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

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	491	397	405
Rank change year-on-year	-94	+8	+23
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment	370	278	389
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.31%	0.57%	0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.42%	0.64%	0.68%
Number of salaries quoted	188	162	200
10^th Percentile	£39,100	£38,070	£41,125
25^th Percentile	£47,500	£51,000	£50,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£63,178	£61,725	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+2.35%	+12.23%	-15.38%
75^th Percentile	£80,000	£87,500	£78,125
90^th Percentile	£92,875	£107,500	£90,150
UK excluding London median annual salary	£58,495	£55,000	£54,000
% change year-on-year	+6.35%	+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.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	88,011	43,297	57,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	73.51%	88.60%	82.22%
Number of salaries quoted	59,859	24,595	30,556
10^th Percentile	£31,250	£28,250	£33,500
25^th Percentile	£41,250	£35,750	£45,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£54,500	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+10.09%	-9.17%	-
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£75,000	£78,750
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£95,000	£97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary	£55,000	£46,000	£54,000
% change year-on-year	+19.57%	-14.81%	+1.66%

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 Salary Trend

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 19 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 19 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	-81	327	£62,500	-	382
UK excluding London	-85	235	£58,495	+6.35%	233
Work from Home	-38	133	£70,000	-	147
London	-61	120	£75,000	-11.76%	177
South East	-38	64	£57,745	+18.03%	51
North of England	-44	59	£52,500	-24.33%	44
North West	-36	40	£50,000	-27.94%	25
Midlands	-64	34	£67,500	+22.73%	26
South West	-74	25	£80,000	+42.22%	42
East of England	-26	23	£34,250	-34.13%	22
West Midlands	-52	23	£66,250	+20.45%	13
Scotland	+25	22	£100,000	+44.13%	28
Yorkshire	-15	15	£55,000	-	13
East Midlands	-34	11	£67,500	+80.00%	13
Wales	-70	8	£76,000	+13.11%	4
North East	-65	4	£29,850	-60.50%	8
Northern Ireland	-85	1	-	-	14

Risk Assessment Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, job vacancies citing Risk Assessment also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Risk Assessment.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Degree	30.8%	114
2	Risk Management	27.8%	103
3	Continuous Improvement	26.5%	98
4	Cybersecurity	25.1%	93
5	ISO/IEC 27001	21.4%	79
6	NIST	20.8%	77
7	AI	20.5%	76
8	Agile	20.0%	74
9	CISSP	19.7%	73
10	Azure	19.5%	72
10	Problem-Solving	19.5%	72
12	AWS	18.9%	70
13	Information Security	18.4%	68
14	Security Cleared	17.3%	64
15	Stakeholder Management	16.8%	62
16	Decision-Making	15.7%	58
17	CISM	15.1%	56
18	Microsoft	14.3%	53
19	Stakeholder Engagement	14.1%	52
19	Threat Modelling	14.1%	52
21	SC Cleared	13.0%	48
22	Security Architecture	11.9%	44
23	Validation	11.6%	43
24	Computer Science	10.8%	40
24	GCP	10.8%	40
26	Incident Response	10.5%	39
27	Cloud Security	10.3%	38
28	Master's Degree	9.5%	35
29	Python	9.2%	34
30	Process Improvement	8.9%	33

Risk Assessment Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Risk Management	27.8%	103
2	Continuous Improvement	26.5%	98
3	Cybersecurity	25.1%	93
4	AI	20.5%	76
5	Agile	20.0%	74
6	Problem-Solving	19.5%	72
7	Information Security	18.4%	68
8	Stakeholder Management	16.8%	62
9	Decision-Making	15.7%	58
10	Stakeholder Engagement	14.1%	52
10	Threat Modelling	14.1%	52
12	Security Architecture	11.9%	44
13	Validation	11.6%	43
14	Computer Science	10.8%	40
15	Incident Response	10.5%	39
16	Cloud Security	10.3%	38
17	Process Improvement	8.9%	33
18	Security Operations	8.6%	32
18	Vulnerability Management	8.6%	32
20	Mentoring	8.4%	31