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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 40 78
Rank change year-on-year -38 +38 -14
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 725 751 505
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.60% 5.52% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 5.98% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 494 311
10th Percentile £419 £400 £384
25th Percentile £500 £500 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.07%
75th Percentile £725 £801 £753
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 6 2
10th Percentile - £37.25 £31.73
25th Percentile £85.00 £48.25 £34.15
Median hourly rate £90.00 £57.25 £38.81
Median % change year-on-year +57.21% +47.51% +26.38%
75th Percentile £95.00 £65.00 £44.09
90th Percentile - £82.50 £46.89
England median hourly rate £76.00 £50.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +51.24% -12.61% -15.78%

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 17,953 12,554 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.35% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,388 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 £660 £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 294 250 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -16.44% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 12 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 12 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 -21 104 £575 -8.00% 94
West London -9 17 £513 +20.59% 32
East London +5 7 £590 +18.00% 8
South London -22 2 £413 -28.63% 18
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 36 (4.97%) Confluence
2 10 (1.38%) 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 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (2.76%) 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 (1.79%) 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 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.41%) Dynamics SL
4 3 (0.41%) Findur
4 3 (0.41%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.41%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.41%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.41%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.41%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 105 (14.48%) Azure
2 87 (12.00%) AWS
3 31 (4.28%) GCP
4 27 (3.72%) Entra ID
4 27 (3.72%) SaaS
5 23 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (2.48%) Power Platform
7 13 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (1.79%) GitHub
8 11 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (1.10%) OCI
10 8 (1.10%) PaaS
11 7 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (0.97%) Snowflake
12 6 (0.83%) Azure AI
12 6 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.69%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.48%) Firewall
2 14 (1.93%) 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 (0.41%) DHCP
7 3 (0.41%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.41%) NAS
7 3 (0.41%) SAN
7 3 (0.41%) VoLTE
7 3 (0.41%) WinSCP
7 3 (0.41%) Wireless
8 2 (0.28%) Intranet
8 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.28%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.62%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.93%) Power BI
3 13 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.24%) Relational Database
5 7 (0.97%) Data Lake
5 7 (0.97%) Metadata
6 6 (0.83%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.69%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.55%) Big Data
8 4 (0.55%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.41%) Db2
9 3 (0.41%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.41%) Tableau
10 2 (0.28%) Redis
10 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.28%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 58 (8.00%) JIRA
2 15 (2.07%) Git
3 13 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.83%) Selenium
5 5 (0.69%) GitLab
6 4 (0.55%) Subversion
6 4 (0.55%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.55%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.41%) MLflow
8 2 (0.28%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.28%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.14%) Appium
9 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.14%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.14%) Gradle
9 1 (0.14%) Mockito
9 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 333 (45.93%) Finance
2 268 (36.97%) Social Skills
3 119 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (16.00%) Banking
5 76 (10.48%) Legal
6 73 (10.07%) Public Sector
7 50 (6.90%) Front Office
8 30 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (3.31%) Investment Banking
11 22 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (3.03%) Telecoms
12 21 (2.90%) Financial Institution
13 20 (2.76%) Retail
14 17 (2.34%) Marketing
15 13 (1.79%) Law
16 12 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (1.66%) Local Government
17 11 (1.52%) Back Office
17 11 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (14.48%) Lead
2 90 (12.41%) Senior
3 74 (10.21%) Architect
4 70 (9.66%) Project Manager
5 65 (8.97%) Analyst
6 44 (6.07%) Developer
6 44 (6.07%) Programme Manager
7 38 (5.24%) Business Analyst
8 37 (5.10%) Security Architect
9 36 (4.97%) Consultant
10 30 (4.14%) Senior Manager
11 22 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
12 19 (2.62%) IT Manager
13 17 (2.34%) Security Engineer
14 16 (2.21%) Risk Analyst
14 16 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.21%) Technical Manager
15 15 (2.07%) Risk Business Analyst
16 14 (1.93%) Product Manager
16 14 (1.93%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.45%) .NET
2 19 (2.62%) REST
3 17 (2.34%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (1.93%) Middleware
5 10 (1.38%) Azure Blueprints
6 9 (1.24%) Kafka
7 8 (1.10%) PySpark
7 8 (1.10%) React
8 7 (0.97%) SOAP
8 7 (0.97%) XML
9 5 (0.69%) .NET Framework
9 5 (0.69%) OAuth
9 5 (0.69%) SailPoint
9 5 (0.69%) VML
10 4 (0.55%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.55%) Jakarta EE
10 4 (0.55%) JSON
10 4 (0.55%) JSP
10 4 (0.55%) RESTful
10 4 (0.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.66%) Cloud Native
2 36 (4.97%) Management Information System
2 36 (4.97%) Onboarding
3 35 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.41%) Security Posture
5 25 (3.45%) Derivative
6 22 (3.03%) Market Risk
7 20 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (2.76%) Fixed Income
8 18 (2.48%) Credit Risk
8 18 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (2.21%) AI Agents
10 15 (2.07%) Data Centre
11 14 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.52%) Equities
13 11 (1.52%) NHS
14 10 (1.38%) CMDB
15 9 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
15 9 (1.24%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.41%) Windows
2 23 (3.17%) Linux
3 18 (2.48%) Unix
4 13 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.41%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.14%) Android
8 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (38.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 186 (25.66%) Agile
3 154 (21.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 125 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 122 (16.83%) Cybersecurity
6 114 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
7 106 (14.62%) Roadmaps
8 102 (14.07%) Decision-Making
9 101 (13.93%) Project Management
10 97 (13.38%) AI
11 93 (12.83%) Information Security
12 84 (11.59%) Migration
13 82 (11.31%) Project Delivery
14 74 (10.21%) DevOps
15 72 (9.93%) Analytics
16 64 (8.83%) Change Management
17 62 (8.55%) CI/CD
18 60 (8.28%) Regulatory Compliance
19 56 (7.72%) Data Protection
19 56 (7.72%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 58 (8.00%) Python
2 57 (7.86%) SQL
3 27 (3.72%) Java
4 19 (2.62%) C#
5 18 (2.48%) PowerShell
6 7 (0.97%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.55%) Bash
7 4 (0.55%) Bicep
7 4 (0.55%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.41%) C
8 3 (0.41%) C++
8 3 (0.41%) Scala
8 3 (0.41%) 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
1 111 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 92 (12.69%) Degree
3 79 (10.90%) SC Cleared
4 60 (8.28%) CISSP
5 34 (4.69%) PMI Certification
6 32 (4.41%) PMP
7 31 (4.28%) CISM
8 29 (4.00%) DV Cleared
9 19 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (2.21%) CISA
10 16 (2.21%) Master's Degree
11 15 (2.07%) CRISC
12 10 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 9 (1.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 7 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.83%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (10.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 72 (9.93%) NIST
3 62 (8.55%) GRC
4 53 (7.31%) QA
5 33 (4.55%) GDPR
6 31 (4.28%) PMO
7 26 (3.59%) Data Quality
8 21 (2.90%) NCSC
9 19 (2.62%) PCI DSS
9 19 (2.62%) SLA
10 14 (1.93%) SOC 2
11 13 (1.79%) COBIT
12 10 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (1.10%) 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%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 15 (2.07%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.97%) Docker
4 2 (0.28%) NFS
4 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.14%) Postfix
5 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (2.76%) Terraform
2 11 (1.52%) Ansible
2 11 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.69%) Grafana
3 5 (0.69%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.41%) Control-M
5 3 (0.41%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.41%) SCCM
6 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.28%) Puppet
6 2 (0.28%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.14%) Avamar
7 1 (0.14%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.14%) Nessus
7 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 103 (14.21%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.07%) ServiceNow
3 41 (5.66%) Oracle
4 34 (4.69%) SAP
5 14 (1.93%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.79%) Murex
7 12 (1.66%) Google
7 12 (1.66%) Splunk
7 12 (1.66%) Workday
8 8 (1.10%) Qualys
8 8 (1.10%) Tenable
9 7 (0.97%) Databricks
9 7 (0.97%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.97%) Rapid7
10 6 (0.83%) OpenLink
10 6 (0.83%) Sybase
11 5 (0.69%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.69%) CyberArk
11 5 (0.69%) Foundry
11 5 (0.69%) Sitecore