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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 36 74
Rank change year-on-year -40 +38 -6
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 680 712 555
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.56% 5.61% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 6.07% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 461 366
10th Percentile £413 £406 £363
25th Percentile £506 £506 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £663 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +10.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £725 £813 £750
90th Percentile £888 £875 £844
England median daily rate £563 £588 £566
% change year-on-year -4.26% +3.75% -5.63%
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 17,012 11,732 15,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.40% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,858 11,109
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -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 260 220 302
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.54
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +7.50% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.72 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%

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 26 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 26 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 -16 102 £550 -12.00% 32
West London -14 14 £506 +19.12% 17
East London +5 10 £588 -2.08% 12
South London -14 4 £500 -13.79% 7
North London 0 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 28 (4.12%) Confluence
2 7 (1.03%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.74%) SAS
4 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.15%) Appian
5 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
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 28 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.76%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.29%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.76%) Endur
3 6 (0.88%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.88%) 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 (13.53%) Azure
2 76 (11.18%) AWS
3 28 (4.12%) GCP
4 25 (3.68%) SaaS
5 20 (2.94%) Entra ID
6 17 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (2.35%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.76%) GitHub
10 9 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
11 8 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.03%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.03%) OCI
12 7 (1.03%) PaaS
13 6 (0.88%) AWS Control Tower
13 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.35%) Firewall
2 9 (1.32%) Network Security
3 5 (0.74%) 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 (0.29%) Intranet
5 2 (0.29%) NGFW
5 2 (0.29%) VLAN
5 2 (0.29%) WinSCP
5 2 (0.29%) X.509
6 1 (0.15%) RFID
6 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.35%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (1.76%) Metadata
2 12 (1.76%) Power BI
2 12 (1.76%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.03%) Data Lake
3 7 (1.03%) RDBMS
4 6 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.74%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.59%) Big Data
7 3 (0.44%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (0.44%) Db2
7 3 (0.44%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.44%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.44%) Tableau
8 2 (0.29%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (7.50%) JIRA
2 11 (1.62%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.47%) Git
4 6 (0.88%) GitLab
5 5 (0.74%) Selenium
5 5 (0.74%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.59%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.44%) MLflow
8 2 (0.29%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.15%) Appium
9 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.15%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.15%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.15%) Gradle
9 1 (0.15%) jMock
9 1 (0.15%) Mockito
9 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.15%) TestRail
General
1 323 (47.50%) Finance
2 248 (36.47%) Social Skills
3 120 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (17.35%) Banking
5 72 (10.59%) Legal
6 69 (10.15%) Public Sector
7 33 (4.85%) Front Office
8 24 (3.53%) Investment Banking
8 24 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
9 22 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (3.09%) Financial Institution
10 21 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (2.35%) Retail
12 14 (2.06%) Marketing
13 13 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (1.91%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.76%) Law
14 12 (1.76%) Local Government
15 10 (1.47%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 102 (15.00%) Lead
2 90 (13.24%) Senior
3 69 (10.15%) Analyst
4 67 (9.85%) Architect
5 62 (9.12%) Project Manager
6 51 (7.50%) Developer
7 43 (6.32%) Business Analyst
8 37 (5.44%) Consultant
9 32 (4.71%) Programme Manager
9 32 (4.71%) Security Architect
10 24 (3.53%) Senior Manager
11 20 (2.94%) IT Manager
12 19 (2.79%) Risk Analyst
13 16 (2.35%) Delivery Manager
13 16 (2.35%) Risk Business Analyst
13 16 (2.35%) Risk Manager
14 15 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
15 14 (2.06%) Senior Developer
16 13 (1.91%) Security Engineer
16 13 (1.91%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.38%) .NET
2 17 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (2.06%) Kafka
4 13 (1.91%) Middleware
4 13 (1.91%) REST
5 11 (1.62%) Azure Blueprints
6 9 (1.32%) React
6 9 (1.32%) XML
7 8 (1.18%) PySpark
8 7 (1.03%) SOAP
9 6 (0.88%) J2EE
9 6 (0.88%) JSP
10 4 (0.59%) .NET Framework
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%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.76%) Management Information System
2 36 (5.29%) Cloud Native
3 33 (4.85%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.71%) Derivative
5 31 (4.56%) Onboarding
6 29 (4.26%) Security Posture
7 26 (3.82%) Market Risk
8 21 (3.09%) Fixed Income
9 20 (2.94%) Credit Risk
10 19 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (2.06%) AI Agents
12 14 (2.06%) Equities
13 13 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.76%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.76%) Operational Technology
15 11 (1.62%) Data Centre
15 11 (1.62%) NHS
16 10 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.53%) Linux
1 24 (3.53%) Windows
2 16 (2.35%) Unix
3 10 (1.47%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.44%) Alpine Linux
5 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.29%) zOS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (32.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 170 (25.00%) Agile
3 136 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 128 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
5 125 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 111 (16.32%) Roadmaps
7 108 (15.88%) Cybersecurity
8 105 (15.44%) Decision-Making
9 89 (13.09%) AI
10 85 (12.50%) Information Security
10 85 (12.50%) Project Management
11 72 (10.59%) Analytics
12 71 (10.44%) Project Delivery
13 69 (10.15%) DevOps
13 69 (10.15%) Regulatory Compliance
14 68 (10.00%) Migration
15 62 (9.12%) CI/CD
16 61 (8.97%) Change Management
17 54 (7.94%) Data Protection
18 53 (7.79%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 64 (9.41%) SQL
2 60 (8.82%) Python
3 35 (5.15%) Java
4 18 (2.65%) C#
5 15 (2.21%) PowerShell
6 7 (1.03%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.74%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.59%) Bash
8 4 (0.59%) Bicep
8 4 (0.59%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.44%) C
9 3 (0.44%) Scala
9 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.44%) VBA
10 2 (0.29%) C++
10 2 (0.29%) Korn
10 2 (0.29%) Perl
10 2 (0.29%) ProC
10 2 (0.29%) RPG
11 1 (0.15%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 100 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 91 (13.38%) Degree
3 69 (10.15%) SC Cleared
4 56 (8.24%) CISSP
5 34 (5.00%) CISM
6 27 (3.97%) PMI Certification
7 24 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 24 (3.53%) PMP
8 22 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (2.79%) CISA
9 19 (2.79%) CRISC
10 14 (2.06%) Master's Degree
11 13 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 8 (1.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 6 (0.88%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.88%) RIBA
15 5 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (10.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 67 (9.85%) GRC
3 66 (9.71%) NIST
4 47 (6.91%) QA
5 40 (5.88%) GDPR
6 31 (4.56%) PMO
7 29 (4.26%) Data Quality
8 26 (3.82%) PCI DSS
9 23 (3.38%) SLA
10 18 (2.65%) NCSC
11 17 (2.50%) SOC 2
12 15 (2.21%) COBIT
13 9 (1.32%) NIST 800
14 8 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.74%) ITGC
16 5 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 4 (0.59%) GMP
System Software
1 9 (1.32%) Docker
2 8 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.29%) NFS
5 1 (0.15%) Postfix
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (2.21%) Terraform
2 12 (1.76%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.88%) 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 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.29%) 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 84 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.91%) Oracle
3 42 (6.18%) SAP
4 40 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 16 (2.35%) Murex
5 16 (2.35%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.35%) Workday
6 10 (1.47%) Splunk
7 9 (1.32%) Google
8 7 (1.03%) Databricks
8 7 (1.03%) OpenLink
8 7 (1.03%) Qualys
8 7 (1.03%) Tenable
9 6 (0.88%) OpenAI
9 6 (0.88%) Rapid7
9 6 (0.88%) Sitecore
9 6 (0.88%) Sybase
10 5 (0.74%) Ariba
10 5 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.59%) IFS