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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 406 430
Rank change year-on-year -74 +24 +44
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 358 296 385
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.59% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.67% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 186 167 191
10th Percentile £39,625 £37,800 £40,001
25th Percentile £48,078 £50,390 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,950 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.75% +10.82% -18.52%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,125 £109,500 £91,500
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 86,265 44,296 59,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 89.00% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59,107 24,598 32,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
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 £77,500
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 9 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 9 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 -72 317 £66,683 +6.69% 660
UK excluding London -87 227 £59,490 +8.16% 343
Work from Home -3 128 £75,000 +8.09% 215
London -45 118 £75,000 -15.49% 357
South East -40 62 £57,745 +14.43% 83
North of England -53 57 £52,500 -24.33% 68
North West -12 42 £54,490 -12.38% 36
Midlands -59 32 £67,500 +22.73% 52
South West -65 26 £80,000 +45.45% 54
West Midlands -54 23 £66,250 +20.45% 25
Scotland +24 21 £100,000 +44.13% 32
East of England -27 21 £34,250 -34.13% 28
Yorkshire -24 12 £55,000 - 27
East Midlands -34 9 £67,500 +80.00% 27
Wales -73 8 £76,000 +13.11% 9
North East -67 3 £36,500 -51.70% 5
Northern Ireland -89 1 - - 15

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 (3.35%) Confluence
2 6 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.40%) Apache
4 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.96%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.28%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (18.44%) Azure
2 65 (18.16%) AWS
3 38 (10.61%) GCP
4 16 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.79%) GitHub
6 7 (1.96%) SaaS
7 6 (1.68%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.40%) dbt
8 5 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.12%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (0.84%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (0.84%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.84%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.56%) Azure AI
11 2 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.28%) Amazon Bedrock
12 1 (0.28%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 32 (8.94%) Network Security
2 7 (1.96%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (1.96%) Multicast
3 5 (1.40%) Firewall
4 4 (1.12%) HTTP
5 3 (0.84%) CHAP
5 3 (0.84%) DNS
5 3 (0.84%) LAN
5 3 (0.84%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.84%) VPN
5 3 (0.84%) WAN
6 2 (0.56%) DHCP
6 2 (0.56%) Internet
7 1 (0.28%) BGP
7 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.28%) Profibus
7 1 (0.28%) SAN
7 1 (0.28%) SNMP
7 1 (0.28%) SSL
7 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.51%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.12%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.12%) Metadata
3 4 (1.12%) Redis
4 3 (0.84%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.56%) Big Data
5 2 (0.56%) Power BI
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.28%) Db2
6 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.28%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (5.87%) JIRA
2 11 (3.07%) LabVIEW
3 9 (2.51%) Git
4 4 (1.12%) GitLab
4 4 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.12%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.56%) MLflow
6 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.28%) Gatling
General
1 153 (42.74%) Social Skills
2 134 (37.43%) Finance
3 113 (31.56%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (19.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (14.80%) Law
6 45 (12.57%) Organisational Skills
7 36 (10.06%) Aerospace
8 35 (9.78%) Manufacturing
9 34 (9.50%) Legal
10 29 (8.10%) Public Sector
11 19 (5.31%) Banking
11 19 (5.31%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (3.91%) Financial Institution
13 12 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (3.07%) Electronics
15 8 (2.23%) Retail
16 7 (1.96%) Spanish Language
17 6 (1.68%) French Language
18 5 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
18 5 (1.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (15.36%) Analyst
1 55 (15.36%) Senior
2 35 (9.78%) Lead
3 34 (9.50%) Architect
4 28 (7.82%) Security Architect
5 24 (6.70%) Consultant
6 20 (5.59%) Security Analyst
7 19 (5.31%) Security Consultant
8 18 (5.03%) Security Manager
8 18 (5.03%) Software Engineer
9 16 (4.47%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 16 (4.47%) IT Analyst
10 14 (3.91%) Senior Consultant
10 14 (3.91%) Systems Engineer
11 13 (3.63%) Compliance Manager
11 13 (3.63%) Senior Security Consultant
12 12 (3.35%) Business Analyst
13 11 (3.07%) Auditor
14 10 (2.79%) Business Manager
15 9 (2.51%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.96%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (1.40%) Kafka
3 4 (1.12%) .NET
3 4 (1.12%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.56%) PySpark
5 1 (0.28%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.28%) Memcached
5 1 (0.28%) Middleware
5 1 (0.28%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.28%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (14.25%) Management Information System
2 22 (6.15%) Onboarding
3 21 (5.87%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (5.31%) Credit Risk
5 18 (5.03%) Security Posture
6 15 (4.19%) Driving Licence
6 15 (4.19%) Operational Technology
7 11 (3.07%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (2.51%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.23%) Fibre Optics
10 7 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (1.96%) Equities
10 7 (1.96%) Eurex
10 7 (1.96%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.68%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.40%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.87%) Windows
2 16 (4.47%) Linux
3 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.28%) AIX
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.28%) SUSE
4 1 (0.28%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.28%) Unix
4 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (26.82%) Risk Management
2 93 (25.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 92 (25.70%) Cybersecurity
4 74 (20.67%) Agile
5 70 (19.55%) AI
6 68 (18.99%) Information Security
7 67 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
8 58 (16.20%) Decision-Making
8 58 (16.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 54 (15.08%) Threat Modelling
10 47 (13.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 44 (12.29%) Security Architecture
11 44 (12.29%) Validation
12 40 (11.17%) Incident Response
13 39 (10.89%) Computer Science
14 38 (10.61%) Cloud Security
15 34 (9.50%) Vulnerability Management
16 32 (8.94%) Process Improvement
17 31 (8.66%) Security Operations
18 30 (8.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 31 (8.66%) Python
2 15 (4.19%) Java
3 12 (3.35%) SQL
4 8 (2.23%) MATLAB
5 7 (1.96%) C
5 7 (1.96%) C++
6 4 (1.12%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.84%) Bash
7 3 (0.84%) Go
7 3 (0.84%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.84%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.56%) Julia
8 2 (0.56%) R
9 1 (0.28%) Bicep
9 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 114 (31.84%) Degree
2 80 (22.35%) CISSP
3 64 (17.88%) Security Cleared
4 63 (17.60%) CISM
5 49 (13.69%) SC Cleared
6 34 (9.50%) Master's Degree
7 28 (7.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (6.15%) CRISC
9 18 (5.03%) CISA
9 18 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (3.63%) DV Cleared
10 13 (3.63%) HNC
11 11 (3.07%) AWS Certification
12 10 (2.79%) PhD
13 9 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (2.51%) HND
14 8 (2.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (1.68%) Azure Certification
16 6 (1.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (23.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 77 (21.51%) NIST
3 32 (8.94%) NCSC
4 23 (6.42%) GRC
4 23 (6.42%) SLA
5 21 (5.87%) GDPR
6 19 (5.31%) QA
7 18 (5.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 18 (5.03%) PCI DSS
8 17 (4.75%) SOC 2
9 14 (3.91%) Accessibility
10 12 (3.35%) ITGC
11 11 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (3.07%) Data Quality
11 11 (3.07%) ISO 9001
12 9 (2.51%) COBIT
12 9 (2.51%) NIST 800
13 8 (2.23%) Def Stans
13 8 (2.23%) SOC 1
14 7 (1.96%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 14 (3.91%) Firmware
2 5 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.12%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.84%) Docker
4 3 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.56%) vSphere
6 1 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.28%) Ansible
2 1 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.28%) Grafana
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.28%) Proxmox
2 1 (0.28%) QRadar
2 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
2 1 (0.28%) VxRail
Vendors
1 47 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.35%) Oracle
2 12 (3.35%) SAP
3 9 (2.51%) Databricks
4 8 (2.23%) Bloomberg
4 8 (2.23%) Google
4 8 (2.23%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.96%) Atlassian
5 7 (1.96%) Cisco
5 7 (1.96%) CQG
5 7 (1.96%) ION Trading
5 7 (1.96%) Patsystems
5 7 (1.96%) Reuters
5 7 (1.96%) Trayport
6 6 (1.68%) Adobe
7 5 (1.40%) YouTube
8 4 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.12%) IFS
8 4 (1.12%) VMware
9 3 (0.84%) Thales