Credit Risk Management Contracts

Credit Risk Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Credit Risk Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Credit Risk Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 550 643
Rank change year-on-year +22 +93 +210
Contract jobs citing Credit Risk Management 28 12 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.031% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.036% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 17
10th Percentile £619 £304 -
25th Percentile £650 £549 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £726 £618 £700
Median % change year-on-year +17.64% -11.79% +26.27%
75th Percentile £794 £631 £750
90th Percentile £863 £796 £928
UK excluding London median daily rate £646 £618 £400
% change year-on-year +4.62% +54.38% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Credit 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,981 33,385 47,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 85.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,763 21,485 32,677
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,667 1,871 1,564
10th Percentile £14.17 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.14 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +84.42%

Credit Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Credit Risk Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Credit Risk Management in the UK

Credit Risk Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Credit Risk Management.

Daily rate trend for Credit Risk Management in the UK

Credit Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Credit Risk Management over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Credit Risk Management in the UK

Credit Risk Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Credit Risk Management.

Hourly rate trend for Credit Risk Management in the UK

Credit Risk Management
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Credit Risk Management within the UK over the 6 months to 3 August 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
England +36 26 £738 +19.55% 24
London +23 20 £750 +44.93% 22
Work from Home +28 7 £775 +785.71% 8
UK excluding London +2 7 £646 +4.62% 5
South East +26 3 £650 +8.33% 3
Midlands -10 2 £550 -10.93%
East Midlands - 2 £550 -
Yorkshire - 1 £642 -
North of England - 1 £642 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 -

Credit Risk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (14.29%) SAS
3 2 (7.14%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Endur
2 1 (3.57%) Aligne
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) Apigee
2 1 (3.57%) GCP
2 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) Apache Hive
1 6 (21.43%) Hadoop
2 2 (7.14%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) Looker
3 1 (3.57%) Power BI
3 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 21 (75.00%) Finance
2 16 (57.14%) Banking
3 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
4 9 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (25.00%) Financial Institution
6 4 (14.29%) Front Office
7 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.57%) Retail
7 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Gen AI Specialist
2 5 (17.86%) Risk Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Risk Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Credit Risk Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Project Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Quantitative Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Risk Business Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Risk Project Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 2 (7.14%) Banking Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Credit Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Quantitative Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Scientist
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) PySpark
1 7 (25.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (100.00%) Credit Risk
2 5 (17.86%) Algorithms
2 5 (17.86%) Market Risk
3 4 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
4 3 (10.71%) Reference Data
5 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.57%) Derivative
6 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Risk Management
2 17 (60.71%) Analytics
3 9 (32.14%) Computer Science
4 8 (28.57%) Data Science
4 8 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 7 (25.00%) Generative AI
5 7 (25.00%) LLM
5 7 (25.00%) Mathematics
6 6 (21.43%) Agile
6 6 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (21.43%) Validation
7 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis
7 5 (17.86%) Data Analytics
7 5 (17.86%) Portfolio Management
7 5 (17.86%) Project Management
8 4 (14.29%) Data Extraction
8 4 (14.29%) Internal Audit
8 4 (14.29%) Stress Testing
9 3 (10.71%) Data Mapping
9 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) SQL
2 8 (28.57%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) C++
3 3 (10.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Degree
2 6 (21.43%) Master's Degree
2 6 (21.43%) PhD
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.57%) PMP
4 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) IFRS
1 4 (14.29%) IFRS 9
2 1 (3.57%) Basel II
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Murex
2 1 (3.57%) Alteryx
2 1 (3.57%) Databricks
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) OpenLink