
7 28 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (3.03%) Credit Risk
9 24 (2.79%) Data Centre
10 22 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (2.56%) Fixed Income
11 20 (2.33%) Derivative
12 19 (2.21%) AI Agents
13 18 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 17 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
15 16 (1.86%) Data Structures
16 14 (1.63%) Operational Technology
17 13 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
17 13 (1.51%) NHS
18 11 (1.28%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.54%) Windows
2 31 (3.61%) Linux
3 28 (3.26%) Unix
4 15 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (43.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 226 (26.31%) Agile
3 171 (19.91%) Cybersecurity
4 170 (19.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 159 (18.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 148 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
7 147 (17.11%) AI
8 145 (16.88%) Roadmaps
9 140 (16.30%) Decision-Making
10 108 (12.57%) Information Security
11 104 (12.11%) Project Management
12 101 (11.76%) Migration
13 97 (11.29%) Analytics
14 96 (11.18%) Project Delivery
15 87 (10.13%) DevOps
16 81 (9.43%) CI/CD
17 78 (9.08%) Change Management
18 73 (8.50%) Data Protection
19 68 (7.92%) Validation
20 64 (7.45%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 89 (10.36%) Python
2 81 (9.43%) SQL
3 27 (3.14%) Java
4 26 (3.03%) C#
5 23 (2.68%) PowerShell
6 13 (1.51%) Bash
7 11 (1.28%) Shell Script
8 5 (0.58%) Bicep
8 5 (0.58%) C++
8 5 (0.58%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.58%) Korn
8 5 (0.58%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.58%) R
8 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.58%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.35%) C
10 3 (0.35%) Scala
10 3 (0.35%) VBA
10 3 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 153 (17.81%) Security Cleared
2 114 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 105 (12.22%) Degree
4 70 (8.15%) CISSP
5 43 (5.01%) PMI Certification
6 41 (4.77%) CISM
6 41 (4.77%) PMP
7 34 (3.96%) DV Cleared
8 21 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.44%) Master's Degree
9 19 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (2.10%) CRISC
11 17 (1.98%) CISA
12 14 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 14 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (1.51%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.40%) Azure Certification
14 12 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 7 (0.81%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (11.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 83 (9.66%) NIST
3 77 (8.96%) GRC
4 62 (7.22%) QA
5 44 (5.12%) Data Quality
6 35 (4.07%) GDPR
7 31 (3.61%) PMO
8 26 (3.03%) NCSC
9 17 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (1.40%) COBIT
10 12 (1.40%) SOC 2
11 10 (1.16%) Basel III
11 10 (1.16%) SLA
12 8 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.70%) EU AI Act
13 6 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 6 (0.70%) ITGC
13 6 (0.70%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.70%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.40%) Docker
3 9 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.35%) vSphere
5 2 (0.23%) IAG
6 1 (0.12%) NFS
6 1 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (2.79%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.98%) Ansible
3 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.58%) Grafana
4 5 (0.58%) SCCM
5 4 (0.47%) Control-M
5 4 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.35%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.35%) Puppet
7 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.12%) Argo
8 1 (0.12%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.12%) Istio
8 1 (0.12%) Nessus
8 1 (0.12%) Podman
8 1 (0.12%) QRadar
8 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 136 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.52%) ServiceNow
3 45 (5.24%) SAP
4 41 (4.77%) Oracle
5 22 (2.56%) Murex
6 20 (2.33%) Google
7 17 (1.98%) Splunk
8 12 (1.40%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.28%) Databricks
10 10 (1.16%) Qualys
11 9 (1.05%) CyberArk
11 9 (1.05%) Tenable
12 8 (0.93%) Bloomberg
12 8 (0.93%) Cisco
13 7 (0.81%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.81%) Rapid7
13 7 (0.81%) Workday
14 6 (0.70%) BeyondTrust
14 6 (0.70%) IBM
14 6 (0.70%) Zscaler