Market Risk Contracts

Market Risk
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Market Risk in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Market Risk over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 495 435
Rank change year-on-year +56 -60 +257
Contract jobs citing Market Risk 81 87 296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.20% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.81% 0.66% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 61 228
10th Percentile £550 £513 £513
25th Percentile £650 £600 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £775 £750
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £834 £850 £950
90th Percentile £894 £950 £965
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £175 £385
% change year-on-year +271.43% -54.55% -48.67%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,944 13,250 19,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.97% 30.42% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,345 8,502 13,668
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 912 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%

Market Risk
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Market Risk in the UK

Market Risk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Market Risk in the UK

Market Risk
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Market Risk over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Market Risk in the UK

Market Risk
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Market Risk in the UK

Market Risk
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +56 81 £750 -4.76% 293
London +36 80 £750 -4.76% 95
Work from Home +38 20 £750 +11.11% 92
UK excluding London +59 1 £650 +271.43% 245
North of England - 1 £650 - 48
Yorkshire - 1 £650 - 21

Market Risk
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 10 (12.35%) Apache Spark
2 8 (9.88%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.23%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Endur
2 1 (1.23%) Bankmaster
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.64%) Azure
1 7 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (7.41%) AWS
3 3 (3.70%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.47%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.05%) Big Data
2 10 (12.35%) Hadoop
3 6 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.94%) Data Mart
4 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.70%) Data Mining
5 3 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.70%) Power BI
5 3 (3.70%) Redis
5 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.47%) Tableau
7 1 (1.23%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.23%) MS Access
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (1.23%) Presto
Development Applications
1 8 (9.88%) Git
1 8 (9.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.70%) JIRA
3 2 (2.47%) Ant
4 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
General
1 52 (64.20%) Finance
2 42 (51.85%) Banking
3 36 (44.44%) Social Skills
4 24 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (28.40%) Investment Banking
6 21 (25.93%) Front Office
7 3 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.70%) Legal
8 2 (2.47%) Back Office
8 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.23%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.23%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (56.79%) Developer
2 17 (20.99%) Analyst
3 15 (18.52%) Senior
4 14 (17.28%) Java Developer
5 13 (16.05%) Business Analyst
6 12 (14.81%) Python Developer
6 12 (14.81%) Senior Developer
7 11 (13.58%) C# Developer
8 9 (11.11%) Lead
9 8 (9.88%) Apache Spark Developer
9 8 (9.88%) Lead Developer
9 8 (9.88%) Risk Analyst
10 7 (8.64%) .NET Developer
10 7 (8.64%) C# .NET Developer
11 6 (7.41%) Market Risk Developer
11 6 (7.41%) Risk Business Analyst
12 5 (6.17%) Quantitative Developer
12 5 (6.17%) Senior Java Developer
13 4 (4.94%) Consultant
13 4 (4.94%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.58%) .NET
2 9 (11.11%) Spark Streaming
3 8 (9.88%) Kafka
4 7 (8.64%) ASP.NET
5 5 (6.17%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.94%) .NET Framework
6 4 (4.94%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (4.94%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 4 (4.94%) WPF
7 3 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (3.70%) Java Concurrency
8 2 (2.47%) PySpark
9 1 (1.23%) HTML
9 1 (1.23%) HTML5
9 1 (1.23%) JSON
9 1 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.23%) React
9 1 (1.23%) Vue
9 1 (1.23%) WebSockets
9 1 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.69%) Derivative
2 16 (19.75%) Credit Risk
3 10 (12.35%) Distributed Computing
4 9 (11.11%) Equities
5 8 (9.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (3.70%) Fixed Income
7 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.47%) Hedge funds
8 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.23%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 1 (1.23%) Pricing Data
9 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.23%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (49.38%) Risk Management
2 39 (48.15%) Analytics
3 28 (34.57%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (30.86%) Agile
5 20 (24.69%) Mathematics
6 17 (20.99%) Greeks
7 15 (18.52%) Code Quality
7 15 (18.52%) Stress Testing
8 14 (17.28%) Risk Analytics
9 12 (14.81%) Regulatory Compliance
10 10 (12.35%) CI/CD
10 10 (12.35%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (12.35%) Project Management
10 10 (12.35%) TDD
11 9 (11.11%) Memory Management
11 9 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (11.11%) Risk Analysis
12 8 (9.88%) Batch Processing
12 8 (9.88%) Computer Science
12 8 (9.88%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 33 (40.74%) Python
2 24 (29.63%) SQL
3 14 (17.28%) Java
4 11 (13.58%) C#
5 4 (4.94%) Haskell
6 3 (3.70%) Jython
7 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.47%) VBA
8 1 (1.23%) Bash
8 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (18.52%) Degree
2 9 (11.11%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) Basel II
2 4 (4.94%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.70%) Basel III
4 2 (2.47%) PMO
5 1 (1.23%) COREP
5 1 (1.23%) EMIR
5 1 (1.23%) MiFID
5 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.47%) Control-M
2 1 (1.23%) Grafana
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 5 (6.17%) Murex
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.47%) Calypso
3 2 (2.47%) Oracle
4 1 (1.23%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.23%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.23%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.23%) Solace
4 1 (1.23%) TIBCO