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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 317 402
Rank change year-on-year -77 +85 +166
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 272 547 353
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.83% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.97% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 143 208 219
10th Percentile £40,625 £37,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £50,695 £49,641 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,000 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £91,500 £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 45,730 56,495 47,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.51% 85.27% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 27,916 29,477 36,918
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £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% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% -0.94%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 -66 250 £63,500 +17.59% 75
UK excluding London -10 167 £52,000 -3.70% 71
Work from Home +118 126 £70,000 +12.00% 42
London -77 91 £84,000 +24.44% 27
Midlands +76 53 £51,887 -16.98% 17
South West +37 43 £57,500 -17.86% 3
South East +18 37 £48,924 -2.15% 28
West Midlands +65 26 £52,500 -24.25% 14
East Midlands +37 26 £51,058 -8.42% 3
North of England +25 19 £46,750 -15.38% 9
North West +43 16 £46,750 -15.00% 3
Northern Ireland -1 5 £52,000 -24.97% 1
Wales +9 4 £65,000 +32.37% 1
East of England -27 4 £52,000 +15.56% 6
North East +16 2 - - 2
Scotland -7 2 - - 7
Yorkshire -13 1 - - 4

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 (1.47%) Confluence
2 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.10%) AutoCAD
5 3 (1.10%) Civil 3D
6 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (1.10%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.74%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 23 (8.46%) Azure
2 16 (5.88%) AWS
3 14 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (4.04%) SaaS
5 9 (3.31%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.47%) GCP
6 4 (1.47%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.10%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.10%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.74%) Serverless
9 1 (0.37%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.37%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.37%) IaaS
9 1 (0.37%) OCI
9 1 (0.37%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.09%) Modbus
2 18 (6.62%) Ethernet
3 13 (4.78%) MQTT
4 6 (2.21%) CHAP
4 6 (2.21%) Firewall
4 6 (2.21%) Multicast
4 6 (2.21%) Profibus
5 5 (1.84%) Wireless
6 4 (1.47%) VPN
7 3 (1.10%) AMQP
7 3 (1.10%) FIX Connectivity
7 3 (1.10%) HTTP
7 3 (1.10%) Internet
7 3 (1.10%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.47%) Power BI
2 3 (1.10%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.37%) Power Query
3 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (1.84%) JIRA
2 3 (1.10%) Snyk
3 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.37%) Git
3 1 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
General
1 116 (42.65%) Finance
2 85 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 82 (30.15%) Banking
4 28 (10.29%) Legal
5 26 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (8.82%) Manufacturing
7 17 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
7 17 (6.25%) Retail
8 15 (5.51%) Public Sector
9 10 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (3.31%) Law
11 8 (2.94%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.57%) Aviation
12 7 (2.57%) Electronics
12 7 (2.57%) Local Government
12 7 (2.57%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (14.34%) Senior
2 38 (13.97%) Analyst
3 19 (6.99%) Lead
3 19 (6.99%) Risk Manager
4 15 (5.51%) Auditor
4 15 (5.51%) Systems Engineer
5 14 (5.15%) IT Manager
6 13 (4.78%) Architect
6 13 (4.78%) Risk Analyst
7 11 (4.04%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (4.04%) Security Architect
8 10 (3.68%) Business Analyst
8 10 (3.68%) Consultant
8 10 (3.68%) Security Analyst
8 10 (3.68%) Security Manager
9 9 (3.31%) IT Auditor
9 9 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
9 9 (3.31%) Senior Auditor
9 9 (3.31%) Senior IT Auditor
10 8 (2.94%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.94%) .NET
2 6 (2.21%) CSS
2 6 (2.21%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (1.47%) EDI
4 3 (1.10%) OAuth
4 3 (1.10%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.74%) Node-RED
6 1 (0.37%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.37%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.37%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 51 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 31 (11.40%) Security Posture
3 23 (8.46%) SCADA
4 16 (5.88%) Operational Technology
5 15 (5.51%) Biopharmaceutical
5 15 (5.51%) Renewable Energy
6 14 (5.15%) Data Centre
6 14 (5.15%) IoT
7 13 (4.78%) Industry 4.0
8 12 (4.41%) Onboarding
9 10 (3.68%) NHS
10 9 (3.31%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (2.57%) Equities
11 7 (2.57%) Fixed Income
11 7 (2.57%) Product Ownership
12 6 (2.21%) Cloud Native
12 6 (2.21%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (2.21%) Market Risk
12 6 (2.21%) Reinsurance
12 6 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.94%) Windows
2 7 (2.57%) Linux
3 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 108 (39.71%) Information Security
3 81 (29.78%) Cybersecurity
4 64 (23.53%) Due Diligence
5 59 (21.69%) Roadmaps
6 56 (20.59%) Business Continuity
6 56 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 50 (18.38%) Agile
7 50 (18.38%) Process Improvement
8 48 (17.65%) Supply Chain Management
9 45 (16.54%) Business Continuity Management
9 45 (16.54%) Operations Management
9 45 (16.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 44 (16.18%) Mentoring
11 40 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (14.34%) Project Delivery
13 34 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 30 (11.03%) Project Management
15 24 (8.82%) Analytics
15 24 (8.82%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.04%) Ladder Logic
1 11 (4.04%) Python
2 8 (2.94%) C#
3 6 (2.21%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.84%) Java
4 5 (1.84%) SQL
5 4 (1.47%) C++
6 2 (0.74%) R
7 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 93 (34.19%) CISSP
2 71 (26.10%) CRISC
3 63 (23.16%) CISA
4 60 (22.06%) Degree
5 46 (16.91%) CISM
6 23 (8.46%) Security Cleared
7 18 (6.62%) HNC
8 16 (5.88%) SC Cleared
9 15 (5.51%) HND
9 15 (5.51%) Master's Degree
10 14 (5.15%) Chartered Engineer
11 11 (4.04%) CGEIT
11 11 (4.04%) DBS Check
11 11 (4.04%) PMI Certification
12 10 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (3.68%) SANS
13 8 (2.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 8 (2.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 7 (2.57%) PMP
15 6 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (38.97%) NIST
2 58 (21.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (19.85%) PCI DSS
4 24 (8.82%) GRC
5 22 (8.09%) GDPR
6 17 (6.25%) SOC 2
7 16 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (3.68%) COBIT
8 10 (3.68%) NIST 800
8 10 (3.68%) PMO
9 8 (2.94%) Accessibility
10 6 (2.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (1.84%) ISO 31000
11 5 (1.84%) JSP 440
11 5 (1.84%) P3O
11 5 (1.84%) SOC 1
12 4 (1.47%) ISO 22301
12 4 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 4 (1.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (4.04%) VMware ESXi
1 11 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (5.51%) Functional Safety
2 5 (1.84%) RSA Archer
3 2 (0.74%) BMC PATROL
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.37%) Ansible
4 1 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.19%) Siemens
3 19 (6.99%) Rockwell
4 13 (4.78%) AVEVA
5 11 (4.04%) VMware
6 7 (2.57%) Allen-Bradley
7 6 (2.21%) Murex
8 5 (1.84%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.84%) SAP
9 4 (1.47%) Adobe
9 4 (1.47%) Oracle
9 4 (1.47%) Qualys
10 3 (1.10%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.10%) Cognos
10 3 (1.10%) CQG
10 3 (1.10%) ION Trading
10 3 (1.10%) Patsystems
10 3 (1.10%) Reuters
10 3 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.10%) Trayport