Risk Manager
UK

The median Risk Manager salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 777 817 1004
Rank change year-on-year +40 +187 -166
Permanent jobs requiring a Risk Manager 134 182 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.19% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 97 125 115
10th Percentile £48,250 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,000 £56,381 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +10.34% +9.79%
75th Percentile £87,500 £102,500 £100,625
90th Percentile £96,000 £127,438 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £59,526 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.20% +2.63% +5.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Risk Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Risk Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Manager in the UK

Risk Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Risk Manager in the UK

Risk Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Manager over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Risk Manager in the UK

Risk Manager
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Manager within the UK 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
England +32 105 £70,000 -12.50% 75
UK excluding London -13 74 £65,000 +9.20% 29
Work from Home +48 45 £70,000 -1.75% 37
London +67 43 £85,000 -1.16% 45
Midlands +27 26 £65,000 +4.00% 11
West Midlands +21 21 £65,000 +4.00% 7
North of England +18 16 £72,500 +21.80% 6
South East +21 11 £57,500 -0.15% 2
North West +11 8 £72,500 +14.15% 1
South West -22 7 £72,750 +22.22% 4
Scotland -69 6 £62,500 +3.28% 2
Wales - 6 £40,553 -
Yorkshire +71 5 £75,000 -2.24% 4
East Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 4
North East -1 3 £70,000 +27.27% 1
East of England +21 2 £62,500 +13.64% 4

Risk Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Risk Manager 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 permanent job ads featuring Risk Manager in the job title.

1 86 (64.18%) Risk Management
2 77 (57.46%) Finance
3 51 (38.06%) Social Skills
4 40 (29.85%) Legal
5 37 (27.61%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (20.15%) Degree
6 27 (20.15%) Marketing
7 24 (17.91%) Information Security
7 24 (17.91%) Roadmaps
8 22 (16.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (15.67%) CISM
9 21 (15.67%) GDPR
10 19 (14.18%) Product Management
10 19 (14.18%) AWS
10 19 (14.18%) Customer Experience
11 18 (13.43%) Law
11 18 (13.43%) Management Information System
11 18 (13.43%) CISSP
11 18 (13.43%) SaaS
12 17 (12.69%) Azure
12 17 (12.69%) Incident Response
13 16 (11.94%) Risk Register
13 16 (11.94%) CRISC
13 16 (11.94%) Threat Intelligence
13 16 (11.94%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 15 (11.19%) IT Audit
14 15 (11.19%) Remediation Plan
14 15 (11.19%) Value Proposition
14 15 (11.19%) Dell
15 13 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement

Risk Manager Skill Set
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 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.75%) GlassFish
2 1 (0.75%) IBM Domino
2 1 (0.75%) JCAPS
2 1 (0.75%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.75%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Adaptiv
1 1 (0.75%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.18%) AWS
2 18 (13.43%) SaaS
3 17 (12.69%) Azure
4 11 (8.21%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.75%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.75%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.75%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.75%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.75%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.49%) Network Security
2 1 (0.75%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.75%) Firewall
2 1 (0.75%) FTP
2 1 (0.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.24%) Metadata
2 1 (0.75%) Big Data
2 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.75%) Power BI
2 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Ant
1 1 (0.75%) Git
1 1 (0.75%) JUnit
1 1 (0.75%) Maven
1 1 (0.75%) Subversion
General
1 77 (57.46%) Finance
2 51 (38.06%) Social Skills
3 40 (29.85%) Legal
4 27 (20.15%) Marketing
5 18 (13.43%) Law
6 11 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (5.97%) Banking
9 6 (4.48%) Police
10 5 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (3.73%) Retail
11 4 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (2.24%) Back Office
13 2 (1.49%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.49%) Local Government
14 1 (0.75%) Front Office
14 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.75%) Publishing
14 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.75%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.75%) .NET
1 1 (0.75%) .NET Core
1 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
1 1 (0.75%) DOM
1 1 (0.75%) Flash
1 1 (0.75%) J2EE
1 1 (0.75%) Java EE
1 1 (0.75%) JDBC
1 1 (0.75%) JMS
1 1 (0.75%) Middleware
1 1 (0.75%) React
1 1 (0.75%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (0.75%) SAX
1 1 (0.75%) Spring
1 1 (0.75%) Unity DI Container
1 1 (0.75%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.43%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.72%) Security Posture
3 6 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.99%) Equities
4 4 (2.99%) Fixed Income
4 4 (2.99%) Freedom of Information
4 4 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.99%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.49%) CCTV
5 2 (1.49%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.75%) Blog
6 1 (0.75%) Derivative
6 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.75%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.75%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (0.75%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.75%) PKI
6 1 (0.75%) SCADA
6 1 (0.75%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.73%) Windows
2 3 (2.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (64.18%) Risk Management
2 37 (27.61%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (17.91%) Information Security
3 24 (17.91%) Roadmaps
4 19 (14.18%) Customer Experience
4 19 (14.18%) Product Management
5 17 (12.69%) Incident Response
6 16 (11.94%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 16 (11.94%) Risk Register
6 16 (11.94%) Threat Intelligence
7 15 (11.19%) IT Audit
7 15 (11.19%) Remediation Plan
7 15 (11.19%) Value Proposition
8 13 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (8.96%) Business Continuity
10 11 (8.21%) Agile
10 11 (8.21%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (8.21%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (8.21%) Process Improvement
10 11 (8.21%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.73%) Python
2 2 (1.49%) Java
2 2 (1.49%) SQL
3 1 (0.75%) C#
3 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
3 1 (0.75%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (20.15%) Degree
2 21 (15.67%) CISM
3 18 (13.43%) CISSP
4 16 (11.94%) CRISC
5 6 (4.48%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.73%) CISA
6 5 (3.73%) CompTIA CySA+
6 5 (3.73%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (2.99%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.49%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (1.49%) GSEC
9 2 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.75%) CIMA
10 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.75%) FFIEC
10 1 (0.75%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (15.67%) GDPR
3 12 (8.96%) GRC
3 12 (8.96%) ITGC
3 12 (8.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 10 (7.46%) NIST
5 7 (5.22%) COBIT
5 7 (5.22%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (3.73%) ISO 22301
6 5 (3.73%) ISO 9001
7 4 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (2.99%) SOC 2
8 3 (2.24%) NCSC
8 3 (2.24%) PCI DSS
8 3 (2.24%) PSD2
8 3 (2.24%) QA
9 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (1.49%) PMO
10 1 (0.75%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.75%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.75%) Control-M
Vendors
1 15 (11.19%) Dell
2 6 (4.48%) ServiceNow
3 4 (2.99%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.75%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.75%) Cadence
4 1 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle
4 1 (0.75%) Qualys
4 1 (0.75%) SAP