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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 49 56
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +23
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 610 593 705
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.34% 4.26% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 4.72% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 365 494
10th Percentile £409 £400 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £608
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.88% -3.34%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £750
90th Percentile £988 £850 £850
England median daily rate £550 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.39% -4.76%
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% -59.98%
75th Percentile £69.36 £83.20 £42.25
90th Percentile £83.99 £85.56 £52.90
England median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £66.66
% change year-on-year -44.17% -9.98% +580.15%

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 12,819 12,566 16,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.27% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,452 8,018 11,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 152 260
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.84
90th Percentile £69.36 £80.68 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

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 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 12 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 12 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 -22 82 £625 +13.64% 43
West London -15 10 £448 +24.31% 8
South London -24 6 £500 -16.67% 8
North London - 3 £700 -
East London -6 2 £585 -13.33% 8
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 25 (4.10%) Confluence
2 11 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.66%) SAS
6 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.33%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) Camunda
8 1 (0.16%) CMS
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 48 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (4.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (2.46%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.64%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.49%) Trello
7 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.16%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.16%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.16%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.66%) Endur
2 4 (0.66%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.49%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.33%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.16%) Maximo
5 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 76 (12.46%) Azure
2 66 (10.82%) AWS
3 28 (4.59%) GCP
4 26 (4.26%) Power Platform
5 17 (2.79%) Entra ID
5 17 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (1.80%) GitHub
6 11 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
6 11 (1.80%) SaaS
7 8 (1.31%) dbt
7 8 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (0.98%) Miro
10 5 (0.82%) OCI
10 5 (0.82%) Snowflake
11 4 (0.66%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (0.66%) WhatsApp
12 3 (0.49%) Azure AI
13 2 (0.33%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.93%) Firewall
2 7 (1.15%) Network Security
3 4 (0.66%) 5G
4 3 (0.49%) Broadband
4 3 (0.49%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (0.49%) Multicast
4 3 (0.49%) S/MIME
4 3 (0.49%) SSL
4 3 (0.49%) VPN
4 3 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.33%) Internet
5 2 (0.33%) LAN
5 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.33%) WAN
6 1 (0.16%) BGP
6 1 (0.16%) DHCP
6 1 (0.16%) DNS
6 1 (0.16%) Intranet
6 1 (0.16%) MPLS
6 1 (0.16%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (3.93%) Power BI
3 20 (3.28%) SQL Server
4 13 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.48%) Tableau
6 8 (1.31%) KDB
6 8 (1.31%) Kdb+
7 7 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (1.15%) Apache Arrow
7 7 (1.15%) Apache Iceberg
7 7 (1.15%) Big Data
7 7 (1.15%) Dremio
7 7 (1.15%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.98%) Metadata
9 4 (0.66%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.66%) Star Schema
10 3 (0.49%) Data Mart
10 3 (0.49%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (9.84%) JIRA
2 11 (1.80%) Git
3 9 (1.48%) SpecFlow
4 5 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.82%) QUnit
5 3 (0.49%) GCC
5 3 (0.49%) GDB
5 3 (0.49%) 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
1 300 (49.18%) Finance
2 265 (43.44%) Social Skills
3 131 (21.48%) Banking
4 102 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (9.18%) Front Office
6 50 (8.20%) Legal
7 38 (6.23%) Investment Banking
8 37 (6.07%) Public Sector
9 26 (4.26%) Financial Institution
10 24 (3.93%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.97%) Back Office
13 12 (1.97%) Law
14 11 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.64%) Retail
16 8 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (1.31%) Manufacturing
17 7 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (14.92%) Developer
2 87 (14.26%) Analyst
3 83 (13.61%) Senior
4 75 (12.30%) Project Manager
5 60 (9.84%) Lead
6 53 (8.69%) Consultant
7 43 (7.05%) Business Analyst
8 38 (6.23%) Senior Developer
9 36 (5.90%) Architect
10 31 (5.08%) Programme Manager
11 25 (4.10%) Java Developer
12 24 (3.93%) AWS Developer
12 24 (3.93%) Python Developer
13 23 (3.77%) Risk Analyst
14 22 (3.61%) IT Manager
15 20 (3.28%) Delivery Manager
15 20 (3.28%) Senior Manager
16 18 (2.95%) Risk Manager
16 18 (2.95%) Senior Java Developer
17 17 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.28%) Kafka
2 16 (2.62%) NumPy
2 16 (2.62%) Pandas
3 13 (2.13%) .NET
3 13 (2.13%) .NET Framework
3 13 (2.13%) REST
4 12 (1.97%) AngularJS
5 11 (1.80%) XML
6 10 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
6 10 (1.64%) React
7 9 (1.48%) COM
7 9 (1.48%) Dask
7 9 (1.48%) Entity Framework
7 9 (1.48%) NHibernate
7 9 (1.48%) Playwright
8 8 (1.31%) Middleware
8 8 (1.31%) RESTful
9 7 (1.15%) Node.js
9 7 (1.15%) SciPy
9 7 (1.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 77 (12.62%) Management Information System
2 58 (9.51%) Derivative
3 44 (7.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 39 (6.39%) Equities
5 35 (5.74%) Market Risk
6 29 (4.75%) Security Posture
7 28 (4.59%) Algorithms
7 28 (4.59%) Fixed Income
7 28 (4.59%) Product Ownership
8 22 (3.61%) Credit Risk
9 19 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (2.95%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.79%) Cloud Native
11 17 (2.79%) Hedge funds
12 13 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
13 11 (1.80%) Equity Derivative
14 10 (1.64%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.64%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.26%) Linux
2 17 (2.79%) Unix
3 15 (2.46%) Windows
4 2 (0.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.16%) Android
5 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (27.21%) Agile
2 162 (26.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 134 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
4 114 (18.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 99 (16.23%) Project Management
6 85 (13.93%) Cybersecurity
7 80 (13.11%) Analytics
8 70 (11.48%) Project Delivery
9 68 (11.15%) Decision-Making
9 68 (11.15%) Information Security
10 61 (10.00%) AI
11 60 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 57 (9.34%) Computer Science
12 57 (9.34%) Scrum
13 51 (8.36%) Change Management
14 46 (7.54%) Migration
14 46 (7.54%) Regulatory Compliance
15 44 (7.21%) Roadmaps
16 43 (7.05%) PRINCE2
17 42 (6.89%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 92 (15.08%) Python
2 79 (12.95%) SQL
3 33 (5.41%) Java
4 26 (4.26%) C++
5 22 (3.61%) C#
6 15 (2.46%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.13%) VBA
8 11 (1.80%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.15%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.82%) Korn
11 4 (0.66%) R
12 3 (0.49%) Bash
13 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.33%) Perl
13 2 (0.33%) Scala
13 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.16%) Bicep
14 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.16%) VC++
Qualifications
1 142 (23.28%) Degree
2 73 (11.97%) Security Cleared
3 62 (10.16%) CISSP
4 61 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 53 (8.69%) PMI Certification
6 49 (8.03%) PMP
7 39 (6.39%) Master's Degree
8 38 (6.23%) CISM
9 21 (3.44%) DV Cleared
10 15 (2.46%) Numerate Degree
11 14 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (2.30%) CRISC
12 13 (2.13%) CISA
13 11 (1.80%) PhD
14 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.31%) CESG Certified Professional
16 7 (1.15%) FFIEC
17 6 (0.98%) Azure Certification
18 5 (0.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 5 (0.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (11.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (10.49%) NIST
3 45 (7.38%) GDPR
4 44 (7.21%) GRC
5 32 (5.25%) QA
6 25 (4.10%) PMO
7 23 (3.77%) Data Quality
8 20 (3.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (3.11%) PCI DSS
10 13 (2.13%) EU AI Act
11 10 (1.64%) Basel III
11 10 (1.64%) NCSC
12 9 (1.48%) COBIT
12 9 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 7 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.98%) GMP
15 5 (0.82%) Accessibility
15 5 (0.82%) SLA
15 5 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (2.46%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.64%) Docker
3 6 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (1.48%) Kubernetes
1 9 (1.48%) Terraform
2 5 (0.82%) Ansible
2 5 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.49%) RSA Archer
5 2 (0.33%) Grafana
5 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.16%) Consul
6 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.16%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.16%) Packer
6 1 (0.16%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 60 (9.84%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.26%) Oracle
3 24 (3.93%) SAP
4 22 (3.61%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.46%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.97%) Murex
7 7 (1.15%) Databricks
8 6 (0.98%) Bloomberg
9 5 (0.82%) Citrix
9 5 (0.82%) Informatica
9 5 (0.82%) Solace
10 4 (0.66%) Ariba
10 4 (0.66%) Google
10 4 (0.66%) IBM
11 3 (0.49%) Cisco
11 3 (0.49%) HubSpot
11 3 (0.49%) Remedy
11 3 (0.49%) Splunk
12 2 (0.33%) Foundry
12 2 (0.33%) Talend