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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 240 403
Rank change year-on-year -203 +163 +69
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 224 662 426
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 1.27% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 1.39% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 117 143 281
10th Percentile £47,968 £33,200 £46,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £45,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +5.07%
75th Percentile £87,500 £74,144 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £51,422 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.04% -20.89% +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 51,135 47,583 62,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.17% 91.57% 88.82%
Number of salaries quoted 30,200 22,958 48,143
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,531 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 31 January 2026.

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 31 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 -202 213 £70,000 +27.27% 68
UK excluding London -66 120 £53,500 +4.04% 56
Work from Home +96 114 £70,000 +27.27% 32
London -167 93 £70,000 - 23
South West +26 39 £57,500 -16.36% 5
Midlands +30 35 £62,500 +15.74% 10
East Midlands +7 23 £51,058 -5.45% 2
South East +4 23 £52,000 +55.22% 22
North of England -29 15 £35,009 -36.92% 9
North West +2 13 £35,009 -36.92% 6
West Midlands +27 11 £62,500 +6.11% 8
East of England -49 4 £57,250 +27.22% 6
Wales 0 2 £66,250 +34.92% 3
North East 0 1 - -
Yorkshire -20 1 - - 3
Scotland -20 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland -20 1 £52,000 -24.97%

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 (1.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Q-Pulse
1 4 (1.79%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.89%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.04%) Azure
2 17 (7.59%) AWS
3 15 (6.70%) SaaS
4 10 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.79%) GCP
7 3 (1.34%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.34%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.34%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.34%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.89%) Serverless
9 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.45%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.45%) IaaS
9 1 (0.45%) OCI
9 1 (0.45%) PaaS
9 1 (0.45%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.04%) CHAP
2 6 (2.68%) Firewall
3 5 (2.23%) Multicast
3 5 (2.23%) Wireless
4 3 (1.34%) AMQP
4 3 (1.34%) HTTP
4 3 (1.34%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.34%) VPN
5 2 (0.89%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.45%) Broadband
6 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.23%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (1.34%) Power BI
3 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.89%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.45%) DB2
4 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Power Query
4 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.34%) JIRA
1 3 (1.34%) Snyk
2 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 119 (53.13%) Finance
2 86 (38.39%) Banking
3 71 (31.70%) Social Skills
4 29 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (10.71%) Financial Institution
6 17 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (7.14%) Law
8 12 (5.36%) Public Sector
9 11 (4.91%) Legal
9 11 (4.91%) Retail
10 7 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.13%) Marketing
10 7 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.68%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.23%) Back Office
13 4 (1.79%) Agriculture
13 4 (1.79%) Games
14 3 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.34%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (15.63%) Senior
2 30 (13.39%) Analyst
2 30 (13.39%) Auditor
3 23 (10.27%) IT Manager
4 18 (8.04%) Security Auditor
5 17 (7.59%) Internal Auditor
6 13 (5.80%) Security Analyst
7 12 (5.36%) Change Manager
7 12 (5.36%) IT Auditor
7 12 (5.36%) IT Change Manager
7 12 (5.36%) Senior Auditor
7 12 (5.36%) Senior IT Auditor
8 10 (4.46%) Architect
8 10 (4.46%) Consultant
8 10 (4.46%) Information Analyst
8 10 (4.46%) Information Security Analyst
8 10 (4.46%) Lead
8 10 (4.46%) Security Architect
9 8 (3.57%) Security Consultant
9 8 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.23%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (1.34%) OAuth
2 3 (1.34%) OAuth2
3 2 (0.89%) EDI
4 1 (0.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 52 (23.21%) Management Information System
2 17 (7.59%) Security Posture
3 12 (5.36%) CMDB
3 12 (5.36%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (4.46%) Blockchain
5 9 (4.02%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.57%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.68%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.68%) Reinsurance
9 5 (2.23%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.23%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (2.23%) Equities
9 5 (2.23%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.79%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.34%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.34%) PKI
12 2 (0.89%) Blog
12 2 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.13%) Windows
2 6 (2.68%) Linux
3 1 (0.45%) AIX
3 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (47.32%) Risk Management
2 103 (45.98%) Information Security
3 62 (27.68%) Cybersecurity
4 55 (24.55%) Due Diligence
5 53 (23.66%) Roadmaps
6 52 (23.21%) Business Continuity
7 51 (22.77%) Agile
8 50 (22.32%) Process Improvement
9 46 (20.54%) Business Continuity Management
10 45 (20.09%) Operations Management
10 45 (20.09%) Supply Chain Management
11 37 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (16.52%) Internal Audit
12 35 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (14.29%) Analytics
13 32 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 31 (13.84%) Incident Response
15 29 (12.95%) Data Protection
16 27 (12.05%) Validation
16 27 (12.05%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (1.79%) C++
1 4 (1.79%) SQL
2 3 (1.34%) Java
2 3 (1.34%) Python
3 2 (0.89%) Ladder Logic
4 1 (0.45%) C#
4 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 99 (44.20%) CISSP
2 78 (34.82%) CISA
3 60 (26.79%) CRISC
4 41 (18.30%) CISM
5 24 (10.71%) Security Cleared
6 23 (10.27%) CGEIT
6 23 (10.27%) Degree
7 20 (8.93%) SANS
8 18 (8.04%) FFIEC
9 16 (7.14%) SC Cleared
10 10 (4.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (4.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (4.02%) CompTIA Security+
11 9 (4.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 9 (4.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 8 (3.57%) ISACA
13 7 (3.13%) DV Cleared
14 6 (2.68%) CISMP
14 6 (2.68%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (42.86%) NIST
2 53 (23.66%) PCI DSS
3 47 (20.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (13.84%) GDPR
5 22 (9.82%) GRC
6 19 (8.48%) COBIT
7 14 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (5.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (4.02%) SOC 2
10 7 (3.13%) NCSC
11 6 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (2.68%) NIST 800
12 5 (2.23%) JSP 440
13 4 (1.79%) GMP
13 4 (1.79%) ISO 22301
13 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 4 (1.79%) QA
14 3 (1.34%) ISO 9001
14 3 (1.34%) SLA
15 2 (0.89%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 1 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (0.89%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (0.45%) Ansible
2 1 (0.45%) CASB
2 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.36%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.23%) SAP
5 4 (1.79%) Adobe
5 4 (1.79%) Qualys
6 3 (1.34%) Checkmarx
6 3 (1.34%) Cognos
6 3 (1.34%) Oracle
7 2 (0.89%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.89%) CQG
7 2 (0.89%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.89%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.89%) LogRhythm
7 2 (0.89%) Openreach
7 2 (0.89%) Patsystems
7 2 (0.89%) Reuters
7 2 (0.89%) Siemens
7 2 (0.89%) Trayport
7 2 (0.89%) Trend Micro