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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 48 59
Rank change year-on-year -21 +11 +12
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 664 604 635
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.94% 4.78% 3.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 5.23% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 383 447
10th Percentile £424 £400 £413
25th Percentile £500 £502 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £750 £764 £759
90th Percentile £975 £850 £825
England median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile £71.74 £27.75 £26.54
25th Percentile £75.31 £43.00 £32.83
Median hourly rate £87.50 £73.60 £41.92
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% +75.58% -39.03%
75th Percentile £94.38 £83.20 £51.56
90th Percentile £94.75 £86.74 £56.63
England median hourly rate £74.68 £61.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year +21.44% +4.67% +452.68%

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 15,109 11,547 15,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.66% 91.42% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,127 7,832 11,395
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 169 335
10th Percentile £18.14 £19.16 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.25 £51.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.66 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.24% -1.05% -12.00%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 89 £600 - 92
East London +1 9 £585 -8.24% 9
West London -14 8 £575 +161.36% 11
South London -32 6 £551 -5.90% 2
North London - 4 £513 - 2
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 (5.27%) Confluence
2 9 (1.36%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.90%) SAS
4 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
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 45 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (3.31%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (1.81%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.30%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.20%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.90%) Summit
4 5 (0.75%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.60%) Endur
6 3 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.30%) Actimize
7 2 (0.30%) Findur
7 2 (0.30%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.30%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 91 (13.70%) Azure
2 76 (11.45%) AWS
3 26 (3.92%) GCP
3 26 (3.92%) Power Platform
4 17 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (2.26%) Entra ID
6 13 (1.96%) SaaS
7 12 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (1.81%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (1.66%) GitHub
9 10 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.05%) Amazon S3
11 6 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (0.90%) Collibra
11 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (0.75%) Miro
13 4 (0.60%) Alation
13 4 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (0.60%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.96%) Firewall
2 7 (1.05%) Network Security
3 4 (0.60%) 5G
4 3 (0.45%) Broadband
4 3 (0.45%) VPN
5 2 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
5 2 (0.30%) Internet
5 2 (0.30%) NAS
5 2 (0.30%) SAN
5 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.15%) BGP
6 1 (0.15%) DHCP
6 1 (0.15%) DNS
6 1 (0.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.15%) MPLS
6 1 (0.15%) Multicast
6 1 (0.15%) RSVP
6 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.31%) Power BI
2 15 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.96%) Metadata
5 11 (1.66%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.66%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.90%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.90%) Tableau
7 5 (0.75%) Big Data
8 4 (0.60%) Data Mart
8 4 (0.60%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.45%) KDB
9 3 (0.45%) Kdb+
9 3 (0.45%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.45%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.30%) PowerCenter
10 2 (0.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 73 (10.99%) JIRA
2 13 (1.96%) Git
3 8 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.60%) GitLab
5 3 (0.45%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.30%) Selenium
6 2 (0.30%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.30%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.15%) Appium
7 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.15%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.15%) ERwin
7 1 (0.15%) GCC
7 1 (0.15%) GDB
7 1 (0.15%) jMock
7 1 (0.15%) JUnit
7 1 (0.15%) Maven
7 1 (0.15%) Mockito
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 321 (48.34%) Finance
2 262 (39.46%) Social Skills
3 131 (19.73%) Banking
4 128 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (9.19%) Legal
6 54 (8.13%) Public Sector
7 42 (6.33%) Front Office
8 36 (5.42%) Investment Banking
9 30 (4.52%) Financial Institution
10 29 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (2.56%) Retail
14 13 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.51%) Law
15 10 (1.51%) Marketing
16 9 (1.36%) Back Office
17 8 (1.20%) Military
17 8 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 90 (13.55%) Senior
2 89 (13.40%) Lead
3 78 (11.75%) Analyst
4 75 (11.30%) Project Manager
5 68 (10.24%) Developer
6 63 (9.49%) Consultant
7 53 (7.98%) Business Analyst
8 49 (7.38%) Architect
9 34 (5.12%) Programme Manager
10 29 (4.37%) Senior Developer
11 26 (3.92%) Security Architect
11 26 (3.92%) Senior Manager
12 25 (3.77%) Security Consultant
13 23 (3.46%) Delivery Manager
14 22 (3.31%) Java Developer
15 19 (2.86%) Risk Analyst
16 18 (2.71%) Python Developer
16 18 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
17 17 (2.56%) Risk Manager
18 16 (2.41%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.56%) Kafka
1 17 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 16 (2.41%) REST
3 13 (1.96%) .NET
4 11 (1.66%) XML
5 9 (1.36%) COM
5 9 (1.36%) Dask
5 9 (1.36%) NumPy
5 9 (1.36%) Pandas
6 8 (1.20%) .NET Framework
7 6 (0.90%) Middleware
7 6 (0.90%) RESTful
8 5 (0.75%) .NET Core
8 5 (0.75%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (0.75%) React
9 4 (0.60%) J2EE
9 4 (0.60%) JSP
9 4 (0.60%) PyTorch
9 4 (0.60%) WinForms
9 4 (0.60%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 67 (10.09%) Management Information System
2 60 (9.04%) Derivative
3 40 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 35 (5.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 35 (5.27%) Market Risk
4 35 (5.27%) Security Posture
5 33 (4.97%) Equities
6 27 (4.07%) Cloud Native
7 24 (3.61%) Credit Risk
8 22 (3.31%) Onboarding
9 21 (3.16%) Algorithms
9 21 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
10 20 (3.01%) Fixed Income
11 18 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (2.56%) Hedge funds
13 15 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.96%) Equity Derivative
15 12 (1.81%) Data Structures
16 11 (1.66%) AI Agents
16 11 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.86%) Linux
2 15 (2.26%) Windows
3 13 (1.96%) Unix
4 2 (0.30%) zOS
5 1 (0.15%) Android
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
5 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (29.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 181 (27.26%) Agile
3 147 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
4 114 (17.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 101 (15.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 96 (14.46%) Project Management
7 84 (12.65%) Analytics
8 83 (12.50%) AI
9 82 (12.35%) Cybersecurity
9 82 (12.35%) Roadmaps
10 80 (12.05%) Decision-Making
10 80 (12.05%) Project Delivery
11 69 (10.39%) Information Security
12 60 (9.04%) Regulatory Compliance
13 57 (8.58%) DevOps
13 57 (8.58%) Scrum
14 54 (8.13%) Change Management
14 54 (8.13%) Data Protection
15 52 (7.83%) Computer Science
16 51 (7.68%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 85 (12.80%) Python
2 83 (12.50%) SQL
3 42 (6.33%) Java
4 19 (2.86%) C++
5 18 (2.71%) C#
6 16 (2.41%) PowerShell
7 12 (1.81%) VBA
8 4 (0.60%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.60%) Korn
9 3 (0.45%) Bash
9 3 (0.45%) Perl
9 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.30%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.30%) R
10 2 (0.30%) RPG
10 2 (0.30%) Scala
11 1 (0.15%) Bicep
11 1 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 137 (20.63%) Degree
2 93 (14.01%) Security Cleared
3 75 (11.30%) SC Cleared
4 57 (8.58%) CISSP
5 45 (6.78%) PMI Certification
6 42 (6.33%) PMP
7 35 (5.27%) CISM
8 27 (4.07%) Master's Degree
9 19 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (2.86%) DV Cleared
10 18 (2.71%) CRISC
11 15 (2.26%) Numerate Degree
12 10 (1.51%) CESG Certified Professional
12 10 (1.51%) CISA
12 10 (1.51%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 10 (1.51%) PhD
13 9 (1.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 7 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.90%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 60 (9.04%) NIST
3 56 (8.43%) GRC
4 46 (6.93%) GDPR
5 44 (6.63%) QA
6 34 (5.12%) PMO
7 30 (4.52%) Data Quality
8 29 (4.37%) PCI DSS
9 21 (3.16%) SLA
10 13 (1.96%) NCSC
11 12 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (1.66%) COBIT
12 11 (1.66%) SOC 2
13 9 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 6 (0.90%) EU AI Act
14 6 (0.90%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.75%) Basel III
16 4 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 8 (1.20%) Docker
2 7 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.15%) NFS
4 1 (0.15%) Postfix
4 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (1.81%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.51%) Terraform
3 5 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.60%) Ansible
5 3 (0.45%) Control-M
5 3 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.30%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.15%) Avamar
7 1 (0.15%) CASB
7 1 (0.15%) Consul
7 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.15%) Grafana
7 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.15%) Packer
7 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 70 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.02%) Oracle
3 32 (4.82%) SAP
4 28 (4.22%) ServiceNow
5 22 (3.31%) Murex
6 17 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.81%) Workday
8 7 (1.05%) Informatica
9 6 (0.90%) Databricks
10 5 (0.75%) Ariba
10 5 (0.75%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.75%) Charles River
10 5 (0.75%) Google
10 5 (0.75%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.75%) Splunk
11 4 (0.60%) Foundry
11 4 (0.60%) IBM
11 4 (0.60%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.45%) Cisco
12 3 (0.45%) Remedy