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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 40 64
Rank change year-on-year -31 +24 +7
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 654 675 600
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.69% 5.38% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 5.84% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 428 414
10th Percentile £413 £395 £400
25th Percentile £500 £500 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £750 £791 £770
90th Percentile £950 £875 £846
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile £70.92 £48.08 £24.67
25th Percentile £73.27 £48.25 £28.18
Median hourly rate £79.68 £73.60 £33.23
Median % change year-on-year +8.26% +121.50% -50.77%
75th Percentile £88.59 £89.10 £39.44
90th Percentile £92.44 £97.00 £45.03
England median hourly rate £74.31 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +20.83% +17.13% +393.89%

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 15,703 11,565 15,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.59% 92.19% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,518 7,845 11,317
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 169 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.37 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.54 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +15.25% -22.62%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.75 £47.56
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.93
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -24 93 £610 +1.67% 102
East London -2 9 £585 -2.50% 10
West London -16 9 £544 +147.16% 10
South London -32 7 £500 -14.53%
North London - 3 £325 - 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 29 (4.43%) Confluence
2 9 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.22%) SAS
4 5 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.15%) nginx
6 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.15%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 43 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (4.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (3.36%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.83%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.31%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.22%) Endur
3 7 (1.07%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.07%) Summit
4 6 (0.92%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.61%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.46%) Actimize
6 3 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.46%) Dynamics SL
6 3 (0.46%) Findur
6 3 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite
6 3 (0.46%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.31%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 82 (12.54%) Azure
2 67 (10.24%) AWS
3 21 (3.21%) GCP
3 21 (3.21%) Power Platform
4 20 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (1.99%) SaaS
6 12 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (1.83%) Entra ID
7 11 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (1.38%) GitHub
9 7 (1.07%) Amazon S3
9 7 (1.07%) SuccessFactors
10 6 (0.92%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (0.92%) Snowflake
11 5 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.83%) Firewall
2 7 (1.07%) Network Security
3 2 (0.31%) 5G
3 2 (0.31%) Broadband
3 2 (0.31%) Internet
3 2 (0.31%) LAN
3 2 (0.31%) NAS
3 2 (0.31%) SAN
3 2 (0.31%) VLAN
3 2 (0.31%) VPN
3 2 (0.31%) WAN
3 2 (0.31%) WLAN
4 1 (0.15%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.15%) DHCP
4 1 (0.15%) DMZ
4 1 (0.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.45%) Power BI
2 15 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.14%) Metadata
4 11 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.53%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.76%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.76%) Tableau
8 4 (0.61%) Data Mart
9 3 (0.46%) Big Data
9 3 (0.46%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.46%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.31%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.31%) PowerCenter
10 2 (0.31%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 61 (9.33%) JIRA
2 12 (1.83%) Git
3 8 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.76%) GitLab
5 4 (0.61%) Selenium
6 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.46%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.46%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.15%) Appium
7 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.15%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.15%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.15%) ERwin
7 1 (0.15%) jMock
7 1 (0.15%) JUnit
7 1 (0.15%) Maven
7 1 (0.15%) MLflow
7 1 (0.15%) Mockito
7 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 300 (45.87%) Finance
2 253 (38.69%) Social Skills
3 125 (19.11%) Banking
4 122 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (9.79%) Public Sector
6 55 (8.41%) Legal
7 33 (5.05%) Front Office
8 30 (4.59%) Investment Banking
9 27 (4.13%) Financial Institution
10 26 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (2.91%) Retail
13 12 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.83%) Marketing
14 11 (1.68%) Law
14 11 (1.68%) Military
15 10 (1.53%) Back Office
15 10 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 93 (14.22%) Lead
2 87 (13.30%) Senior
3 76 (11.62%) Analyst
4 68 (10.40%) Project Manager
5 62 (9.48%) Developer
6 53 (8.10%) Business Analyst
7 52 (7.95%) Architect
8 45 (6.88%) Consultant
9 33 (5.05%) Programme Manager
10 24 (3.67%) Senior Developer
11 23 (3.52%) Security Architect
12 20 (3.06%) Delivery Manager
13 19 (2.91%) Risk Analyst
14 17 (2.60%) Senior Manager
15 16 (2.45%) Java Developer
15 16 (2.45%) Risk Manager
15 16 (2.45%) Security Consultant
16 15 (2.29%) Risk Business Analyst
16 15 (2.29%) Security Specialist
17 14 (2.14%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (2.29%) .NET
3 13 (1.99%) Kafka
3 13 (1.99%) REST
4 8 (1.22%) Middleware
4 8 (1.22%) XML
5 7 (1.07%) React
6 6 (0.92%) .NET Framework
6 6 (0.92%) J2EE
6 6 (0.92%) JSP
6 6 (0.92%) RESTful
7 5 (0.76%) .NET Core
7 5 (0.76%) COM
7 5 (0.76%) Dask
7 5 (0.76%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (0.76%) NumPy
7 5 (0.76%) Pandas
8 4 (0.61%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.61%) WinForms
8 4 (0.61%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 58 (8.87%) Management Information System
2 50 (7.65%) Derivative
3 34 (5.20%) Market Risk
4 32 (4.89%) Security Posture
5 31 (4.74%) Product Ownership
6 27 (4.13%) Credit Risk
6 27 (4.13%) Onboarding
7 26 (3.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 25 (3.82%) Cloud Native
8 25 (3.82%) Equities
9 20 (3.06%) Fixed Income
10 19 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (2.14%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.99%) Algorithms
15 12 (1.83%) AI Agents
16 11 (1.68%) Equity Derivative
17 10 (1.53%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.45%) Windows
2 15 (2.29%) Linux
3 11 (1.68%) Unix
4 2 (0.31%) zOS
5 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (30.12%) Stakeholder Management
2 178 (27.22%) Agile
3 142 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
4 114 (17.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 109 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 94 (14.37%) Project Management
7 88 (13.46%) Roadmaps
8 87 (13.30%) Decision-Making
9 84 (12.84%) Cybersecurity
10 82 (12.54%) AI
10 82 (12.54%) Analytics
11 79 (12.08%) Information Security
12 76 (11.62%) Project Delivery
13 58 (8.87%) DevOps
14 57 (8.72%) ERP
15 56 (8.56%) Regulatory Compliance
16 55 (8.41%) Data Protection
17 54 (8.26%) Migration
18 53 (8.10%) Change Management
18 53 (8.10%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 74 (11.31%) Python
2 72 (11.01%) SQL
3 43 (6.57%) Java
4 15 (2.29%) C#
5 13 (1.99%) C++
5 13 (1.99%) PowerShell
6 8 (1.22%) VBA
7 5 (0.76%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.76%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.61%) Perl
9 3 (0.46%) Korn
9 3 (0.46%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.46%) Scala
9 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.31%) Bash
10 2 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.31%) R
10 2 (0.31%) RPG
11 1 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 115 (17.58%) Degree
2 88 (13.46%) Security Cleared
3 64 (9.79%) SC Cleared
4 55 (8.41%) CISSP
5 36 (5.50%) PMI Certification
6 35 (5.35%) CISM
7 34 (5.20%) PMP
8 19 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (2.75%) CRISC
10 16 (2.45%) Master's Degree
11 13 (1.99%) DV Cleared
12 12 (1.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 11 (1.68%) CISA
14 10 (1.53%) Numerate Degree
15 9 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (1.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 6 (0.92%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.92%) RIBA
17 5 (0.76%) Azure Certification
17 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (11.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 59 (9.02%) NIST
3 55 (8.41%) GRC
4 45 (6.88%) QA
5 44 (6.73%) GDPR
6 34 (5.20%) PMO
7 31 (4.74%) Data Quality
8 29 (4.43%) PCI DSS
9 22 (3.36%) SLA
10 14 (2.14%) NCSC
11 13 (1.99%) COBIT
12 12 (1.83%) SOC 2
13 11 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (1.22%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.76%) GMP
16 5 (0.76%) GxP
16 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 7 (1.07%) Active Directory
1 7 (1.07%) Docker
2 3 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.15%) NFS
4 1 (0.15%) Postfix
4 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (1.38%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.07%) Terraform
3 4 (0.61%) Control-M
3 4 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.46%) Ansible
4 3 (0.46%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.15%) Avamar
6 1 (0.15%) CASB
6 1 (0.15%) Consul
6 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.15%) Grafana
6 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.15%) Packer
6 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 77 (11.77%) Microsoft
2 46 (7.03%) Oracle
3 42 (6.42%) SAP
4 34 (5.20%) ServiceNow
5 22 (3.36%) Murex
6 17 (2.60%) Workday
7 16 (2.45%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.22%) Databricks
9 6 (0.92%) Ariba
9 6 (0.92%) Google
10 5 (0.76%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.76%) Charles River
10 5 (0.76%) Foundry
10 5 (0.76%) Informatica
10 5 (0.76%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.76%) OpenLink
10 5 (0.76%) Splunk
11 4 (0.61%) IBM
12 3 (0.46%) Epicor
12 3 (0.46%) HP