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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 407 420
Rank change year-on-year -75 +13 +7
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 362 285 384
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.58% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.65% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 183 163 192
10th Percentile £39,400 £37,600 £40,126
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,950 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.75% +10.82% -16.03%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £93,500 £107,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,490 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +8.16% +1.85% -13.60%

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 86,468 43,703 59,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.32% 88.90% 82.25%
Number of salaries quoted 59,116 24,458 31,674
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £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 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.95% -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 12 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 12 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 -68 321 £63,857 +2.17% 314
UK excluding London -87 230 £59,490 +8.16% 163
Work from Home -16 129 £75,000 +7.62% 120
London -45 118 £75,000 -14.29% 174
South East -35 63 £57,745 +14.43% 38
North of England -34 57 £52,500 -24.33% 27
North West -16 41 £52,245 -15.99% 14
Midlands -57 33 £67,500 +22.73% 20
South West -61 25 £80,000 +42.22% 32
East of England -22 23 £34,250 -34.13% 11
West Midlands -53 23 £66,250 +20.45% 10
Scotland +17 21 £100,000 +44.13% 17
Yorkshire -29 13 £55,000 - 11
East Midlands -29 10 £67,500 +80.00% 10
Wales -66 8 £76,000 +13.11% 4
North East -69 3 £36,500 -51.70% 2
Northern Ireland -81 1 - - 13

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 (3.31%) Confluence
2 6 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.38%) Apache
4 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.93%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.28%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (19.34%) Azure
2 68 (18.78%) AWS
3 40 (11.05%) GCP
4 16 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.76%) GitHub
6 7 (1.93%) SaaS
7 6 (1.66%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.38%) dbt
8 5 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.10%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.10%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.10%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.55%) Amazon Bedrock
11 2 (0.55%) Azure AI
11 2 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.56%) Network Security
2 7 (1.93%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (1.93%) Multicast
3 4 (1.10%) Firewall
3 4 (1.10%) HTTP
4 3 (0.83%) CHAP
4 3 (0.83%) DNS
4 3 (0.83%) LAN
4 3 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.83%) VPN
4 3 (0.83%) WAN
5 2 (0.55%) DHCP
5 2 (0.55%) Internet
6 1 (0.28%) BGP
6 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.28%) IPsec
6 1 (0.28%) SAN
6 1 (0.28%) SSL
6 1 (0.28%) VLAN
6 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.49%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.10%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.10%) Metadata
3 4 (1.10%) Redis
4 3 (0.83%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.55%) Big Data
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%) Power BI
6 1 (0.28%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (5.80%) JIRA
2 11 (3.04%) LabVIEW
3 10 (2.76%) Git
4 4 (1.10%) GitLab
4 4 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.10%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.55%) MLflow
6 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.28%) Gatling
General
1 150 (41.44%) Social Skills
2 132 (36.46%) Finance
3 113 (31.22%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (18.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (14.36%) Law
6 45 (12.43%) Organisational Skills
7 36 (9.94%) Aerospace
8 35 (9.67%) Manufacturing
9 32 (8.84%) Legal
10 28 (7.73%) Public Sector
11 20 (5.52%) Banking
12 19 (5.25%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (3.87%) Financial Institution
14 13 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (3.04%) Electronics
16 9 (2.49%) French Language
17 7 (1.93%) Retail
17 7 (1.93%) Spanish Language
18 5 (1.38%) Military
18 5 (1.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (15.75%) Analyst
2 56 (15.47%) Senior
3 37 (10.22%) Lead
4 35 (9.67%) Architect
5 28 (7.73%) Security Architect
6 24 (6.63%) Consultant
7 19 (5.25%) IT Analyst
7 19 (5.25%) Security Analyst
7 19 (5.25%) Security Consultant
8 18 (4.97%) Security Manager
8 18 (4.97%) Software Engineer
9 16 (4.42%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 14 (3.87%) Senior Consultant
11 13 (3.59%) Compliance Manager
11 13 (3.59%) Senior Security Consultant
11 13 (3.59%) Systems Engineer
12 12 (3.31%) Business Analyst
13 11 (3.04%) Auditor
14 10 (2.76%) Business Manager
15 9 (2.49%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.93%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (1.38%) Kafka
3 4 (1.10%) .NET
3 4 (1.10%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.55%) PySpark
5 1 (0.28%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.28%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.28%) Memcached
5 1 (0.28%) Middleware
5 1 (0.28%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.28%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.28%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (14.09%) Management Information System
2 23 (6.35%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (5.80%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.25%) Credit Risk
5 18 (4.97%) Security Posture
6 15 (4.14%) Operational Technology
7 14 (3.87%) Driving Licence
8 10 (2.76%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (2.49%) Cloud Native
10 8 (2.21%) Fibre Optics
11 7 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.93%) Equities
11 7 (1.93%) Eurex
11 7 (1.93%) Fixed Income
11 7 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.66%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.38%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.38%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.80%) Windows
2 17 (4.70%) Linux
3 2 (0.55%) macOS
3 2 (0.55%) 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 (26.52%) Risk Management
2 94 (25.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 90 (24.86%) Cybersecurity
4 73 (20.17%) Agile
5 70 (19.34%) AI
5 70 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (18.51%) Information Security
7 61 (16.85%) Stakeholder Management
8 57 (15.75%) Decision-Making
9 52 (14.36%) Threat Modelling
10 49 (13.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 45 (12.43%) Validation
12 44 (12.15%) Security Architecture
13 41 (11.33%) Computer Science
14 38 (10.50%) Incident Response
15 36 (9.94%) Cloud Security
16 32 (8.84%) Process Improvement
16 32 (8.84%) Vulnerability Management
17 31 (8.56%) Security Operations
18 30 (8.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 33 (9.12%) Python
2 15 (4.14%) Java
3 13 (3.59%) SQL
4 8 (2.21%) C
4 8 (2.21%) MATLAB
5 7 (1.93%) C++
6 4 (1.10%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.10%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.83%) Bash
7 3 (0.83%) Go
7 3 (0.83%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.55%) Julia
8 2 (0.55%) R
9 1 (0.28%) Bicep
9 1 (0.28%) COBOL
9 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 114 (31.49%) Degree
2 76 (20.99%) CISSP
3 64 (17.68%) Security Cleared
4 60 (16.57%) CISM
5 48 (13.26%) SC Cleared
6 34 (9.39%) Master's Degree
7 28 (7.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (5.80%) CRISC
9 18 (4.97%) CISA
10 17 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (3.87%) AWS Certification
12 13 (3.59%) DV Cleared
12 13 (3.59%) HNC
13 10 (2.76%) PhD
14 9 (2.49%) Azure Certification
14 9 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (2.49%) HND
15 8 (2.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (1.93%) CIPD
17 6 (1.66%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (22.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 75 (20.72%) NIST
3 32 (8.84%) NCSC
4 23 (6.35%) GRC
5 22 (6.08%) SLA
6 20 (5.52%) GDPR
7 19 (5.25%) QA
8 18 (4.97%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 17 (4.70%) PCI DSS
10 15 (4.14%) SOC 2
11 14 (3.87%) Accessibility
12 12 (3.31%) ITGC
13 11 (3.04%) Cyber Essentials
13 11 (3.04%) Data Quality
13 11 (3.04%) ISO 9001
14 9 (2.49%) COBIT
14 9 (2.49%) NIST 800
15 8 (2.21%) Def Stans
15 8 (2.21%) SOC 1
16 7 (1.93%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 14 (3.87%) Firmware
2 5 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.10%) Docker
3 4 (1.10%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.55%) vSphere
6 1 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (0.28%) LXC
6 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (1.66%) 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 50 (13.81%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.31%) Oracle
2 12 (3.31%) SAP
3 11 (3.04%) Google
3 11 (3.04%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.49%) Databricks
5 8 (2.21%) Bloomberg
6 7 (1.93%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.93%) Cisco
6 7 (1.93%) CQG
6 7 (1.93%) ION Trading
6 7 (1.93%) Patsystems
6 7 (1.93%) Reuters
6 7 (1.93%) Trayport
7 6 (1.66%) Adobe
8 5 (1.38%) YouTube
9 4 (1.10%) IFS
9 4 (1.10%) Remedy
9 4 (1.10%) VMware
10 3 (0.83%) Thales