Market Risk Jobs

Market Risk
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Market Risk in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Market 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 647 725 847
Rank change year-on-year +78 +122 +249
Permanent jobs citing Market Risk 45 171 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.49% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 17 15 68
10th Percentile £65,000 £83,350 £66,000
25th Percentile £90,801 £88,125 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £98,442
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.58% +15.81%
75th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £132,500
90th Percentile £146,000 £128,500 £145,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £94,637 £90,000 £98,442
% change year-on-year +5.15% -8.58% +71.20%

All Generic Skills
UK

Market 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%

Market Risk
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Market Risk in the UK

Market Risk
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Market Risk in the UK

Market Risk
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Market Risk in the UK

Market Risk
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Market 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 +164 28 £100,000 +11.11% 67
UK excluding London +89 26 £94,637 +5.15% 27
Work from Home +208 21 £97,319 +8.13% 15
London +106 19 £100,000 +5.26% 63
Scotland +24 16 - - 1
North of England +85 9 £94,637 +5.15% 1
Yorkshire +75 8 £94,637 +5.15%
North West - 1 £57,500 - 1
Wales - 1 £45,000 -

Market 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 7 (15.56%) SAS
2 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.22%) LaTeX
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.78%) GCP
2 5 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (2.22%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.44%) MySQL
2 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Git
1 3 (6.67%) Selenium
2 2 (4.44%) FitNesse
2 2 (4.44%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (4.44%) SonarQube
2 2 (4.44%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.22%) Gradle
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) JIRA
3 1 (2.22%) JUnit
3 1 (2.22%) Maven
3 1 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.22%) Spinnaker
3 1 (2.22%) TestNG
General
1 38 (84.44%) Finance
2 20 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 18 (40.00%) Banking
4 8 (17.78%) Front Office
4 8 (17.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (13.33%) Legal
7 3 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (55.56%) Analyst
2 14 (31.11%) Product Analyst
3 13 (28.89%) Lead
4 7 (15.56%) Architect
4 7 (15.56%) Business Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Enterprise Management Architect
4 7 (15.56%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 7 (15.56%) Lead Architect
4 7 (15.56%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 7 (15.56%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (13.33%) Front Office Business Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Financial Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Murex Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Murex Business Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Senior
7 3 (6.67%) Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) Testing Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Financial Software Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) gRPC
2 3 (6.67%) .NET
2 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.44%) .NET Framework
3 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET
3 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 2 (4.44%) Django
3 2 (4.44%) Entity Framework
3 2 (4.44%) FastAPI
3 2 (4.44%) LINQ
3 2 (4.44%) NHibernate
3 2 (4.44%) Playwright
3 2 (4.44%) Web Services
3 2 (4.44%) XML
4 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) Credit Risk
2 9 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 7 (15.56%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (15.56%) Management Information System
4 6 (13.33%) Derivative
5 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
5 4 (8.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (6.67%) Taxonomies
7 2 (4.44%) Hedge funds
7 2 (4.44%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (2.22%) Equities
8 1 (2.22%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (55.56%) Risk Management
2 15 (33.33%) Agile
3 12 (26.67%) Process Improvement
3 12 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 11 (24.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (24.44%) Microservices
5 10 (22.22%) Analytics
5 10 (22.22%) Stress Testing
5 10 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 9 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
7 8 (17.78%) Containerisation
7 8 (17.78%) Continuous Deployment
7 8 (17.78%) Data Management
7 8 (17.78%) Data Protection
7 8 (17.78%) DevOps
7 8 (17.78%) ETL
7 8 (17.78%) Regulatory Compliance
7 8 (17.78%) Scenario Testing
8 7 (15.56%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 17 (37.78%) Python
2 11 (24.44%) SQL
3 8 (17.78%) R
4 4 (8.89%) Rust
5 2 (4.44%) C#
5 2 (4.44%) C++
5 2 (4.44%) Go
6 1 (2.22%) Java
6 1 (2.22%) VB
6 1 (2.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.22%) ACCA
3 1 (2.22%) CFA
3 1 (2.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.78%) Basel III
1 8 (17.78%) GDPR
1 8 (17.78%) IFRS
1 8 (17.78%) IFRS 9
2 7 (15.56%) Basel II
2 7 (15.56%) Dodd-Frank
2 7 (15.56%) PCI DSS
3 3 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Control-M
2 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Murex
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle