Risk Analysis Job Trends in the North of England

Risk Analysis
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Risk Analysis 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 266 266 265
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +127
Permanent jobs citing Risk Analysis 7 15 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.065% 0.16% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.18% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2 14 19
10th Percentile - £40,000 -
25th Percentile £73,750 £48,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +25.00% +41.18%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £88,875 £68,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -13.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Risk Analysis 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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,623 8,255 7,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.03% 90.79% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,624 3,681 5,913
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,010
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,100 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Risk Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Risk Analysis relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Risk Analysis job vacancy trend in the North of England

Risk Analysis
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Risk Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Risk Analysis

Risk Analysis
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Analysis within the North of England 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
Yorkshire - 4 £77,500 - 3
North West +6 2 - - 4
North East - 1 - -
Risk Analysis
England

Risk Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SAP GRC
1 2 (28.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Internet
1 2 (28.57%) VoIP
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Accountant
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) SAP GRC Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Security Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Security Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Senior SAP Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Monitoring Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (42.86%) Information Security
2 2 (28.57%) Application Security
2 2 (28.57%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) EAM
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
2 2 (28.57%) Information Security Management
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Line Management
2 2 (28.57%) RBAC
2 2 (28.57%) Revenue Assurance
2 2 (28.57%) SAP Security
2 2 (28.57%) Security Management
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) ACCA
1 2 (28.57%) CIMA
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) CISM
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GRC
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (14.29%) Fluentd
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
1 2 (28.57%) Xero
2 1 (14.29%) Cribl.io
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk