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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 114 117
Rank change year-on-year +31 +3 +86
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 3,167 3,116 5,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.22% 3.07% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 3.21% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,477 1,686 2,247
10th Percentile £41,200 £40,401 £40,391
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,045 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £79,000 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% -1.79%

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 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 7 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 7 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 +54 2,348 £57,000 -0.87% 556
England +17 2,278 £60,000 -7.69% 1,029
Work from Home +5 856 £60,202 -6.94% 419
Scotland +36 793 £58,000 -17.14% 52
London -4 741 £77,500 -1.27% 507
North of England +81 412 £55,000 -4.35% 131
South East -42 364 £52,500 - 131
Midlands +49 336 £54,650 -0.64% 93
South West +19 305 £68,000 +13.33% 71
North West +91 238 £53,580 -7.07% 79
West Midlands +31 217 £57,982 +5.42% 57
Yorkshire +40 122 £55,000 -4.86% 36
East Midlands +53 109 £54,000 +6.93% 36
East of England +29 102 £54,000 -13.60% 63
North East +36 52 £55,000 - 16
Wales +2 26 £70,000 +28.35% 21
Northern Ireland +32 8 £57,500 +0.44% 10
Isle of Man -13 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
1 309 (9.76%) Apache Spark
2 123 (3.88%) Apache
3 87 (2.75%) SharePoint
4 85 (2.68%) SAS
5 47 (1.48%) FileNet
6 44 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.63%) Camunda
8 15 (0.47%) Confluence
9 14 (0.44%) CMS
9 14 (0.44%) IIS
10 13 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.38%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 5 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.13%) Drupal
14 2 (0.063%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.063%) Captiva
14 2 (0.063%) Documentum
Applications
1 184 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 89 (2.81%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.41%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.095%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.063%) Trello
10 1 (0.032%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 78 (2.46%) Primavera
2 20 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.47%) Endur
4 10 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.063%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.063%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.063%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.063%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 1 (0.032%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.032%) Data Workbench
Cloud Services
1 486 (15.35%) AWS
2 232 (7.33%) Azure
3 133 (4.20%) Power Platform
4 98 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
5 92 (2.90%) GCP
6 79 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
7 71 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
8 62 (1.96%) SaaS
9 58 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (1.83%) Serverless
10 57 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
11 54 (1.71%) Amazon S3
12 51 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (1.61%) Amazon EMR
12 51 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (0.92%) GitHub
14 27 (0.85%) BlazeMeter
15 26 (0.82%) Entra ID
16 15 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
17 13 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 98 (3.09%) Firewall
2 46 (1.45%) Network Security
3 36 (1.14%) Internet
4 25 (0.79%) VPN
5 24 (0.76%) LAN
6 21 (0.66%) WAN
7 20 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
7 20 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.51%) SAN
9 14 (0.44%) 5G
10 12 (0.38%) PPP
10 12 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.35%) Wireless
12 10 (0.32%) Intranet
13 9 (0.28%) HTTP
14 7 (0.22%) Extranet
15 6 (0.19%) Broadband
15 6 (0.19%) VLAN
16 5 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
16 5 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 338 (10.67%) NoSQL
2 250 (7.89%) Big Data
3 233 (7.36%) Hadoop
4 115 (3.63%) Power BI
5 106 (3.35%) Apache Hive
6 90 (2.84%) HBase
7 66 (2.08%) Electronic Patient Records
8 51 (1.61%) Tableau
9 50 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
10 48 (1.52%) Data Lake
11 47 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
12 46 (1.45%) Qlik Sense
13 44 (1.39%) SQL Server
14 34 (1.07%) Relational Database
15 26 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
16 16 (0.51%) Impala
17 14 (0.44%) QlikView
18 12 (0.38%) Metadata
19 9 (0.28%) Spotfire
20 8 (0.25%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 149 (4.70%) Jenkins
2 129 (4.07%) JIRA
3 126 (3.98%) Git
4 74 (2.34%) Bitbucket Server
5 67 (2.12%) JUnit
6 32 (1.01%) Maven
7 30 (0.95%) Gradle
8 27 (0.85%) JMeter
9 26 (0.82%) Jasmine
9 26 (0.82%) Mockito
10 20 (0.63%) CircleCI
10 20 (0.63%) 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 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 1,687 (53.27%) Finance
2 1,107 (34.95%) Social Skills
3 1,076 (33.98%) Legal
4 945 (29.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 875 (27.63%) Law
6 450 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
7 270 (8.53%) Banking
8 134 (4.23%) Marketing
9 122 (3.85%) Public Sector
9 122 (3.85%) Retail
10 120 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
11 119 (3.76%) Manufacturing
12 103 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
13 78 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
14 60 (1.89%) Telecoms
15 54 (1.71%) Publishing
16 36 (1.14%) Investment Banking
16 36 (1.14%) Police
17 35 (1.11%) Aerospace
18 32 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 717 (22.64%) Software Engineer
2 440 (13.89%) Senior
3 404 (12.76%) Project Manager
4 295 (9.31%) Java Engineer
4 295 (9.31%) Java Software Engineer
5 241 (7.61%) Analyst
6 227 (7.17%) Big Data Engineer
6 227 (7.17%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 205 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
7 205 (6.47%) AWS Software Engineer
8 203 (6.41%) IT Manager
9 183 (5.78%) Senior Manager
10 172 (5.43%) Data Engineer
11 170 (5.37%) Consultant
12 155 (4.89%) Full Stack Engineer
13 152 (4.80%) Lead
14 151 (4.77%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 142 (4.48%) Security Manager
16 124 (3.92%) Security Consultant
17 121 (3.82%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (6.88%) Spring
2 169 (5.34%) React
3 137 (4.33%) Kafka
4 122 (3.85%) AngularJS
5 110 (3.47%) J2EE
6 92 (2.90%) HTML
7 81 (2.56%) Spring Boot
8 79 (2.49%) JMS
9 75 (2.37%) Hibernate
10 71 (2.24%) Node.js
10 71 (2.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 67 (2.12%) PySpark
12 65 (2.05%) CSS
13 57 (1.80%) .NET
14 54 (1.71%) jQuery
15 53 (1.67%) XML
16 50 (1.58%) JSON
17 48 (1.52%) GraphQL
18 47 (1.48%) Spring Integration
19 44 (1.39%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 517 (16.32%) Algorithms
2 322 (10.17%) Management Information System
3 206 (6.50%) Onboarding
4 130 (4.10%) Cloud Native
5 129 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
6 114 (3.60%) Credit Risk
7 85 (2.68%) Operational Technology
7 85 (2.68%) Security Posture
8 61 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
9 56 (1.77%) Market Risk
10 51 (1.61%) Data Structures
11 43 (1.36%) Legacy Code
12 42 (1.33%) Cyberattack
13 40 (1.26%) Data Centre
14 37 (1.17%) Product Ownership
15 34 (1.07%) Industrial Internet of Things
16 26 (0.82%) PMI
17 25 (0.79%) IoT
18 22 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 22 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 121 (3.82%) Unix
2 67 (2.12%) Linux
3 59 (1.86%) Windows
4 23 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.44%) Android
5 14 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.19%) zOS
7 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.095%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.063%) AIX
10 1 (0.032%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.032%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,215 (38.36%) Agile
2 783 (24.72%) Software Engineering
3 770 (24.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 724 (22.86%) CI/CD
5 698 (22.04%) SDLC
6 653 (20.62%) Project Management
7 568 (17.93%) Operational Stability
8 542 (17.11%) Artificial Intelligence
9 531 (16.77%) Machine Learning
10 530 (16.74%) Cybersecurity
11 529 (16.70%) Visualisation
12 527 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
13 503 (15.88%) Decision-Making
14 433 (13.67%) Community of Practice
15 411 (12.98%) Information Security
16 405 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
17 301 (9.50%) Change Management
18 293 (9.25%) Project Delivery
19 253 (7.99%) Coaching
20 241 (7.61%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 588 (18.57%) Java
2 586 (18.50%) SQL
3 483 (15.25%) Python
4 128 (4.04%) Scala
5 104 (3.28%) PL/SQL
6 85 (2.68%) JavaScript
7 49 (1.55%) TypeScript
8 47 (1.48%) C#
9 41 (1.29%) R
10 26 (0.82%) PowerShell
11 23 (0.73%) PL/1
12 22 (0.69%) Ruby
13 20 (0.63%) PHP
14 15 (0.47%) C++
15 13 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.38%) Go
17 9 (0.28%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.19%) Bash
18 6 (0.19%) JCL
18 6 (0.19%) REXX
Qualifications
1 627 (19.80%) Degree
2 318 (10.04%) Security Cleared
3 266 (8.40%) CISSP
4 214 (6.76%) CISM
5 204 (6.44%) SC Cleared
6 145 (4.58%) CRISC
7 103 (3.25%) Master's Degree
8 94 (2.97%) CISA
9 92 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 73 (2.31%) PMI Certification
11 64 (2.02%) CESG Certified Professional
12 57 (1.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 50 (1.58%) ACCA
14 48 (1.52%) PMP
15 35 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
16 32 (1.01%) DV Cleared
17 29 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
18 26 (0.82%) CISMP
19 24 (0.76%) CEH
19 24 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 263 (8.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 222 (7.01%) NIST
3 190 (6.00%) GDPR
4 144 (4.55%) QA
5 128 (4.04%) IFRS
6 125 (3.95%) GRC
7 99 (3.13%) Data Quality
8 90 (2.84%) NCSC
9 85 (2.68%) PMO
10 72 (2.27%) IFRS 9
11 70 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 58 (1.83%) PCI DSS
13 49 (1.55%) JSP 440
14 41 (1.29%) NIST 800
14 41 (1.29%) SLA
15 40 (1.26%) COBIT
16 33 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 30 (0.95%) RMADS
18 26 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 22 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 90 (2.84%) HDFS
2 50 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 43 (1.36%) Docker
4 17 (0.54%) 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 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.095%) ACF2
9 3 (0.095%) RACF
9 3 (0.095%) vSphere
10 2 (0.063%) IAG
11 1 (0.032%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.032%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.032%) LXC
11 1 (0.032%) Microcode
11 1 (0.032%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 151 (4.77%) Kubernetes
2 89 (2.81%) Terraform
3 14 (0.44%) SCOM
4 10 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.32%) Nessus
5 9 (0.28%) Grafana
6 7 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (0.19%) Ansible
8 5 (0.16%) CASB
8 5 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.16%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.095%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.095%) Kibana
9 3 (0.095%) SCCM
10 2 (0.063%) Puppet
10 2 (0.063%) QRadar
11 1 (0.032%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 1 (0.032%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.032%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.032%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 358 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 157 (4.96%) Databricks
3 136 (4.29%) Oracle
4 83 (2.62%) Informatica
5 61 (1.93%) Alteryx
6 60 (1.89%) Cloudera
7 51 (1.61%) CA
8 38 (1.20%) SAP
9 36 (1.14%) Google
10 30 (0.95%) ServiceNow
10 30 (0.95%) VMware
11 26 (0.82%) Cisco
11 26 (0.82%) Pega
12 24 (0.76%) Salesforce
13 23 (0.73%) IFS
13 23 (0.73%) Workday
14 20 (0.63%) Splunk
15 18 (0.57%) IBM
16 17 (0.54%) Qualys
17 14 (0.44%) Veeam