Risk Management Jobs in Scotland

Risk Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 60 80
Rank change year-on-year +33 +20 +56
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 795 216 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.80% 4.59% 3.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.72% 4.87% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 50 82 84
10th Percentile £50,155 £35,733 £39,330
25th Percentile £53,503 £46,470 £45,904
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,250 £69,447 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.12% +6.84% -
75th Percentile £71,825 £77,715 £90,000
90th Percentile £106,199 £87,177 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £66,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.11% +2.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,250 4,437 5,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.80% 94.24% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,226 2,810
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in Scotland

Risk Management
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Risk Management in Scotland

Risk Management
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Risk Management in Scotland

Risk Management
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 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
Glasgow +50 763 £63,500 -2.27% 12
Edinburgh -44 15 £55,000 -21.43% 15
Dundee -10 6 £55,380 +15.09% 1
Aberdeen -15 4 £55,000 - 10
South Lanarkshire - 3 - -
Argyll and Bute - 2 £50,625 - 2
East Lothian - 1 - - 3
Risk Management
UK

Risk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 280 (35.22%) Apache Spark
2 103 (12.96%) Apache
3 47 (5.91%) FileNet
4 44 (5.53%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (2.52%) Camunda
6 7 (0.88%) SAS
7 6 (0.75%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.63%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.63%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
Applications
1 13 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.51%) Primavera
2 11 (1.38%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 369 (46.42%) AWS
2 67 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
3 51 (6.42%) Amazon EC2
3 51 (6.42%) Amazon ECS
3 51 (6.42%) Amazon EMR
3 51 (6.42%) Amazon SQS
3 51 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
3 51 (6.42%) Serverless
4 47 (5.91%) Amazon S3
5 46 (5.79%) Azure
6 44 (5.53%) GCP
7 42 (5.28%) Cloud Computing
8 27 (3.40%) BlazeMeter
9 26 (3.27%) GitHub
10 17 (2.14%) Power Platform
11 7 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.13%) SaaS
12 1 (0.13%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.38%) Firewall
1 3 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (40.63%) NoSQL
2 234 (29.43%) Big Data
3 220 (27.67%) Hadoop
4 106 (13.33%) Apache Hive
5 90 (11.32%) HBase
6 51 (6.42%) Electronic Patient Records
7 47 (5.91%) Apache Cassandra
7 47 (5.91%) Elasticsearch
8 39 (4.91%) Data Lake
8 39 (4.91%) Qlik Sense
9 20 (2.52%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.14%) Power BI
11 16 (2.01%) Impala
12 11 (1.38%) Tableau
13 5 (0.63%) Pentaho
14 2 (0.25%) EDMS
15 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
15 1 (0.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 134 (16.86%) Jenkins
2 79 (9.94%) Git
3 74 (9.31%) Bitbucket Server
4 66 (8.30%) JUnit
5 29 (3.65%) Gradle
5 29 (3.65%) Maven
6 27 (3.40%) JMeter
7 26 (3.27%) Jasmine
7 26 (3.27%) Mockito
8 20 (2.52%) CircleCI
8 20 (2.52%) JIRA
8 20 (2.52%) Travis CI
9 9 (1.13%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.13%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 735 (92.45%) Finance
2 715 (89.94%) Law
3 713 (89.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 682 (85.79%) Legal
5 92 (11.57%) Social Skills
6 47 (5.91%) Marketing
7 44 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
8 23 (2.89%) Banking
9 11 (1.38%) Back Office
10 10 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.01%) Retail
12 7 (0.88%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.50%) Public Sector
13 4 (0.50%) Publishing
14 2 (0.25%) Advertising
14 2 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.13%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.13%) Military
15 1 (0.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 689 (86.67%) Software Engineer
2 287 (36.10%) Java Engineer
2 287 (36.10%) Java Software Engineer
3 227 (28.55%) Big Data Engineer
3 227 (28.55%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 205 (25.79%) AWS Engineer
4 205 (25.79%) AWS Software Engineer
5 166 (20.88%) Data Engineer
6 151 (18.99%) Full Stack Engineer
6 151 (18.99%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 119 (14.97%) Python Engineer
7 119 (14.97%) Python Software Engineer
8 101 (12.70%) Scala Engineer
8 101 (12.70%) Scala Software Engineer
9 45 (5.66%) Developer
10 44 (5.53%) Database Developer
10 44 (5.53%) Database Engineer
10 44 (5.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 37 (4.65%) AWS Database Engineer
11 37 (4.65%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (24.91%) Spring
2 141 (17.74%) React
3 119 (14.97%) Kafka
4 110 (13.84%) J2EE
5 97 (12.20%) AngularJS
6 79 (9.94%) JMS
7 72 (9.06%) HTML
7 72 (9.06%) Spring Boot
8 71 (8.93%) Node.js
8 71 (8.93%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 67 (8.43%) PySpark
10 66 (8.30%) Hibernate
11 47 (5.91%) GraphQL
11 47 (5.91%) Spring Integration
12 45 (5.66%) JSON
13 44 (5.53%) XML
14 41 (5.16%) CSS
15 40 (5.03%) jQuery
16 39 (4.91%) JavaBeans
16 39 (4.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 475 (59.75%) Algorithms
2 162 (20.38%) Onboarding
3 106 (13.33%) Cloud Native
4 43 (5.41%) Legacy Code
5 27 (3.40%) Market Risk
6 20 (2.52%) Public Cloud
7 19 (2.39%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.51%) Reference Data
10 8 (1.01%) Credit Risk
10 8 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (0.88%) Credit Derivative
11 7 (0.88%) Derivative
11 7 (0.88%) Fixed Income
11 7 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (0.88%) Hedge funds
11 7 (0.88%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 6 (0.75%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.63%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 115 (14.47%) Unix
2 34 (4.28%) Linux
3 1 (0.13%) Windows
3 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 715 (89.94%) Agile
2 690 (86.79%) Software Engineering
3 684 (86.04%) CI/CD
4 643 (80.88%) SDLC
5 555 (69.81%) Operational Stability
6 493 (62.01%) Continuous Improvement
7 485 (61.01%) Visualisation
8 482 (60.63%) Artificial Intelligence
9 480 (60.38%) Machine Learning
10 418 (52.58%) Community of Practice
11 201 (25.28%) Decision-Making
12 178 (22.39%) Microservices
13 159 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
14 156 (19.62%) Full Stack Development
15 124 (15.60%) KYC
15 124 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
16 108 (13.58%) TDD
17 101 (12.70%) Test Automation
18 82 (10.31%) OO
19 75 (9.43%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 530 (66.67%) Java
2 458 (57.61%) SQL
3 338 (42.52%) Python
4 117 (14.72%) Scala
5 104 (13.08%) PL/SQL
6 50 (6.29%) JavaScript
7 40 (5.03%) TypeScript
8 20 (2.52%) Ruby
9 5 (0.63%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.25%) R
11 1 (0.13%) C
11 1 (0.13%) C#
Qualifications
1 34 (4.28%) Degree
2 30 (3.77%) Security Cleared
3 18 (2.26%) SC Cleared
4 13 (1.64%) Master's Degree
5 11 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.01%) CISSP
6 8 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 7 (0.88%) CISM
8 2 (0.25%) HND
9 1 (0.13%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.13%) CISA
9 1 (0.13%) CRISC
9 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) HNC
9 1 (0.13%) MRICS
9 1 (0.13%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.14%) SLA
2 16 (2.01%) NIST
3 12 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.13%) QA
5 6 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.75%) GDPR
5 6 (0.75%) IFRS
5 6 (0.75%) IFRS 9
6 5 (0.63%) COBIT
6 5 (0.63%) ISO 31000
7 4 (0.50%) NCSC
8 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.25%) CRD IV
9 2 (0.25%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.13%) Basel III
10 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.13%) FINRA
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 90 (11.32%) HDFS
2 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 109 (13.71%) Kubernetes
2 78 (9.81%) Terraform
3 5 (0.63%) Grafana
3 5 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 152 (19.12%) Databricks
2 109 (13.71%) Oracle
3 75 (9.43%) Informatica
4 60 (7.55%) Cloudera
5 39 (4.91%) Alteryx
6 20 (2.52%) Pega
7 14 (1.76%) Microsoft
8 11 (1.38%) OpenLink
9 9 (1.13%) TOWER Software
10 6 (0.75%) Google
11 5 (0.63%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.63%) CA
11 5 (0.63%) Splunk
11 5 (0.63%) Sybase
12 2 (0.25%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.25%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.13%) NEC