Risk Register Job Trends in Scotland

Risk Register
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Risk Register skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 137 178
Rank change year-on-year 0 +41 -
Permanent jobs citing Risk Register 2 9 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.073% 0.33% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% 0.36% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £38,000 £60,125
25th Percentile - £41,450 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,300 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -31.80% -
75th Percentile - £71,638 £84,063
90th Percentile - £85,625 £88,375
UK median annual salary £55,250 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.45% -12.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Risk Register 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 2,241 2,530 2,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 81.58% 91.97% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,139 1,100 1,710
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,492 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -6.68%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,219 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,625 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%

Risk Register
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Risk Register job vacancy trend in Scotland

Risk Register
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Risk Register.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Risk Register

Risk Register
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 Register within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 December 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 -9 2 £70,000 +75.00% 2
Risk Register
UK

Risk Register
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Internal Audit
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GRC
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (50.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (50.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) VMware