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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 47 72
Rank change year-on-year -19 +25 -14
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 839 702 540
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.12% 5.21% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 5.63% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 452 330
10th Percentile £413 £388 £400
25th Percentile £500 £488 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £725 £802 £775
90th Percentile £826 £888 £875
England median daily rate £551 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.26% - -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 3
10th Percentile £31.92 £39.45 £22.02
25th Percentile £32.55 £48.25 £25.06
Median hourly rate £33.60 £65.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -48.31% +115.80% +38.48%
75th Percentile £44.13 - £39.44
90th Percentile £49.90 £79.00 £45.02
England median hourly rate £67.05 £33.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +100.13% -41.74% -4.17%

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 18,096 12,472 14,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.52% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,865 8,232 9,521
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £663 £673 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 252 179
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.60 £31.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -15.77% -1.87%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 +1 120 £550 -13.73% 234
West London -15 16 £500 +17.65% 76
East London 0 4 £750 +74.42% 14
South London -20 4 £495 -14.86% 16
North London -1 1 £550 -
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 (4.17%) Confluence
2 14 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.72%) SAS
4 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.24%) CMS
5 2 (0.24%) IIS
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.12%) Appian
6 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.12%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 30 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (3.22%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.24%) Windchill
7 1 (0.12%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.67%) Endur
3 5 (0.60%) SAP GRC
4 4 (0.48%) Actimize
4 4 (0.48%) Magento
4 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.36%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.36%) Front Arena
5 3 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.36%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.36%) Summit
6 2 (0.24%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.24%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.24%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.24%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.24%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 126 (15.02%) Azure
2 107 (12.75%) AWS
3 44 (5.24%) GCP
4 35 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 31 (3.69%) SaaS
6 27 (3.22%) Power Platform
7 24 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (2.26%) GitHub
9 16 (1.91%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
11 11 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (1.31%) OCI
12 9 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (0.95%) Azure AI
13 8 (0.95%) PaaS
14 7 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.83%) Collibra
14 7 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
15 6 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.74%) Firewall
2 18 (2.15%) Network Security
3 10 (1.19%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.95%) LAN
4 8 (0.95%) WAN
5 6 (0.72%) 4G
5 6 (0.72%) 5G
5 6 (0.72%) Internet
6 5 (0.60%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.60%) DNS
6 5 (0.60%) VPN
7 4 (0.48%) DHCP
7 4 (0.48%) Wireless
8 3 (0.36%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.36%) Modbus
8 3 (0.36%) VoLTE
8 3 (0.36%) WinSCP
9 2 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.24%) NAS
9 2 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (3.22%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.38%) Power BI
3 16 (1.91%) Metadata
4 13 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.07%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.07%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.95%) Oracle Database
7 6 (0.72%) Big Data
7 6 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.60%) Db2
8 5 (0.60%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.48%) Ataccama
9 4 (0.48%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.36%) ClickHouse
10 3 (0.36%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.36%) KDB
10 3 (0.36%) Kdb+
10 3 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.36%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 57 (6.79%) JIRA
2 19 (2.26%) Git
3 13 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.60%) Selenium
5 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.48%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.48%) GitLab
5 4 (0.48%) Gradle
5 4 (0.48%) Subversion
6 3 (0.36%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.36%) MLflow
7 2 (0.24%) QUnit
7 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.24%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.24%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.12%) SOAtest
8 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 388 (46.25%) Finance
2 319 (38.02%) Social Skills
3 144 (17.16%) Analytical Skills
3 144 (17.16%) Banking
4 93 (11.08%) Public Sector
5 85 (10.13%) Legal
6 69 (8.22%) Front Office
7 41 (4.89%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.69%) Investment Banking
10 27 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (2.50%) Telecoms
12 20 (2.38%) Financial Institution
13 19 (2.26%) Law
14 16 (1.91%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.79%) Marketing
16 14 (1.67%) Retail
17 13 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (1.43%) Back Office
19 11 (1.31%) Military
Job Titles
1 104 (12.40%) Senior
2 103 (12.28%) Lead
3 98 (11.68%) Analyst
4 92 (10.97%) Architect
5 72 (8.58%) Project Manager
6 52 (6.20%) Developer
7 49 (5.84%) Business Analyst
8 43 (5.13%) Programme Manager
9 37 (4.41%) Security Architect
10 33 (3.93%) Consultant
11 28 (3.34%) IT Manager
12 25 (2.98%) Delivery Manager
13 23 (2.74%) Risk Analyst
13 23 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
13 23 (2.74%) Senior Manager
14 22 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (2.26%) Security Engineer
16 17 (2.03%) Technical Manager
17 16 (1.91%) Senior Business Analyst
17 16 (1.91%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.17%) .NET
2 34 (4.05%) Terraform
3 26 (3.10%) REST
4 18 (2.15%) Middleware
5 16 (1.91%) Kafka
6 11 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
7 10 (1.19%) React
8 9 (1.07%) .NET Core
9 8 (0.95%) Azure Blueprints
10 7 (0.83%) PySpark
10 7 (0.83%) XGBoost
11 6 (0.72%) SailPoint
11 6 (0.72%) SOAP
11 6 (0.72%) Spring
11 6 (0.72%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.60%) JSON
12 5 (0.60%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (0.60%) OAuth
12 5 (0.60%) RESTful
12 5 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (5.96%) Onboarding
2 44 (5.24%) Cloud Native
3 40 (4.77%) Management Information System
4 38 (4.53%) Product Ownership
5 36 (4.29%) Security Posture
6 27 (3.22%) Data Protection Act
6 27 (3.22%) Market Risk
7 25 (2.98%) Credit Risk
7 25 (2.98%) Data Centre
8 21 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (2.38%) Derivative
9 20 (2.38%) Fixed Income
10 18 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 17 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.91%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.67%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (1.55%) NHS
14 13 (1.55%) Operational Technology
15 11 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.89%) Windows
2 29 (3.46%) Linux
3 27 (3.22%) Unix
4 15 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (42.19%) Stakeholder Management
2 221 (26.34%) Agile
3 171 (20.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 168 (20.02%) Cybersecurity
5 154 (18.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 143 (17.04%) AI
7 141 (16.81%) Decision-Making
7 141 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
7 141 (16.81%) Roadmaps
8 103 (12.28%) Information Security
9 100 (11.92%) Project Management
10 97 (11.56%) Migration
11 94 (11.20%) Analytics
12 90 (10.73%) Project Delivery
13 82 (9.77%) CI/CD
13 82 (9.77%) DevOps
14 76 (9.06%) Change Management
15 70 (8.34%) Data Protection
16 69 (8.22%) Validation
17 65 (7.75%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 83 (9.89%) Python
2 79 (9.42%) SQL
3 27 (3.22%) C#
3 27 (3.22%) Java
4 23 (2.74%) PowerShell
5 11 (1.31%) Bash
5 11 (1.31%) Shell Script
6 8 (0.95%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.60%) Bicep
7 5 (0.60%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.60%) Korn
7 5 (0.60%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.60%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.48%) C++
8 4 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.48%) VBA
9 3 (0.36%) C
9 3 (0.36%) R
9 3 (0.36%) Scala
9 3 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 152 (18.12%) Security Cleared
2 114 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 101 (12.04%) Degree
4 72 (8.58%) CISSP
5 41 (4.89%) CISM
6 40 (4.77%) PMI Certification
7 38 (4.53%) PMP
8 34 (4.05%) DV Cleared
9 20 (2.38%) Master's Degree
10 19 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.03%) CRISC
12 15 (1.79%) CISA
13 14 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 14 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (1.55%) AWS Certification
15 12 (1.43%) Azure Certification
15 12 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.83%) CCSP
16 7 (0.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (11.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (9.65%) NIST
3 75 (8.94%) GRC
4 60 (7.15%) QA
5 42 (5.01%) Data Quality
6 34 (4.05%) GDPR
7 30 (3.58%) PMO
8 22 (2.62%) NCSC
9 15 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (1.43%) COBIT
10 12 (1.43%) SLA
10 12 (1.43%) SOC 2
11 10 (1.19%) Basel III
12 8 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.83%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 6 (0.72%) ITGC
14 6 (0.72%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.31%) Docker
3 9 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.36%) vSphere
5 2 (0.24%) IAG
5 2 (0.24%) NFS
6 1 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.03%) Ansible
3 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.60%) Grafana
4 5 (0.60%) SCCM
5 4 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.36%) Control-M
6 3 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.36%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.36%) Puppet
7 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.24%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.12%) Argo
8 1 (0.12%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.12%) Istio
8 1 (0.12%) Nessus
8 1 (0.12%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 127 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.91%) ServiceNow
3 42 (5.01%) SAP
4 39 (4.65%) Oracle
5 19 (2.26%) Google
6 16 (1.91%) Murex
6 16 (1.91%) Splunk
7 13 (1.55%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.19%) Databricks
8 10 (1.19%) Qualys
9 9 (1.07%) CyberArk
9 9 (1.07%) Tenable
10 7 (0.83%) Bloomberg
10 7 (0.83%) Cisco
10 7 (0.83%) Rapid7
10 7 (0.83%) Sybase
10 7 (0.83%) Workday
11 6 (0.72%) BeyondTrust
11 6 (0.72%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.72%) Zscaler