Risk Management Jobs in the North West

Risk Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Risk Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Risk Management over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 97 182
Rank change year-on-year +52 +85 -83
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 470 241 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.99% 2.32% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% 2.86% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 135 159 60
10th Percentile £50,818 £39,930 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,875 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £54,000 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -1.89% -2.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,700 £82,500
England median annual salary £71,991 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.99% -7.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,516 8,426 7,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.78% 80.99% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,815 6,336 3,833
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Risk Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in the North West

Risk Management
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Risk Management in the North West.

Salary trend for Risk Management in the North West

Risk Management
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Risk Management in the North West

Risk Management
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 Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Lancashire -12 190 £63,900 +22.69% 50
Manchester +67 141 £73,496 +24.61% 79
Cumbria -29 78 £58,500 +44.44% 4
Cheshire +25 48 £55,000 +4.76% 15
Merseyside +11 11 £55,000 +10.00% 8
Risk Management
England

Risk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 23 (4.89%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.19%) Confluence
3 1 (0.21%) CMS
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.21%) SAP GTS
1 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (1.49%) Azure
2 5 (1.06%) AWS
3 3 (0.64%) GCP
4 1 (0.21%) Apigee
4 1 (0.21%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (0.21%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.21%) Cloudflare
4 1 (0.21%) dbt
4 1 (0.21%) IaaS
4 1 (0.21%) OCI
4 1 (0.21%) PaaS
4 1 (0.21%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.21%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 250 (53.19%) Cisco IOS
1 250 (53.19%) VPN
2 8 (1.70%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (1.49%) Firewall
4 3 (0.64%) Network Security
5 2 (0.43%) HTTP
5 2 (0.43%) PPP
6 1 (0.21%) Modbus
6 1 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.06%) Tableau
2 2 (0.43%) Data Mining
2 2 (0.43%) MySQL
2 2 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.21%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.21%) Cloud Spanner
3 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.21%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.21%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (3.40%) JIRA
2 2 (0.43%) GitLab
3 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
General
1 286 (60.85%) Analytical Skills
2 253 (53.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 93 (19.79%) Finance
4 67 (14.26%) Social Skills
5 60 (12.77%) Manufacturing
6 11 (2.34%) Legal
7 10 (2.13%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.49%) Banking
8 7 (1.49%) Law
9 6 (1.28%) Marketing
10 5 (1.06%) Retail
11 4 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.85%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.43%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.21%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.21%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 250 (53.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 85 (18.09%) Project Manager
3 54 (11.49%) Delivery Project Manager
4 28 (5.96%) Risk Manager
5 21 (4.47%) Configuration Manager
6 18 (3.83%) Senior
7 16 (3.40%) Delivery Manager
8 15 (3.19%) Capability Manager
8 15 (3.19%) Lead
9 14 (2.98%) Analyst
10 11 (2.34%) Architect
11 9 (1.91%) Security Architect
12 8 (1.70%) Security Analyst
13 7 (1.49%) Credit Risk Manager
13 7 (1.49%) Security Manager
13 7 (1.49%) Technology Risk Manager
14 5 (1.06%) Bid Manager
14 5 (1.06%) Head of Security
14 5 (1.06%) IT Manager
15 4 (0.85%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (53.19%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.21%) .NET
2 1 (0.21%) Kafka
2 1 (0.21%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 251 (53.40%) Cyberattack
2 29 (6.17%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.55%) Security Posture
4 11 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.91%) Credit Risk
6 8 (1.70%) Social Media
7 6 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (0.85%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.64%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.43%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.43%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.43%) Blog
10 2 (0.43%) Derivative
10 2 (0.43%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.43%) NHS
10 2 (0.43%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 258 (54.89%) Windows
2 251 (53.40%) Linux
3 250 (53.19%) Android
4 6 (1.28%) Windows Vista
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (58.30%) Problem-Solving
2 264 (56.17%) Line Management
3 257 (54.68%) DevOps
4 252 (53.62%) Mathematics
5 250 (53.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 250 (53.19%) Platform Engineering
5 250 (53.19%) Storage Management
5 250 (53.19%) Task Automation
6 102 (21.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 90 (19.15%) Project Management
8 72 (15.32%) Project Delivery
9 41 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 38 (8.09%) Business Case
11 37 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
11 37 (7.87%) Information Security
12 34 (7.23%) Decision-Making
13 32 (6.81%) Coaching
14 24 (5.11%) ERP
15 23 (4.89%) Agile
15 23 (4.89%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 252 (53.62%) PowerShell
1 252 (53.62%) Python
2 251 (53.40%) Bash
3 3 (0.64%) SQL
4 2 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.21%) C#
Qualifications
1 98 (20.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 42 (8.94%) Degree
3 19 (4.04%) CRISC
4 18 (3.83%) CISSP
5 16 (3.40%) APMP
6 15 (3.19%) HND
7 14 (2.98%) CISA
8 13 (2.77%) CISM
9 10 (2.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 10 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.91%) DBS Check
11 8 (1.70%) CEH
11 8 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (1.28%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.06%) Security Cleared
14 4 (0.85%) CIMA
14 4 (0.85%) CIPFA
14 4 (0.85%) ICAEW
14 4 (0.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (5.53%) NIST
3 15 (3.19%) COBIT
4 13 (2.77%) GDPR
5 12 (2.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (2.13%) ITGC
7 6 (1.28%) NCSC
8 4 (0.85%) GRC
9 3 (0.64%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.64%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.43%) QA
11 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.21%) P3O
11 1 (0.21%) PERC
11 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 252 (53.62%) Docker
2 250 (53.19%) Hyper-V
2 250 (53.19%) VMware NSX
2 250 (53.19%) vSphere
3 1 (0.21%) NFS
Systems Management
1 251 (53.40%) Terraform
2 250 (53.19%) Ansible
3 3 (0.64%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.21%) cPanel
4 1 (0.21%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.21%) Istio
Vendors
1 251 (53.40%) Cisco
1 251 (53.40%) Splunk
2 250 (53.19%) 3PAR
2 250 (53.19%) Juniper
3 32 (6.81%) Microsoft
4 23 (4.89%) SAP
5 15 (3.19%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.49%) Avaloq
7 2 (0.43%) Facebook
8 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.21%) Confluent
8 1 (0.21%) Google
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle
8 1 (0.21%) Rapid7