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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 39 77
Rank change year-on-year -38 +38 -13
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 721 746 498
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.59% 5.50% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 5.96% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 487 312
10th Percentile £413 £395 £384
25th Percentile £500 £498 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -5.88%
75th Percentile £725 £800 £761
90th Percentile £850 £875 £863
England median daily rate £570 £575 £577
% change year-on-year -0.87% -0.35% -3.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - £39.45 £31.73
25th Percentile - £48.25 £34.15
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £38.81
Median % change year-on-year - +67.48% +26.38%
75th Percentile - - £44.09
90th Percentile - £79.00 £46.89
England median hourly rate £76.00 £51.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +49.02% -11.30% -10.36%

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 17,904 12,525 14,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.35% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,336 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £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 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.40% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 255 197
10th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 17 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 17 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 -9 104 £600 -4.00% 80
West London -12 16 £625 +47.06% 23
East London 0 7 £590 +18.00% 9
South London -20 2 £413 -28.63% 9
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 10 (1.39%) 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 27 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.53%) 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
1 13 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.55%) Actimize
2 4 (0.55%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.55%) Magento
2 4 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics SL
3 3 (0.42%) Findur
3 3 (0.42%) Infor CloudSuite
3 3 (0.42%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.42%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 102 (14.15%) Azure
2 87 (12.07%) AWS
3 31 (4.30%) GCP
4 28 (3.88%) Entra ID
5 27 (3.74%) SaaS
6 24 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (2.64%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.80%) GitHub
9 12 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (1.11%) OCI
12 8 (1.11%) PaaS
13 7 (0.97%) Snowflake
14 6 (0.83%) Azure AI
14 6 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (0.69%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.36%) Firewall
2 16 (2.22%) Network Security
3 8 (1.11%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.83%) 4G
4 6 (0.83%) 5G
5 5 (0.69%) DNS
5 5 (0.69%) Internet
5 5 (0.69%) LAN
5 5 (0.69%) VPN
5 5 (0.69%) WAN
6 4 (0.55%) DHCP
6 4 (0.55%) Wireless
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
8 2 (0.28%) IPv4
8 2 (0.28%) IPv6
8 2 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.64%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.94%) Power BI
3 13 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (1.39%) Metadata
5 9 (1.25%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.83%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.69%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.69%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.55%) Big Data
9 4 (0.55%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.42%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.42%) Db2
10 3 (0.42%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.42%) Tableau
11 2 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.28%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 57 (7.91%) JIRA
2 15 (2.08%) Git
3 12 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.83%) Selenium
5 4 (0.55%) GitLab
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
7 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.14%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.14%) jMock
8 1 (0.14%) JUnit
8 1 (0.14%) Maven
8 1 (0.14%) Mockito
8 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
General
1 331 (45.91%) Finance
2 268 (37.17%) Social Skills
3 118 (16.37%) Analytical Skills
3 118 (16.37%) Banking
4 76 (10.54%) Legal
5 72 (9.99%) Public Sector
6 52 (7.21%) Front Office
7 32 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
8 26 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (3.61%) Investment Banking
9 22 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
9 22 (3.05%) Telecoms
10 21 (2.91%) Financial Institution
11 19 (2.64%) Retail
12 17 (2.36%) Marketing
13 13 (1.80%) Law
14 12 (1.66%) Local Government
15 11 (1.53%) Back Office
15 11 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (13.59%) Lead
2 89 (12.34%) Senior
3 71 (9.85%) Architect
4 68 (9.43%) Project Manager
5 67 (9.29%) Analyst
6 47 (6.52%) Programme Manager
7 45 (6.24%) Developer
8 39 (5.41%) Business Analyst
9 36 (4.99%) Consultant
10 35 (4.85%) Security Architect
11 29 (4.02%) Senior Manager
12 22 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
12 22 (3.05%) IT Manager
13 18 (2.50%) Security Engineer
14 16 (2.22%) Risk Analyst
14 16 (2.22%) Security Manager
14 16 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.22%) Technical Manager
15 15 (2.08%) Risk Business Analyst
16 13 (1.80%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.47%) .NET
2 20 (2.77%) REST
3 17 (2.36%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (2.22%) Middleware
5 9 (1.25%) Kafka
6 8 (1.11%) Azure Blueprints
7 7 (0.97%) PySpark
7 7 (0.97%) React
7 7 (0.97%) SOAP
7 7 (0.97%) XML
8 5 (0.69%) .NET Framework
8 5 (0.69%) OAuth
8 5 (0.69%) SailPoint
8 5 (0.69%) VML
9 4 (0.55%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.55%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.55%) Jakarta EE
9 4 (0.55%) JSON
9 4 (0.55%) RESTful
9 4 (0.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.69%) Cloud Native
2 37 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 35 (4.85%) Onboarding
4 34 (4.72%) Product Ownership
5 33 (4.58%) Security Posture
6 25 (3.47%) Derivative
7 22 (3.05%) Market Risk
8 21 (2.91%) Fixed Income
9 20 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (2.50%) Credit Risk
10 18 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 15 (2.08%) AI Agents
11 15 (2.08%) Data Centre
11 15 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.66%) Equities
13 12 (1.66%) NHS
14 10 (1.39%) CMDB
15 9 (1.25%) Data Structures
15 9 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.58%) Windows
2 24 (3.33%) Linux
3 19 (2.64%) Unix
4 13 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.42%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (38.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 183 (25.38%) Agile
3 151 (20.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 124 (17.20%) Cybersecurity
5 123 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 118 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
7 109 (15.12%) Roadmaps
8 100 (13.87%) AI
8 100 (13.87%) Project Management
9 99 (13.73%) Decision-Making
10 91 (12.62%) Information Security
11 87 (12.07%) Migration
12 81 (11.23%) Project Delivery
13 73 (10.12%) DevOps
14 72 (9.99%) Analytics
15 63 (8.74%) Change Management
16 60 (8.32%) CI/CD
17 59 (8.18%) Regulatory Compliance
18 57 (7.91%) SDLC
19 55 (7.63%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 59 (8.18%) Python
2 58 (8.04%) SQL
3 26 (3.61%) Java
4 19 (2.64%) C#
4 19 (2.64%) PowerShell
5 7 (0.97%) PL/SQL
6 5 (0.69%) Bicep
7 4 (0.55%) Bash
7 4 (0.55%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.42%) C
8 3 (0.42%) C++
8 3 (0.42%) R
8 3 (0.42%) Scala
8 3 (0.42%) VBA
8 3 (0.42%) VBScript
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
Qualifications
1 108 (14.98%) Security Cleared
2 87 (12.07%) Degree
3 76 (10.54%) SC Cleared
4 56 (7.77%) CISSP
5 34 (4.72%) PMI Certification
6 33 (4.58%) PMP
7 30 (4.16%) CISM
8 26 (3.61%) DV Cleared
9 19 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.94%) CISA
10 14 (1.94%) Master's Degree
11 13 (1.80%) CRISC
12 10 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 8 (1.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 8 (1.11%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (10.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (9.57%) NIST
3 61 (8.46%) GRC
4 55 (7.63%) QA
5 33 (4.58%) GDPR
6 28 (3.88%) PMO
7 26 (3.61%) Data Quality
8 21 (2.91%) NCSC
9 17 (2.36%) SLA
10 16 (2.22%) PCI DSS
11 12 (1.66%) SOC 2
12 11 (1.53%) COBIT
12 11 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.83%) ITGC
15 5 (0.69%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.55%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.97%) Docker
4 3 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.28%) NFS
6 1 (0.14%) Postfix
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (2.77%) Terraform
2 12 (1.66%) Ansible
2 12 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.69%) Grafana
3 5 (0.69%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.55%) SCCM
4 4 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.42%) Control-M
5 3 (0.42%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.42%) Puppet
6 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.28%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.14%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) CASB
7 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.14%) Nessus
7 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 106 (14.70%) Microsoft
2 46 (6.38%) ServiceNow
3 42 (5.83%) Oracle
4 35 (4.85%) SAP
5 14 (1.94%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.80%) Murex
7 12 (1.66%) Google
7 12 (1.66%) Splunk
7 12 (1.66%) Workday
8 8 (1.11%) Databricks
8 8 (1.11%) Qualys
8 8 (1.11%) Tenable
9 6 (0.83%) Cisco
9 6 (0.83%) OpenAI
9 6 (0.83%) OpenLink
9 6 (0.83%) Rapid7
9 6 (0.83%) Sybase
10 5 (0.69%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.69%) Okta
10 5 (0.69%) Zscaler