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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 315 479
Rank change year-on-year -205 +164 +25
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 261 443 393
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.90% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 1.00% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 175 190 256
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 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -11.88%
75th Percentile £84,500 £86,776 £75,000
90th Percentile £109,500 £107,500 £88,688
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,490 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.16% - -

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 74,528 44,262 72,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 89.78% 81.61%
Number of salaries quoted 51,427 25,101 49,118
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
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 26 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 26 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 -192 238 £70,000 +12.00% 152
UK excluding London -177 129 £59,490 +8.16% 93
London -93 118 £75,000 -11.76% 72
Work from Home -62 95 £75,000 +8.09% 56
South East -49 47 £56,000 -6.67% 29
North of England -50 36 £57,925 +0.74% 19
North West -7 27 £50,000 -27.94% 13
Midlands -65 17 £67,500 +22.73% 20
West Midlands -46 12 £52,500 -4.55% 14
South West -64 11 £85,000 +54.55% 11
Scotland +6 9 £125,000 +142.04% 6
Yorkshire -39 9 £72,500 +38.10% 4
East of England -41 6 £39,500 -21.00% 8
East Midlands -36 5 £67,500 +80.00% 6
Wales -57 3 £51,709 -23.04% 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 6 (2.30%) Confluence
2 1 (0.38%) IIS
2 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.83%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.77%) Primavera
3 1 (0.38%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 43 (16.48%) AWS
2 42 (16.09%) Azure
3 27 (10.34%) GCP
4 13 (4.98%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (3.07%) SaaS
7 5 (1.92%) Smartsheet
8 3 (1.15%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.77%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.38%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.38%) GitHub
10 1 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.38%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.66%) Network Security
2 12 (4.60%) CHAP
3 5 (1.92%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.92%) Multicast
4 4 (1.53%) Firewall
5 2 (0.77%) Internet
5 2 (0.77%) LAN
5 2 (0.77%) VPN
5 2 (0.77%) WAN
6 1 (0.38%) BGP
6 1 (0.38%) DHCP
6 1 (0.38%) DNS
6 1 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.38%) IPsec
6 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.38%) SNMP
6 1 (0.38%) SSL
6 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.38%) VLAN
6 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.92%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.77%) Db2
2 2 (0.77%) Power BI
3 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.38%) Metadata
3 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (6.13%) JIRA
2 11 (4.21%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.38%) Git
3 1 (0.38%) GitLab
3 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 128 (49.04%) Finance
2 100 (38.31%) Social Skills
3 99 (37.93%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (21.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (12.64%) Law
6 27 (10.34%) Legal
7 26 (9.96%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (9.58%) Public Sector
9 24 (9.20%) Banking
10 20 (7.66%) Manufacturing
11 17 (6.51%) Retail
12 16 (6.13%) Financial Institution
13 15 (5.75%) Aerospace
14 13 (4.98%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (4.21%) Electronics
16 10 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (3.83%) Retail Banking
17 9 (3.45%) Japanese Language
18 6 (2.30%) Italian Language
18 6 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (18.01%) Senior
2 35 (13.41%) Analyst
3 29 (11.11%) Architect
4 25 (9.58%) Auditor
5 23 (8.81%) Security Architect
6 20 (7.66%) IT Manager
7 19 (7.28%) Security Manager
8 18 (6.90%) Consultant
8 18 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 18 (6.90%) Security Consultant
9 16 (6.13%) Systems Engineer
10 13 (4.98%) Lead
11 12 (4.60%) IT Auditor
11 12 (4.60%) Security Auditor
12 11 (4.21%) Security Analyst
13 10 (3.83%) Internal Auditor
13 10 (3.83%) Senior Auditor
13 10 (3.83%) Senior IT Auditor
14 9 (3.45%) Security Engineer
14 9 (3.45%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.92%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.53%) .NET
2 4 (1.53%) Kafka
3 2 (0.77%) Middleware
4 1 (0.38%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.38%) CSS
4 1 (0.38%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.48%) Management Information System
2 20 (7.66%) Credit Risk
3 17 (6.51%) Security Posture
4 11 (4.21%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.07%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (3.07%) Fibre Optics
6 7 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.68%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.30%) Blockchain
8 5 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.92%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.92%) Equities
8 5 (1.92%) Eurex
8 5 (1.92%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.92%) Life Science
9 4 (1.53%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.60%) Windows
2 6 (2.30%) Linux
3 2 (0.77%) AIX
3 2 (0.77%) Unix
4 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (30.65%) Cybersecurity
2 73 (27.97%) Risk Management
3 66 (25.29%) Information Security
4 64 (24.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 63 (24.14%) Agile
6 50 (19.16%) Decision-Making
7 47 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (16.86%) Incident Response
9 42 (16.09%) AI
9 42 (16.09%) Threat Modelling
10 41 (15.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 41 (15.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 36 (13.79%) Security Architecture
11 36 (13.79%) Validation
12 35 (13.41%) Internal Audit
13 32 (12.26%) Cloud Security
13 32 (12.26%) IT Audit
14 31 (11.88%) Analytics
14 31 (11.88%) Vulnerability Management
15 27 (10.34%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.75%) Python
2 8 (3.07%) Java
2 8 (3.07%) MATLAB
3 4 (1.53%) C
3 4 (1.53%) C++
3 4 (1.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.77%) SQL
5 1 (0.38%) C#
5 1 (0.38%) Go
5 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 99 (37.93%) CISSP
2 87 (33.33%) CISM
3 70 (26.82%) Degree
4 42 (16.09%) CISA
5 39 (14.94%) CRISC
6 35 (13.41%) Security Cleared
7 31 (11.88%) SC Cleared
8 20 (7.66%) Master's Degree
9 13 (4.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (4.98%) CompTIA Security+
10 12 (4.60%) CGEIT
10 12 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (4.60%) FFIEC
10 12 (4.60%) SANS
11 8 (3.07%) PhD
12 7 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (2.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 6 (2.30%) PMI Certification
13 6 (2.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (34.10%) NIST
2 73 (27.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (13.41%) COBIT
4 32 (12.26%) GRC
5 26 (9.96%) GDPR
6 24 (9.20%) SLA
7 22 (8.43%) NCSC
8 19 (7.28%) PCI DSS
9 17 (6.51%) ITGC
10 16 (6.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (6.13%) SOC 2
11 15 (5.75%) Accessibility
12 13 (4.98%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 11 (4.21%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (3.07%) QA
15 7 (2.68%) NIST 800
16 6 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 5 (1.92%) Def Stans
18 4 (1.53%) GMP
19 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 5 (1.92%) Firmware
2 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.38%) Docker
3 1 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.38%) Proxmox
1 1 (0.38%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 19 (7.28%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.90%) Oracle
3 17 (6.51%) SAP
4 13 (4.98%) IFS
5 5 (1.92%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.92%) Bloomberg
5 5 (1.92%) CQG
5 5 (1.92%) ION Trading
5 5 (1.92%) Patsystems
5 5 (1.92%) Reuters
5 5 (1.92%) Trayport
6 4 (1.53%) Adobe
6 4 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.15%) Citrix
7 3 (1.15%) Keysight
7 3 (1.15%) OneTrust
7 3 (1.15%) VMware
8 2 (0.77%) Google
8 2 (0.77%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.38%) Red Hat