Risk Analytics Contracts

Risk Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Risk Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Risk Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 564 613
Rank change year-on-year +32 +49 +144
Contract jobs citing Risk Analytics 27 8 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.020% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.023% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 52
10th Percentile £403 - £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £646
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £750 £738 £881
90th Percentile £811 £838 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 - £400
% change year-on-year - - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £30.75
Median hourly rate - - £31.50
75th Percentile - - £32.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £31.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Risk Analytics 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 29,844 34,314 48,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 85.44% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,720 22,065 33,352
10th Percentile £300 £308 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,619 2,025 1,595
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.55 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.05 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -42.38% - +83.65%

Risk Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Analytics in the UK

Risk Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Analytics in the UK

Risk Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Analytics over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Analytics in the UK

Risk Analytics
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +46 26 £700 +27.27% 57
London +28 22 £700 +27.27% 49
UK excluding London +35 4 £400 - 13
Work from Home +20 3 £438 -20.45% 18
North of England - 3 £375 - 3
Yorkshire - 2 £350 - 2
North West - 1 £400 - 1
South West - 1 £450 - 2

Risk Analytics
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 9 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 8 (29.63%) Apache
3 2 (7.41%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Endur
1 1 (3.70%) Orchestrade
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) Big Data
1 9 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 3 (11.11%) Power BI
2 3 (11.11%) Power Query
3 1 (3.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Git
1 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Selenium
2 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (85.19%) Finance
2 14 (51.85%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (44.44%) Banking
4 9 (33.33%) Front Office
5 5 (18.52%) Investment Banking
5 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Apache Spark Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Java Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Product Manager
3 5 (18.52%) Senior
3 5 (18.52%) Senior Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Data Modeller
5 2 (7.41%) Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Risk Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Systems Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Commodities Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Finance Modeller
6 1 (3.70%) Front Office Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (48.15%) Market Risk
2 9 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
3 8 (29.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (25.93%) Derivative
5 5 (18.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (11.11%) Reference Data
7 2 (7.41%) Credit Risk
7 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (3.70%) Fixed Income
8 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Analytics
2 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
2 11 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (40.74%) Risk Management
3 10 (37.04%) Mathematics
4 9 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 9 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (33.33%) Greeks
4 9 (33.33%) Memory Management
4 9 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
5 8 (29.63%) Batch Processing
5 8 (29.63%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (25.93%) Stress Testing
7 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
7 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
8 3 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
8 3 (11.11%) Data Governance
8 3 (11.11%) Risk Analysis
8 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (62.96%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) Java
3 4 (14.81%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) VBA
5 2 (7.41%) C#
5 2 (7.41%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
1 1 (3.70%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Basel III
1 1 (3.70%) IFRS
1 1 (3.70%) IFRS 9
1 1 (3.70%) PMO
1 1 (3.70%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Murex
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Calypso
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) OpenLink
3 1 (3.70%) SAP