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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 342 457
Rank change year-on-year -151 +115 +60
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 295 393 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.79% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.88% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 181 187 245
10th Percentile £41,432 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,695 £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 £115,000 £106,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,490 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.16% - -4.83%

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 78,019 44,452 67,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.52% 89.29% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 53,759 25,267 43,796
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 11 August 2026.

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 11 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 -138 266 £70,000 +16.67% 244
UK excluding London -158 154 £59,490 +8.16% 157
London -47 128 £75,000 -15.49% 113
Work from Home -55 104 £75,000 +7.62% 84
South East -51 52 £57,745 +0.43% 43
North of England -54 43 £59,175 +2.91% 34
North West -18 34 £55,000 -14.98% 23
Midlands -80 19 £67,500 +22.73% 25
West Midlands -63 14 £57,500 +4.55% 13
South West -67 14 £82,500 +50.00% 17
Scotland +2 12 £125,000 +142.04% 23
Yorkshire -32 9 £72,500 +38.10% 7
East of England -43 8 £39,500 -21.00% 15
East Midlands -28 5 £67,500 +80.00% 12
Wales -57 5 £63,855 -4.97% 4
Northern Ireland -83 1 - -

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 9 (3.05%) Confluence
2 4 (1.36%) Apache
2 4 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.34%) IIS
3 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.73%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.03%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.68%) Primavera
3 1 (0.34%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (16.95%) AWS
2 46 (15.59%) Azure
3 28 (9.49%) GCP
4 13 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.37%) GitHub
6 7 (2.37%) SaaS
7 5 (1.69%) Smartsheet
8 4 (1.36%) dbt
8 4 (1.36%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (1.36%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.36%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.68%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.34%) Anthropic Claude
11 1 (0.34%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.34%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.78%) Network Security
2 10 (3.39%) CHAP
3 6 (2.03%) FIX Connectivity
3 6 (2.03%) Multicast
4 4 (1.36%) Firewall
5 2 (0.68%) HTTP
5 2 (0.68%) Internet
5 2 (0.68%) LAN
5 2 (0.68%) VPN
5 2 (0.68%) WAN
6 1 (0.34%) BGP
6 1 (0.34%) DHCP
6 1 (0.34%) DNS
6 1 (0.34%) SAN
6 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.34%) SNMP
6 1 (0.34%) SSL
6 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.34%) VSAN
6 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (2.37%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.36%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.02%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.02%) Power BI
3 3 (1.02%) Redis
4 2 (0.68%) Db2
4 2 (0.68%) Metadata
5 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.34%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.34%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (6.78%) JIRA
2 11 (3.73%) LabVIEW
3 3 (1.02%) Git
4 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.34%) GitLab
4 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 140 (47.46%) Finance
2 120 (40.68%) Social Skills
3 113 (38.31%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (19.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 46 (15.59%) Law
6 30 (10.17%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (9.15%) Legal
8 25 (8.47%) Banking
9 24 (8.14%) Aerospace
10 23 (7.80%) Public Sector
11 21 (7.12%) Manufacturing
12 14 (4.75%) Financial Institution
12 14 (4.75%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (4.41%) Retail
14 11 (3.73%) Electronics
15 9 (3.05%) Japanese Language
16 7 (2.37%) Retail Banking
17 6 (2.03%) Italian Language
17 6 (2.03%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 55 (18.64%) Senior
2 43 (14.58%) Analyst
3 29 (9.83%) Architect
4 23 (7.80%) Auditor
4 23 (7.80%) Security Architect
5 22 (7.46%) Consultant
5 22 (7.46%) Security Manager
6 21 (7.12%) Security Consultant
7 20 (6.78%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 19 (6.44%) IT Manager
9 16 (5.42%) Security Analyst
9 16 (5.42%) Systems Engineer
10 14 (4.75%) Senior Consultant
11 13 (4.41%) Lead
11 13 (4.41%) Senior Security Consultant
12 11 (3.73%) IT Auditor
13 10 (3.39%) Security Auditor
13 10 (3.39%) Software Engineer
14 9 (3.05%) Business Analyst
14 9 (3.05%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.03%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.36%) .NET
2 4 (1.36%) Kafka
3 3 (1.02%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.68%) Middleware
5 1 (0.34%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.34%) CSS
5 1 (0.34%) HTML
5 1 (0.34%) PySpark
5 1 (0.34%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.34%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.97%) Management Information System
2 20 (6.78%) Credit Risk
3 19 (6.44%) Security Posture
4 13 (4.41%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.73%) Operational Technology
7 8 (2.71%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.71%) Fibre Optics
8 7 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.03%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.03%) Driving Licence
9 6 (2.03%) Equities
9 6 (2.03%) Eurex
9 6 (2.03%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (2.03%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.69%) Cyber Security Posture
10 5 (1.69%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.75%) Windows
2 8 (2.71%) Linux
3 2 (0.68%) AIX
3 2 (0.68%) Unix
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.34%) SUSE
4 1 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (30.85%) Cybersecurity
2 82 (27.80%) Risk Management
3 75 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 74 (25.08%) Information Security
5 72 (24.41%) Agile
6 61 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (19.32%) Decision-Making
8 55 (18.64%) AI
9 49 (16.61%) Threat Modelling
10 43 (14.58%) Incident Response
10 43 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
11 42 (14.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 40 (13.56%) Validation
13 36 (12.20%) Security Architecture
14 34 (11.53%) Analytics
15 33 (11.19%) Cloud Security
15 33 (11.19%) Internal Audit
15 33 (11.19%) Vulnerability Management
16 32 (10.85%) IT Audit
17 30 (10.17%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (7.80%) Python
2 12 (4.07%) Java
3 8 (2.71%) MATLAB
3 8 (2.71%) SQL
4 4 (1.36%) C
4 4 (1.36%) C++
4 4 (1.36%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.02%) Go
5 3 (1.02%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.34%) Bash
6 1 (0.34%) Bicep
6 1 (0.34%) C#
6 1 (0.34%) Julia
6 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 104 (35.25%) CISSP
2 93 (31.53%) CISM
3 91 (30.85%) Degree
4 43 (14.58%) Security Cleared
5 40 (13.56%) CISA
6 38 (12.88%) CRISC
7 34 (11.53%) SC Cleared
8 29 (9.83%) Master's Degree
9 17 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (5.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (4.07%) CompTIA Security+
12 11 (3.73%) DV Cleared
13 10 (3.39%) CGEIT
13 10 (3.39%) FFIEC
13 10 (3.39%) SANS
14 9 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (3.05%) PhD
15 8 (2.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (2.71%) PMI Certification
15 8 (2.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (31.19%) NIST
2 76 (25.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (11.19%) COBIT
4 31 (10.51%) GRC
5 25 (8.47%) GDPR
6 24 (8.14%) NCSC
7 23 (7.80%) SLA
8 19 (6.44%) ITGC
8 19 (6.44%) PCI DSS
9 17 (5.76%) Accessibility
9 17 (5.76%) SOC 2
10 15 (5.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (4.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 11 (3.73%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (3.05%) NIST 800
14 6 (2.03%) Data Quality
14 6 (2.03%) Def Stans
14 6 (2.03%) QA
15 5 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 4 (1.36%) SOC 1
System Software
1 10 (3.39%) Firmware
2 3 (1.02%) Docker
2 3 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.02%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.34%) Ansible
2 1 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.34%) Proxmox
2 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (7.80%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.78%) Oracle
3 18 (6.10%) SAP
4 13 (4.41%) IFS
5 6 (2.03%) Atlassian
5 6 (2.03%) Bloomberg
5 6 (2.03%) CQG
5 6 (2.03%) Databricks
5 6 (2.03%) ION Trading
5 6 (2.03%) Patsystems
5 6 (2.03%) Reuters
5 6 (2.03%) Trayport
6 4 (1.36%) Adobe
6 4 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.36%) VMware
7 3 (1.02%) Citrix
7 3 (1.02%) Keysight
7 3 (1.02%) OneTrust
8 2 (0.68%) Google
9 1 (0.34%) Veeam