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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 392 444
Rank change year-on-year -102 +52 +56
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 332 315 376
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.63% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.72% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 187 176 202
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,100 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,625 £50,848 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -18.52%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,957 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,745 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.63% - -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 82,520 44,009 63,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.04% 88.59% 80.80%
Number of salaries quoted 57,449 24,888 36,814
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,288 £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 10 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 10 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 -99 296 £67,500 +8.00% 278
UK excluding London -116 190 £59,745 +8.63% 155
London -35 129 £75,000 -14.29% 157
Work from Home -29 121 £75,000 +8.09% 104
South East -29 55 £57,745 +4.99% 33
North of England -42 51 £66,675 +5.10% 33
North West -3 41 £55,995 -9.96% 20
Midlands -67 26 £67,500 +22.73% 10
West Midlands -48 19 £62,500 +13.64% 6
South West -74 18 £77,500 +40.91% 41
Scotland +9 15 £112,500 +117.83% 20
East of England -22 15 £39,500 -22.55% 16
Yorkshire -38 10 £72,500 +74.44% 9
Wales -71 10 £76,000 +13.11% 3
East Midlands -26 7 £67,500 +80.00% 4
Northern Ireland -87 1 - -

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 (3.61%) Confluence
2 6 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.51%) Apache
4 3 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.30%) IIS
5 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (3.61%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.11%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.30%) Primavera
2 1 (0.30%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (16.87%) AWS
2 54 (16.27%) Azure
3 35 (10.54%) GCP
4 14 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (2.41%) GitHub
7 6 (1.81%) SaaS
7 6 (1.81%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.51%) dbt
8 5 (1.51%) Smartsheet
9 4 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (1.20%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (0.90%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.60%) Azure AI
11 2 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.30%) Dagster
12 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.30%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.43%) Network Security
2 7 (2.11%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (2.11%) Multicast
3 6 (1.81%) Firewall
4 5 (1.51%) CHAP
5 4 (1.20%) HTTP
6 3 (0.90%) DNS
6 3 (0.90%) LAN
6 3 (0.90%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.90%) VPN
6 3 (0.90%) WAN
7 2 (0.60%) DHCP
7 2 (0.60%) Internet
8 1 (0.30%) 5G
8 1 (0.30%) BGP
8 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.30%) IPsec
8 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.30%) VLAN
8 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.20%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.20%) Redis
4 3 (0.90%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.90%) Power BI
5 2 (0.60%) Big Data
5 2 (0.60%) Metadata
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.30%) Db2
6 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.30%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (7.23%) JIRA
2 11 (3.31%) LabVIEW
3 6 (1.81%) Git
4 2 (0.60%) GitLab
4 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.60%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.30%) Claude Code
General
1 142 (42.77%) Finance
2 141 (42.47%) Social Skills
3 121 (36.45%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (19.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (16.57%) Law
6 40 (12.05%) Organisational Skills
7 35 (10.54%) Aerospace
8 32 (9.64%) Legal
9 30 (9.04%) Manufacturing
10 28 (8.43%) Public Sector
11 18 (5.42%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (4.82%) Banking
13 14 (4.22%) Financial Institution
13 14 (4.22%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (3.31%) Electronics
14 11 (3.31%) Retail
15 7 (2.11%) Japanese Language
15 7 (2.11%) Spanish Language
16 6 (1.81%) Italian Language
16 6 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (18.07%) Senior
2 51 (15.36%) Analyst
3 33 (9.94%) Architect
4 27 (8.13%) Security Architect
5 23 (6.93%) Consultant
6 22 (6.63%) Security Consultant
7 21 (6.33%) Security Manager
8 19 (5.72%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 18 (5.42%) Lead
10 17 (5.12%) Security Analyst
10 17 (5.12%) Systems Engineer
11 16 (4.82%) Auditor
12 15 (4.52%) Senior Consultant
13 14 (4.22%) Senior Security Consultant
14 13 (3.92%) IT Manager
15 12 (3.61%) Business Analyst
15 12 (3.61%) Compliance Manager
15 12 (3.61%) IT Analyst
15 12 (3.61%) Software Engineer
16 10 (3.01%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.11%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (1.51%) Kafka
3 4 (1.20%) .NET
3 4 (1.20%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.60%) PySpark
5 1 (0.30%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.30%) Memcached
5 1 (0.30%) Middleware
5 1 (0.30%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.30%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (15.06%) Management Information System
2 20 (6.02%) Onboarding
3 19 (5.72%) Credit Risk
3 19 (5.72%) Security Posture
4 16 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (4.52%) Operational Technology
6 9 (2.71%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.71%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (2.71%) Driving Licence
7 8 (2.41%) Fibre Optics
8 7 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
8 7 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.11%) Equities
8 7 (2.11%) Eurex
8 7 (2.11%) Fixed Income
8 7 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.81%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.51%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.20%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.82%) Windows
2 11 (3.31%) Linux
3 2 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.30%) AIX
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.30%) SUSE
4 1 (0.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.30%) Unix
4 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (27.41%) Cybersecurity
2 89 (26.81%) Risk Management
3 85 (25.60%) Continuous Improvement
4 76 (22.89%) Information Security
5 74 (22.29%) Agile
6 67 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (18.67%) Decision-Making
8 59 (17.77%) AI
9 52 (15.66%) Threat Modelling
10 49 (14.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 47 (14.16%) Validation
12 42 (12.65%) Security Architecture
13 40 (12.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 38 (11.45%) Incident Response
15 35 (10.54%) Cloud Security
16 34 (10.24%) Vulnerability Management
17 33 (9.94%) Security Management
18 32 (9.64%) Computer Science
19 29 (8.73%) Internal Audit
20 28 (8.43%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 26 (7.83%) Python
2 13 (3.92%) Java
3 11 (3.31%) SQL
4 8 (2.41%) MATLAB
5 5 (1.51%) C
5 5 (1.51%) C++
6 4 (1.20%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.90%) Go
7 3 (0.90%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.60%) Julia
8 2 (0.60%) R
9 1 (0.30%) Bash
9 1 (0.30%) Bicep
9 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 111 (33.43%) Degree
2 96 (28.92%) CISSP
3 85 (25.60%) CISM
4 54 (16.27%) Security Cleared
5 42 (12.65%) SC Cleared
6 34 (10.24%) CRISC
7 32 (9.64%) Master's Degree
8 29 (8.73%) CISA
9 27 (8.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (3.61%) DV Cleared
12 11 (3.31%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (3.01%) PhD
14 9 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (2.71%) HNC
15 8 (2.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (2.41%) PMI Certification
15 8 (2.41%) PMP
16 7 (2.11%) AWS Certification
17 6 (1.81%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (25.90%) NIST
2 83 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (9.04%) GRC
4 29 (8.73%) NCSC
5 23 (6.93%) GDPR
5 23 (6.93%) SLA
6 22 (6.63%) COBIT
7 20 (6.02%) SOC 2
8 19 (5.72%) ITGC
8 19 (5.72%) PCI DSS
9 18 (5.42%) Accessibility
10 16 (4.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 15 (4.52%) QA
12 12 (3.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (3.31%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (3.01%) ISO 9001
15 9 (2.71%) Data Quality
15 9 (2.71%) NIST 800
16 7 (2.11%) SOC 1
17 6 (1.81%) Def Stans
System Software
1 11 (3.31%) Firmware
2 4 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.90%) Docker
3 3 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.60%) vSphere
5 1 (0.30%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (1.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.30%) Ansible
2 1 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.30%) Grafana
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
2 1 (0.30%) QRadar
2 1 (0.30%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.30%) vCenter Server
2 1 (0.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 34 (10.24%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.72%) SAP
3 18 (5.42%) Oracle
4 10 (3.01%) IFS
5 8 (2.41%) Bloomberg
6 7 (2.11%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.11%) CQG
6 7 (2.11%) Databricks
6 7 (2.11%) ION Trading
6 7 (2.11%) Patsystems
6 7 (2.11%) Reuters
6 7 (2.11%) Trayport
7 6 (1.81%) Adobe
8 5 (1.51%) Cisco
8 5 (1.51%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.20%) Google
9 4 (1.20%) VMware
10 3 (0.90%) Keysight
10 3 (0.90%) OneTrust
10 3 (0.90%) ServiceNow