Risk Manager Jobs in London

Risk Manager
England > London

The median Risk Manager salary in London is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 458 535
Rank change year-on-year +116 +77 +204
Permanent jobs requiring a Risk Manager 59 47 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.20% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.21% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 21 35 72
10th Percentile £57,670 £44,000 £67,500
25th Percentile £59,750 £72,500 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £85,995
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% -1.16% -1.72%
75th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,750 £142,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -18.75% +3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,643 22,208 32,345
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.16% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,236 16,616 23,854
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Risk Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Manager in London

Risk Manager
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Risk Manager in London

Risk Manager
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Manager in London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Risk Manager in London

Risk Manager
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 Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Central London +37 14 £57,670 -32.15% 6
Risk Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 London region featuring Risk Manager in the job title.

1 43 (72.88%) Finance
2 40 (67.80%) Risk Management
3 24 (40.68%) Social Skills
4 19 (32.20%) Agile
5 18 (30.51%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (28.81%) Coaching
7 16 (27.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (27.12%) Degree
8 14 (23.73%) Python
8 14 (23.73%) ITGC
9 13 (22.03%) Internal Audit
10 12 (20.34%) Creative Thinking
10 12 (20.34%) Mentoring
10 12 (20.34%) Data Analytics
10 12 (20.34%) Analytics
10 12 (20.34%) People Management
10 12 (20.34%) Blockchain
10 12 (20.34%) Project Delivery
10 12 (20.34%) Information Security
10 12 (20.34%) IT Governance
10 12 (20.34%) Marketing
10 12 (20.34%) Retail
10 12 (20.34%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (18.64%) Robotics
11 11 (18.64%) Telecoms
11 11 (18.64%) CISSP
11 11 (18.64%) Robotic Process Automation
12 10 (16.95%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (16.95%) Decision-Making
12 10 (16.95%) NIST

Risk Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.69%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.69%) Stata
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.56%) AWS
2 7 (11.86%) Azure
3 6 (10.17%) GCP
4 3 (5.08%) GitHub
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.78%) Network Security
2 3 (5.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) Data Mining
2 3 (5.08%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.69%) HBase
3 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Git
1 3 (5.08%) GitLab
2 2 (3.39%) JIRA
3 1 (1.69%) Subversion
General
1 43 (72.88%) Finance
2 24 (40.68%) Social Skills
3 18 (30.51%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (20.34%) Marketing
4 12 (20.34%) Retail
5 11 (18.64%) Telecoms
6 8 (13.56%) Banking
7 7 (11.86%) Financial Institution
8 6 (10.17%) Legal
9 5 (8.47%) Front Office
9 5 (8.47%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (5.08%) Retail Banking
10 3 (5.08%) Social Science
11 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.69%) Law
11 1 (1.69%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (5.08%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) Blockchain
2 11 (18.64%) Robotics
3 10 (16.95%) Credit Risk
4 4 (6.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (5.08%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.39%) Derivative
7 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.69%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Linux
1 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (67.80%) Risk Management
2 19 (32.20%) Agile
3 17 (28.81%) Coaching
4 16 (27.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (22.03%) Internal Audit
6 12 (20.34%) Analytics
6 12 (20.34%) Artificial Intelligence
6 12 (20.34%) Creative Thinking
6 12 (20.34%) Data Analytics
6 12 (20.34%) Information Security
6 12 (20.34%) IT Governance
6 12 (20.34%) Mentoring
6 12 (20.34%) People Management
6 12 (20.34%) Project Delivery
7 11 (18.64%) Robotic Process Automation
8 10 (16.95%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (16.95%) Decision-Making
9 7 (11.86%) Business Development
9 7 (11.86%) Change Management
9 7 (11.86%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.73%) Python
2 7 (11.86%) R
2 7 (11.86%) SQL
3 2 (3.39%) VBA
4 1 (1.69%) C#
4 1 (1.69%) C++
4 1 (1.69%) Java
4 1 (1.69%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 16 (27.12%) Degree
2 11 (18.64%) CISSP
3 10 (16.95%) CRISC
4 9 (15.25%) CISA
4 9 (15.25%) CISM
5 6 (10.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 6 (10.17%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (6.78%) CCSP
7 3 (5.08%) CCSK
7 3 (5.08%) CESG Certified Professional
7 3 (5.08%) CISMP
8 2 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (3.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.69%) CFA
9 1 (1.69%) FFIEC
9 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (23.73%) ITGC
2 10 (16.95%) NIST
3 8 (13.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (11.86%) GRC
5 5 (8.47%) COBIT
6 4 (6.78%) GDPR
6 4 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (5.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (5.08%) QA
8 1 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Docker
1 1 (1.69%) HDFS
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Google
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) VMware
3 5 (8.47%) Avaloq
3 5 (8.47%) Oracle
4 3 (5.08%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) Sybase