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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 35 69
Rank change year-on-year -42 +34 -2
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 675 709 554
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.53% 5.61% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 6.08% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 457 365
10th Percentile £413 £410 £373
25th Percentile £505 £506 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £728 £813 £750
90th Percentile £888 £875 £845
England median daily rate £563 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -5.06% +3.04% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £48.00 £23.90
25th Percentile £85.00 £48.25 £26.23
Median hourly rate £90.00 £49.51 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +81.80% +64.36% -23.59%
75th Percentile £95.00 £65.00 £39.44
90th Percentile - £86.00 £45.02
England median hourly rate £64.09 £63.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.33% +26.50% +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 17,000 11,667 15,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.40% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,819 11,135
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 214 309
10th Percentile £18.01 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%
75th Percentile £59.99 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%

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 25 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 25 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 -12 101 £550 -12.00% 35
West London -19 14 £506 +19.12% 14
East London +5 10 £588 -2.08% 9
South London -24 4 £500 -13.79% 7
North London -1 1 £325 -40.91% 1
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 (4.00%) Confluence
2 6 (0.89%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.74%) SAS
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
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 Workflow
5 1 (0.15%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 27 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.37%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (1.63%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.30%) Trello
6 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.63%) Endur
3 6 (0.89%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.89%) Summit
4 5 (0.74%) Actimize
4 5 (0.74%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.44%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.44%) Dynamics SL
6 3 (0.44%) Findur
6 3 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite
6 3 (0.44%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.44%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.44%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 92 (13.63%) Azure
2 76 (11.26%) AWS
3 28 (4.15%) GCP
4 25 (3.70%) SaaS
5 20 (2.96%) Entra ID
6 17 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (2.22%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.78%) GitHub
10 9 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
11 8 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.04%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.04%) OCI
12 7 (1.04%) PaaS
13 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (0.89%) Snowflake
14 5 (0.74%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.37%) Firewall
2 9 (1.33%) Network Security
3 4 (0.59%) Internet
4 3 (0.44%) 4G
4 3 (0.44%) 5G
4 3 (0.44%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.44%) LAN
4 3 (0.44%) NAS
4 3 (0.44%) SAN
4 3 (0.44%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.44%) VoLTE
4 3 (0.44%) VPN
4 3 (0.44%) WAN
5 2 (0.30%) NGFW
5 2 (0.30%) VLAN
5 2 (0.30%) WinSCP
5 2 (0.30%) X.509
6 1 (0.15%) DMZ
6 1 (0.15%) Intranet
6 1 (0.15%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.22%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (1.78%) Metadata
3 11 (1.63%) Power BI
3 11 (1.63%) Relational Database
4 7 (1.04%) Data Lake
5 6 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.89%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.74%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.59%) Big Data
8 3 (0.44%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (0.44%) Db2
8 3 (0.44%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.44%) Tableau
9 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 50 (7.41%) JIRA
2 10 (1.48%) Git
2 10 (1.48%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.89%) GitLab
4 5 (0.74%) Selenium
5 4 (0.59%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.59%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.44%) 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%) Gradle
7 1 (0.15%) Mockito
7 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) TestRail
General
1 318 (47.11%) Finance
2 244 (36.15%) Social Skills
3 118 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (16.89%) Banking
5 71 (10.52%) Legal
6 68 (10.07%) Public Sector
7 33 (4.89%) Front Office
8 24 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (3.41%) Investment Banking
10 22 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (3.11%) Financial Institution
11 21 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (2.37%) Retail
13 14 (2.07%) Marketing
14 13 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.93%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.78%) Law
15 12 (1.78%) Local Government
16 10 (1.48%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 102 (15.11%) Lead
2 89 (13.19%) Senior
3 70 (10.37%) Analyst
4 68 (10.07%) Architect
5 61 (9.04%) Project Manager
6 49 (7.26%) Developer
7 43 (6.37%) Business Analyst
8 37 (5.48%) Consultant
9 32 (4.74%) Programme Manager
9 32 (4.74%) Security Architect
10 23 (3.41%) Senior Manager
11 19 (2.81%) IT Manager
11 19 (2.81%) Risk Analyst
12 16 (2.37%) Delivery Manager
12 16 (2.37%) Risk Business Analyst
12 16 (2.37%) Risk Manager
12 16 (2.37%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (2.07%) Senior Developer
14 13 (1.93%) Security Engineer
15 12 (1.78%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.11%) .NET
2 17 (2.52%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (2.07%) Kafka
4 13 (1.93%) Middleware
5 12 (1.78%) REST
6 11 (1.63%) Azure Blueprints
7 9 (1.33%) React
8 8 (1.19%) PySpark
8 8 (1.19%) XML
9 6 (0.89%) J2EE
9 6 (0.89%) JSP
9 6 (0.89%) SOAP
10 4 (0.59%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.59%) JSON
10 4 (0.59%) OAuth
10 4 (0.59%) OpenID
10 4 (0.59%) RESTful
10 4 (0.59%) SAML
11 3 (0.44%) .NET Framework
11 3 (0.44%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.81%) Management Information System
2 37 (5.48%) Cloud Native
3 33 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.74%) Derivative
5 31 (4.59%) Onboarding
6 30 (4.44%) Security Posture
7 26 (3.85%) Market Risk
8 21 (3.11%) Fixed Income
9 20 (2.96%) Credit Risk
10 19 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 14 (2.07%) AI Agents
13 14 (2.07%) Equities
14 13 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (1.78%) Data Structures
16 11 (1.63%) NHS
16 11 (1.63%) Operational Technology
17 10 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
17 10 (1.48%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.56%) Windows
2 22 (3.26%) Linux
3 14 (2.07%) Unix
4 10 (1.48%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.44%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.30%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (32.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 169 (25.04%) Agile
3 137 (20.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 128 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
5 124 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 110 (16.30%) Roadmaps
7 107 (15.85%) Cybersecurity
8 104 (15.41%) Decision-Making
9 89 (13.19%) AI
10 86 (12.74%) Information Security
11 83 (12.30%) Project Management
12 73 (10.81%) Analytics
13 70 (10.37%) Project Delivery
14 69 (10.22%) DevOps
15 68 (10.07%) Regulatory Compliance
16 65 (9.63%) Migration
17 63 (9.33%) CI/CD
18 60 (8.89%) Change Management
19 54 (8.00%) Data Protection
20 53 (7.85%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 62 (9.19%) SQL
2 58 (8.59%) Python
3 35 (5.19%) Java
4 16 (2.37%) C#
5 15 (2.22%) PowerShell
6 5 (0.74%) PL/SQL
6 5 (0.74%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.59%) Bash
7 4 (0.59%) Bicep
7 4 (0.59%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.44%) Korn
8 3 (0.44%) Scala
8 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.44%) VBA
9 2 (0.30%) C
9 2 (0.30%) C++
9 2 (0.30%) Perl
9 2 (0.30%) RPG
10 1 (0.15%) Groovy
10 1 (0.15%) ProC
Qualifications
1 100 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 89 (13.19%) Degree
3 69 (10.22%) SC Cleared
4 55 (8.15%) CISSP
5 33 (4.89%) CISM
6 26 (3.85%) PMI Certification
7 24 (3.56%) DV Cleared
8 23 (3.41%) PMP
9 22 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (2.81%) CISA
10 19 (2.81%) CRISC
11 14 (2.07%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 8 (1.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 6 (0.89%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.89%) RIBA
16 5 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (10.07%) GRC
3 65 (9.63%) NIST
4 44 (6.52%) QA
5 39 (5.78%) GDPR
6 31 (4.59%) PMO
7 29 (4.30%) Data Quality
8 26 (3.85%) PCI DSS
9 23 (3.41%) SLA
10 18 (2.67%) NCSC
11 16 (2.37%) SOC 2
12 15 (2.22%) COBIT
13 9 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (1.33%) NIST 800
14 8 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 4 (0.59%) GMP
17 4 (0.59%) GxP
System Software
1 9 (1.33%) Docker
2 8 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.30%) NFS
5 1 (0.15%) Postfix
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (2.22%) Terraform
2 12 (1.78%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.89%) Ansible
4 5 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.59%) Control-M
5 4 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.44%) Grafana
6 3 (0.44%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.30%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.15%) Avamar
8 1 (0.15%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.15%) CASB
8 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.15%) Nessus
8 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 82 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.67%) Oracle
3 42 (6.22%) SAP
4 40 (5.93%) ServiceNow
5 16 (2.37%) Murex
5 16 (2.37%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.37%) Workday
6 10 (1.48%) Splunk
7 9 (1.33%) Google
8 8 (1.19%) Databricks
9 7 (1.04%) OpenLink
9 7 (1.04%) Qualys
9 7 (1.04%) Tenable
10 6 (0.89%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.89%) Rapid7
10 6 (0.89%) Sybase
11 5 (0.74%) Ariba
11 5 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.59%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.59%) Sitecore