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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 40 76
Rank change year-on-year -37 +36 -10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 715 745 489
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.55% 5.46% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 5.93% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 489 307
10th Percentile £424 £400 £379
25th Percentile £500 £500 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £725 £806 £774
90th Percentile £850 £875 £863
England median daily rate £570 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -0.87% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £35.05 £23.90
25th Percentile £85.00 £48.25 £26.23
Median hourly rate £90.00 £49.50 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +64.34% +28.94%
75th Percentile £95.00 £65.00 £39.44
90th Percentile - £86.00 £45.02
England median hourly rate £79.00 £51.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +54.90% -11.30% +58.80%

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 17,949 12,571 14,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.19% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,845 8,422 10,287
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 246 207
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -12.50% -17.62%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.31 £54.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%

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 August 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 1 August 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 -14 105 £550 -12.00% 87
West London -8 17 £513 +20.59% 24
East London +2 7 £590 +7.27% 14
South London -25 3 £569 -1.60% 11
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 31 (4.34%) Confluence
2 9 (1.26%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.56%) SAS
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.28%) IIS
4 2 (0.28%) Jupyter
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%) 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 25 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.54%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (1.68%) Endur
2 11 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.70%) Actimize
4 4 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.56%) Magento
4 4 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.42%) Dynamics SL
5 3 (0.42%) Findur
5 3 (0.42%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.42%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.42%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.42%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 105 (14.69%) Azure
2 84 (11.75%) AWS
3 31 (4.34%) GCP
4 26 (3.64%) Entra ID
4 26 (3.64%) SaaS
5 21 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (2.38%) Power Platform
7 14 (1.96%) GitHub
8 13 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (1.12%) OCI
10 8 (1.12%) PaaS
11 7 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (0.98%) Snowflake
12 6 (0.84%) AWS Control Tower
12 6 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (0.84%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.52%) Firewall
2 11 (1.54%) Network Security
3 6 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.70%) 4G
4 5 (0.70%) 5G
4 5 (0.70%) Internet
4 5 (0.70%) LAN
4 5 (0.70%) WAN
5 3 (0.42%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.42%) NAS
5 3 (0.42%) SAN
5 3 (0.42%) VoLTE
5 3 (0.42%) VPN
5 3 (0.42%) WinSCP
6 2 (0.28%) DHCP
6 2 (0.28%) DNS
6 2 (0.28%) Intranet
6 2 (0.28%) VLAN
6 2 (0.28%) Wireless
6 2 (0.28%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.66%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.68%) Power BI
4 10 (1.40%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.12%) Metadata
6 7 (0.98%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.84%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.70%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.56%) Big Data
10 3 (0.42%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.42%) Db2
10 3 (0.42%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.42%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.42%) Tableau
11 2 (0.28%) Redis
11 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.28%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 53 (7.41%) JIRA
2 16 (2.24%) Git
3 14 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.70%) GitLab
4 5 (0.70%) Selenium
4 5 (0.70%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.56%) Subversion
5 4 (0.56%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.42%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.42%) MLflow
7 2 (0.28%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.28%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.14%) Appium
8 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.14%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.14%) Gradle
8 1 (0.14%) Mockito
8 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 337 (47.13%) Finance
2 255 (35.66%) Social Skills
3 118 (16.50%) Banking
4 116 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (10.21%) Legal
6 72 (10.07%) Public Sector
7 44 (6.15%) Front Office
8 26 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (3.36%) Investment Banking
11 21 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (2.80%) Financial Institution
12 20 (2.80%) Retail
13 19 (2.66%) Marketing
14 17 (2.38%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.68%) Law
15 12 (1.68%) Local Government
16 11 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (1.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 102 (14.27%) Lead
2 97 (13.57%) Senior
3 71 (9.93%) Architect
3 71 (9.93%) Project Manager
4 66 (9.23%) Analyst
5 48 (6.71%) Developer
6 41 (5.73%) Programme Manager
7 38 (5.31%) Business Analyst
8 37 (5.17%) Consultant
9 34 (4.76%) Security Architect
10 30 (4.20%) Senior Manager
11 22 (3.08%) Delivery Manager
12 19 (2.66%) IT Manager
12 19 (2.66%) Risk Analyst
13 16 (2.24%) Security Engineer
13 16 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (2.10%) Product Manager
14 15 (2.10%) Risk Business Analyst
14 15 (2.10%) Technical Manager
15 14 (1.96%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.36%) .NET
2 17 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (2.38%) REST
3 14 (1.96%) Middleware
4 12 (1.68%) Kafka
5 11 (1.54%) Azure Blueprints
6 9 (1.26%) React
7 8 (1.12%) PySpark
8 7 (0.98%) SOAP
8 7 (0.98%) XML
9 5 (0.70%) .NET Framework
9 5 (0.70%) OAuth
9 5 (0.70%) SailPoint
9 5 (0.70%) VML
10 4 (0.56%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.56%) Jakarta EE
10 4 (0.56%) JSON
10 4 (0.56%) JSP
10 4 (0.56%) OpenID
10 4 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.73%) Cloud Native
2 39 (5.45%) Management Information System
3 37 (5.17%) Onboarding
4 36 (5.03%) Product Ownership
5 31 (4.34%) Security Posture
6 24 (3.36%) Derivative
6 24 (3.36%) Market Risk
7 20 (2.80%) Fixed Income
8 19 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.24%) AI Agents
9 16 (2.24%) Credit Risk
9 16 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.82%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.54%) Equities
12 11 (1.54%) Operational Technology
13 10 (1.40%) CMDB
13 10 (1.40%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.06%) Windows
2 25 (3.50%) Linux
3 18 (2.52%) Unix
4 13 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (37.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 185 (25.87%) Agile
3 149 (20.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 132 (18.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 118 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
6 117 (16.36%) Cybersecurity
7 113 (15.80%) Roadmaps
8 105 (14.69%) Decision-Making
9 102 (14.27%) AI
10 98 (13.71%) Project Management
11 89 (12.45%) Information Security
12 80 (11.19%) Project Delivery
13 78 (10.91%) Migration
14 72 (10.07%) Analytics
15 71 (9.93%) DevOps
16 63 (8.81%) Change Management
17 62 (8.67%) CI/CD
17 62 (8.67%) Regulatory Compliance
18 56 (7.83%) SDLC
19 52 (7.27%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (8.25%) Python
1 59 (8.25%) SQL
2 31 (4.34%) Java
3 18 (2.52%) C#
3 18 (2.52%) PowerShell
4 7 (0.98%) PL/SQL
5 4 (0.56%) Bash
5 4 (0.56%) Bicep
5 4 (0.56%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.42%) C
6 3 (0.42%) C++
6 3 (0.42%) Scala
6 3 (0.42%) VBA
7 2 (0.28%) Delphi
7 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.28%) Korn
7 2 (0.28%) Perl
7 2 (0.28%) ProC
7 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 111 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 88 (12.31%) Degree
3 79 (11.05%) SC Cleared
4 58 (8.11%) CISSP
5 30 (4.20%) CISM
5 30 (4.20%) PMI Certification
6 28 (3.92%) PMP
7 27 (3.78%) DV Cleared
8 19 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (2.52%) CISA
10 15 (2.10%) CRISC
10 15 (2.10%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 9 (1.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 6 (0.84%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.84%) RIBA
13 5 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (10.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 77 (10.77%) NIST
2 66 (9.23%) GRC
3 56 (7.83%) QA
4 32 (4.48%) GDPR
5 31 (4.34%) PMO
6 28 (3.92%) Data Quality
7 22 (3.08%) PCI DSS
8 21 (2.94%) SLA
9 18 (2.52%) NCSC
9 18 (2.52%) SOC 2
10 13 (1.82%) COBIT
11 10 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (1.26%) NIST 800
13 8 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.84%) ITGC
16 4 (0.56%) EU AI Act
16 4 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.98%) Docker
4 2 (0.28%) NFS
5 1 (0.14%) Postfix
5 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (2.52%) Terraform
2 11 (1.54%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.26%) Ansible
4 5 (0.70%) Grafana
4 5 (0.70%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.42%) Control-M
6 3 (0.42%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.28%) Puppet
7 2 (0.28%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.28%) SCCM
8 1 (0.14%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) CASB
8 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.14%) Nessus
8 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 93 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.87%) ServiceNow
3 40 (5.59%) Oracle
4 36 (5.03%) SAP
5 16 (2.24%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.68%) Google
6 12 (1.68%) Splunk
6 12 (1.68%) Workday
7 11 (1.54%) Murex
8 8 (1.12%) Qualys
8 8 (1.12%) Tenable
9 7 (0.98%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.98%) Rapid7
10 6 (0.84%) Databricks
10 6 (0.84%) OpenLink
10 6 (0.84%) Sybase
11 5 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (0.70%) CyberArk
11 5 (0.70%) Okta
11 5 (0.70%) Zscaler