Risk Management Job Trends in Scotland

Risk Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Risk Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 58 29
Rank change year-on-year -6 -29 +54
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 80 102 393
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.05% 4.02% 8.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 4.46% 10.03%
Number of salaries quoted 41 29 30
10th Percentile £57,500 £44,800 £44,488
25th Percentile £67,500 £51,645 £50,538
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +8.33% -14.98%
75th Percentile £100,000 £86,776 £67,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £102,500 £92,650
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,674 2,285 3,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.60% 89.96% 86.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,580 997 1,643
10th Percentile £28,450 £26,650 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,200 £41,479
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.16% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,750 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Risk Management job vacancy trend in Scotland

Risk Management
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Risk Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Risk Management in Scotland

Risk Management
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Glasgow +1 37 £81,000 +24.62% 57
Edinburgh -15 26 £84,465 +54.98% 40
Aberdeen -10 4 £42,500 - 6
Midlothian - 4 - - 13
Dundee - 2 £155,000 - 1
South Lanarkshire - 2 - -
Inverclyde -3 1 £60,000 +16.18%
Risk Management
UK

Risk Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.00%) Azure
2 7 (8.75%) AWS
3 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (5.00%) SaaS
4 3 (3.75%) Alation
4 3 (3.75%) Collibra
4 3 (3.75%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.25%) GCP
5 1 (1.25%) GitHub
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Firewall
1 2 (2.50%) LAN
1 2 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.25%) Metadata
2 5 (6.25%) Tableau
3 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.75%) Power BI
4 2 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Claude Code
2 1 (1.25%) GitLab
General
1 33 (41.25%) Finance
2 19 (23.75%) Social Skills
3 17 (21.25%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (16.25%) Law
5 11 (13.75%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (8.75%) Electronics
7 7 (8.75%) Marketing
8 6 (7.50%) Banking
8 6 (7.50%) Financial Institution
9 4 (5.00%) Manufacturing
9 4 (5.00%) Retail
10 3 (3.75%) Legal
10 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
11 2 (2.50%) Digital Health
11 2 (2.50%) Front Office
11 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
12 1 (1.25%) Local Government
12 1 (1.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (16.25%) Lead
2 9 (11.25%) Information Manager
3 8 (10.00%) Consultant
4 6 (7.50%) Data Manager
4 6 (7.50%) Risk Manager
5 5 (6.25%) Architect
5 5 (6.25%) Engineering Manager
5 5 (6.25%) Governance Manager
5 5 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
5 5 (6.25%) Technical Leader
5 5 (6.25%) Technical Manager
5 5 (6.25%) Transformation Consultant
6 4 (5.00%) Product Manager
6 4 (5.00%) Technical Director
7 3 (3.75%) Data Governance Manager
7 3 (3.75%) Hardware Architect
7 3 (3.75%) IT Manager
7 3 (3.75%) Risk Consultant
7 3 (3.75%) Security Manager
7 3 (3.75%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.50%) FHIR
3 1 (1.25%) Kafka
3 1 (1.25%) PySpark
3 1 (1.25%) React
3 1 (1.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.50%) PACS
3 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.50%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.25%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.25%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.00%) AI
1 24 (30.00%) Decision-Making
2 20 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 13 (16.25%) Analytics
5 13 (16.25%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (16.25%) Data Governance
5 13 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (13.75%) Business Development
7 10 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (11.25%) Agile
8 9 (11.25%) Budgeting
8 9 (11.25%) Data Modelling
8 9 (11.25%) Service Delivery
9 8 (10.00%) Coaching
9 8 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
9 8 (10.00%) Project Management
9 8 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
10 7 (8.75%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.00%) SQL
2 2 (2.50%) C
2 2 (2.50%) Python
3 1 (1.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (15.00%) CISSP
2 11 (13.75%) CISM
3 10 (12.50%) Degree
4 7 (8.75%) Security Cleared
5 6 (7.50%) CISA
6 4 (5.00%) CRISC
7 3 (3.75%) CCA
8 2 (2.50%) ACCA
8 2 (2.50%) CCNA
8 2 (2.50%) CCNP
8 2 (2.50%) CIMA
8 2 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.50%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.25%) ISACA
9 1 (1.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (1.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.25%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.75%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (6.25%) GRC
4 4 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 4 (5.00%) GDPR
4 4 (5.00%) NIST
5 3 (3.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (3.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (2.50%) COBIT
6 2 (2.50%) DICOM
6 2 (2.50%) HL7
7 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (1.25%) PMO
7 1 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.25%) UCITS
System Software
1 7 (8.75%) Firmware
2 1 (1.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.50%) Oracle
3 5 (6.25%) Alteryx
4 4 (5.00%) YouTube
5 3 (3.75%) Informatica
5 3 (3.75%) Meraki
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco
6 2 (2.50%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.25%) Databricks
7 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow