Risk Manager Contracts in the City of London

Risk Manager
Central London > City of London

The median Risk Manager daily rate in the City of London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 120 156
Rank change year-on-year +8 +36 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Risk Manager 11 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.63% 0.18% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.19% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £463 £439 £575
25th Percentile £513 £503 £596
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £620 £636
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -2.55% -2.12%
75th Percentile £645 £665 £671
90th Percentile £702 £686 £688
Central London median daily rate £600 £620 £636
% change year-on-year -3.23% -2.55% -2.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,635 2,066 3,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.06% 95.08% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,029 1,469 2,338
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £573 £550 £590
% change year-on-year +4.09% -6.78% +5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 23
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -5.41%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.64
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.04%

Risk Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Risk Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Manager in the City of London

Risk Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Manager in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Risk Manager in the City of London

Risk Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Manager in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Manager in the City of London

Risk Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Risk Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Risk Manager in the job title.

1 7 (63.64%) Project Management
1 7 (63.64%) Risk Management
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
1 7 (63.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 4 (36.36%) GDPR
3 4 (36.36%) NIST
3 4 (36.36%) COBIT
4 3 (27.27%) COSO
4 3 (27.27%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (27.27%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
4 3 (27.27%) Resource Allocation
4 3 (27.27%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
4 3 (27.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (27.27%) CISA
4 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
4 3 (27.27%) Legal
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Budget Management
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Supplier Management
5 2 (18.18%) Project Planning
5 2 (18.18%) Market Risk
5 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
5 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 2 (18.18%) Internal Audit
5 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery

Risk Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Back Office
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 2 (18.18%) Market Risk
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Project Management
1 7 (63.64%) Risk Management
1 7 (63.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (27.27%) Budget Management
2 3 (27.27%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (27.27%) Resource Allocation
2 3 (27.27%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Internal Audit
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Network Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Project Planning
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 2 (18.18%) Supplier Management
3 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Information Security
4 1 (9.09%) Programme Management
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CISA
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 1 (9.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) COBIT
1 4 (36.36%) GDPR
1 4 (36.36%) NIST
2 3 (27.27%) COSO
2 3 (27.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
3 1 (9.09%) PMO
3 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow