Risk Analytics Job Trends

Risk Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Risk Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 576 651 653
Rank change year-on-year +75 +2 +341
Permanent jobs citing Risk Analytics 68 65 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.13% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 22 53 44
10th Percentile £68,375 £77,500 £65,375
25th Percentile £78,438 £78,750 £78,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £127,500 £110,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% +12.82% +8.33%
75th Percentile £132,500 £122,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £135,000 £152,500 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £82,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +65.00% -28.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Risk Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,537 49,891 46,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.05% 89.96% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 28,419 24,819 35,711
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,532 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%

Risk Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Risk Analytics job vacancy trend in the UK

Risk Analytics
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Risk Analytics

Risk Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Analytics over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Risk Analytics in the UK

Risk Analytics
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 31 December 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 +68 65 £130,000 +18.18% 116
London +75 62 £130,000 +18.18% 17
Work from Home +82 13 £82,500 +0.22%
UK excluding London +36 3 £67,500 -18.18% 108
Midlands +22 2 £68,750 -16.67% 20
West Midlands - 2 £68,750 - 10
South East - 1 £42,500 - 26

Risk Analytics
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 1 (1.47%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 20 (29.41%) Power Platform
2 7 (10.29%) AWS
3 5 (7.35%) Azure
4 4 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (5.88%) dbt
4 4 (5.88%) Snowflake
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.41%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (4.41%) Datadog
5 3 (4.41%) Serverless
6 2 (2.94%) GCP
7 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.47%) GitHub
7 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (61.76%) Tableau
2 19 (27.94%) Power BI
3 7 (10.29%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.41%) Data Mining
5 3 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.41%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.47%) SAS EBI
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.41%) CircleCI
1 3 (4.41%) GitLab
1 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.47%) Git
General
1 66 (97.06%) Finance
2 44 (64.71%) Banking
3 39 (57.35%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (48.53%) Financial Institution
5 30 (44.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (20.59%) Social Skills
7 6 (8.82%) Investment Banking
8 5 (7.35%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (5.88%) International Banking
10 2 (2.94%) Marketing
10 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.47%) French Language
11 1 (1.47%) Front Office
11 1 (1.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 42 (61.76%) Analyst
2 38 (55.88%) Data Analyst
3 13 (19.12%) Developer
4 8 (11.76%) Lead
5 7 (10.29%) Data Analytics Analyst
5 7 (10.29%) Report Analyst
6 6 (8.82%) Pricing Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Analytics Developer
7 5 (7.35%) C++ Developer
7 5 (7.35%) C++ Pricing Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Grid Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Risk Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) Credit Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) Credit Risk Analyst
10 2 (2.94%) C# Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Lead Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Lead Software Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Senior Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.88%) .NET
1 4 (5.88%) gRPC
1 4 (5.88%) Kafka
1 4 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (5.88%) RESTful
2 3 (4.41%) web3js
3 2 (2.94%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.94%) REST
4 1 (1.47%) LINQ
4 1 (1.47%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.47%) React
4 1 (1.47%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (44.12%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (13.24%) Credit Risk
3 6 (8.82%) Market Risk
4 5 (7.35%) Grid Computing
5 4 (5.88%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.41%) Blockchain
6 3 (4.41%) CUDA
6 3 (4.41%) Derivative
6 3 (4.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (4.41%) Reinsurance
6 3 (4.41%) Web3
7 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.47%) Equities
8 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.47%) Stable Diffusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (100.00%) Analytics
2 53 (77.94%) Risk Management
3 49 (72.06%) Business Intelligence
4 39 (57.35%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (54.41%) Data Science
6 35 (51.47%) Statistical Modelling
7 33 (48.53%) Data Analysis
7 33 (48.53%) Mathematics
7 33 (48.53%) Statistics
8 31 (45.59%) AI
8 31 (45.59%) Business Strategy
8 31 (45.59%) Stress Testing
9 30 (44.12%) Asset Management
9 30 (44.12%) Migration
9 30 (44.12%) Portfolio Management
9 30 (44.12%) Scenario Testing
9 30 (44.12%) Workflow
10 18 (26.47%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (25.00%) Visualisation
12 15 (22.06%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (72.06%) Python
2 13 (19.12%) SQL
3 6 (8.82%) C++
4 5 (7.35%) C#
5 3 (4.41%) Go
5 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.94%) R
6 2 (2.94%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.47%) Java
7 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (73.53%) Degree
2 31 (45.59%) Numerate Degree
3 12 (17.65%) CISA
3 12 (17.65%) CISM
3 12 (17.65%) CISSP
3 12 (17.65%) CRISC
4 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (51.47%) Data Quality
2 12 (17.65%) COBIT
2 12 (17.65%) GRC
2 12 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (17.65%) ITGC
2 12 (17.65%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.24%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.35%) RSA Archer
3 3 (4.41%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (44.12%) Alteryx
1 30 (44.12%) Bloomberg
2 7 (10.29%) Progress
3 5 (7.35%) Databricks
3 5 (7.35%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.94%) Salesforce