Risk Manager Jobs in England

Risk Manager
UK > England

The median Risk Manager salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 737 771
Rank change year-on-year +222 +34 +188
Permanent jobs requiring a Risk Manager 180 110 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 47 94 111
10th Percentile £54,000 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,710 £58,500 £59,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -15.63% +3.23%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,625 £103,911
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,125 £135,693
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -18.75% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,533 81,192 82,548
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.73% 94.49% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,433 60,582 52,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,355 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Risk Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Manager in England

Risk Manager
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Risk Manager in England

Risk Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Manager in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Risk Manager in England

Risk Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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 +113 59 £72,500 -14.71% 93
Midlands +92 50 £63,750 -1.92% 15
West Midlands +66 41 £60,000 -7.69% 5
North of England +74 39 £62,500 -13.79% 22
North West +33 28 £42,500 -41.38% 14
South West +134 21 £64,627 +11.43% 3
South East +109 21 £70,000 +21.74% 23
East Midlands +37 9 £75,000 +25.00% 10
Yorkshire +74 7 £73,750 -1.67% 6
North East +46 4 £71,250 +1.79% 2
East of England +39 1 £90,000 +44.00% 1
Risk Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Risk Manager in the job title.

1 136 (75.56%) Risk Management
2 129 (71.67%) Finance
3 83 (46.11%) Social Skills
4 55 (30.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (29.44%) Coaching
5 53 (29.44%) Blockchain
6 48 (26.67%) Creative Thinking
6 48 (26.67%) Financial Institution
7 47 (26.11%) Agile
8 43 (23.89%) Analytical Skills
9 40 (22.22%) Mentoring
10 39 (21.67%) Information Security
11 38 (21.11%) Legal
12 37 (20.56%) Retail
12 37 (20.56%) Artificial Intelligence
12 37 (20.56%) Credit Risk
13 36 (20.00%) Analytics
14 35 (19.44%) ITGC
15 33 (18.33%) Data Analytics
16 32 (17.78%) Robotic Process Automation
16 32 (17.78%) Robotics
16 32 (17.78%) Telecoms
17 31 (17.22%) Project Delivery
18 29 (16.11%) GDPR
18 29 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
19 28 (15.56%) CISSP
20 27 (15.00%) CRISC
21 26 (14.44%) Test Strategy
21 26 (14.44%) Line Management
21 26 (14.44%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management

Risk Manager Skill Set
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 3 (1.67%) SAS
2 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) Stata
Business Applications
1 3 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 16 (8.89%) Azure
2 9 (5.00%) IBM Watson
2 9 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 8 (4.44%) AWS
4 6 (3.33%) GCP
5 3 (1.67%) GitHub
6 2 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.22%) Network Security
2 3 (1.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.00%) Power BI
1 9 (5.00%) QlikView
1 9 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.78%) MS Access
3 4 (2.22%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.11%) Tableau
6 1 (0.56%) DTS
6 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.56%) HBase
6 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Git
1 3 (1.67%) GitLab
2 2 (1.11%) JIRA
3 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 129 (71.67%) Finance
2 83 (46.11%) Social Skills
3 48 (26.67%) Financial Institution
4 43 (23.89%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (21.11%) Legal
6 37 (20.56%) Retail
7 32 (17.78%) Telecoms
8 22 (12.22%) Marketing
9 21 (11.67%) Law
9 21 (11.67%) Prime Brokerage
10 14 (7.78%) Banking
11 5 (2.78%) Front Office
11 5 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.67%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.67%) Social Science
13 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.67%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 53 (29.44%) Blockchain
2 37 (20.56%) Credit Risk
3 32 (17.78%) Robotics
4 22 (12.22%) Derivative
5 21 (11.67%) Hedge funds
6 14 (7.78%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.22%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
1 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (75.56%) Risk Management
2 55 (30.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 53 (29.44%) Coaching
4 48 (26.67%) Creative Thinking
5 47 (26.11%) Agile
6 40 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 39 (21.67%) Information Security
8 37 (20.56%) Artificial Intelligence
9 36 (20.00%) Analytics
10 33 (18.33%) Data Analytics
11 32 (17.78%) Robotic Process Automation
12 31 (17.22%) Project Delivery
13 29 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (14.44%) IT Governance
14 26 (14.44%) Line Management
14 26 (14.44%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
14 26 (14.44%) Test Strategy
15 23 (12.78%) Cybersecurity
16 22 (12.22%) People Management
17 21 (11.67%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.33%) Python
2 17 (9.44%) R
2 17 (9.44%) SQL
3 2 (1.11%) VBA
4 1 (0.56%) C#
4 1 (0.56%) C++
4 1 (0.56%) Java
4 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 28 (15.56%) CISSP
2 27 (15.00%) CRISC
3 22 (12.22%) Degree
4 20 (11.11%) CISA
5 18 (10.00%) CISM
6 11 (6.11%) Security Cleared
7 10 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 10 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (3.89%) SC Cleared
9 6 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 4 (2.22%) CCSP
11 3 (1.67%) CCSK
11 3 (1.67%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (1.67%) CISMP
11 3 (1.67%) DBS Check
12 2 (1.11%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.56%) CFA
13 1 (0.56%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (19.44%) ITGC
2 29 (16.11%) GDPR
3 26 (14.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (11.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 20 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 14 (7.78%) COBIT
7 12 (6.67%) GRC
8 11 (6.11%) NIST
9 7 (3.89%) SOC 2
10 6 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (1.67%) QA
13 1 (0.56%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.56%) Docker
1 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Vendors
1 26 (14.44%) Avaloq
2 16 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.00%) Databricks
3 9 (5.00%) IBM
4 7 (3.89%) Google
5 6 (3.33%) VMware
6 5 (2.78%) Oracle
7 3 (1.67%) SAP
8 1 (0.56%) NEC
8 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.56%) Sybase