Market Risk Contracts in the UK excluding London

Market Risk
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Market Risk in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Market 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 335 383 442
Rank change year-on-year +48 +59 +63
Contract jobs citing Market Risk 2 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.024% 0.033%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.048% 0.083% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £108 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £175 £385
Median % change year-on-year +271.43% -54.55% -48.67%
75th Percentile - £188 £437
90th Percentile - £510 £515
UK median daily rate £750 £775 £750
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +7.14%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Market 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%

Market Risk
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Market Risk in the UK excluding London

Market Risk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Market Risk in the UK excluding London

Market 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 Market 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
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 10
North of England - 1 £650 -
Market Risk
UK

Market 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) Presto
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) International Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) HDFS