Risk Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Risk Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Risk Management over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 108 116
Rank change year-on-year +27 +8 +87
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 3,218 3,016 5,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.14% 3.10% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 3.24% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,509 1,635 2,277
10th Percentile £41,125 £39,927 £39,643
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,750 £55,168
% change year-on-year +3.14% +1.06% -4.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Risk Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Risk Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Risk Management.

Salary trend for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Management over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Management within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +62 2,371 £57,500 +3.14% 639
England +13 2,336 £60,000 -7.69% 1,064
Work from Home +8 861 £60,202 -7.38% 399
Scotland +36 789 £61,750 -7.14% 67
London -4 766 £77,500 -3.13% 466
North of England +71 414 £55,000 -0.08% 157
South East -38 392 £54,000 +2.37% 144
Midlands +50 340 £54,650 -0.64% 102
South West +21 307 £65,000 +8.33% 92
North West +90 241 £53,580 -2.66% 92
West Midlands +19 218 £58,000 +5.45% 65
Yorkshire +38 119 £60,000 +9.01% 44
East Midlands +53 112 £54,000 +6.93% 37
East of England +13 97 £54,000 -6.90% 73
North East +36 54 £57,500 +4.55% 24
Wales -14 22 £72,500 +47.25% 13
Northern Ireland +22 8 £63,750 +11.35% 9
Isle of Man -11 4 £46,500 +3.33% 1

Risk Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 293 (9.11%) Apache Spark
2 115 (3.57%) Apache
3 86 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 73 (2.27%) SAS
5 47 (1.46%) FileNet
6 46 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (0.59%) Camunda
8 17 (0.53%) Confluence
9 13 (0.40%) CMS
9 13 (0.40%) IIS
9 13 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 5 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.12%) Drupal
11 4 (0.12%) Luigi
12 1 (0.031%) IBM Domino
12 1 (0.031%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 204 (6.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 96 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
3 92 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.40%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.37%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.093%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.062%) Trello
10 1 (0.031%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 78 (2.42%) Primavera
2 20 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.47%) Endur
4 11 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.062%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.062%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.062%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 1 (0.031%) BusinessWorks
8 1 (0.031%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.031%) Data Workbench
8 1 (0.031%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.031%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 487 (15.13%) AWS
2 226 (7.02%) Azure
3 138 (4.29%) Power Platform
4 100 (3.11%) GCP
5 99 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
6 83 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
7 69 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
8 64 (1.99%) SaaS
9 60 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
10 57 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
10 57 (1.77%) Serverless
11 54 (1.68%) Amazon S3
12 50 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
12 50 (1.55%) Amazon EMR
12 50 (1.55%) Amazon SQS
13 28 (0.87%) GitHub
14 27 (0.84%) BlazeMeter
14 27 (0.84%) Entra ID
15 16 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.26%) Firewall
2 56 (1.74%) Network Security
3 36 (1.12%) Internet
4 32 (0.99%) LAN
5 27 (0.84%) WAN
6 25 (0.78%) VPN
7 20 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
7 20 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.50%) SAN
9 14 (0.44%) 5G
9 14 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.40%) HTTP
10 13 (0.40%) PPP
11 10 (0.31%) Intranet
11 10 (0.31%) Wireless
12 8 (0.25%) SSL
13 7 (0.22%) Extranet
14 6 (0.19%) Broadband
14 6 (0.19%) VLAN
15 5 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 337 (10.47%) NoSQL
2 250 (7.77%) Big Data
3 228 (7.09%) Hadoop
4 120 (3.73%) Power BI
5 104 (3.23%) Apache Hive
6 88 (2.73%) HBase
7 65 (2.02%) Electronic Patient Records
8 54 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
9 51 (1.58%) Tableau
10 48 (1.49%) Data Lake
11 47 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
12 46 (1.43%) Qlik Sense
13 41 (1.27%) SQL Server
14 34 (1.06%) Relational Database
15 26 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
16 16 (0.50%) Impala
17 14 (0.44%) QlikView
18 13 (0.40%) Metadata
19 10 (0.31%) BigQuery
19 10 (0.31%) Flink
Development Applications
1 147 (4.57%) Jenkins
2 130 (4.04%) JIRA
3 129 (4.01%) Git
4 73 (2.27%) Bitbucket Server
5 67 (2.08%) JUnit
6 31 (0.96%) Maven
7 29 (0.90%) Gradle
8 27 (0.84%) JMeter
9 26 (0.81%) Jasmine
9 26 (0.81%) Mockito
10 19 (0.59%) CircleCI
10 19 (0.59%) Travis CI
11 9 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.28%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.22%) RStudio
13 5 (0.16%) MSTest
13 5 (0.16%) Postman
13 5 (0.16%) SoapUI
14 4 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 1,711 (53.17%) Finance
2 1,124 (34.93%) Social Skills
3 1,068 (33.19%) Legal
4 950 (29.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 887 (27.56%) Law
6 453 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
7 257 (7.99%) Banking
8 136 (4.23%) Marketing
9 119 (3.70%) Manufacturing
10 118 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
11 110 (3.42%) Public Sector
12 107 (3.33%) Retail
13 103 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
14 76 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
15 61 (1.90%) Telecoms
16 54 (1.68%) Publishing
17 40 (1.24%) Investment Banking
17 40 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
18 36 (1.12%) Aerospace
18 36 (1.12%) Police
Job Titles
1 718 (22.31%) Software Engineer
2 470 (14.61%) Senior
3 408 (12.68%) Project Manager
4 295 (9.17%) Java Engineer
4 295 (9.17%) Java Software Engineer
5 249 (7.74%) Analyst
6 222 (6.90%) Big Data Engineer
6 222 (6.90%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 211 (6.56%) IT Manager
8 205 (6.37%) AWS Engineer
8 205 (6.37%) AWS Software Engineer
9 197 (6.12%) Senior Manager
10 179 (5.56%) Lead
11 170 (5.28%) Data Engineer
12 169 (5.25%) Consultant
13 156 (4.85%) Full Stack Engineer
14 151 (4.69%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 139 (4.32%) Security Manager
16 123 (3.82%) Security Consultant
17 118 (3.67%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (6.77%) Spring
2 168 (5.22%) React
3 140 (4.35%) Kafka
4 123 (3.82%) AngularJS
5 111 (3.45%) J2EE
6 94 (2.92%) HTML
7 82 (2.55%) Spring Boot
8 79 (2.45%) JMS
9 75 (2.33%) Hibernate
10 71 (2.21%) Node.js
10 71 (2.21%) PySpark
10 71 (2.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 67 (2.08%) CSS
12 55 (1.71%) .NET
13 54 (1.68%) jQuery
14 53 (1.65%) XML
15 50 (1.55%) JSON
16 48 (1.49%) GraphQL
16 48 (1.49%) Spring Integration
17 46 (1.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 516 (16.03%) Algorithms
2 317 (9.85%) Management Information System
3 208 (6.46%) Onboarding
4 133 (4.13%) Cloud Native
5 132 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
6 97 (3.01%) Credit Risk
7 88 (2.73%) Security Posture
8 86 (2.67%) Operational Technology
9 61 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
10 56 (1.74%) Market Risk
11 55 (1.71%) Data Structures
12 43 (1.34%) Data Centre
13 42 (1.31%) Legacy Code
14 39 (1.21%) Cyberattack
15 37 (1.15%) Product Ownership
16 34 (1.06%) Industrial Internet of Things
17 30 (0.93%) PMI
18 26 (0.81%) Reinsurance
19 25 (0.78%) Public Cloud
20 24 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 126 (3.92%) Unix
2 73 (2.27%) Linux
3 64 (1.99%) Windows
4 24 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.47%) Android
5 15 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.19%) zOS
8 3 (0.093%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.093%) Windows XP
9 2 (0.062%) AIX
10 1 (0.031%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.031%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,192 (37.04%) Agile
2 785 (24.39%) Continuous Improvement
2 785 (24.39%) Software Engineering
3 718 (22.31%) CI/CD
4 687 (21.35%) SDLC
5 672 (20.88%) Project Management
6 567 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
7 566 (17.59%) Cybersecurity
8 564 (17.53%) Operational Stability
9 539 (16.75%) Artificial Intelligence
10 535 (16.63%) Machine Learning
11 527 (16.38%) Visualisation
12 496 (15.41%) Decision-Making
13 433 (13.46%) Community of Practice
14 426 (13.24%) Information Security
15 388 (12.06%) Stakeholder Management
16 300 (9.32%) Change Management
17 296 (9.20%) Project Delivery
18 255 (7.92%) Coaching
19 243 (7.55%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 594 (18.46%) SQL
2 588 (18.27%) Java
3 470 (14.61%) Python
4 127 (3.95%) Scala
5 103 (3.20%) PL/SQL
6 84 (2.61%) JavaScript
7 49 (1.52%) TypeScript
8 41 (1.27%) C#
9 29 (0.90%) R
10 27 (0.84%) PowerShell
11 23 (0.71%) PL/1
12 22 (0.68%) Ruby
13 20 (0.62%) Kotlin
13 20 (0.62%) PHP
14 19 (0.59%) Go
15 10 (0.31%) C++
16 9 (0.28%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.22%) Groovy
18 6 (0.19%) Bash
18 6 (0.19%) REXX
Qualifications
1 642 (19.95%) Degree
2 317 (9.85%) Security Cleared
3 261 (8.11%) CISSP
4 208 (6.46%) CISM
5 206 (6.40%) SC Cleared
6 136 (4.23%) CRISC
7 104 (3.23%) Master's Degree
8 97 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 96 (2.98%) CISA
10 81 (2.52%) PMI Certification
11 62 (1.93%) CESG Certified Professional
12 61 (1.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 56 (1.74%) PMP
14 50 (1.55%) ACCA
15 29 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
16 28 (0.87%) DV Cleared
17 26 (0.81%) CISMP
18 25 (0.78%) CEH
18 25 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
19 21 (0.65%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (8.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 230 (7.15%) NIST
3 193 (6.00%) GDPR
4 143 (4.44%) QA
5 128 (3.98%) GRC
6 116 (3.60%) IFRS
7 109 (3.39%) Data Quality
8 90 (2.80%) NCSC
9 79 (2.45%) PMO
10 64 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
10 64 (1.99%) PCI DSS
11 60 (1.86%) IFRS 9
12 48 (1.49%) JSP 440
13 46 (1.43%) COBIT
14 42 (1.31%) SLA
15 40 (1.24%) NIST 800
16 31 (0.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 31 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 29 (0.90%) RMADS
18 27 (0.84%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 88 (2.73%) HDFS
2 50 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 44 (1.37%) Docker
4 17 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.19%) Firmware
6 6 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.093%) ACF2
9 3 (0.093%) RACF
10 2 (0.062%) IAG
11 1 (0.031%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.031%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.031%) LXC
11 1 (0.031%) Microcode
11 1 (0.031%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.031%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 159 (4.94%) Kubernetes
2 91 (2.83%) Terraform
3 16 (0.50%) SCOM
4 9 (0.28%) Grafana
4 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.25%) Nessus
6 7 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (0.19%) Ansible
7 6 (0.19%) CASB
7 6 (0.19%) Puppet
8 5 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.16%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (0.12%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.093%) Kibana
10 3 (0.093%) SCCM
11 2 (0.062%) QRadar
11 2 (0.062%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.031%) Argo
12 1 (0.031%) Functional Safety
12 1 (0.031%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 377 (11.72%) Microsoft
2 159 (4.94%) Databricks
3 135 (4.20%) Oracle
4 81 (2.52%) Informatica
5 61 (1.90%) Alteryx
6 58 (1.80%) Cloudera
7 51 (1.58%) CA
8 44 (1.37%) Google
9 38 (1.18%) SAP
10 31 (0.96%) Cisco
10 31 (0.96%) VMware
11 26 (0.81%) Pega
12 23 (0.71%) IFS
12 23 (0.71%) Workday
13 20 (0.62%) Splunk
14 19 (0.59%) ServiceNow
15 17 (0.53%) IBM
16 15 (0.47%) NEC
16 15 (0.47%) Qualys
17 14 (0.44%) Veeam