Risk Assessment Jobs in England

Risk Assessment
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Risk Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Risk Assessment over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 517 495
Rank change year-on-year +246 -22 +166
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 581 343 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.18% 0.40% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.47% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 121 264 294
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £47,354
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £51,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -2.67% +18.73%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £87,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £51,645 £60,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.64% -10.37% +22.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Risk Assessment falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,314 73,328 84,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.13% 85.41% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,693 53,833 50,206
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in England

Risk Assessment
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Risk Assessment in England

Risk Assessment
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Risk Assessment in England

Risk Assessment
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Assessment within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
London +256 397 £81,401 +10.00% 207
East of England +80 56 £50,000 -13.04% 17
South East +126 48 £68,750 +19.57% 66
North of England +25 44 £55,250 +0.45% 48
North West -14 29 £55,500 +1.83% 31
Midlands +37 25 £55,000 -8.33% 46
West Midlands +32 21 £55,000 -8.33% 17
Yorkshire +68 13 £50,500 +3.06% 11
South West +85 10 £55,000 -20.00% 21
East Midlands +31 4 £66,000 -15.68% 28
North East +39 2 £60,432 -23.64% 6
Risk Assessment
UK

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 25 (4.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.34%) Kinematics
3 2 (0.34%) TPMS
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 360 (61.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.34%) Autodesk Inventor
4 2 (0.34%) CATIA
4 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.34%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.52%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.17%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 22 (3.79%) Azure
2 15 (2.58%) AWS
3 10 (1.72%) Entra ID
4 9 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (1.20%) GCP
5 7 (1.20%) Power Platform
6 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (0.86%) SaaS
7 3 (0.52%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.34%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.34%) IaaS
8 2 (0.34%) Lucidchart
8 2 (0.34%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.17%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.17%) Serverless
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.89%) Network Security
2 5 (0.86%) Ethernet
2 5 (0.86%) Firewall
3 4 (0.69%) Modbus
3 4 (0.69%) Profibus
3 4 (0.69%) VPN
4 3 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.17%) Broadband
5 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.20%) Power BI
2 6 (1.03%) Tableau
3 4 (0.69%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.52%) Hadoop
4 3 (0.52%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.34%) Big Data
5 2 (0.34%) Looker
5 2 (0.34%) Metadata
5 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.17%) Base SAS
6 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.17%) GIS
6 1 (0.17%) HBase
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.17%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 4 (0.69%) JIRA
2 2 (0.34%) ER Studio
2 2 (0.34%) ERwin
2 2 (0.34%) Git
2 2 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.17%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.17%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.17%) Postman
3 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.17%) Subversion
General
1 454 (78.14%) Social Skills
2 426 (73.32%) Finance
3 388 (66.78%) Analytical Skills
4 381 (65.58%) Banking
5 376 (64.72%) German Language
6 371 (63.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 364 (62.65%) Financial Institution
8 354 (60.93%) French Language
9 42 (7.23%) Legal
10 20 (3.44%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.58%) Public Sector
12 14 (2.41%) Telecoms
13 12 (2.07%) Retail
14 10 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.38%) Law
16 7 (1.20%) Electronics
16 7 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.69%) Local Government
17 4 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 400 (68.85%) Analyst
2 354 (60.93%) Credit Analyst
2 354 (60.93%) Research Analyst
3 28 (4.82%) Senior
4 26 (4.48%) Security Specialist
5 24 (4.13%) Information Specialist
6 22 (3.79%) Information Security Specialist
7 20 (3.44%) Risk Manager
7 20 (3.44%) Security Analyst
8 17 (2.93%) Lead
9 13 (2.24%) Project Manager
9 13 (2.24%) Risk Analyst
9 13 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
10 10 (1.72%) Consultant
11 9 (1.55%) Security Engineer
12 8 (1.38%) Architect
12 8 (1.38%) Onboarding Analyst
12 8 (1.38%) Security Architect
12 8 (1.38%) Systems Engineer
13 7 (1.20%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.79%) SailPoint
2 4 (0.69%) Leaflet
3 2 (0.34%) Pandas
4 1 (0.17%) JWT
4 1 (0.17%) Middleware
4 1 (0.17%) OAuth
4 1 (0.17%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (0.17%) Playwright
4 1 (0.17%) PySpark
4 1 (0.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 355 (61.10%) Credit Risk
2 354 (60.93%) Fixed Income
3 73 (12.56%) Management Information System
4 22 (3.79%) Virtual Team
5 16 (2.75%) Security Posture
6 10 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.38%) Taxonomies
8 5 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Licensing
8 5 (0.86%) NHS
9 4 (0.69%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (0.69%) Reinsurance
9 4 (0.69%) SCADA
10 3 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.34%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (0.34%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.34%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.34%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.72%) Windows
2 5 (0.86%) Linux
3 1 (0.17%) Unix
3 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (79.69%) Risk Management
2 373 (64.20%) Decision-Making
3 365 (62.82%) Business Strategy
4 357 (61.45%) Asset Management
5 356 (61.27%) Financial Modelling
6 355 (61.10%) Credit Risk Analysis
7 354 (60.93%) Portfolio Management
8 92 (15.83%) Information Security
9 68 (11.70%) Cybersecurity
10 52 (8.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (7.40%) Mentoring
12 40 (6.88%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (6.71%) Problem-Solving
14 36 (6.20%) Agile
15 33 (5.68%) Collaborative Working
16 31 (5.34%) Due Diligence
17 30 (5.16%) Regulatory Compliance
18 29 (4.99%) Project Management
19 26 (4.48%) Incident Response
20 25 (4.30%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (4.30%) PowerShell
2 14 (2.41%) Python
3 9 (1.55%) SQL
4 6 (1.03%) R
5 4 (0.69%) C++
5 4 (0.69%) Ladder Logic
6 3 (0.52%) C#
6 3 (0.52%) Java
6 3 (0.52%) VBA
7 1 (0.17%) Bash
7 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 431 (74.18%) Degree
2 372 (64.03%) Master's Degree
3 354 (60.93%) CFA
4 39 (6.71%) CISSP
5 34 (5.85%) CISM
6 23 (3.96%) CRISC
7 19 (3.27%) Security Cleared
8 14 (2.41%) SC Cleared
9 11 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (1.38%) CISA
10 8 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (1.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 5 (0.86%) CEH
13 4 (0.69%) CESG Certified Professional
13 4 (0.69%) CISMP
14 3 (0.52%) Chartered Engineer
14 3 (0.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (10.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 41 (7.06%) NIST
3 23 (3.96%) SOC 2
4 13 (2.24%) GRC
5 11 (1.89%) GDPR
6 8 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.38%) COBIT
6 8 (1.38%) NIST 800
7 7 (1.20%) QA
8 6 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.03%) SOC 1
9 5 (0.86%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.86%) NCSC
10 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.52%) PMO
11 2 (0.34%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.34%) NEBOSH
11 2 (0.34%) SLA
12 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 33 (5.68%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.52%) Docker
3 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.34%) vSphere
4 1 (0.17%) HDFS
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (1.20%) RSA Archer
2 4 (0.69%) Terraform
3 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.34%) Ansible
4 2 (0.34%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.17%) Nessus
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 354 (60.93%) Bloomberg
2 22 (3.79%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.79%) Okta
2 22 (3.79%) Salesforce
3 5 (0.86%) Allen-Bradley
3 5 (0.86%) Oracle
3 5 (0.86%) ServiceNow
3 5 (0.86%) Siemens
3 5 (0.86%) Tenable
4 4 (0.69%) Rockwell
5 3 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (0.52%) Databricks
5 3 (0.52%) NEC
5 3 (0.52%) SAP
6 2 (0.34%) Autodesk
6 2 (0.34%) Cisco
6 2 (0.34%) EMC
6 2 (0.34%) Intel
6 2 (0.34%) Pure Storage
6 2 (0.34%) VMware