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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 679 717 827
Rank change year-on-year +38 +110 +316
Permanent jobs citing Market Risk 39 169 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.48% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 14 14 74
10th Percentile £59,375 £83,450 £54,125
25th Percentile £82,888 £90,000 £74,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £95,000 £96,721
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.78% +10.54%
75th Percentile £103,750 £105,000 £126,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £128,875 £142,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,069 - £98,442
% change year-on-year - - +31.26%

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 20,720 35,284 43,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.08% 35.31% 43.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,777 23,033 23,186
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,483
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £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 £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £109,865
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.59% -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 21 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 21 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 +153 25 £100,000 +5.26% 100
UK excluding London +49 20 £76,069 - 36
Work from Home +126 19 £100,000 - 19
London +120 19 £100,000 +5.26% 92
Scotland +12 13 - -
North of England +40 6 £94,637 - 1
Yorkshire +61 5 £94,637 -
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 5 (12.82%) SAS
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) LaTeX
1 2 (5.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) GCP
2 4 (10.26%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.13%) DynamoDB
2 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.13%) MySQL
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) FitNesse
1 2 (5.13%) Git
1 2 (5.13%) Octopus Deploy
1 2 (5.13%) Selenium
1 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
1 2 (5.13%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 31 (79.49%) Finance
2 18 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 15 (38.46%) Banking
4 10 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (20.51%) Front Office
6 7 (17.95%) Legal
7 5 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (7.69%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.56%) Law
9 1 (2.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (56.41%) Analyst
2 10 (25.64%) Lead
2 10 (25.64%) Product Analyst
3 7 (17.95%) Business Analyst
4 6 (15.38%) Front Office Business Analyst
4 6 (15.38%) Senior
5 5 (12.82%) Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Enterprise Management Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Lead Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (10.26%) Financial Analyst
6 4 (10.26%) Murex Analyst
6 4 (10.26%) Murex Business Analyst
6 4 (10.26%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) Senior Risk Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) Testing Analyst
8 2 (5.13%) Risk Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) gRPC
2 3 (7.69%) .NET
2 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.13%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET
3 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 2 (5.13%) Django
3 2 (5.13%) Entity Framework
3 2 (5.13%) FastAPI
3 2 (5.13%) LINQ
3 2 (5.13%) NHibernate
3 2 (5.13%) Playwright
3 2 (5.13%) Web Services
3 2 (5.13%) XML
4 1 (2.56%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) Credit Risk
2 6 (15.38%) Derivative
2 6 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 5 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (12.82%) Management Information System
4 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
4 4 (10.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (7.69%) Taxonomies
6 2 (5.13%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (2.56%) Equities
7 1 (2.56%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (58.97%) Risk Management
2 13 (33.33%) Agile
3 9 (23.08%) Analytics
3 9 (23.08%) Microservices
4 8 (20.51%) Process Improvement
4 8 (20.51%) Stress Testing
4 8 (20.51%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (17.95%) Test Automation
6 6 (15.38%) ETL
6 6 (15.38%) Mathematics
6 6 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
6 6 (15.38%) Risk Analytics
6 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (15.38%) Validation
7 5 (12.82%) Continuous Deployment
7 5 (12.82%) Data Encryption
7 5 (12.82%) Data Science
7 5 (12.82%) Fraud Detection
7 5 (12.82%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) Python
2 9 (23.08%) SQL
3 7 (17.95%) R
4 4 (10.26%) Rust
5 2 (5.13%) C#
5 2 (5.13%) C++
5 2 (5.13%) Go
6 1 (2.56%) VB
6 1 (2.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) Degree
2 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.13%) Postgraduate
4 1 (2.56%) ACCA
4 1 (2.56%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) Basel III
2 5 (12.82%) Basel II
2 5 (12.82%) Dodd-Frank
2 5 (12.82%) GDPR
2 5 (12.82%) IFRS
2 5 (12.82%) IFRS 9
2 5 (12.82%) PCI DSS
3 3 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 3 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Murex
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle