Risk Manager Contracts in England

Risk Manager
UK > England

The median Risk Manager daily rate in England is £636, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 494 508
Rank change year-on-year +70 +14 +161
Contract jobs requiring a Risk Manager 61 48 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.13% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.14% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 32 107
10th Percentile £463 £398 £472
25th Percentile £504 £515 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £636 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year +6.04% -17.24% +17.41%
75th Percentile £675 £741 £950
90th Percentile £787 £879 £1,000
UK median daily rate £631 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +5.17% -11.11% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £63.00 £47.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.63% -32.14% -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 £47.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +32.63% -32.14% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Risk Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Manager in England

Risk Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Manager in England

Risk Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Manager in England

Risk Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Risk Manager in England.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Manager in England

Risk Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +54 43 £638 +6.25% 141
South East +47 9 £650 +1.96% 23
North of England +22 5 £485 -11.91% 24
Yorkshire - 4 £485 - 7
South West +44 3 £525 +16.67%
Midlands +19 2 £385 -50.32% 9
North West +16 1 - - 14
West Midlands +11 1 £469 -47.89% 2
East Midlands - 1 £300 - 7
Risk Manager
UK

Risk Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 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 England region featuring Risk Manager in the job title.

1 42 (68.85%) Risk Management
2 38 (62.30%) Finance
3 28 (45.90%) Social Skills
4 24 (39.34%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (26.23%) Banking
6 14 (22.95%) Project Management
7 12 (19.67%) CISA
8 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (14.75%) CISSP
9 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (14.75%) Degree
10 8 (13.11%) CRISC
10 8 (13.11%) CISM
11 7 (11.48%) JIRA
11 7 (11.48%) Security Cleared
12 6 (9.84%) Agile
13 5 (8.20%) Investment Banking
13 5 (8.20%) Information Security
13 5 (8.20%) Management Information System
13 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
13 5 (8.20%) Risk Register
13 5 (8.20%) Regulatory Compliance
14 4 (6.56%) Resource Allocation
14 4 (6.56%) GDPR
14 4 (6.56%) Internal Audit
14 4 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (6.56%) NIST
14 4 (6.56%) Budget Management
14 4 (6.56%) Credit Risk
14 4 (6.56%) COBIT

Risk Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (4.92%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
1 2 (3.28%) AWS
1 2 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.28%) Metadata
2 1 (1.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) JIRA
General
1 38 (62.30%) Finance
2 28 (45.90%) Social Skills
3 16 (26.23%) Banking
4 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.20%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.56%) Legal
7 3 (4.92%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.28%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (3.28%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.28%) Front Office
8 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.28%) Retail
8 2 (3.28%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.64%) Back Office
9 1 (1.64%) Law
9 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.56%) Credit Risk
3 3 (4.92%) Market Risk
3 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.64%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (68.85%) Risk Management
2 24 (39.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (22.95%) Project Management
4 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (9.84%) Agile
6 5 (8.20%) Information Security
6 5 (8.20%) Regulatory Compliance
6 5 (8.20%) Risk Register
7 4 (6.56%) Budget Management
7 4 (6.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (6.56%) Internal Audit
7 4 (6.56%) Programme Management
7 4 (6.56%) Resource Allocation
8 3 (4.92%) Actionable Insight
8 3 (4.92%) Analytics
8 3 (4.92%) Data Analysis
8 3 (4.92%) IT Audit
8 3 (4.92%) Quality Management
8 3 (4.92%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
8 3 (4.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.92%) SQL
2 2 (3.28%) Python
3 1 (1.64%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (19.67%) CISA
2 9 (14.75%) CISSP
2 9 (14.75%) Degree
3 8 (13.11%) CISM
3 8 (13.11%) CRISC
4 7 (11.48%) Security Cleared
5 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.64%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) COBIT
1 4 (6.56%) GDPR
1 4 (6.56%) NIST
1 4 (6.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (4.92%) COSO
2 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.28%) GRC
3 2 (3.28%) IFRS
3 2 (3.28%) IFRS 9
3 2 (3.28%) PMO
3 2 (3.28%) QA
4 1 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.64%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 3 (4.92%) ServiceNow
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.28%) SAP
2 2 (3.28%) Snow