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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 385 434
Rank change year-on-year -97 +49 +37
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 349 299 387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.60% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.68% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 180 168 192
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,850 £40,126
25th Percentile £49,688 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -18.52%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,625 £109,000 £91,350
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,490 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +8.16% +1.85% -13.94%

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 86,155 44,192 60,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 88.99% 81.99%
Number of salaries quoted 59,150 24,458 32,463
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 8 October 2026.

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 8 October 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 -80 308 £67,500 +17.39% 656
UK excluding London -75 220 £59,490 +8.16% 351
Work from Home -17 126 £75,000 +8.09% 214
London -48 116 £75,000 -16.67% 350
South East -40 62 £59,490 +17.89% 82
North of England -49 54 £54,490 -21.47% 72
North West -11 42 £54,490 -12.38% 37
Midlands -58 30 £67,500 +22.73% 52
South West -60 25 £80,000 +45.45% 54
Scotland +13 21 £100,000 +44.13% 33
West Midlands -56 21 £66,250 +20.45% 24
East of England -20 20 £34,250 -32.84% 31
Yorkshire -25 10 £55,000 - 30
East Midlands -31 9 £67,500 +80.00% 28
Wales -73 8 £76,000 +13.11% 8
North East -63 2 £35,350 -53.22% 5
Northern Ireland -88 1 - - 16

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 12 (3.44%) Confluence
2 6 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.43%) Apache
4 3 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.01%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.29%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (17.48%) AWS
1 61 (17.48%) Azure
2 36 (10.32%) GCP
3 16 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (2.58%) GitHub
5 7 (2.01%) SaaS
6 6 (1.72%) Snowflake
7 5 (1.43%) dbt
7 5 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.15%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.15%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (0.86%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.86%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.57%) Azure AI
10 2 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.29%) Amazon Bedrock
11 1 (0.29%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.88%) Network Security
2 7 (2.01%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (2.01%) Multicast
3 5 (1.43%) Firewall
4 4 (1.15%) HTTP
5 3 (0.86%) CHAP
5 3 (0.86%) DNS
5 3 (0.86%) LAN
5 3 (0.86%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.86%) VPN
5 3 (0.86%) WAN
6 2 (0.57%) DHCP
6 2 (0.57%) Internet
7 1 (0.29%) BGP
7 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.29%) SAN
7 1 (0.29%) SMTP
7 1 (0.29%) SNMP
7 1 (0.29%) SSL
7 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.58%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.15%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.15%) Metadata
3 4 (1.15%) Redis
4 3 (0.86%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.57%) Big Data
5 2 (0.57%) Power BI
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.29%) Db2
6 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.29%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (5.73%) JIRA
2 11 (3.15%) LabVIEW
3 8 (2.29%) Git
4 3 (0.86%) GitLab
4 3 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.86%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.57%) MLflow
6 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.29%) Gatling
General
1 149 (42.69%) Social Skills
2 135 (38.68%) Finance
3 112 (32.09%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (19.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (15.19%) Law
6 44 (12.61%) Organisational Skills
7 37 (10.60%) Aerospace
8 35 (10.03%) Legal
9 34 (9.74%) Manufacturing
10 29 (8.31%) Public Sector
11 19 (5.44%) Banking
11 19 (5.44%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (4.01%) Financial Institution
13 12 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (3.15%) Electronics
15 9 (2.58%) Retail
16 7 (2.01%) Spanish Language
17 5 (1.43%) Italian Language
17 5 (1.43%) Japanese Language
17 5 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (16.05%) Senior
2 53 (15.19%) Analyst
3 34 (9.74%) Architect
4 30 (8.60%) Lead
5 28 (8.02%) Security Architect
6 24 (6.88%) Consultant
7 20 (5.73%) Security Analyst
8 19 (5.44%) Security Consultant
9 18 (5.16%) Software Engineer
10 15 (4.30%) Security Manager
10 15 (4.30%) Systems Engineer
11 14 (4.01%) IT Analyst
11 14 (4.01%) Senior Consultant
12 13 (3.72%) Compliance Manager
12 13 (3.72%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 13 (3.72%) Senior Security Consultant
13 12 (3.44%) Auditor
13 12 (3.44%) Business Analyst
14 10 (2.87%) Business Manager
15 9 (2.58%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.01%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (1.43%) Kafka
3 4 (1.15%) .NET
3 4 (1.15%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.57%) PySpark
5 1 (0.29%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.29%) Memcached
5 1 (0.29%) Middleware
5 1 (0.29%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.29%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (13.75%) Management Information System
2 22 (6.30%) Onboarding
3 19 (5.44%) Credit Risk
3 19 (5.44%) Security Posture
3 19 (5.44%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (4.30%) Operational Technology
5 14 (4.01%) Driving Licence
6 9 (2.58%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.29%) Fibre Optics
8 7 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
8 7 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.01%) Equities
8 7 (2.01%) Eurex
8 7 (2.01%) Fixed Income
8 7 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.72%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.43%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.44%) Windows
2 14 (4.01%) Linux
3 2 (0.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.29%) AIX
4 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.29%) SUSE
4 1 (0.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.29%) Unix
4 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (26.93%) Risk Management
2 91 (26.07%) Continuous Improvement
3 87 (24.93%) Cybersecurity
4 74 (21.20%) Agile
5 69 (19.77%) AI
6 66 (18.91%) Information Security
7 65 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
8 58 (16.62%) Decision-Making
9 55 (15.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 52 (14.90%) Threat Modelling
11 47 (13.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 43 (12.32%) Security Architecture
12 43 (12.32%) Validation
13 36 (10.32%) Computer Science
13 36 (10.32%) Incident Response
14 35 (10.03%) Cloud Security
15 33 (9.46%) Vulnerability Management
16 31 (8.88%) Process Improvement
17 30 (8.60%) Mentoring
17 30 (8.60%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (8.31%) Python
2 14 (4.01%) Java
3 12 (3.44%) SQL
4 8 (2.29%) MATLAB
5 6 (1.72%) C
5 6 (1.72%) C++
6 4 (1.15%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.86%) Go
7 3 (0.86%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.57%) Bash
8 2 (0.57%) Julia
8 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.57%) R
9 1 (0.29%) Bicep
9 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 111 (31.81%) Degree
2 78 (22.35%) CISSP
3 64 (18.34%) CISM
4 63 (18.05%) Security Cleared
5 48 (13.75%) SC Cleared
6 33 (9.46%) Master's Degree
7 29 (8.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (6.59%) CRISC
9 19 (5.44%) CISA
10 17 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (3.72%) DV Cleared
11 13 (3.72%) HNC
12 10 (2.87%) PhD
13 9 (2.58%) AWS Certification
13 9 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (2.58%) HND
14 8 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (1.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 6 (1.72%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (23.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 73 (20.92%) NIST
3 29 (8.31%) NCSC
4 23 (6.59%) GRC
4 23 (6.59%) SLA
5 21 (6.02%) GDPR
6 18 (5.16%) PCI DSS
6 18 (5.16%) QA
7 17 (4.87%) SOC 2
8 15 (4.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 14 (4.01%) Accessibility
10 13 (3.72%) ITGC
11 11 (3.15%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (3.15%) Data Quality
11 11 (3.15%) ISO 9001
12 10 (2.87%) COBIT
13 9 (2.58%) NIST 800
14 8 (2.29%) Def Stans
14 8 (2.29%) SOC 1
15 7 (2.01%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 13 (3.72%) Firmware
2 5 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.86%) Docker
3 3 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.57%) vSphere
5 1 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) Ansible
2 1 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.29%) Grafana
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.29%) Proxmox
2 1 (0.29%) QRadar
2 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
2 1 (0.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 44 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.72%) Oracle
2 13 (3.72%) SAP
3 9 (2.58%) Databricks
4 8 (2.29%) Bloomberg
5 7 (2.01%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.01%) Cisco
5 7 (2.01%) CQG
5 7 (2.01%) ION Trading
5 7 (2.01%) Patsystems
5 7 (2.01%) Reuters
5 7 (2.01%) Trayport
6 6 (1.72%) Adobe
6 6 (1.72%) Google
6 6 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.43%) IFS
7 5 (1.43%) YouTube
8 4 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.15%) VMware
9 3 (0.86%) Thales