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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 276 414
Rank change year-on-year -152 +138 +96
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 221 560 352
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 1.05% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.16% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 119 174 217
10th Percentile £45,886 £35,375 £51,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,822 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.13% -20.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £88,125 £77,188 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,250 £91,050 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £54,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -16.92% +18.18%

All Process & 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 48,033 48,451 50,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.60% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,230 23,579 38,463
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,479
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 12 January 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 12 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 -131 206 £70,000 +26.13% 96
UK excluding London -66 121 £52,000 -3.70% 88
Work from Home +92 114 £70,000 +21.38% 70
London -112 87 £72,367 +3.38% 26
Midlands +30 39 £51,058 -18.31% 11
South West +30 39 £57,500 -25.81% 8
East Midlands +2 23 £51,058 -11.20% 4
South East -6 20 £55,000 +10.00% 32
West Midlands +23 15 £44,543 -34.72% 7
North of England -21 15 £45,000 -18.92% 15
North West +14 13 £45,000 -18.55% 11
Northern Ireland -16 3 £52,000 -24.97% 2
East of England -41 3 £52,000 +15.56% 14
Wales -2 2 £66,250 +34.92% 3
North East +5 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -23 1 - - 3

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 (1.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.81%) Q-Pulse
1 4 (1.81%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.90%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 20 (9.05%) Azure
2 17 (7.69%) AWS
3 13 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (5.88%) SaaS
4 6 (2.71%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.36%) Azure API Management
6 3 (1.36%) GCP
6 3 (1.36%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.36%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.90%) Serverless
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.45%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.45%) IaaS
8 1 (0.45%) OCI
8 1 (0.45%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.33%) CHAP
2 5 (2.26%) Firewall
2 5 (2.26%) Multicast
2 5 (2.26%) Wireless
3 3 (1.36%) AMQP
3 3 (1.36%) HTTP
3 3 (1.36%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.36%) VPN
4 2 (0.90%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.26%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (1.36%) Power BI
3 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Power Query
4 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.36%) JIRA
1 3 (1.36%) Snyk
2 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 109 (49.32%) Finance
2 82 (37.10%) Banking
3 71 (32.13%) Social Skills
4 28 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.14%) Financial Institution
6 16 (7.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.88%) Law
8 12 (5.43%) Legal
9 11 (4.98%) Public Sector
10 10 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (3.17%) Retail
12 5 (2.26%) Marketing
12 5 (2.26%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.81%) Agriculture
13 4 (1.81%) Games
13 4 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.36%) Back Office
15 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.90%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 33 (14.93%) Senior
2 30 (13.57%) Analyst
3 24 (10.86%) Auditor
4 20 (9.05%) IT Manager
5 14 (6.33%) Internal Auditor
5 14 (6.33%) Security Auditor
6 13 (5.88%) Architect
7 11 (4.98%) Security Analyst
7 11 (4.98%) Security Architect
8 10 (4.52%) Consultant
8 10 (4.52%) IT Auditor
8 10 (4.52%) Senior Auditor
8 10 (4.52%) Senior IT Auditor
9 9 (4.07%) Change Manager
9 9 (4.07%) IT Change Manager
10 8 (3.62%) Information Analyst
10 8 (3.62%) Information Security Analyst
10 8 (3.62%) Security Consultant
10 8 (3.62%) Security Manager
10 8 (3.62%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.26%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (1.36%) EDI
2 3 (1.36%) OAuth
2 3 (1.36%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 52 (23.53%) Management Information System
2 24 (10.86%) Security Posture
3 11 (4.98%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (4.07%) CMDB
4 9 (4.07%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.17%) Blockchain
5 7 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.71%) Equities
6 6 (2.71%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.71%) Reinsurance
7 5 (2.26%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (2.26%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.36%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.36%) NHS
10 2 (0.90%) PKI
10 2 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.71%) Linux
1 6 (2.71%) Windows
2 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (49.32%) Risk Management
2 104 (47.06%) Information Security
3 60 (27.15%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (25.34%) Roadmaps
5 55 (24.89%) Due Diligence
6 54 (24.43%) Business Continuity
7 50 (22.62%) Process Improvement
8 47 (21.27%) Supply Chain Management
9 45 (20.36%) Agile
9 45 (20.36%) Business Continuity Management
9 45 (20.36%) Operations Management
10 38 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 29 (13.12%) Incident Response
13 28 (12.67%) Internal Audit
14 25 (11.31%) Analytics
14 25 (11.31%) Data Protection
14 25 (11.31%) Vulnerability Management
15 21 (9.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.26%) Ladder Logic
2 4 (1.81%) C++
2 4 (1.81%) SQL
3 3 (1.36%) Java
3 3 (1.36%) Python
4 1 (0.45%) C#
4 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 97 (43.89%) CISSP
2 74 (33.48%) CISA
3 60 (27.15%) CRISC
4 45 (20.36%) CISM
5 31 (14.03%) Degree
6 20 (9.05%) Security Cleared
7 19 (8.60%) CGEIT
8 16 (7.24%) SANS
9 15 (6.79%) SC Cleared
10 14 (6.33%) FFIEC
11 11 (4.98%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (4.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 10 (4.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 9 (4.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 9 (4.07%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (4.07%) DBS Check
14 7 (3.17%) CompTIA Security+
15 6 (2.71%) CISMP
15 6 (2.71%) City & Guilds
15 6 (2.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (45.70%) NIST
2 52 (23.53%) PCI DSS
3 51 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (12.67%) GDPR
5 24 (10.86%) GRC
6 17 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (6.79%) COBIT
8 11 (4.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (4.52%) SOC 2
10 8 (3.62%) NIST 800
11 7 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (2.71%) NCSC
13 5 (2.26%) JSP 440
14 4 (1.81%) GMP
14 4 (1.81%) ISO 22301
14 4 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 3 (1.36%) PMO
16 2 (0.90%) ISO 14001
16 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 2 (0.90%) SOC 1
Systems Management
1 2 (0.90%) BMC PATROL
1 2 (0.90%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.45%) Ansible
2 1 (0.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.07%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.62%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.26%) SAP
4 5 (2.26%) Siemens
5 4 (1.81%) Adobe
5 4 (1.81%) Qualys
6 3 (1.36%) Checkmarx
6 3 (1.36%) Cognos
6 3 (1.36%) Oracle
7 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.90%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.90%) CQG
7 2 (0.90%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.90%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.90%) LogRhythm
7 2 (0.90%) Patsystems
7 2 (0.90%) Reuters
7 2 (0.90%) Trayport
7 2 (0.90%) Trend Micro