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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 52 55
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +23
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 637 622 757
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.43% 4.09% 4.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 4.54% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 376 527
10th Percentile £398 £407 £420
25th Percentile £475 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £605 £603
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% +0.41% -3.60%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £750
90th Percentile £988 £850 £913
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 5
10th Percentile £41.75 £24.20 -
25th Percentile - £27.88 £21.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.55 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.16% +147.95% -69.55%
75th Percentile £69.36 £83.20 £36.34
90th Percentile £83.99 £86.74 £50.54
England median hourly rate £33.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -44.17% - +36.36%

All Process and 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 13,166 13,695 16,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.05% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,682 8,808 12,056
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 165 236
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +5.80% -11.25%
75th Percentile £48.44 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £80.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 -18 84 £600 -2.36% 38
West London -15 10 £448 +24.31% 6
South London -18 8 £581 -5.08% 6
East London 0 3 - - 7
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 31 (4.87%) Confluence
2 11 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (1.73%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.63%) SAS
5 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.31%) IIS
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.16%) Camunda
7 1 (0.16%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) nginx
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 43 (6.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.57%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.63%) Trello
7 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.31%) GNU Octave
7 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.16%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.16%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.16%) Revit
Business Applications
1 12 (1.88%) Endur
2 10 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.47%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.47%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.31%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.31%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.16%) Maximo
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.16%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 78 (12.24%) AWS
2 76 (11.93%) Azure
3 34 (5.34%) GCP
4 25 (3.92%) Power Platform
5 16 (2.51%) Entra ID
5 16 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (2.04%) GitHub
7 12 (1.88%) dbt
8 11 (1.73%) SaaS
9 10 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (1.41%) Miro
11 7 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (0.94%) OCI
12 6 (0.94%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.78%) OpenShift
14 4 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (0.63%) WhatsApp
15 3 (0.47%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.61%) Firewall
2 7 (1.10%) Multicast
3 6 (0.94%) Network Security
4 4 (0.63%) 5G
5 3 (0.47%) Broadband
5 3 (0.47%) Cisco IPT
5 3 (0.47%) S/MIME
5 3 (0.47%) SSL
5 3 (0.47%) VPN
5 3 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.31%) Internet
6 2 (0.31%) LAN
6 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.31%) WAN
7 1 (0.16%) BGP
7 1 (0.16%) DHCP
7 1 (0.16%) Intranet
7 1 (0.16%) MPLS
7 1 (0.16%) RSVP
7 1 (0.16%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (3.61%) Power BI
3 22 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 11 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (1.73%) Apache Arrow
4 11 (1.73%) Apache Iceberg
4 11 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.73%) Dremio
5 8 (1.26%) Big Data
5 8 (1.26%) KDB
5 8 (1.26%) Kdb+
5 8 (1.26%) Tableau
6 6 (0.94%) Metadata
6 6 (0.94%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.78%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.78%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.63%) Star Schema
9 3 (0.47%) Data Mart
9 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 65 (10.20%) JIRA
2 11 (1.73%) Git
2 11 (1.73%) SpecFlow
3 7 (1.10%) GCC
3 7 (1.10%) GDB
4 5 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.78%) QUnit
5 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.16%) GitLab
7 1 (0.16%) Gradle
7 1 (0.16%) MLflow
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.16%) Snyk
7 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 322 (50.55%) Finance
2 276 (43.33%) Social Skills
3 139 (21.82%) Banking
4 107 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (10.05%) Front Office
6 46 (7.22%) Legal
7 39 (6.12%) Investment Banking
8 38 (5.97%) Public Sector
9 26 (4.08%) Financial Institution
10 23 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.51%) Back Office
13 14 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (2.20%) Telecoms
14 13 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.88%) Retail
16 9 (1.41%) Law
16 9 (1.41%) Manufacturing
17 8 (1.26%) Local Government
18 7 (1.10%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (16.33%) Developer
2 99 (15.54%) Analyst
3 88 (13.81%) Senior
4 78 (12.24%) Project Manager
5 60 (9.42%) Lead
6 55 (8.63%) Consultant
7 44 (6.91%) Business Analyst
8 40 (6.28%) Architect
9 37 (5.81%) Senior Developer
10 31 (4.87%) AWS Developer
11 30 (4.71%) Python Developer
12 28 (4.40%) Programme Manager
13 27 (4.24%) Java Developer
13 27 (4.24%) Risk Analyst
14 23 (3.61%) Senior Manager
15 19 (2.98%) Delivery Manager
15 19 (2.98%) Senior Java Developer
16 18 (2.83%) IT Manager
16 18 (2.83%) PostgreSQL Developer
16 18 (2.83%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.45%) AngularJS
2 21 (3.30%) Kafka
2 21 (3.30%) React
3 20 (3.14%) NumPy
3 20 (3.14%) Pandas
4 19 (2.98%) .NET
5 15 (2.35%) .NET Framework
6 14 (2.20%) REST
7 12 (1.88%) Node.js
8 11 (1.73%) Entity Framework
8 11 (1.73%) Middleware
8 11 (1.73%) NHibernate
8 11 (1.73%) Playwright
8 11 (1.73%) RESTful
8 11 (1.73%) SciPy
8 11 (1.73%) Vue
9 10 (1.57%) XML
10 9 (1.41%) COM
10 9 (1.41%) FIX Protocol
10 9 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 78 (12.24%) Management Information System
2 59 (9.26%) Derivative
3 52 (8.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 39 (6.12%) Equities
5 35 (5.49%) Market Risk
6 34 (5.34%) Product Ownership
7 32 (5.02%) Fixed Income
8 26 (4.08%) Security Posture
9 25 (3.92%) Algorithms
10 21 (3.30%) Credit Risk
11 17 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (2.67%) Hedge funds
12 16 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (2.51%) Cloud Native
12 16 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
13 15 (2.35%) Onboarding
14 14 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (1.73%) Distributed Computing
15 11 (1.73%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.57%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 31 (4.87%) Linux
2 18 (2.83%) Unix
3 15 (2.35%) Windows
4 3 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.16%) Android
5 1 (0.16%) VMS
5 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (28.89%) Agile
2 166 (26.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 136 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
4 122 (19.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 101 (15.86%) Project Management
6 82 (12.87%) Cybersecurity
7 78 (12.24%) Analytics
8 71 (11.15%) Project Delivery
9 68 (10.68%) AI
9 68 (10.68%) Decision-Making
9 68 (10.68%) Information Security
10 64 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (9.26%) Migration
11 59 (9.26%) Scrum
12 58 (9.11%) Computer Science
13 52 (8.16%) Change Management
14 47 (7.38%) Regulatory Compliance
15 45 (7.06%) Machine Learning
15 45 (7.06%) Roadmaps
16 43 (6.75%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 104 (16.33%) Python
2 88 (13.81%) SQL
3 43 (6.75%) Java
4 28 (4.40%) C#
5 27 (4.24%) C++
6 16 (2.51%) JavaScript
7 15 (2.35%) TypeScript
8 14 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.04%) VBA
10 5 (0.78%) R
11 3 (0.47%) Bash
11 3 (0.47%) Korn
12 2 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.31%) Perl
12 2 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.31%) Scala
12 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.16%) Bicep
13 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.16%) VC++
Qualifications
1 131 (20.57%) Degree
2 72 (11.30%) Security Cleared
3 62 (9.73%) SC Cleared
4 60 (9.42%) CISSP
5 48 (7.54%) PMI Certification
6 44 (6.91%) PMP
7 38 (5.97%) Master's Degree
8 33 (5.18%) CISM
9 21 (3.30%) DV Cleared
10 17 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (2.04%) CISA
12 12 (1.88%) Numerate Degree
13 11 (1.73%) PhD
14 9 (1.41%) CRISC
14 9 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.26%) CESG Certified Professional
16 7 (1.10%) FFIEC
17 6 (0.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 5 (0.78%) Azure Certification
19 4 (0.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (10.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (10.05%) NIST
3 43 (6.75%) GRC
4 41 (6.44%) GDPR
5 35 (5.49%) QA
6 29 (4.55%) PMO
7 24 (3.77%) Data Quality
8 21 (3.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (2.98%) PCI DSS
10 13 (2.04%) EU AI Act
11 9 (1.41%) Basel III
11 9 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 9 (1.41%) SLA
12 6 (0.94%) EMIR
12 6 (0.94%) NCSC
13 5 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.78%) COBIT
14 4 (0.63%) Accessibility
14 4 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (2.20%) Active Directory
1 14 (2.20%) Docker
2 6 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (1.88%) Kubernetes
1 12 (1.88%) Terraform
2 8 (1.26%) Ansible
3 5 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.47%) RSA Archer
5 2 (0.31%) Grafana
5 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.31%) 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%) QRadar
6 1 (0.16%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 55 (8.63%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.08%) ServiceNow
3 24 (3.77%) Oracle
4 21 (3.30%) SAP
5 13 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.57%) Murex
7 9 (1.41%) Solace
8 7 (1.10%) Google
9 6 (0.94%) Bloomberg
9 6 (0.94%) Splunk
10 5 (0.78%) Citrix
10 5 (0.78%) Informatica
11 4 (0.63%) Cisco
11 4 (0.63%) Databricks
11 4 (0.63%) IBM
12 3 (0.47%) Ariba
12 3 (0.47%) Hitachi
12 3 (0.47%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.47%) OneLogin
13 2 (0.31%) Talend