Credit Risk Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Credit Risk
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Credit Risk in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Credit Risk over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 325 430
Rank change year-on-year +44 +105 +115
Contract jobs citing Credit Risk 24 19 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.73% 0.44% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 29
10th Percentile £383 £450 £412
25th Percentile £489 £475 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £800 £600 £669
90th Percentile £870 £643 £751
UK median daily rate £700 £575 £654
% change year-on-year +21.74% -12.08% -0.91%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Credit 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,284 4,352 8,034
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.30% 28.58% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,239 2,976 5,650
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £684
90th Percentile £825 £800 £792
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 195 154
10th Percentile £18.33 £15.45 £19.00
25th Percentile £24.50 £25.50 £25.75
Median hourly rate £41.00 £48.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.46% -11.82% +23.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.14 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.83% +34.04% -18.24%

Credit Risk
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Credit Risk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Credit Risk trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Credit Risk
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Credit Risk.

Credit Risk daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Credit Risk
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Credit Risk over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Credit Risk daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Credit Risk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (25.00%) SAS
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (8.33%) Apigee
2 2 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Power BI
2 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (12.50%) Looker
3 2 (8.33%) Data Mining
4 1 (4.17%) Base SAS
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (41.67%) Banking
3 6 (25.00%) Finance
4 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 2 (8.33%) Front Office
7 1 (4.17%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Analyst
2 9 (37.50%) Risk Analyst
3 8 (33.33%) Credit Analyst
3 8 (33.33%) Credit Risk Analyst
4 6 (25.00%) Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Credit Risk Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Market Risk Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Python Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Banking Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Qualitative Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Quantitative Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Quantitative Analyst Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Risk Business Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.33%) SQL Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) IT Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Market Risk
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Risk Management
2 7 (29.17%) Agile
3 6 (25.00%) Credit Risk Management
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Analytics
4 5 (20.83%) Data Analysis
4 5 (20.83%) Fintech
5 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (16.67%) Scrum
5 4 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (12.50%) Code Quality
6 3 (12.50%) High Availability
6 3 (12.50%) Low Latency
6 3 (12.50%) Prototyping
6 3 (12.50%) Rapid Prototyping
6 3 (12.50%) SDLC
6 3 (12.50%) Validation
7 2 (8.33%) Project Management
7 2 (8.33%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (8.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) C++
3 3 (12.50%) Jython
4 2 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Basel II
1 2 (8.33%) Basel III
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (4.17%) EMIR
2 1 (4.17%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Avaloq
1 1 (4.17%) Google
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle