Risk Assessment Job Trends

Risk Assessment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Risk Assessment skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 371 450
Rank change year-on-year -135 +79 +78
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 299 370 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.74% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.83% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 182 189 245
10th Percentile £41,653 £36,250 £41,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -14.81%
75th Percentile £84,500 £86,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £114,500 £105,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,490 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +8.16% +0.92% -6.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Risk Assessment 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 78,044 44,596 67,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.46% 89.30% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53,720 25,240 43,624
10th Percentile £30,773 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,237 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,773 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.13% -4.45% -9.09%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Risk Assessment job vacancy trend in the UK

Risk Assessment
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
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 Assessment within the UK over the 6 months to 13 August 2026. 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 -125 270 £70,000 +16.67% 434
UK excluding London -155 157 £59,490 +8.16% 244
London -45 129 £75,000 -14.29% 241
Work from Home -41 102 £75,000 +8.09% 184
South East -30 53 £57,745 +0.43% 55
North of England -53 44 £60,850 +5.83% 50
North West -4 34 £55,000 -14.98% 31
Midlands -69 20 £67,500 +22.73% 34
West Midlands -53 15 £62,500 +13.64% 20
South West -53 14 £82,500 +50.00% 32
Scotland +8 12 £125,000 +142.04% 42
Yorkshire -23 10 £72,500 +38.10% 17
East of England -33 9 £39,500 -21.00% 30
East Midlands -32 5 £67,500 +80.00% 14
Wales -61 5 £63,855 -4.97% 4
Northern Ireland -82 1 - - 3

Risk Assessment
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 12 (4.01%) Confluence
2 4 (1.34%) Apache
2 4 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.33%) IIS
3 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.01%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.34%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.67%) Primavera
3 1 (0.33%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 51 (17.06%) AWS
2 47 (15.72%) Azure
3 28 (9.36%) GCP
4 13 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.34%) GitHub
7 6 (2.01%) SaaS
8 5 (1.67%) Smartsheet
9 4 (1.34%) dbt
9 4 (1.34%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (1.34%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.34%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.67%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.33%) Anthropic Claude
12 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.33%) Nutanix
12 1 (0.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.69%) Network Security
2 9 (3.01%) CHAP
3 7 (2.34%) FIX Connectivity
3 7 (2.34%) Multicast
4 4 (1.34%) Firewall
5 2 (0.67%) HTTP
5 2 (0.67%) Internet
5 2 (0.67%) LAN
5 2 (0.67%) VPN
5 2 (0.67%) WAN
6 1 (0.33%) BGP
6 1 (0.33%) DHCP
6 1 (0.33%) DNS
6 1 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.33%) IPsec
6 1 (0.33%) SAN
6 1 (0.33%) SNMP
6 1 (0.33%) SSL
6 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.68%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.34%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.00%) Power BI
4 3 (1.00%) Redis
5 2 (0.67%) Metadata
6 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.33%) Db2
6 1 (0.33%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (7.69%) JIRA
2 11 (3.68%) LabVIEW
3 4 (1.34%) Git
4 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.33%) GitLab
4 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 140 (46.82%) Finance
2 122 (40.80%) Social Skills
3 115 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (18.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (15.72%) Law
6 31 (10.37%) Organisational Skills
7 28 (9.36%) Legal
8 25 (8.36%) Aerospace
9 23 (7.69%) Banking
9 23 (7.69%) Public Sector
10 21 (7.02%) Manufacturing
11 14 (4.68%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (4.01%) Financial Institution
13 12 (4.01%) Retail
14 11 (3.68%) Electronics
15 9 (3.01%) Japanese Language
16 7 (2.34%) Retail Banking
16 7 (2.34%) Spanish Language
17 6 (2.01%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 57 (19.06%) Senior
2 46 (15.38%) Analyst
3 29 (9.70%) Architect
4 23 (7.69%) Security Architect
5 22 (7.36%) Auditor
5 22 (7.36%) Consultant
5 22 (7.36%) Security Manager
6 21 (7.02%) Security Consultant
7 20 (6.69%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 19 (6.35%) IT Manager
9 16 (5.35%) Security Analyst
9 16 (5.35%) Systems Engineer
10 14 (4.68%) Senior Consultant
11 13 (4.35%) Lead
11 13 (4.35%) Senior Security Consultant
12 12 (4.01%) Business Analyst
13 10 (3.34%) IT Auditor
13 10 (3.34%) Security Auditor
13 10 (3.34%) Software Engineer
14 9 (3.01%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.34%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.34%) .NET
2 4 (1.34%) Kafka
2 4 (1.34%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.33%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.33%) CSS
3 1 (0.33%) HTML
3 1 (0.33%) Middleware
3 1 (0.33%) PySpark
3 1 (0.33%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.33%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.73%) Management Information System
2 20 (6.69%) Credit Risk
3 19 (6.35%) Security Posture
4 15 (5.02%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.68%) Operational Technology
5 11 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.68%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (2.68%) Fibre Optics
7 7 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.34%) Distributed Architecture
7 7 (2.34%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (2.34%) Equities
7 7 (2.34%) Eurex
7 7 (2.34%) Fixed Income
7 7 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.01%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.01%) Driving Licence
8 6 (2.01%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.67%) Cyber Security Posture
9 5 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.68%) Windows
2 9 (3.01%) Linux
3 1 (0.33%) AIX
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.33%) SUSE
3 1 (0.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.33%) Unix
3 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (30.43%) Cybersecurity
2 83 (27.76%) Risk Management
3 76 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 74 (24.75%) Agile
4 74 (24.75%) Information Security
5 63 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (19.40%) Decision-Making
7 56 (18.73%) AI
8 50 (16.72%) Threat Modelling
9 45 (15.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 42 (14.05%) Incident Response
11 41 (13.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 41 (13.71%) Validation
12 36 (12.04%) Security Architecture
13 34 (11.37%) Analytics
14 33 (11.04%) Cloud Security
14 33 (11.04%) Internal Audit
15 32 (10.70%) Vulnerability Management
16 31 (10.37%) IT Audit
17 30 (10.03%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (8.03%) Python
2 12 (4.01%) Java
3 10 (3.34%) SQL
4 8 (2.68%) MATLAB
5 4 (1.34%) C
5 4 (1.34%) C++
5 4 (1.34%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.00%) Go
6 3 (1.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.67%) Julia
7 2 (0.67%) R
8 1 (0.33%) Bash
8 1 (0.33%) Bicep
8 1 (0.33%) C#
8 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 103 (34.45%) CISSP
2 93 (31.10%) CISM
3 91 (30.43%) Degree
4 44 (14.72%) Security Cleared
5 38 (12.71%) CISA
6 37 (12.37%) CRISC
7 35 (11.71%) SC Cleared
8 30 (10.03%) Master's Degree
9 16 (5.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (4.01%) DV Cleared
11 11 (3.68%) CompTIA Security+
12 10 (3.34%) PhD
13 9 (3.01%) CGEIT
13 9 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (3.01%) FFIEC
13 9 (3.01%) SANS
14 8 (2.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 8 (2.68%) PMI Certification
14 8 (2.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (30.77%) NIST
2 77 (25.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (10.70%) COBIT
4 30 (10.03%) GRC
5 24 (8.03%) GDPR
5 24 (8.03%) NCSC
6 23 (7.69%) SLA
7 19 (6.35%) ITGC
8 18 (6.02%) PCI DSS
9 17 (5.69%) Accessibility
10 16 (5.35%) SOC 2
11 15 (5.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (4.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 11 (3.68%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (3.01%) NIST 800
15 6 (2.01%) Data Quality
15 6 (2.01%) Def Stans
15 6 (2.01%) QA
16 5 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 4 (1.34%) SOC 1
System Software
1 10 (3.34%) Firmware
2 3 (1.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.33%) Ansible
2 1 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.33%) Proxmox
2 1 (0.33%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (8.03%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.02%) Oracle
3 18 (6.02%) SAP
4 13 (4.35%) IFS
5 7 (2.34%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.34%) Bloomberg
5 7 (2.34%) CQG
5 7 (2.34%) ION Trading
5 7 (2.34%) Patsystems
5 7 (2.34%) Reuters
5 7 (2.34%) Trayport
6 6 (2.01%) Databricks
7 4 (1.34%) Adobe
7 4 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.34%) VMware
8 3 (1.00%) Keysight
8 3 (1.00%) OneTrust
9 2 (0.67%) Citrix
9 2 (0.67%) Duck Creek
9 2 (0.67%) Guidewire