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 have cited Market Risk over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 418 681
Rank change year-on-year -117 +263 -126
Contract jobs citing Market Risk 64 296 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.53% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 1.60% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 229 130
10th Percentile £249 £511 £525
25th Percentile £599 £613 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £775 £723
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +7.27% +11.15%
75th Percentile £850 £950 £825
90th Percentile £945 £1,000 £926
UK excluding London median daily rate £130 £375 £750
% change year-on-year -65.33% -50.00% +18.11%

All Generic Skills
UK

Market Risk is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,981 18,515 29,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.98% 33.24% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 12,737 20,609
10th Percentile £274 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £446 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 927 612 694
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.24 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £22.13 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +60.45% -18.03% +5.84%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.58
90th Percentile £71.50 £74.93 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +59.09% +2.33% -6.52%

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 8 June 2024.

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 5 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 8 June 2024. 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
London -115 59 £775 -2.52% 28
England -117 59 £775 - 31
Work from Home +45 15 £750 -9.09% 6
Scotland +42 5 £130 -
UK excluding London +37 5 £130 -65.33% 1

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 8 (12.50%) MTS
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Endur
2 8 (12.50%) Aligne
2 8 (12.50%) EuroRunner
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.31%) Power Platform
2 9 (14.06%) AWS
3 7 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (10.94%) Serverless
4 6 (9.38%) Azure
5 5 (7.81%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (4.69%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.31%) Power BI
2 6 (9.38%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.81%) Oracle Database
3 5 (7.81%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Git
2 4 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 4 (6.25%) JIRA
2 4 (6.25%) Sourcetree
3 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.13%) SpecFlow
3 2 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (54.69%) Finance
2 28 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 22 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (32.81%) Front Office
5 19 (29.69%) Banking
6 13 (20.31%) Investment Banking
7 6 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (7.81%) Legal
9 4 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (4.69%) Back Office
10 3 (4.69%) Publishing
10 3 (4.69%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (34.38%) Developer
2 21 (32.81%) Analyst
3 11 (17.19%) Business Analyst
4 8 (12.50%) Python Developer
5 7 (10.94%) Java Developer
5 7 (10.94%) Senior
5 7 (10.94%) Senior Developer
6 6 (9.38%) Quantitative Developer
6 6 (9.38%) Risk Analyst
7 5 (7.81%) Market Risk Developer
8 4 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
8 4 (6.25%) Report Analyst
8 4 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Cloud Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Investment Banking Project Manager
9 3 (4.69%) Project Manager
9 3 (4.69%) Risk Business Analyst
9 3 (4.69%) SQL Developer
9 3 (4.69%) VBA Developer
10 2 (3.13%) Qualitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.50%) .NET
2 5 (7.81%) Kafka
3 2 (3.13%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.13%) Angular 2
3 2 (3.13%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.13%) Blazor
3 2 (3.13%) Entity Framework
3 2 (3.13%) HTML
3 2 (3.13%) HTML5
3 2 (3.13%) Java Concurrency
3 2 (3.13%) React
3 2 (3.13%) Redux
4 1 (1.56%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.56%) ODBC
4 1 (1.56%) Shiny
4 1 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Credit Risk
2 7 (10.94%) Renewable Energy
3 6 (9.38%) Derivative
3 6 (9.38%) Solar Panel
4 5 (7.81%) Data Centre
4 5 (7.81%) DTCC
5 2 (3.13%) Equities
5 2 (3.13%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.13%) Reinsurance
5 2 (3.13%) Replication
6 1 (1.56%) Blog
6 1 (1.56%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Unix
2 4 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.19%) Agile
2 18 (28.13%) DevOps
3 16 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (21.88%) Risk Management
5 13 (20.31%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (17.19%) Computer Science
7 10 (15.63%) Project Delivery
8 9 (14.06%) Data Analysis
9 8 (12.50%) Change Management
9 8 (12.50%) ETRM
9 8 (12.50%) Mathematics
9 8 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 7 (10.94%) Business Strategy
10 7 (10.94%) OO
10 7 (10.94%) Test Strategy
11 6 (9.38%) Capacity Management
11 6 (9.38%) CI/CD
11 6 (9.38%) Process Improvement
11 6 (9.38%) Scrum
11 6 (9.38%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 29 (45.31%) SQL
2 17 (26.56%) Python
3 12 (18.75%) C#
4 9 (14.06%) Java
5 4 (6.25%) Scala
6 3 (4.69%) VBA
7 2 (3.13%) Haskell
8 1 (1.56%) Jython
8 1 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (17.19%) Degree
2 8 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.13%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) PMO
3 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.81%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.06%) Oracle
3 3 (4.69%) Bloomberg
3 3 (4.69%) OpenLink
3 3 (4.69%) Trayport