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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 48 57
Rank change year-on-year -21 +9 +18
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 666 604 649
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.00% 4.77% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 5.22% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 382 460
10th Percentile £424 £400 £413
25th Percentile £500 £504 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £630 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £750 £763 £752
90th Percentile £975 £850 £825
England median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile £71.74 £27.75 £25.14
25th Percentile £75.31 £43.00 £29.34
Median hourly rate £87.50 £73.60 £36.34
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% +102.56% -47.15%
75th Percentile £94.38 £83.20 £48.17
90th Percentile £94.75 £86.74 £55.27
England median hourly rate £74.68 £60.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +22.94% +1.25% +464.44%

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 14,942 11,579 15,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.72% 91.43% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,023 7,821 11,436
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 165 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.08 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +14.75% -21.79%
75th Percentile £57.00 £51.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £70.50
England median hourly rate £35.25 £32.81 £33.00
% change year-on-year +7.44% -0.58% -12.00%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -16 90 £600 - 86
East London -1 9 £585 -8.24% 7
West London -17 8 £575 +161.36% 10
South London -31 6 £551 -5.90% 2
North London - 4 £513 - 2
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 (4.80%) Confluence
2 9 (1.35%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.75%) SAS
4 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.15%) nginx
5 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.15%) ThingWorx
5 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 45 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (3.30%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (1.80%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.30%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.20%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.90%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.90%) Summit
4 3 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.45%) Endur
4 3 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.30%) Actimize
5 2 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.30%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.30%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 91 (13.66%) Azure
2 74 (11.11%) AWS
3 25 (3.75%) GCP
3 25 (3.75%) Power Platform
4 18 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (2.40%) Entra ID
6 13 (1.95%) Microsoft Purview
7 12 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (1.80%) SaaS
8 11 (1.65%) GitHub
9 10 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.05%) Amazon S3
11 6 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (0.90%) Collibra
11 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (0.75%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (0.75%) Miro
13 4 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (0.60%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.10%) Firewall
2 7 (1.05%) Network Security
3 4 (0.60%) 5G
4 3 (0.45%) Broadband
4 3 (0.45%) VPN
5 2 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
5 2 (0.30%) Internet
5 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.15%) BGP
6 1 (0.15%) DHCP
6 1 (0.15%) DNS
6 1 (0.15%) LAN
6 1 (0.15%) MPLS
6 1 (0.15%) Multicast
6 1 (0.15%) NAS
6 1 (0.15%) RSVP
6 1 (0.15%) SAN
6 1 (0.15%) WAN
6 1 (0.15%) Wireless
6 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.15%) Power BI
2 15 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.95%) Metadata
5 11 (1.65%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.50%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.90%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.90%) Tableau
8 5 (0.75%) Big Data
8 5 (0.75%) KDB
8 5 (0.75%) Kdb+
9 4 (0.60%) Data Mart
9 4 (0.60%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.45%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.30%) PowerCenter
11 2 (0.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (10.51%) JIRA
2 13 (1.95%) Git
3 8 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.60%) GitLab
5 3 (0.45%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.30%) QUnit
6 2 (0.30%) Selenium
6 2 (0.30%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.30%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.15%) Appium
7 1 (0.15%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.15%) ERwin
7 1 (0.15%) GCC
7 1 (0.15%) GDB
7 1 (0.15%) jMock
7 1 (0.15%) JUnit
7 1 (0.15%) Maven
7 1 (0.15%) Mockito
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 320 (48.05%) Finance
2 259 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 131 (19.67%) Banking
4 125 (18.77%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (9.61%) Legal
6 54 (8.11%) Public Sector
7 48 (7.21%) Front Office
8 38 (5.71%) Investment Banking
9 30 (4.50%) Financial Institution
9 30 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.70%) Retail
13 13 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.50%) Marketing
15 9 (1.35%) Back Office
15 9 (1.35%) Law
15 9 (1.35%) Local Government
16 8 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 92 (13.81%) Senior
2 90 (13.51%) Lead
3 79 (11.86%) Analyst
4 76 (11.41%) Project Manager
5 70 (10.51%) Developer
6 62 (9.31%) Consultant
7 52 (7.81%) Business Analyst
8 48 (7.21%) Architect
9 35 (5.26%) Programme Manager
10 30 (4.50%) Senior Developer
11 27 (4.05%) Security Architect
11 27 (4.05%) Senior Manager
12 24 (3.60%) Security Consultant
13 23 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
14 22 (3.30%) Java Developer
15 20 (3.00%) Risk Analyst
16 18 (2.70%) Python Developer
17 17 (2.55%) Risk Manager
18 16 (2.40%) Security Specialist
18 16 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.55%) Kafka
1 17 (2.55%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (2.10%) REST
3 11 (1.65%) XML
4 9 (1.35%) .NET
4 9 (1.35%) COM
4 9 (1.35%) Dask
4 9 (1.35%) NumPy
4 9 (1.35%) Pandas
5 7 (1.05%) .NET Framework
6 6 (0.90%) Middleware
6 6 (0.90%) RESTful
7 5 (0.75%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (0.60%) .NET Core
8 4 (0.60%) J2EE
8 4 (0.60%) JSP
8 4 (0.60%) PyTorch
8 4 (0.60%) TensorFlow
8 4 (0.60%) WinForms
8 4 (0.60%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 67 (10.06%) Management Information System
2 62 (9.31%) Derivative
3 40 (6.01%) Product Ownership
4 36 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 35 (5.26%) Equities
5 35 (5.26%) Market Risk
6 34 (5.11%) Security Posture
7 29 (4.35%) Cloud Native
8 25 (3.75%) Algorithms
9 24 (3.60%) Fixed Income
10 23 (3.45%) Credit Risk
11 22 (3.30%) Onboarding
12 20 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
13 18 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (2.55%) Hedge funds
15 15 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (1.95%) Equity Derivative
17 12 (1.80%) Data Structures
18 11 (1.65%) AI Agents
18 11 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.30%) Linux
2 14 (2.10%) Unix
3 13 (1.95%) Windows
4 2 (0.30%) zOS
5 1 (0.15%) Android
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
5 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (28.98%) Stakeholder Management
2 180 (27.03%) Agile
3 147 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
4 116 (17.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 104 (15.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 93 (13.96%) Project Management
7 84 (12.61%) Analytics
8 83 (12.46%) Decision-Making
8 83 (12.46%) Roadmaps
9 81 (12.16%) AI
10 80 (12.01%) Project Delivery
11 79 (11.86%) Cybersecurity
12 67 (10.06%) Information Security
13 59 (8.86%) DevOps
14 58 (8.71%) Regulatory Compliance
15 55 (8.26%) Change Management
15 55 (8.26%) Computer Science
15 55 (8.26%) Scrum
16 54 (8.11%) Data Protection
17 51 (7.66%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 86 (12.91%) Python
1 86 (12.91%) SQL
2 40 (6.01%) Java
3 20 (3.00%) C++
4 17 (2.55%) C#
4 17 (2.55%) PowerShell
5 12 (1.80%) VBA
6 4 (0.60%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.60%) Korn
7 3 (0.45%) Bash
7 3 (0.45%) Perl
7 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.30%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.30%) R
8 2 (0.30%) RPG
8 2 (0.30%) Scala
9 1 (0.15%) Bicep
9 1 (0.15%) Go
9 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 139 (20.87%) Degree
2 95 (14.26%) Security Cleared
3 76 (11.41%) SC Cleared
4 55 (8.26%) CISSP
5 45 (6.76%) PMI Certification
6 42 (6.31%) PMP
7 35 (5.26%) CISM
8 28 (4.20%) Master's Degree
9 19 (2.85%) DV Cleared
10 18 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.55%) CRISC
12 15 (2.25%) Numerate Degree
13 10 (1.50%) CISA
13 10 (1.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 10 (1.50%) PhD
14 9 (1.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 8 (1.20%) CESG Certified Professional
16 7 (1.05%) Azure Certification
16 7 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 59 (8.86%) NIST
3 57 (8.56%) GRC
4 48 (7.21%) GDPR
5 44 (6.61%) QA
6 34 (5.11%) PMO
7 30 (4.50%) Data Quality
8 29 (4.35%) PCI DSS
9 19 (2.85%) SLA
10 13 (1.95%) NCSC
11 12 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (1.80%) SOC 2
12 11 (1.65%) COBIT
13 10 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 6 (0.90%) EU AI Act
15 6 (0.90%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.75%) Basel III
16 5 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.75%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 8 (1.20%) Active Directory
1 8 (1.20%) Docker
2 3 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.15%) Postfix
3 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (1.80%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.50%) Terraform
3 5 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.60%) Ansible
5 3 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.30%) Control-M
6 2 (0.30%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.15%) Avamar
7 1 (0.15%) CASB
7 1 (0.15%) Consul
7 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.15%) Grafana
7 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.15%) Packer
7 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 70 (10.51%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.86%) Oracle
3 32 (4.80%) SAP
4 26 (3.90%) ServiceNow
5 22 (3.30%) Murex
6 17 (2.55%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.80%) Workday
8 7 (1.05%) Informatica
9 6 (0.90%) Charles River
9 6 (0.90%) Databricks
10 5 (0.75%) Ariba
10 5 (0.75%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.75%) Google
10 5 (0.75%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.60%) Foundry
11 4 (0.60%) IBM
11 4 (0.60%) Splunk
12 3 (0.45%) Cisco
12 3 (0.45%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud