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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 339 472
Rank change year-on-year -176 +133 +63
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 275 414 389
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.83% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.93% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 177 191 251
10th Percentile £44,154 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -12.21%
75th Percentile £84,500 £86,776 £75,000
90th Percentile £116,000 £107,500 £89,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,490 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +8.16% +1.85% -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 76,271 44,428 67,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 89.49% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 52,568 25,332 44,788
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,199
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 2 August 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 2 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 -159 249 £70,000 +16.67% 227
UK excluding London -163 139 £59,490 +8.16% 128
London -70 122 £75,000 -16.67% 113
Work from Home -56 99 £75,000 +8.09% 80
South East -42 48 £56,000 -6.67% 44
North of England -52 40 £59,175 +2.91% 25
North West -10 31 £55,000 -20.73% 13
Midlands -60 18 £67,500 +22.73% 27
South West -63 13 £85,000 +54.55% 11
West Midlands -64 13 £52,500 -4.55% 14
Scotland -5 11 £125,000 +142.04% 8
Yorkshire -37 9 £72,500 +38.10% 9
East of England -43 6 £39,500 -21.00% 13
East Midlands -33 5 £67,500 +80.00% 13
Wales -64 3 £51,709 -23.04% 5

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 7 (2.55%) Confluence
2 2 (0.73%) Apache
2 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.36%) IIS
3 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (5.09%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.64%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.73%) Primavera
3 1 (0.36%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (16.73%) AWS
2 43 (15.64%) Azure
3 27 (9.82%) GCP
4 13 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.91%) SaaS
7 5 (1.82%) Smartsheet
8 3 (1.09%) GitHub
8 3 (1.09%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.73%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.73%) dbt
9 2 (0.73%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.73%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (0.73%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.36%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.64%) Network Security
2 11 (4.00%) CHAP
3 5 (1.82%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.82%) Multicast
4 4 (1.45%) Firewall
5 2 (0.73%) Internet
5 2 (0.73%) LAN
5 2 (0.73%) VPN
5 2 (0.73%) WAN
6 1 (0.36%) BGP
6 1 (0.36%) DHCP
6 1 (0.36%) DNS
6 1 (0.36%) HTTP
6 1 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.36%) IPsec
6 1 (0.36%) SAN
6 1 (0.36%) SNMP
6 1 (0.36%) SSL
6 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.18%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.73%) Db2
3 2 (0.73%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.73%) Power BI
3 2 (0.73%) Redis
4 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.36%) Metadata
4 1 (0.36%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 17 (6.18%) JIRA
2 11 (4.00%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.36%) Git
3 1 (0.36%) GitLab
3 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 133 (48.36%) Finance
2 107 (38.91%) Social Skills
3 104 (37.82%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (21.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (13.82%) Law
6 28 (10.18%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (9.82%) Legal
8 24 (8.73%) Banking
8 24 (8.73%) Public Sector
9 21 (7.64%) Manufacturing
10 18 (6.55%) Aerospace
11 16 (5.82%) Financial Institution
12 15 (5.45%) Retail
13 14 (5.09%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (4.36%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (4.00%) Electronics
16 9 (3.27%) Japanese Language
17 8 (2.91%) Retail Banking
18 6 (2.18%) Italian Language
18 6 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (18.91%) Senior
2 37 (13.45%) Analyst
3 29 (10.55%) Architect
4 23 (8.36%) Auditor
4 23 (8.36%) Security Architect
5 22 (8.00%) Security Manager
6 20 (7.27%) Consultant
6 20 (7.27%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 19 (6.91%) IT Manager
7 19 (6.91%) Security Consultant
8 16 (5.82%) Systems Engineer
9 14 (5.09%) Lead
10 13 (4.73%) Security Analyst
11 12 (4.36%) Senior Consultant
12 11 (4.00%) Security Auditor
12 11 (4.00%) Senior Security Consultant
13 10 (3.64%) IT Auditor
14 9 (3.27%) Internal Auditor
14 9 (3.27%) Security Engineer
14 9 (3.27%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.82%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.45%) .NET
2 4 (1.45%) Kafka
3 2 (0.73%) Middleware
4 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.36%) CSS
4 1 (0.36%) HTML
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.45%) Management Information System
2 20 (7.27%) Credit Risk
3 18 (6.55%) Security Posture
4 11 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.91%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (2.91%) Fibre Optics
6 8 (2.91%) Operational Technology
7 7 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.18%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.82%) Blockchain
9 5 (1.82%) Cyber Security Posture
9 5 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.82%) Equities
9 5 (1.82%) Eurex
9 5 (1.82%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.82%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.73%) Windows
2 7 (2.55%) Linux
3 2 (0.73%) AIX
3 2 (0.73%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.36%) SUSE
4 1 (0.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.00%) Cybersecurity
2 74 (26.91%) Risk Management
3 72 (26.18%) Information Security
4 69 (25.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 66 (24.00%) Agile
6 53 (19.27%) Decision-Making
7 52 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (18.18%) AI
9 45 (16.36%) Incident Response
10 44 (16.00%) Threat Modelling
11 43 (15.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 41 (14.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 37 (13.45%) Security Architecture
14 35 (12.73%) Validation
15 34 (12.36%) Cloud Security
15 34 (12.36%) Internal Audit
16 32 (11.64%) Analytics
16 32 (11.64%) Vulnerability Management
17 31 (11.27%) IT Audit
18 28 (10.18%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.55%) Python
2 10 (3.64%) Java
3 8 (2.91%) MATLAB
4 5 (1.82%) SQL
5 4 (1.45%) C
5 4 (1.45%) C++
5 4 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.73%) Go
6 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.36%) Bash
7 1 (0.36%) Bicep
7 1 (0.36%) C#
7 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 103 (37.45%) CISSP
2 91 (33.09%) CISM
3 82 (29.82%) Degree
4 42 (15.27%) CISA
5 39 (14.18%) CRISC
6 36 (13.09%) Security Cleared
7 31 (11.27%) SC Cleared
8 24 (8.73%) Master's Degree
9 15 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (4.73%) CompTIA Security+
12 11 (4.00%) CGEIT
12 11 (4.00%) FFIEC
12 11 (4.00%) SANS
13 9 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (2.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 8 (2.91%) PhD
15 7 (2.55%) PMI Certification
15 7 (2.55%) PMP
16 6 (2.18%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (32.73%) NIST
2 75 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (12.36%) COBIT
4 32 (11.64%) GRC
5 27 (9.82%) GDPR
6 23 (8.36%) NCSC
6 23 (8.36%) SLA
7 20 (7.27%) PCI DSS
8 17 (6.18%) ITGC
9 16 (5.82%) Accessibility
9 16 (5.82%) SOC 2
10 15 (5.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (4.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 11 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (2.91%) NIST 800
14 5 (1.82%) Def Stans
14 5 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 5 (1.82%) QA
15 4 (1.45%) GMP
16 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 8 (2.91%) Firmware
2 3 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) Docker
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (0.73%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.36%) Ansible
2 1 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.36%) Proxmox
2 1 (0.36%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.36%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (7.64%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.91%) Oracle
3 18 (6.55%) SAP
4 13 (4.73%) IFS
5 5 (1.82%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.82%) Bloomberg
5 5 (1.82%) CQG
5 5 (1.82%) ION Trading
5 5 (1.82%) Patsystems
5 5 (1.82%) Reuters
5 5 (1.82%) Trayport
6 4 (1.45%) Adobe
6 4 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.45%) VMware
7 3 (1.09%) Citrix
7 3 (1.09%) Keysight
7 3 (1.09%) OneTrust
8 2 (0.73%) Databricks
8 2 (0.73%) Google
9 1 (0.36%) Broadcom