Risk Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Risk Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Risk Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 686 666
Rank change year-on-year +273 -20 +125
Permanent jobs requiring a Risk Manager 166 85 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 20 69 63
10th Percentile £42,250 £47,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,686 £56,250 £53,595
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £62,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.00% +0.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £102,129
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% -3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,540 70,800 51,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.95% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,956 49,914 29,611
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Risk Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Risk Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Manager in the UK excluding London

Risk Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Risk Manager in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Risk Manager in the UK excluding London

Risk Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Risk Manager in the UK excluding London

Risk Manager
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Midlands +100 47 £75,000 +15.38% 27
North of England +77 41 £70,000 -3.45% 18
West Midlands +73 39 £67,500 +3.85% 10
Scotland +144 32 - - 7
North West +34 30 £40,000 -44.83% 9
South East +94 22 £70,000 +16.67% 44
South West +118 19 £64,627 +11.43% 10
East Midlands +45 8 £75,000 +36.36% 16
Yorkshire +59 7 £73,750 -1.67% 7
North East +48 4 £71,250 +1.79% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 5
East of England +46 1 £90,000 +44.00% 12
Risk Manager
UK

Risk Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Risk Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Risk Manager in the job title.

1 143 (86.14%) Risk Management
2 129 (77.71%) Finance
3 87 (52.41%) Social Skills
4 56 (33.73%) Creative Thinking
5 54 (32.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 53 (31.93%) Coaching
7 52 (31.33%) Blockchain
8 50 (30.12%) Financial Institution
9 47 (28.31%) Legal
10 41 (24.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (24.10%) Analytical Skills
11 40 (24.10%) Agile
11 40 (24.10%) Mentoring
11 40 (24.10%) ITGC
12 39 (23.49%) Artificial Intelligence
13 37 (22.29%) Information Security
14 34 (20.48%) Retail
15 33 (19.88%) Analytics
15 33 (19.88%) Credit Risk
16 30 (18.07%) Robotic Process Automation
16 30 (18.07%) Data Analytics
16 30 (18.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 30 (18.07%) Robotics
16 30 (18.07%) Telecoms
17 28 (16.87%) CISSP
17 28 (16.87%) Test Strategy
17 28 (16.87%) Avaloq
17 28 (16.87%) Line Management
17 28 (16.87%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
17 28 (16.87%) Project Delivery

Risk Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (1.20%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (4.22%) Azure
1 7 (4.22%) IBM Watson
1 7 (4.22%) Power Platform
2 1 (0.60%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.42%) MS Access
2 7 (4.22%) Power BI
2 7 (4.22%) QlikView
2 7 (4.22%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.81%) Tableau
4 1 (0.60%) DTS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Git
1 1 (0.60%) GitLab
General
1 129 (77.71%) Finance
2 87 (52.41%) Social Skills
3 50 (30.12%) Financial Institution
4 47 (28.31%) Legal
5 40 (24.10%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (20.48%) Retail
7 30 (18.07%) Telecoms
8 22 (13.25%) Law
8 22 (13.25%) Prime Brokerage
9 21 (12.65%) Marketing
10 10 (6.02%) Banking
11 3 (1.81%) Front Office
12 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.60%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.60%) Social Science
Miscellaneous
1 52 (31.33%) Blockchain
2 33 (19.88%) Credit Risk
3 30 (18.07%) Robotics
4 22 (13.25%) Derivative
4 22 (13.25%) Hedge funds
5 14 (8.43%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.41%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (86.14%) Risk Management
2 56 (33.73%) Creative Thinking
3 54 (32.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 53 (31.93%) Coaching
5 41 (24.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (24.10%) Agile
6 40 (24.10%) Mentoring
7 39 (23.49%) Artificial Intelligence
8 37 (22.29%) Information Security
9 33 (19.88%) Analytics
10 30 (18.07%) Data Analytics
10 30 (18.07%) Robotic Process Automation
11 28 (16.87%) Line Management
11 28 (16.87%) Project Delivery
11 28 (16.87%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
11 28 (16.87%) Test Strategy
12 27 (16.27%) Risk Assessment
13 26 (15.66%) Project Management
14 24 (14.46%) IT Governance
15 23 (13.86%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.23%) Python
2 9 (5.42%) SQL
3 8 (4.82%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (16.87%) CISSP
2 26 (15.66%) CRISC
3 19 (11.45%) CISA
4 13 (7.83%) Degree
5 12 (7.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 12 (7.23%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (7.23%) CompTIA Security+
5 12 (7.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 11 (6.63%) CISM
7 8 (4.82%) Security Cleared
8 4 (2.41%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.81%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.81%) PhD
10 2 (1.20%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (24.10%) ITGC
2 30 (18.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (16.27%) GDPR
3 27 (16.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 22 (13.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 15 (9.04%) COBIT
6 10 (6.02%) SOC 2
7 4 (2.41%) GRC
7 4 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.60%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.60%) PMO
8 1 (0.60%) QA
Vendors
1 28 (16.87%) Avaloq
2 7 (4.22%) Databricks
2 7 (4.22%) IBM
2 7 (4.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.60%) NEC