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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 36 78
Rank change year-on-year -41 +42 -12
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 703 742 537
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.56% 5.49% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 5.96% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 477 344
10th Percentile £413 £406 £364
25th Percentile £513 £504 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £725 £813 £760
90th Percentile £888 £875 £850
England median daily rate £570 £581 £563
% change year-on-year -1.89% +3.29% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £48.00 £23.90
25th Percentile £85.00 £48.25 £26.23
Median hourly rate £90.00 £49.51 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +81.80% +64.36% -23.59%
75th Percentile £95.00 £65.00 £39.44
90th Percentile - £86.00 £45.02
England median hourly rate £74.68 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +21.44% +22.99% +318.76%

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 17,586 12,456 15,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.16% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,692 8,329 11,079
10th Percentile £360 £331 £338
25th Percentile £440 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 234 288
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.82 £24.66 £20.03
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +6.45% -27.57%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 10 July 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
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 10 July 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 -11 105 £550 -12.00% 123
West London -10 13 £506 +19.12% 87
East London +2 10 £633 +5.42% 10
South London -21 3 £569 -2.11% 4
North London -3 1 £325 -40.91%
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 28 (3.98%) Confluence
2 6 (0.85%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.71%) SAS
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.14%) Appian
5 1 (0.14%) CMS
5 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.14%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 30 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (1.71%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.85%) Endur
3 6 (0.85%) Actimize
3 6 (0.85%) Summit
4 5 (0.71%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.71%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.43%) Dynamics SL
6 3 (0.43%) Findur
6 3 (0.43%) Magento
6 3 (0.43%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.43%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 101 (14.37%) Azure
2 81 (11.52%) AWS
3 31 (4.41%) GCP
4 25 (3.56%) Entra ID
4 25 (3.56%) SaaS
5 18 (2.56%) Power Platform
6 17 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (1.99%) GitHub
8 13 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.28%) SuccessFactors
10 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (1.14%) OCI
10 8 (1.14%) PaaS
11 7 (1.00%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.00%) Snowflake
12 6 (0.85%) AWS Control Tower
12 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.28%) Firewall
2 9 (1.28%) Network Security
3 5 (0.71%) Internet
4 4 (0.57%) 4G
4 4 (0.57%) 5G
5 3 (0.43%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.43%) LAN
5 3 (0.43%) NAS
5 3 (0.43%) SAN
5 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.43%) VoLTE
5 3 (0.43%) VPN
5 3 (0.43%) WAN
5 3 (0.43%) WinSCP
6 2 (0.28%) Intranet
6 2 (0.28%) NGFW
6 2 (0.28%) VLAN
6 2 (0.28%) X.509
7 1 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.14%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.42%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (1.85%) Relational Database
3 12 (1.71%) Metadata
3 12 (1.71%) Power BI
4 7 (1.00%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.00%) RDBMS
5 6 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.71%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.57%) Big Data
8 3 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (0.43%) Db2
8 3 (0.43%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.43%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.43%) Tableau
9 2 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.28%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 53 (7.54%) JIRA
2 14 (1.99%) Git
2 14 (1.99%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.85%) GitLab
4 5 (0.71%) Selenium
4 5 (0.71%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.57%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.43%) MLflow
6 3 (0.43%) Subversion
7 2 (0.28%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.14%) Appium
8 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.14%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.14%) Gradle
8 1 (0.14%) jMock
8 1 (0.14%) Maven
8 1 (0.14%) Mockito
8 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 338 (48.08%) Finance
2 254 (36.13%) Social Skills
3 121 (17.21%) Banking
4 119 (16.93%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (10.95%) Legal
6 69 (9.82%) Public Sector
7 40 (5.69%) Front Office
8 25 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
8 25 (3.56%) Investment Banking
9 24 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (3.13%) Financial Institution
12 18 (2.56%) Retail
13 17 (2.42%) Marketing
14 15 (2.13%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.71%) Local Government
17 11 (1.56%) Law
18 10 (1.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 99 (14.08%) Lead
2 95 (13.51%) Senior
3 73 (10.38%) Analyst
4 71 (10.10%) Architect
5 67 (9.53%) Project Manager
6 52 (7.40%) Developer
7 45 (6.40%) Business Analyst
8 38 (5.41%) Consultant
9 35 (4.98%) Security Architect
10 32 (4.55%) Programme Manager
11 30 (4.27%) Senior Manager
12 21 (2.99%) IT Manager
13 20 (2.84%) Risk Analyst
14 18 (2.56%) Risk Business Analyst
15 16 (2.28%) Delivery Manager
16 14 (1.99%) Security Engineer
16 14 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
17 13 (1.85%) Risk Manager
18 12 (1.71%) Security Specialist
18 12 (1.71%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.27%) .NET
2 18 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (1.99%) Middleware
4 13 (1.85%) Kafka
4 13 (1.85%) REST
5 11 (1.56%) Azure Blueprints
6 9 (1.28%) React
6 9 (1.28%) XML
7 8 (1.14%) PySpark
8 7 (1.00%) SOAP
9 6 (0.85%) J2EE
9 6 (0.85%) JSP
10 4 (0.57%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.57%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.57%) JSON
10 4 (0.57%) OAuth
10 4 (0.57%) OpenID
10 4 (0.57%) RESTful
10 4 (0.57%) SAML
10 4 (0.57%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (6.26%) Management Information System
2 36 (5.12%) Cloud Native
3 33 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.41%) Derivative
5 31 (4.41%) Security Posture
6 29 (4.13%) Market Risk
7 25 (3.56%) Fixed Income
8 21 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (2.84%) Credit Risk
10 17 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (1.85%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.85%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.85%) Equities
11 13 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.71%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.56%) NHS
13 11 (1.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.56%) Linux
2 24 (3.41%) Windows
3 17 (2.42%) Unix
4 11 (1.56%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.43%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.28%) zOS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (33.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 179 (25.46%) Agile
3 146 (20.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 131 (18.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 124 (17.64%) Problem-Solving
6 118 (16.79%) Roadmaps
7 111 (15.79%) Decision-Making
8 109 (15.50%) Cybersecurity
9 96 (13.66%) AI
10 94 (13.37%) Project Management
11 86 (12.23%) Information Security
12 80 (11.38%) Analytics
13 74 (10.53%) Project Delivery
14 73 (10.38%) Migration
14 73 (10.38%) Regulatory Compliance
15 70 (9.96%) DevOps
16 62 (8.82%) Change Management
17 61 (8.68%) CI/CD
18 56 (7.97%) Data Protection
19 55 (7.82%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 65 (9.25%) SQL
2 64 (9.10%) Python
3 34 (4.84%) Java
4 18 (2.56%) C#
5 16 (2.28%) PowerShell
6 7 (1.00%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.71%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.57%) Bash
8 4 (0.57%) Bicep
8 4 (0.57%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.57%) VBA
9 3 (0.43%) C
9 3 (0.43%) Scala
9 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.28%) C++
10 2 (0.28%) Perl
10 2 (0.28%) ProC
10 2 (0.28%) RPG
11 1 (0.14%) Delphi
11 1 (0.14%) Korn
Qualifications
1 103 (14.65%) Security Cleared
2 92 (13.09%) Degree
3 73 (10.38%) SC Cleared
4 60 (8.53%) CISSP
5 33 (4.69%) CISM
6 28 (3.98%) PMI Certification
7 25 (3.56%) PMP
8 23 (3.27%) DV Cleared
9 22 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (2.70%) CISA
11 17 (2.42%) CRISC
12 16 (2.28%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (1.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 8 (1.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 6 (0.85%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.85%) RIBA
17 5 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
17 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (10.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 67 (9.53%) NIST
3 66 (9.39%) GRC
4 49 (6.97%) QA
5 39 (5.55%) GDPR
6 31 (4.41%) Data Quality
7 29 (4.13%) PMO
8 25 (3.56%) PCI DSS
9 24 (3.41%) SLA
10 19 (2.70%) SOC 2
11 17 (2.42%) NCSC
12 13 (1.85%) COBIT
13 9 (1.28%) NIST 800
14 8 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 5 (0.71%) ITGC
18 4 (0.57%) EU AI Act
18 4 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.28%) Docker
2 9 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.28%) NFS
4 1 (0.14%) Postfix
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (2.28%) Terraform
2 12 (1.71%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.14%) Ansible
4 5 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.57%) Control-M
5 4 (0.57%) Grafana
5 4 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.43%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.28%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.14%) Avamar
8 1 (0.14%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) CASB
8 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.14%) Nessus
8 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.14%) Puppet
8 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 90 (12.80%) Microsoft
2 46 (6.54%) Oracle
3 40 (5.69%) SAP
3 40 (5.69%) ServiceNow
4 16 (2.28%) Workday
5 15 (2.13%) Murex
5 15 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.56%) Google
7 10 (1.42%) Splunk
8 8 (1.14%) Qualys
8 8 (1.14%) Tenable
9 7 (1.00%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.00%) OpenLink
9 7 (1.00%) Rapid7
10 6 (0.85%) Sitecore
10 6 (0.85%) Sybase
11 5 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (0.71%) Databricks
12 4 (0.57%) Adaptive Insights
12 4 (0.57%) Okta