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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 49 54
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +24
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 683 589 688
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.30% 4.39% 3.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 4.83% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 366 489
10th Percentile £434 £400 £413
25th Percentile £500 £500 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -5.88%
75th Percentile £750 £763 £750
90th Percentile £979 £850 £825
England median daily rate £550 £588 £565
% change year-on-year -6.38% +3.98% -9.60%
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% -46.17%
75th Percentile £94.38 £83.20 £48.17
90th Percentile £94.75 £85.56 £55.27
England median hourly rate £45.78 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -25.55% +2.49% +464.44%

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 14,339 12,191 16,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.30% 90.76% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,629 7,896 11,545
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% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 158 346
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.40 £25.81 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +22.50% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.99 £54.88 £49.97
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.51 £72.00
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
% change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -15 92 £600 +2.13% 33
South London -31 8 £551 -8.25% 2
East London +4 7 £585 -13.33% 6
West London -20 6 £575 +59.72% 9
North London - 4 £513 - 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 26 (3.81%) Confluence
2 10 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.73%) SAS
5 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) Camunda
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 47 (6.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (3.07%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.17%) Loan IQ
3 4 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.59%) Summit
4 3 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.44%) Endur
4 3 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.29%) Actimize
5 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.29%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics SL
6 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.15%) Primavera
6 1 (0.15%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 95 (13.91%) Azure
2 77 (11.27%) AWS
3 26 (3.81%) GCP
4 25 (3.66%) Power Platform
5 20 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (2.64%) Entra ID
7 15 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
8 12 (1.76%) SaaS
9 10 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (1.46%) GitHub
10 8 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (0.88%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.88%) Collibra
13 5 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (0.59%) Alation
14 4 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (0.59%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (0.59%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.22%) Firewall
2 5 (0.73%) Network Security
3 4 (0.59%) 5G
4 3 (0.44%) Broadband
4 3 (0.44%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (0.44%) S/MIME
4 3 (0.44%) SSL
4 3 (0.44%) VPN
5 2 (0.29%) Internet
5 2 (0.29%) Multicast
5 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.15%) BGP
6 1 (0.15%) DHCP
6 1 (0.15%) DNS
6 1 (0.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.15%) Intranet
6 1 (0.15%) MPLS
6 1 (0.15%) RSVP
6 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
1 21 (3.07%) Power BI
2 14 (2.05%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.61%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.46%) Metadata
6 6 (0.88%) KDB
6 6 (0.88%) Kdb+
6 6 (0.88%) Tableau
7 5 (0.73%) Big Data
7 5 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.59%) Data Mart
9 3 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.44%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.44%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.44%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.29%) PowerCenter
10 2 (0.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 59 (8.64%) JIRA
2 12 (1.76%) Git
3 9 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.88%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.44%) GitLab
5 3 (0.44%) QUnit
5 3 (0.44%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.29%) GCC
6 2 (0.29%) GDB
6 2 (0.29%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.15%) Appium
7 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.15%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.15%) jMock
7 1 (0.15%) JUnit
7 1 (0.15%) Maven
7 1 (0.15%) MLflow
7 1 (0.15%) Mockito
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 331 (48.46%) Finance
2 275 (40.26%) Social Skills
3 134 (19.62%) Banking
4 124 (18.16%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (9.52%) Legal
6 49 (7.17%) Front Office
7 47 (6.88%) Public Sector
8 41 (6.00%) Investment Banking
9 28 (4.10%) Financial Institution
10 25 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.34%) Retail
13 13 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.76%) Law
15 8 (1.17%) Marketing
16 7 (1.02%) Local Government
16 7 (1.02%) Military
16 7 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 95 (13.91%) Analyst
2 92 (13.47%) Senior
3 89 (13.03%) Lead
4 79 (11.57%) Developer
5 68 (9.96%) Project Manager
6 62 (9.08%) Consultant
7 50 (7.32%) Business Analyst
8 46 (6.73%) Architect
9 36 (5.27%) Programme Manager
10 33 (4.83%) Senior Developer
11 26 (3.81%) Java Developer
11 26 (3.81%) Risk Analyst
12 24 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
12 24 (3.51%) Security Architect
12 24 (3.51%) Senior Manager
13 23 (3.37%) Security Consultant
14 21 (3.07%) Security Specialist
15 19 (2.78%) AWS Developer
16 18 (2.64%) Senior Java Developer
17 17 (2.49%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.07%) Kafka
2 14 (2.05%) REST
3 13 (1.90%) .NET
4 12 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
5 11 (1.61%) .NET Framework
5 11 (1.61%) NumPy
5 11 (1.61%) Pandas
6 9 (1.32%) COM
6 9 (1.32%) Dask
6 9 (1.32%) XML
7 8 (1.17%) Middleware
8 7 (1.02%) React
9 6 (0.88%) Entity Framework
9 6 (0.88%) NHibernate
9 6 (0.88%) Playwright
9 6 (0.88%) RESTful
10 5 (0.73%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.73%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (0.73%) PyTorch
10 5 (0.73%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 81 (11.86%) Management Information System
2 65 (9.52%) Derivative
3 40 (5.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 38 (5.56%) Market Risk
5 37 (5.42%) Equities
6 34 (4.98%) Product Ownership
7 30 (4.39%) Security Posture
8 28 (4.10%) Algorithms
9 27 (3.95%) Cloud Native
10 26 (3.81%) Fixed Income
10 26 (3.81%) Onboarding
11 24 (3.51%) Credit Risk
12 20 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
13 17 (2.49%) Hedge funds
14 16 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
15 15 (2.20%) Data Structures
16 11 (1.61%) Equity Derivative
17 10 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
17 10 (1.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.95%) Linux
2 16 (2.34%) Unix
2 16 (2.34%) Windows
3 2 (0.29%) 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
1 193 (28.26%) Stakeholder Management
2 170 (24.89%) Agile
3 141 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
4 119 (17.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 96 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 94 (13.76%) Project Management
7 92 (13.47%) Cybersecurity
8 89 (13.03%) Analytics
9 84 (12.30%) Decision-Making
10 83 (12.15%) AI
11 76 (11.13%) Information Security
12 75 (10.98%) Roadmaps
13 69 (10.10%) Project Delivery
14 58 (8.49%) Regulatory Compliance
15 57 (8.35%) Computer Science
15 57 (8.35%) Scrum
16 56 (8.20%) Change Management
17 54 (7.91%) Data Protection
18 50 (7.32%) DevOps
19 49 (7.17%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 92 (13.47%) Python
2 86 (12.59%) SQL
3 42 (6.15%) Java
4 24 (3.51%) C++
5 22 (3.22%) C#
6 18 (2.64%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.05%) VBA
8 8 (1.17%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.59%) Korn
10 3 (0.44%) Bash
10 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.44%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.29%) Perl
11 2 (0.29%) R
11 2 (0.29%) RPG
11 2 (0.29%) Scala
12 1 (0.15%) Bicep
12 1 (0.15%) Go
12 1 (0.15%) VC++
Qualifications
1 141 (20.64%) Degree
2 93 (13.62%) Security Cleared
3 77 (11.27%) SC Cleared
4 64 (9.37%) CISSP
5 47 (6.88%) PMI Certification
6 43 (6.30%) CISM
7 42 (6.15%) PMP
8 35 (5.12%) Master's Degree
9 22 (3.22%) DV Cleared
10 21 (3.07%) CRISC
11 15 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (2.20%) Numerate Degree
12 14 (2.05%) CISA
13 11 (1.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 11 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.61%) PhD
14 9 (1.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 8 (1.17%) CESG Certified Professional
16 7 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (1.02%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (12.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 77 (11.27%) NIST
3 69 (10.10%) GRC
4 51 (7.47%) GDPR
5 40 (5.86%) QA
6 32 (4.69%) PCI DSS
6 32 (4.69%) PMO
7 28 (4.10%) Data Quality
8 18 (2.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (2.34%) SLA
10 13 (1.90%) SOC 2
11 10 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
11 10 (1.46%) COBIT
11 10 (1.46%) NCSC
12 9 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 8 (1.17%) Basel III
13 8 (1.17%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.73%) ISO 31000
14 5 (0.73%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 15 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.32%) Docker
3 6 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.15%) Postfix
4 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (1.76%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.61%) Terraform
3 5 (0.73%) Ansible
3 5 (0.73%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.29%) Grafana
6 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) Consul
7 1 (0.15%) Control-M
7 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) Packer
7 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 72 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 31 (4.54%) Oracle
3 29 (4.25%) SAP
4 25 (3.66%) ServiceNow
5 20 (2.93%) Murex
6 14 (2.05%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.02%) Informatica
7 7 (1.02%) Workday
8 6 (0.88%) Ariba
8 6 (0.88%) Bloomberg
8 6 (0.88%) Databricks
9 5 (0.73%) Charles River
9 5 (0.73%) Google
9 5 (0.73%) Solace
10 4 (0.59%) Citrix
10 4 (0.59%) Foundry
11 3 (0.44%) IBM
11 3 (0.44%) Planview
11 3 (0.44%) Remedy
11 3 (0.44%) Splunk