Risk Assessment
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 510 657
Rank change year-on-year -47 +147 -69
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 382 571 680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.55% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.58% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 285 339 438
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,405 £38,947
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,805 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% +1.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,125 £68,938
90th Percentile £88,750 £102,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Risk Assessment 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 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Assessment within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +24 355 £65,000 - 332
UK excluding London -65 216 £57,500 +4.55% 235
London +54 152 £75,000 -4.46% 129
Work from Home +12 131 £60,000 -20.00% 150
North of England +79 69 £55,000 +4.76% 64
Midlands +28 52 £60,000 - 30
North West +58 47 £52,000 -13.33% 40
West Midlands +39 46 £60,000 -20.00% 21
South West -53 33 £70,000 +27.27% 28
South East -45 25 £57,500 +9.52% 52
East of England +21 19 £57,500 -2.54% 26
Yorkshire +78 13 £49,000 -6.67% 18
Scotland -64 12 £50,000 -30.64% 34
North East -5 9 £78,273 +49.09% 6
East Midlands -14 5 £78,273 +55.00% 9
Northern Ireland +19 3 - - 2
Wales 0 3 £65,386 - 5

Risk Assessment
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 11 (2.88%) WordPress
2 7 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.57%) SAS
4 1 (0.26%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (6.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.26%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 7 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.05%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.79%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.26%) Primavera
4 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (14.14%) Azure
2 45 (11.78%) AWS
3 33 (8.64%) Power Platform
4 29 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (2.36%) Google Drive
6 7 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.05%) GCP
7 4 (1.05%) SaaS
8 3 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (0.79%) Blackbaud
8 3 (0.79%) Canva
8 3 (0.79%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (0.52%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.52%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (0.52%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.52%) Serverless
9 2 (0.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.12%) Firewall
2 23 (6.02%) Network Security
3 10 (2.62%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (1.57%) LAN
4 6 (1.57%) WAN
5 5 (1.31%) DNS
5 5 (1.31%) Internet
6 4 (1.05%) 5G
6 4 (1.05%) GSM
6 4 (1.05%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (1.05%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.79%) VPN
8 2 (0.52%) 802.11
8 2 (0.52%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.52%) DMZ
8 2 (0.52%) HTTP
8 2 (0.52%) IPv4
8 2 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.52%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.64%) Power BI
2 9 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (2.36%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.57%) Tableau
4 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 5 (1.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 5 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.05%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.52%) Big Data
6 2 (0.52%) Metadata
6 2 (0.52%) MySQL
7 1 (0.26%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.52%) Burp Suite
2 2 (0.52%) Git
2 2 (0.52%) JIRA
2 2 (0.52%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.52%) sqlmap
3 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.26%) Snyk
General
1 142 (37.17%) Social Skills
2 113 (29.58%) Finance
3 76 (19.90%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (19.63%) Legal
5 29 (7.59%) Law
6 28 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (7.33%) Retail
7 18 (4.71%) Banking
7 18 (4.71%) Manufacturing
7 18 (4.71%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.66%) Marketing
10 8 (2.09%) Fire and Rescue
10 8 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.09%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.09%) Local Government
11 6 (1.57%) Police
11 6 (1.57%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.31%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.31%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 70 (18.32%) Analyst
2 56 (14.66%) Senior
3 51 (13.35%) Security Analyst
4 29 (7.59%) Information Analyst
4 29 (7.59%) Information Security Analyst
5 28 (7.33%) Project Manager
6 24 (6.28%) Architect
7 23 (6.02%) IT Manager
7 23 (6.02%) Security Architect
8 22 (5.76%) Consultant
9 20 (5.24%) Security Manager
10 19 (4.97%) Principal Architect
10 19 (4.97%) Principal Security Architect
11 18 (4.71%) Security Consultant
12 17 (4.45%) Lead
13 14 (3.66%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (3.14%) Risk Manager
14 12 (3.14%) Security Engineer
15 11 (2.88%) Audit Manager
15 11 (2.88%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.31%) HTML
2 3 (0.79%) Web Services
3 2 (0.52%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.52%) Ajax
3 2 (0.52%) CSS
3 2 (0.52%) HTML5
3 2 (0.52%) jQuery
3 2 (0.52%) JSON
3 2 (0.52%) OAuth
3 2 (0.52%) OAuth2
3 2 (0.52%) OpenID
3 2 (0.52%) SailPoint
3 2 (0.52%) WebSockets
4 1 (0.26%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.26%) Leaflet
4 1 (0.26%) Node-RED
4 1 (0.26%) PySpark
4 1 (0.26%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.26%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 73 (19.11%) Management Information System
2 34 (8.90%) Cyber Threat
3 33 (8.64%) Security Posture
4 32 (8.38%) Onboarding
5 25 (6.54%) Public Cloud
6 16 (4.19%) Product Ownership
7 14 (3.66%) Cyberattack
8 10 (2.62%) Algorithms
8 10 (2.62%) Operational Technology
9 9 (2.36%) Security Operations Centre
10 8 (2.09%) Credit Risk
10 8 (2.09%) Driving Licence
10 8 (2.09%) PKI
11 7 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.57%) IoT
12 6 (1.57%) Market Risk
12 6 (1.57%) SCADA
13 5 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.31%) NHS
13 5 (1.31%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.83%) Windows
2 5 (1.31%) Linux
3 3 (0.79%) Kali Linux
3 3 (0.79%) Ubuntu
3 3 (0.79%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.79%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (33.51%) Cybersecurity
2 113 (29.58%) Risk Management
3 100 (26.18%) Information Security
4 85 (22.25%) Problem-Solving
5 75 (19.63%) Project Management
6 62 (16.23%) Roadmaps
7 52 (13.61%) Agile
8 49 (12.83%) Security Architecture
9 45 (11.78%) Mentoring
10 42 (10.99%) Decision-Making
11 36 (9.42%) Security Management
12 35 (9.16%) Security Operations
13 34 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (8.90%) Incident Response
13 34 (8.90%) Internal Audit
13 34 (8.90%) SIEM
14 33 (8.64%) Analytics
14 33 (8.64%) Cloud Security
15 31 (8.12%) Business Continuity
15 31 (8.12%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 15 (3.93%) Python
2 6 (1.57%) R
3 4 (1.05%) SQL
4 3 (0.79%) C++
4 3 (0.79%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.79%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.52%) C
5 2 (0.52%) Java
5 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.52%) PHP
6 1 (0.26%) C#
6 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.26%) Go
6 1 (0.26%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 118 (30.89%) Degree
2 70 (18.32%) CISSP
3 57 (14.92%) CISM
4 35 (9.16%) Security Cleared
5 34 (8.90%) CRISC
6 24 (6.28%) CompTIA Security+
7 22 (5.76%) CompTIA CySA+
8 20 (5.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (5.24%) Master's Degree
9 18 (4.71%) CISA
10 13 (3.40%) HNC
11 12 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (3.14%) SC Cleared
12 11 (2.88%) HND
13 10 (2.62%) DV Cleared
14 9 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (2.09%) PMI Certification
16 7 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (1.83%) CCSP
16 7 (1.83%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (25.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 61 (15.97%) NIST
3 28 (7.33%) GRC
4 26 (6.81%) GDPR
5 22 (5.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 20 (5.24%) QA
7 12 (3.14%) PCI DSS
8 11 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 10 (2.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 10 (2.62%) NCSC
10 9 (2.36%) Data Quality
11 8 (2.09%) COBIT
12 7 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 5 (1.31%) Accessibility
14 4 (1.05%) ISO 31000
14 4 (1.05%) JSP 440
14 4 (1.05%) RMADS
15 3 (0.79%) HMG Infosec
15 3 (0.79%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (1.05%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.79%) Docker
2 3 (0.79%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (1.57%) QRadar
2 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.79%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.79%) SELinux
4 2 (0.52%) Nessus
5 1 (0.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.26%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.26%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.26%) Nagios
5 1 (0.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 66 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.45%) ServiceNow
3 16 (4.19%) Google
4 13 (3.40%) Cisco
4 13 (3.40%) Splunk
5 9 (2.36%) Xero
6 6 (1.57%) Alteryx
6 6 (1.57%) IBM
6 6 (1.57%) Pega
6 6 (1.57%) UiPath
7 5 (1.31%) NEC
7 5 (1.31%) VMware
8 4 (1.05%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.79%) Sage
9 3 (0.79%) SAP
9 3 (0.79%) Snow
10 2 (0.52%) OneTrust
10 2 (0.52%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.52%) Sophos