Credit Risk Jobs

Credit Risk
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Credit Risk in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Credit Risk over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 656 811
Rank change year-on-year +389 +155 -39
Permanent jobs citing Credit Risk 572 242 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 0.25% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.17% 0.69% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 50 74 95
10th Percentile - £38,750 £35,985
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,250 £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £51,528 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.27% -10.39% -23.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,125 £72,750
90th Percentile £99,468 £130,000 £91,968
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £51,528 £42,500
% change year-on-year +21.29% +21.24% -29.17%

All Generic Skills
UK

Credit Risk falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,030 35,099 45,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.65% 35.64% 43.54%
Number of salaries quoted 9,845 23,059 23,957
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,251
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Credit Risk
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Credit Risk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Credit Risk in the UK

Credit Risk
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Credit Risk in the UK

Credit Risk
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Credit Risk over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Credit Risk in the UK

Credit Risk
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Credit Risk within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +409 535 £72,500 +40.70% 172
London +358 422 £72,500 -14.71% 148
UK excluding London +163 148 £62,500 +21.29% 58
Work from Home +208 65 £55,000 +6.74% 63
East of England - 40 - -
North of England +71 31 £45,000 -12.67% 10
Scotland +88 30 £45,000 -12.67% 5
Midlands +90 29 £82,500 +81.32% 11
Yorkshire +74 19 £45,000 -12.67% 6
East Midlands +59 19 £82,500 - 9
North West +32 12 £45,000 - 4
South West +90 10 £62,500 - 1
West Midlands +53 10 - - 2
Northern Ireland +41 7 - - 3
South East +90 1 £55,000 - 26

Credit Risk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 21 (3.67%) SAS
2 2 (0.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 421 (73.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) LaTeX
3 1 (0.17%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 15 (2.62%) GCP
2 4 (0.70%) AWS
3 3 (0.52%) dbt
3 3 (0.52%) Power Platform
4 2 (0.35%) Google Workspace
4 2 (0.35%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.17%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.85%) Tableau
2 7 (1.22%) NoSQL
3 6 (1.05%) Data Mining
4 3 (0.52%) Big Data
4 3 (0.52%) Power BI
5 2 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.35%) Looker
5 2 (0.35%) Metabase
5 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.17%) Base SAS
6 1 (0.17%) Metadata
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.17%) QlikView
6 1 (0.17%) SAS EBI
6 1 (0.17%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 10 (1.75%) Git
2 2 (0.35%) JIRA
3 1 (0.17%) GitLab
3 1 (0.17%) Gradle
3 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.17%) JUnit
3 1 (0.17%) Maven
3 1 (0.17%) Selenium
3 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.17%) Spinnaker
3 1 (0.17%) TestNG
General
1 531 (92.83%) Finance
2 511 (89.34%) Analytical Skills
3 507 (88.64%) Social Skills
4 483 (84.44%) Banking
5 456 (79.72%) Financial Institution
6 429 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 421 (73.60%) French Language
7 421 (73.60%) German Language
8 20 (3.50%) Legal
9 9 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.22%) Billing
11 5 (0.87%) Retail
12 2 (0.35%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.17%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.17%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.17%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.17%) Marketing
13 1 (0.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 453 (79.20%) Analyst
2 444 (77.62%) Credit Analyst
3 421 (73.60%) Research Analyst
4 49 (8.57%) Risk Manager
5 43 (7.52%) Credit Risk Manager
6 32 (5.59%) Senior
7 16 (2.80%) Data Science Graduate
7 16 (2.80%) Graduate
8 13 (2.27%) Credit Risk Analyst
8 13 (2.27%) Lead
8 13 (2.27%) Risk Analyst
9 12 (2.10%) Senior Analyst
10 9 (1.57%) Data Scientist
10 9 (1.57%) Principal Data Scientist
10 9 (1.57%) Senior Data Scientist
10 9 (1.57%) Senior Strategy Analyst
10 9 (1.57%) Strategy Analyst
11 8 (1.40%) Architect
11 8 (1.40%) Auditor
11 8 (1.40%) Senior Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.80%) PySpark
2 10 (1.75%) Pandas
3 9 (1.57%) scikit-learn
3 9 (1.57%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.17%) REST
4 1 (0.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 421 (73.60%) Fixed Income
2 29 (5.07%) Algorithms
3 16 (2.80%) Learning Management System
4 14 (2.45%) Market Risk
5 10 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 4 (0.70%) Derivative
8 3 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.52%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.35%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.17%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.17%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.17%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.17%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (87.94%) Risk Management
2 462 (80.77%) Decision-Making
3 430 (75.17%) Portfolio Management
4 423 (73.95%) Credit Risk Analysis
5 422 (73.78%) Business Strategy
5 422 (73.78%) Risk Assessment
6 421 (73.60%) Asset Management
6 421 (73.60%) Financial Modelling
7 60 (10.49%) Analytics
8 58 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 42 (7.34%) Data Science
10 40 (6.99%) Visualisation
11 34 (5.94%) Test Strategy
12 33 (5.77%) Line Management
12 33 (5.77%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
13 32 (5.59%) Machine Learning
14 31 (5.42%) Data Visualisation
15 30 (5.24%) Agile
16 28 (4.90%) Credit Risk Modelling
17 27 (4.72%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 67 (11.71%) Python
2 66 (11.54%) SQL
3 17 (2.97%) R
4 2 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.35%) Java
4 2 (0.35%) MATLAB
4 2 (0.35%) VBA
5 1 (0.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 471 (82.34%) Degree
2 448 (78.32%) Master's Degree
3 422 (73.78%) CFA
4 23 (4.02%) DBS Check
5 16 (2.80%) PhD
6 4 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.80%) IFRS
1 16 (2.80%) IFRS 9
2 9 (1.57%) Basel III
2 9 (1.57%) GDPR
3 7 (1.22%) Basel II
3 7 (1.22%) Dodd-Frank
3 7 (1.22%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.70%) CRD IV
6 3 (0.52%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 2 (0.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 421 (73.60%) Bloomberg
2 33 (5.77%) Avaloq
3 9 (1.57%) Databricks
4 6 (1.05%) Google
5 4 (0.70%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.35%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle