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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 49 52
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 +27
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 644 597 726
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.40% 4.28% 3.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 4.73% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 368 512
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £489 £500 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -4.91%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £748
90th Percentile £988 £850 £825
England median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 4
10th Percentile £41.75 £24.80 -
25th Percentile - £28.50 £21.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £73.60 £28.92
Median % change year-on-year -11.68% +154.52% -57.16%
75th Percentile £69.36 £83.20 £42.25
90th Percentile £83.99 £85.56 £52.90
England median hourly rate £34.75 £60.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -42.80% +1.25% +512.24%

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 13,327 12,620 16,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.12% 90.43% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,848 8,052 11,585
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 158 302
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.53 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.73 £24.66 £19.65
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +15.40% -15.16%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.44
90th Percentile £70.20 £80.23 £73.56
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -26.03% -9.93% +8.51%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -17 87 £600 +4.35% 40
West London -16 9 £448 +24.31% 7
South London -20 6 £500 -20.00% 7
East London -3 4 £675 - 4
North London - 3 £700 -
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 24 (3.73%) Confluence
2 11 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.78%) SAS
6 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.31%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) Camunda
8 1 (0.16%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 52 (8.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.64%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.31%) Trello
6 1 (0.16%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.16%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.16%) Revit
Business Applications
1 12 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.93%) Loan IQ
3 5 (0.78%) Endur
4 3 (0.47%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.47%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.47%) Summit
5 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.16%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 82 (12.73%) Azure
2 71 (11.02%) AWS
3 28 (4.35%) GCP
4 27 (4.19%) Power Platform
5 18 (2.80%) Entra ID
6 17 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (1.86%) GitHub
7 12 (1.86%) Microsoft Purview
7 12 (1.86%) SaaS
8 9 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (1.09%) dbt
10 6 (0.93%) OCI
10 6 (0.93%) Snowflake
11 5 (0.78%) Miro
12 4 (0.62%) Azure AI
12 4 (0.62%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (0.62%) WhatsApp
13 3 (0.47%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.57%) Firewall
2 5 (0.78%) Network Security
3 4 (0.62%) 5G
4 3 (0.47%) Broadband
4 3 (0.47%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (0.47%) Multicast
4 3 (0.47%) S/MIME
4 3 (0.47%) SSL
4 3 (0.47%) VPN
4 3 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.31%) Internet
5 2 (0.31%) LAN
5 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.31%) WAN
6 1 (0.16%) BGP
6 1 (0.16%) DHCP
6 1 (0.16%) Intranet
6 1 (0.16%) MPLS
6 1 (0.16%) RSVP
6 1 (0.16%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.88%) Power BI
2 24 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.11%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.55%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.40%) Tableau
7 8 (1.24%) KDB
7 8 (1.24%) Kdb+
8 7 (1.09%) Big Data
8 7 (1.09%) Metadata
9 6 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (0.93%) Apache Arrow
9 6 (0.93%) Apache Iceberg
9 6 (0.93%) Dremio
10 4 (0.62%) Data Mart
10 4 (0.62%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.62%) Star Schema
11 3 (0.47%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 61 (9.47%) JIRA
2 11 (1.71%) Git
3 9 (1.40%) SpecFlow
4 5 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.78%) QUnit
5 3 (0.47%) GCC
5 3 (0.47%) GDB
5 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.16%) GitLab
6 1 (0.16%) MLflow
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 316 (49.07%) Finance
2 282 (43.79%) Social Skills
3 137 (21.27%) Banking
4 108 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (9.01%) Legal
6 56 (8.70%) Front Office
7 42 (6.52%) Public Sector
8 40 (6.21%) Investment Banking
9 28 (4.35%) Financial Institution
10 22 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.86%) Law
14 11 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.55%) Retail
16 9 (1.40%) Back Office
17 8 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (1.24%) Telecoms
18 7 (1.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 91 (14.13%) Analyst
1 91 (14.13%) Developer
2 88 (13.66%) Senior
3 73 (11.34%) Project Manager
4 65 (10.09%) Lead
5 57 (8.85%) Consultant
6 46 (7.14%) Business Analyst
7 41 (6.37%) Architect
8 37 (5.75%) Senior Developer
9 31 (4.81%) Programme Manager
10 25 (3.88%) Java Developer
11 24 (3.73%) Risk Analyst
12 23 (3.57%) AWS Developer
12 23 (3.57%) IT Manager
12 23 (3.57%) Python Developer
12 23 (3.57%) Senior Manager
13 20 (3.11%) Delivery Manager
14 19 (2.95%) Risk Manager
15 18 (2.80%) Security Architect
15 18 (2.80%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.11%) Kafka
2 15 (2.33%) NumPy
2 15 (2.33%) Pandas
3 14 (2.17%) .NET
4 13 (2.02%) .NET Framework
4 13 (2.02%) REST
5 11 (1.71%) AngularJS
6 10 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (1.40%) COM
7 9 (1.40%) Dask
7 9 (1.40%) Entity Framework
7 9 (1.40%) NHibernate
7 9 (1.40%) Playwright
7 9 (1.40%) React
8 8 (1.24%) Middleware
8 8 (1.24%) RESTful
8 8 (1.24%) XML
9 6 (0.93%) Node.js
9 6 (0.93%) SciPy
9 6 (0.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 82 (12.73%) Management Information System
2 62 (9.63%) Derivative
3 43 (6.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 39 (6.06%) Equities
5 38 (5.90%) Market Risk
6 32 (4.97%) Security Posture
7 29 (4.50%) Algorithms
7 29 (4.50%) Fixed Income
7 29 (4.50%) Product Ownership
8 28 (4.35%) Credit Risk
9 20 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (2.95%) Onboarding
11 18 (2.80%) Cloud Native
12 17 (2.64%) Hedge funds
13 15 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (2.02%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
15 11 (1.71%) Equity Derivative
16 10 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.19%) Linux
2 18 (2.80%) Unix
3 16 (2.48%) Windows
4 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.31%) zOS
5 1 (0.16%) Android
5 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (27.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 168 (26.09%) Agile
3 143 (22.20%) Problem-Solving
4 119 (18.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 101 (15.68%) Project Management
6 91 (14.13%) Cybersecurity
7 85 (13.20%) Analytics
8 74 (11.49%) Information Security
9 73 (11.34%) Project Delivery
10 71 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 70 (10.87%) Decision-Making
12 67 (10.40%) AI
13 58 (9.01%) Scrum
14 57 (8.85%) Change Management
14 57 (8.85%) Computer Science
15 55 (8.54%) Regulatory Compliance
16 47 (7.30%) Data Protection
16 47 (7.30%) Roadmaps
17 45 (6.99%) Machine Learning
18 44 (6.83%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 98 (15.22%) Python
2 86 (13.35%) SQL
3 35 (5.43%) Java
4 26 (4.04%) C++
5 23 (3.57%) C#
6 15 (2.33%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.17%) VBA
8 12 (1.86%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.09%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.78%) Korn
11 4 (0.62%) R
12 3 (0.47%) Bash
12 3 (0.47%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.31%) Perl
13 2 (0.31%) RPG
13 2 (0.31%) Scala
14 1 (0.16%) Bicep
14 1 (0.16%) Go
14 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 142 (22.05%) Degree
2 77 (11.96%) Security Cleared
3 66 (10.25%) CISSP
4 64 (9.94%) SC Cleared
5 54 (8.39%) PMI Certification
6 50 (7.76%) PMP
7 41 (6.37%) CISM
8 40 (6.21%) Master's Degree
9 20 (3.11%) DV Cleared
10 19 (2.95%) CRISC
11 15 (2.33%) Numerate Degree
12 13 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (1.86%) CISA
14 11 (1.71%) PhD
15 10 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (1.24%) CESG Certified Professional
17 7 (1.09%) FFIEC
18 6 (0.93%) Azure Certification
19 5 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
19 5 (0.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (11.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (10.56%) NIST
3 51 (7.92%) GDPR
4 49 (7.61%) GRC
5 32 (4.97%) QA
6 25 (3.88%) PMO
7 23 (3.57%) Data Quality
8 22 (3.42%) PCI DSS
9 21 (3.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (2.02%) EU AI Act
11 11 (1.71%) NCSC
12 10 (1.55%) Basel III
12 10 (1.55%) COBIT
13 9 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 8 (1.24%) SLA
15 7 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.93%) GMP
16 6 (0.93%) SOC 2
17 5 (0.78%) Accessibility
17 5 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 15 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.71%) Docker
3 6 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (1.71%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.40%) Terraform
3 5 (0.78%) Ansible
3 5 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.47%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.31%) Grafana
6 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.16%) Consul
7 1 (0.16%) Control-M
7 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.16%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.16%) Packer
7 1 (0.16%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 67 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 31 (4.81%) Oracle
3 27 (4.19%) SAP
4 23 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 16 (2.48%) Murex
6 15 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.09%) Databricks
8 6 (0.93%) Ariba
8 6 (0.93%) Bloomberg
9 5 (0.78%) Citrix
9 5 (0.78%) Informatica
9 5 (0.78%) Solace
9 5 (0.78%) Workday
10 4 (0.62%) Charles River
10 4 (0.62%) Google
10 4 (0.62%) IBM
11 3 (0.47%) Cisco
11 3 (0.47%) Foundry
11 3 (0.47%) HubSpot
11 3 (0.47%) Remedy