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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 45 75
Rank change year-on-year -25 +30 -15
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 807 724 531
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.97% 5.37% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 5.80% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 472 327
10th Percentile £413 £391 £399
25th Percentile £500 £490 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £725 £811 £750
90th Percentile £837 £888 £855
England median daily rate £559 £575 £577
% change year-on-year -2.83% -0.35% -3.83%
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 £41.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +61.55% -27.83% -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 18,084 12,490 14,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.58% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,813 8,262 9,757
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 257 180
10th Percentile £16.71 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.25 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.38 £48.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%

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 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 12 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 12 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 -4 116 £550 -15.38% 175
West London -18 16 £500 +17.65% 60
East London +1 5 £670 +34.00% 13
South London -21 2 £413 -28.26% 10
North London -3 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 32 (3.97%) Confluence
2 14 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.62%) SAS
4 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.25%) CMS
5 2 (0.25%) IIS
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.12%) Appian
6 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.12%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 29 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.22%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.12%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.73%) Endur
3 5 (0.62%) SAP GRC
3 5 (0.62%) Summit
4 4 (0.50%) Actimize
4 4 (0.50%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.50%) Front Arena
4 4 (0.50%) Magento
4 4 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.37%) Findur
5 3 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.37%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.25%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.25%) Eikon
6 2 (0.25%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 117 (14.50%) Azure
2 95 (11.77%) AWS
3 33 (4.09%) GCP
4 30 (3.72%) Entra ID
4 30 (3.72%) SaaS
5 27 (3.35%) Power Platform
6 23 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (2.11%) GitHub
8 13 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (1.36%) OCI
11 10 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
11 10 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
12 9 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (0.99%) PaaS
14 7 (0.87%) Azure AI
14 7 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.87%) Collibra
14 7 (0.87%) SuccessFactors
15 6 (0.74%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.73%) Firewall
2 15 (1.86%) Network Security
3 9 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.74%) 4G
4 6 (0.74%) 5G
4 6 (0.74%) Internet
4 6 (0.74%) LAN
4 6 (0.74%) WAN
5 5 (0.62%) Cisco IPT
5 5 (0.62%) DNS
5 5 (0.62%) VPN
6 4 (0.50%) DHCP
6 4 (0.50%) Wireless
7 3 (0.37%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.37%) VoLTE
7 3 (0.37%) WinSCP
8 2 (0.25%) Modbus
8 2 (0.25%) NAS
8 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.10%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.48%) Power BI
3 18 (2.23%) Metadata
4 14 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (1.36%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.12%) MongoDB
7 6 (0.74%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.74%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.62%) Big Data
8 5 (0.62%) Db2
8 5 (0.62%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.62%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.50%) Ataccama
9 4 (0.50%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.37%) ClickHouse
10 3 (0.37%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.37%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (7.06%) JIRA
2 15 (1.86%) Git
3 13 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.74%) Selenium
5 4 (0.50%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.50%) GitLab
5 4 (0.50%) Gradle
5 4 (0.50%) Subversion
6 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.37%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.37%) MLflow
6 3 (0.37%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.25%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.12%) eggPlant
8 1 (0.12%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.12%) NeoLoad
General
1 370 (45.85%) Finance
2 311 (38.54%) Social Skills
3 137 (16.98%) Banking
4 136 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (10.90%) Public Sector
6 81 (10.04%) Legal
7 67 (8.30%) Front Office
8 34 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (4.21%) Investment Banking
9 31 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (2.73%) Telecoms
12 20 (2.48%) Financial Institution
13 17 (2.11%) Law
14 14 (1.73%) Back Office
14 14 (1.73%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.73%) Marketing
14 14 (1.73%) Retail
15 13 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 102 (12.64%) Senior
2 101 (12.52%) Lead
3 92 (11.40%) Analyst
4 82 (10.16%) Architect
5 70 (8.67%) Project Manager
6 50 (6.20%) Developer
7 47 (5.82%) Business Analyst
8 45 (5.58%) Programme Manager
9 35 (4.34%) Security Architect
10 33 (4.09%) Consultant
11 26 (3.22%) IT Manager
12 25 (3.10%) Senior Manager
13 23 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
13 23 (2.85%) Risk Analyst
14 20 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
15 18 (2.23%) Technical Manager
16 17 (2.11%) Security Engineer
16 17 (2.11%) Security Manager
16 17 (2.11%) Solutions Architect
17 16 (1.98%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.09%) .NET
2 27 (3.35%) Terraform
3 23 (2.85%) REST
4 19 (2.35%) Middleware
5 15 (1.86%) Kafka
6 13 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (1.12%) React
8 8 (0.99%) .NET Core
8 8 (0.99%) Azure Blueprints
9 7 (0.87%) PySpark
9 7 (0.87%) SailPoint
9 7 (0.87%) XML
10 6 (0.74%) SOAP
10 6 (0.74%) Spring
10 6 (0.74%) Spring Boot
11 5 (0.62%) JSON
11 5 (0.62%) OAuth
12 4 (0.50%) .NET Framework
12 4 (0.50%) Jakarta EE
12 4 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.82%) Onboarding
2 40 (4.96%) Cloud Native
3 38 (4.71%) Management Information System
4 37 (4.58%) Product Ownership
5 35 (4.34%) Security Posture
6 27 (3.35%) Data Protection Act
6 27 (3.35%) Market Risk
7 22 (2.73%) Derivative
8 21 (2.60%) Credit Risk
8 21 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (2.60%) Fixed Income
9 20 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 17 (2.11%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.98%) AI Agents
12 14 (1.73%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.49%) NHS
13 12 (1.49%) Operational Technology
14 11 (1.36%) Equities
15 10 (1.24%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.71%) Windows
2 26 (3.22%) Linux
3 23 (2.85%) Unix
4 14 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (41.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 214 (26.52%) Agile
3 168 (20.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 159 (19.70%) Cybersecurity
5 148 (18.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 138 (17.10%) Decision-Making
7 137 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
8 131 (16.23%) AI
9 123 (15.24%) Roadmaps
10 99 (12.27%) Information Security
11 98 (12.14%) Project Management
12 93 (11.52%) Migration
13 92 (11.40%) Project Delivery
14 91 (11.28%) Analytics
15 82 (10.16%) DevOps
16 76 (9.42%) CI/CD
17 72 (8.92%) Change Management
18 67 (8.30%) Data Protection
19 63 (7.81%) SDLC
19 63 (7.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 78 (9.67%) Python
2 74 (9.17%) SQL
3 27 (3.35%) Java
4 24 (2.97%) C#
5 23 (2.85%) PowerShell
6 10 (1.24%) Bash
7 7 (0.87%) PL/SQL
7 7 (0.87%) Shell Script
8 6 (0.74%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.62%) Bicep
9 5 (0.62%) Korn
10 4 (0.50%) C++
10 4 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.50%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.50%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.37%) C
11 3 (0.37%) R
11 3 (0.37%) Scala
11 3 (0.37%) VBA
11 3 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 146 (18.09%) Security Cleared
2 108 (13.38%) SC Cleared
3 89 (11.03%) Degree
4 64 (7.93%) CISSP
5 39 (4.83%) PMI Certification
6 38 (4.71%) PMP
7 36 (4.46%) CISM
8 33 (4.09%) DV Cleared
9 18 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.98%) CRISC
10 16 (1.98%) Master's Degree
11 14 (1.73%) CISA
12 12 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 9 (1.12%) Azure Certification
13 9 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.99%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.87%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (10.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 74 (9.17%) NIST
3 72 (8.92%) GRC
4 64 (7.93%) QA
5 38 (4.71%) Data Quality
6 35 (4.34%) GDPR
7 31 (3.84%) PMO
8 22 (2.73%) NCSC
9 13 (1.61%) COBIT
10 12 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (1.49%) SOC 2
11 11 (1.36%) SLA
12 9 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (1.12%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.74%) Basel III
13 6 (0.74%) ITGC
13 6 (0.74%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 21 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.36%) Docker
3 9 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) NFS
5 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) vSphere
6 1 (0.12%) IAG
6 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (2.23%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.73%) Ansible
3 5 (0.62%) Grafana
3 5 (0.62%) SCCM
4 4 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.37%) Control-M
5 3 (0.37%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.37%) Puppet
5 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.25%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.25%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.12%) Argo
7 1 (0.12%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.12%) Istio
7 1 (0.12%) Nessus
Vendors
1 123 (15.24%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.69%) ServiceNow
3 42 (5.20%) SAP
4 41 (5.08%) Oracle
5 15 (1.86%) Murex
5 15 (1.86%) Splunk
6 13 (1.61%) Google
7 11 (1.36%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.12%) Databricks
8 9 (1.12%) Qualys
9 8 (0.99%) Tenable
9 8 (0.99%) Workday
10 7 (0.87%) CyberArk
10 7 (0.87%) OpenLink
10 7 (0.87%) Sybase
11 6 (0.74%) Bloomberg
11 6 (0.74%) Cisco
11 6 (0.74%) Informatica
11 6 (0.74%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.74%) Rapid7