Risk Officer Contracts

Risk Officer
UK

The median Risk Officer daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 575 703
Rank change year-on-year +59 +128 +146
Contract jobs requiring a Risk Officer 4 23 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.053% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.057% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 7
10th Percentile - - £277
25th Percentile £413 £325 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -31.82% +27.54%
75th Percentile £438 £400 £719
90th Percentile - £498 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £363 £525
% change year-on-year +17.24% -30.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £39.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £39.60

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,138 40,367 56,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,714 26,265 39,350
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 2,668 1,565
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.40
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
% change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%

Risk Officer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Officer in the UK

Risk Officer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Officer in the UK

Risk Officer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Risk Officer in the UK

Risk Officer
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 Risk Officer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
UK excluding London +45 3 £425 +17.24% 1
England +49 2 - - 2
Scotland 0 2 £425 +21.43% 1
London +39 1 - - 2
East of England - 1 - -

Risk Officer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Risk Officer 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 featuring Risk Officer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) COBIT
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Management
3 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) CRISC

Risk Officer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISA
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) CRISC
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) COBIT
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft