Risk Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Risk Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Risk Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 364 406
Rank change year-on-year +41 +42 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Risk Manager 20 22 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.12% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 35
10th Percentile £469 £460 £460
25th Percentile £488 £525 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £700
90th Percentile £788 £860 £719
UK median daily rate £635 £600 £700
% change year-on-year +5.83% -14.29% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £63.00 £58.44 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 £47.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +32.63% -32.14% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,781 18,945 22,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 92.49% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,499 11,550 15,483
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 840 2,261 1,134
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.08
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% -4.94% +110.39%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.85% -16.67% +88.21%

Risk Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Manager in the UK excluding London

Risk Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Manager in the UK excluding London

Risk Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Manager in the UK excluding London

Risk Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Risk Manager in the UK excluding London

Risk Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
South East +47 9 £650 +5.05% 23
North of England +26 7 £485 -11.91% 17
Yorkshire - 6 £485 - 4
Midlands +20 4 £385 -57.28% 14
South West +43 3 £525 +16.67% 2
West Midlands +18 3 £469 -47.89% 4
North East - 2 - -
North West +18 1 - - 13
East Midlands - 1 £300 - 10
Risk Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 UK excluding London region featuring Risk Manager in the job title.

1 14 (70.00%) Risk Management
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (20.00%) Banking
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (15.00%) Project Management
5 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (10.00%) Application Security
6 2 (10.00%) Risk Register
6 2 (10.00%) Credit Risk Management
6 2 (10.00%) Analytics
6 2 (10.00%) Metadata
6 2 (10.00%) Credit Risk
6 2 (10.00%) Stress Testing
6 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (10.00%) Confluence
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (10.00%) Portfolio Management
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
6 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (10.00%) Architecture Governance
6 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (10.00%) IFRS
6 2 (10.00%) IFRS 9

Risk Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
1 2 (10.00%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Metadata
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Law
6 1 (5.00%) Retail
6 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Credit Risk
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.00%) Project Management
3 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (10.00%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (10.00%) CAFM
4 2 (10.00%) Credit Risk Management
4 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (10.00%) Facilities Management
4 2 (10.00%) Information Security
4 2 (10.00%) Internal Audit
4 2 (10.00%) Process Management
4 2 (10.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery Management
4 2 (10.00%) Stress Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Supply Chain Management
4 2 (10.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (10.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.00%) IFRS
1 2 (10.00%) IFRS 9
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft