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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 43 64
Rank change year-on-year -27 +21 +11
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 657 639 605
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.79% 5.05% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 5.51% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 404 418
10th Percentile £425 £400 £400
25th Percentile £500 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £630 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £761
90th Percentile £975 £875 £825
England median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile £70.92 £28.00 £25.45
25th Percentile £73.27 £47.83 £30.12
Median hourly rate £79.68 £49.51 £36.34
Median % change year-on-year +60.95% +36.25% -47.15%
75th Percentile £88.59 £83.20 £48.75
90th Percentile £92.44 £96.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £74.31 £60.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +23.84% +4.35% +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 15,438 11,597 15,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.12% 91.69% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,339 7,865 11,332
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £758 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 165 334
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.18 £19.65
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £49.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £66.68
England median hourly rate £40.54 £32.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year +26.69% -6.46% -8.77%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -21 88 £600 - 79
East London 0 9 £585 -8.24% 7
West London -23 7 £544 +147.16% 8
South London -32 7 £500 -14.53% 1
North London - 3 £325 - 3
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 32 (4.87%) Confluence
2 8 (1.22%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.07%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.91%) SAS
5 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
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%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 44 (6.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (3.50%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.67%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.30%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.22%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.07%) Summit
4 5 (0.76%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.61%) Endur
6 3 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.46%) Findur
6 3 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.30%) Actimize
7 2 (0.30%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.30%) Global One
7 2 (0.30%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.30%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 83 (12.63%) Azure
2 71 (10.81%) AWS
3 24 (3.65%) GCP
4 23 (3.50%) Power Platform
5 18 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (1.98%) Entra ID
7 12 (1.83%) SaaS
8 11 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
9 10 (1.52%) GitHub
10 9 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.07%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (0.76%) SuccessFactors
14 4 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (0.61%) Azure AI
14 4 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (0.61%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.52%) Firewall
2 7 (1.07%) Network Security
3 4 (0.61%) 5G
4 3 (0.46%) Broadband
5 2 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
5 2 (0.30%) Internet
5 2 (0.30%) NAS
5 2 (0.30%) SAN
5 2 (0.30%) VPN
6 1 (0.15%) BGP
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%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.15%) MPLS
6 1 (0.15%) Multicast
6 1 (0.15%) NGFW
6 1 (0.15%) RSVP
6 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.89%) Power BI
2 15 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.13%) Metadata
3 14 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.67%) Relational Database
5 9 (1.37%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.91%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.91%) Tableau
7 5 (0.76%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.61%) Big Data
8 4 (0.61%) Data Mart
9 3 (0.46%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.46%) KDB
9 3 (0.46%) Kdb+
9 3 (0.46%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.30%) PowerCenter
10 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (9.74%) JIRA
2 14 (2.13%) Git
3 8 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.61%) GitLab
5 3 (0.46%) Selenium
5 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.46%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.46%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.15%) Appium
6 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.15%) DbUnit
6 1 (0.15%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.15%) ERwin
6 1 (0.15%) GCC
6 1 (0.15%) jMock
6 1 (0.15%) JUnit
6 1 (0.15%) Maven
6 1 (0.15%) MLflow
6 1 (0.15%) Mockito
6 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 308 (46.88%) Finance
2 263 (40.03%) Social Skills
3 129 (19.63%) Banking
4 125 (19.03%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (9.13%) Public Sector
6 58 (8.83%) Legal
7 42 (6.39%) Front Office
8 35 (5.33%) Investment Banking
9 29 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
10 27 (4.11%) Financial Institution
11 23 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (2.74%) Retail
14 14 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.67%) Back Office
15 11 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.52%) Law
16 10 (1.52%) Marketing
16 10 (1.52%) Military
17 8 (1.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 85 (12.94%) Lead
1 85 (12.94%) Senior
2 76 (11.57%) Analyst
3 71 (10.81%) Project Manager
4 68 (10.35%) Developer
5 55 (8.37%) Business Analyst
5 55 (8.37%) Consultant
6 49 (7.46%) Architect
7 33 (5.02%) Programme Manager
8 27 (4.11%) Senior Developer
9 25 (3.81%) Security Architect
10 22 (3.35%) Delivery Manager
10 22 (3.35%) Senior Manager
11 20 (3.04%) Java Developer
12 19 (2.89%) Security Consultant
13 18 (2.74%) Python Developer
14 17 (2.59%) Risk Analyst
15 16 (2.44%) Risk Manager
16 15 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
17 14 (2.13%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.74%) Oracle Fusion
1 18 (2.74%) REST
2 16 (2.44%) Kafka
3 13 (1.98%) .NET
4 10 (1.52%) XML
5 9 (1.37%) COM
5 9 (1.37%) NumPy
5 9 (1.37%) Pandas
6 7 (1.07%) Dask
6 7 (1.07%) Middleware
7 6 (0.91%) .NET Framework
7 6 (0.91%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (0.91%) J2EE
7 6 (0.91%) JSP
7 6 (0.91%) React
8 5 (0.76%) .NET Core
8 5 (0.76%) RESTful
9 4 (0.61%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.61%) WinForms
9 4 (0.61%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.59%) Management Information System
2 58 (8.83%) Derivative
3 36 (5.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 36 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 35 (5.33%) Market Risk
4 35 (5.33%) Security Posture
5 31 (4.72%) Equities
6 26 (3.96%) Cloud Native
7 25 (3.81%) Credit Risk
8 24 (3.65%) Onboarding
9 20 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
9 20 (3.04%) Fixed Income
10 18 (2.74%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (2.13%) Data Structures
11 14 (2.13%) Hedge funds
12 12 (1.83%) AI Agents
12 12 (1.83%) Equity Derivative
13 11 (1.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.59%) Linux
2 16 (2.44%) Windows
3 13 (1.98%) Unix
4 2 (0.30%) zOS
5 1 (0.15%) Android
5 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (29.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 178 (27.09%) Agile
3 147 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
4 107 (16.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 105 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 96 (14.61%) Project Management
7 85 (12.94%) Roadmaps
8 84 (12.79%) AI
8 84 (12.79%) Decision-Making
9 83 (12.63%) Analytics
10 80 (12.18%) Cybersecurity
11 79 (12.02%) Information Security
12 77 (11.72%) Project Delivery
13 59 (8.98%) DevOps
13 59 (8.98%) Regulatory Compliance
14 55 (8.37%) Data Protection
15 54 (8.22%) Change Management
16 53 (8.07%) Scrum
17 51 (7.76%) CI/CD
18 50 (7.61%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 81 (12.33%) Python
2 80 (12.18%) SQL
3 43 (6.54%) Java
4 18 (2.74%) C++
5 14 (2.13%) C#
5 14 (2.13%) PowerShell
6 12 (1.83%) VBA
7 5 (0.76%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.61%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.61%) Perl
9 3 (0.46%) Korn
9 3 (0.46%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.30%) Bash
10 2 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.30%) R
10 2 (0.30%) RPG
10 2 (0.30%) Scala
11 1 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 125 (19.03%) Degree
2 90 (13.70%) Security Cleared
3 70 (10.65%) SC Cleared
4 52 (7.91%) CISSP
5 40 (6.09%) PMI Certification
6 38 (5.78%) PMP
7 35 (5.33%) CISM
8 23 (3.50%) Master's Degree
9 18 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (2.74%) CRISC
10 15 (2.28%) DV Cleared
11 13 (1.98%) Numerate Degree
12 11 (1.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 10 (1.52%) CISA
14 9 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (1.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 8 (1.22%) PhD
16 6 (0.91%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.91%) RIBA
17 5 (0.76%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (10.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 59 (8.98%) NIST
3 57 (8.68%) GRC
4 44 (6.70%) GDPR
5 43 (6.54%) QA
6 32 (4.87%) PMO
7 30 (4.57%) Data Quality
8 29 (4.41%) PCI DSS
9 21 (3.20%) SLA
10 14 (2.13%) NCSC
11 12 (1.83%) COBIT
11 12 (1.83%) SOC 2
12 11 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 7 (1.07%) NIST 800
13 7 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.76%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 4 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 4 (0.61%) IFRS
System Software
1 7 (1.07%) Active Directory
1 7 (1.07%) Docker
2 3 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.15%) NFS
3 1 (0.15%) Postfix
3 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (1.37%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.07%) Terraform
3 4 (0.61%) Control-M
3 4 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.46%) Ansible
4 3 (0.46%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.15%) Avamar
6 1 (0.15%) CASB
6 1 (0.15%) Consul
6 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.15%) Grafana
6 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.15%) Packer
6 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 67 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.70%) Oracle
3 35 (5.33%) SAP
4 32 (4.87%) ServiceNow
5 23 (3.50%) Murex
6 14 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.83%) Workday
8 7 (1.07%) Databricks
9 6 (0.91%) Google
10 5 (0.76%) Ariba
10 5 (0.76%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.76%) Charles River
10 5 (0.76%) Foundry
10 5 (0.76%) Informatica
10 5 (0.76%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.76%) OpenLink
11 4 (0.61%) IBM
11 4 (0.61%) Splunk
12 3 (0.46%) Remedy
12 3 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud