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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 307 394
Rank change year-on-year -103 +87 +169
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 259 550 355
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.89% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.02% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 139 202 220
10th Percentile £40,625 £37,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £50,695 £50,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,538 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.70% -21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,000 £75,938 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £91,350 £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 47,424 53,892 47,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.09% 86.75% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,060 28,022 36,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
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% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%

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 8 December 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 8 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 -83 237 £64,250 +16.82% 170
UK excluding London -2 159 £52,000 -3.70% 155
Work from Home +111 120 £70,000 +16.67% 103
London -84 86 £82,500 +22.22% 42
Midlands +54 52 £51,472 -17.64% 36
South West +41 43 £57,500 -16.36% 12
South East +10 31 £48,924 -2.15% 39
East Midlands +26 27 £51,058 -8.42% 12
West Midlands +40 24 £52,193 -24.69% 23
North of England +1 18 £46,750 -15.77% 34
North West +27 15 £46,750 -15.00% 21
Northern Ireland -6 5 £52,000 -24.97% 4
Wales +4 4 £65,000 +32.37% 3
East of England -35 4 £52,000 +15.56% 19
North East +10 2 - - 4
Scotland -8 2 - - 10
Yorkshire -20 1 - - 9

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 4 (1.54%) Confluence
2 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (5.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.25%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.16%) AutoCAD
5 3 (1.16%) Civil 3D
6 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (1.16%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.39%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 23 (8.88%) Azure
2 18 (6.95%) AWS
3 14 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (4.25%) SaaS
5 8 (3.09%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.54%) GCP
7 3 (1.16%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.16%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.16%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.77%) Serverless
9 1 (0.39%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.39%) IaaS
9 1 (0.39%) OCI
9 1 (0.39%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.79%) Modbus
2 13 (5.02%) Ethernet
3 9 (3.47%) MQTT
4 6 (2.32%) CHAP
4 6 (2.32%) Firewall
4 6 (2.32%) Multicast
5 5 (1.93%) Profibus
5 5 (1.93%) Wireless
6 4 (1.54%) VPN
7 3 (1.16%) AMQP
7 3 (1.16%) FIX Connectivity
7 3 (1.16%) HTTP
7 3 (1.16%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.77%) Internet
9 1 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.16%) Power BI
1 3 (1.16%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.39%) Power Query
2 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (1.93%) JIRA
2 3 (1.16%) Snyk
3 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.39%) Git
3 1 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
General
1 115 (44.40%) Finance
2 81 (31.27%) Social Skills
3 80 (30.89%) Banking
4 26 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (10.04%) Legal
5 17 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (6.56%) Manufacturing
5 17 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (6.18%) Retail
7 15 (5.79%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.63%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (4.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (3.09%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.70%) Aviation
10 7 (2.70%) Local Government
10 7 (2.70%) Retail Banking
11 6 (2.32%) Electronics
12 5 (1.93%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.93%) Law
12 5 (1.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (14.29%) Senior
2 33 (12.74%) Analyst
3 17 (6.56%) Risk Manager
4 16 (6.18%) Auditor
5 15 (5.79%) Architect
5 15 (5.79%) IT Manager
6 14 (5.41%) Lead
7 13 (5.02%) Security Architect
8 12 (4.63%) Systems Engineer
9 10 (3.86%) Consultant
9 10 (3.86%) IT Auditor
9 10 (3.86%) Security Analyst
9 10 (3.86%) Security Manager
9 10 (3.86%) Senior Auditor
9 10 (3.86%) Senior IT Auditor
10 9 (3.47%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.09%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (3.09%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.09%) Security Consultant
11 8 (3.09%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.32%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (1.93%) .NET
3 4 (1.54%) CSS
3 4 (1.54%) EDI
4 3 (1.16%) OAuth
4 3 (1.16%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.39%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.39%) Node-RED
5 1 (0.39%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 49 (18.92%) Management Information System
2 33 (12.74%) Security Posture
3 16 (6.18%) SCADA
4 12 (4.63%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.25%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.25%) Operational Technology
6 10 (3.86%) Biopharmaceutical
6 10 (3.86%) NHS
6 10 (3.86%) Renewable Energy
7 9 (3.47%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (3.47%) Industry 4.0
7 9 (3.47%) IoT
8 7 (2.70%) Equities
8 7 (2.70%) Fixed Income
8 7 (2.70%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.32%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.32%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.32%) Reinsurance
9 6 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.93%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.70%) Linux
1 7 (2.70%) Windows
2 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (48.65%) Risk Management
2 101 (39.00%) Information Security
3 74 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 62 (23.94%) Due Diligence
5 59 (22.78%) Roadmaps
6 56 (21.62%) Business Continuity
7 52 (20.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (19.31%) Process Improvement
9 48 (18.53%) Supply Chain Management
10 47 (18.15%) Agile
11 45 (17.37%) Business Continuity Management
11 45 (17.37%) Operations Management
12 43 (16.60%) Stakeholder Management
13 40 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (14.67%) Mentoring
15 34 (13.13%) Project Delivery
16 32 (12.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 25 (9.65%) Project Management
18 23 (8.88%) Incident Response
19 22 (8.49%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.86%) Ladder Logic
2 8 (3.09%) Python
3 5 (1.93%) C#
4 4 (1.54%) C++
4 4 (1.54%) Java
4 4 (1.54%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.54%) SQL
5 2 (0.77%) R
6 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 91 (35.14%) CISSP
2 69 (26.64%) CRISC
3 63 (24.32%) CISA
4 50 (19.31%) Degree
5 42 (16.22%) CISM
6 22 (8.49%) Security Cleared
7 16 (6.18%) SC Cleared
8 14 (5.41%) HNC
8 14 (5.41%) Master's Degree
9 11 (4.25%) CGEIT
9 11 (4.25%) HND
10 10 (3.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (3.86%) Chartered Engineer
10 10 (3.86%) DBS Check
11 8 (3.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 8 (3.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 8 (3.09%) PMI Certification
11 8 (3.09%) SANS
12 6 (2.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (40.93%) NIST
2 56 (21.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (20.85%) PCI DSS
4 24 (9.27%) GRC
5 22 (8.49%) GDPR
6 16 (6.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (5.79%) SOC 2
8 10 (3.86%) COBIT
8 10 (3.86%) NIST 800
8 10 (3.86%) PMO
9 8 (3.09%) Accessibility
10 7 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (1.93%) ISO 31000
11 5 (1.93%) JSP 440
11 5 (1.93%) P3O
11 5 (1.93%) SOC 1
12 4 (1.54%) ISO 22301
12 4 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 4 (1.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (3.09%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (3.86%) Functional Safety
2 5 (1.93%) RSA Archer
3 2 (0.77%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (0.39%) Ansible
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (11.97%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.34%) Siemens
3 14 (5.41%) Rockwell
4 9 (3.47%) AVEVA
5 8 (3.09%) VMware
6 5 (1.93%) Allen-Bradley
6 5 (1.93%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.93%) SAP
7 4 (1.54%) Adobe
7 4 (1.54%) Oracle
7 4 (1.54%) Qualys
7 4 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.16%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.16%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.16%) Cognos
8 3 (1.16%) CQG
8 3 (1.16%) ION Trading
8 3 (1.16%) Murex
8 3 (1.16%) Patsystems
8 3 (1.16%) Reuters