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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 40 76
Rank change year-on-year -39 +36 -11
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 722 746 500
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.58% 5.46% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 5.91% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 490 310
10th Percentile £422 £400 £384
25th Percentile £500 £500 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £725 £800 £755
90th Percentile £850 £875 £863
England median daily rate £570 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -0.87% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £35.05 £31.73
25th Percentile £85.00 £48.25 £34.15
Median hourly rate £90.00 £49.50 £38.81
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +27.54% +66.14%
75th Percentile £95.00 £65.00 £44.09
90th Percentile - £86.00 £46.89
England median hourly rate £76.00 £49.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +53.54% -13.91% +40.07%

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 17,940 12,624 14,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.32% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,801 8,441 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £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 £663 £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 299 251 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -14.20%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.00 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%

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 10 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
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 10 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 -18 102 £550 -12.00% 119
West London -11 17 £513 +20.59% 22
East London +3 7 £590 +18.00% 7
South London -26 2 £413 -28.63% 13
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 (4.85%) Confluence
2 9 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.55%) SAS
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.28%) CMS
4 2 (0.28%) IIS
4 2 (0.28%) 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 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (2.77%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (1.66%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (1.80%) Endur
2 11 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.55%) Actimize
3 4 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.55%) Magento
3 4 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.42%) Dynamics SL
4 3 (0.42%) Findur
4 3 (0.42%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.42%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.42%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.42%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 105 (14.54%) Azure
2 85 (11.77%) AWS
3 31 (4.29%) GCP
4 27 (3.74%) Entra ID
5 26 (3.60%) SaaS
6 22 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (2.35%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (1.80%) GitHub
9 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (1.11%) OCI
11 8 (1.11%) PaaS
12 7 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (0.97%) Snowflake
13 6 (0.83%) Azure AI
13 6 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.69%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.49%) Firewall
2 14 (1.94%) Network Security
3 7 (0.97%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.83%) 4G
4 6 (0.83%) 5G
5 5 (0.69%) Internet
5 5 (0.69%) LAN
5 5 (0.69%) WAN
6 4 (0.55%) DNS
6 4 (0.55%) VPN
7 3 (0.42%) DHCP
7 3 (0.42%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.42%) NAS
7 3 (0.42%) SAN
7 3 (0.42%) VoLTE
7 3 (0.42%) WinSCP
7 3 (0.42%) Wireless
8 2 (0.28%) Intranet
8 2 (0.28%) NGFW
8 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.49%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (1.80%) Power BI
3 9 (1.25%) Relational Database
4 7 (0.97%) Data Lake
4 7 (0.97%) Metadata
5 6 (0.83%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.69%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.55%) Big Data
7 4 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.42%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (0.42%) Db2
8 3 (0.42%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.42%) Tableau
9 2 (0.28%) Redis
9 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.28%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 57 (7.89%) JIRA
2 15 (2.08%) Git
3 14 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.69%) GitLab
4 5 (0.69%) Selenium
5 4 (0.55%) Subversion
5 4 (0.55%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.55%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.42%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.42%) MLflow
7 2 (0.28%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.28%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.14%) Appium
8 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
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%) Maven
8 1 (0.14%) Mockito
General
1 336 (46.54%) Finance
2 267 (36.98%) Social Skills
3 118 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (15.93%) Banking
5 78 (10.80%) Legal
6 71 (9.83%) Public Sector
7 47 (6.51%) Front Office
8 29 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (3.19%) Investment Banking
11 22 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (3.05%) Telecoms
12 21 (2.91%) Financial Institution
13 20 (2.77%) Retail
14 18 (2.49%) Marketing
15 13 (1.80%) Law
16 12 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (1.66%) Local Government
17 11 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
18 10 (1.39%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 105 (14.54%) Lead
2 92 (12.74%) Senior
3 73 (10.11%) Project Manager
4 72 (9.97%) Architect
5 65 (9.00%) Analyst
6 45 (6.23%) Developer
6 45 (6.23%) Programme Manager
7 38 (5.26%) Business Analyst
8 36 (4.99%) Consultant
9 35 (4.85%) Security Architect
10 30 (4.16%) Senior Manager
11 22 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
12 19 (2.63%) IT Manager
13 16 (2.22%) Risk Analyst
13 16 (2.22%) Security Engineer
13 16 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (2.22%) Technical Manager
14 15 (2.08%) Product Manager
15 14 (1.94%) Risk Business Analyst
15 14 (1.94%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.32%) .NET
2 18 (2.49%) REST
3 17 (2.35%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (1.94%) Middleware
5 11 (1.52%) Azure Blueprints
6 10 (1.39%) Kafka
7 9 (1.25%) React
8 8 (1.11%) PySpark
9 7 (0.97%) SOAP
9 7 (0.97%) XML
10 5 (0.69%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.69%) OAuth
10 5 (0.69%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.69%) VML
11 4 (0.55%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.55%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.55%) JSON
11 4 (0.55%) OpenID
11 4 (0.55%) RESTful
11 4 (0.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.68%) Cloud Native
2 38 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 37 (5.12%) Management Information System
4 35 (4.85%) Product Ownership
5 32 (4.43%) Security Posture
6 25 (3.46%) Derivative
7 22 (3.05%) Market Risk
8 20 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.77%) Fixed Income
9 17 (2.35%) Credit Risk
9 17 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 16 (2.22%) AI Agents
11 14 (1.94%) Data Centre
12 13 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.52%) Equities
14 11 (1.52%) NHS
15 10 (1.39%) CMDB
16 9 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
16 9 (1.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 31 (4.29%) Windows
2 23 (3.19%) Linux
3 18 (2.49%) Unix
4 13 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.14%) Android
8 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (37.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 187 (25.90%) Agile
3 157 (21.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 126 (17.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 120 (16.62%) Cybersecurity
6 113 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
7 109 (15.10%) Roadmaps
8 102 (14.13%) Decision-Making
9 101 (13.99%) Project Management
10 98 (13.57%) AI
11 91 (12.60%) Information Security
12 83 (11.50%) Project Delivery
13 82 (11.36%) Migration
14 72 (9.97%) Analytics
14 72 (9.97%) DevOps
15 64 (8.86%) Change Management
16 62 (8.59%) CI/CD
17 59 (8.17%) Regulatory Compliance
18 56 (7.76%) Data Protection
18 56 (7.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 58 (8.03%) Python
2 57 (7.89%) SQL
3 28 (3.88%) Java
4 18 (2.49%) PowerShell
5 17 (2.35%) C#
6 7 (0.97%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.55%) Bash
7 4 (0.55%) Bicep
7 4 (0.55%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.42%) C
8 3 (0.42%) C++
8 3 (0.42%) Scala
8 3 (0.42%) VBA
9 2 (0.28%) Delphi
9 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.28%) Korn
9 2 (0.28%) Perl
9 2 (0.28%) ProC
9 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 110 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 92 (12.74%) Degree
3 78 (10.80%) SC Cleared
4 60 (8.31%) CISSP
5 34 (4.71%) PMI Certification
6 32 (4.43%) CISM
6 32 (4.43%) PMP
7 29 (4.02%) DV Cleared
8 20 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (2.35%) CISA
10 16 (2.22%) CRISC
10 16 (2.22%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 9 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 7 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.83%) RIBA
15 5 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (10.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 72 (9.97%) NIST
3 64 (8.86%) GRC
4 52 (7.20%) QA
5 32 (4.43%) GDPR
6 31 (4.29%) PMO
7 26 (3.60%) Data Quality
8 21 (2.91%) NCSC
9 20 (2.77%) PCI DSS
9 20 (2.77%) SLA
10 15 (2.08%) SOC 2
11 13 (1.80%) COBIT
12 10 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.83%) ITGC
16 5 (0.69%) EU AI Act
16 5 (0.69%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.97%) Docker
4 2 (0.28%) NFS
4 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.14%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 20 (2.77%) Terraform
2 11 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.39%) Ansible
4 5 (0.69%) Grafana
4 5 (0.69%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.42%) Control-M
6 3 (0.42%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.42%) SCCM
7 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.28%) Puppet
7 2 (0.28%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.14%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) CASB
8 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.14%) Nessus
8 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 101 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.96%) ServiceNow
3 40 (5.54%) Oracle
4 35 (4.85%) SAP
5 15 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.66%) Google
6 12 (1.66%) Murex
6 12 (1.66%) Splunk
6 12 (1.66%) Workday
7 8 (1.11%) Qualys
7 8 (1.11%) Tenable
8 7 (0.97%) Databricks
8 7 (0.97%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.97%) Rapid7
9 6 (0.83%) OpenLink
9 6 (0.83%) Sybase
10 5 (0.69%) CyberArk
10 5 (0.69%) Foundry
10 5 (0.69%) Okta
10 5 (0.69%) Sitecore