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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 37 82
Rank change year-on-year -42 +45 -14
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 695 747 501
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.51% 5.47% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 5.94% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 481 325
10th Percentile £417 £405 £384
25th Percentile £505 £500 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £725 £813 £773
90th Percentile £875 £875 £850
England median daily rate £570 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -0.87% - -4.17%
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% -4.05%
75th Percentile £95.00 £65.00 £39.44
90th Percentile - £86.00 £45.02
England median hourly rate £80.00 £51.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +56.86% +2.00% +127.27%

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 17,611 12,570 15,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.12% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,652 8,414 10,744
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 254
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.63 £24.66 £20.99
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.00 £33.53
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -7.53% -22.03%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.88 £51.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £70.73
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%

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 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 20 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 -13 105 £550 -12.00% 50
West London -12 14 £506 +19.12% 18
East London +1 8 £588 -2.08% 8
South London -25 3 £569 -2.11% 5
North London -2 1 £325 -40.91% 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 27 (3.88%) Confluence
2 8 (1.15%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.58%) SAS
4 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.14%) Appian
5 1 (0.14%) CMS
5 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.14%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 27 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.58%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.29%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.73%) Endur
3 6 (0.86%) Actimize
4 4 (0.58%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.58%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.58%) Magento
4 4 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.58%) Summit
5 3 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.43%) Findur
5 3 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.43%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.43%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 101 (14.53%) Azure
2 79 (11.37%) AWS
3 32 (4.60%) GCP
4 24 (3.45%) Entra ID
5 23 (3.31%) SaaS
6 19 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (2.45%) Power Platform
8 14 (2.01%) GitHub
9 13 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.29%) PaaS
10 9 (1.29%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (1.01%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (1.01%) OCI
11 7 (1.01%) Snowflake
12 6 (0.86%) AWS Control Tower
12 6 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.45%) Firewall
2 9 (1.29%) Network Security
3 5 (0.72%) Internet
4 4 (0.58%) 4G
4 4 (0.58%) 5G
4 4 (0.58%) LAN
4 4 (0.58%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.58%) WAN
5 3 (0.43%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.43%) NAS
5 3 (0.43%) SAN
5 3 (0.43%) VoLTE
5 3 (0.43%) VPN
5 3 (0.43%) WinSCP
6 2 (0.29%) Intranet
6 2 (0.29%) NGFW
6 2 (0.29%) VLAN
6 2 (0.29%) X.509
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.45%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (1.58%) Power BI
4 10 (1.44%) Metadata
4 10 (1.44%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.01%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.86%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.72%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.58%) Big Data
9 3 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.43%) Db2
9 3 (0.43%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.43%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.43%) Tableau
10 2 (0.29%) Redis
10 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.29%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 51 (7.34%) JIRA
2 15 (2.16%) Git
2 15 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.86%) GitLab
4 5 (0.72%) Selenium
4 5 (0.72%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.58%) Subversion
5 4 (0.58%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.43%) MLflow
7 2 (0.29%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.29%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.14%) Appium
8 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.14%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.14%) Gradle
8 1 (0.14%) Maven
8 1 (0.14%) Mockito
8 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 334 (48.06%) Finance
2 247 (35.54%) Social Skills
3 117 (16.83%) Banking
4 112 (16.12%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (10.65%) Legal
6 71 (10.22%) Public Sector
7 39 (5.61%) Front Office
8 24 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (3.31%) Investment Banking
10 20 (2.88%) Financial Institution
11 19 (2.73%) Retail
12 18 (2.59%) Marketing
13 16 (2.30%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.73%) Local Government
16 10 (1.44%) Law
16 10 (1.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 99 (14.24%) Lead
2 91 (13.09%) Senior
3 70 (10.07%) Architect
4 67 (9.64%) Project Manager
5 66 (9.50%) Analyst
6 49 (7.05%) Developer
7 38 (5.47%) Business Analyst
8 37 (5.32%) Programme Manager
9 35 (5.04%) Security Architect
10 33 (4.75%) Consultant
11 29 (4.17%) Senior Manager
12 19 (2.73%) Risk Analyst
13 18 (2.59%) IT Manager
14 17 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
15 16 (2.30%) Risk Business Analyst
16 14 (2.01%) Security Engineer
16 14 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
17 13 (1.87%) Senior Project Manager
18 12 (1.73%) Risk Manager
18 12 (1.73%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.31%) .NET
2 18 (2.59%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (2.01%) Middleware
4 13 (1.87%) REST
5 12 (1.73%) Kafka
6 11 (1.58%) Azure Blueprints
7 9 (1.29%) React
8 8 (1.15%) PySpark
8 8 (1.15%) XML
9 7 (1.01%) SOAP
10 5 (0.72%) VML
11 4 (0.58%) .NET Framework
11 4 (0.58%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.58%) Jakarta EE
11 4 (0.58%) JSON
11 4 (0.58%) JSP
11 4 (0.58%) OAuth
11 4 (0.58%) OpenID
11 4 (0.58%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.58%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (5.76%) Management Information System
2 37 (5.32%) Cloud Native
3 33 (4.75%) Onboarding
3 33 (4.75%) Product Ownership
4 29 (4.17%) Security Posture
5 26 (3.74%) Derivative
6 25 (3.60%) Market Risk
7 22 (3.17%) Fixed Income
8 20 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 15 (2.16%) Credit Risk
11 14 (2.01%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.87%) Data Centre
12 13 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.58%) Data Structures
14 11 (1.58%) Equities
14 11 (1.58%) Operational Technology
15 10 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (1.44%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.74%) Windows
2 25 (3.60%) Linux
3 17 (2.45%) Unix
4 12 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.43%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (34.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 175 (25.18%) Agile
3 149 (21.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 129 (18.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 117 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
6 116 (16.69%) Roadmaps
7 110 (15.83%) Cybersecurity
8 108 (15.54%) Decision-Making
9 97 (13.96%) Project Management
10 96 (13.81%) AI
11 82 (11.80%) Information Security
12 76 (10.94%) Analytics
13 74 (10.65%) Migration
14 73 (10.50%) Project Delivery
15 71 (10.22%) DevOps
16 67 (9.64%) Regulatory Compliance
17 61 (8.78%) Change Management
18 60 (8.63%) CI/CD
19 53 (7.63%) Data Protection
20 52 (7.48%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (8.63%) Python
2 58 (8.35%) SQL
3 31 (4.46%) Java
4 18 (2.59%) C#
5 16 (2.30%) PowerShell
6 7 (1.01%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.72%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.58%) Bash
8 4 (0.58%) Bicep
9 3 (0.43%) C
9 3 (0.43%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.43%) Scala
9 3 (0.43%) VBA
10 2 (0.29%) C++
10 2 (0.29%) Delphi
10 2 (0.29%) Perl
10 2 (0.29%) ProC
10 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.14%) Groovy
11 1 (0.14%) Korn
Qualifications
1 105 (15.11%) Security Cleared
2 90 (12.95%) Degree
3 73 (10.50%) SC Cleared
4 58 (8.35%) CISSP
5 29 (4.17%) CISM
5 29 (4.17%) PMI Certification
6 26 (3.74%) DV Cleared
6 26 (3.74%) PMP
7 19 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.59%) CISA
9 16 (2.30%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.87%) CRISC
11 10 (1.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 8 (1.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 6 (0.86%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.86%) RIBA
14 5 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (10.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 72 (10.36%) NIST
3 64 (9.21%) GRC
4 50 (7.19%) QA
5 36 (5.18%) GDPR
6 30 (4.32%) PMO
7 27 (3.88%) Data Quality
8 23 (3.31%) PCI DSS
9 21 (3.02%) SLA
10 19 (2.73%) NCSC
10 19 (2.73%) SOC 2
11 12 (1.73%) COBIT
12 9 (1.29%) NIST 800
13 8 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.72%) ITGC
17 4 (0.58%) EU AI Act
18 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (1.73%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.15%) Docker
4 2 (0.29%) NFS
5 1 (0.14%) Postfix
5 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (2.45%) Terraform
2 11 (1.58%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.15%) Ansible
4 5 (0.72%) Grafana
4 5 (0.72%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.43%) Control-M
6 3 (0.43%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.29%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.14%) Avamar
8 1 (0.14%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) CASB
8 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.14%) Nessus
8 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.14%) Puppet
8 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 90 (12.95%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.90%) Oracle
2 41 (5.90%) ServiceNow
3 35 (5.04%) SAP
4 16 (2.30%) Salesforce
5 13 (1.87%) Workday
6 12 (1.73%) Google
7 11 (1.58%) Murex
7 11 (1.58%) Splunk
8 8 (1.15%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.15%) Qualys
8 8 (1.15%) Tenable
9 7 (1.01%) Rapid7
10 6 (0.86%) OpenLink
10 6 (0.86%) Sitecore
10 6 (0.86%) Sybase
11 5 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (0.72%) Databricks
11 5 (0.72%) Foundry
11 5 (0.72%) Okta