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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 40 69
Rank change year-on-year -32 +29 +3
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 652 685 585
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.64% 5.45% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 5.91% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 442 402
10th Percentile £413 £400 £394
25th Percentile £500 £504 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £750 £800 £770
90th Percentile £945 £875 £849
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £70.92 £48.12 £24.67
25th Percentile £73.27 £48.25 £28.18
Median hourly rate £79.68 £69.30 £33.23
Median % change year-on-year +14.98% +108.56% -50.77%
75th Percentile £88.59 £86.15 £39.44
90th Percentile £92.44 £96.50 £45.03
England median hourly rate £74.68 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +21.44% +17.13% +393.89%

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 15,818 11,593 15,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.37% 92.21% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,577 7,857 11,245
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £430 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £681
90th Percentile £758 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 176 315
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £23.66 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +22.32% -28.21%
75th Percentile £58.57 £50.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.30
England median hourly rate £46.80 £29.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.55% -20.14% -2.14%

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 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -19 97 £600 - 85
East London -3 10 £630 +5.00% 9
West London -23 10 £544 +147.16% 13
South London -31 6 £500 -14.38% 1
North London - 3 £325 -
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 28 (4.29%) Confluence
2 10 (1.53%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.07%) SAS
4 3 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.15%) nginx
5 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.15%) ThingWorx
5 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 41 (6.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (4.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.84%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.31%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.23%) Endur
3 7 (1.07%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.07%) Summit
4 6 (0.92%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.77%) Actimize
5 5 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.61%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.46%) Dynamics SL
7 3 (0.46%) Findur
7 3 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.46%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 80 (12.27%) Azure
2 66 (10.12%) AWS
3 22 (3.37%) GCP
4 20 (3.07%) Power Platform
5 18 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (2.45%) SaaS
7 12 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.38%) Entra ID
9 9 (1.38%) GitHub
10 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (1.07%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (0.92%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (0.77%) PaaS
14 4 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.69%) Firewall
2 7 (1.07%) Network Security
3 2 (0.31%) Internet
3 2 (0.31%) LAN
3 2 (0.31%) NAS
3 2 (0.31%) SAN
3 2 (0.31%) VLAN
3 2 (0.31%) WAN
3 2 (0.31%) WLAN
4 1 (0.15%) DMZ
4 1 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.15%) NGFW
4 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.15%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (2.30%) Power BI
3 14 (2.15%) Metadata
4 10 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (1.53%) Relational Database
4 10 (1.53%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.92%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.77%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.77%) Tableau
7 3 (0.46%) Big Data
7 3 (0.46%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (0.46%) Data Mart
7 3 (0.46%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.31%) PowerCenter
8 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.31%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 58 (8.90%) JIRA
2 12 (1.84%) Git
3 8 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.77%) GitLab
5 4 (0.61%) Selenium
6 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.46%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.46%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.15%) Appium
7 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.15%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.15%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.15%) ERwin
7 1 (0.15%) jMock
7 1 (0.15%) JUnit
7 1 (0.15%) Maven
7 1 (0.15%) MLflow
7 1 (0.15%) Mockito
7 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 302 (46.32%) Finance
2 248 (38.04%) Social Skills
3 119 (18.25%) Analytical Skills
3 119 (18.25%) Banking
4 63 (9.66%) Public Sector
5 57 (8.74%) Legal
6 27 (4.14%) Front Office
6 27 (4.14%) Investment Banking
7 25 (3.83%) Financial Institution
7 25 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (2.91%) Retail
11 13 (1.99%) Marketing
12 11 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.69%) Law
12 11 (1.69%) Military
13 10 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.38%) Back Office
14 9 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 92 (14.11%) Lead
2 87 (13.34%) Senior
3 72 (11.04%) Analyst
4 68 (10.43%) Project Manager
5 59 (9.05%) Developer
6 53 (8.13%) Architect
7 51 (7.82%) Business Analyst
8 42 (6.44%) Consultant
9 35 (5.37%) Programme Manager
10 23 (3.53%) Senior Developer
11 22 (3.37%) Security Architect
12 20 (3.07%) Delivery Manager
13 18 (2.76%) Risk Analyst
14 16 (2.45%) Risk Business Analyst
14 16 (2.45%) Risk Manager
14 16 (2.45%) Senior Manager
15 15 (2.30%) Java Developer
15 15 (2.30%) Security Specialist
16 14 (2.15%) IT Manager
16 14 (2.15%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.37%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (2.30%) .NET
3 12 (1.84%) Kafka
4 10 (1.53%) REST
5 8 (1.23%) Middleware
5 8 (1.23%) XML
6 7 (1.07%) React
7 6 (0.92%) .NET Framework
7 6 (0.92%) J2EE
7 6 (0.92%) JSP
7 6 (0.92%) RESTful
8 5 (0.77%) .NET Core
8 5 (0.77%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (0.61%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.61%) Azure Blueprints
9 4 (0.61%) WinForms
9 4 (0.61%) WPF
10 3 (0.46%) SailPoint
10 3 (0.46%) SOAP
10 3 (0.46%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 54 (8.28%) Management Information System
2 47 (7.21%) Derivative
3 33 (5.06%) Market Risk
4 28 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 27 (4.14%) Credit Risk
5 27 (4.14%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.99%) Security Posture
7 24 (3.68%) Cloud Native
8 21 (3.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 20 (3.07%) Equities
10 19 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (2.76%) Fixed Income
12 15 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (2.15%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.99%) AI Agents
14 13 (1.99%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (1.69%) Equity Derivative
16 10 (1.53%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.30%) Linux
1 15 (2.30%) Windows
2 10 (1.53%) Unix
3 2 (0.31%) zOS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (29.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 178 (27.30%) Agile
3 132 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
4 113 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 109 (16.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 96 (14.72%) Project Management
7 90 (13.80%) Roadmaps
8 88 (13.50%) Decision-Making
9 84 (12.88%) Cybersecurity
10 82 (12.58%) AI
11 79 (12.12%) Information Security
12 78 (11.96%) Analytics
13 75 (11.50%) Project Delivery
14 63 (9.66%) Regulatory Compliance
15 61 (9.36%) ERP
16 58 (8.90%) DevOps
17 55 (8.44%) Migration
18 54 (8.28%) Change Management
18 54 (8.28%) Data Protection
19 51 (7.82%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 69 (10.58%) SQL
2 67 (10.28%) Python
3 42 (6.44%) Java
4 15 (2.30%) C#
5 13 (1.99%) C++
6 9 (1.38%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.77%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.77%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.77%) VBA
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%) Bash
10 2 (0.31%) RPG
11 1 (0.15%) Go
11 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 108 (16.56%) Degree
2 91 (13.96%) Security Cleared
3 67 (10.28%) SC Cleared
4 50 (7.67%) CISSP
5 36 (5.52%) PMI Certification
6 34 (5.21%) CISM
6 34 (5.21%) PMP
7 19 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.76%) CRISC
9 14 (2.15%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.99%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 11 (1.69%) CISA
13 9 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 9 (1.38%) Numerate Degree
14 6 (0.92%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.92%) RIBA
15 5 (0.77%) APMG
16 4 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (11.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 60 (9.20%) NIST
3 56 (8.59%) GRC
4 45 (6.90%) QA
5 42 (6.44%) GDPR
6 35 (5.37%) PMO
7 31 (4.75%) Data Quality
8 28 (4.29%) PCI DSS
9 23 (3.53%) SLA
10 16 (2.45%) COBIT
11 14 (2.15%) NCSC
12 12 (1.84%) SOC 2
13 11 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (1.23%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.77%) GMP
16 5 (0.77%) GxP
17 4 (0.61%) IFRS
System Software
1 7 (1.07%) Docker
2 5 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.15%) NFS
5 1 (0.15%) Postfix
5 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (1.38%) 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%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.31%) Ansible
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 75 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.52%) Oracle
3 44 (6.75%) SAP
4 33 (5.06%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.22%) Murex
6 17 (2.61%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.61%) Workday
7 9 (1.38%) Databricks
8 6 (0.92%) Ariba
8 6 (0.92%) Google
9 5 (0.77%) Bloomberg
9 5 (0.77%) Charles River
9 5 (0.77%) Informatica
9 5 (0.77%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.77%) OpenLink
9 5 (0.77%) Splunk
10 4 (0.61%) Foundry
10 4 (0.61%) IBM
11 3 (0.46%) Epicor
11 3 (0.46%) HP