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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 342 396
Rank change year-on-year -37 +54 +168
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 279 501 353
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.73% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.87% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 151 205 218
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,550 £51,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,565 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,900 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £54,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -16.92% +18.18%

All Process 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 45,432 57,470 49,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.24% 83.88% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,673 30,239 37,620
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,975 £32,500
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% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,150 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.14% -

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 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 -44 255 £62,538 +15.81% 128
UK excluding London -7 167 £52,000 -3.70% 70
Work from Home +123 121 £70,000 +7.69% 72
London -44 97 £84,000 +24.44% 61
Midlands +85 52 £51,472 -17.64% 18
South East +12 40 £50,462 +0.92% 32
South West +39 39 £57,500 -17.86% 3
West Midlands +64 26 £53,750 -22.45% 14
East Midlands +39 25 £51,058 -8.42% 3
North of England +17 20 £46,750 -15.00% 6
North West +34 17 £46,750 -14.22% 4
Northern Ireland +3 5 £52,000 -24.97% 1
Wales +12 4 £65,000 +50.11% 1
East of England -35 4 £52,000 +15.56% 4
Scotland +3 3 - - 5
North East +19 2 - -
Yorkshire -3 1 - - 2

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 4 (1.43%) Confluence
2 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.08%) AutoCAD
5 3 (1.08%) Civil 3D
6 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (1.08%) Adaptiv
2 3 (1.08%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 25 (8.96%) Azure
2 16 (5.73%) AWS
3 14 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.58%) Entra ID
4 10 (3.58%) SaaS
5 4 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.43%) GCP
5 4 (1.43%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.08%) Azure API Management
6 3 (1.08%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.72%) Serverless
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.36%) IaaS
8 1 (0.36%) OCI
8 1 (0.36%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.24%) Modbus
2 19 (6.81%) Ethernet
3 13 (4.66%) MQTT
4 7 (2.51%) Profibus
5 6 (2.15%) CHAP
5 6 (2.15%) Firewall
5 6 (2.15%) Multicast
6 5 (1.79%) Wireless
7 4 (1.43%) Internet
7 4 (1.43%) VPN
8 3 (1.08%) AMQP
8 3 (1.08%) FIX Connectivity
8 3 (1.08%) HTTP
8 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.43%) Power BI
1 4 (1.43%) Tableau
2 3 (1.08%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.36%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (1.79%) JIRA
2 3 (1.08%) Snyk
3 2 (0.72%) Git
4 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
General
1 113 (40.50%) Finance
2 92 (32.97%) Social Skills
3 78 (27.96%) Banking
4 29 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.39%) Legal
5 25 (8.96%) Manufacturing
6 17 (6.09%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (6.09%) Pharmaceutical
6 17 (6.09%) Retail
7 15 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (5.38%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.87%) Aviation
9 8 (2.87%) Electronics
9 8 (2.87%) Law
10 7 (2.51%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.51%) Local Government
10 7 (2.51%) Retail Banking
11 6 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (17.20%) Analyst
2 41 (14.70%) Senior
3 23 (8.24%) Risk Manager
4 21 (7.53%) Lead
5 16 (5.73%) Systems Engineer
6 15 (5.38%) Risk Analyst
7 14 (5.02%) Auditor
8 13 (4.66%) Architect
8 13 (4.66%) Business Analyst
8 13 (4.66%) IT Manager
8 13 (4.66%) Security Analyst
9 12 (4.30%) Senior Analyst
10 11 (3.94%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (3.94%) Security Architect
11 10 (3.58%) Consultant
12 9 (3.23%) Security Manager
13 8 (2.87%) IT Auditor
13 8 (2.87%) Security Consultant
13 8 (2.87%) Senior Auditor
13 8 (2.87%) Senior IT Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.23%) .NET
2 6 (2.15%) CSS
2 6 (2.15%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (1.43%) EDI
4 3 (1.08%) OAuth
4 3 (1.08%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.72%) Node-RED
6 1 (0.36%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.36%) Pandas
6 1 (0.36%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.36%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 50 (17.92%) Management Information System
2 33 (11.83%) Security Posture
3 24 (8.60%) SCADA
4 16 (5.73%) Operational Technology
5 15 (5.38%) Biopharmaceutical
5 15 (5.38%) Renewable Energy
6 14 (5.02%) Data Centre
6 14 (5.02%) IoT
7 13 (4.66%) Industry 4.0
8 12 (4.30%) Onboarding
9 10 (3.58%) NHS
10 9 (3.23%) Market Risk
10 9 (3.23%) Product Ownership
11 8 (2.87%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (2.51%) Equities
12 7 (2.51%) Fixed Income
12 7 (2.51%) Reinsurance
12 7 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (2.15%) Cloud Native
13 6 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.23%) Windows
2 7 (2.51%) Linux
3 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (48.75%) Risk Management
2 103 (36.92%) Information Security
3 84 (30.11%) Cybersecurity
4 59 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 59 (21.15%) Due Diligence
5 53 (19.00%) Agile
6 52 (18.64%) Roadmaps
7 49 (17.56%) Business Continuity
8 48 (17.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 47 (16.85%) Mentoring
10 43 (15.41%) Process Improvement
11 42 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (15.05%) Project Delivery
12 41 (14.70%) Supply Chain Management
13 38 (13.62%) Business Continuity Management
13 38 (13.62%) Operations Management
14 35 (12.54%) Project Management
15 34 (12.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 28 (10.04%) Analytics
17 24 (8.60%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.66%) Python
2 12 (4.30%) Ladder Logic
3 8 (2.87%) C#
4 7 (2.51%) SQL
5 6 (2.15%) Java
5 6 (2.15%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.43%) C++
7 3 (1.08%) R
8 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 85 (30.47%) CISSP
2 65 (23.30%) Degree
3 64 (22.94%) CRISC
4 55 (19.71%) CISA
5 46 (16.49%) CISM
6 23 (8.24%) Security Cleared
7 18 (6.45%) HNC
8 16 (5.73%) Master's Degree
9 15 (5.38%) HND
9 15 (5.38%) SC Cleared
10 14 (5.02%) Chartered Engineer
10 14 (5.02%) PMI Certification
11 11 (3.94%) CGEIT
11 11 (3.94%) DBS Check
12 10 (3.58%) PMP
12 10 (3.58%) SANS
13 9 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (3.23%) CFA
14 8 (2.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 8 (2.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (34.77%) NIST
2 56 (20.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (16.49%) PCI DSS
4 23 (8.24%) GRC
5 21 (7.53%) GDPR
6 17 (6.09%) SOC 2
7 15 (5.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (4.30%) PMO
9 10 (3.58%) COBIT
10 9 (3.23%) Accessibility
10 9 (3.23%) NIST 800
11 6 (2.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (1.79%) ISO 31000
12 5 (1.79%) JSP 440
12 5 (1.79%) P3O
12 5 (1.79%) SOC 1
13 4 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (1.43%) ISO 22301
13 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 4 (1.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (3.94%) VMware ESXi
1 11 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (5.38%) Functional Safety
2 5 (1.79%) RSA Archer
3 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.72%) BMC PATROL
5 1 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (12.19%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.32%) Siemens
3 20 (7.17%) Rockwell
4 13 (4.66%) AVEVA
5 11 (3.94%) VMware
6 9 (3.23%) Murex
7 8 (2.87%) Allen-Bradley
8 5 (1.79%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.79%) SAP
9 4 (1.43%) Adobe
9 4 (1.43%) Oracle
9 4 (1.43%) Qualys
10 3 (1.08%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.08%) CQG
10 3 (1.08%) ION Trading
10 3 (1.08%) Patsystems
10 3 (1.08%) Reuters
10 3 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.08%) Trayport