Credit Risk Contracts in the UK excluding London

Credit Risk
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Credit Risk in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Credit Risk over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 343 425
Rank change year-on-year +31 +82 +43
Contract jobs citing Credit Risk 25 45 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.22% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 0.75% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 20 20
10th Percentile £500 £350 £363
25th Percentile £599 £386 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +37.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £600 £413
90th Percentile - £611 £472
UK median daily rate £700 £575 £654
% change year-on-year +21.74% -12.08% -0.91%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Credit Risk falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,203 6,026 7,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.13% 29.31% 32.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,583 3,620 5,238
10th Percentile £208 £208 £220
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £615
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 721 436
10th Percentile £16.72 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.86 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.78 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.96% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.78 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.16 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.27% +34.13% -18.24%

Credit Risk
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Credit Risk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Credit Risk in the UK excluding London

Credit Risk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Credit Risk in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Credit Risk in the UK excluding London

Credit Risk
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Credit Risk in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Credit Risk in the UK excluding London

Credit Risk
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Credit Risk in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Credit Risk in the UK excluding London

Credit Risk
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Credit Risk within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
South East +23 9 £650 +13.04% 29
Scotland +10 7 £373 -44.43% 6
North of England +25 3 £646 +17.45% 15
Midlands +21 3 £614 - 11
Yorkshire +17 2 £646 +17.45% 10
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 9
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 3
South West +34 1 £563 +25.00% 1
West Midlands +18 1 £678 - 2
North West - 1 - - 5
Credit Risk
UK

Credit Risk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 13 (52.00%) SAS
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Flink
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.00%) Presto
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Xcode
General
1 13 (52.00%) Finance
2 10 (40.00%) Banking
3 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (12.00%) Retail
6 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (8.00%) International Banking
6 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (8.00%) Law
6 2 (8.00%) Retail Banking
7 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (4.00%) Front Office
7 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (4.00%) Legal
7 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.00%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Analyst
1 6 (24.00%) Credit Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Credit Risk Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Risk Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Mobile Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Credit Risk Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Data Modeller
4 2 (8.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Risk Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Credit Risk Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Portfolio Manager
5 1 (4.00%) SAS Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Scrum Master
5 1 (4.00%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Kafka
1 3 (12.00%) SwiftUI
1 3 (12.00%) UIKit
2 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (12.00%) iPad
1 3 (12.00%) iPhone
1 3 (12.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (12.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (8.00%) Equities
2 2 (8.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Market Risk
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Android
1 3 (12.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Analytics
2 10 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 9 (36.00%) Credit Risk Management
3 9 (36.00%) Portfolio Management
3 9 (36.00%) Stress Testing
4 7 (28.00%) Customer Experience
4 7 (28.00%) Validation
5 5 (20.00%) Agile
5 5 (20.00%) Internal Audit
5 5 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 4 (16.00%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (16.00%) Mathematics
6 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.00%) Scorecard
6 4 (16.00%) Scrum
6 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (12.00%) Design Patterns
7 3 (12.00%) Push Notifications
7 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) Objective-C
3 3 (12.00%) Swift
3 3 (12.00%) VBA
4 2 (8.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (40.00%) IFRS
1 10 (40.00%) IFRS 9
2 1 (4.00%) CRD IV
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Alteryx
2 1 (4.00%) Avaloq