Risk Management Jobs in Scotland

Risk Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 24 111
Rank change year-on-year -14 +87 +23
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 189 578 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.52% 10.14% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.49% 11.48% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 94 44 54
10th Percentile - £48,469 £46,454
25th Percentile - £53,413 £54,251
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £58,000 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% -17.48% +8.14%
75th Percentile - £68,125 £89,355
90th Percentile £73,356 £82,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,500 £62,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year +12.80% -8.09% +4.62%

All Process and 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 2,913 5,036 3,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 85.08% 88.32% 96.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,375 1,987 1,967
10th Percentile £26,929 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,851 £41,516 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £63,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Risk Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in Scotland

Risk Management
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Risk Management in Scotland.

Salary trend for Risk Management in Scotland

Risk Management
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 August 2025.

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 August 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
Edinburgh +44 85 £67,500 -3.57% 26
Glasgow -24 41 £51,645 -10.96% 20
Renfrewshire - 35 £51,645 -
Inverclyde - 24 £51,645 -
Aberdeen +21 1 - - 1
Risk Management
UK

Risk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (2.12%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.59%) Confluence
3 2 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 65 (34.39%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.06%) LaTeX
4 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (5.82%) AWS
2 7 (3.70%) GCP
3 4 (2.12%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (2.12%) Azure
3 4 (2.12%) Snowflake
4 2 (1.06%) GitHub
4 2 (1.06%) IaaS
4 2 (1.06%) PaaS
4 2 (1.06%) SaaS
5 1 (0.53%) Datadog
5 1 (0.53%) Miro
5 1 (0.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.65%) Network Security
2 1 (0.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.76%) Big Data
2 4 (2.12%) MS Access
2 4 (2.12%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.59%) Tableau
4 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.53%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.53%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.53%) MySQL
5 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.53%) Power BI
5 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Git
1 4 (2.12%) JIRA
General
1 109 (57.67%) Social Skills
2 81 (42.86%) Finance
3 65 (34.39%) Presentation Skills
4 34 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (14.81%) Legal
6 26 (13.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (13.23%) Law
8 20 (10.58%) Banking
9 9 (4.76%) Financial Institution
10 7 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (3.17%) Marketing
12 4 (2.12%) Electronics
12 4 (2.12%) Retail
13 2 (1.06%) Prime Brokerage
13 2 (1.06%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.53%) Aviation
14 1 (0.53%) Back Office
14 1 (0.53%) Games
14 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 77 (40.74%) Senior
2 26 (13.76%) Risk Manager
3 24 (12.70%) Software Engineer
4 17 (8.99%) Java Engineer
5 16 (8.47%) Java Software Engineer
5 16 (8.47%) Lead
6 10 (5.29%) Analyst
7 9 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (4.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 8 (4.23%) Lead Software Engineer
9 6 (3.17%) Auditor
9 6 (3.17%) Credit Risk Manager
9 6 (3.17%) Senior Auditor
9 6 (3.17%) Technology Risk Manager
10 5 (2.65%) Consultant
11 4 (2.12%) Audit Manager
11 4 (2.12%) Data Scientist
11 4 (2.12%) Governance Analyst
11 4 (2.12%) Risk Analyst
11 4 (2.12%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.41%) Spring
2 10 (5.29%) Kafka
3 9 (4.76%) React
3 9 (4.76%) RESTful
4 8 (4.23%) Web Services
5 4 (2.12%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.12%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.06%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.06%) Middleware
7 1 (0.53%) Hugging Face
7 1 (0.53%) Memcached
7 1 (0.53%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.53%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 73 (38.62%) Management Information System
2 16 (8.47%) Credit Risk
3 10 (5.29%) Algorithms
4 8 (4.23%) Reference Data
5 5 (2.65%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.65%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.12%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.12%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.06%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.06%) Derivative
8 2 (1.06%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.06%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.06%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.53%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Android
1 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (50.79%) Decision-Making
2 75 (39.68%) Risk Assessment
3 40 (21.16%) Agile
4 37 (19.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 35 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (16.40%) Artificial Intelligence
7 28 (14.81%) Coaching
8 27 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 26 (13.76%) CI/CD
10 25 (13.23%) Operational Stability
11 23 (12.17%) Machine Learning
12 22 (11.64%) SDLC
13 19 (10.05%) Analytics
14 18 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (8.99%) Community of Practice
16 16 (8.47%) Information Security
17 15 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
17 15 (7.94%) Visualisation
18 14 (7.41%) Project Management
19 13 (6.88%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.05%) Java
2 15 (7.94%) Python
3 14 (7.41%) SQL
4 5 (2.65%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.12%) Scala
5 4 (2.12%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.53%) C
6 1 (0.53%) C#
6 1 (0.53%) C++
6 1 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 87 (46.03%) Degree
2 65 (34.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (5.29%) CRISC
4 6 (3.17%) CISSP
5 5 (2.65%) CISA
6 4 (2.12%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (2.12%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 3 (1.59%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.06%) CISM
8 2 (1.06%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.53%) ACCA
9 1 (0.53%) APMG
9 1 (0.53%) CEH
9 1 (0.53%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (5.29%) ITGC
2 9 (4.76%) COBIT
2 9 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (3.70%) NIST
4 5 (2.65%) NCSC
5 4 (2.12%) GDPR
6 3 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.59%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.59%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.06%) QA
8 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.53%) P3O
8 1 (0.53%) PMO
8 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.59%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.53%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (3.17%) Avaloq
2 5 (2.65%) Oracle
3 4 (2.12%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.06%) Google
5 1 (0.53%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.53%) Splunk
5 1 (0.53%) Sybase
5 1 (0.53%) Symantec