Risk Management Job Trends in London

Risk Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Risk Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 42 109
Rank change year-on-year -9 +67 -14
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 606 913 535
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.36% 5.90% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 6.24% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 296 307 373
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £67,094 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £98,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £120,000 £137,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Risk Management 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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,196 14,640 16,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.67% 94.56% 92.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7,788 8,072 13,608
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Risk Management job vacancy trend in London

Risk Management
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Risk Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Risk Management in London

Risk Management
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Management within the London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Central London -8 86 £80,000 - 42
East London -12 23 £87,500 - 7
West London -29 19 £74,000 +21.49% 8
South London -31 5 £80,000 +60.00% 7
Risk Management
England

Risk Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 26 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.32%) Confluence
3 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.66%) SAS
5 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.17%) CMS
6 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 59 (9.74%) Maya
2 18 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.50%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.33%) Trello
7 1 (0.17%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 27 (4.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (2.64%) SAP IBP
4 11 (1.82%) Endur
5 10 (1.65%) SAP CO
5 10 (1.65%) SAP FI
5 10 (1.65%) SAP FI/CO
5 10 (1.65%) SAP FSCM
6 9 (1.49%) SAP IS-U
7 6 (0.99%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.50%) SAP CX
8 3 (0.50%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.33%) Adaptiv
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.17%) Magento
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 91 (15.02%) AWS
2 82 (13.53%) Azure
3 48 (7.92%) GCP
4 38 (6.27%) Power Platform
5 29 (4.79%) dbt
6 27 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (4.13%) Cloud Computing
8 23 (3.80%) SaaS
9 17 (2.81%) OCI
10 14 (2.31%) Boomi
10 14 (2.31%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 12 (1.98%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (1.82%) Entra ID
13 10 (1.65%) Nutanix
14 8 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.32%) Serverless
15 7 (1.16%) PaaS
16 6 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
16 6 (0.99%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.13%) Firewall
2 14 (2.31%) CHAP
3 11 (1.82%) WAN
4 10 (1.65%) Network Security
4 10 (1.65%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.83%) VPN
6 3 (0.50%) Multicast
6 3 (0.50%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.33%) ATM
7 2 (0.33%) DKIM
7 2 (0.33%) DMARC
8 1 (0.17%) 5G
8 1 (0.17%) Broadband
8 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.17%) LAN
8 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (10.56%) Tableau
2 36 (5.94%) Power BI
3 28 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (4.46%) Amazon Athena
4 27 (4.46%) Apache Iceberg
5 26 (4.29%) Apache Arrow
5 26 (4.29%) Dremio
6 23 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (2.97%) SAP BW
8 17 (2.81%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.83%) Metadata
9 5 (0.83%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.83%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.66%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.50%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.50%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 20 (3.30%) JIRA
2 7 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.83%) Selenium
4 4 (0.66%) CircleCI
4 4 (0.66%) GitLab
5 3 (0.50%) NUnit
5 3 (0.50%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.33%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.33%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.33%) VisualVM
6 2 (0.33%) webpack
6 2 (0.33%) YourKit
7 1 (0.17%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.17%) GCC
7 1 (0.17%) GDB
7 1 (0.17%) Git
General
1 404 (66.67%) Finance
2 265 (43.73%) Social Skills
3 214 (35.31%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (23.10%) Banking
5 101 (16.67%) Law
6 81 (13.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 77 (12.71%) Financial Institution
8 73 (12.05%) Legal
9 67 (11.06%) Games
10 60 (9.90%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (8.42%) Retail
12 40 (6.60%) Marketing
13 36 (5.94%) Front Office
14 34 (5.61%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (4.13%) Public Sector
16 17 (2.81%) Local Government
17 16 (2.64%) Dutch Language
17 16 (2.64%) French Language
18 15 (2.48%) Back Office
19 12 (1.98%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 122 (20.13%) Senior
2 79 (13.04%) Analyst
3 64 (10.56%) Lead
4 52 (8.58%) Consultant
5 51 (8.42%) Senior Manager
6 50 (8.25%) Developer
7 48 (7.92%) Architect
8 42 (6.93%) IT Manager
9 40 (6.60%) Data Analyst
10 34 (5.61%) Python Engineer
11 28 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (4.46%) AWS Developer
12 27 (4.46%) Software Engineer
13 26 (4.29%) AWS Software Engineer
13 26 (4.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 26 (4.29%) Python Developer
13 26 (4.29%) Python Software Engineer
14 24 (3.96%) Audit Manager
14 24 (3.96%) Risk Manager
14 24 (3.96%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.95%) React
2 28 (4.62%) NumPy
2 28 (4.62%) Pandas
3 27 (4.46%) AngularJS
4 26 (4.29%) Node.js
4 26 (4.29%) SciPy
4 26 (4.29%) Vue
5 14 (2.31%) Middleware
6 6 (0.99%) Kafka
6 6 (0.99%) RESTful
7 5 (0.83%) XML
8 4 (0.66%) .NET
8 4 (0.66%) CSS
8 4 (0.66%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (0.66%) gRPC
8 4 (0.66%) HTML
8 4 (0.66%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.66%) web3js
9 3 (0.50%) GraphQL
9 3 (0.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 86 (14.19%) Management Information System
2 69 (11.39%) Enterprise Software
3 56 (9.24%) Self-Motivation
4 42 (6.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 32 (5.28%) Blockchain
5 32 (5.28%) Fixed Income
6 31 (5.12%) Cloud Native
7 30 (4.95%) Equities
8 27 (4.46%) Security Posture
9 24 (3.96%) Analytical Mindset
10 20 (3.30%) Credit Risk
11 19 (3.14%) Onboarding
12 16 (2.64%) Data Centre
12 16 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (2.48%) NHS
14 11 (1.82%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
15 10 (1.65%) Hedge funds
15 10 (1.65%) Reinsurance
16 8 (1.32%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.63%) Linux
2 17 (2.81%) Windows
3 9 (1.49%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.33%) Unix
4 2 (0.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (35.48%) Cybersecurity
2 181 (29.87%) Agile
3 169 (27.89%) Information Security
4 153 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
5 151 (24.92%) Analytics
6 117 (19.31%) Business Strategy
7 108 (17.82%) AI
8 105 (17.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 104 (17.16%) Project Management
10 101 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 95 (15.68%) Roadmaps
12 90 (14.85%) Decision-Making
13 89 (14.69%) Stakeholder Management
14 84 (13.86%) Business Intelligence
15 79 (13.04%) Incident Response
16 78 (12.87%) Migration
17 73 (12.05%) Computer Science
18 72 (11.88%) Mentoring
19 68 (11.22%) Mathematics
20 66 (10.89%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (14.36%) Python
2 46 (7.59%) SQL
3 30 (4.95%) JavaScript
3 30 (4.95%) TypeScript
4 16 (2.64%) PowerShell
5 11 (1.82%) Java
6 6 (0.99%) C#
6 6 (0.99%) C++
7 4 (0.66%) Go
7 4 (0.66%) Scala
8 3 (0.50%) R
8 3 (0.50%) RPG
8 3 (0.50%) VBA
9 2 (0.33%) C
9 2 (0.33%) F#
9 2 (0.33%) Haskell
9 2 (0.33%) OCaml
10 1 (0.17%) ABAP
10 1 (0.17%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 214 (35.31%) Degree
2 143 (23.60%) CISSP
3 114 (18.81%) CISM
4 80 (13.20%) CISA
5 60 (9.90%) CRISC
6 45 (7.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (5.94%) Master's Degree
7 36 (5.94%) Numerate Degree
8 33 (5.45%) PMI Certification
9 27 (4.46%) ACCA
10 25 (4.13%) PMP
11 19 (3.14%) CGEIT
11 19 (3.14%) FFIEC
11 19 (3.14%) SANS
12 14 (2.31%) Security Cleared
13 11 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (1.82%) CEH
13 11 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (1.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 8 (1.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (24.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 114 (18.81%) NIST
3 65 (10.73%) GDPR
4 64 (10.56%) GRC
5 55 (9.08%) Data Quality
6 33 (5.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 31 (5.12%) COBIT
8 23 (3.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 23 (3.80%) PCI DSS
9 21 (3.47%) SOC 2
10 16 (2.64%) IFRS
10 16 (2.64%) QA
11 13 (2.15%) PMO
12 12 (1.98%) ITGC
12 12 (1.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (1.82%) NIST 800
14 10 (1.65%) EMIR
14 10 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 10 (1.65%) SLA
15 9 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 12 (1.98%) Docker
2 8 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.17%) Postfix
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (2.81%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (1.98%) CASB
4 11 (1.82%) Terraform
5 10 (1.65%) RSA Archer
6 7 (1.16%) SCCM
7 5 (0.83%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.66%) Ansible
8 4 (0.66%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.50%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.50%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.33%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.17%) Control-M
Vendors
1 80 (13.20%) Microsoft
2 49 (8.09%) SAP
3 32 (5.28%) Bloomberg
3 32 (5.28%) Oracle
4 31 (5.12%) Alteryx
5 21 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.97%) Dell
7 14 (2.31%) Adobe
7 14 (2.31%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.49%) Ariba
9 9 (1.49%) Google
10 8 (1.32%) OpenLink
11 7 (1.16%) Progress
12 5 (0.83%) Foundry
13 4 (0.66%) Databricks
14 3 (0.50%) Duck Creek
14 3 (0.50%) Guidewire
14 3 (0.50%) HP
14 3 (0.50%) Zoho