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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 40 63
Rank change year-on-year -28 +23 +9
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 654 671 600
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.71% 5.30% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.19% 5.75% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 429 416
10th Percentile £413 £395 £398
25th Percentile £500 £500 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £635 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £750 £788 £764
90th Percentile £950 £875 £831
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile £70.92 £48.08 £24.67
25th Percentile £73.27 £48.25 £28.18
Median hourly rate £79.68 £73.60 £33.23
Median % change year-on-year +8.26% +121.50% -50.77%
75th Percentile £88.59 £89.10 £39.44
90th Percentile £92.44 £97.00 £45.03
England median hourly rate £74.31 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +20.83% +22.99% +370.37%

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 15,626 11,665 15,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.63% 92.10% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,463 7,932 11,228
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £759 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 173 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +21.05% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.65 £66.30
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +44.50% -13.00% -6.67%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -18 94 £600 - 78
East London -2 9 £585 -2.50% 6
West London -22 7 £544 +147.16% 9
South London -30 7 £500 -14.53% 1
North London - 3 £325 - 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 (4.59%) Confluence
2 9 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.22%) SAS
4 5 (0.76%) Apache Spark
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 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (4.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (3.36%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (1.99%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.31%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.22%) Endur
2 8 (1.22%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.07%) Summit
4 6 (0.92%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.61%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.46%) Dynamics SL
6 3 (0.46%) Findur
6 3 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite
6 3 (0.46%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.31%) Actimize
7 2 (0.31%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 82 (12.54%) Azure
2 68 (10.40%) AWS
3 22 (3.36%) GCP
3 22 (3.36%) Power Platform
4 20 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (2.29%) SaaS
6 13 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (1.83%) Entra ID
7 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.22%) GitHub
10 7 (1.07%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.07%) SuccessFactors
11 6 (0.92%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (0.76%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (0.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.53%) Firewall
2 7 (1.07%) Network Security
3 3 (0.46%) 5G
3 3 (0.46%) Broadband
4 2 (0.31%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (0.31%) Internet
4 2 (0.31%) LAN
4 2 (0.31%) NAS
4 2 (0.31%) SAN
4 2 (0.31%) VPN
4 2 (0.31%) WAN
4 2 (0.31%) WLAN
5 1 (0.15%) DHCP
5 1 (0.15%) DMZ
5 1 (0.15%) DNS
5 1 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.15%) VLAN
5 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.60%) Power BI
2 14 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (2.14%) Metadata
3 12 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.68%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.53%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.76%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.76%) Tableau
8 4 (0.61%) Data Mart
9 3 (0.46%) Big Data
9 3 (0.46%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.46%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.31%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.31%) PowerCenter
10 2 (0.31%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 62 (9.48%) JIRA
2 12 (1.83%) Git
3 8 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.61%) GitLab
4 4 (0.61%) 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%) 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%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 298 (45.57%) Finance
2 252 (38.53%) Social Skills
3 125 (19.11%) Banking
4 122 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (9.94%) Public Sector
6 52 (7.95%) Legal
7 35 (5.35%) Front Office
8 31 (4.74%) Investment Banking
9 27 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (3.98%) Financial Institution
11 22 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (2.91%) Retail
13 14 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.68%) Back Office
14 11 (1.68%) Law
14 11 (1.68%) Marketing
15 10 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.53%) Military
16 9 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 90 (13.76%) Lead
2 89 (13.61%) Senior
3 77 (11.77%) Analyst
4 67 (10.24%) Project Manager
5 66 (10.09%) Developer
6 54 (8.26%) Business Analyst
7 50 (7.65%) Architect
8 46 (7.03%) Consultant
9 34 (5.20%) Programme Manager
10 26 (3.98%) Senior Developer
11 22 (3.36%) Security Architect
12 21 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
13 19 (2.91%) Risk Analyst
14 18 (2.75%) Java Developer
14 18 (2.75%) Senior Manager
15 17 (2.60%) Security Consultant
16 16 (2.45%) Risk Manager
17 15 (2.29%) Risk Business Analyst
18 14 (2.14%) IT Manager
18 14 (2.14%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (2.14%) .NET
2 14 (2.14%) Kafka
3 13 (1.99%) REST
4 8 (1.22%) Middleware
4 8 (1.22%) XML
5 6 (0.92%) .NET Framework
5 6 (0.92%) J2EE
5 6 (0.92%) JSP
5 6 (0.92%) React
5 6 (0.92%) RESTful
6 5 (0.76%) .NET Core
6 5 (0.76%) COM
6 5 (0.76%) Dask
6 5 (0.76%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (0.76%) NumPy
6 5 (0.76%) Pandas
7 4 (0.61%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.61%) WinForms
7 4 (0.61%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.33%) Management Information System
2 52 (7.95%) Derivative
3 35 (5.35%) Market Risk
4 34 (5.20%) Security Posture
5 32 (4.89%) Product Ownership
6 27 (4.13%) Credit Risk
6 27 (4.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 27 (4.13%) Onboarding
7 25 (3.82%) Cloud Native
7 25 (3.82%) Equities
8 19 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (2.91%) Fixed Income
9 15 (2.29%) Algorithms
9 15 (2.29%) Data Structures
9 15 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.83%) AI Agents
11 12 (1.83%) Equity Derivative
12 10 (1.53%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.45%) Windows
2 15 (2.29%) Linux
3 12 (1.83%) Unix
4 2 (0.31%) zOS
5 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (29.66%) Stakeholder Management
2 178 (27.22%) Agile
3 143 (21.87%) Problem-Solving
4 114 (17.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 110 (16.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 95 (14.53%) Project Management
7 90 (13.76%) Decision-Making
8 88 (13.46%) Roadmaps
9 82 (12.54%) AI
9 82 (12.54%) Analytics
10 80 (12.23%) Cybersecurity
10 80 (12.23%) Information Security
11 74 (11.31%) Project Delivery
12 57 (8.72%) DevOps
12 57 (8.72%) ERP
13 56 (8.56%) Data Protection
14 55 (8.41%) Change Management
15 54 (8.26%) Migration
15 54 (8.26%) Regulatory Compliance
16 53 (8.10%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 73 (11.16%) Python
2 72 (11.01%) SQL
3 44 (6.73%) Java
4 14 (2.14%) C#
4 14 (2.14%) C++
5 13 (1.99%) PowerShell
6 8 (1.22%) 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%) Scala
9 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.31%) R
10 2 (0.31%) RPG
11 1 (0.15%) Bash
11 1 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 115 (17.58%) Degree
2 86 (13.15%) Security Cleared
3 63 (9.63%) SC Cleared
4 51 (7.80%) CISSP
5 35 (5.35%) PMI Certification
6 34 (5.20%) CISM
7 33 (5.05%) PMP
8 18 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.75%) CRISC
9 17 (2.60%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.83%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 11 (1.68%) CISA
11 11 (1.68%) Numerate Degree
12 9 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 6 (0.92%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.92%) RIBA
14 5 (0.76%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (10.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 56 (8.56%) NIST
3 54 (8.26%) GRC
4 46 (7.03%) GDPR
4 46 (7.03%) QA
5 34 (5.20%) PMO
6 31 (4.74%) Data Quality
7 29 (4.43%) PCI DSS
8 21 (3.21%) SLA
9 14 (2.14%) NCSC
10 12 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (1.83%) COBIT
10 12 (1.83%) SOC 2
11 7 (1.07%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 4 (0.61%) Basel III
14 4 (0.61%) GxP
14 4 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 7 (1.07%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.92%) Docker
3 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.15%) NFS
4 1 (0.15%) Postfix
4 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (1.22%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.92%) 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 (0.31%) 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%) Grafana
6 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.15%) Packer
6 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 76 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 46 (7.03%) Oracle
3 42 (6.42%) SAP
4 35 (5.35%) ServiceNow
5 22 (3.36%) Murex
6 17 (2.60%) Workday
7 15 (2.29%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.22%) Databricks
9 6 (0.92%) Ariba
9 6 (0.92%) Google
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
10 5 (0.76%) Splunk
11 4 (0.61%) IBM
12 3 (0.46%) Epicor
12 3 (0.46%) HP