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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 351 460
Rank change year-on-year -155 +109 +70
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 296 397 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.80% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.89% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 181 188 248
10th Percentile £43,635 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,390 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -14.81%
75th Percentile £84,500 £86,776 £76,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,490 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +8.16% +0.92% -0.91%

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 77,565 44,386 67,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 89.40% 81.08%
Number of salaries quoted 53,403 25,236 43,866
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,170 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -147 267 £70,000 +16.67% 238
UK excluding London -166 154 £59,490 +8.16% 156
London -48 129 £75,000 -14.29% 109
Work from Home -60 105 £75,000 +8.09% 79
South East -50 52 £57,745 -3.76% 40
North of England -55 43 £59,175 +2.91% 33
North West -7 34 £55,000 -20.73% 18
Midlands -60 19 £67,500 +22.73% 32
West Midlands -50 14 £57,500 +4.55% 16
South West -66 14 £82,500 +50.00% 19
Scotland +3 12 £125,000 +142.04% 21
Yorkshire -37 9 £72,500 +38.10% 11
East of England -41 8 £39,500 -21.00% 12
East Midlands -26 5 £67,500 +80.00% 16
Wales -57 5 £63,855 -4.97% 4
Northern Ireland -83 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 9 (3.04%) Confluence
2 4 (1.35%) Apache
2 4 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.34%) IIS
3 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.72%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.03%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.68%) Primavera
3 1 (0.34%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (16.89%) AWS
2 46 (15.54%) Azure
3 28 (9.46%) GCP
4 13 (4.39%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.70%) SaaS
7 7 (2.36%) GitHub
8 5 (1.69%) Smartsheet
9 4 (1.35%) dbt
9 4 (1.35%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (1.35%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.35%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.01%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.68%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.34%) Anthropic Claude
12 1 (0.34%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.34%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.76%) Network Security
2 10 (3.38%) CHAP
3 6 (2.03%) FIX Connectivity
3 6 (2.03%) Multicast
4 4 (1.35%) Firewall
5 2 (0.68%) HTTP
5 2 (0.68%) Internet
5 2 (0.68%) LAN
5 2 (0.68%) VPN
5 2 (0.68%) WAN
6 1 (0.34%) BGP
6 1 (0.34%) DHCP
6 1 (0.34%) DNS
6 1 (0.34%) SAN
6 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.34%) SNMP
6 1 (0.34%) SSL
6 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.34%) VSAN
6 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (2.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.35%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.01%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.01%) Power BI
3 3 (1.01%) Redis
4 2 (0.68%) Db2
4 2 (0.68%) Metadata
5 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.34%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.34%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (6.76%) JIRA
2 11 (3.72%) LabVIEW
3 3 (1.01%) Git
4 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.34%) GitLab
4 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 142 (47.97%) Finance
2 120 (40.54%) Social Skills
3 113 (38.18%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (19.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (15.88%) Law
6 30 (10.14%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (9.12%) Legal
8 26 (8.78%) Banking
9 24 (8.11%) Aerospace
10 23 (7.77%) Public Sector
11 21 (7.09%) Manufacturing
12 15 (5.07%) Financial Institution
12 15 (5.07%) Retail
13 14 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (3.72%) Electronics
16 9 (3.04%) Japanese Language
17 8 (2.70%) Retail Banking
18 6 (2.03%) Italian Language
18 6 (2.03%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 56 (18.92%) Senior
2 43 (14.53%) Analyst
3 29 (9.80%) Architect
4 23 (7.77%) Auditor
4 23 (7.77%) Security Architect
5 22 (7.43%) Consultant
5 22 (7.43%) Security Manager
6 21 (7.09%) Security Consultant
7 20 (6.76%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 19 (6.42%) IT Manager
9 17 (5.74%) Security Analyst
10 16 (5.41%) Systems Engineer
11 14 (4.73%) Senior Consultant
12 13 (4.39%) Lead
12 13 (4.39%) Senior Security Consultant
13 11 (3.72%) IT Auditor
14 10 (3.38%) Security Auditor
14 10 (3.38%) Software Engineer
15 9 (3.04%) Business Analyst
15 9 (3.04%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.03%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.35%) .NET
2 4 (1.35%) Kafka
3 3 (1.01%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.68%) Middleware
5 1 (0.34%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.34%) CSS
5 1 (0.34%) HTML
5 1 (0.34%) PySpark
5 1 (0.34%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.34%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.24%) Management Information System
2 20 (6.76%) Credit Risk
3 19 (6.42%) Security Posture
4 13 (4.39%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.72%) Operational Technology
7 8 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.70%) Fibre Optics
8 7 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.03%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.03%) Driving Licence
9 6 (2.03%) Equities
9 6 (2.03%) Eurex
9 6 (2.03%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (2.03%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.69%) Cyber Security Posture
10 5 (1.69%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.73%) Windows
2 8 (2.70%) Linux
3 2 (0.68%) AIX
3 2 (0.68%) Unix
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.34%) SUSE
4 1 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (30.74%) Cybersecurity
2 84 (28.38%) Risk Management
3 76 (25.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 75 (25.34%) Information Security
5 72 (24.32%) Agile
6 61 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (19.26%) Decision-Making
8 55 (18.58%) AI
9 49 (16.55%) Threat Modelling
10 44 (14.86%) Stakeholder Management
11 43 (14.53%) Incident Response
12 42 (14.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 40 (13.51%) Validation
14 36 (12.16%) Security Architecture
15 35 (11.82%) Analytics
16 34 (11.49%) Internal Audit
17 33 (11.15%) Cloud Security
17 33 (11.15%) Vulnerability Management
18 32 (10.81%) IT Audit
19 30 (10.14%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (7.77%) Python
2 12 (4.05%) Java
3 8 (2.70%) MATLAB
3 8 (2.70%) SQL
4 4 (1.35%) C
4 4 (1.35%) C++
4 4 (1.35%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.01%) Go
5 3 (1.01%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.34%) Bash
6 1 (0.34%) Bicep
6 1 (0.34%) C#
6 1 (0.34%) Julia
6 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 105 (35.47%) CISSP
2 93 (31.42%) CISM
3 91 (30.74%) Degree
4 43 (14.53%) Security Cleared
5 41 (13.85%) CISA
6 39 (13.18%) CRISC
7 34 (11.49%) SC Cleared
8 29 (9.80%) Master's Degree
9 17 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (4.39%) CompTIA Security+
12 11 (3.72%) DV Cleared
13 10 (3.38%) CGEIT
13 10 (3.38%) FFIEC
13 10 (3.38%) SANS
14 9 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (3.04%) PhD
15 8 (2.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (2.70%) PMI Certification
15 8 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (31.08%) NIST
2 77 (26.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (11.15%) COBIT
4 32 (10.81%) GRC
5 25 (8.45%) GDPR
6 24 (8.11%) NCSC
7 23 (7.77%) SLA
8 20 (6.76%) PCI DSS
9 18 (6.08%) ITGC
10 17 (5.74%) Accessibility
10 17 (5.74%) SOC 2
11 15 (5.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (4.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 11 (3.72%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (3.04%) NIST 800
15 6 (2.03%) Data Quality
15 6 (2.03%) Def Stans
15 6 (2.03%) QA
16 5 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 4 (1.35%) GMP
System Software
1 10 (3.38%) Firmware
2 3 (1.01%) Docker
2 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.01%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.34%) Ansible
2 1 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.34%) Proxmox
2 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (7.77%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.76%) Oracle
3 18 (6.08%) SAP
4 13 (4.39%) IFS
5 6 (2.03%) Atlassian
5 6 (2.03%) Bloomberg
5 6 (2.03%) CQG
5 6 (2.03%) Databricks
5 6 (2.03%) ION Trading
5 6 (2.03%) Patsystems
5 6 (2.03%) Reuters
5 6 (2.03%) Trayport
6 4 (1.35%) Adobe
6 4 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.35%) VMware
7 3 (1.01%) Citrix
7 3 (1.01%) Keysight
7 3 (1.01%) OneTrust
8 2 (0.68%) Google
9 1 (0.34%) Veeam