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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 393 425
Rank change year-on-year -88 +32 +49
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 349 306 387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.62% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.69% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 184 170 192
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,950 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +9.09% -18.52%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,375 £108,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,490 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +8.16% +1.85% -13.60%

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 86,399 44,171 61,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.11% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 59,417 24,443 33,150
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -72 312 £67,500 +17.39% 688
UK excluding London -110 216 £59,490 +8.16% 434
Work from Home -17 127 £75,000 +8.09% 288
London -43 120 £75,000 -16.67% 367
South East -44 61 £57,745 +11.05% 105
North of England -43 55 £55,000 -20.73% 83
North West -20 44 £55,995 -9.96% 46
Midlands -66 30 £67,500 +22.73% 58
South West -65 25 £80,000 +45.45% 65
West Midlands -57 21 £66,250 +20.45% 30
East of England -29 20 £34,250 -32.84% 26
Scotland +12 17 £100,000 +44.13% 59
Yorkshire -30 11 £55,000 - 30
East Midlands -38 9 £67,500 +80.00% 28
Wales -71 8 £76,000 +13.11% 17
Northern Ireland -93 1 - - 19

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 (3.44%) Confluence
2 6 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.43%) Apache
4 3 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (4.01%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.58%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.01%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.29%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (17.48%) Azure
2 60 (17.19%) AWS
3 37 (10.60%) GCP
4 16 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (2.58%) GitHub
6 8 (2.29%) SaaS
7 6 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.72%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.43%) dbt
9 4 (1.15%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.15%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (0.86%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.86%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.57%) Azure AI
11 2 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.29%) Nutanix
12 1 (0.29%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 32 (9.17%) Network Security
2 7 (2.01%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (2.01%) Multicast
3 6 (1.72%) Firewall
4 4 (1.15%) CHAP
4 4 (1.15%) HTTP
5 3 (0.86%) DNS
5 3 (0.86%) LAN
5 3 (0.86%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.86%) VPN
5 3 (0.86%) WAN
6 2 (0.57%) DHCP
6 2 (0.57%) Internet
7 1 (0.29%) BGP
7 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.29%) SAN
7 1 (0.29%) SMTP
7 1 (0.29%) SNMP
7 1 (0.29%) SSL
7 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.58%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.15%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.15%) Metadata
3 4 (1.15%) Redis
4 3 (0.86%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.57%) Big Data
5 2 (0.57%) Power BI
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.29%) Db2
6 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.29%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (6.02%) JIRA
2 11 (3.15%) LabVIEW
3 8 (2.29%) Git
4 3 (0.86%) GitLab
4 3 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.86%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.57%) MLflow
6 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
General
1 153 (43.84%) Social Skills
2 136 (38.97%) Finance
3 116 (33.24%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (19.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (15.19%) Law
6 44 (12.61%) Organisational Skills
7 37 (10.60%) Aerospace
8 36 (10.32%) Legal
9 33 (9.46%) Manufacturing
10 28 (8.02%) Public Sector
11 20 (5.73%) Banking
12 18 (5.16%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (4.01%) Financial Institution
14 12 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (3.15%) Electronics
16 10 (2.87%) Retail
17 7 (2.01%) Spanish Language
18 5 (1.43%) Italian Language
18 5 (1.43%) Japanese Language
18 5 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (15.76%) Analyst
1 55 (15.76%) Senior
2 35 (10.03%) Architect
3 29 (8.31%) Security Architect
4 26 (7.45%) Lead
5 25 (7.16%) Consultant
6 20 (5.73%) Security Analyst
6 20 (5.73%) Security Consultant
7 16 (4.58%) Security Manager
8 15 (4.30%) Software Engineer
8 15 (4.30%) Systems Engineer
9 14 (4.01%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 14 (4.01%) IT Analyst
9 14 (4.01%) Senior Consultant
10 13 (3.72%) Auditor
10 13 (3.72%) Compliance Manager
10 13 (3.72%) Senior Security Consultant
11 12 (3.44%) Business Analyst
12 10 (2.87%) Business Manager
13 9 (2.58%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.01%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (1.43%) Kafka
3 4 (1.15%) .NET
3 4 (1.15%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.57%) PySpark
5 1 (0.29%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.29%) Memcached
5 1 (0.29%) Middleware
5 1 (0.29%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.29%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (14.33%) Management Information System
2 22 (6.30%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (5.44%) Credit Risk
4 19 (5.44%) Security Posture
5 15 (4.30%) Operational Technology
6 13 (3.72%) Driving Licence
7 10 (2.87%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (2.58%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.29%) Fibre Optics
10 7 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (2.01%) Equities
10 7 (2.01%) Eurex
10 7 (2.01%) Fixed Income
10 7 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.72%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.43%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.44%) Windows
2 14 (4.01%) Linux
3 2 (0.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.29%) AIX
4 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.29%) SUSE
4 1 (0.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.29%) Unix
4 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (27.51%) Risk Management
2 91 (26.07%) Continuous Improvement
3 90 (25.79%) Cybersecurity
4 72 (20.63%) Agile
5 70 (20.06%) Information Security
6 68 (19.48%) AI
7 66 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (16.91%) Decision-Making
9 56 (16.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 54 (15.47%) Threat Modelling
11 49 (14.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 44 (12.61%) Security Architecture
12 44 (12.61%) Validation
13 41 (11.75%) Incident Response
14 37 (10.60%) Computer Science
15 36 (10.32%) Cloud Security
16 35 (10.03%) Vulnerability Management
17 32 (9.17%) Security Management
18 31 (8.88%) Process Improvement
19 29 (8.31%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (8.31%) Python
2 14 (4.01%) Java
3 12 (3.44%) SQL
4 8 (2.29%) MATLAB
5 6 (1.72%) C
5 6 (1.72%) C++
6 4 (1.15%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.86%) Go
7 3 (0.86%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.57%) Bash
8 2 (0.57%) Julia
8 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.57%) R
9 1 (0.29%) Bicep
9 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 114 (32.66%) Degree
2 84 (24.07%) CISSP
3 70 (20.06%) CISM
4 63 (18.05%) Security Cleared
5 48 (13.75%) SC Cleared
6 34 (9.74%) Master's Degree
7 29 (8.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (7.16%) CRISC
9 21 (6.02%) CISA
10 18 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (3.72%) DV Cleared
11 13 (3.72%) HNC
12 10 (2.87%) PhD
13 9 (2.58%) AWS Certification
13 9 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (2.58%) CompTIA Security+
13 9 (2.58%) HND
14 8 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (2.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 6 (1.72%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (24.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 79 (22.64%) NIST
3 30 (8.60%) NCSC
4 26 (7.45%) GRC
5 24 (6.88%) GDPR
6 23 (6.59%) SLA
7 20 (5.73%) PCI DSS
8 19 (5.44%) SOC 2
9 18 (5.16%) QA
10 16 (4.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 14 (4.01%) Accessibility
11 14 (4.01%) ITGC
12 13 (3.72%) COBIT
13 12 (3.44%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (3.15%) Data Quality
14 11 (3.15%) ISO 9001
15 9 (2.58%) NIST 800
16 8 (2.29%) Def Stans
16 8 (2.29%) SOC 1
17 7 (2.01%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 13 (3.72%) Firmware
2 5 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.86%) Docker
3 3 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.57%) vSphere
5 1 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) Ansible
2 1 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.29%) Grafana
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.29%) Proxmox
2 1 (0.29%) QRadar
2 1 (0.29%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
2 1 (0.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.01%) Oracle
2 14 (4.01%) SAP
3 9 (2.58%) Databricks
4 8 (2.29%) Bloomberg
5 7 (2.01%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.01%) Cisco
5 7 (2.01%) CQG
5 7 (2.01%) ION Trading
5 7 (2.01%) Patsystems
5 7 (2.01%) Reuters
5 7 (2.01%) Trayport
6 6 (1.72%) Adobe
6 6 (1.72%) Google
6 6 (1.72%) IFS
6 6 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (1.43%) YouTube
8 4 (1.15%) OneTrust
8 4 (1.15%) VMware