Risk Management Contracts in London

Risk Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Risk Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Risk Management over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 76 68
Rank change year-on-year +40 -8 +14
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 735 538 930
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.53% 3.06% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.00% 3.45% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 349 619
10th Percentile £408 £367 £450
25th Percentile £504 £483 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £672 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £813 £756 £800
90th Percentile £875 £850 £950
England median daily rate £585 £563 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% -6.25% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile £48.00 £23.90 £22.54
25th Percentile £48.25 £26.23 £23.36
Median hourly rate £49.51 £30.12 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year +64.36% -23.59% +53.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £39.44 £66.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £45.02 £68.40
England median hourly rate £61.50 £50.00 £10.63
% change year-on-year +22.99% +370.37% -67.24%

All Process and 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 12,246 15,579 23,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 88.54% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,177 11,085 16,913
10th Percentile £331 £340 £370
25th Percentile £425 £445 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 294 268
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.96 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.77
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -26.42% +13.25%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Risk Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in London

Risk Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Management in London.

Daily rate trend for Risk Management in London

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in London

Risk Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Risk Management in London.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Management in London

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Management in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 2025. 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 +19 110 £625 +7.30% 359
South London +15 15 £581 -29.58% 13
East London +15 7 £600 -5.51% 8
West London +4 7 £425 -5.56% 21
North London - 2 £550 -
Risk Management
England

Risk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 39 (5.31%) Confluence
2 33 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.59%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.90%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.22%) Apache
6 4 (0.54%) CMS
7 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.41%) SAS
8 2 (0.27%) CICS
8 2 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.14%) Kentico
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 35 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.27%) GNU Octave
6 2 (0.27%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 31 (4.22%) Endur
2 8 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.68%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.54%) ION Anvil
4 4 (0.54%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.54%) SAP GRC
5 3 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.41%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.27%) Actimize
6 2 (0.27%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.27%) OPENHousing
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.27%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.14%) MetaTrader
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 101 (13.74%) AWS
2 90 (12.24%) Azure
3 42 (5.71%) GCP
4 32 (4.35%) dbt
5 24 (3.27%) Power Platform
6 22 (2.99%) SaaS
7 21 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.09%) Amazon S3
9 8 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (1.09%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.09%) GitHub
10 7 (0.95%) Google Workspace
10 7 (0.95%) Lucidchart
11 6 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.82%) IaaS
11 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (0.82%) PowerApps
12 5 (0.68%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.04%) Firewall
2 12 (1.63%) Network Security
3 5 (0.68%) Multicast
3 5 (0.68%) SAN
4 4 (0.54%) WAN
5 3 (0.41%) NAS
5 3 (0.41%) S/MIME
5 3 (0.41%) SSL
5 3 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.27%) LAN
6 2 (0.27%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) DNS
7 1 (0.14%) HTTP
7 1 (0.14%) MPLS
7 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.14%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
2 32 (4.35%) Apache Arrow
2 32 (4.35%) Apache Iceberg
2 32 (4.35%) Dremio
3 29 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 22 (2.99%) Power BI
5 17 (2.31%) Big Data
6 16 (2.18%) Hadoop
7 7 (0.95%) Apache Hive
7 7 (0.95%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.95%) Tableau
8 5 (0.68%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.68%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.68%) Qlik Sense
8 5 (0.68%) Spotfire
8 5 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.54%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 65 (8.84%) JIRA
2 30 (4.08%) Git
3 14 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.77%) TeamCity
5 10 (1.36%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.09%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.95%) Maven
8 5 (0.68%) GCC
8 5 (0.68%) GDB
8 5 (0.68%) SpecFlow
9 4 (0.54%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.54%) JUnit
9 4 (0.54%) Selenium
9 4 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.41%) Mockito
11 2 (0.27%) Gatling
11 2 (0.27%) JMeter
11 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.27%) Snyk
11 2 (0.27%) TestCafe
General
1 363 (49.39%) Finance
2 294 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 165 (22.45%) Banking
4 153 (20.82%) Analytical Skills
5 116 (15.78%) Front Office
6 63 (8.57%) Investment Banking
7 48 (6.53%) Legal
8 38 (5.17%) Public Sector
9 29 (3.95%) Back Office
10 22 (2.99%) Financial Institution
11 20 (2.72%) Retail Banking
12 17 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (2.18%) Law
13 16 (2.18%) Marketing
14 15 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.77%) Telecoms
17 12 (1.63%) Retail
18 11 (1.50%) Local Government
19 9 (1.22%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 148 (20.14%) Developer
2 127 (17.28%) Analyst
3 85 (11.56%) Business Analyst
4 80 (10.88%) Senior
5 76 (10.34%) Project Manager
6 67 (9.12%) Architect
7 60 (8.16%) Lead
8 52 (7.07%) Consultant
9 44 (5.99%) AWS Developer
10 40 (5.44%) Java Developer
11 37 (5.03%) Python Developer
12 32 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
12 32 (4.35%) AWS Software Engineer
12 32 (4.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 32 (4.35%) Security Architect
12 32 (4.35%) Software Engineer
13 31 (4.22%) IT Manager
14 28 (3.81%) Risk Analyst
15 26 (3.54%) Senior Developer
16 24 (3.27%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.48%) React
2 52 (7.07%) AngularJS
3 39 (5.31%) Node.js
3 39 (5.31%) NumPy
4 38 (5.17%) Pandas
5 36 (4.90%) .NET
6 34 (4.63%) SciPy
7 32 (4.35%) Vue
8 22 (2.99%) Kafka
8 22 (2.99%) REST
9 13 (1.77%) RESTful
10 11 (1.50%) PySpark
10 11 (1.50%) TensorFlow
11 10 (1.36%) SOAP
12 9 (1.22%) ASP.NET
12 9 (1.22%) Spark Streaming
13 8 (1.09%) CSS
13 8 (1.09%) HTML
13 8 (1.09%) HTML5
13 8 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 58 (7.89%) Management Information System
2 55 (7.48%) Market Risk
3 51 (6.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 49 (6.67%) Derivative
5 45 (6.12%) Fixed Income
6 40 (5.44%) Equities
7 31 (4.22%) Product Ownership
7 31 (4.22%) Security Posture
8 27 (3.67%) Credit Risk
9 21 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.90%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
12 11 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.50%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.36%) Equity Derivative
13 10 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.22%) Data Centre
15 8 (1.09%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.27%) Windows
2 20 (2.72%) Linux
3 8 (1.09%) Unix
4 4 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.54%) zOS
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (27.07%) Agile
2 154 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
3 143 (19.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 131 (17.82%) Project Management
5 104 (14.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 96 (13.06%) Analytics
7 74 (10.07%) Cybersecurity
8 73 (9.93%) Scrum
9 72 (9.80%) Decision-Making
10 69 (9.39%) Migration
11 64 (8.71%) DevOps
12 63 (8.57%) Change Management
12 63 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 63 (8.57%) Information Security
13 56 (7.62%) Project Delivery
14 54 (7.35%) Data Analysis
14 54 (7.35%) Regulatory Compliance
15 52 (7.07%) Roadmaps
16 51 (6.94%) Asset Management
17 49 (6.67%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 132 (17.96%) Python
2 104 (14.15%) SQL
3 71 (9.66%) Java
4 54 (7.35%) JavaScript
5 52 (7.07%) TypeScript
6 43 (5.85%) C#
7 27 (3.67%) C++
8 10 (1.36%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.22%) Haskell
10 4 (0.54%) JCL
10 4 (0.54%) REXX
10 4 (0.54%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.41%) Bash
11 3 (0.41%) Jython
11 3 (0.41%) OCaml
11 3 (0.41%) R
11 3 (0.41%) VB
11 3 (0.41%) VBA
12 2 (0.27%) CLIST
12 2 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 103 (14.01%) Degree
2 61 (8.30%) Security Cleared
3 54 (7.35%) SC Cleared
4 44 (5.99%) CISSP
5 28 (3.81%) CISM
6 26 (3.54%) PMP
7 23 (3.13%) CISA
8 22 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (2.99%) PMI Certification
9 21 (2.86%) CRISC
10 18 (2.45%) Master's Degree
11 14 (1.90%) Numerate Degree
12 13 (1.77%) CBAP
13 11 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (1.22%) PhD
15 6 (0.82%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.68%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.71%) NIST
2 58 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (6.12%) QA
4 44 (5.99%) GDPR
5 34 (4.63%) GRC
6 19 (2.59%) Data Quality
7 18 (2.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (2.18%) MiFID
9 15 (2.04%) PCI DSS
10 13 (1.77%) PMO
11 11 (1.50%) EMIR
11 11 (1.50%) NIST 800
12 10 (1.36%) HIPAA
12 10 (1.36%) SLA
13 9 (1.22%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.95%) Basel III
14 7 (0.95%) EU AI Act
15 6 (0.82%) Basel II
15 6 (0.82%) NCSC
16 5 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (2.72%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.63%) Docker
3 5 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.54%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.27%) IAG
5 2 (0.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Postfix
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (0.95%) Terraform
2 5 (0.68%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.54%) Ansible
4 3 (0.41%) CASB
4 3 (0.41%) Grafana
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
5 2 (0.27%) QRadar
5 2 (0.27%) SCCM
6 1 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.14%) Packer
6 1 (0.14%) Puppet
6 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (9.39%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.44%) SAP
2 40 (5.44%) ServiceNow
3 19 (2.59%) Oracle
4 17 (2.31%) OpenLink
5 14 (1.90%) Databricks
6 13 (1.77%) Google
7 11 (1.50%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.50%) Workday
8 10 (1.36%) Murex
9 8 (1.09%) Qualys
10 7 (0.95%) Cisco
10 7 (0.95%) IBM
10 7 (0.95%) ION Trading
10 7 (0.95%) Splunk
11 6 (0.82%) Bloomberg
11 6 (0.82%) CyberArk
12 5 (0.68%) Solace
12 5 (0.68%) Sybase
12 5 (0.68%) VMware