Risk Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Risk Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Risk Analysis over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 687 680 824
Rank change year-on-year -7 +144 -153
Permanent jobs citing Risk Analysis 204 324 428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.33% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 126 173 229
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £40,625
25th Percentile £42,300 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £111,500 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Risk Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Risk Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Analysis in the UK

Risk Analysis
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Risk Analysis in the UK

Risk Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Analysis over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Risk Analysis in the UK

Risk Analysis
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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 -6 193 £59,000 -15.71% 84
UK excluding London -30 141 £55,000 +29.41% 55
Work from Home +34 70 £60,000 -14.29% 36
London +61 54 £72,500 +3.57% 30
South East -3 40 £42,300 -19.43% 12
North of England +49 37 £65,000 +62.50% 9
Midlands +26 37 £40,000 -11.11% 13
Yorkshire +83 28 £70,000 +75.00% 6
South West -16 21 £45,000 -47.06% 8
West Midlands +19 19 £40,000 -20.00% 9
East Midlands +2 18 £43,500 +28.66% 4
North West +10 8 £59,000 +72.38% 3
Wales -8 2 £85,000 +142.86% 2
East of England -13 2 £62,500 -3.85% 7
Scotland - 2 - - 7
North East - 1 £65,000 -

Risk Analysis
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 10 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.45%) Office Communications Server
2 5 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.47%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (10.78%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (10.29%) Microsoft Project
3 12 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.98%) Trello
6 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.47%) Primavera
1 3 (1.47%) Sage 200
1 3 (1.47%) Sage 300 ERP
2 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.49%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 41 (20.10%) Azure
2 8 (3.92%) AWS
2 8 (3.92%) Power Platform
3 7 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.45%) IaaS
4 5 (2.45%) PaaS
4 5 (2.45%) SaaS
5 4 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.47%) Azure AKS
6 3 (1.47%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (0.98%) Mimecast
7 2 (0.98%) OCI
7 2 (0.98%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.49%) GCP
8 1 (0.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 37 (18.14%) Firewall
2 20 (9.80%) Intrusion Detection
3 10 (4.90%) Network Security
4 8 (3.92%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.98%) Extranet
6 2 (0.98%) Intranet
7 1 (0.49%) ATM
7 1 (0.49%) DKIM
7 1 (0.49%) DMARC
7 1 (0.49%) DNS
7 1 (0.49%) LAN
7 1 (0.49%) VPN
7 1 (0.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.92%) Power BI
2 4 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.96%) DTS
2 4 (1.96%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.47%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.94%) JIRA
2 2 (0.98%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.49%) Git
General
1 65 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 49 (24.02%) Finance
3 34 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (14.22%) Manufacturing
5 28 (13.73%) Legal
6 23 (11.27%) Law
7 20 (9.80%) Public Sector
8 18 (8.82%) Retail
9 15 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (7.35%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (3.43%) Aviation
11 7 (3.43%) Telecoms
12 6 (2.94%) Games
12 6 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.96%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.96%) Local Government
13 4 (1.96%) Military
14 3 (1.47%) Advertising
14 3 (1.47%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 41 (20.10%) Analyst
2 37 (18.14%) Project Manager
3 25 (12.25%) Lead
4 23 (11.27%) Senior
5 21 (10.29%) Project Controller
6 17 (8.33%) Team Leader
7 14 (6.86%) Architect
8 13 (6.37%) Security Analyst
9 12 (5.88%) Penetration Tester
9 12 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
9 12 (5.88%) Tester
10 11 (5.39%) Business Analyst
10 11 (5.39%) Consultant
11 9 (4.41%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 9 (4.41%) IT Analyst
11 9 (4.41%) Security Consultant
11 9 (4.41%) Security Penetration Tester
11 9 (4.41%) Security Tester
12 7 (3.43%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 7 (3.43%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.96%) XML
2 3 (1.47%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (1.47%) SAML
3 2 (0.98%) .NET
4 1 (0.49%) CSS
4 1 (0.49%) HTML
4 1 (0.49%) RESTful
4 1 (0.49%) XSLT
4 1 (0.49%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 41 (20.10%) Management Information System
2 18 (8.82%) Cyber Threat
3 13 (6.37%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.90%) Driving Licence
4 10 (4.90%) Security Posture
5 7 (3.43%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.45%) FMCG
8 3 (1.47%) PMI
8 3 (1.47%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.47%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.98%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (0.98%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.49%) Augmented Reality
10 1 (0.49%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.49%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.49%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.49%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.92%) Windows
2 7 (3.43%) Linux
3 4 (1.96%) Unix
4 3 (1.47%) AIX
4 3 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.98%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (30.39%) Cybersecurity
1 62 (30.39%) Project Management
2 47 (23.04%) Incident Response
3 40 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (17.16%) Project Delivery
5 33 (16.18%) SIEM
6 31 (15.20%) ITIL
7 27 (13.24%) Line Management
7 27 (13.24%) Project Planning
7 27 (13.24%) Risk Management
8 25 (12.25%) Change Management
9 23 (11.27%) Information Security
10 22 (10.78%) Earned Value Management
11 21 (10.29%) Computer Science
11 21 (10.29%) Migration
12 20 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (9.31%) Decision-Making
13 19 (9.31%) ISMS
13 19 (9.31%) Penetration Testing
14 17 (8.33%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.35%) SQL
2 8 (3.92%) Python
3 4 (1.96%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.98%) C
4 2 (0.98%) VBA
5 1 (0.49%) Bash
5 1 (0.49%) C++
5 1 (0.49%) Java
5 1 (0.49%) R
5 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (19.12%) Degree
2 19 (9.31%) Security Cleared
3 18 (8.82%) CISSP
4 15 (7.35%) SC Cleared
5 12 (5.88%) OSCP
6 10 (4.90%) SANS
7 9 (4.41%) CISM
8 8 (3.92%) CHECK Team Member
9 7 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.43%) PMI Certification
10 6 (2.94%) CISA
10 6 (2.94%) CRISC
10 6 (2.94%) Master's Degree
11 5 (2.45%) AWS Certification
11 5 (2.45%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.96%) CEH
12 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.96%) PMP
13 3 (1.47%) CCNA
13 3 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.31%) PCI DSS
2 18 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (5.88%) GDPR
3 12 (5.88%) NIST
4 11 (5.39%) NCSC
5 10 (4.90%) GRC
6 8 (3.92%) COBIT
7 6 (2.94%) QA
8 5 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (2.45%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.96%) HAZOP
10 3 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.47%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.98%) ECSS
11 2 (0.98%) GLBA
11 2 (0.98%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.98%) SLA
12 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.47%) Docker
3 3 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (4.90%) CSIRT
2 4 (1.96%) Terraform
3 3 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (1.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 51 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.94%) Cisco
2 6 (2.94%) Qualys
2 6 (2.94%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.45%) Dell
3 5 (2.45%) VMware
4 3 (1.47%) Citrix
4 3 (1.47%) LogRhythm
4 3 (1.47%) Oracle
4 3 (1.47%) Sage
5 2 (0.98%) ArcSight
5 2 (0.98%) McAfee
5 2 (0.98%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.98%) Sophos
5 2 (0.98%) Splunk
5 2 (0.98%) Tripwire
6 1 (0.49%) HP
6 1 (0.49%) Murex
6 1 (0.49%) Sun
6 1 (0.49%) Sybase