Risk Manager Contracts in London

Risk Manager
England > London

The median Risk Manager daily rate in London is £638, 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 310 364 385
Rank change year-on-year +54 +21 +139
Contract jobs requiring a Risk Manager 43 27 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.15% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.16% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 19 82
10th Percentile £463 £375 £557
25th Percentile £508 £519 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £950
90th Percentile £783 £823 £1,000
England median daily rate £636 £600 £725
% change year-on-year +6.04% -17.24% +17.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.14% -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £47.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +32.63% -32.14% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Risk Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Manager in London

Risk Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Manager in London

Risk Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Risk Manager in London

Risk Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Risk Manager in London

Risk Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +11 11 £600 -3.23% 2
Risk Manager
England

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

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 London region featuring Risk Manager in the job title.

1 31 (72.09%) Finance
2 30 (69.77%) Risk Management
3 21 (48.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (48.84%) Social Skills
4 12 (27.91%) CISA
4 12 (27.91%) Banking
5 11 (25.58%) Project Management
6 9 (20.93%) CISSP
6 9 (20.93%) Degree
7 8 (18.60%) CRISC
7 8 (18.60%) CISM
8 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (11.63%) Management Information System
9 5 (11.63%) JIRA
9 5 (11.63%) Agile
10 4 (9.30%) COBIT
10 4 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (9.30%) Legal
10 4 (9.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (9.30%) Investment Banking
10 4 (9.30%) NIST
10 4 (9.30%) Regulatory Compliance
10 4 (9.30%) Resource Allocation
10 4 (9.30%) GDPR
10 4 (9.30%) Budget Management
11 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
11 3 (6.98%) Risk Register
11 3 (6.98%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
11 3 (6.98%) Public Sector

Risk Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
1 2 (4.65%) AWS
1 2 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) JIRA
General
1 31 (72.09%) Finance
2 21 (48.84%) Social Skills
3 12 (27.91%) Banking
4 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Investment Banking
4 4 (9.30%) Legal
5 3 (6.98%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.65%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.65%) Front Office
6 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Back Office
7 1 (2.33%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Retail
7 1 (2.33%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.98%) Market Risk
2 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Credit Risk
3 2 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (69.77%) Risk Management
2 21 (48.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (25.58%) Project Management
4 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (11.63%) Agile
6 4 (9.30%) Budget Management
6 4 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (9.30%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (9.30%) Resource Allocation
7 3 (6.98%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (6.98%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
7 3 (6.98%) Data Analysis
7 3 (6.98%) Information Security
7 3 (6.98%) IT Audit
7 3 (6.98%) Project Delivery
7 3 (6.98%) Quality Management
7 3 (6.98%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
7 3 (6.98%) Risk Register
8 2 (4.65%) Change Management
8 2 (4.65%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.98%) SQL
2 2 (4.65%) Python
3 1 (2.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) CISA
2 9 (20.93%) CISSP
2 9 (20.93%) Degree
3 8 (18.60%) CISM
3 8 (18.60%) CRISC
4 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) COBIT
1 4 (9.30%) GDPR
1 4 (9.30%) NIST
1 4 (9.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (6.98%) COSO
3 2 (4.65%) PMO
4 1 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.33%) GRC
4 1 (2.33%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.33%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.65%) SAP
2 2 (4.65%) Snow
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft