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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 239 533
Rank change year-on-year -278 +294 -53
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 239 611 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 1.35% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 1.46% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 168 178 292
10th Percentile £46,075 £37,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £59,352 £50,285 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £105,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -

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 69,604 41,717 88,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 92.25% 81.84%
Number of salaries quoted 48,009 22,461 62,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 24 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Top 15 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 24 June 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 -252 221 £70,000 +14.29% 109
UK excluding London -174 113 £56,000 +1.82% 68
London -176 113 £75,000 -11.24% 54
Work from Home -38 87 £75,000 +8.09% 40
South East -47 42 £56,000 -10.40% 27
North of England -50 37 £55,000 - 12
North West -7 28 £50,000 -27.94% 7
Midlands -50 13 £67,500 +22.73% 15
South West -63 11 £80,000 +45.45% 6
West Midlands -34 10 £52,500 -4.55% 5
Yorkshire -47 9 £72,500 +43.56% 3
Scotland -10 6 - - 1
East Midlands -33 3 £67,500 +80.00% 10
Wales -48 2 £51,709 -23.04% 2
East of England -67 2 £62,500 +25.00% 4

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 4 (1.67%) Confluence
2 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.77%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.84%) Primavera
3 1 (0.42%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 34 (14.23%) Azure
2 33 (13.81%) AWS
3 20 (8.37%) GCP
4 14 (5.86%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (4.60%) SaaS
6 5 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.09%) Smartsheet
7 3 (1.26%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.84%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.42%) GitHub
9 1 (0.42%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.42%) IaaS
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.42%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.95%) CHAP
2 14 (5.86%) Network Security
3 5 (2.09%) Firewall
4 4 (1.67%) FIX Connectivity
4 4 (1.67%) Multicast
5 2 (0.84%) Internet
5 2 (0.84%) LAN
5 2 (0.84%) VPN
5 2 (0.84%) WAN
6 1 (0.42%) BGP
6 1 (0.42%) Broadband
6 1 (0.42%) DHCP
6 1 (0.42%) DNS
6 1 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.42%) IPsec
6 1 (0.42%) SNMP
6 1 (0.42%) SSL
6 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.42%) VLAN
6 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.26%) Db2
3 2 (0.84%) Power BI
4 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.42%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (5.86%) JIRA
2 6 (2.51%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.42%) Git
3 1 (0.42%) GitLab
3 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 123 (51.46%) Finance
2 96 (40.17%) Social Skills
3 84 (35.15%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (19.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (12.97%) Banking
6 29 (12.13%) Law
7 26 (10.88%) Financial Institution
8 23 (9.62%) Public Sector
9 21 (8.79%) Legal
10 20 (8.37%) Retail
11 19 (7.95%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (5.86%) Manufacturing
13 13 (5.44%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (4.60%) Retail Banking
15 7 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (2.93%) Japanese Language
16 6 (2.51%) Aerospace
16 6 (2.51%) Back Office
16 6 (2.51%) Electronics
16 6 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (14.23%) Senior
2 32 (13.39%) Analyst
3 31 (12.97%) Auditor
4 27 (11.30%) Architect
5 26 (10.88%) IT Manager
6 23 (9.62%) Security Architect
7 19 (7.95%) Security Auditor
8 17 (7.11%) Lead
9 16 (6.69%) Internal Auditor
10 15 (6.28%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 15 (6.28%) Security Manager
11 12 (5.02%) Consultant
11 12 (5.02%) IT Auditor
12 11 (4.60%) Security Consultant
12 11 (4.60%) Senior Auditor
12 11 (4.60%) Senior IT Auditor
13 10 (4.18%) Security Analyst
14 9 (3.77%) Systems Engineer
14 9 (3.77%) Test Engineer
15 8 (3.35%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.67%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (1.26%) Middleware
3 2 (0.84%) .NET
3 2 (0.84%) Kafka
4 1 (0.42%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.42%) CSS
4 1 (0.42%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.83%) Management Information System
2 21 (8.79%) Credit Risk
3 14 (5.86%) Security Posture
4 12 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.60%) Onboarding
6 10 (4.18%) Blockchain
7 8 (3.35%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.93%) CMDB
9 6 (2.51%) Driving Licence
10 5 (2.09%) Life Science
11 4 (1.67%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.67%) Eurex
11 4 (1.67%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (1.67%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.67%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.60%) Windows
2 4 (1.67%) Linux
3 3 (1.26%) AIX
3 3 (1.26%) Unix
4 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (31.38%) Cybersecurity
2 73 (30.54%) Risk Management
3 64 (26.78%) Agile
4 61 (25.52%) Information Security
5 57 (23.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (19.67%) Incident Response
7 45 (18.83%) Decision-Making
7 45 (18.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 43 (17.99%) Internal Audit
9 41 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (15.48%) Analytics
11 36 (15.06%) AI
11 36 (15.06%) Validation
12 35 (14.64%) Vulnerability Management
13 34 (14.23%) Data Analytics
13 34 (14.23%) Threat Modelling
14 33 (13.81%) Project Management
14 33 (13.81%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (13.39%) IT Audit
16 29 (12.13%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (2.93%) Python
2 4 (1.67%) C
2 4 (1.67%) C++
2 4 (1.67%) Java
3 3 (1.26%) MATLAB
4 2 (0.84%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.84%) SQL
5 1 (0.42%) C#
Qualifications
1 98 (41.00%) CISSP
2 82 (34.31%) CISM
3 49 (20.50%) CISA
4 45 (18.83%) Degree
5 38 (15.90%) CRISC
6 32 (13.39%) Security Cleared
7 26 (10.88%) SC Cleared
8 19 (7.95%) CGEIT
8 19 (7.95%) FFIEC
8 19 (7.95%) SANS
9 13 (5.44%) CompTIA Security+
10 12 (5.02%) Master's Degree
11 9 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (2.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (2.09%) CISMP
14 5 (2.09%) DV Cleared
14 5 (2.09%) PMI Certification
14 5 (2.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (35.98%) NIST
2 69 (28.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (17.15%) COBIT
4 32 (13.39%) GDPR
5 31 (12.97%) GRC
6 25 (10.46%) SLA
7 22 (9.21%) PCI DSS
8 21 (8.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (7.53%) NCSC
10 16 (6.69%) ITGC
10 16 (6.69%) SOC 2
11 12 (5.02%) Accessibility
12 11 (4.60%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (4.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 9 (3.77%) QA
15 6 (2.51%) NIST 800
16 5 (2.09%) Def Stans
17 4 (1.67%) GMP
18 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.84%) Firmware
2 1 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.42%) CASB
1 1 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.42%) Proxmox
1 1 (0.42%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (7.95%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.11%) Oracle
2 17 (7.11%) SAP
3 13 (5.44%) IFS
4 7 (2.93%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.67%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.67%) Bloomberg
5 4 (1.67%) Citrix
5 4 (1.67%) CQG
5 4 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (1.67%) ION Trading
5 4 (1.67%) Patsystems
5 4 (1.67%) Reuters
5 4 (1.67%) Trayport
6 3 (1.26%) Keysight
6 3 (1.26%) OneTrust
7 2 (0.84%) Adobe
7 2 (0.84%) VMware
8 1 (0.42%) BT
8 1 (0.42%) Google