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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 290 499
Rank change year-on-year -225 +209 -18
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 254 511 401
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 1.04% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 1.16% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 177 188 265
10th Percentile £43,700 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -8.40%
75th Percentile £84,500 £86,776 £76,250
90th Percentile £105,150 £107,500 £87,500
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 73,194 44,164 80,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.69% 90.07% 82.10%
Number of salaries quoted 50,654 24,819 55,696
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,888 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +3.43% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -223 234 £70,000 +12.00% 96
UK excluding London -177 128 £56,000 +1.82% 64
London -126 112 £75,000 -11.76% 49
Work from Home -43 95 £75,000 +8.09% 32
South East -39 50 £56,000 -6.67% 20
North of England -62 37 £55,000 -4.35% 15
North West -5 28 £50,000 -27.94% 9
Midlands -62 16 £67,500 +22.73% 13
West Midlands -47 11 £52,500 -4.55% 7
South West -57 11 £80,000 +45.45% 8
Yorkshire -35 9 £72,500 +38.10% 5
Scotland -5 6 - - 3
East Midlands -19 5 £67,500 +80.00% 6
East of England -44 5 £39,500 -15.05% 3
Wales -54 3 £51,709 -23.04% 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 5 (1.97%) Confluence
2 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (5.12%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.94%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.97%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.79%) Primavera
3 1 (0.39%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 39 (15.35%) AWS
1 39 (15.35%) Azure
2 26 (10.24%) GCP
3 13 (5.12%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (3.54%) SaaS
5 8 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.97%) Smartsheet
7 3 (1.18%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.79%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.39%) GitHub
9 1 (0.39%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.39%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.48%) Network Security
2 15 (5.91%) CHAP
3 5 (1.97%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.97%) Multicast
4 4 (1.57%) Firewall
5 2 (0.79%) Internet
5 2 (0.79%) LAN
5 2 (0.79%) VPN
5 2 (0.79%) WAN
6 1 (0.39%) BGP
6 1 (0.39%) DHCP
6 1 (0.39%) DNS
6 1 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.39%) IPsec
6 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.39%) SNMP
6 1 (0.39%) SSL
6 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.39%) VLAN
6 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.97%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.18%) Db2
3 2 (0.79%) Power BI
4 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 15 (5.91%) JIRA
2 11 (4.33%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.39%) Git
3 1 (0.39%) GitLab
3 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 124 (48.82%) Finance
2 100 (39.37%) Social Skills
3 94 (37.01%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (22.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 32 (12.60%) Law
6 27 (10.63%) Banking
7 26 (10.24%) Legal
8 25 (9.84%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (9.45%) Public Sector
10 22 (8.66%) Financial Institution
11 20 (7.87%) Retail
12 19 (7.48%) Manufacturing
13 13 (5.12%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (4.72%) Aerospace
15 11 (4.33%) Electronics
15 11 (4.33%) Retail Banking
16 9 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (3.54%) Japanese Language
17 6 (2.36%) Italian Language
17 6 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (16.93%) Senior
2 35 (13.78%) Analyst
3 30 (11.81%) Architect
4 27 (10.63%) Auditor
5 24 (9.45%) Security Architect
6 21 (8.27%) IT Manager
7 16 (6.30%) Security Manager
7 16 (6.30%) Systems Engineer
8 15 (5.91%) Consultant
8 15 (5.91%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 15 (5.91%) Lead
8 15 (5.91%) Security Auditor
8 15 (5.91%) Security Consultant
9 12 (4.72%) Internal Auditor
9 12 (4.72%) IT Auditor
9 12 (4.72%) Security Analyst
10 11 (4.33%) Senior Auditor
10 11 (4.33%) Senior IT Auditor
11 9 (3.54%) Business Analyst
11 9 (3.54%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.97%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.57%) .NET
2 4 (1.57%) Kafka
3 3 (1.18%) Middleware
4 1 (0.39%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.39%) CSS
4 1 (0.39%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.14%) Management Information System
2 21 (8.27%) Credit Risk
3 15 (5.91%) Security Posture
4 13 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.72%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.54%) Fibre Optics
7 8 (3.15%) Blockchain
7 8 (3.15%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.36%) Driving Licence
9 6 (2.36%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.97%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.97%) Equities
10 5 (1.97%) Eurex
10 5 (1.97%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.97%) Life Science
11 4 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.72%) Windows
2 5 (1.97%) Linux
3 3 (1.18%) AIX
3 3 (1.18%) Unix
4 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (29.53%) Cybersecurity
2 73 (28.74%) Risk Management
3 64 (25.20%) Agile
3 64 (25.20%) Information Security
4 58 (22.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 46 (18.11%) Decision-Making
6 45 (17.72%) Incident Response
7 44 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (16.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 40 (15.75%) Validation
10 39 (15.35%) AI
10 39 (15.35%) Internal Audit
10 39 (15.35%) Threat Modelling
11 37 (14.57%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (12.60%) Analytics
12 32 (12.60%) Security Architecture
12 32 (12.60%) Vulnerability Management
13 31 (12.20%) IT Audit
14 30 (11.81%) Project Management
15 29 (11.42%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.51%) Python
2 8 (3.15%) MATLAB
3 6 (2.36%) Java
4 4 (1.57%) C
4 4 (1.57%) C++
4 4 (1.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.79%) SQL
6 1 (0.39%) C#
Qualifications
1 98 (38.58%) CISSP
2 83 (32.68%) CISM
3 60 (23.62%) Degree
4 44 (17.32%) CISA
5 41 (16.14%) CRISC
6 35 (13.78%) Security Cleared
7 30 (11.81%) SC Cleared
8 19 (7.48%) Master's Degree
9 15 (5.91%) CGEIT
9 15 (5.91%) FFIEC
9 15 (5.91%) SANS
10 14 (5.51%) CompTIA Security+
11 11 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (3.15%) PhD
13 6 (2.36%) DV Cleared
13 6 (2.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 5 (1.97%) CISMP
14 5 (1.97%) PMI Certification
14 5 (1.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (34.65%) NIST
2 75 (29.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (14.57%) COBIT
4 32 (12.60%) GRC
5 30 (11.81%) GDPR
6 25 (9.84%) SLA
7 22 (8.66%) PCI DSS
8 21 (8.27%) NCSC
9 17 (6.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (6.69%) SOC 2
10 16 (6.30%) ITGC
11 14 (5.51%) Accessibility
12 13 (5.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 12 (4.72%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (3.15%) QA
15 6 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 6 (2.36%) NIST 800
16 5 (1.97%) Def Stans
17 4 (1.57%) GMP
18 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (1.57%) Firmware
2 2 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.39%) Proxmox
1 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 20 (7.87%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.09%) Oracle
3 17 (6.69%) SAP
4 13 (5.12%) IFS
5 5 (1.97%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.97%) Bloomberg
5 5 (1.97%) CQG
5 5 (1.97%) ION Trading
5 5 (1.97%) Patsystems
5 5 (1.97%) Reuters
5 5 (1.97%) Trayport
6 4 (1.57%) Adobe
6 4 (1.57%) Citrix
6 4 (1.57%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.18%) Keysight
7 3 (1.18%) OneTrust
7 3 (1.18%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.79%) Google
8 2 (0.79%) VMware
9 1 (0.39%) BT