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 15 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 674 770 875
Rank change year-on-year +96 +105 +202
Permanent jobs citing Market Risk 37 91 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.29% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 12 15 61
10th Percentile £57,455 £83,750 £58,750
25th Percentile £90,801 £85,625 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £98,442
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.58% +14.14%
75th Percentile £106,250 £95,625 £132,500
90th Percentile £172,250 £122,750 £146,250
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 19,645 31,123 48,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.14% 35.60% 43.50%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 21,691 25,408
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £35,483
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,263 £76,250 £87,500
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 15 March 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 15 March 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 +114 23 £100,000 +11.11% 84
UK excluding London +110 23 £94,637 +5.15% 9
Work from Home +146 20 £100,000 +25.00% 18
London +61 14 £100,000 +11.11% 83
Scotland +42 13 - - 3
North of England +62 9 £94,637 +5.15%
Yorkshire +64 8 £94,637 +5.15%
North West - 1 £57,500 -
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 (18.92%) SAS
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) GCP
2 1 (2.70%) AWS
2 1 (2.70%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Git
1 3 (8.11%) Selenium
2 2 (5.41%) FitNesse
2 2 (5.41%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
2 2 (5.41%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.70%) Gradle
3 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) JIRA
3 1 (2.70%) JUnit
3 1 (2.70%) Maven
3 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.70%) Spinnaker
3 1 (2.70%) TestNG
General
1 30 (81.08%) Finance
2 20 (54.05%) Social Skills
3 15 (40.54%) Banking
4 8 (21.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (16.22%) Front Office
6 4 (10.81%) Legal
7 3 (8.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (59.46%) Analyst
2 12 (32.43%) Product Analyst
3 11 (29.73%) Lead
4 7 (18.92%) Architect
4 7 (18.92%) Enterprise Management Architect
4 7 (18.92%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 7 (18.92%) Lead Architect
4 7 (18.92%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 7 (18.92%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (16.22%) Business Analyst
6 5 (13.51%) Front Office Business Analyst
7 4 (10.81%) Financial Analyst
7 4 (10.81%) Murex Analyst
7 4 (10.81%) Murex Business Analyst
8 3 (8.11%) Developer
8 3 (8.11%) Risk Analyst
8 3 (8.11%) Testing Analyst
9 2 (5.41%) Quantitative Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (5.41%) Senior Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) .NET
1 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
2 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET
2 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 2 (5.41%) Entity Framework
2 2 (5.41%) LINQ
2 2 (5.41%) NHibernate
2 2 (5.41%) Playwright
2 2 (5.41%) Web Services
2 2 (5.41%) XML
3 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 13 (35.14%) Credit Risk
2 9 (24.32%) Product Ownership
3 7 (18.92%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (18.92%) Management Information System
4 4 (10.81%) Derivative
5 3 (8.11%) Taxonomies
6 2 (5.41%) Hedge funds
6 2 (5.41%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.70%) Equities
7 1 (2.70%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) Risk Management
2 12 (32.43%) Agile
3 11 (29.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (27.03%) Analytics
4 10 (27.03%) Process Improvement
4 10 (27.03%) Stress Testing
4 10 (27.03%) Test Automation
4 10 (27.03%) User Acceptance Testing
5 9 (24.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
6 8 (21.62%) Containerisation
6 8 (21.62%) Continuous Deployment
6 8 (21.62%) Data Management
6 8 (21.62%) Data Protection
6 8 (21.62%) DevOps
6 8 (21.62%) ETL
6 8 (21.62%) Regulatory Compliance
6 8 (21.62%) Scenario Testing
7 7 (18.92%) API Management
7 7 (18.92%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) Python
2 10 (27.03%) SQL
3 8 (21.62%) R
4 2 (5.41%) C#
5 1 (2.70%) Java
5 1 (2.70%) VB
5 1 (2.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.62%) Basel III
1 8 (21.62%) GDPR
1 8 (21.62%) IFRS
1 8 (21.62%) IFRS 9
2 7 (18.92%) Basel II
2 7 (18.92%) Dodd-Frank
2 7 (18.92%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Control-M
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Murex
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle