Credit Risk Job Trends

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 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 343 598
Rank change year-on-year -236 +255 +301
Permanent jobs citing Credit Risk 74 419 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.78% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% 2.10% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 43 51 89
10th Percentile £66,500 - £42,500
25th Percentile £74,500 £45,000 £50,172
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £130,000 £86,250 £95,063
90th Percentile £132,000 £126,250 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £51,528
% change year-on-year +12.00% +21.29% -6.11%

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 20,555 19,907 20,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.26% 37.20% 36.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10,326 9,320 14,805
10th Percentile £27,850 £33,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%

Credit Risk
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Credit Risk job vacancy trend in the UK

Credit Risk
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Credit Risk.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Credit Risk

Credit Risk
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Credit Risk over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Credit Risk in the UK

Credit Risk
Top 10 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 14 January 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
England -191 74 £100,000 +25.00% 21
London -112 59 £100,000 -12.09% 13
Work from Home +41 30 £115,000 +155.56% 18
UK excluding London -94 14 £70,000 +12.00% 19
Midlands -14 9 £70,000 -15.15% 2
East Midlands -29 5 £77,500 -6.06%
West Midlands +7 4 £68,750 +57.14% 2
North West +3 3 - -
North of England -32 3 - - 2
South East +32 2 - - 11

Credit Risk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (18.92%) SAS
2 6 (8.11%) Confluence
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (9.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.05%) Stata
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Endur
2 2 (2.70%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 14 (18.92%) Azure
2 11 (14.86%) AWS
3 10 (13.51%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.76%) dbt
4 5 (6.76%) Snowflake
5 3 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (4.05%) GCP
6 2 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.51%) Power BI
2 6 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.41%) Data Mining
3 4 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (5.41%) Tableau
4 2 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.70%) Redis
5 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.35%) Metadata
5 1 (1.35%) SAS EBI
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (8.11%) JIRA
2 2 (2.70%) JConsole
2 2 (2.70%) VisualVM
General
1 49 (66.22%) Finance
2 37 (50.00%) Banking
3 32 (43.24%) Social Skills
4 24 (32.43%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (13.51%) Marketing
6 9 (12.16%) Investment Banking
7 8 (10.81%) Financial Institution
8 5 (6.76%) Front Office
8 5 (6.76%) Games
9 4 (5.41%) Billing
9 4 (5.41%) International Banking
9 4 (5.41%) Law
10 3 (4.05%) Legal
10 3 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (2.70%) Advertising
11 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.35%) Retail
12 1 (1.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (36.49%) Analyst
2 24 (32.43%) Risk Analyst
3 14 (18.92%) Lead
3 14 (18.92%) Senior
4 11 (14.86%) Credit Analyst
4 11 (14.86%) Credit Risk Analyst
4 11 (14.86%) Developer
5 9 (12.16%) Qualitative Analyst
5 9 (12.16%) Quantitative Analyst
5 9 (12.16%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
6 8 (10.81%) Business Analyst
6 8 (10.81%) Risk Business Analyst
7 6 (8.11%) Market Analyst
7 6 (8.11%) Market Risk Analyst
7 6 (8.11%) Market Risk Business Analyst
8 5 (6.76%) Risk Manager
9 4 (5.41%) IT Manager
9 4 (5.41%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.41%) REST
2 3 (4.05%) .NET
2 3 (4.05%) Spring
2 3 (4.05%) WPF
3 2 (2.70%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.70%) gRPC
3 2 (2.70%) Kafka
3 2 (2.70%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (2.70%) OpenTracing
3 2 (2.70%) PySpark
4 1 (1.35%) LightGBM
4 1 (1.35%) Pandas
4 1 (1.35%) React
4 1 (1.35%) RESTful
4 1 (1.35%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.35%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.38%) Market Risk
2 8 (10.81%) Derivative
3 6 (8.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (5.41%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.41%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (4.05%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.70%) Digital Media
6 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.35%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.35%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.35%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (37.84%) Analytics
2 25 (33.78%) Risk Management
3 22 (29.73%) Agile
4 21 (28.38%) Credit Risk Modelling
5 16 (21.62%) Computer Science
6 15 (20.27%) Data Science
6 15 (20.27%) Economics
6 15 (20.27%) Mathematics
7 12 (16.22%) Project Delivery
8 11 (14.86%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (14.86%) IT Strategy
8 11 (14.86%) Microservices
8 11 (14.86%) Model Validation
8 11 (14.86%) Regulatory Compliance
9 10 (13.51%) AI
9 10 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (13.51%) Data Management
9 10 (13.51%) Machine Learning
9 10 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (13.51%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 33 (44.59%) Python
2 20 (27.03%) SQL
3 11 (14.86%) Java
4 10 (13.51%) R
5 5 (6.76%) C#
6 4 (5.41%) MATLAB
6 4 (5.41%) VBA
7 3 (4.05%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.70%) C
9 1 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (35.14%) Degree
2 10 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (13.51%) Master's Degree
2 10 (13.51%) PMI Certification
2 10 (13.51%) PMP
3 6 (8.11%) CFA
4 2 (2.70%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.35%) MBA
5 1 (1.35%) PhD
5 1 (1.35%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.81%) EMIR
2 6 (8.11%) Basel II
3 4 (5.41%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.05%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.70%) IFRS
5 2 (2.70%) IFRS 9
5 2 (2.70%) SLA
6 1 (1.35%) GRC
6 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.70%) logstash
1 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.35%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (10.81%) OpenLink
2 4 (5.41%) Databricks
3 3 (4.05%) Murex
3 3 (4.05%) Oracle
3 3 (4.05%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.70%) FIS
4 2 (2.70%) SAP
4 2 (2.70%) Zoho
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.35%) Pega