Risk Analysis Job Trends in the North West

Risk Analysis
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West 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 184 190 197
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 +92
Permanent jobs citing Risk Analysis 2 15 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.031% 0.30% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.33% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 0 14 1
10th Percentile - £40,000 -
25th Percentile - £48,125 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +61.11%
75th Percentile - £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile - £88,875 -
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,173 4,612 3,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.20% 91.25% 87.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,546 2,263 3,047
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,114 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,445 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £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 West

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

Risk Analysis job vacancy trend in the North West

Risk Analysis
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Risk Analysis

Risk Analysis
Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire - 1 - -
Cumbria - 1 - - 2
Risk Analysis
England

Risk Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Monitoring Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Fluentd
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk