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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 288 392
Rank change year-on-year -135 +104 +130
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 228 530 344
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.95% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 1.05% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 126 178 212
10th Percentile £42,998 £35,875 £51,325
25th Percentile £51,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,538 £55,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% -20.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,000 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,450 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £54,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -16.92% +21.50%

All Process and 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 48,923 50,285 45,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.61% 89.72% 93.38%
Number of salaries quoted 28,723 25,244 34,703
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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 -122 213 £70,000 +26.70% 156
UK excluding London -57 130 £52,000 -3.70% 118
Work from Home +86 114 £70,000 +19.15% 134
London -100 85 £80,000 +15.43% 59
Midlands +38 45 £51,058 -18.31% 21
South West +22 39 £57,500 -24.59% 13
East Midlands +3 23 £51,058 -11.20% 9
South East -2 23 £52,000 +4.00% 38
West Midlands +39 21 £51,887 -23.95% 12
North of England -19 15 £46,750 -15.77% 24
North West +12 13 £46,750 -15.38% 17
Northern Ireland -8 3 £52,000 -24.97% 1
East of England -37 3 £52,000 +15.56% 13
Wales -1 2 £66,250 +34.92% 3
North East +10 1 - -
Yorkshire -21 1 - - 7

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 (1.32%) Confluence
2 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (1.32%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.88%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 19 (8.33%) Azure
2 16 (7.02%) AWS
3 14 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (5.70%) SaaS
5 6 (2.63%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.32%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.32%) GCP
7 3 (1.32%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.32%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.88%) Serverless
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.44%) IaaS
9 1 (0.44%) OCI
9 1 (0.44%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.39%) CHAP
2 6 (2.63%) Firewall
3 5 (2.19%) Multicast
3 5 (2.19%) Wireless
4 4 (1.75%) VPN
5 3 (1.32%) AMQP
5 3 (1.32%) HTTP
5 3 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.88%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.88%) FIX Connectivity
6 2 (0.88%) Modbus
6 2 (0.88%) Profibus
7 1 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.75%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (1.32%) Power BI
3 2 (0.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.44%) Power Query
4 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.32%) JIRA
1 3 (1.32%) Snyk
2 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
General
1 106 (46.49%) Finance
2 79 (34.65%) Banking
3 74 (32.46%) Social Skills
4 28 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.33%) Legal
6 17 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (6.14%) Financial Institution
8 13 (5.70%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (5.26%) Law
10 10 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (4.39%) Public Sector
11 9 (3.95%) Retail
12 5 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.19%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.75%) Games
13 4 (1.75%) Marketing
14 3 (1.32%) Back Office
14 3 (1.32%) Electronics
14 3 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (14.47%) Analyst
2 30 (13.16%) Senior
3 20 (8.77%) Auditor
4 16 (7.02%) IT Manager
5 13 (5.70%) Architect
6 12 (5.26%) Security Analyst
7 11 (4.82%) Risk Manager
7 11 (4.82%) Security Architect
8 10 (4.39%) Internal Auditor
8 10 (4.39%) IT Auditor
8 10 (4.39%) Security Auditor
8 10 (4.39%) Senior Auditor
8 10 (4.39%) Senior IT Auditor
9 9 (3.95%) Consultant
9 9 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (3.51%) Information Analyst
10 8 (3.51%) Information Security Analyst
10 8 (3.51%) Security Consultant
10 8 (3.51%) Security Manager
10 8 (3.51%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.19%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.75%) EDI
3 3 (1.32%) OAuth
3 3 (1.32%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 55 (24.12%) Management Information System
2 29 (12.72%) Security Posture
3 11 (4.82%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.63%) CMDB
4 6 (2.63%) Equities
4 6 (2.63%) Fixed Income
4 6 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.63%) Reinsurance
5 5 (2.19%) Blockchain
5 5 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (2.19%) Taxonomies
6 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.32%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.32%) NHS
8 2 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.63%) Linux
1 6 (2.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (50.44%) Risk Management
2 108 (47.37%) Information Security
3 60 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
3 60 (26.32%) Due Diligence
4 57 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 54 (23.68%) Business Continuity
6 50 (21.93%) Process Improvement
7 48 (21.05%) Supply Chain Management
8 45 (19.74%) Business Continuity Management
8 45 (19.74%) Operations Management
9 42 (18.42%) Agile
9 42 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 27 (11.84%) Incident Response
13 25 (10.96%) Internal Audit
13 25 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
15 23 (10.09%) Data Protection
16 22 (9.65%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.07%) Ladder Logic
2 4 (1.75%) C++
2 4 (1.75%) SQL
3 3 (1.32%) Java
3 3 (1.32%) Python
4 1 (0.44%) C#
4 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 97 (42.54%) CISSP
2 69 (30.26%) CISA
2 69 (30.26%) CRISC
3 48 (21.05%) CISM
4 37 (16.23%) Degree
5 19 (8.33%) Security Cleared
6 16 (7.02%) SC Cleared
7 15 (6.58%) CGEIT
8 12 (5.26%) SANS
9 11 (4.82%) Master's Degree
10 10 (4.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (4.39%) FFIEC
10 10 (4.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 10 (4.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 9 (3.95%) DBS Check
12 7 (3.07%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (2.63%) CEH
13 6 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (2.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (45.61%) NIST
2 61 (26.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (23.68%) PCI DSS
4 27 (11.84%) GRC
5 25 (10.96%) GDPR
6 19 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 17 (7.46%) SOC 2
8 11 (4.82%) COBIT
9 10 (4.39%) NIST 800
10 9 (3.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (2.63%) PMO
13 5 (2.19%) JSP 440
13 5 (2.19%) SOC 1
14 4 (1.75%) GMP
14 4 (1.75%) ISO 22301
14 4 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 4 (1.75%) NCSC
15 3 (1.32%) P3O
16 2 (0.88%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.19%) RSA Archer
2 2 (0.88%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (0.44%) Ansible
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.07%) Salesforce
2 7 (3.07%) Siemens
3 6 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.19%) SAP
5 4 (1.75%) Adobe
5 4 (1.75%) Qualys
6 3 (1.32%) Checkmarx
6 3 (1.32%) Cognos
6 3 (1.32%) Oracle
7 2 (0.88%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (0.88%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.88%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.88%) CQG
7 2 (0.88%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.88%) LogRhythm
7 2 (0.88%) Reuters
7 2 (0.88%) Rockwell
7 2 (0.88%) Trayport
7 2 (0.88%) Trend Micro