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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 342 463
Rank change year-on-year -181 +121 +78
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 275 395 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.80% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.89% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 175 189 250
10th Percentile £43,981 £35,500 £41,250
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% -14.81%
75th Percentile £84,500 £86,776 £76,250
90th Percentile £116,500 £107,500 £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 76,247 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,515 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 4 August 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 4 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 -135 250 £70,000 +14.29% 270
UK excluding London -164 141 £59,490 +8.16% 154
London -61 121 £75,000 -16.67% 133
Work from Home -60 99 £75,000 +8.09% 100
South East -44 49 £56,000 -6.67% 47
North of England -49 41 £59,175 +2.91% 37
North West -10 32 £55,000 -20.73% 22
Midlands -70 18 £67,500 +22.73% 34
South West -55 13 £85,000 +54.55% 10
West Midlands -59 13 £52,500 -4.55% 16
Scotland -4 11 £125,000 +142.04% 15
Yorkshire -35 9 £72,500 +38.10% 12
East of England -43 6 £39,500 -21.00% 10
East Midlands -23 5 £67,500 +80.00% 18
Wales -52 3 £51,709 -23.04% 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 7 (2.55%) Confluence
2 3 (1.09%) Apache
2 3 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.36%) IIS
3 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (5.09%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.64%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.73%) Primavera
3 1 (0.36%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (17.09%) AWS
2 43 (15.64%) Azure
3 27 (9.82%) GCP
4 13 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.91%) SaaS
7 5 (1.82%) Smartsheet
8 4 (1.45%) GitHub
9 3 (1.09%) dbt
9 3 (1.09%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.09%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.09%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.73%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.73%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.36%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.36%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.27%) Network Security
2 10 (3.64%) CHAP
3 5 (1.82%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.82%) Multicast
4 4 (1.45%) Firewall
5 2 (0.73%) Internet
5 2 (0.73%) LAN
5 2 (0.73%) VPN
5 2 (0.73%) WAN
6 1 (0.36%) BGP
6 1 (0.36%) DHCP
6 1 (0.36%) DNS
6 1 (0.36%) HTTP
6 1 (0.36%) SAN
6 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.36%) SNMP
6 1 (0.36%) SSL
6 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.36%) VSAN
6 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.18%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.09%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.73%) Db2
4 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.73%) Power BI
4 2 (0.73%) Redis
5 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.36%) Metadata
5 1 (0.36%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 17 (6.18%) JIRA
2 11 (4.00%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.36%) Git
3 1 (0.36%) GitLab
3 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 133 (48.36%) Finance
2 108 (39.27%) Social Skills
3 105 (38.18%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (20.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (14.18%) Law
6 28 (10.18%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (9.45%) Legal
8 24 (8.73%) Banking
8 24 (8.73%) Public Sector
9 21 (7.64%) Manufacturing
10 19 (6.91%) Aerospace
11 15 (5.45%) Financial Institution
11 15 (5.45%) Retail
12 14 (5.09%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (4.36%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (4.00%) Electronics
15 9 (3.27%) Japanese Language
16 8 (2.91%) Retail Banking
17 6 (2.18%) Italian Language
18 5 (1.82%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 52 (18.91%) Senior
2 37 (13.45%) Analyst
3 29 (10.55%) Architect
4 23 (8.36%) Security Architect
5 22 (8.00%) Auditor
5 22 (8.00%) Security Manager
6 20 (7.27%) Consultant
6 20 (7.27%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 19 (6.91%) IT Manager
7 19 (6.91%) Security Consultant
8 16 (5.82%) Systems Engineer
9 14 (5.09%) Lead
10 13 (4.73%) Security Analyst
11 12 (4.36%) Senior Consultant
12 11 (4.00%) Senior Security Consultant
13 10 (3.64%) IT Auditor
13 10 (3.64%) Security Auditor
14 9 (3.27%) Security Engineer
14 9 (3.27%) Test Engineer
15 8 (2.91%) Senior IT Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.82%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.45%) .NET
2 4 (1.45%) Kafka
3 2 (0.73%) Middleware
4 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.36%) CSS
4 1 (0.36%) HTML
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.09%) Management Information System
2 20 (7.27%) Credit Risk
3 18 (6.55%) Security Posture
4 11 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.91%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (2.91%) Fibre Optics
6 8 (2.91%) Operational Technology
7 7 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.18%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.82%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.82%) Cyber Security Posture
9 5 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.82%) Equities
9 5 (1.82%) Eurex
9 5 (1.82%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.82%) Life Science
9 5 (1.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.73%) Windows
2 7 (2.55%) Linux
3 2 (0.73%) AIX
3 2 (0.73%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.36%) SUSE
4 1 (0.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (31.27%) Cybersecurity
2 75 (27.27%) Risk Management
3 70 (25.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 69 (25.09%) Information Security
5 66 (24.00%) Agile
6 53 (19.27%) Decision-Making
7 52 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (18.18%) AI
9 44 (16.00%) Threat Modelling
10 43 (15.64%) Incident Response
10 43 (15.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (14.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 36 (13.09%) Security Architecture
13 35 (12.73%) Validation
14 33 (12.00%) Cloud Security
14 33 (12.00%) Internal Audit
15 31 (11.27%) Analytics
15 31 (11.27%) IT Audit
15 31 (11.27%) Vulnerability Management
16 27 (9.82%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (6.91%) Python
2 10 (3.64%) Java
3 8 (2.91%) MATLAB
4 6 (2.18%) SQL
5 4 (1.45%) C
5 4 (1.45%) C++
5 4 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.73%) Go
6 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.36%) Bash
7 1 (0.36%) Bicep
7 1 (0.36%) C#
7 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 102 (37.09%) CISSP
2 90 (32.73%) CISM
3 83 (30.18%) Degree
4 41 (14.91%) CISA
5 39 (14.18%) CRISC
6 37 (13.45%) Security Cleared
7 31 (11.27%) SC Cleared
8 25 (9.09%) Master's Degree
9 15 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (4.73%) CompTIA Security+
12 10 (3.64%) CGEIT
12 10 (3.64%) FFIEC
12 10 (3.64%) SANS
13 9 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (2.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 8 (2.91%) PhD
15 7 (2.55%) DV Cleared
15 7 (2.55%) PMI Certification
15 7 (2.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (32.00%) NIST
2 73 (26.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (12.00%) COBIT
4 32 (11.64%) GRC
5 25 (9.09%) GDPR
6 23 (8.36%) NCSC
6 23 (8.36%) SLA
7 19 (6.91%) PCI DSS
8 17 (6.18%) ITGC
9 16 (5.82%) Accessibility
9 16 (5.82%) SOC 2
10 15 (5.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (4.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 11 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (2.91%) NIST 800
14 6 (2.18%) Def Stans
15 5 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 5 (1.82%) QA
16 4 (1.45%) Data Quality
16 4 (1.45%) GMP
System Software
1 8 (2.91%) Firmware
2 3 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) Docker
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (0.73%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.36%) Ansible
2 1 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.36%) Proxmox
2 1 (0.36%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.36%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (7.64%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.91%) Oracle
3 18 (6.55%) SAP
4 13 (4.73%) IFS
5 5 (1.82%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.82%) Bloomberg
5 5 (1.82%) CQG
5 5 (1.82%) ION Trading
5 5 (1.82%) Patsystems
5 5 (1.82%) Reuters
5 5 (1.82%) Trayport
6 4 (1.45%) Adobe
6 4 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.45%) VMware
7 3 (1.09%) Citrix
7 3 (1.09%) Databricks
7 3 (1.09%) Keysight
7 3 (1.09%) OneTrust
8 2 (0.73%) Google
9 1 (0.36%) Veeam