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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 45 77
Rank change year-on-year -27 +32 -15
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 772 710 516
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.85% 5.35% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 5.79% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 468 321
10th Percentile £413 £389 £393
25th Percentile £500 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £725 £813 £750
90th Percentile £850 £888 £863
England median daily rate £565 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -1.74% -2.54% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile £35.37 £39.45 £22.02
25th Percentile £38.01 £48.25 £25.06
Median hourly rate £43.05 £65.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -33.77% +115.80% +38.48%
75th Percentile £48.71 - £39.44
90th Percentile £51.74 £79.00 £45.02
England median hourly rate £67.05 £51.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +31.46% -11.30% +15.00%

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 17,877 12,261 14,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.47% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,147 9,784
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 256 190
10th Percentile £17.46 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.94 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.19% -10.63%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.63 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -6 107 £600 -5.88% 125
West London -12 16 £500 +17.65% 70
East London +2 6 £750 +50.00% 10
South London -24 2 £413 -28.63% 13
North London 0 1 £550 -
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 32 (4.15%) Confluence
2 13 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.52%) SAS
4 2 (0.26%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.26%) CMS
4 2 (0.26%) IIS
4 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.13%) Appian
5 1 (0.13%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.13%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 30 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.13%) Trello
7 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.68%) Endur
3 5 (0.65%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.65%) SAP GRC
4 4 (0.52%) Actimize
4 4 (0.52%) Magento
4 4 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.39%) Findur
5 3 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.39%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.39%) Summit
6 2 (0.26%) Eikon
6 2 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.26%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 109 (14.12%) Azure
2 90 (11.66%) AWS
3 31 (4.02%) GCP
4 30 (3.89%) Entra ID
5 29 (3.76%) SaaS
6 24 (3.11%) Power Platform
7 23 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (1.55%) GitHub
9 11 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (1.30%) OCI
11 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (1.04%) PaaS
13 7 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (0.91%) Snowflake
13 7 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
14 6 (0.78%) Azure AI
14 6 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.85%) Firewall
2 15 (1.94%) Network Security
3 8 (1.04%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.78%) 4G
4 6 (0.78%) 5G
4 6 (0.78%) Internet
5 5 (0.65%) DNS
5 5 (0.65%) LAN
5 5 (0.65%) VPN
5 5 (0.65%) WAN
6 4 (0.52%) Cisco IPT
6 4 (0.52%) DHCP
6 4 (0.52%) Wireless
7 3 (0.39%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.39%) VoLTE
7 3 (0.39%) WinSCP
8 2 (0.26%) Intranet
8 2 (0.26%) Modbus
8 2 (0.26%) NAS
8 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.98%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.33%) Power BI
3 15 (1.94%) Metadata
4 14 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (1.42%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.04%) MongoDB
7 6 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.65%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.65%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.52%) Big Data
9 4 (0.52%) Db2
9 4 (0.52%) Neo4j
9 4 (0.52%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.39%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.39%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.39%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (7.25%) JIRA
2 14 (1.81%) Git
3 12 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.65%) Selenium
5 4 (0.52%) GitLab
5 4 (0.52%) Subversion
6 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.39%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.39%) Gradle
6 3 (0.39%) MLflow
6 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.13%) ERwin
8 1 (0.13%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.13%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.13%) QUnit
8 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 348 (45.08%) Finance
2 301 (38.99%) Social Skills
3 130 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (16.19%) Banking
5 87 (11.27%) Public Sector
6 76 (9.84%) Legal
7 63 (8.16%) Front Office
8 32 (4.15%) Investment Banking
9 31 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (2.85%) Telecoms
13 19 (2.46%) Financial Institution
14 16 (2.07%) Law
14 16 (2.07%) Marketing
14 16 (2.07%) Retail
15 13 (1.68%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.55%) Back Office
16 12 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 97 (12.56%) Lead
2 94 (12.18%) Senior
3 81 (10.49%) Analyst
4 79 (10.23%) Architect
5 69 (8.94%) Project Manager
6 49 (6.35%) Developer
7 45 (5.83%) Programme Manager
8 42 (5.44%) Business Analyst
9 37 (4.79%) Security Architect
10 32 (4.15%) Consultant
11 26 (3.37%) Senior Manager
12 25 (3.24%) IT Manager
13 24 (3.11%) Delivery Manager
14 21 (2.72%) Risk Analyst
15 18 (2.33%) Security Engineer
16 17 (2.20%) Technical Manager
17 16 (2.07%) Security Manager
17 16 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
17 16 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
18 15 (1.94%) Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.89%) .NET
2 24 (3.11%) Terraform
3 20 (2.59%) REST
4 18 (2.33%) Middleware
5 14 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
6 12 (1.55%) Kafka
7 9 (1.17%) React
8 8 (1.04%) Azure Blueprints
9 7 (0.91%) .NET Core
9 7 (0.91%) PySpark
9 7 (0.91%) XML
10 6 (0.78%) SailPoint
11 5 (0.65%) JSON
11 5 (0.65%) OAuth
11 5 (0.65%) SOAP
11 5 (0.65%) VML
12 4 (0.52%) .NET Framework
12 4 (0.52%) Jakarta EE
12 4 (0.52%) JSP
12 4 (0.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.31%) Onboarding
2 39 (5.05%) Cloud Native
3 36 (4.66%) Security Posture
4 35 (4.53%) Management Information System
5 33 (4.27%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.37%) Market Risk
7 25 (3.24%) Derivative
8 23 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (2.85%) Fixed Income
10 21 (2.72%) Credit Risk
11 18 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 16 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.94%) AI Agents
14 14 (1.81%) Data Centre
14 14 (1.81%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.68%) NHS
16 12 (1.55%) Equities
17 11 (1.42%) Operational Technology
18 10 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.53%) Windows
2 23 (2.98%) Linux
3 21 (2.72%) Unix
4 13 (1.68%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.39%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.39%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.13%) Android
7 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (40.03%) Stakeholder Management
2 204 (26.42%) Agile
3 161 (20.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 148 (19.17%) Cybersecurity
5 141 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 135 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
7 124 (16.06%) Decision-Making
8 120 (15.54%) AI
9 111 (14.38%) Roadmaps
10 97 (12.56%) Information Security
11 96 (12.44%) Project Management
12 93 (12.05%) Migration
13 90 (11.66%) Analytics
13 90 (11.66%) Project Delivery
14 76 (9.84%) DevOps
15 71 (9.20%) CI/CD
16 70 (9.07%) Change Management
17 65 (8.42%) SDLC
18 62 (8.03%) Validation
19 60 (7.77%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 72 (9.33%) Python
2 67 (8.68%) SQL
3 24 (3.11%) Java
4 22 (2.85%) C#
5 19 (2.46%) PowerShell
6 7 (0.91%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.78%) Bash
7 6 (0.78%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.65%) Bicep
9 4 (0.52%) C++
9 4 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.52%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.52%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.52%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.39%) C
10 3 (0.39%) Korn
10 3 (0.39%) R
10 3 (0.39%) Scala
10 3 (0.39%) VBA
10 3 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 139 (18.01%) Security Cleared
2 102 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 89 (11.53%) Degree
4 63 (8.16%) CISSP
5 35 (4.53%) CISM
6 34 (4.40%) PMI Certification
7 33 (4.27%) PMP
8 32 (4.15%) DV Cleared
9 20 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (2.07%) CRISC
11 14 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (1.81%) CISA
11 14 (1.81%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 7 (0.91%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.78%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.78%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (10.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 72 (9.33%) NIST
3 69 (8.94%) GRC
4 64 (8.29%) QA
5 33 (4.27%) Data Quality
5 33 (4.27%) GDPR
6 30 (3.89%) PMO
7 23 (2.98%) NCSC
8 15 (1.94%) SLA
9 13 (1.68%) COBIT
10 12 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (1.42%) SOC 2
12 10 (1.30%) PCI DSS
13 9 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.78%) Basel III
14 6 (0.78%) ITGC
14 6 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 5 (0.65%) JSP 440
System Software
1 19 (2.46%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.04%) Docker
4 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.26%) NFS
6 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (1.94%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.55%) Ansible
3 5 (0.65%) Grafana
3 5 (0.65%) SCCM
4 4 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.52%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.39%) Control-M
5 3 (0.39%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.39%) Puppet
6 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.26%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.13%) Argo
7 1 (0.13%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.13%) Istio
7 1 (0.13%) Nessus
Vendors
1 117 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.87%) ServiceNow
3 40 (5.18%) Oracle
3 40 (5.18%) SAP
4 13 (1.68%) Salesforce
4 13 (1.68%) Splunk
5 11 (1.42%) Google
5 11 (1.42%) Murex
6 9 (1.17%) Qualys
6 9 (1.17%) Workday
7 8 (1.04%) Databricks
7 8 (1.04%) Tenable
8 6 (0.78%) CyberArk
8 6 (0.78%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.78%) OpenLink
8 6 (0.78%) Rapid7
8 6 (0.78%) Sybase
9 5 (0.65%) Bloomberg
9 5 (0.65%) Cisco
9 5 (0.65%) Red Hat