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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 395 442
Rank change year-on-year -92 +47 +47
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 340 302 381
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.62% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.70% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 184 168 197
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,260 £43,100
25th Percentile £50,938 £50,390 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,375 £107,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,490 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.16% - -12.00%

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 84,843 43,391 61,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.66% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,659 24,441 34,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £41,969 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -85 304 £67,500 +12.50% 513
UK excluding London -115 205 £59,490 +8.16% 264
Work from Home -24 124 £75,000 +8.09% 196
London -45 122 £75,000 -14.29% 303
South East -44 57 £56,000 +1.82% 70
North of England -52 53 £55,000 -20.73% 58
North West -25 44 £55,995 -9.96% 33
Midlands -62 29 £67,500 +22.73% 38
South West -68 23 £80,000 +42.22% 40
West Midlands -65 20 £62,500 +13.64% 21
East of England -17 19 £39,500 -22.55% 13
Scotland +12 15 £100,000 +53.45% 27
East Midlands -28 9 £67,500 +80.00% 17
Yorkshire -36 9 £55,000 - 21
Wales -71 9 £76,000 +13.11% 9
Northern Ireland -91 1 - - 8

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 (3.53%) Confluence
2 6 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.47%) Apache
4 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.06%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.29%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 59 (17.35%) AWS
1 59 (17.35%) Azure
2 37 (10.88%) GCP
3 15 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (2.35%) GitHub
5 7 (2.06%) SaaS
6 6 (1.76%) Snowflake
7 5 (1.47%) dbt
8 4 (1.18%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.18%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (0.88%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.59%) Azure AI
10 2 (0.59%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.59%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.59%) Smartsheet
11 1 (0.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.24%) Network Security
2 7 (2.06%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (2.06%) Multicast
3 6 (1.76%) Firewall
4 4 (1.18%) CHAP
4 4 (1.18%) HTTP
5 3 (0.88%) DNS
5 3 (0.88%) LAN
5 3 (0.88%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.88%) VPN
5 3 (0.88%) WAN
6 2 (0.59%) DHCP
6 2 (0.59%) Internet
7 1 (0.29%) BGP
7 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.29%) IPsec
7 1 (0.29%) SSL
7 1 (0.29%) VLAN
7 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.18%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.18%) Redis
4 3 (0.88%) Metadata
4 3 (0.88%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.59%) Big Data
5 2 (0.59%) Power BI
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.29%) Db2
6 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.29%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (6.18%) JIRA
2 11 (3.24%) LabVIEW
3 7 (2.06%) Git
4 2 (0.59%) GitLab
4 2 (0.59%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.59%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.29%) MLflow
General
1 146 (42.94%) Social Skills
2 138 (40.59%) Finance
3 118 (34.71%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (19.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (16.18%) Law
6 43 (12.65%) Organisational Skills
7 36 (10.59%) Aerospace
8 34 (10.00%) Legal
9 31 (9.12%) Manufacturing
10 28 (8.24%) Public Sector
11 19 (5.59%) Banking
12 18 (5.29%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (4.12%) Financial Institution
14 12 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (3.24%) Electronics
16 10 (2.94%) Retail
17 7 (2.06%) Japanese Language
17 7 (2.06%) Spanish Language
18 6 (1.76%) Italian Language
19 5 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (16.76%) Senior
2 53 (15.59%) Analyst
3 33 (9.71%) Architect
4 27 (7.94%) Security Architect
5 24 (7.06%) Consultant
6 21 (6.18%) Lead
6 21 (6.18%) Security Consultant
7 19 (5.59%) Security Analyst
8 18 (5.29%) Security Manager
9 17 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
10 16 (4.71%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 15 (4.41%) Senior Consultant
12 14 (4.12%) IT Analyst
12 14 (4.12%) Senior Security Consultant
12 14 (4.12%) Software Engineer
13 13 (3.82%) Auditor
13 13 (3.82%) Compliance Manager
14 12 (3.53%) Business Analyst
15 10 (2.94%) Business Manager
15 10 (2.94%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.06%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (1.47%) Kafka
3 4 (1.18%) .NET
3 4 (1.18%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.59%) PySpark
5 1 (0.29%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.29%) Memcached
5 1 (0.29%) Middleware
5 1 (0.29%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.29%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 21 (6.18%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (5.59%) Credit Risk
4 19 (5.59%) Security Posture
5 15 (4.41%) Operational Technology
6 12 (3.53%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.65%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (2.35%) Fibre Optics
9 7 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
9 7 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.06%) Equities
9 7 (2.06%) Eurex
9 7 (2.06%) Fixed Income
9 7 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.76%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.47%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.00%) Windows
2 12 (3.53%) Linux
3 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.29%) AIX
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.29%) SUSE
4 1 (0.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.29%) Unix
4 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (26.18%) Risk Management
2 88 (25.88%) Continuous Improvement
2 88 (25.88%) Cybersecurity
3 71 (20.88%) Agile
3 71 (20.88%) Information Security
4 68 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (18.24%) AI
6 59 (17.35%) Decision-Making
7 53 (15.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 53 (15.59%) Threat Modelling
8 45 (13.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 45 (13.24%) Validation
9 41 (12.06%) Security Architecture
10 36 (10.59%) Cloud Security
10 36 (10.59%) Incident Response
11 34 (10.00%) Computer Science
12 33 (9.71%) Vulnerability Management
13 32 (9.41%) Security Management
14 28 (8.24%) Mentoring
14 28 (8.24%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 27 (7.94%) Python
2 13 (3.82%) Java
3 12 (3.53%) SQL
4 8 (2.35%) MATLAB
5 5 (1.47%) C
5 5 (1.47%) C++
6 4 (1.18%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.88%) Go
7 3 (0.88%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.59%) Julia
8 2 (0.59%) R
9 1 (0.29%) Bash
9 1 (0.29%) Bicep
9 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 115 (33.82%) Degree
2 85 (25.00%) CISSP
3 75 (22.06%) CISM
4 57 (16.76%) Security Cleared
5 44 (12.94%) SC Cleared
6 33 (9.71%) Master's Degree
7 28 (8.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (7.94%) CRISC
9 22 (6.47%) CISA
10 17 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (3.82%) HNC
12 12 (3.53%) DV Cleared
13 10 (2.94%) PhD
14 9 (2.65%) AWS Certification
14 9 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (2.65%) CompTIA Security+
14 9 (2.65%) HND
15 8 (2.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (1.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 6 (1.76%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (24.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 78 (22.94%) NIST
3 29 (8.53%) NCSC
4 27 (7.94%) GRC
5 24 (7.06%) SLA
6 23 (6.76%) GDPR
7 20 (5.88%) PCI DSS
8 19 (5.59%) SOC 2
9 16 (4.71%) COBIT
9 16 (4.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 16 (4.71%) ITGC
9 16 (4.71%) QA
10 15 (4.41%) Accessibility
11 11 (3.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (3.24%) ISO 9001
12 10 (2.94%) Data Quality
13 9 (2.65%) NIST 800
13 9 (2.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (2.35%) SOC 1
15 7 (2.06%) Def Stans
System Software
1 12 (3.53%) Firmware
2 5 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.88%) Docker
3 3 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.59%) vSphere
5 1 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (1.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) Ansible
2 1 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.29%) Grafana
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.29%) Proxmox
2 1 (0.29%) QRadar
2 1 (0.29%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
2 1 (0.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 41 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.71%) Oracle
2 16 (4.71%) SAP
3 8 (2.35%) Bloomberg
3 8 (2.35%) Databricks
3 8 (2.35%) IFS
4 7 (2.06%) Atlassian
4 7 (2.06%) CQG
4 7 (2.06%) ION Trading
4 7 (2.06%) Patsystems
4 7 (2.06%) Reuters
4 7 (2.06%) Trayport
5 6 (1.76%) Adobe
5 6 (1.76%) Google
6 5 (1.47%) Cisco
6 5 (1.47%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (1.47%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.18%) VMware
8 3 (0.88%) Keysight
8 3 (0.88%) OneTrust