Risk Assessment Jobs

Risk Assessment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Risk Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Risk Assessment over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 541 523
Rank change year-on-year +282 -18 +122
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 696 410 465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.19% 0.38% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.46% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 273 291 289
10th Percentile £41,150 £40,000 £47,025
25th Percentile - £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% -11.11% +22.35%
75th Percentile £74,258 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,000 £85,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.10% - -

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 53,298 89,106 85,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 91.19% 82.51% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 27,465 61,429 52,805
10th Percentile £27,336 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
Median % change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Risk Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Risk Assessment.

Salary trend for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Top 17 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 July 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 +207 553 £61,250 +2.08% 964
UK excluding London +241 352 £51,645 -6.10% 494
London +214 333 £84,500 +21.18% 535
Work from Home +113 138 £69,384 +15.64% 365
Scotland +185 118 £51,645 +3.29% 57
South East +118 66 £61,250 +16.67% 120
East of England +60 50 £50,000 -7.41% 33
North of England +30 49 £56,250 +2.27% 121
Midlands +56 43 £55,000 -8.33% 91
West Midlands +52 34 £55,000 -8.33% 51
North West +7 32 £69,384 +26.15% 73
Yorkshire +55 12 £51,500 +5.10% 40
South West +86 11 £55,000 -8.33% 52
Northern Ireland +52 11 £69,384 - 11
East Midlands +46 9 £37,500 -43.30% 38
North East +43 5 £69,384 -12.32% 9
Wales +46 4 £67,192 +2.76% 11

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.29%) Confluence
3 2 (0.29%) TPMS
4 1 (0.14%) CMS
4 1 (0.14%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 263 (37.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 106 (15.23%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.86%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.14%) CATIA
6 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Adaptiv
2 2 (0.29%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.14%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 29 (4.17%) Azure
2 17 (2.44%) AWS
3 15 (2.16%) Entra ID
4 13 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (1.44%) SaaS
6 8 (1.15%) GCP
6 8 (1.15%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.43%) IaaS
8 3 (0.43%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.29%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.29%) Lucidchart
9 2 (0.29%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.29%) Serverless
10 1 (0.14%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.14%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.14%) PaaS
10 1 (0.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.17%) Network Security
2 28 (4.02%) Modbus
3 25 (3.59%) Ethernet
4 13 (1.87%) MQTT
5 12 (1.72%) Profibus
6 6 (0.86%) Firewall
7 5 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.57%) Internet
8 4 (0.57%) VPN
9 2 (0.29%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (0.29%) Multicast
10 1 (0.14%) Broadband
10 1 (0.14%) DNS
10 1 (0.14%) IPv4
10 1 (0.14%) IPv6
10 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.58%) Tableau
2 8 (1.15%) Power BI
3 6 (0.86%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.43%) Hadoop
4 3 (0.43%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.43%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.29%) Big Data
5 2 (0.29%) Looker
5 2 (0.29%) Metadata
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.14%) GIS
6 1 (0.14%) HBase
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (0.86%) JIRA
2 4 (0.57%) Git
3 2 (0.29%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.29%) ERwin
3 2 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.14%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.14%) Postman
4 1 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.14%) Subversion
General
1 507 (72.84%) Social Skills
2 378 (54.31%) Finance
3 297 (42.67%) Analytical Skills
4 295 (42.39%) Banking
5 286 (41.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 278 (39.94%) German Language
7 258 (37.07%) Financial Institution
8 257 (36.93%) French Language
9 101 (14.51%) Presentation Skills
10 72 (10.34%) Legal
11 39 (5.60%) Manufacturing
12 25 (3.59%) Public Sector
13 21 (3.02%) Retail
14 18 (2.59%) Local Government
14 18 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (2.16%) Electronics
15 15 (2.16%) Law
15 15 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 322 (46.26%) Analyst
2 260 (37.36%) Credit Analyst
3 257 (36.93%) Research Analyst
4 136 (19.54%) Senior
5 45 (6.47%) Risk Manager
6 41 (5.89%) Lead
7 28 (4.02%) Security Analyst
8 25 (3.59%) Architect
8 25 (3.59%) Security Architect
8 25 (3.59%) Security Specialist
9 23 (3.30%) Information Specialist
9 23 (3.30%) Risk Analyst
9 23 (3.30%) Systems Engineer
10 21 (3.02%) Information Security Specialist
11 19 (2.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (2.44%) Civil Engineer
13 14 (2.01%) Development Engineer
13 14 (2.01%) Operations Manager
14 12 (1.72%) Control Systems Engineer
15 11 (1.58%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.02%) SailPoint
2 9 (1.29%) .NET
3 6 (0.86%) CSS
4 4 (0.57%) Leaflet
5 3 (0.43%) Pandas
6 2 (0.29%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.29%) Node-RED
7 1 (0.14%) Hugging Face
7 1 (0.14%) JWT
7 1 (0.14%) Middleware
7 1 (0.14%) OAuth
7 1 (0.14%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.14%) Playwright
7 1 (0.14%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.14%) REST
7 1 (0.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 261 (37.50%) Credit Risk
2 259 (37.21%) Fixed Income
3 187 (26.87%) Management Information System
4 30 (4.31%) SCADA
5 27 (3.88%) Security Posture
6 21 (3.02%) Virtual Team
7 20 (2.87%) NHS
8 17 (2.44%) Renewable Energy
9 16 (2.30%) Operational Technology
10 15 (2.16%) Biopharmaceutical
11 14 (2.01%) Data Centre
11 14 (2.01%) IoT
12 13 (1.87%) Industry 4.0
13 10 (1.44%) Taxonomies
14 9 (1.29%) Market Risk
14 9 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
15 7 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
16 5 (0.72%) Product Ownership
17 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.01%) Windows
2 6 (0.86%) Linux
3 1 (0.14%) Unix
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (77.30%) Risk Management
2 386 (55.46%) Decision-Making
3 276 (39.66%) Asset Management
4 267 (38.36%) Business Strategy
5 259 (37.21%) Financial Modelling
6 257 (36.93%) Credit Risk Analysis
6 257 (36.93%) Portfolio Management
7 136 (19.54%) Information Security
8 119 (17.10%) Cybersecurity
9 93 (13.36%) Mentoring
10 89 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 77 (11.06%) Stakeholder Management
12 59 (8.48%) Project Management
13 55 (7.90%) Agile
14 54 (7.76%) Regulatory Compliance
15 50 (7.18%) Project Delivery
16 48 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
17 40 (5.75%) Due Diligence
18 33 (4.74%) Collaborative Working
19 30 (4.31%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 24 (3.45%) PowerShell
2 21 (3.02%) Python
3 12 (1.72%) Ladder Logic
3 12 (1.72%) SQL
4 10 (1.44%) C#
5 9 (1.29%) R
6 7 (1.01%) Java
7 6 (0.86%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.57%) C++
9 3 (0.43%) VBA
10 1 (0.14%) Bash
10 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 470 (67.53%) Degree
2 285 (40.95%) Master's Degree
3 267 (38.36%) CFA
4 98 (14.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 63 (9.05%) CISSP
6 51 (7.33%) CISM
7 50 (7.18%) Chartered Engineer
8 34 (4.89%) CRISC
9 31 (4.45%) Security Cleared
10 21 (3.02%) SC Cleared
11 20 (2.87%) CISA
12 18 (2.59%) HNC
13 17 (2.44%) HND
14 16 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 16 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (2.30%) CompTIA Security+
15 15 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
15 15 (2.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 13 (1.87%) PMI Certification
17 10 (1.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (13.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 71 (10.20%) NIST
3 31 (4.45%) SOC 2
4 25 (3.59%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.87%) GDPR
6 16 (2.30%) NCSC
7 15 (2.16%) GRC
8 14 (2.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (1.72%) COBIT
9 12 (1.72%) QA
10 10 (1.44%) NIST 800
11 9 (1.29%) PMO
12 8 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (1.15%) SOC 1
13 6 (0.86%) Data Quality
14 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
15 4 (0.57%) ISO 31000
16 3 (0.43%) P3O
17 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 32 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.43%) Docker
5 2 (0.29%) vSphere
6 1 (0.14%) HDFS
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (2.16%) Functional Safety
2 9 (1.29%) RSA Archer
3 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.57%) Terraform
5 2 (0.29%) Ansible
5 2 (0.29%) CASB
5 2 (0.29%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.14%) Nessus
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 259 (37.21%) Bloomberg
2 32 (4.60%) Microsoft
3 27 (3.88%) Siemens
4 25 (3.59%) Rockwell
5 22 (3.16%) Salesforce
6 21 (3.02%) Okta
7 14 (2.01%) Allen-Bradley
8 13 (1.87%) AVEVA
8 13 (1.87%) VMware
9 10 (1.44%) Murex
10 7 (1.01%) Oracle
11 5 (0.72%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.57%) FIS
12 4 (0.57%) Tenable
13 3 (0.43%) Cisco
13 3 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.43%) NEC
14 2 (0.29%) CQG
14 2 (0.29%) ION Trading
14 2 (0.29%) Varonis