Risk Assessment Jobs

Risk Assessment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Risk Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Risk Assessment over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 491 554 635
Rank change year-on-year +63 +81 +1
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 385 365 813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.45% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.47% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 248 251 496
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,025 £38,947
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,500 £55,168
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% +18.73% -8.05%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,825 £105,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% - +10.00%

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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Risk Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Risk Assessment.

Salary trend for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +61 362 £57,500 -11.54% 175
UK excluding London +39 231 £54,500 -0.91% 150
London +51 142 £67,500 -3.57% 43
Work from Home +53 124 £57,500 -21.23% 60
North of England +39 58 £52,000 -0.95% 45
Midlands +8 53 £60,000 -22.58% 28
North West +31 47 £54,000 -22.86% 24
West Midlands +20 46 £60,000 -22.58% 13
South West +4 43 £55,000 - 18
South East +6 37 £50,000 -2.63% 36
East of England +8 25 £54,000 -13.60% 17
Yorkshire +53 10 £49,000 -2.27% 16
Scotland -40 8 £148,750 +196.68% 6
East Midlands -23 6 £54,000 +33.33% 15
Northern Ireland +21 5 - - 3
Wales +22 2 £52,500 - 2
North East -15 1 £80,000 +52.38% 7

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.08%) WordPress
2 6 (1.56%) SAS
2 6 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.30%) Apache
3 5 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.04%) Luigi
5 3 (0.78%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.52%) Documentum
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 16 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.12%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.26%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 9 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.04%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.78%) Raiser’s Edge
4 2 (0.52%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.26%) Primavera
5 1 (0.26%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 31 (8.05%) Azure
2 29 (7.53%) AWS
3 26 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (5.97%) Power Platform
5 13 (3.38%) GCP
6 9 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.56%) Google Drive
8 5 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (1.30%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (1.04%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.04%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.04%) SaaS
9 4 (1.04%) Serverless
9 4 (1.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (0.78%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.71%) Firewall
2 10 (2.60%) Network Security
3 8 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (1.56%) WAN
5 5 (1.30%) IPsec
5 5 (1.30%) LAN
5 5 (1.30%) SSH
5 5 (1.30%) SSL
6 4 (1.04%) DNS
6 4 (1.04%) VPN
7 3 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.52%) 802.11
8 2 (0.52%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.52%) Internet
8 2 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.52%) ZigBee
9 1 (0.26%) Modbus
9 1 (0.26%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.39%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (5.71%) Power BI
3 9 (2.34%) Big Data
4 8 (2.08%) Redis
5 6 (1.56%) Tableau
6 5 (1.30%) Bigtable
6 5 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.30%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.04%) CouchDB
7 4 (1.04%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.04%) RethinkDB
8 3 (0.78%) Hazelcast
8 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.52%) Metadata
9 2 (0.52%) MySQL
9 2 (0.52%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (2.60%) Git
2 4 (1.04%) Burp Suite
2 4 (1.04%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.04%) Metasploit
2 4 (1.04%) sqlmap
3 2 (0.52%) JIRA
4 1 (0.26%) Ant
4 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.26%) NUnit
General
1 162 (42.08%) Social Skills
2 122 (31.69%) Finance
3 83 (21.56%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (18.18%) Legal
5 59 (15.32%) Retail
6 30 (7.79%) Law
7 26 (6.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.16%) Public Sector
9 15 (3.90%) Banking
10 13 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.86%) Marketing
12 10 (2.60%) Automotive
13 9 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (2.34%) Manufacturing
14 8 (2.08%) Fire and Rescue
14 8 (2.08%) Local Government
14 8 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.56%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (1.30%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 99 (25.71%) Senior
2 60 (15.58%) Analyst
3 41 (10.65%) Security Analyst
4 37 (9.61%) IT Manager
5 36 (9.35%) Coordinator
6 33 (8.57%) Project Manager
7 27 (7.01%) Information Analyst
7 27 (7.01%) Information Security Analyst
8 26 (6.75%) Security Manager
9 22 (5.71%) Lead
10 18 (4.68%) Security Engineer
10 18 (4.68%) Senior Manager
11 14 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.38%) Data Scientist
13 12 (3.12%) Consultant
13 12 (3.12%) Information Manager
13 12 (3.12%) Information Security Manager
14 11 (2.86%) Audit Manager
15 10 (2.60%) Developer
15 10 (2.60%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.86%) PySpark
2 6 (1.56%) Pandas
3 5 (1.30%) SQLAlchemy
3 5 (1.30%) Web Services
4 3 (0.78%) JSON
4 3 (0.78%) Kafka
4 3 (0.78%) OpenACC
4 3 (0.78%) OpenMP
4 3 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (0.78%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.52%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.52%) Ajax
5 2 (0.52%) CSS
5 2 (0.52%) HTML
5 2 (0.52%) jQuery
6 1 (0.26%) .NET
6 1 (0.26%) Leaflet
6 1 (0.26%) OAuth
6 1 (0.26%) OpenID
6 1 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.06%) Management Information System
2 42 (10.91%) Driving Licence
3 30 (7.79%) Cyber Threat
4 20 (5.19%) Security Posture
5 17 (4.42%) Onboarding
6 16 (4.16%) Algorithms
6 16 (4.16%) Derivative
7 15 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (3.38%) Reinsurance
9 11 (2.86%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.60%) Cyberattack
10 10 (2.60%) IoT
10 10 (2.60%) Operational Technology
11 9 (2.34%) Credit Risk
12 7 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.56%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.56%) Pharmacovigilance
13 6 (1.56%) PKI
13 6 (1.56%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.38%) Windows
2 9 (2.34%) Linux
3 5 (1.30%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.78%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.78%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 3 (0.78%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.52%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (35.32%) Problem-Solving
2 135 (35.06%) Risk Management
3 102 (26.49%) Information Security
4 96 (24.94%) Cybersecurity
5 77 (20.00%) Project Management
6 62 (16.10%) Project Delivery
7 40 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (9.87%) Collaborative Working
8 38 (9.87%) Data Protection
9 37 (9.61%) Agile
9 37 (9.61%) Decision-Making
9 37 (9.61%) Stakeholder Management
10 35 (9.09%) Business Continuity
11 34 (8.83%) Analytics
12 33 (8.57%) Mentoring
13 32 (8.31%) ISMS
14 31 (8.05%) Roadmaps
15 29 (7.53%) Computer Science
16 28 (7.27%) Cloud Security
16 28 (7.27%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 42 (10.91%) Python
2 21 (5.45%) SQL
3 10 (2.60%) C++
4 9 (2.34%) Java
5 6 (1.56%) R
6 5 (1.30%) C
7 4 (1.04%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.78%) C-shell
8 3 (0.78%) Fortran
8 3 (0.78%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.52%) Bash
9 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.52%) PHP
10 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.26%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (22.60%) Degree
2 47 (12.21%) CISSP
3 40 (10.39%) CISM
4 36 (9.35%) NVQ Level 3
5 27 (7.01%) Security Cleared
6 25 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.42%) CISA
8 14 (3.64%) CRISC
8 14 (3.64%) SC Cleared
9 11 (2.86%) GIAC
9 11 (2.86%) Master's Degree
10 9 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.56%) HNC
12 5 (1.30%) ACCA
12 5 (1.30%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.30%) CEH
12 5 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 5 (1.30%) PhD
13 4 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (21.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (11.43%) NIST
3 28 (7.27%) GRC
4 25 (6.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 21 (5.45%) QA
6 19 (4.94%) GDPR
7 15 (3.90%) Data Quality
8 13 (3.38%) ISO 22301
9 8 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (2.08%) NCSC
10 7 (1.82%) COBIT
10 7 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 6 (1.56%) Good Clinical Practice
11 6 (1.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 6 (1.56%) PCI DSS
11 6 (1.56%) PMO
12 5 (1.30%) Accessibility
13 4 (1.04%) ISO 31000
13 4 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.78%) HMG Infosec
System Software
1 6 (1.56%) Docker
2 4 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.78%) Ceph
3 3 (0.78%) GPFS
3 3 (0.78%) Lustre
3 3 (0.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (0.52%) Terminal Services
4 2 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (1.30%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.78%) Ansible
3 3 (0.78%) Podman
3 3 (0.78%) QRadar
4 2 (0.52%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.52%) Nessus
4 2 (0.52%) SELinux
5 1 (0.26%) Nagios
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.26%) RSA Security Analytics
5 1 (0.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.94%) Google
3 12 (3.12%) Databricks
4 8 (2.08%) Cisco
5 7 (1.82%) Splunk
6 6 (1.56%) Alteryx
6 6 (1.56%) Pega
6 6 (1.56%) UiPath
6 6 (1.56%) Xero
7 5 (1.30%) NEC
8 4 (1.04%) CA
8 4 (1.04%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.04%) SAP
9 3 (0.78%) Alibaba
9 3 (0.78%) IBM
9 3 (0.78%) Oracle
9 3 (0.78%) Sage
9 3 (0.78%) VMware
10 2 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.52%) Palo Alto