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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 262 410
Rank change year-on-year -181 +148 +94
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 219 599 362
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 1.12% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 1.24% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 117 173 224
10th Percentile £45,886 £35,250 £45,525
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,750 £59,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.13% -20.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £54,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -16.92% +18.18%

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 49,261 48,421 52,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.81% 90.77% 89.63%
Number of salaries quoted 29,011 23,517 40,505
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -162 204 £70,000 +26.70% 116
UK excluding London -70 123 £52,000 -3.70% 107
Work from Home +100 113 £70,000 +21.74% 89
London -137 84 £70,000 +1.00% 23
Midlands +34 39 £51,058 -11.20% 12
South West +25 39 £57,500 -25.81% 11
East Midlands +1 23 £51,058 -11.20% 5
South East -1 21 £53,500 +7.00% 39
West Midlands +36 15 £44,543 -34.72% 7
North of England -19 15 £45,000 -18.55% 18
North West -1 13 £45,000 -18.55% 12
Northern Ireland -11 3 £52,000 -24.97% 2
East of England -48 3 £52,000 +15.56% 18
Wales +2 2 £66,250 +34.92% 5
North East +5 1 - - 2
Scotland -9 1 - - 5
Yorkshire -25 1 - - 4

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 3 (1.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Q-Pulse
1 4 (1.83%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.91%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 20 (9.13%) Azure
2 17 (7.76%) AWS
3 14 (6.39%) SaaS
4 13 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.74%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.37%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.37%) GCP
7 3 (1.37%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.37%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.91%) IaaS
8 2 (0.91%) Serverless
9 1 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.46%) OCI
9 1 (0.46%) PaaS
9 1 (0.46%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.46%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.39%) CHAP
2 6 (2.74%) Firewall
3 5 (2.28%) Multicast
3 5 (2.28%) Wireless
4 3 (1.37%) AMQP
4 3 (1.37%) HTTP
4 3 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.37%) VPN
5 2 (0.91%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.28%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (1.37%) Power BI
3 2 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.91%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.46%) Power Query
4 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.37%) JIRA
1 3 (1.37%) Snyk
2 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 110 (50.23%) Finance
2 81 (36.99%) Banking
3 70 (31.96%) Social Skills
4 29 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.22%) Financial Institution
6 16 (7.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.94%) Law
8 12 (5.48%) Public Sector
9 10 (4.57%) Legal
9 10 (4.57%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.20%) Retail
11 6 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.28%) Marketing
12 5 (2.28%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.83%) Agriculture
13 4 (1.83%) Games
14 3 (1.37%) Back Office
14 3 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.91%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 32 (14.61%) Senior
2 30 (13.70%) Analyst
3 24 (10.96%) Auditor
4 21 (9.59%) IT Manager
5 14 (6.39%) Internal Auditor
5 14 (6.39%) Security Auditor
6 13 (5.94%) Architect
7 12 (5.48%) Security Architect
8 11 (5.02%) Security Analyst
9 10 (4.57%) Change Manager
9 10 (4.57%) Consultant
9 10 (4.57%) IT Auditor
9 10 (4.57%) IT Change Manager
9 10 (4.57%) Senior Auditor
9 10 (4.57%) Senior IT Auditor
10 9 (4.11%) Security Manager
11 8 (3.65%) Information Analyst
11 8 (3.65%) Information Security Analyst
11 8 (3.65%) Lead
11 8 (3.65%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.28%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (1.37%) EDI
2 3 (1.37%) OAuth
2 3 (1.37%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 50 (22.83%) Management Information System
2 24 (10.96%) Security Posture
3 12 (5.48%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (4.57%) CMDB
5 9 (4.11%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.20%) Blockchain
6 7 (3.20%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.74%) Equities
7 6 (2.74%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.74%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.74%) Reinsurance
8 5 (2.28%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.28%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.37%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.37%) PKI
11 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.91%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.74%) Linux
1 6 (2.74%) Windows
2 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (47.95%) Risk Management
2 102 (46.58%) Information Security
3 61 (27.85%) Cybersecurity
4 55 (25.11%) Business Continuity
4 55 (25.11%) Roadmaps
5 54 (24.66%) Due Diligence
6 50 (22.83%) Process Improvement
7 47 (21.46%) Supply Chain Management
8 46 (21.00%) Business Continuity Management
9 45 (20.55%) Agile
9 45 (20.55%) Operations Management
10 36 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (14.16%) Incident Response
12 31 (14.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 30 (13.70%) Internal Audit
14 25 (11.42%) Analytics
14 25 (11.42%) Data Protection
14 25 (11.42%) Vulnerability Management
15 21 (9.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (1.83%) C++
1 4 (1.83%) Ladder Logic
1 4 (1.83%) SQL
2 3 (1.37%) Java
2 3 (1.37%) Python
3 1 (0.46%) C#
3 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 96 (43.84%) CISSP
2 74 (33.79%) CISA
3 58 (26.48%) CRISC
4 42 (19.18%) CISM
5 27 (12.33%) Degree
6 22 (10.05%) Security Cleared
7 19 (8.68%) CGEIT
8 16 (7.31%) SANS
8 16 (7.31%) SC Cleared
9 14 (6.39%) FFIEC
10 10 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (4.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 10 (4.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 9 (4.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (3.65%) DBS Check
13 7 (3.20%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (2.74%) CISMP
14 6 (2.74%) DV Cleared
14 6 (2.74%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (45.21%) NIST
2 53 (24.20%) PCI DSS
3 49 (22.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (12.79%) GDPR
5 22 (10.05%) GRC
6 17 (7.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (6.85%) COBIT
8 12 (5.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (3.65%) SOC 2
10 7 (3.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (3.20%) NIST 800
11 6 (2.74%) NCSC
12 5 (2.28%) ISO 22301
12 5 (2.28%) JSP 440
13 4 (1.83%) GMP
13 4 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.91%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.91%) PMO
14 2 (0.91%) QA
14 2 (0.91%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (0.91%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (0.46%) Ansible
2 1 (0.46%) CASB
2 1 (0.46%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.57%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.65%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.28%) SAP
5 4 (1.83%) Adobe
5 4 (1.83%) Qualys
5 4 (1.83%) Siemens
6 3 (1.37%) Checkmarx
6 3 (1.37%) Cognos
6 3 (1.37%) Oracle
7 2 (0.91%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.91%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.91%) CQG
7 2 (0.91%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.91%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.91%) LogRhythm
7 2 (0.91%) Patsystems
7 2 (0.91%) Reuters
7 2 (0.91%) Trayport
7 2 (0.91%) Trend Micro