Risk Manager Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Risk Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Risk Manager daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £635, 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 288 326 431
Rank change year-on-year +38 +105 +146
Contract jobs requiring a Risk Manager 16 19 46
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 35
10th Percentile £504 £446 £455
25th Percentile £618 £469 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £612 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.84% +1.92% -
75th Percentile £783 £747 £718
90th Percentile £805 £809 £960
UK median daily rate £631 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +5.17% -11.11% +8.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Risk Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Risk Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Risk Manager trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Risk Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Risk Manager.

Risk Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Risk Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Risk Manager over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Risk Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Risk Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Risk Manager in the job title.

1 11 (68.75%) Risk Management
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Project Management
4 5 (31.25%) GDPR
5 4 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
5 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
5 4 (25.00%) Legal
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (25.00%) JIRA
6 3 (18.75%) COSO
6 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
6 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (18.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (18.75%) CISA
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Banking
6 3 (18.75%) Regulatory Compliance
6 3 (18.75%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) NIST
6 3 (18.75%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
6 3 (18.75%) COBIT
6 3 (18.75%) Budget Management
7 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 2 (12.50%) SOC 2
7 2 (12.50%) Programme Management
7 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch

Risk Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Legal
4 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.25%) Front Office
5 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Credit Risk
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) Market Risk
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Risk Management
2 6 (37.50%) Project Management
3 4 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
3 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) Budget Management
4 3 (18.75%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (18.75%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Programme Management
5 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 1 (6.25%) Actionable Insight
6 1 (6.25%) Credit Risk Modelling
6 1 (6.25%) Data Acquisition
6 1 (6.25%) Fintech
6 1 (6.25%) Quantitative Risk Management
6 1 (6.25%) Remediation Plan
6 1 (6.25%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) C++
1 1 (6.25%) Python
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) CISA
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) GDPR
2 3 (18.75%) COBIT
2 3 (18.75%) COSO
2 3 (18.75%) NIST
2 3 (18.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (12.50%) HIPAA
3 2 (12.50%) SOC 2
4 1 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (6.25%) GRC
4 1 (6.25%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) Bloomberg
2 1 (6.25%) Citrix
2 1 (6.25%) FIS
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Reuters
2 1 (6.25%) SAP