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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 35 72
Rank change year-on-year -41 +37 -5
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 679 706 546
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.55% 5.61% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 6.07% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 455 357
10th Percentile £413 £409 £366
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 £737 £813 £750
90th Percentile £888 £875 £843
England median daily rate £563 £594 £565
% change year-on-year -5.30% +5.13% -5.83%
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% -23.59%
75th Percentile £95.00 £75.05 £39.44
90th Percentile - £89.20 £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 17,007 11,628 15,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.40% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,350 7,788 11,072
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -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 261 214 309
10th Percentile £18.00 £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 £60.25 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%

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 24 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 24 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 -16 101 £550 -12.00% 26
West London -19 14 £506 +19.12% 16
East London +4 10 £588 -2.08% 9
South London -19 4 £500 -13.79% 6
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 28 (4.12%) Confluence
2 6 (0.88%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.74%) SAS
4 2 (0.29%) 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 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.62%) 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 10 (1.47%) 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 91 (13.40%) Azure
2 76 (11.19%) AWS
3 28 (4.12%) GCP
4 25 (3.68%) SaaS
5 19 (2.80%) Entra ID
6 17 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (2.21%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.77%) GitHub
10 9 (1.33%) 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%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (0.88%) Snowflake
14 5 (0.74%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.06%) Firewall
2 9 (1.33%) Network Security
3 3 (0.44%) 4G
3 3 (0.44%) 5G
3 3 (0.44%) Internet
3 3 (0.44%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.44%) NAS
3 3 (0.44%) SAN
3 3 (0.44%) VoLTE
3 3 (0.44%) VPN
4 2 (0.29%) LAN
4 2 (0.29%) NGFW
4 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.29%) VLAN
4 2 (0.29%) WAN
4 2 (0.29%) WinSCP
4 2 (0.29%) X.509
5 1 (0.15%) DMZ
5 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.15%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.21%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (1.77%) Metadata
3 11 (1.62%) Power BI
3 11 (1.62%) Relational Database
4 7 (1.03%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.88%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.74%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.59%) Big Data
7 4 (0.59%) Tableau
8 3 (0.44%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (0.44%) Db2
8 3 (0.44%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (7.51%) JIRA
2 9 (1.33%) Git
2 9 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.88%) 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 (46.83%) Finance
2 244 (35.94%) Social Skills
3 122 (17.97%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (16.94%) Banking
5 72 (10.60%) Legal
6 68 (10.01%) Public Sector
7 31 (4.57%) Front Office
8 24 (3.53%) Investment Banking
8 24 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (3.09%) Financial Institution
9 21 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.21%) Retail
11 14 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.91%) Law
12 13 (1.91%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.77%) Local Government
13 12 (1.77%) Marketing
13 12 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 104 (15.32%) Lead
2 90 (13.25%) Senior
3 70 (10.31%) Analyst
4 68 (10.01%) Architect
5 62 (9.13%) Project Manager
6 51 (7.51%) Developer
7 43 (6.33%) Business Analyst
8 36 (5.30%) Consultant
9 32 (4.71%) Security Architect
10 31 (4.57%) Programme Manager
11 23 (3.39%) Senior Manager
12 20 (2.95%) Risk Analyst
13 19 (2.80%) IT Manager
14 18 (2.65%) Risk Manager
15 16 (2.36%) Delivery Manager
15 16 (2.36%) Risk Business Analyst
15 16 (2.36%) Senior Developer
15 16 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (1.91%) Security Engineer
17 12 (1.77%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.09%) .NET
2 17 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (2.21%) Kafka
4 13 (1.91%) Middleware
5 12 (1.77%) REST
6 11 (1.62%) Azure Blueprints
7 9 (1.33%) React
8 8 (1.18%) PySpark
8 8 (1.18%) XML
9 6 (0.88%) J2EE
9 6 (0.88%) JSP
9 6 (0.88%) 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 48 (7.07%) Management Information System
2 37 (5.45%) Cloud Native
3 34 (5.01%) Derivative
4 33 (4.86%) Product Ownership
5 31 (4.57%) Onboarding
6 29 (4.27%) Security Posture
7 27 (3.98%) Market Risk
8 21 (3.09%) Fixed Income
9 20 (2.95%) Credit Risk
9 20 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (2.21%) Equities
11 15 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (2.06%) AI Agents
13 13 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.77%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.77%) Operational Technology
15 11 (1.62%) NHS
16 10 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
17 9 (1.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.39%) Windows
2 22 (3.24%) Linux
3 13 (1.91%) Unix
4 9 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.44%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.29%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (32.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 169 (24.89%) Agile
3 137 (20.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 131 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
5 124 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 109 (16.05%) Roadmaps
7 106 (15.61%) Cybersecurity
8 104 (15.32%) Decision-Making
9 88 (12.96%) AI
10 85 (12.52%) Information Security
10 85 (12.52%) Project Management
11 74 (10.90%) Analytics
12 69 (10.16%) DevOps
12 69 (10.16%) Project Delivery
13 68 (10.01%) Regulatory Compliance
14 64 (9.43%) CI/CD
14 64 (9.43%) Migration
15 59 (8.69%) Change Management
16 56 (8.25%) Data Protection
17 54 (7.95%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 63 (9.28%) SQL
2 59 (8.69%) Python
3 36 (5.30%) Java
4 16 (2.36%) C#
5 15 (2.21%) 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%) C++
8 3 (0.44%) Korn
8 3 (0.44%) Scala
8 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.44%) VBA
9 2 (0.29%) C
9 2 (0.29%) Perl
9 2 (0.29%) RPG
10 1 (0.15%) Groovy
10 1 (0.15%) ProC
Qualifications
1 100 (14.73%) Security Cleared
2 91 (13.40%) Degree
3 69 (10.16%) SC Cleared
4 55 (8.10%) CISSP
5 34 (5.01%) CISM
6 26 (3.83%) PMI Certification
7 24 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 24 (3.53%) PMP
8 22 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (3.09%) CRISC
10 20 (2.95%) CISA
11 14 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (2.06%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 7 (1.03%) 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 (10.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (10.16%) GRC
3 65 (9.57%) NIST
4 44 (6.48%) QA
5 40 (5.89%) GDPR
6 31 (4.57%) PMO
7 28 (4.12%) Data Quality
8 26 (3.83%) PCI DSS
9 23 (3.39%) SLA
10 17 (2.50%) NCSC
11 16 (2.36%) COBIT
11 16 (2.36%) SOC 2
12 9 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (1.33%) NIST 800
13 7 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.74%) GMP
15 5 (0.74%) GxP
15 5 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (1.33%) 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 (1.77%) 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
Vendors
1 80 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.63%) Oracle
3 43 (6.33%) SAP
4 40 (5.89%) ServiceNow
5 16 (2.36%) Murex
5 16 (2.36%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.36%) Workday
6 9 (1.33%) Google
6 9 (1.33%) Splunk
7 8 (1.18%) 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%) Sybase
10 5 (0.74%) Ariba
10 5 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.59%) Charles River
11 4 (0.59%) Remedy