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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 35 73
Rank change year-on-year -38 +38 -5
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 666 701 548
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.58% 5.73% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 6.21% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 453 369
10th Percentile £413 £405 £379
25th Percentile £505 £508 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £738 £813 £750
90th Percentile £895 £875 £838
England median daily rate £550 £590 £560
% change year-on-year -6.78% +5.36% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £48.04 £23.90
25th Percentile £85.00 £48.25 £26.23
Median hourly rate £90.00 £57.25 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +57.20% +90.08% -41.75%
75th Percentile £95.00 £75.05 £39.44
90th Percentile - £89.20 £45.02
England median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -10.56% +22.99% +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 16,492 11,281 15,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.70% 92.28% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,998 7,533 11,153
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 198 317
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.18 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.70 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.93% +14.72% -27.31%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.13 £63.75 £68.30
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.55 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.37% -23.87% +4.17%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 -18 102 £600 -4.00% 91
West London -14 14 £506 +19.12% 14
East London +1 11 £590 -1.67% 8
South London -18 5 £500 -13.04% 9
North London 0 1 £325 -40.91% 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 29 (4.35%) Confluence
2 9 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.60%) SAS
4 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) Appian
5 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.15%) IIS
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 32 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.65%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.30%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (2.10%) 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%) 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%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.45%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.45%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.30%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 84 (12.61%) Azure
2 70 (10.51%) AWS
3 26 (3.90%) GCP
4 19 (2.85%) SaaS
5 18 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (2.55%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.10%) Entra ID
8 12 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.50%) GitHub
11 8 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (1.05%) Amazon S3
13 6 (0.90%) PaaS
13 6 (0.90%) Snowflake
14 5 (0.75%) AWS Control Tower
14 5 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (0.75%) Collibra
14 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.80%) Firewall
2 8 (1.20%) Network Security
3 4 (0.60%) 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%) 4G
5 1 (0.15%) 5G
5 1 (0.15%) DMZ
5 1 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.15%) Intranet
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%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.15%) WAN
5 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
1 13 (1.95%) Power BI
1 13 (1.95%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.65%) Metadata
3 10 (1.50%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.90%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.75%) Tableau
7 4 (0.60%) Big Data
8 3 (0.45%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.45%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.30%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 54 (8.11%) JIRA
2 8 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.05%) Git
4 5 (0.75%) GitLab
4 5 (0.75%) Selenium
5 4 (0.60%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.60%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.30%) MLflow
7 1 (0.15%) Appium
7 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.15%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.15%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.15%) jMock
7 1 (0.15%) Mockito
7 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) TestRail
General
1 315 (47.30%) Finance
2 241 (36.19%) Social Skills
3 119 (17.87%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (17.42%) Banking
5 67 (10.06%) Public Sector
6 65 (9.76%) Legal
7 30 (4.50%) Front Office
8 27 (4.05%) Investment Banking
9 22 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (3.15%) Financial Institution
10 21 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.25%) Retail
13 12 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.80%) Law
13 12 (1.80%) Marketing
13 12 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.65%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.35%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 96 (14.41%) Lead
2 89 (13.36%) Senior
3 70 (10.51%) Analyst
4 63 (9.46%) Project Manager
5 62 (9.31%) Architect
6 52 (7.81%) Developer
7 49 (7.36%) Business Analyst
8 37 (5.56%) Consultant
9 33 (4.95%) Programme Manager
10 30 (4.50%) Security Architect
11 22 (3.30%) Risk Analyst
12 20 (3.00%) Senior Manager
13 19 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
13 19 (2.85%) Risk Business Analyst
13 19 (2.85%) Senior Developer
14 18 (2.70%) Risk Manager
15 15 (2.25%) IT Manager
15 15 (2.25%) Solutions Architect
16 14 (2.10%) Security Engineer
16 14 (2.10%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (2.70%) .NET
3 13 (1.95%) Kafka
4 12 (1.80%) REST
5 11 (1.65%) Azure Blueprints
5 11 (1.65%) Middleware
6 10 (1.50%) XML
7 8 (1.20%) React
8 6 (0.90%) J2EE
8 6 (0.90%) JSP
9 5 (0.75%) PySpark
9 5 (0.75%) SOAP
10 4 (0.60%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (0.60%) JSON
10 4 (0.60%) RESTful
11 3 (0.45%) .NET Core
11 3 (0.45%) .NET Framework
12 2 (0.30%) Dask
12 2 (0.30%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.36%) Management Information System
2 39 (5.86%) Derivative
3 35 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 31 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 31 (4.65%) Security Posture
5 29 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 28 (4.20%) Market Risk
7 22 (3.30%) Credit Risk
8 20 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.85%) Fixed Income
10 18 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (2.70%) Equities
10 18 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 15 (2.25%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.80%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.80%) Operational Technology
14 11 (1.65%) NHS
15 10 (1.50%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.15%) Linux
2 19 (2.85%) Windows
3 12 (1.80%) Unix
4 7 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.45%) Alpine Linux
5 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.30%) zOS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (29.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 171 (25.68%) Agile
3 126 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
4 125 (18.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 118 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
6 102 (15.32%) Cybersecurity
6 102 (15.32%) Roadmaps
7 95 (14.26%) Decision-Making
8 87 (13.06%) AI
8 87 (13.06%) Project Management
9 85 (12.76%) Information Security
10 71 (10.66%) Project Delivery
11 70 (10.51%) Analytics
12 65 (9.76%) Regulatory Compliance
13 62 (9.31%) DevOps
14 61 (9.16%) Change Management
15 58 (8.71%) Data Protection
15 58 (8.71%) Migration
16 57 (8.56%) CI/CD
16 57 (8.56%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 62 (9.31%) SQL
2 60 (9.01%) Python
3 37 (5.56%) Java
4 16 (2.40%) C#
5 14 (2.10%) PowerShell
6 8 (1.20%) C++
7 5 (0.75%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.75%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.60%) Bash
8 4 (0.60%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.45%) Bicep
9 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.45%) VBA
10 2 (0.30%) C
10 2 (0.30%) Korn
10 2 (0.30%) Perl
10 2 (0.30%) RPG
10 2 (0.30%) Scala
11 1 (0.15%) Go
11 1 (0.15%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 101 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 95 (14.26%) Degree
3 71 (10.66%) SC Cleared
4 58 (8.71%) CISSP
5 40 (6.01%) CISM
6 28 (4.20%) PMI Certification
7 26 (3.90%) PMP
8 23 (3.45%) CRISC
9 21 (3.15%) DV Cleared
10 17 (2.55%) CISA
10 17 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 12 (1.80%) Master's Degree
13 9 (1.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 6 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.90%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.90%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (11.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 66 (9.91%) NIST
3 64 (9.61%) GRC
4 49 (7.36%) QA
5 40 (6.01%) GDPR
6 31 (4.65%) PMO
7 28 (4.20%) Data Quality
8 27 (4.05%) PCI DSS
9 21 (3.15%) SLA
10 19 (2.85%) NCSC
11 16 (2.40%) COBIT
12 15 (2.25%) SOC 2
13 9 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (1.35%) NIST 800
14 8 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.75%) GMP
16 5 (0.75%) GxP
16 5 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (1.35%) Docker
2 6 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.15%) NFS
4 1 (0.15%) Postfix
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (1.80%) Terraform
2 11 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.60%) Ansible
4 4 (0.60%) Control-M
4 4 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.45%) Grafana
5 3 (0.45%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.30%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.15%) Avamar
7 1 (0.15%) CASB
7 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.15%) Nessus
7 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 81 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.21%) Oracle
3 41 (6.16%) SAP
4 36 (5.41%) ServiceNow
5 20 (3.00%) Murex
6 18 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.25%) Workday
8 10 (1.50%) Google
9 8 (1.20%) Databricks
9 8 (1.20%) Splunk
10 7 (1.05%) Qualys
10 7 (1.05%) Tenable
11 6 (0.90%) OpenLink
11 6 (0.90%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.75%) Ariba
12 5 (0.75%) Charles River
12 5 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (0.75%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.75%) Remedy
13 4 (0.60%) Sybase