The first table below looks at the demand for the Risk Manager role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Risk Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Risk Manager
Rank 704 720 619
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -101
Permanent jobs requiring a Risk Manager 154 178 261
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.143% 0.147% 0.211%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.151% 0.155% 0.224%
Number of salaries quoted 123 132 166
Average salary £58,500 £67,500 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +3.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £77,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,750 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
+1.50% +5.26%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101791 114576 116360
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.44% 94.74% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 84727 98303 98213
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Risk Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Risk Manager within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Risk Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Risk Manager
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Risk Manager within the UK.

Risk Manager Salary Trend

Risk Manager
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Risk Manager over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

Risk Manager Salary Histogram

Risk Manager
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +10 143 £58,500 -15.52%
London -9 87 £60,000 -27.27%
City of London +13 30 £60,000 -12.72%
Wiltshire +21 20 £50,000 -5.59%
South West +13 20 £50,000 -5.59%
South East +4 15 £57,500 +9.52%
East of England +11 11 £61,000 +25.77%
Swindon +9 11 £50,000 -5.59%
Edinburgh +9 10 £65,000 +18.18%
Scotland +4 10 £65,000 +36.84%
Hertfordshire +12 9 £60,000 +23.71%
North West +5 5 £45,000 -
Buckinghamshire -4 5 £57,500 +15.00%
Milton Keynes -8 5 £57,500 +17.94%
Rickmansworth - 5 £61,000 -
Berkshire +11 4 £50,750 -30.00%
Surrey +18 3 £57,500 +1.76%
Cheshire +6 3 £47,500 -
East Midlands +4 3 £60,000 +71.42%
West Yorkshire +1 3 £46,000 -
Yorkshire -16 3 £46,000 -
West Midlands -16 3 £55,000 +25.00%
Derbyshire - 3 £60,000 -
Guildford - 3 £57,500 -
Manchester -19 2 £45,000 -
Basildon - 2 £67,500 -
Halifax - 2 £46,000 -
Reading - 2 - -
Newbury - 2 £50,750 -
Staffordshire - 2 - -

Risk Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Risk Manager in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Risk Manager in their job title.

1 156 (56.12%) Finance
2 130 (46.76%) Risk Management
3 99 (35.61%) Credit Risk
4 91 (32.73%) Banking
5 65 (23.38%) Project Management
6 57 (20.50%) Degree
7 52 (18.71%) Information Security
8 49 (17.63%) Investment Banking
9 48 (17.27%) SAS
10 40 (14.39%) SQL
11 39 (14.03%) Retail
11 39 (14.03%) Data Analysis
12 36 (12.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 35 (12.59%) ITIL
14 30 (10.79%) Basel III
15 29 (10.43%) Mathematics
16 27 (9.712%) Market Risk
17 26 (9.353%) Business Continuity
18 25 (8.993%) ISO/IEC 27001
18 25 (8.993%) Derivative
18 25 (8.993%) Analytics
19 24 (8.633%) CISSP
20 21 (7.554%) Statistics
20 21 (7.554%) COBIT
20 21 (7.554%) CISM
21 19 (6.835%) Risk Analysis
21 19 (6.835%) SPSS
22 18 (6.475%) Disaster Recovery
22 18 (6.475%) Front Office
23 17 (6.115%) Legal

Risk Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Risk Manager in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Risk Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (1.079%) WAP
2 2 (0.719%) .NET
3 1 (0.360%) Struts
3 1 (0.360%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 48 (17.27%) SAS
2 8 (2.878%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.439%) Lotus Notes
4 2 (0.719%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (0.719%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.360%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 19 (6.835%) SPSS
2 16 (5.755%) MS Excel
3 11 (3.957%) MS PowerPoint
3 11 (3.957%) MS Office
4 5 (1.799%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.079%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.360%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.719%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.518%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.158%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.799%) Data Mining
4 4 (1.439%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.719%) Base SAS
5 2 (0.719%) Big Data
6 1 (0.360%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 4 (1.439%) JIRA
General
1 156 (56.12%) Finance
2 91 (32.73%) Banking
3 49 (17.63%) Investment Banking
4 39 (14.03%) Retail
5 18 (6.475%) Front Office
6 17 (6.115%) Legal
7 9 (3.237%) Retail Banking
8 6 (2.158%) Marketing
8 6 (2.158%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.079%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (0.719%) Advertising
11 1 (0.360%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 99 (35.61%) Credit Risk
2 29 (10.43%) Mathematics
3 27 (9.712%) Market Risk
4 25 (8.993%) Derivative
5 21 (7.554%) Statistics
6 17 (6.115%) Fixed Income
7 15 (5.396%) Management Information System
8 11 (3.957%) Computer Science
9 9 (3.237%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (2.878%) Equities
11 5 (1.799%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.439%) Taxonomies
13 2 (0.719%) Economics
13 2 (0.719%) PKI
14 1 (0.360%) EFT
14 1 (0.360%) EFTPOS
14 1 (0.360%) Smartcard
14 1 (0.360%) Mainframe
14 1 (0.360%) Data Protection Act
14 1 (0.360%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.878%) Windows
2 2 (0.719%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (46.76%) Risk Management
2 65 (23.38%) Project Management
3 52 (18.71%) Information Security
4 39 (14.03%) Data Analysis
5 36 (12.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 35 (12.59%) ITIL
7 26 (9.353%) Business Continuity
8 25 (8.993%) Analytics
9 19 (6.835%) Risk Analysis
10 18 (6.475%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (6.115%) Econometrics
11 17 (6.115%) Programme Management
12 16 (5.755%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (5.396%) Risk Assessment
14 13 (4.676%) Service Delivery
15 12 (4.317%) Security Management
15 12 (4.317%) Stress Testing
15 12 (4.317%) Project Planning
16 11 (3.957%) Data Protection
16 11 (3.957%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (14.39%) SQL
2 12 (4.317%) VBA
2 12 (4.317%) C++
3 11 (3.957%) Java
3 11 (3.957%) C#
4 7 (2.518%) R
5 6 (2.158%) MATLAB
6 4 (1.439%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.079%) C
8 2 (0.719%) SAS Macro
9 1 (0.360%) VB
Qualifications
1 57 (20.50%) Degree
2 24 (8.633%) CISSP
3 21 (7.554%) CISM
4 16 (5.755%) CISA
5 11 (3.957%) CRISC
6 6 (2.158%) ISEB Practitioner
6 6 (2.158%) ISEB
7 5 (1.799%) ACCA
7 5 (1.799%) CIMA
8 4 (1.439%) QiCA
8 4 (1.439%) CFA
9 2 (0.719%) ISACA
9 2 (0.719%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.719%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.719%) MBA
10 1 (0.360%) GIAC
10 1 (0.360%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.79%) Basel III
2 25 (8.993%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (7.554%) COBIT
4 14 (5.036%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 14 (5.036%) Basel II
5 7 (2.518%) MiFID
5 7 (2.518%) QA
5 7 (2.518%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.158%) Solvency II
7 5 (1.799%) ISO 9001
8 3 (1.079%) COSO
9 1 (0.360%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (1.439%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (4.317%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.878%) Cognos
3 7 (2.518%) Business Objects
4 4 (1.439%) HP
4 4 (1.439%) Lotus
4 4 (1.439%) Perforce
5 3 (1.079%) SAP
5 3 (1.079%) Oracle
6 2 (0.719%) Teradata
7 1 (0.360%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.360%) Brady
7 1 (0.360%) Triple Point
7 1 (0.360%) Sybase
7 1 (0.360%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.360%) SunGard
Hertfordshire, South East
Organisation in the Payments sector are recruiting for an experienced Risk Advisor to be a subject matter expert in all aspects of risk management, offering key advice and...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £60000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Healthcare
Posted: 8 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
Credit Risk Portfolio Manager Are you looking for a fantastic new role working with one of the UK's Leading banks? Are you and experienced Credit Risk Manager...
Real Staffing
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
My client is setting up a new internal Risk Assessment team within their Risk Management function, which will focus on assessing the risks involved with off shoring / outsourcing...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + excellent package
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
My client is seeking a Risk Manager with Mobile payments experience for a greenfield project based in LondonKey skills needed areRisk related professional qualification, one or more Institute...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013
Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
We are seeking a Risk Manager to be a subject matter expert in all aspects of risk management, offering key advice and guidance to all levels of the...
RDF Resources
Salary: £60000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
LEADING FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPANY is looking for a number of Risk Governance Managers to join their team in London. You will be responsible full cycle risk projects across...
Parallel Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + pension, bonus, benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Northamptonshire
LEADING FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPANY is looking for a number of Risk Governance Managers to join their team in the East Midlands. You will be responsible full cycle risk...
Parallel Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + pension, bonus, benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Sheffield, Yorkshire
Job Title: Credit Risk Strategy ManagerLocation: Sheffield or LeedsSalary: £55,000 + bonus and benefitsThe Portfolio Management Team Leader role is based within Risk Analytics- The role of the...
Aspire Data Recruitment
Salary: GBP0 to GBP55000 per annum + Benefits: Bonus and benefits
Posted: 8 May 2013
London
You will work liaise closely with the different risk management entities and IRM SMEs within each of the bank’s business units. You will also sit in on...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum plus excellent benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
ISO27001, ISO17799, and COBIT, Experience of working within/with operational risk functions... Strong analytical and project management skills... CISA, CISSP, CISM. Experience of COBIT, ISO27001, ISF/IRAM and...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum + car allowance + excellent bonus + pension +
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
I am seeking an experienced Operational Risk Manager to take the lead in risk assessment for all strategic governance of my investment banking client based inCanaryWharf... You will...
Huxley Associates
Posted: 15 May 2013
Midlands
Excellent presentation skills - presenting to Board members and stakeholders Demonstrated leadership Previous experience with SAS - understanding and appreciation of the SAS suite, particularly SAS Base, SQL, Enterprise Guide.
Experis IT
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Accordingly the Division is looking to enhance its IT risk management capabilities; in this regard the new Senior IT Risk Manager will play a leading role to establish...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £00.00 - £1 per annum + BENEFITS
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
I am seeking an experienced Operational Risk Manager from a PMO Change management background to take the lead in risk assessment for all strategic governance of my investment...
Huxley Associates
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE Strong knowledge of credit risk management... Excellent stakeholder management ability... KEY WORDS SAS, Credit Risk, financial services, governance, compliance, conduct risk, scorecard, insurance, retail...
Harnham
Salary: £46000 - £52000 per annum + car, bonus and pension
Posted: 16 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
The responsibilities of the Governance, Gating and Compliance Manager include designing and implementing governance processes, conducting audits, ensuring processes and compliance on IT projects are adhered to, providing...
Salary: Excellent Salry & Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Project Management with £5 million spend on projects background... Detailed knowledge of Project Management methodologies and tools... Work closely with all areas of Technology (Finance, Service Delivery, Enterprise...
Royal Mail Group
Salary: Excellent Salry & Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
We're also developing the new mobile banking technology, working environments for colleagues and strategies to stay ahead of the competition that are shaping the Group's future...
RBS
Salary: £Competitive plus 30% cash & benefits package.
Posted: 17 May 2013
West Midlands
Job Title: Credit Risk Manager - Mortgage AcquisitionLocation: West MidlandsSalary: c-£55,000 + bonus, car and benefitsThe Mortgage Acquisition team is responsible for the development, testing, implementation and maintenance...
Aspire Data Recruitment
Salary: GBP0 to GBP55000 per annum + Benefits: Car, bonus and benefits
Posted: 4 May 2013
City, London
To be considered, you should possess: Strong academics, A combination of external audit, internal audit, IT and risk management experience... Combination of being qualified in one or more...
Oliver James Associates
Salary: £75000 - £95000 per annum + car, pension, negotiable
Posted: 14 May 2013
City of London
Market risk Senior Project Manager quant regulatory VP Banking London New exclusive opportunity for an experienced Senior Project Manager to run critical IT projects with regulatory significance within...
Huxley Associates
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
The position is offered on a permanent basis and will offer the successful candidate up to £61,000 (inclusive of car allowance), pension and bonus up to 25%...
Austin Andrew
Salary: From £55,000 to £61,000 per annum £80,000 Package
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Job Title: Risk Manager - Impairment ForecastingLocation: London - Canary WharfSalary: £45,000 - £50,000 + bonus, London allowance and benefitsWorking as a Forecasting Manager for this global banking giant, you`...
Aspire Data Recruitment
Salary: GBP0 to GBP50000 per annum + Benefits: London allowance, bonus and benefits
Posted: 22 April 2013
Gloucestershire
A technical background using SAS and SQL... Strong stakeholder management ability... KEY WORDS SAS, Credit Risk, financial services, scorecard, insurance, retail credit risk, modelling, scorecards, stress testing, economics,...
Harnham
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + car, bonus and pension
Posted: 16 May 2013
West London
Leads systems, integration and user acceptance testing, and roll-out of new global applications... This position would suit someone who has: - A Bachelor's Degree in IT or...
GE Capital
Salary: Unspecified
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Key Skills: SAS | SAS BASE | SQL | Credit Risk | Risk Scorecard development | Modeling | CHAID An excellent opportunity has arisen for a SAS Expert Credit Risk Modeling Manager SAS | SAS...
Churchill Frank
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + Benefits / Pension
Posted: 13 May 2013
West Yorkshire
Job Title: Risk and Marketing Analytics Manager Location: West YorkshireSalary: £45,000 - £50,000 + Bonus, Car and BenefitsYou will have responsibility for the management of strategic and tactical...
Aspire Data Recruitment
Salary: GBP45000 to GBP50000 per annum + Benefits: Car, bonus and benefits
Posted: 28 April 2013
London
You will have a track record in operational risk frameworks, risk assessment, control process, governance and risk documentation, ideally within financial services... SOx, FSA governance -Excellent communicational skills...
Parallel Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + bonus, pension, benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
It will also be essential you maintain oversight and quality assurance routines for management self assessment processes to ensure key controls operate as prescribed and support the business...
Real Staffing
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Real Staffing Group are working with a leading Financial Services institution in the search for a Conduct Risk Manager.This role will allow the successful candidate to work...
Real Staffing
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Real Staffing Group are working with a leading Consultancy in the search for a Conduct Risk Manager.This role will allow the successful candidate to work on Conduct...
Real Staffing
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013