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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 34 70
Rank change year-on-year -38 +36 -1
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 669 699 564
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.64% 5.77% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 6.25% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 454 386
10th Percentile £413 £404 £390
25th Percentile £506 £506 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £666 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.88% +10.96% -7.69%
75th Percentile £738 £813 £755
90th Percentile £913 £875 £850
England median daily rate £550 £583 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £48.08 £23.90
25th Percentile £85.00 £48.25 £26.23
Median hourly rate £90.00 £65.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +115.80% -52.94%
75th Percentile £95.00 £80.80 £39.44
90th Percentile - £89.92 £45.02
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% +370.37%

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 16,287 11,179 15,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.56% 92.25% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,870 7,505 11,106
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £433 £431 £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 £758 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 190 316
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.72
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £31.17 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.50% +11.33% -29.34%
75th Percentile £58.88 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.74 £63.03 £66.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
% change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%

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 29 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
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 29 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 -15 100 £600 -4.00% 33
West London -22 14 £506 +56.98% 12
East London 0 11 £590 -1.67% 4
South London -23 5 £500 -14.24% 8
North London - 1 £325 - 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 28 (4.19%) Confluence
2 9 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.75%) SAS
4 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) Appian
5 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
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 37 (5.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (4.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (2.69%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (1.64%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.30%) Trello
6 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.35%) Endur
3 7 (1.05%) Summit
4 6 (0.90%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.75%) Actimize
5 5 (0.75%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.60%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.45%) Dynamics SL
7 3 (0.45%) Findur
7 3 (0.45%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.45%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.45%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 83 (12.41%) Azure
2 66 (9.87%) AWS
3 24 (3.59%) GCP
4 19 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (2.84%) Power Platform
5 16 (2.39%) SaaS
6 14 (2.09%) Entra ID
7 13 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.35%) GitHub
10 8 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (1.05%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (0.90%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (0.75%) PaaS
14 4 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (0.60%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.79%) Firewall
2 7 (1.05%) Network Security
3 3 (0.45%) Internet
4 2 (0.30%) NAS
4 2 (0.30%) NGFW
4 2 (0.30%) SAN
4 2 (0.30%) VLAN
4 2 (0.30%) VPN
5 1 (0.15%) DMZ
5 1 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.15%) IPsec
5 1 (0.15%) LAN
5 1 (0.15%) RFID
5 1 (0.15%) WAN
5 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.09%) Power BI
2 13 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.79%) Metadata
4 11 (1.64%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.35%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.90%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.75%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.75%) Tableau
8 4 (0.60%) Big Data
9 3 (0.45%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.45%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.45%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.30%) Data Mart
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (8.37%) JIRA
2 7 (1.05%) Git
3 6 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.75%) GitLab
4 5 (0.75%) Selenium
5 4 (0.60%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.45%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.30%) MLflow
7 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.15%) Appium
8 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.15%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.15%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.15%) ERwin
8 1 (0.15%) jMock
8 1 (0.15%) JUnit
8 1 (0.15%) Maven
8 1 (0.15%) Mockito
8 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
General
1 309 (46.19%) Finance
2 240 (35.87%) Social Skills
3 118 (17.64%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (16.29%) Banking
5 67 (10.01%) Legal
5 67 (10.01%) Public Sector
6 29 (4.33%) Front Office
6 29 (4.33%) Investment Banking
7 23 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (3.14%) Financial Institution
9 20 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.39%) Retail
12 12 (1.79%) Marketing
12 12 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.64%) Law
14 10 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.35%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 95 (14.20%) Lead
2 89 (13.30%) Senior
3 71 (10.61%) Analyst
4 62 (9.27%) Project Manager
5 61 (9.12%) Architect
6 54 (8.07%) Developer
7 50 (7.47%) Business Analyst
8 38 (5.68%) Consultant
9 33 (4.93%) Programme Manager
10 30 (4.48%) Security Architect
11 22 (3.29%) Risk Analyst
12 21 (3.14%) Risk Business Analyst
13 20 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
13 20 (2.99%) Senior Developer
14 19 (2.84%) Risk Manager
14 19 (2.84%) Senior Manager
15 14 (2.09%) IT Manager
15 14 (2.09%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (1.94%) Security Engineer
16 13 (1.94%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 16 (2.39%) .NET
3 13 (1.94%) Kafka
4 11 (1.64%) Azure Blueprints
4 11 (1.64%) Middleware
5 10 (1.49%) REST
6 8 (1.20%) React
6 8 (1.20%) XML
7 6 (0.90%) J2EE
7 6 (0.90%) JSP
8 5 (0.75%) PySpark
9 4 (0.60%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (0.60%) JSON
9 4 (0.60%) RESTful
10 3 (0.45%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.45%) SOAP
11 2 (0.30%) Dask
11 2 (0.30%) FIXML
11 2 (0.30%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.47%) Management Information System
2 44 (6.58%) Derivative
3 32 (4.78%) Product Ownership
4 30 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 30 (4.48%) Market Risk
4 30 (4.48%) Security Posture
5 29 (4.33%) Onboarding
6 23 (3.44%) Credit Risk
7 20 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (2.84%) Equities
8 19 (2.84%) Fixed Income
9 18 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (2.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.94%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.94%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.64%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.64%) NHS
12 11 (1.64%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.39%) Linux
1 16 (2.39%) Windows
2 9 (1.35%) Unix
3 4 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.45%) Alpine Linux
4 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.30%) zOS
6 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (28.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 176 (26.31%) Agile
3 130 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
4 122 (18.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 119 (17.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 100 (14.95%) Cybersecurity
7 99 (14.80%) Roadmaps
8 97 (14.50%) Decision-Making
9 91 (13.60%) Project Management
10 90 (13.45%) AI
11 82 (12.26%) Information Security
12 75 (11.21%) Analytics
13 68 (10.16%) Project Delivery
14 64 (9.57%) Regulatory Compliance
15 60 (8.97%) ERP
16 58 (8.67%) Change Management
16 58 (8.67%) Data Protection
16 58 (8.67%) DevOps
17 55 (8.22%) Migration
18 53 (7.92%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 62 (9.27%) Python
2 59 (8.82%) SQL
3 37 (5.53%) Java
4 15 (2.24%) C#
5 13 (1.94%) PowerShell
6 10 (1.49%) C++
7 5 (0.75%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.60%) Bash
8 4 (0.60%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.45%) Bicep
9 3 (0.45%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.45%) VBA
10 2 (0.30%) Korn
10 2 (0.30%) Perl
10 2 (0.30%) RPG
10 2 (0.30%) Scala
11 1 (0.15%) C
11 1 (0.15%) Go
11 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 102 (15.25%) Degree
1 102 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 73 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.92%) CISSP
4 37 (5.53%) CISM
5 28 (4.19%) PMI Certification
6 26 (3.89%) PMP
7 21 (3.14%) CRISC
8 20 (2.99%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (2.24%) CISA
11 14 (2.09%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 9 (1.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 7 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
15 6 (0.90%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.90%) RIBA
16 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (10.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 62 (9.27%) NIST
3 61 (9.12%) GRC
4 48 (7.17%) QA
5 39 (5.83%) GDPR
6 33 (4.93%) PMO
7 30 (4.48%) Data Quality
8 27 (4.04%) PCI DSS
9 22 (3.29%) SLA
10 18 (2.69%) NCSC
11 16 (2.39%) COBIT
12 14 (2.09%) SOC 2
13 10 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (1.35%) NIST 800
15 8 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 5 (0.75%) GMP
17 5 (0.75%) GxP
17 5 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (1.20%) Docker
2 5 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.15%) NFS
4 1 (0.15%) Postfix
4 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (1.64%) Terraform
2 10 (1.49%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.60%) Ansible
3 4 (0.60%) Control-M
3 4 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.45%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.30%) Grafana
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.30%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.15%) Avamar
6 1 (0.15%) CASB
6 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.15%) Nessus
6 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 80 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.17%) Oracle
3 43 (6.43%) SAP
4 32 (4.78%) ServiceNow
5 20 (2.99%) Murex
6 18 (2.69%) Salesforce
7 16 (2.39%) Workday
8 9 (1.35%) Google
9 8 (1.20%) Databricks
10 6 (0.90%) OpenLink
10 6 (0.90%) Splunk
11 5 (0.75%) Ariba
11 5 (0.75%) Charles River
11 5 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (0.75%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.75%) Qualys
11 5 (0.75%) Remedy
11 5 (0.75%) Tenable
12 4 (0.60%) Informatica
12 4 (0.60%) Rapid7