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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 49 53
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +22
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 671 586 677
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.11% 4.52% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 4.96% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 372 482
10th Percentile £425 £387 £413
25th Percentile £500 £512 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £750
90th Percentile £975 £865 £825
England median daily rate £550 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 3
10th Percentile £71.74 £28.00 £25.14
25th Percentile £75.31 £34.25 £29.34
Median hourly rate £87.50 £73.60 £36.34
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% +102.56% -47.15%
75th Percentile £94.38 £83.20 £48.17
90th Percentile £94.75 £85.56 £55.27
England median hourly rate £85.40 £60.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +40.58% +5.65% +440.92%

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 14,664 11,819 16,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.79% 91.08% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,843 7,917 11,504
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 161 342
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year - +17.71% -16.22%
75th Percentile £57.00 £53.75 £49.97
90th Percentile £70.50 £77.50 £69.43
England median hourly rate £30.15 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -11.32% +4.62% -12.16%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -14 92 £600 - 51
East London +4 8 £630 -6.67% 8
West London -13 8 £575 +161.36% 9
South London -32 7 £601 +1.43% 3
North London - 4 £513 -
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 31 (4.62%) Confluence
2 10 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.75%) SAS
5 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.15%) Camunda
6 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.15%) nginx
6 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 46 (6.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (1.79%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.30%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.19%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.89%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.60%) Summit
5 3 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.45%) Endur
5 3 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.30%) Actimize
6 2 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.30%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.30%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.30%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 94 (14.01%) Azure
2 78 (11.62%) AWS
3 25 (3.73%) GCP
3 25 (3.73%) Power Platform
4 21 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (2.68%) Entra ID
6 16 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 13 (1.94%) SaaS
8 11 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (1.64%) GitHub
9 10 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.04%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (0.89%) Collibra
12 5 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (0.75%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.75%) Miro
12 5 (0.75%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.60%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.38%) Firewall
2 7 (1.04%) Network Security
3 4 (0.60%) 5G
4 3 (0.45%) Broadband
4 3 (0.45%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (0.45%) VPN
5 2 (0.30%) Internet
5 2 (0.30%) Multicast
5 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.15%) BGP
6 1 (0.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.15%) Intranet
6 1 (0.15%) MPLS
6 1 (0.15%) NAS
6 1 (0.15%) RSVP
6 1 (0.15%) SAN
6 1 (0.15%) SSL
6 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.13%) Power BI
2 18 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (1.79%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.64%) Metadata
6 10 (1.49%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.89%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.89%) KDB
7 6 (0.89%) Kdb+
8 5 (0.75%) Big Data
8 5 (0.75%) Tableau
9 4 (0.60%) Data Mart
10 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.45%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.45%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.30%) PowerCenter
11 2 (0.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (10.13%) JIRA
2 13 (1.94%) Git
3 9 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.60%) GitLab
5 3 (0.45%) QUnit
5 3 (0.45%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.45%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.30%) GCC
6 2 (0.30%) GDB
6 2 (0.30%) Selenium
6 2 (0.30%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.15%) Appium
7 1 (0.15%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.15%) ERwin
7 1 (0.15%) jMock
7 1 (0.15%) JUnit
7 1 (0.15%) Maven
7 1 (0.15%) Mockito
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 326 (48.58%) Finance
2 267 (39.79%) Social Skills
3 130 (19.37%) Banking
4 128 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (9.54%) Legal
6 52 (7.75%) Front Office
7 50 (7.45%) Public Sector
8 38 (5.66%) Investment Banking
9 30 (4.47%) Financial Institution
9 30 (4.47%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.68%) Retail
13 12 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.79%) Law
14 9 (1.34%) Marketing
14 9 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.19%) Military
16 7 (1.04%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 96 (14.31%) Senior
2 91 (13.56%) Lead
3 85 (12.67%) Analyst
4 77 (11.48%) Developer
5 72 (10.73%) Project Manager
6 61 (9.09%) Consultant
7 51 (7.60%) Business Analyst
8 46 (6.86%) Architect
9 35 (5.22%) Programme Manager
10 33 (4.92%) Senior Developer
11 25 (3.73%) Security Architect
11 25 (3.73%) Senior Manager
12 24 (3.58%) Delivery Manager
12 24 (3.58%) Java Developer
13 23 (3.43%) Risk Analyst
14 22 (3.28%) Security Consultant
15 18 (2.68%) Python Developer
16 17 (2.53%) Security Specialist
16 17 (2.53%) Senior Java Developer
17 16 (2.38%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.98%) Kafka
2 16 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (2.24%) REST
4 10 (1.49%) .NET
5 9 (1.34%) COM
5 9 (1.34%) Dask
5 9 (1.34%) NumPy
5 9 (1.34%) Pandas
5 9 (1.34%) XML
6 8 (1.19%) .NET Framework
7 7 (1.04%) Middleware
8 6 (0.89%) RESTful
9 5 (0.75%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (0.75%) PyTorch
9 5 (0.75%) React
9 5 (0.75%) TensorFlow
10 4 (0.60%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.60%) OAuth
10 4 (0.60%) WinForms
10 4 (0.60%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.73%) Management Information System
2 65 (9.69%) Derivative
3 39 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 38 (5.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 36 (5.37%) Equities
5 36 (5.37%) Market Risk
6 31 (4.62%) Security Posture
7 29 (4.32%) Cloud Native
8 27 (4.02%) Algorithms
9 25 (3.73%) Fixed Income
10 24 (3.58%) Credit Risk
11 23 (3.43%) Onboarding
12 19 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
13 18 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (2.53%) Hedge funds
15 15 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
16 14 (2.09%) Data Structures
17 13 (1.94%) Equity Derivative
18 12 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
19 11 (1.64%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.73%) Linux
2 14 (2.09%) Unix
2 14 (2.09%) Windows
3 2 (0.30%) zOS
4 1 (0.15%) Android
4 1 (0.15%) VMS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (28.91%) Stakeholder Management
2 177 (26.38%) Agile
3 147 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
4 115 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 103 (15.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 93 (13.86%) Project Management
7 88 (13.11%) Analytics
8 85 (12.67%) AI
8 85 (12.67%) Decision-Making
9 82 (12.22%) Roadmaps
10 79 (11.77%) Cybersecurity
11 75 (11.18%) Project Delivery
12 70 (10.43%) Information Security
13 60 (8.94%) Computer Science
14 59 (8.79%) DevOps
14 59 (8.79%) Regulatory Compliance
15 58 (8.64%) Scrum
16 56 (8.35%) Change Management
17 55 (8.20%) Data Protection
18 50 (7.45%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 91 (13.56%) Python
2 88 (13.11%) SQL
3 42 (6.26%) Java
4 23 (3.43%) C++
5 19 (2.83%) C#
5 19 (2.83%) PowerShell
6 13 (1.94%) VBA
7 5 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.60%) Korn
9 3 (0.45%) Bash
9 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.30%) Perl
10 2 (0.30%) R
10 2 (0.30%) RPG
10 2 (0.30%) Scala
11 1 (0.15%) Bicep
11 1 (0.15%) Go
11 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 146 (21.76%) Degree
2 93 (13.86%) Security Cleared
3 75 (11.18%) SC Cleared
4 58 (8.64%) CISSP
5 46 (6.86%) PMI Certification
6 43 (6.41%) PMP
7 37 (5.51%) CISM
8 31 (4.62%) Master's Degree
9 20 (2.98%) DV Cleared
10 19 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.53%) CRISC
12 15 (2.24%) Numerate Degree
13 11 (1.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 11 (1.64%) PhD
14 10 (1.49%) CISA
15 9 (1.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (1.19%) CESG Certified Professional
17 7 (1.04%) Azure Certification
17 7 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (10.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (9.39%) NIST
3 59 (8.79%) GRC
4 50 (7.45%) GDPR
5 45 (6.71%) QA
6 31 (4.62%) Data Quality
7 30 (4.47%) PMO
8 28 (4.17%) PCI DSS
9 20 (2.98%) SLA
10 13 (1.94%) SOC 2
11 12 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (1.64%) NCSC
13 10 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (1.34%) COBIT
14 9 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 7 (1.04%) EU AI Act
16 6 (0.89%) Basel III
17 5 (0.75%) ISO 31000
17 5 (0.75%) NIST 800
18 4 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 12 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.49%) Docker
3 4 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.15%) Postfix
4 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (2.09%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.49%) Terraform
3 4 (0.60%) Ansible
3 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.30%) Grafana
5 2 (0.30%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.15%) Avamar
6 1 (0.15%) CASB
6 1 (0.15%) Consul
6 1 (0.15%) Control-M
6 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.15%) Packer
Vendors
1 71 (10.58%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.37%) Oracle
3 32 (4.77%) SAP
4 25 (3.73%) ServiceNow
5 22 (3.28%) Murex
6 17 (2.53%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.64%) Workday
8 7 (1.04%) Informatica
9 6 (0.89%) Charles River
9 6 (0.89%) Databricks
10 5 (0.75%) Ariba
10 5 (0.75%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.75%) Google
11 4 (0.60%) Foundry
11 4 (0.60%) IBM
11 4 (0.60%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.60%) Splunk
12 3 (0.45%) Cisco
12 3 (0.45%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.45%) Solace