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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 35 74
Rank change year-on-year -36 +39 -4
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 669 701 544
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.58% 5.73% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 6.21% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 453 366
10th Percentile £413 £405 £374
25th Percentile £505 £508 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £737 £813 £755
90th Percentile £888 £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 £58.00 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -5.68% +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 16,594 11,281 15,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.76% 92.27% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,070 7,533 11,092
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
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 247 198 317
10th Percentile £18.48 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.70 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% +14.72% -27.31%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £63.75 £68.30
England median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +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 9 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 9 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 -13 103 £600 -4.00% 77
West London -8 15 £506 +19.12% 13
East London +1 11 £590 -1.67% 6
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 (4.33%) Confluence
2 9 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.60%) SAS
4 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.15%) Appian
4 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.15%) IIS
4 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.15%) ThingWorx
4 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.64%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.30%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (2.09%) 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%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.45%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.45%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 85 (12.71%) Azure
2 70 (10.46%) AWS
3 26 (3.89%) GCP
4 19 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (2.84%) SaaS
5 17 (2.54%) Power Platform
6 16 (2.39%) Entra ID
7 12 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.35%) GitHub
10 8 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (1.05%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.90%) OCI
12 6 (0.90%) PaaS
12 6 (0.90%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.75%) AWS Control Tower
13 5 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (0.75%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.79%) Firewall
2 8 (1.20%) Network Security
3 4 (0.60%) Internet
4 2 (0.30%) Kerberos
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%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
1 13 (1.94%) Power BI
1 13 (1.94%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.64%) Metadata
3 10 (1.49%) 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%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.45%) Big Data
8 3 (0.45%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.30%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.30%) Db2
9 2 (0.30%) NoSQL
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 53 (7.92%) 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%) 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%) jMock
7 1 (0.15%) Mockito
7 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) TestRail
General
1 316 (47.23%) Finance
2 242 (36.17%) Social Skills
3 120 (17.94%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (17.19%) Banking
5 67 (10.01%) Legal
5 67 (10.01%) Public Sector
6 29 (4.33%) Front Office
7 26 (3.89%) Investment Banking
8 22 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (3.14%) Financial Institution
10 20 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.24%) Retail
13 12 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.79%) Law
13 12 (1.79%) Marketing
13 12 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.64%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.35%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 98 (14.65%) Lead
2 89 (13.30%) Senior
3 70 (10.46%) Analyst
4 64 (9.57%) Project Manager
5 62 (9.27%) Architect
6 53 (7.92%) Developer
7 49 (7.32%) Business Analyst
8 37 (5.53%) Consultant
9 33 (4.93%) Programme Manager
10 30 (4.48%) Security Architect
11 22 (3.29%) Risk Analyst
12 21 (3.14%) Senior Manager
13 19 (2.84%) Delivery Manager
13 19 (2.84%) Risk Business Analyst
13 19 (2.84%) Senior Developer
14 18 (2.69%) Risk Manager
15 16 (2.39%) IT Manager
16 15 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
17 14 (2.09%) Security Engineer
17 14 (2.09%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.99%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (2.69%) .NET
3 14 (2.09%) Kafka
4 12 (1.79%) REST
5 11 (1.64%) Azure Blueprints
5 11 (1.64%) Middleware
6 10 (1.49%) 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%) OAuth
10 4 (0.60%) OpenID
10 4 (0.60%) RESTful
11 3 (0.45%) .NET Framework
11 3 (0.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.47%) Management Information System
2 37 (5.53%) Derivative
3 34 (5.08%) Cloud Native
4 31 (4.63%) Onboarding
4 31 (4.63%) Product Ownership
5 30 (4.48%) Security Posture
6 27 (4.04%) Market Risk
7 22 (3.29%) Credit Risk
8 20 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (2.69%) Fixed Income
10 17 (2.54%) Equities
10 17 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 15 (2.24%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.79%) Data Structures
14 11 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.64%) NHS
14 11 (1.64%) Operational Technology
15 10 (1.49%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.29%) Linux
2 20 (2.99%) Windows
3 13 (1.94%) 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
1 199 (29.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 170 (25.41%) Agile
3 128 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
3 128 (19.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 118 (17.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 104 (15.55%) Roadmaps
6 103 (15.40%) Cybersecurity
7 95 (14.20%) Decision-Making
8 88 (13.15%) Project Management
9 86 (12.86%) AI
10 84 (12.56%) Information Security
11 71 (10.61%) Project Delivery
12 70 (10.46%) Analytics
13 66 (9.87%) Regulatory Compliance
14 63 (9.42%) DevOps
15 61 (9.12%) Change Management
15 61 (9.12%) Migration
16 58 (8.67%) CI/CD
16 58 (8.67%) Data Protection
16 58 (8.67%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 61 (9.12%) SQL
2 58 (8.67%) Python
3 38 (5.68%) Java
4 16 (2.39%) C#
5 14 (2.09%) PowerShell
6 8 (1.20%) C++
7 5 (0.75%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.75%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.60%) Bash
9 3 (0.45%) Bicep
9 3 (0.45%) JavaScript
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%) Groovy
11 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 101 (15.10%) Security Cleared
2 96 (14.35%) Degree
3 71 (10.61%) SC Cleared
4 58 (8.67%) CISSP
5 39 (5.83%) CISM
6 28 (4.19%) PMI Certification
7 26 (3.89%) PMP
8 23 (3.44%) CRISC
9 21 (3.14%) DV Cleared
10 18 (2.69%) CISA
11 17 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 11 (1.64%) Master's Degree
15 8 (1.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 6 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.90%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (0.90%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (11.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 66 (9.87%) NIST
3 64 (9.57%) GRC
4 49 (7.32%) QA
5 40 (5.98%) GDPR
6 31 (4.63%) PMO
7 28 (4.19%) Data Quality
8 27 (4.04%) PCI DSS
9 21 (3.14%) SLA
10 19 (2.84%) NCSC
11 17 (2.54%) COBIT
12 15 (2.24%) SOC 2
13 9 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (1.35%) NIST 800
14 7 (1.05%) 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 7 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
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 (1.79%) Kubernetes
1 12 (1.79%) Terraform
2 5 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.60%) Ansible
3 4 (0.60%) Control-M
3 4 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (0.45%) Grafana
4 3 (0.45%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.30%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.15%) Avamar
6 1 (0.15%) CASB
6 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.15%) Nessus
6 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 84 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.32%) Oracle
3 41 (6.13%) SAP
4 36 (5.38%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.84%) Murex
6 18 (2.69%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.24%) Workday
8 10 (1.49%) 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
12 5 (0.75%) Sybase