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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 290 401
Rank change year-on-year -135 +111 +106
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 228 529 350
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.97% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 1.08% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 125 173 216
10th Percentile £43,794 £35,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £45,320 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.13% -20.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £54,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -16.92% +18.18%

All Process & 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 48,217 49,041 48,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.67% 90.12% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,251 24,093 36,700
10th Percentile £28,456 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Top 16 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 4 January 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 -105 213 £70,000 +27.27% 79
UK excluding London -48 125 £52,000 -3.70% 51
Work from Home +116 116 £70,000 +27.27% 39
London -90 90 £76,184 +9.92% 47
Midlands +30 41 £51,058 -14.90% 5
South West +26 39 £57,500 -25.81% 4
East Midlands +9 23 £51,058 -11.20% 2
South East -7 22 £52,000 +4.00% 23
West Midlands +30 17 £43,105 -35.81% 3
North of England -13 15 £46,750 -15.77% 10
North West +8 13 £46,750 -15.38% 7
Northern Ireland -12 3 £52,000 -24.97% 1
East of England -38 3 £52,000 +15.56% 4
Wales +5 2 £66,250 +34.92% 1
North East +8 1 - -
Yorkshire -19 1 - - 3

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 3 (1.32%) Confluence
2 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Q-Pulse
1 4 (1.75%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.88%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.77%) Azure
2 17 (7.46%) AWS
3 14 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (5.70%) SaaS
5 6 (2.63%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.32%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.32%) GCP
7 3 (1.32%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.32%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.88%) Serverless
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.44%) IaaS
9 1 (0.44%) OCI
9 1 (0.44%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.26%) CHAP
2 6 (2.63%) Firewall
3 5 (2.19%) Multicast
3 5 (2.19%) Wireless
4 4 (1.75%) VPN
5 3 (1.32%) AMQP
5 3 (1.32%) HTTP
5 3 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.88%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.19%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (1.32%) Power BI
3 2 (0.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.44%) Power Query
4 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.32%) JIRA
1 3 (1.32%) Snyk
2 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
General
1 111 (48.68%) Finance
2 82 (35.96%) Banking
3 75 (32.89%) Social Skills
4 30 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (7.02%) Financial Institution
6 16 (7.02%) Legal
7 13 (5.70%) Law
8 12 (5.26%) Public Sector
9 11 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.51%) Retail
11 5 (2.19%) Marketing
11 5 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.19%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.75%) Agriculture
12 4 (1.75%) Games
13 3 (1.32%) Back Office
14 2 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.88%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 33 (14.47%) Senior
2 32 (14.04%) Analyst
3 22 (9.65%) Auditor
4 21 (9.21%) IT Manager
5 14 (6.14%) Architect
6 12 (5.26%) Internal Auditor
6 12 (5.26%) Security Architect
6 12 (5.26%) Security Auditor
7 11 (4.82%) Security Analyst
8 10 (4.39%) Consultant
8 10 (4.39%) IT Auditor
8 10 (4.39%) Senior Auditor
8 10 (4.39%) Senior IT Auditor
9 9 (3.95%) Change Manager
9 9 (3.95%) IT Change Manager
9 9 (3.95%) Risk Manager
9 9 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (3.51%) Information Analyst
10 8 (3.51%) Information Security Analyst
10 8 (3.51%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.19%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.75%) EDI
3 3 (1.32%) OAuth
3 3 (1.32%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 56 (24.56%) Management Information System
2 29 (12.72%) Security Posture
3 11 (4.82%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.95%) CMDB
5 7 (3.07%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.63%) Blockchain
6 6 (2.63%) Equities
6 6 (2.63%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.63%) Reinsurance
7 5 (2.19%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.75%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.32%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.32%) NHS
10 2 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.63%) Linux
1 6 (2.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 107 (46.93%) Information Security
3 63 (27.63%) Cybersecurity
4 58 (25.44%) Due Diligence
5 57 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 54 (23.68%) Business Continuity
7 50 (21.93%) Process Improvement
8 48 (21.05%) Supply Chain Management
9 45 (19.74%) Business Continuity Management
9 45 (19.74%) Operations Management
10 44 (19.30%) Agile
11 41 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (16.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 29 (12.72%) Incident Response
15 26 (11.40%) Internal Audit
16 25 (10.96%) Vulnerability Management
17 24 (10.53%) Data Protection
18 23 (10.09%) Analytics
18 23 (10.09%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.19%) Ladder Logic
2 4 (1.75%) C++
2 4 (1.75%) SQL
3 3 (1.32%) Java
3 3 (1.32%) Python
4 1 (0.44%) C#
4 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 99 (43.42%) CISSP
2 73 (32.02%) CISA
3 65 (28.51%) CRISC
4 49 (21.49%) CISM
5 35 (15.35%) Degree
6 21 (9.21%) Security Cleared
7 17 (7.46%) CGEIT
8 16 (7.02%) SC Cleared
9 14 (6.14%) SANS
10 12 (5.26%) FFIEC
11 10 (4.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (4.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 10 (4.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 9 (3.95%) DBS Check
13 8 (3.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (3.51%) Master's Degree
14 7 (3.07%) CompTIA Security+
15 6 (2.63%) City & Guilds
15 6 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (45.61%) NIST
2 58 (25.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (23.25%) PCI DSS
4 27 (11.84%) GRC
5 26 (11.40%) GDPR
6 19 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (6.14%) SOC 2
8 13 (5.70%) COBIT
9 12 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (3.95%) NIST 800
11 7 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (2.63%) NCSC
13 5 (2.19%) JSP 440
14 4 (1.75%) GMP
14 4 (1.75%) ISO 22301
14 4 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 4 (1.75%) PMO
14 4 (1.75%) SOC 1
15 2 (0.88%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.75%) RSA Archer
2 2 (0.88%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (0.44%) Ansible
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.95%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.51%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.19%) SAP
4 5 (2.19%) Siemens
5 4 (1.75%) Adobe
5 4 (1.75%) Qualys
6 3 (1.32%) Checkmarx
6 3 (1.32%) Cognos
6 3 (1.32%) Oracle
7 2 (0.88%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.88%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.88%) CQG
7 2 (0.88%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.88%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.88%) LogRhythm
7 2 (0.88%) Patsystems
7 2 (0.88%) Reuters
7 2 (0.88%) Trayport
7 2 (0.88%) Trend Micro