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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 341 469
Rank change year-on-year -168 +128 +62
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 289 393 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.79% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.89% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 179 184 249
10th Percentile £43,194 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,293 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -12.21%
75th Percentile £84,500 £86,776 £76,250
90th Percentile £115,500 £106,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,490 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +8.16% +1.85% -1.82%

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 77,301 44,356 67,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.43% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 53,282 25,229 44,135
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £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 7 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 7 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 -140 261 £70,000 +14.29% 240
UK excluding London -152 150 £59,490 +8.16% 150
London -42 126 £75,000 -15.49% 111
Work from Home -49 104 £75,000 +7.62% 85
South East -38 51 £57,745 -3.76% 41
North of England -60 43 £59,175 +2.91% 33
North West -13 34 £55,000 -20.73% 19
Midlands -66 18 £67,500 +22.73% 30
South West -60 13 £85,000 +54.55% 19
West Midlands -60 13 £52,500 -4.55% 17
Scotland +6 11 £125,000 +142.04% 17
Yorkshire -24 9 £72,500 +38.10% 10
East of England -43 8 £39,500 -21.00% 9
East Midlands -31 5 £67,500 +80.00% 13
Wales -59 5 £63,855 -4.97% 5
Northern Ireland -85 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 8 (2.77%) Confluence
2 4 (1.38%) Apache
2 4 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.35%) IIS
3 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.81%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.08%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.69%) Primavera
3 1 (0.35%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (16.96%) AWS
2 46 (15.92%) Azure
3 28 (9.69%) GCP
4 13 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.77%) SaaS
7 7 (2.42%) GitHub
8 5 (1.73%) Smartsheet
9 4 (1.38%) dbt
9 4 (1.38%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (1.38%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.38%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.69%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.35%) Anthropic Claude
12 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.35%) Nutanix
12 1 (0.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.92%) Network Security
2 10 (3.46%) CHAP
3 6 (2.08%) FIX Connectivity
3 6 (2.08%) Multicast
4 4 (1.38%) Firewall
5 2 (0.69%) HTTP
5 2 (0.69%) Internet
5 2 (0.69%) LAN
5 2 (0.69%) VPN
5 2 (0.69%) WAN
6 1 (0.35%) BGP
6 1 (0.35%) DHCP
6 1 (0.35%) DNS
6 1 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.35%) IPsec
6 1 (0.35%) SAN
6 1 (0.35%) SNMP
6 1 (0.35%) SSL
6 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (2.42%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.38%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.04%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.04%) Power BI
3 3 (1.04%) Redis
4 2 (0.69%) Db2
4 2 (0.69%) Metadata
5 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.35%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (6.57%) JIRA
2 11 (3.81%) LabVIEW
3 2 (0.69%) Git
4 1 (0.35%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.35%) GitLab
4 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 138 (47.75%) Finance
2 117 (40.48%) Social Skills
3 110 (38.06%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (19.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 45 (15.57%) Law
6 30 (10.38%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (9.34%) Legal
8 26 (9.00%) Banking
9 23 (7.96%) Public Sector
10 22 (7.61%) Aerospace
11 21 (7.27%) Manufacturing
12 15 (5.19%) Financial Institution
12 15 (5.19%) Retail
13 14 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (3.81%) Electronics
16 9 (3.11%) Japanese Language
17 8 (2.77%) Retail Banking
18 6 (2.08%) Italian Language
18 6 (2.08%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 54 (18.69%) Senior
2 42 (14.53%) Analyst
3 29 (10.03%) Architect
4 23 (7.96%) Auditor
4 23 (7.96%) Security Architect
5 22 (7.61%) Security Manager
6 21 (7.27%) Consultant
7 20 (6.92%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 20 (6.92%) Security Consultant
8 19 (6.57%) IT Manager
9 16 (5.54%) Security Analyst
9 16 (5.54%) Systems Engineer
10 13 (4.50%) Lead
10 13 (4.50%) Senior Consultant
11 12 (4.15%) Senior Security Consultant
12 11 (3.81%) IT Auditor
13 10 (3.46%) Security Auditor
14 9 (3.11%) Business Analyst
14 9 (3.11%) Security Engineer
14 9 (3.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.38%) .NET
2 4 (1.38%) Kafka
3 2 (0.69%) Middleware
3 2 (0.69%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.35%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.35%) CSS
4 1 (0.35%) HTML
4 1 (0.35%) PySpark
4 1 (0.35%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (17.99%) Management Information System
2 20 (6.92%) Credit Risk
3 19 (6.57%) Security Posture
4 13 (4.50%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.81%) Operational Technology
7 8 (2.77%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.77%) Fibre Optics
8 7 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.08%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.08%) Driving Licence
9 6 (2.08%) Equities
9 6 (2.08%) Eurex
9 6 (2.08%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (2.08%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.73%) Cyber Security Posture
10 5 (1.73%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.84%) Windows
2 8 (2.77%) Linux
3 2 (0.69%) AIX
3 2 (0.69%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.35%) SUSE
4 1 (0.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (31.14%) Cybersecurity
2 82 (28.37%) Risk Management
3 74 (25.61%) Continuous Improvement
4 73 (25.26%) Information Security
5 70 (24.22%) Agile
6 58 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (19.38%) Decision-Making
8 53 (18.34%) AI
9 47 (16.26%) Threat Modelling
10 44 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 43 (14.88%) Incident Response
12 42 (14.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 37 (12.80%) Validation
14 36 (12.46%) Security Architecture
15 34 (11.76%) Internal Audit
16 33 (11.42%) Analytics
16 33 (11.42%) Cloud Security
16 33 (11.42%) Vulnerability Management
17 32 (11.07%) IT Audit
18 29 (10.03%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.61%) Python
2 11 (3.81%) Java
3 8 (2.77%) MATLAB
3 8 (2.77%) SQL
4 4 (1.38%) C
4 4 (1.38%) C++
4 4 (1.38%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.04%) Go
5 3 (1.04%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.35%) Bash
6 1 (0.35%) Bicep
6 1 (0.35%) C#
6 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 104 (35.99%) CISSP
2 92 (31.83%) CISM
3 88 (30.45%) Degree
4 41 (14.19%) CISA
4 41 (14.19%) Security Cleared
5 39 (13.49%) CRISC
6 33 (11.42%) SC Cleared
7 27 (9.34%) Master's Degree
8 16 (5.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (4.50%) CompTIA Security+
10 10 (3.46%) CGEIT
10 10 (3.46%) DV Cleared
10 10 (3.46%) FFIEC
10 10 (3.46%) SANS
11 9 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (2.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 8 (2.77%) PhD
13 7 (2.42%) PMI Certification
13 7 (2.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (31.14%) NIST
2 76 (26.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (11.42%) COBIT
4 32 (11.07%) GRC
5 25 (8.65%) GDPR
6 23 (7.96%) NCSC
6 23 (7.96%) SLA
7 20 (6.92%) PCI DSS
8 18 (6.23%) ITGC
9 17 (5.88%) Accessibility
9 17 (5.88%) SOC 2
10 15 (5.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (4.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 11 (3.81%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (2.77%) NIST 800
14 6 (2.08%) Data Quality
14 6 (2.08%) Def Stans
14 6 (2.08%) QA
15 5 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 4 (1.38%) GMP
System Software
1 9 (3.11%) Firmware
2 3 (1.04%) Docker
2 3 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.35%) Ansible
2 1 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.35%) Proxmox
2 1 (0.35%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (7.96%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.92%) Oracle
3 18 (6.23%) SAP
4 13 (4.50%) IFS
5 6 (2.08%) Atlassian
5 6 (2.08%) Bloomberg
5 6 (2.08%) CQG
5 6 (2.08%) Databricks
5 6 (2.08%) ION Trading
5 6 (2.08%) Patsystems
5 6 (2.08%) Reuters
5 6 (2.08%) Trayport
6 4 (1.38%) Adobe
6 4 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.38%) VMware
7 3 (1.04%) Citrix
7 3 (1.04%) Keysight
7 3 (1.04%) OneTrust
8 2 (0.69%) Google
9 1 (0.35%) Veeam