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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 39 81
Rank change year-on-year -40 +42 -14
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 692 740 486
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.48% 5.41% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 5.87% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 478 305
10th Percentile £425 £403 £384
25th Percentile £500 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £725 £811 £775
90th Percentile £859 £875 £863
England median daily rate £570 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -0.87% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £37.04 £23.90
25th Percentile £85.00 £47.93 £26.23
Median hourly rate £90.00 £49.50 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +81.81% +64.35% -4.05%
75th Percentile £95.00 £61.55 £39.44
90th Percentile - £82.50 £45.02
England median hourly rate £79.00 £49.51 £56.25
% change year-on-year +59.58% -11.99% +87.50%

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 17,699 12,607 14,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.22% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,437 10,407
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
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 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.69 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -20.35%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 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 27 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 -11 102 £550 -12.00% 58
West London -10 16 £506 +19.12% 17
East London +4 7 £590 +7.27% 8
South London -24 3 £569 -1.60% 9
North London -3 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 30 (4.34%) Confluence
2 9 (1.30%) 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 26 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.45%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.29%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.59%) Endur
3 6 (0.87%) 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 Payables
4 4 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.43%) Dynamics SL
5 3 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.43%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.43%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.43%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 98 (14.16%) Azure
2 80 (11.56%) AWS
3 33 (4.77%) GCP
4 25 (3.61%) SaaS
5 24 (3.47%) Entra ID
6 19 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (2.31%) Power Platform
8 14 (2.02%) GitHub
9 13 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.16%) PaaS
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
11 7 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
12 6 (0.87%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.87%) AWS Control Tower
12 6 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.46%) Firewall
2 9 (1.30%) Network Security
3 5 (0.72%) 4G
3 5 (0.72%) 5G
3 5 (0.72%) Internet
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%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.29%) VLAN
6 2 (0.29%) X.509
7 1 (0.14%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.46%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (1.59%) Power BI
4 9 (1.30%) Metadata
4 9 (1.30%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.01%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.72%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.72%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.58%) Big Data
8 3 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (0.43%) Db2
8 3 (0.43%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.43%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.43%) Tableau
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.29%) Redis
9 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (7.51%) JIRA
2 15 (2.17%) Git
2 15 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.87%) 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%) jMock
8 1 (0.14%) Mockito
8 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 327 (47.25%) Finance
2 245 (35.40%) Social Skills
3 116 (16.76%) Banking
4 108 (15.61%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (10.26%) Legal
6 68 (9.83%) Public Sector
7 39 (5.64%) Front Office
8 25 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (3.03%) Investment Banking
12 19 (2.75%) Financial Institution
12 19 (2.75%) Marketing
12 19 (2.75%) Retail
13 16 (2.31%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.59%) Law
15 11 (1.59%) Local Government
16 10 (1.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 100 (14.45%) Lead
2 88 (12.72%) Senior
3 71 (10.26%) Project Manager
4 69 (9.97%) Architect
5 60 (8.67%) Analyst
6 48 (6.94%) Developer
7 39 (5.64%) Programme Manager
8 34 (4.91%) Consultant
8 34 (4.91%) Security Architect
9 33 (4.77%) Business Analyst
10 28 (4.05%) Senior Manager
11 20 (2.89%) Delivery Manager
12 19 (2.75%) IT Manager
12 19 (2.75%) Risk Analyst
13 15 (2.17%) Risk Business Analyst
13 15 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (2.17%) Technical Manager
14 14 (2.02%) Security Engineer
15 13 (1.88%) Security Manager
16 12 (1.73%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.32%) .NET
2 17 (2.46%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (2.17%) REST
4 14 (2.02%) Middleware
5 11 (1.59%) Azure Blueprints
5 11 (1.59%) Kafka
6 9 (1.30%) React
7 8 (1.16%) PySpark
8 7 (1.01%) SOAP
8 7 (1.01%) XML
9 5 (0.72%) VML
10 4 (0.58%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.58%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.58%) Jakarta EE
10 4 (0.58%) JSON
10 4 (0.58%) JSP
10 4 (0.58%) OpenID
10 4 (0.58%) RESTful
10 4 (0.58%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.58%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.49%) Cloud Native
1 38 (5.49%) Management Information System
2 34 (4.91%) Onboarding
2 34 (4.91%) Product Ownership
3 28 (4.05%) Security Posture
4 24 (3.47%) Market Risk
5 23 (3.32%) Derivative
6 21 (3.03%) Fixed Income
7 20 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (2.17%) Credit Risk
10 14 (2.02%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.73%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.59%) Equities
13 11 (1.59%) Operational Technology
14 10 (1.45%) CMDB
14 10 (1.45%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.90%) Windows
2 24 (3.47%) Linux
3 16 (2.31%) Unix
4 12 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.16%) 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
1 253 (36.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 178 (25.72%) Agile
3 145 (20.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 129 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 114 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
6 113 (16.33%) Cybersecurity
7 111 (16.04%) Roadmaps
8 107 (15.46%) Decision-Making
9 99 (14.31%) Project Management
10 94 (13.58%) AI
11 83 (11.99%) Information Security
12 78 (11.27%) Project Delivery
13 76 (10.98%) Migration
14 73 (10.55%) Analytics
15 71 (10.26%) DevOps
16 62 (8.96%) Regulatory Compliance
17 60 (8.67%) CI/CD
18 59 (8.53%) Change Management
19 54 (7.80%) SDLC
20 51 (7.37%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 57 (8.24%) Python
2 54 (7.80%) SQL
3 31 (4.48%) Java
4 17 (2.46%) C#
5 16 (2.31%) PowerShell
6 7 (1.01%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.58%) Bash
7 4 (0.58%) Bicep
7 4 (0.58%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.43%) C
8 3 (0.43%) Scala
8 3 (0.43%) VBA
9 2 (0.29%) C++
9 2 (0.29%) Delphi
9 2 (0.29%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.29%) Korn
9 2 (0.29%) Perl
9 2 (0.29%) ProC
9 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 105 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 87 (12.57%) Degree
3 73 (10.55%) SC Cleared
4 56 (8.09%) CISSP
5 30 (4.34%) PMI Certification
6 28 (4.05%) CISM
7 27 (3.90%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.90%) PMP
8 18 (2.60%) CISA
8 18 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.17%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.73%) CRISC
11 10 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 7 (1.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 6 (0.87%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.87%) RIBA
15 5 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (10.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (10.12%) NIST
3 64 (9.25%) GRC
4 52 (7.51%) QA
5 31 (4.48%) GDPR
6 30 (4.34%) PMO
7 24 (3.47%) Data Quality
8 22 (3.18%) PCI DSS
9 21 (3.03%) SLA
10 17 (2.46%) NCSC
10 17 (2.46%) SOC 2
11 12 (1.73%) COBIT
12 9 (1.30%) NIST 800
13 8 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.87%) ITGC
16 4 (0.58%) EU AI Act
16 4 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (1.73%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.16%) Docker
4 2 (0.29%) NFS
5 1 (0.14%) Postfix
5 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (2.46%) Terraform
2 10 (1.45%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.16%) 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 85 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.07%) ServiceNow
3 40 (5.78%) Oracle
4 35 (5.06%) SAP
5 15 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.02%) Google
7 12 (1.73%) Workday
8 11 (1.59%) Splunk
9 10 (1.45%) Murex
10 8 (1.16%) Qualys
10 8 (1.16%) Tenable
11 7 (1.01%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.01%) Rapid7
12 6 (0.87%) Sybase
13 5 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (0.72%) Databricks
13 5 (0.72%) Okta
13 5 (0.72%) OpenLink
13 5 (0.72%) Sitecore
14 4 (0.58%) IFS