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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 533 403
Rank change year-on-year +97 -130 +287
Contract jobs citing Market Risk 117 63 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.15% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.04% 0.49% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 42 219
10th Percentile £556 £190 £500
25th Percentile £616 £597 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +6.24%
75th Percentile £838 £861 £950
90th Percentile £988 £880 £1,000
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £130 £451
% change year-on-year +351.92% -71.14% -39.93%

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 11,298 12,841 18,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.65% 30.49% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,970 8,192 12,569
10th Percentile £303 £288 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £645 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 539 812 511
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.92 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.00 £31.05
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +22.38% +15.09%
75th Percentile £57.55 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +86.05%

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 18 July 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 9 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 18 July 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 +102 107 £738 -4.84% 41
London +74 104 £750 -3.23% 40
Work from Home +61 39 £755 +11.85% 11
UK excluding London +35 13 £588 +351.92% 5
Northern Ireland - 8 £588 - 2
North of England - 3 £612 -
Scotland -6 2 - -
North West - 2 £612 -
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -

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 (8.55%) Apache Spark
2 8 (6.84%) Apache
3 4 (3.42%) Confluence
4 2 (1.71%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 13 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (5.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.27%) Endur
2 2 (1.71%) Kondor
3 1 (0.85%) Bankmaster
Cloud Services
1 11 (9.40%) AWS
2 9 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.98%) SaaS
4 6 (5.13%) Azure
4 6 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (1.71%) Azure Functions
5 2 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.71%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.68%) Big Data
2 11 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (8.55%) Hadoop
4 9 (7.69%) Power BI
5 8 (6.84%) Data Mining
6 7 (5.98%) Data Mart
7 5 (4.27%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.42%) Tableau
9 3 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.56%) MS Access
9 3 (2.56%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.85%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.85%) Presto
Development Applications
1 10 (8.55%) JIRA
2 9 (7.69%) Git
3 8 (6.84%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.56%) Ant
5 1 (0.85%) Subversion
General
1 79 (67.52%) Finance
2 63 (53.85%) Banking
3 47 (40.17%) Social Skills
4 41 (35.04%) Investment Banking
5 36 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (23.93%) Front Office
7 7 (5.98%) Back Office
8 5 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.42%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.56%) Legal
11 1 (0.85%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.85%) International Banking
11 1 (0.85%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 44 (37.61%) Developer
2 37 (31.62%) Senior
3 33 (28.21%) Analyst
4 24 (20.51%) Business Analyst
5 20 (17.09%) Senior Developer
6 19 (16.24%) Java Developer
6 19 (16.24%) Risk Analyst
7 13 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
8 12 (10.26%) Consultant
9 11 (9.40%) Analytics Developer
9 11 (9.40%) AWS Developer
9 11 (9.40%) Market Risk Analyst
9 11 (9.40%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 11 (9.40%) Risk Business Analyst
10 10 (8.55%) Python Developer
11 9 (7.69%) Risk Consultant
11 9 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
12 8 (6.84%) Apache Spark Developer
12 8 (6.84%) Market Risk Developer
12 8 (6.84%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.82%) Kafka
2 9 (7.69%) Spark Streaming
3 6 (5.13%) .NET
4 4 (3.42%) REST
4 4 (3.42%) WPF
5 2 (1.71%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.71%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.71%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (1.71%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (1.71%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.71%) PySpark
5 2 (1.71%) RESTful
5 2 (1.71%) SOAP
5 2 (1.71%) STL
6 1 (0.85%) HTML
6 1 (0.85%) HTML5
6 1 (0.85%) NumPy
6 1 (0.85%) SciPy
6 1 (0.85%) Vue
6 1 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.22%) Credit Risk
2 25 (21.37%) Derivative
3 14 (11.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (11.11%) Management Information System
5 11 (9.40%) Equities
6 10 (8.55%) Distributed Computing
7 9 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (5.13%) Fixed Income
9 4 (3.42%) Reference Data
10 3 (2.56%) Product Ownership
10 3 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.71%) Credit Derivative
11 2 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.71%) Pricing Data
11 2 (1.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.27%) Linux
2 4 (3.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (52.14%) Risk Management
2 40 (34.19%) Analytics
2 40 (34.19%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (29.91%) Agile
4 25 (21.37%) Stress Testing
5 21 (17.95%) Project Management
6 15 (12.82%) Business Analysis
6 15 (12.82%) Mathematics
6 15 (12.82%) Regulatory Compliance
6 15 (12.82%) SDLC
6 15 (12.82%) TDD
7 14 (11.97%) Code Quality
7 14 (11.97%) Data Analysis
8 13 (11.11%) Risk Analytics
9 12 (10.26%) CI/CD
9 12 (10.26%) Greeks
10 11 (9.40%) Scenario Testing
10 11 (9.40%) Scrum
11 10 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (8.55%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 51 (43.59%) SQL
2 39 (33.33%) Python
3 22 (18.80%) Java
4 6 (5.13%) C#
5 5 (4.27%) Shell Script
6 4 (3.42%) C++
6 4 (3.42%) Haskell
6 4 (3.42%) VBA
7 3 (2.56%) Jython
8 2 (1.71%) C
8 2 (1.71%) Go
9 1 (0.85%) Bash
9 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (17.95%) Degree
2 8 (6.84%) Master's Degree
3 5 (4.27%) PMI Certification
3 5 (4.27%) PMP
4 4 (3.42%) ISEB
4 4 (3.42%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.85%) CBAP
5 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.26%) Basel II
1 12 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.84%) Basel III
3 6 (5.13%) PMO
4 4 (3.42%) COREP
5 3 (2.56%) MiFID
6 2 (1.71%) QA
6 2 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.85%) EMIR
System Software
1 1 (0.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (2.56%) Control-M
1 3 (2.56%) Grafana
2 2 (1.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (7.69%) Murex
2 6 (5.13%) Oracle
3 5 (4.27%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.56%) Calypso
5 2 (1.71%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.71%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.71%) OpenLink
5 2 (1.71%) Splunk
5 2 (1.71%) Sybase
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco
6 1 (0.85%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.85%) Reuters
6 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.85%) Solace
6 1 (0.85%) TIBCO