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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 40 66
Rank change year-on-year -33 +26 +6
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 635 681 584
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.58% 5.46% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 5.92% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 442 403
10th Percentile £413 £400 £394
25th Percentile £500 £504 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £750 £800 £770
90th Percentile £945 £875 £848
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - £48.12 £24.67
25th Percentile £85.00 £48.25 £28.18
Median hourly rate £90.00 £69.30 £33.23
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% +108.56% -50.41%
75th Percentile £95.00 £86.15 £39.44
90th Percentile - £96.50 £45.03
England median hourly rate £80.04 £62.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year +28.58% +18.57% +393.89%

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 15,677 11,512 15,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.30% 92.23% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,479 7,802 11,216
10th Percentile £356 £350 £341
25th Percentile £431 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £681
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 175 313
10th Percentile £18.52 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £23.66 £23.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +23.21% -26.80%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.40
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 12 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 12 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 -18 96 £600 - 72
East London -1 10 £630 +5.00% 8
West London -24 10 £544 +147.16% 12
South London -28 5 £500 -14.38% 4
North London - 2 £325 -
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 27 (4.25%) Confluence
2 9 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.10%) SAS
4 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.16%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.16%) ThingWorx
5 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 41 (6.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (4.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (3.46%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.31%) Trello
7 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.16%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.26%) Endur
3 7 (1.10%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.10%) Summit
4 6 (0.94%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.79%) Actimize
5 5 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.63%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.47%) Dynamics SL
7 3 (0.47%) Findur
7 3 (0.47%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.47%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.31%) Global One
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 73 (11.50%) Azure
2 59 (9.29%) AWS
3 20 (3.15%) GCP
3 20 (3.15%) Power Platform
4 17 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (2.52%) SaaS
6 12 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.42%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.42%) GitHub
9 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (1.26%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (1.10%) Amazon S3
11 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (0.94%) Snowflake
12 5 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (0.79%) PaaS
13 4 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (0.63%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.73%) Firewall
2 7 (1.10%) Network Security
3 2 (0.31%) Internet
3 2 (0.31%) LAN
3 2 (0.31%) NAS
3 2 (0.31%) SAN
3 2 (0.31%) VLAN
3 2 (0.31%) WAN
3 2 (0.31%) WLAN
4 1 (0.16%) DMZ
4 1 (0.16%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.16%) NGFW
4 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.16%) VPN
4 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (2.36%) Power BI
3 14 (2.20%) Metadata
4 10 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (1.57%) Relational Database
5 6 (0.94%) Data Lake
5 6 (0.94%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.79%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.79%) Tableau
7 3 (0.47%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (0.47%) Data Mart
7 3 (0.47%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.31%) Big Data
8 2 (0.31%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.31%) PowerCenter
8 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.31%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 57 (8.98%) JIRA
2 8 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.10%) Git
4 5 (0.79%) GitLab
5 4 (0.63%) Selenium
6 3 (0.47%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.47%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.16%) Appium
7 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.16%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.16%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.16%) ERwin
7 1 (0.16%) jMock
7 1 (0.16%) JUnit
7 1 (0.16%) Maven
7 1 (0.16%) MLflow
7 1 (0.16%) Mockito
7 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 292 (45.98%) Finance
2 237 (37.32%) Social Skills
3 116 (18.27%) Banking
4 114 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (9.45%) Public Sector
6 57 (8.98%) Legal
7 27 (4.25%) Front Office
7 27 (4.25%) Investment Banking
8 25 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (3.62%) Financial Institution
9 23 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (2.99%) Retail
12 12 (1.89%) Marketing
13 11 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.73%) Military
14 10 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.57%) Law
15 9 (1.42%) Back Office
15 9 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 91 (14.33%) Lead
2 86 (13.54%) Senior
3 72 (11.34%) Analyst
4 66 (10.39%) Project Manager
5 54 (8.50%) Developer
6 52 (8.19%) Architect
7 49 (7.72%) Business Analyst
8 42 (6.61%) Consultant
9 35 (5.51%) Programme Manager
10 22 (3.46%) Security Architect
11 21 (3.31%) Senior Developer
12 19 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
12 19 (2.99%) Risk Analyst
13 17 (2.68%) Risk Business Analyst
14 16 (2.52%) Risk Manager
14 16 (2.52%) Senior Manager
15 15 (2.36%) Java Developer
16 14 (2.20%) IT Manager
16 14 (2.20%) Security Consultant
16 14 (2.20%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.46%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (1.73%) .NET
2 11 (1.73%) Kafka
3 9 (1.42%) REST
4 8 (1.26%) Middleware
4 8 (1.26%) XML
5 7 (1.10%) React
6 6 (0.94%) J2EE
6 6 (0.94%) JSP
7 5 (0.79%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (0.63%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.63%) Azure Blueprints
9 3 (0.47%) PySpark
9 3 (0.47%) SailPoint
9 3 (0.47%) SOAP
10 2 (0.31%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.31%) COM
10 2 (0.31%) FIXML
10 2 (0.31%) JSON
10 2 (0.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 53 (8.35%) Management Information System
2 46 (7.24%) Derivative
3 29 (4.57%) Market Risk
4 28 (4.41%) Onboarding
5 26 (4.09%) Security Posture
6 25 (3.94%) Product Ownership
7 24 (3.78%) Cloud Native
8 22 (3.46%) Credit Risk
9 21 (3.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 20 (3.15%) Equities
11 19 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (2.83%) Fixed Income
13 14 (2.20%) Data Structures
14 13 (2.05%) AI Agents
15 12 (1.89%) Algorithms
15 12 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (1.73%) Equity Derivative
17 10 (1.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.20%) Linux
2 11 (1.73%) Windows
3 10 (1.57%) Unix
4 2 (0.31%) zOS
5 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (29.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 171 (26.93%) Agile
3 130 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
4 111 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 107 (16.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 95 (14.96%) Project Management
7 89 (14.02%) Roadmaps
8 88 (13.86%) Decision-Making
9 83 (13.07%) AI
9 83 (13.07%) Cybersecurity
10 78 (12.28%) Information Security
11 77 (12.13%) Analytics
12 72 (11.34%) Project Delivery
13 61 (9.61%) ERP
13 61 (9.61%) Regulatory Compliance
14 54 (8.50%) Data Protection
14 54 (8.50%) Migration
15 52 (8.19%) Change Management
15 52 (8.19%) DevOps
16 49 (7.72%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 66 (10.39%) SQL
2 65 (10.24%) Python
3 41 (6.46%) Java
4 13 (2.05%) C++
5 11 (1.73%) C#
6 9 (1.42%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.79%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.79%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.79%) VBA
8 4 (0.63%) Perl
9 3 (0.47%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.47%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.31%) Bash
10 2 (0.31%) Korn
10 2 (0.31%) RPG
10 2 (0.31%) Scala
11 1 (0.16%) Go
11 1 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.16%) R
Qualifications
1 107 (16.85%) Degree
2 89 (14.02%) Security Cleared
3 66 (10.39%) SC Cleared
4 49 (7.72%) CISSP
5 35 (5.51%) PMI Certification
6 34 (5.35%) CISM
7 33 (5.20%) PMP
8 18 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.83%) CRISC
9 13 (2.05%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 12 (1.89%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.73%) CISA
12 10 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.42%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 9 (1.42%) Numerate Degree
14 6 (0.94%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.94%) RIBA
15 5 (0.79%) APMG
16 4 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (11.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 59 (9.29%) NIST
3 55 (8.66%) GRC
4 44 (6.93%) QA
5 41 (6.46%) GDPR
6 34 (5.35%) PMO
7 30 (4.72%) Data Quality
8 28 (4.41%) PCI DSS
9 23 (3.62%) SLA
10 16 (2.52%) COBIT
11 14 (2.20%) NCSC
12 12 (1.89%) SOC 2
13 11 (1.73%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (1.26%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.79%) GMP
16 5 (0.79%) GxP
17 4 (0.63%) IFRS
System Software
1 6 (0.94%) Docker
2 5 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.16%) NFS
5 1 (0.16%) Postfix
5 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (1.26%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.79%) Terraform
3 4 (0.63%) Control-M
3 4 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.47%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.31%) Ansible
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.16%) Avamar
6 1 (0.16%) CASB
6 1 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.16%) Grafana
6 1 (0.16%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.16%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 74 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.72%) Oracle
3 44 (6.93%) SAP
4 29 (4.57%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.31%) Murex
6 17 (2.68%) Workday
7 16 (2.52%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.42%) Databricks
9 6 (0.94%) Ariba
9 6 (0.94%) Google
10 5 (0.79%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.79%) Charles River
10 5 (0.79%) Informatica
10 5 (0.79%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.79%) OpenLink
10 5 (0.79%) Splunk
11 4 (0.63%) Foundry
11 4 (0.63%) IBM
12 3 (0.47%) Epicor
12 3 (0.47%) HP