Risk Register Job Trends in the Midlands

Risk Register
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Risk Register skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 225 207
Rank change year-on-year +14 -18 +97
Permanent jobs citing Risk Register 7 18 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.090% 0.27% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.30% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 6
10th Percentile - £31,225 £43,983
25th Percentile £44,196 £33,750 £51,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,390 £45,375 £55,858
Median % change year-on-year +0.03% -18.77% -6.90%
75th Percentile £49,146 £58,438 £62,813
90th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £76,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Risk Register 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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,377 6,078 4,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.01% 89.49% 91.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,517 2,682 3,432
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Risk Register
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Risk Register job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Risk Register
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Risk Register.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Risk Register

Risk Register
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Register within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
West Midlands +24 4 £50,000 +37.93% 15
East Midlands -5 3 £45,390 -21.06% 12
Risk Register
England

Risk Register
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) NAS
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Law
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) QA Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Architect
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Change Advisory Board
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
1 4 (57.14%) Data Management
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
1 4 (57.14%) Quality Management
1 4 (57.14%) Six Sigma
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Business Transformation
2 1 (14.29%) Coaching
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (14.29%) ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
2 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) Time Management
2 1 (14.29%) Validation
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) DBS Check
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) ISO 9001
1 4 (57.14%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Tanium
2 1 (14.29%) Tenable
2 1 (14.29%) Zscaler