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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 302 399
Rank change year-on-year -112 +97 +152
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 230 539 350
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.93% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 1.05% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 130 191 219
10th Percentile £42,062 £36,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £48,157 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,019 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £84,688 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £54,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -16.92% +18.18%

All Process and 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 48,580 51,296 46,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.42% 88.74% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 28,425 26,239 35,356
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,720 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.08% +4.37% -2.51%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 -111 214 £65,000 +18.18% 102
UK excluding London -41 135 £52,000 -3.70% 78
Work from Home +111 112 £70,000 +16.67% 98
London -105 83 £77,500 +13.30% 44
Midlands +43 45 £51,058 -14.90% 20
South West +32 40 £57,500 -23.33% 5
South East -7 24 £52,000 +4.00% 27
East Midlands +9 23 £51,058 -8.42% 5
West Midlands +30 21 £51,887 -23.95% 14
North of England 0 16 £46,750 -15.77% 10
North West +10 14 £46,750 -15.00% 9
Wales +4 4 £65,000 +32.37% 1
Northern Ireland -7 3 £52,000 -24.97%
East of England -37 3 £52,000 +15.56% 8
North East +1 1 - -
Yorkshire -30 1 - - 1

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 3 (1.30%) Confluence
2 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (5.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Q-Pulse
2 2 (0.87%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (8.26%) Azure
2 16 (6.96%) AWS
3 13 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (4.78%) SaaS
5 6 (2.61%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.30%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.30%) GCP
7 3 (1.30%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.30%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.87%) Serverless
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.43%) IaaS
9 1 (0.43%) OCI
9 1 (0.43%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.04%) CHAP
2 6 (2.61%) Firewall
3 5 (2.17%) Multicast
3 5 (2.17%) Wireless
4 4 (1.74%) VPN
5 3 (1.30%) AMQP
5 3 (1.30%) Ethernet
5 3 (1.30%) HTTP
5 3 (1.30%) Modbus
5 3 (1.30%) Profibus
5 3 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.87%) FIX Connectivity
6 2 (0.87%) Internet
7 1 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.30%) Power BI
2 2 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (0.87%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.43%) Power Query
3 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.30%) JIRA
1 3 (1.30%) Snyk
2 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
General
1 104 (45.22%) Finance
2 78 (33.91%) Banking
3 75 (32.61%) Social Skills
4 27 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (9.13%) Legal
6 15 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (6.09%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (4.78%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (4.35%) Financial Institution
9 10 (4.35%) Public Sector
9 10 (4.35%) Retail
10 8 (3.48%) Law
11 5 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.17%) Retail Banking
11 5 (2.17%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.74%) Electronics
12 4 (1.74%) Games
12 4 (1.74%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.30%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.30%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 33 (14.35%) Analyst
2 28 (12.17%) Senior
3 17 (7.39%) Auditor
4 16 (6.96%) IT Manager
5 14 (6.09%) Risk Manager
6 13 (5.65%) Architect
7 11 (4.78%) Security Analyst
7 11 (4.78%) Security Architect
8 10 (4.35%) IT Auditor
8 10 (4.35%) Security Manager
8 10 (4.35%) Senior Auditor
8 10 (4.35%) Senior IT Auditor
9 9 (3.91%) Consultant
9 9 (3.91%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (3.48%) Security Consultant
10 8 (3.48%) Security Specialist
11 7 (3.04%) Information Analyst
11 7 (3.04%) Information Security Analyst
11 7 (3.04%) Information Security Manager
11 7 (3.04%) Internal Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.17%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.74%) EDI
3 3 (1.30%) OAuth
3 3 (1.30%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.74%) Management Information System
2 32 (13.91%) Security Posture
3 11 (4.78%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (2.61%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.61%) Equities
5 6 (2.61%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.61%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.61%) Reinsurance
6 5 (2.17%) CMDB
6 5 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (2.17%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.74%) Blockchain
7 4 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.30%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.30%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.30%) PMI
8 3 (1.30%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.61%) Linux
1 6 (2.61%) Windows
2 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (51.30%) Risk Management
2 106 (46.09%) Information Security
3 62 (26.96%) Cybersecurity
4 59 (25.65%) Due Diligence
5 57 (24.78%) Roadmaps
6 54 (23.48%) Business Continuity
7 50 (21.74%) Process Improvement
8 48 (20.87%) Supply Chain Management
9 45 (19.57%) Business Continuity Management
9 45 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (19.57%) Operations Management
10 40 (17.39%) Agile
11 37 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (14.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 32 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (10.43%) Incident Response
15 22 (9.57%) Internal Audit
16 21 (9.13%) Data Protection
16 21 (9.13%) IT Audit
16 21 (9.13%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.48%) Ladder Logic
2 4 (1.74%) C++
2 4 (1.74%) SQL
3 3 (1.30%) Java
3 3 (1.30%) Python
4 1 (0.43%) C#
4 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 96 (41.74%) CISSP
2 70 (30.43%) CRISC
3 67 (29.13%) CISA
4 46 (20.00%) CISM
5 35 (15.22%) Degree
6 19 (8.26%) Security Cleared
7 16 (6.96%) SC Cleared
8 12 (5.22%) CGEIT
8 12 (5.22%) Master's Degree
9 10 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (4.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 10 (4.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 9 (3.91%) DBS Check
10 9 (3.91%) SANS
11 7 (3.04%) FFIEC
12 6 (2.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (2.61%) City & Guilds
12 6 (2.61%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (45.65%) NIST
2 60 (26.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (23.91%) PCI DSS
4 26 (11.30%) GRC
5 23 (10.00%) GDPR
6 17 (7.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (6.96%) SOC 2
8 10 (4.35%) COBIT
8 10 (4.35%) NIST 800
9 8 (3.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (3.04%) PMO
11 6 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (2.17%) JSP 440
12 5 (2.17%) SOC 1
13 4 (1.74%) GMP
13 4 (1.74%) ISO 22301
13 4 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 4 (1.74%) NCSC
13 4 (1.74%) P3O
14 3 (1.30%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.17%) RSA Archer
2 2 (0.87%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (0.43%) Ansible
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (11.74%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.48%) Siemens
3 5 (2.17%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.17%) SAP
3 5 (2.17%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.74%) Adobe
4 4 (1.74%) Qualys
5 3 (1.30%) Allen-Bradley
5 3 (1.30%) Checkmarx
5 3 (1.30%) Cognos
5 3 (1.30%) Oracle
5 3 (1.30%) Rockwell
6 2 (0.87%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.87%) CQG
6 2 (0.87%) ION Trading
6 2 (0.87%) Patsystems
6 2 (0.87%) Reuters
6 2 (0.87%) Trayport
6 2 (0.87%) Trend Micro