Risk Assessment Job Trends in Kent

Risk Assessment
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Risk Assessment skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 72 62
Rank change year-on-year -10 -10 +39
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 5 3 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.48% 0.42% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.47% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £65,750 - £44,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £72,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £113,250 - -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year +10.00% -18.37% +16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 860 634 507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 82.06% 89.04% 78.85%
Number of salaries quoted 455 202 402
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,500 £23,525
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £33,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £68,625 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,425 £67,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Risk Assessment relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Risk Assessment job vacancy trend in Kent

Risk Assessment
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Risk Assessment.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in Kent over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Risk Assessment in Kent

Risk Assessment
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Assessment within the Kent region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Maidstone - 1 £62,500 - 1
Risk Assessment
South East

Risk Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) AMQP
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Snyk
General
1 1 (20.00%) Electronics
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Credit Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Credit Risk Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Information Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Product Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Information Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Information Security Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) B2B
2 1 (20.00%) B2C
2 1 (20.00%) Business Development
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) FMEA
2 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) OWASP
2 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
2 1 (20.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (20.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) Qualys
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce