Market Risk Contracts with Work from Home Options

Market Risk
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Market Risk in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Market Risk over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 366 577
Rank change year-on-year +38 +211 -116
Contract jobs citing Market Risk 15 79 52
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.33% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.35% 1.05% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 54 39
10th Percentile £566 £495 £589
25th Percentile £631 £635 £668
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £825 £750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £925 £950 £825
90th Percentile £1,013 £960 £855
UK median daily rate £750 £795 £725
% change year-on-year -5.66% +9.66% +11.54%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,320 7,540 13,938
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.25% 31.60% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,937 5,342 10,063
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £432 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £838 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 145 224
10th Percentile £15.80 £19.00 £15.10
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.00 £20.94
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +27.98%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £22.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +61.36% -18.52% +8.00%

Market Risk
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Market Risk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Market Risk trend for jobs with a WFH option

Market Risk
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Market Risk.

Market Risk daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Market Risk
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Market Risk over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Market Risk daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Market 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 2 (13.33%) MTS
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Aligne
1 2 (13.33%) Endur
1 2 (13.33%) EuroRunner
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
General
1 10 (66.67%) Finance
2 7 (46.67%) Front Office
3 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (26.67%) Banking
5 2 (13.33%) Back Office
5 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Pricing Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Qualitative Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Quantitative Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Credit Risk Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Data Science Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Programme Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Quality Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) R Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Risk Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
1 1 (6.67%) Gherkin
1 1 (6.67%) ODBC
1 1 (6.67%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Credit Risk
1 2 (13.33%) Derivative
1 2 (13.33%) Equities
1 2 (13.33%) Equity Derivative
1 2 (13.33%) Reinsurance
2 1 (6.67%) Blog
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Agile
1 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
2 3 (20.00%) Change Management
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Backtesting
3 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
3 2 (13.33%) ETRM
3 2 (13.33%) OO
3 2 (13.33%) Project Management
3 2 (13.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (13.33%) Time Series Analysis
4 1 (6.67%) Business Analysis
4 1 (6.67%) Data Integration
4 1 (6.67%) Stress Testing
4 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (6.67%) Test Scripting
4 1 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) Jython
3 1 (6.67%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle