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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 49 62
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 872 678 561
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.31% 5.06% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% 5.47% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 437 338
10th Percentile £413 £384 £408
25th Percentile £500 £485 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £613
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.49% -0.93%
75th Percentile £725 £800 £769
90th Percentile £800 £900 £875
England median daily rate £568 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -1.30% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £31.92 £37.88 £22.85
25th Percentile £32.55 £55.31 £27.13
Median hourly rate £33.60 £65.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.31% +83.10% +63.22%
75th Percentile £44.13 - £57.58
90th Percentile £49.90 - £70.07
England median hourly rate £75.50 £33.50 £57.94
% change year-on-year +125.37% -42.18% -3.44%

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 17,967 12,400 14,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.57% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,762 8,167 9,402
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 £664 £663 £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 336 240 183
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.22 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.02 £25.03 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -17.12% -8.36%
75th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.63 £64.78 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -1 116 £550 -13.73% 206
West London -11 17 £650 +52.94% 43
East London +4 4 £750 +108.33% 13
South London -17 3 £495 -14.86% 15
North London -1 1 £550 - 1
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 34 (3.90%) Confluence
2 14 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.69%) SAS
4 5 (0.57%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.34%) CMS
5 3 (0.34%) nginx
6 2 (0.23%) IIS
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.11%) Apache
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.11%) Appian
7 1 (0.11%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 29 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (1.38%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.11%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.38%) Endur
3 5 (0.57%) SAP GRC
3 5 (0.57%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.46%) Actimize
4 4 (0.46%) Magento
4 4 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.23%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.23%) Eikon
6 2 (0.23%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.23%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 136 (15.60%) Azure
2 109 (12.50%) AWS
3 46 (5.28%) GCP
4 36 (4.13%) Entra ID
5 32 (3.67%) SaaS
6 28 (3.21%) Power Platform
7 25 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (2.64%) GitHub
9 17 (1.95%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (1.72%) OCI
12 13 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
13 11 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (0.92%) Snowflake
16 7 (0.80%) Collibra
16 7 (0.80%) OpenShift
16 7 (0.80%) PaaS
16 7 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.75%) Firewall
2 20 (2.29%) Network Security
3 10 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.92%) LAN
4 8 (0.92%) WAN
5 7 (0.80%) VPN
6 6 (0.69%) 4G
6 6 (0.69%) 5G
6 6 (0.69%) Cisco IPT
6 6 (0.69%) DNS
6 6 (0.69%) Internet
7 4 (0.46%) DHCP
7 4 (0.46%) Wireless
8 3 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.34%) Modbus
8 3 (0.34%) VoLTE
8 3 (0.34%) WinSCP
9 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.41%) Power BI
3 18 (2.06%) Metadata
4 15 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.03%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.03%) MongoDB
6 8 (0.92%) Oracle Database
6 8 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.80%) Big Data
8 6 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.57%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.46%) Ataccama
10 4 (0.46%) Data Mart
10 4 (0.46%) Db2
10 4 (0.46%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.34%) ClickHouse
11 3 (0.34%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.34%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 59 (6.77%) JIRA
2 23 (2.64%) Git
3 15 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.69%) GitLab
5 5 (0.57%) Selenium
6 4 (0.46%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.46%) Claude Code
6 4 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.46%) Gradle
6 4 (0.46%) Subversion
7 2 (0.23%) MLflow
7 2 (0.23%) Postman
7 2 (0.23%) QUnit
7 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.11%) GCC
8 1 (0.11%) GDB
8 1 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 416 (47.71%) Finance
2 339 (38.88%) Social Skills
3 161 (18.46%) Banking
4 156 (17.89%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (11.24%) Public Sector
6 88 (10.09%) Legal
7 74 (8.49%) Front Office
8 45 (5.16%) Influencing Skills
9 38 (4.36%) Organisational Skills
10 32 (3.67%) Investment Banking
11 27 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (2.64%) Financial Institution
13 21 (2.41%) Law
14 20 (2.29%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.95%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.83%) Marketing
17 15 (1.72%) Retail
18 13 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
19 11 (1.26%) Military
20 9 (1.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 113 (12.96%) Senior
2 108 (12.39%) Lead
3 102 (11.70%) Analyst
4 88 (10.09%) Architect
5 83 (9.52%) Project Manager
6 51 (5.85%) Business Analyst
6 51 (5.85%) Developer
7 47 (5.39%) Programme Manager
8 43 (4.93%) Consultant
9 34 (3.90%) Security Architect
10 31 (3.56%) IT Manager
11 28 (3.21%) Senior Manager
12 27 (3.10%) Delivery Manager
13 26 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (2.75%) Risk Analyst
15 21 (2.41%) Technical Manager
16 20 (2.29%) Senior Business Analyst
16 20 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
17 19 (2.18%) Security Engineer
18 17 (1.95%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.70%) Terraform
2 33 (3.78%) .NET
3 27 (3.10%) REST
4 18 (2.06%) Kafka
4 18 (2.06%) Middleware
5 13 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
6 9 (1.03%) React
6 9 (1.03%) XGBoost
7 8 (0.92%) .NET Core
7 8 (0.92%) Azure Blueprints
7 8 (0.92%) PySpark
8 6 (0.69%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (0.69%) SailPoint
8 6 (0.69%) SOAP
8 6 (0.69%) Spring
8 6 (0.69%) Spring Boot
8 6 (0.69%) Web Services
9 5 (0.57%) .NET Framework
9 5 (0.57%) JSON
9 5 (0.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 51 (5.85%) Onboarding
2 45 (5.16%) Cloud Native
3 41 (4.70%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.47%) Management Information System
5 35 (4.01%) Security Posture
6 33 (3.78%) Market Risk
7 29 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
8 27 (3.10%) Credit Risk
9 25 (2.87%) Data Centre
10 23 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (2.41%) Fixed Income
12 20 (2.29%) AI Agents
12 20 (2.29%) Derivative
13 18 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 17 (1.95%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (1.72%) Operational Technology
16 14 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
17 12 (1.38%) Algorithms
17 12 (1.38%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.70%) Windows
2 37 (4.24%) Linux
3 28 (3.21%) Unix
4 15 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (43.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 234 (26.83%) Agile
3 175 (20.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 174 (19.95%) Cybersecurity
5 164 (18.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 150 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
7 148 (16.97%) AI
8 147 (16.86%) Roadmaps
9 142 (16.28%) Decision-Making
10 106 (12.16%) Project Management
11 104 (11.93%) Analytics
11 104 (11.93%) Information Security
12 103 (11.81%) Migration
13 101 (11.58%) Project Delivery
14 95 (10.89%) DevOps
15 90 (10.32%) CI/CD
16 81 (9.29%) Change Management
17 73 (8.37%) Data Protection
18 69 (7.91%) Validation
19 65 (7.45%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 101 (11.58%) Python
2 84 (9.63%) SQL
3 32 (3.67%) C#
4 28 (3.21%) Java
5 25 (2.87%) PowerShell
6 17 (1.95%) Bash
7 11 (1.26%) Shell Script
8 7 (0.80%) C++
8 7 (0.80%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.57%) Bicep
9 5 (0.57%) Korn
9 5 (0.57%) R
9 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.57%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.34%) C
11 3 (0.34%) Scala
11 3 (0.34%) VBA
11 3 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 159 (18.23%) Security Cleared
2 122 (13.99%) SC Cleared
3 110 (12.61%) Degree
4 69 (7.91%) CISSP
5 46 (5.28%) PMI Certification
6 45 (5.16%) PMP
7 40 (4.59%) CISM
8 34 (3.90%) DV Cleared
9 24 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (2.41%) Master's Degree
11 20 (2.29%) CRISC
12 18 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (2.06%) CISA
13 15 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 15 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (1.49%) AWS Certification
15 12 (1.38%) Azure Certification
15 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (1.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 8 (0.92%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (11.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 84 (9.63%) NIST
3 76 (8.72%) GRC
4 64 (7.34%) QA
5 48 (5.50%) Data Quality
6 34 (3.90%) GDPR
7 30 (3.44%) PMO
8 26 (2.98%) NCSC
9 17 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (1.38%) COBIT
11 11 (1.26%) SOC 2
12 10 (1.15%) Basel III
12 10 (1.15%) SLA
13 8 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.80%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 6 (0.69%) ITGC
15 6 (0.69%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (2.75%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.83%) Docker
3 9 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.46%) vSphere
6 2 (0.23%) IAG
7 1 (0.11%) NFS
7 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.06%) Ansible
3 8 (0.92%) Grafana
4 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.57%) SCCM
6 4 (0.46%) Control-M
6 4 (0.46%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.34%) Argo
7 3 (0.34%) Puppet
8 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.23%) Kibana
8 2 (0.23%) Podman
8 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) Nessus
9 1 (0.11%) OMEGAMON
9 1 (0.11%) QRadar
9 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 139 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.42%) ServiceNow
3 46 (5.28%) SAP
4 43 (4.93%) Oracle
5 24 (2.75%) Murex
6 21 (2.41%) Google
7 17 (1.95%) Splunk
8 13 (1.49%) Databricks
9 12 (1.38%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.15%) Qualys
11 9 (1.03%) Bloomberg
11 9 (1.03%) Cisco
11 9 (1.03%) CyberArk
11 9 (1.03%) Tenable
12 8 (0.92%) Workday
13 7 (0.80%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.80%) Rapid7
14 6 (0.69%) BeyondTrust
14 6 (0.69%) IBM
14 6 (0.69%) Zscaler