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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 42 77
Rank change year-on-year -36 +35 -15
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 738 725 513
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.68% 5.42% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.13% 5.86% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 475 318
10th Percentile £413 £389 £391
25th Percentile £500 £488 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £725 £809 £750
90th Percentile £850 £888 £863
England median daily rate £569 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -1.04% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile £35.37 £39.45 £22.02
25th Percentile £38.01 £48.25 £25.06
Median hourly rate £43.05 £65.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -33.77% +115.80% +38.48%
75th Percentile £48.71 - £39.44
90th Percentile £51.74 £79.00 £45.02
England median hourly rate £64.09 £51.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +25.67% -11.30% -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 17,880 12,372 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.50% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,699 8,236 9,976
10th Percentile £360 £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 £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £784 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 191
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -12.16% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -10 106 £600 -4.00% 79
West London -10 16 £625 +47.06% 65
East London +1 5 £750 +50.00% 9
South London -22 2 £413 -28.63% 6
North London -3 1 £550 - 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 35 (4.74%) Confluence
2 12 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.54%) SAS
4 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.27%) CMS
4 2 (0.27%) IIS
4 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.14%) Appian
5 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
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 29 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (3.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.49%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.14%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.76%) Endur
3 4 (0.54%) Actimize
3 4 (0.54%) Magento
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.54%) SAP GRC
4 3 (0.41%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.41%) Findur
4 3 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.41%) SAP HCM
4 3 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.41%) Summit
5 2 (0.27%) Infor CloudSuite
5 2 (0.27%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 103 (13.96%) Azure
2 85 (11.52%) AWS
3 30 (4.07%) GCP
4 27 (3.66%) Entra ID
5 26 (3.52%) SaaS
6 22 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (2.85%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (1.49%) GitHub
10 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (1.08%) OCI
12 8 (1.08%) PaaS
13 7 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (0.81%) Azure AI
14 6 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (0.81%) Snowflake
14 6 (0.81%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.85%) Firewall
2 15 (2.03%) Network Security
3 8 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.81%) 4G
4 6 (0.81%) 5G
4 6 (0.81%) Internet
5 5 (0.68%) DNS
5 5 (0.68%) LAN
5 5 (0.68%) VPN
5 5 (0.68%) WAN
6 4 (0.54%) DHCP
6 4 (0.54%) Wireless
7 3 (0.41%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (0.41%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.41%) NAS
7 3 (0.41%) SAN
7 3 (0.41%) VoLTE
7 3 (0.41%) WinSCP
8 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.98%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.03%) Power BI
3 14 (1.90%) Metadata
4 13 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.36%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.81%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.81%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.68%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.68%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.54%) Big Data
8 4 (0.54%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.41%) Db2
9 3 (0.41%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.41%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.41%) Tableau
10 2 (0.27%) QlikView
10 2 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (7.59%) JIRA
2 13 (1.76%) Git
3 11 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.81%) Selenium
5 4 (0.54%) GitLab
5 4 (0.54%) Subversion
5 4 (0.54%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.41%) MLflow
6 3 (0.41%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.27%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.14%) ERwin
8 1 (0.14%) Gradle
8 1 (0.14%) JMeter
8 1 (0.14%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 335 (45.39%) Finance
2 281 (38.08%) Social Skills
3 120 (16.26%) Banking
4 118 (15.99%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (10.30%) Legal
5 76 (10.30%) Public Sector
6 57 (7.72%) Front Office
7 31 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
8 30 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
9 29 (3.93%) Investment Banking
10 23 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (2.98%) Telecoms
12 20 (2.71%) Financial Institution
13 17 (2.30%) Retail
14 16 (2.17%) Law
14 16 (2.17%) Marketing
15 12 (1.63%) Back Office
15 12 (1.63%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (1.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 103 (13.96%) Lead
2 87 (11.79%) Senior
3 73 (9.89%) Architect
4 71 (9.62%) Analyst
5 67 (9.08%) Project Manager
6 47 (6.37%) Developer
7 46 (6.23%) Programme Manager
8 41 (5.56%) Business Analyst
9 34 (4.61%) Security Architect
10 32 (4.34%) Consultant
11 27 (3.66%) Senior Manager
12 22 (2.98%) IT Manager
13 21 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
14 17 (2.30%) Security Engineer
15 16 (2.17%) Risk Analyst
15 16 (2.17%) Security Manager
15 16 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (2.03%) Risk Business Analyst
16 15 (2.03%) Technical Manager
17 14 (1.90%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.79%) .NET
2 20 (2.71%) REST
2 20 (2.71%) Terraform
3 17 (2.30%) Middleware
4 16 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
5 10 (1.36%) Kafka
6 8 (1.08%) Azure Blueprints
7 7 (0.95%) .NET Core
7 7 (0.95%) PySpark
7 7 (0.95%) React
7 7 (0.95%) XML
8 6 (0.81%) SOAP
9 5 (0.68%) JSON
9 5 (0.68%) SailPoint
9 5 (0.68%) VML
10 4 (0.54%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.54%) Jakarta EE
10 4 (0.54%) JSP
10 4 (0.54%) OAuth
10 4 (0.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 36 (4.88%) Cloud Native
2 34 (4.61%) Onboarding
2 34 (4.61%) Security Posture
3 33 (4.47%) Management Information System
4 32 (4.34%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.39%) Derivative
6 24 (3.25%) Market Risk
7 21 (2.85%) Credit Risk
8 20 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.71%) Fixed Income
9 18 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 15 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.90%) AI Agents
11 14 (1.90%) Data Centre
11 14 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.63%) Equities
12 12 (1.63%) NHS
13 10 (1.36%) CMDB
13 10 (1.36%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.36%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.88%) Windows
2 23 (3.12%) Linux
3 19 (2.57%) Unix
4 13 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.41%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (39.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 190 (25.75%) Agile
3 158 (21.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 132 (17.89%) Cybersecurity
5 130 (17.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 125 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
7 112 (15.18%) Decision-Making
8 111 (15.04%) AI
9 109 (14.77%) Roadmaps
10 100 (13.55%) Project Management
11 90 (12.20%) Migration
12 88 (11.92%) Information Security
13 85 (11.52%) Project Delivery
14 80 (10.84%) Analytics
15 73 (9.89%) DevOps
16 69 (9.35%) Change Management
17 62 (8.40%) CI/CD
18 61 (8.27%) SDLC
19 58 (7.86%) Regulatory Compliance
20 56 (7.59%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 60 (8.13%) Python
1 60 (8.13%) SQL
2 23 (3.12%) Java
3 21 (2.85%) C#
4 17 (2.30%) PowerShell
5 7 (0.95%) PL/SQL
6 5 (0.68%) Bicep
7 4 (0.54%) Bash
7 4 (0.54%) C++
7 4 (0.54%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.41%) C
8 3 (0.41%) R
8 3 (0.41%) Scala
8 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.41%) VBA
8 3 (0.41%) VBScript
9 2 (0.27%) Delphi
9 2 (0.27%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.27%) Perl
9 2 (0.27%) ProC
Qualifications
1 119 (16.12%) Security Cleared
2 85 (11.52%) Degree
2 85 (11.52%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.72%) CISSP
4 33 (4.47%) PMI Certification
5 32 (4.34%) CISM
5 32 (4.34%) PMP
6 29 (3.93%) DV Cleared
7 19 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.76%) CISA
8 13 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.63%) CRISC
10 8 (1.08%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.81%) CEH
12 6 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 5 (0.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (10.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 66 (8.94%) NIST
3 63 (8.54%) GRC
4 58 (7.86%) QA
5 32 (4.34%) GDPR
6 28 (3.79%) Data Quality
6 28 (3.79%) PMO
7 21 (2.85%) NCSC
8 15 (2.03%) SLA
9 14 (1.90%) COBIT
10 11 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (1.49%) PCI DSS
11 10 (1.36%) SOC 2
12 9 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.81%) ITGC
14 5 (0.68%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 4 (0.54%) JSP 440
System Software
1 16 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.81%) Docker
4 3 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.27%) NFS
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (1.63%) Ansible
2 11 (1.49%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.68%) SCCM
4 4 (0.54%) Grafana
4 4 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.41%) Control-M
5 3 (0.41%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.41%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.41%) Puppet
5 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.27%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.14%) Avamar
7 1 (0.14%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) CASB
7 1 (0.14%) Istio
7 1 (0.14%) Nessus
7 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 109 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.78%) ServiceNow
3 41 (5.56%) Oracle
4 40 (5.42%) SAP
5 14 (1.90%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.63%) Murex
6 12 (1.63%) Splunk
7 11 (1.49%) Google
7 11 (1.49%) Workday
8 8 (1.08%) Databricks
8 8 (1.08%) Qualys
9 7 (0.95%) Tenable
10 6 (0.81%) Cisco
10 6 (0.81%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.81%) OpenLink
10 6 (0.81%) Rapid7
10 6 (0.81%) Sybase
11 5 (0.68%) CyberArk
11 5 (0.68%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.68%) Sitecore