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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 403 404
Rank change year-on-year -63 +1 +22
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 368 286 384
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.58% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.65% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 186 164 192
10th Percentile £39,625 £37,650 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,588 £51,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,683 £61,725 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.03% +12.23% -15.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £93,125 £107,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,490 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +8.16% +1.85% -13.94%

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 87,115 43,732 58,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.39% 88.90% 82.19%
Number of salaries quoted 59,537 24,546 31,188
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 14 October 2026.

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 14 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 -57 327 £63,178 +1.09% 357
UK excluding London -83 234 £59,490 +8.16% 183
Work from Home -12 131 £72,500 +3.57% 131
London -37 120 £75,000 -14.29% 203
South East -23 66 £59,490 +17.89% 44
North of England -37 58 £52,500 -24.33% 31
North West -18 40 £52,245 -15.99% 15
Midlands -65 33 £67,500 +22.73% 18
South West -55 25 £80,000 +42.22% 38
East of England -14 23 £34,250 -34.13% 13
West Midlands -50 23 £66,250 +20.45% 8
Scotland +23 21 £100,000 +44.13% 20
Yorkshire -20 15 £55,000 - 12
East Midlands -37 10 £67,500 +80.00% 10
Wales -69 8 £76,000 +13.11% 6
North East -73 3 £36,500 -51.70% 4
Northern Ireland -85 1 - - 12

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 (3.26%) Confluence
2 6 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.36%) Apache
4 4 (1.09%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.45%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.90%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (19.29%) Azure
2 70 (19.02%) AWS
3 40 (10.87%) GCP
4 18 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.72%) GitHub
6 7 (1.90%) SaaS
7 6 (1.63%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.36%) dbt
8 5 (1.36%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.09%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.09%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.54%) Amazon Bedrock
11 2 (0.54%) Azure AI
11 2 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.54%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.42%) Network Security
2 7 (1.90%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (1.90%) Multicast
3 4 (1.09%) Firewall
3 4 (1.09%) HTTP
4 3 (0.82%) CHAP
4 3 (0.82%) DNS
4 3 (0.82%) LAN
4 3 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.82%) VPN
4 3 (0.82%) WAN
5 2 (0.54%) DHCP
5 2 (0.54%) Internet
6 1 (0.27%) BGP
6 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.27%) IPsec
6 1 (0.27%) SNMP
6 1 (0.27%) SSL
6 1 (0.27%) VLAN
6 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.45%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.09%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.09%) Metadata
3 4 (1.09%) Redis
4 3 (0.82%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.54%) Big Data
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.27%) Db2
6 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.27%) Power BI
6 1 (0.27%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (5.71%) JIRA
2 11 (2.99%) LabVIEW
3 10 (2.72%) Git
4 4 (1.09%) GitLab
4 4 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.09%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.54%) Gatling
5 2 (0.54%) MLflow
6 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 156 (42.39%) Social Skills
2 135 (36.68%) Finance
3 115 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (19.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (14.13%) Law
6 46 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
7 37 (10.05%) Aerospace
8 36 (9.78%) Manufacturing
9 32 (8.70%) Legal
10 30 (8.15%) Public Sector
11 20 (5.43%) Banking
11 20 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (3.80%) Financial Institution
13 13 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (2.99%) Electronics
15 9 (2.45%) French Language
16 7 (1.90%) Retail
16 7 (1.90%) Spanish Language
17 6 (1.63%) Automotive
18 5 (1.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 57 (15.49%) Analyst
2 56 (15.22%) Senior
3 39 (10.60%) Lead
4 35 (9.51%) Architect
5 28 (7.61%) Security Architect
6 24 (6.52%) Consultant
7 20 (5.43%) IT Analyst
7 20 (5.43%) Security Analyst
8 19 (5.16%) Security Consultant
9 18 (4.89%) Security Manager
9 18 (4.89%) Software Engineer
10 16 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 14 (3.80%) Senior Consultant
12 13 (3.53%) Compliance Manager
12 13 (3.53%) Senior Security Consultant
12 13 (3.53%) Systems Engineer
13 12 (3.26%) Business Analyst
14 11 (2.99%) Auditor
15 10 (2.72%) Business Manager
16 9 (2.45%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (1.36%) Kafka
3 4 (1.09%) .NET
3 4 (1.09%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.54%) PySpark
5 1 (0.27%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.27%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.27%) Memcached
5 1 (0.27%) Middleware
5 1 (0.27%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.27%) REST
5 1 (0.27%) RESTful
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (13.86%) Management Information System
2 24 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.16%) Credit Risk
4 19 (5.16%) Security Posture
5 15 (4.08%) Operational Technology
6 14 (3.80%) Driving Licence
7 11 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (2.45%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (2.17%) Fibre Optics
10 7 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (1.90%) Equities
10 7 (1.90%) Eurex
10 7 (1.90%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.63%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.36%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.36%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.71%) Windows
2 17 (4.62%) Linux
3 2 (0.54%) macOS
3 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.27%) AIX
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.27%) SUSE
4 1 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.27%) Unix
4 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (26.90%) Risk Management
2 97 (26.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 92 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 76 (20.65%) Agile
5 75 (20.38%) AI
6 72 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (18.48%) Information Security
8 64 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 58 (15.76%) Decision-Making
10 53 (14.40%) Threat Modelling
11 52 (14.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 45 (12.23%) Security Architecture
12 45 (12.23%) Validation
13 41 (11.14%) Computer Science
14 39 (10.60%) Incident Response
15 37 (10.05%) Cloud Security
16 33 (8.97%) Process Improvement
17 32 (8.70%) Vulnerability Management
18 31 (8.42%) Mentoring
18 31 (8.42%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 33 (8.97%) Python
2 15 (4.08%) Java
3 13 (3.53%) SQL
4 8 (2.17%) C
4 8 (2.17%) MATLAB
5 7 (1.90%) C++
6 4 (1.09%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.09%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.82%) Bash
7 3 (0.82%) Go
7 3 (0.82%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.54%) Julia
8 2 (0.54%) R
9 1 (0.27%) Bicep
9 1 (0.27%) COBOL
9 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 116 (31.52%) Degree
2 77 (20.92%) CISSP
3 65 (17.66%) Security Cleared
4 61 (16.58%) CISM
5 49 (13.32%) SC Cleared
6 35 (9.51%) Master's Degree
7 28 (7.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (5.71%) CRISC
9 18 (4.89%) CISA
10 17 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (3.80%) AWS Certification
12 13 (3.53%) DV Cleared
12 13 (3.53%) HNC
13 10 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (2.72%) PhD
14 9 (2.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 9 (2.45%) Azure Certification
14 9 (2.45%) HND
15 7 (1.90%) CIPD
16 6 (1.63%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (22.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 77 (20.92%) NIST
3 32 (8.70%) NCSC
4 23 (6.25%) GRC
5 22 (5.98%) SLA
6 21 (5.71%) GDPR
7 20 (5.43%) QA
8 18 (4.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 18 (4.89%) PCI DSS
9 15 (4.08%) SOC 2
10 13 (3.53%) Accessibility
11 12 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (3.26%) ITGC
12 11 (2.99%) Data Quality
12 11 (2.99%) ISO 9001
13 10 (2.72%) COBIT
14 9 (2.45%) NIST 800
15 8 (2.17%) Def Stans
15 8 (2.17%) SOC 1
16 7 (1.90%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 14 (3.80%) Firmware
2 6 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.09%) Docker
3 4 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.54%) vSphere
6 1 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (0.27%) LXC
6 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (1.63%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.27%) Ansible
2 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.27%) Grafana
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.27%) Proxmox
2 1 (0.27%) QRadar
2 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
2 1 (0.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 52 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.26%) Oracle
2 12 (3.26%) SAP
3 11 (2.99%) Google
3 11 (2.99%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.45%) Databricks
5 8 (2.17%) Bloomberg
6 7 (1.90%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.90%) Cisco
6 7 (1.90%) CQG
6 7 (1.90%) ION Trading
6 7 (1.90%) Patsystems
6 7 (1.90%) Reuters
6 7 (1.90%) Trayport
7 6 (1.63%) Adobe
8 5 (1.36%) YouTube
9 4 (1.09%) IFS
9 4 (1.09%) Remedy
9 4 (1.09%) VMware
10 3 (0.82%) Thales