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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 47 56
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 +22
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 691 592 684
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.24% 4.43% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 4.87% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 367 486
10th Percentile £434 £394 £413
25th Percentile £500 £500 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.31%
75th Percentile £750 £763 £750
90th Percentile £976 £850 £825
England median daily rate £550 £585 £563
% change year-on-year -5.98% +4.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 3
10th Percentile £71.74 £28.00 £25.14
25th Percentile £75.31 £34.25 £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 £85.56 £55.27
England median hourly rate £52.64 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.27% - +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 14,672 12,161 16,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.13% 90.96% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,836 7,963 11,510
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £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 221 157 347
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.66 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +18.33% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.50 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.86 £71.00
England median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -15.43% +2.94% -4.23%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -18 91 £600 +4.35% 54
South London -29 8 £551 -8.25% 4
East London +3 7 £585 -13.33% 7
West London -20 7 £575 +59.72% 9
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 29 (4.20%) Confluence
2 10 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.72%) SAS
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.14%) Camunda
6 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.14%) nginx
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 48 (6.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (3.18%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.45%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.30%) Loan IQ
3 4 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.58%) Summit
4 3 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.43%) Endur
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.43%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.29%) Actimize
5 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.29%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.29%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics SL
6 1 (0.14%) Infor CloudSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 97 (14.04%) Azure
2 77 (11.14%) AWS
3 27 (3.91%) GCP
4 24 (3.47%) Power Platform
5 20 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (2.46%) Entra ID
7 15 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 12 (1.74%) SaaS
9 11 (1.59%) GitHub
10 10 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.01%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (0.87%) Collibra
13 5 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (0.58%) Alation
14 4 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (0.58%) Miro
14 4 (0.58%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.58%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.18%) Firewall
2 6 (0.87%) Network Security
3 4 (0.58%) 5G
4 3 (0.43%) Broadband
4 3 (0.43%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (0.43%) VPN
5 2 (0.29%) Internet
5 2 (0.29%) Multicast
5 2 (0.29%) S/MIME
5 2 (0.29%) SSL
5 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.14%) BGP
6 1 (0.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.14%) Intranet
6 1 (0.14%) MPLS
6 1 (0.14%) NAS
6 1 (0.14%) SAN
6 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.89%) Power BI
2 19 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.17%) SQL Server
4 13 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (1.59%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.45%) Metadata
7 6 (0.87%) KDB
7 6 (0.87%) Kdb+
8 5 (0.72%) Big Data
8 5 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.72%) Tableau
9 4 (0.58%) Data Mart
10 3 (0.43%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.43%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.43%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.29%) PowerCenter
11 2 (0.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (9.26%) JIRA
2 13 (1.88%) Git
3 10 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.87%) SpecFlow
5 4 (0.58%) GitLab
6 3 (0.43%) QUnit
6 3 (0.43%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.29%) GCC
7 2 (0.29%) GDB
8 1 (0.14%) Appium
8 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.14%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.14%) jMock
8 1 (0.14%) JUnit
8 1 (0.14%) Maven
8 1 (0.14%) Mockito
8 1 (0.14%) Selenium
8 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 332 (48.05%) Finance
2 276 (39.94%) Social Skills
3 134 (19.39%) Banking
4 125 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (9.26%) Legal
6 49 (7.09%) Front Office
7 48 (6.95%) Public Sector
8 40 (5.79%) Investment Banking
9 30 (4.34%) Financial Institution
10 28 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (2.46%) Retail
14 12 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.74%) Law
15 7 (1.01%) Local Government
15 7 (1.01%) Marketing
15 7 (1.01%) Military
15 7 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 95 (13.75%) Analyst
2 94 (13.60%) Senior
3 90 (13.02%) Lead
4 79 (11.43%) Developer
5 71 (10.27%) Project Manager
6 63 (9.12%) Consultant
7 50 (7.24%) Business Analyst
8 47 (6.80%) Architect
9 36 (5.21%) Programme Manager
10 32 (4.63%) Senior Developer
11 25 (3.62%) Java Developer
11 25 (3.62%) Risk Analyst
11 25 (3.62%) Security Architect
11 25 (3.62%) Senior Manager
12 24 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
13 23 (3.33%) Security Consultant
14 20 (2.89%) Security Specialist
15 17 (2.46%) Python Developer
15 17 (2.46%) Senior Java Developer
15 17 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.89%) Kafka
2 15 (2.17%) REST
3 14 (2.03%) Oracle Fusion
4 13 (1.88%) .NET
5 11 (1.59%) .NET Framework
6 10 (1.45%) NumPy
6 10 (1.45%) Pandas
7 9 (1.30%) COM
7 9 (1.30%) Dask
7 9 (1.30%) XML
8 7 (1.01%) Middleware
9 6 (0.87%) Entity Framework
9 6 (0.87%) NHibernate
9 6 (0.87%) Playwright
9 6 (0.87%) React
9 6 (0.87%) RESTful
10 5 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (0.72%) PyTorch
10 5 (0.72%) TensorFlow
11 4 (0.58%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 79 (11.43%) Management Information System
2 64 (9.26%) Derivative
3 39 (5.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 38 (5.50%) Product Ownership
5 37 (5.35%) Market Risk
6 36 (5.21%) Equities
7 30 (4.34%) Security Posture
8 28 (4.05%) Algorithms
9 27 (3.91%) Cloud Native
10 25 (3.62%) Fixed Income
10 25 (3.62%) Onboarding
11 24 (3.47%) Credit Risk
12 20 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
14 17 (2.46%) Hedge funds
15 16 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
16 15 (2.17%) Data Structures
17 11 (1.59%) Equity Derivative
17 11 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
18 10 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.05%) Linux
2 16 (2.32%) Windows
3 15 (2.17%) Unix
4 2 (0.29%) zOS
5 1 (0.14%) Android
5 1 (0.14%) VMS
5 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (28.80%) Stakeholder Management
2 175 (25.33%) Agile
3 143 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 121 (17.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 101 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 100 (14.47%) Project Management
7 93 (13.46%) Cybersecurity
8 85 (12.30%) Decision-Making
9 84 (12.16%) Analytics
10 83 (12.01%) AI
11 81 (11.72%) Roadmaps
12 74 (10.71%) Information Security
13 72 (10.42%) Project Delivery
14 60 (8.68%) Regulatory Compliance
14 60 (8.68%) Scrum
15 58 (8.39%) Change Management
15 58 (8.39%) Computer Science
16 55 (7.96%) Data Protection
17 54 (7.81%) DevOps
18 50 (7.24%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 91 (13.17%) Python
2 87 (12.59%) SQL
3 41 (5.93%) Java
4 24 (3.47%) C++
5 23 (3.33%) C#
6 19 (2.75%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.03%) VBA
8 7 (1.01%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.58%) Korn
10 3 (0.43%) Bash
10 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.29%) Perl
11 2 (0.29%) R
11 2 (0.29%) RPG
11 2 (0.29%) Scala
11 2 (0.29%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.14%) Bicep
12 1 (0.14%) Go
12 1 (0.14%) VC++
Qualifications
1 145 (20.98%) Degree
2 94 (13.60%) Security Cleared
3 77 (11.14%) SC Cleared
4 64 (9.26%) CISSP
5 46 (6.66%) PMI Certification
6 43 (6.22%) CISM
6 43 (6.22%) PMP
7 33 (4.78%) Master's Degree
8 22 (3.18%) DV Cleared
9 20 (2.89%) CRISC
10 16 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (2.17%) Numerate Degree
12 14 (2.03%) CISA
13 11 (1.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 11 (1.59%) PhD
14 10 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (1.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 8 (1.16%) CESG Certified Professional
17 7 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
17 7 (1.01%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (12.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 78 (11.29%) NIST
3 68 (9.84%) GRC
4 51 (7.38%) GDPR
5 42 (6.08%) QA
6 33 (4.78%) PCI DSS
7 32 (4.63%) PMO
8 30 (4.34%) Data Quality
9 18 (2.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (2.32%) SLA
11 13 (1.88%) SOC 2
12 10 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (1.45%) COBIT
12 10 (1.45%) NCSC
13 9 (1.30%) EU AI Act
13 9 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 8 (1.16%) Basel III
15 5 (0.72%) ISO 31000
15 5 (0.72%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 13 (1.88%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.45%) Docker
3 5 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.14%) Postfix
4 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (1.88%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.59%) Terraform
3 5 (0.72%) Ansible
4 4 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.29%) Grafana
6 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.14%) Avamar
7 1 (0.14%) CASB
7 1 (0.14%) Consul
7 1 (0.14%) Control-M
7 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.14%) Packer
7 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 72 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.92%) Oracle
3 31 (4.49%) SAP
4 28 (4.05%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.04%) Murex
6 15 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.45%) Workday
8 7 (1.01%) Informatica
9 6 (0.87%) Ariba
9 6 (0.87%) Bloomberg
9 6 (0.87%) Databricks
9 6 (0.87%) Google
10 5 (0.72%) Charles River
11 4 (0.58%) Foundry
11 4 (0.58%) Solace
11 4 (0.58%) Splunk
12 3 (0.43%) Cisco
12 3 (0.43%) Citrix
12 3 (0.43%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.43%) Remedy