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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 262 509
Rank change year-on-year -256 +247 -25
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 250 561 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 1.14% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 1.26% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 175 187 284
10th Percentile £44,500 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,875 £86,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £106,350 £105,000 £85,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 72,826 44,439 83,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.81% 90.30% 82.24%
Number of salaries quoted 50,337 24,847 58,274
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Top 15 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 July 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 -219 231 £70,000 +16.67% 160
UK excluding London -180 126 £56,000 +1.82% 97
London -159 111 £75,000 -11.24% 81
Work from Home -51 91 £75,000 +8.09% 49
South East -45 50 £56,000 -6.67% 32
North of England -30 37 £55,000 -4.35% 29
North West -17 28 £50,000 -28.26% 19
Midlands -60 16 £67,500 +22.73% 11
West Midlands -43 11 £52,500 -4.55% 6
South West -58 11 £80,000 +45.45% 11
Yorkshire -33 9 £72,500 +40.78% 6
Scotland -10 6 - - 7
East Midlands -32 5 £67,500 +80.00% 5
Wales -47 3 £51,709 -23.04% 3
East of England -57 3 £51,000 +2.00% 6

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 (1.60%) Confluence
2 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.60%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.60%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.80%) Primavera
3 1 (0.40%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 36 (14.40%) AWS
1 36 (14.40%) Azure
2 24 (9.60%) GCP
3 13 (5.20%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (4.00%) SaaS
5 6 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.00%) Smartsheet
7 3 (1.20%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.80%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.40%) GitHub
9 1 (0.40%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.40%) IaaS
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.40%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.20%) Network Security
2 15 (6.00%) CHAP
3 5 (2.00%) Firewall
4 4 (1.60%) FIX Connectivity
4 4 (1.60%) Multicast
5 2 (0.80%) Internet
5 2 (0.80%) LAN
5 2 (0.80%) VPN
5 2 (0.80%) WAN
6 1 (0.40%) BGP
6 1 (0.40%) Broadband
6 1 (0.40%) DHCP
6 1 (0.40%) DNS
6 1 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.40%) IPsec
6 1 (0.40%) SNMP
6 1 (0.40%) SSL
6 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.40%) VLAN
6 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.60%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.20%) Db2
3 2 (0.80%) Power BI
4 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (5.60%) JIRA
2 10 (4.00%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.40%) Git
3 1 (0.40%) GitLab
3 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 121 (48.40%) Finance
2 101 (40.40%) Social Skills
3 90 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (21.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 32 (12.80%) Law
6 26 (10.40%) Banking
6 26 (10.40%) Legal
7 25 (10.00%) Public Sector
8 23 (9.20%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (8.80%) Financial Institution
10 20 (8.00%) Retail
11 18 (7.20%) Manufacturing
12 14 (5.60%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (4.40%) Retail Banking
14 10 (4.00%) Aerospace
14 10 (4.00%) Electronics
15 9 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (3.60%) Japanese Language
16 6 (2.40%) Italian Language
16 6 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (15.60%) Senior
2 34 (13.60%) Analyst
3 30 (12.00%) Architect
4 27 (10.80%) Auditor
5 25 (10.00%) Security Architect
6 22 (8.80%) IT Manager
7 17 (6.80%) Lead
7 17 (6.80%) Security Manager
8 16 (6.40%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 15 (6.00%) Security Auditor
9 15 (6.00%) Systems Engineer
10 12 (4.80%) Consultant
10 12 (4.80%) Internal Auditor
10 12 (4.80%) IT Auditor
10 12 (4.80%) Security Analyst
10 12 (4.80%) Security Consultant
11 11 (4.40%) Senior Auditor
11 11 (4.40%) Senior IT Auditor
12 9 (3.60%) Test Engineer
13 8 (3.20%) Information Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.60%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (1.20%) .NET
2 3 (1.20%) Kafka
2 3 (1.20%) Middleware
3 1 (0.40%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.40%) CSS
3 1 (0.40%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.40%) Management Information System
2 21 (8.40%) Credit Risk
3 16 (6.40%) Security Posture
4 13 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.40%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.20%) Blockchain
6 8 (3.20%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (3.20%) Fibre Optics
7 7 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.40%) Driving Licence
9 5 (2.00%) Life Science
9 5 (2.00%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.60%) CMDB
10 4 (1.60%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.60%) Equities
10 4 (1.60%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.40%) Windows
2 4 (1.60%) Linux
3 3 (1.20%) AIX
3 3 (1.20%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (29.60%) Cybersecurity
2 72 (28.80%) Risk Management
3 60 (24.00%) Agile
3 60 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 60 (24.00%) Information Security
4 47 (18.80%) Incident Response
5 45 (18.00%) Decision-Making
6 43 (17.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 41 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (16.00%) Internal Audit
9 38 (15.20%) Validation
10 37 (14.80%) AI
10 37 (14.80%) Threat Modelling
11 35 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 33 (13.20%) Vulnerability Management
13 32 (12.80%) Analytics
14 31 (12.40%) IT Audit
14 31 (12.40%) Security Architecture
15 29 (11.60%) Data Analytics
15 29 (11.60%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (4.80%) Python
2 7 (2.80%) MATLAB
3 5 (2.00%) Java
4 4 (1.60%) C
4 4 (1.60%) C++
5 3 (1.20%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.80%) SQL
7 1 (0.40%) C#
Qualifications
1 98 (39.20%) CISSP
2 81 (32.40%) CISM
3 56 (22.40%) Degree
4 44 (17.60%) CISA
5 40 (16.00%) CRISC
6 34 (13.60%) Security Cleared
7 29 (11.60%) SC Cleared
8 17 (6.80%) Master's Degree
9 15 (6.00%) CGEIT
9 15 (6.00%) FFIEC
9 15 (6.00%) SANS
10 14 (5.60%) CompTIA Security+
11 10 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (2.80%) PhD
13 6 (2.40%) DV Cleared
13 6 (2.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 5 (2.00%) CISMP
14 5 (2.00%) PMI Certification
14 5 (2.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (34.80%) NIST
2 75 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (14.80%) COBIT
4 32 (12.80%) GRC
5 30 (12.00%) GDPR
6 25 (10.00%) SLA
7 22 (8.80%) PCI DSS
8 19 (7.60%) NCSC
9 18 (7.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (6.80%) SOC 2
11 16 (6.40%) ITGC
12 13 (5.20%) Accessibility
12 13 (5.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 12 (4.80%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (3.20%) QA
15 5 (2.00%) Def Stans
15 5 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 5 (2.00%) NIST 800
16 4 (1.60%) GMP
17 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (0.80%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.80%) Firmware
2 1 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.40%) CASB
1 1 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.40%) Proxmox
1 1 (0.40%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (7.20%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.80%) Oracle
2 17 (6.80%) SAP
3 13 (5.20%) IFS
4 4 (1.60%) Atlassian
4 4 (1.60%) Bloomberg
4 4 (1.60%) Citrix
4 4 (1.60%) CQG
4 4 (1.60%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (1.60%) ION Trading
4 4 (1.60%) Patsystems
4 4 (1.60%) Reuters
4 4 (1.60%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.60%) Trayport
5 3 (1.20%) Adobe
5 3 (1.20%) Keysight
5 3 (1.20%) OneTrust
6 2 (0.80%) VMware
7 1 (0.40%) BT
7 1 (0.40%) Google