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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 299 386
Rank change year-on-year -130 +87 +130
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 228 529 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.95% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.06% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 126 179 213
10th Percentile £42,998 £36,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £51,063 £46,895 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -20.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,000 £75,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £90,300 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £54,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -16.92% +18.18%

All Process and 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 49,174 50,059 47,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.96% 89.84% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 28,944 25,024 36,293
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 -110 213 £70,000 +27.27% 173
UK excluding London -63 128 £52,000 -3.70% 121
Work from Home +115 114 £70,000 +27.27% 96
London -101 87 £80,000 +15.43% 67
Midlands +43 43 £51,058 -14.90% 25
South West +15 39 £57,500 -24.59% 12
East Midlands +5 23 £51,058 -11.20% 11
South East -1 23 £52,000 +4.00% 38
West Midlands +33 19 £44,543 -33.67% 13
North of England -17 15 £46,750 -15.77% 27
North West -2 13 £46,750 -15.38% 18
Northern Ireland -12 3 £52,000 -24.97% 1
East of England -34 3 £52,000 +15.56% 10
Wales -2 2 £66,250 +34.92% 3
North East +14 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -14 1 - - 8

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 (1.32%) Confluence
2 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Q-Pulse
1 4 (1.75%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.88%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 19 (8.33%) Azure
2 16 (7.02%) AWS
3 14 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (6.14%) SaaS
4 6 (2.63%) Entra ID
5 4 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.32%) Azure API Management
6 3 (1.32%) GCP
6 3 (1.32%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.32%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.88%) Serverless
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.44%) IaaS
8 1 (0.44%) OCI
8 1 (0.44%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.39%) CHAP
2 6 (2.63%) Firewall
3 5 (2.19%) Multicast
3 5 (2.19%) Wireless
4 4 (1.75%) VPN
5 3 (1.32%) AMQP
5 3 (1.32%) HTTP
5 3 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.88%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.44%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.44%) Modbus
7 1 (0.44%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.19%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (1.32%) Power BI
3 2 (0.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.44%) Power Query
4 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.32%) JIRA
1 3 (1.32%) Snyk
2 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
General
1 109 (47.81%) Finance
2 80 (35.09%) Banking
3 73 (32.02%) Social Skills
4 29 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (7.46%) Legal
6 14 (6.14%) Financial Institution
7 13 (5.70%) Law
7 13 (5.70%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (4.39%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.95%) Retail
10 5 (2.19%) Marketing
10 5 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.19%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.75%) Agriculture
11 4 (1.75%) Games
12 3 (1.32%) Back Office
12 3 (1.32%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.88%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 33 (14.47%) Analyst
2 32 (14.04%) Senior
3 20 (8.77%) Auditor
4 18 (7.89%) IT Manager
5 13 (5.70%) Architect
6 12 (5.26%) Security Analyst
7 11 (4.82%) Security Architect
8 10 (4.39%) Internal Auditor
8 10 (4.39%) IT Auditor
8 10 (4.39%) Risk Manager
8 10 (4.39%) Security Auditor
8 10 (4.39%) Senior Auditor
8 10 (4.39%) Senior IT Auditor
9 9 (3.95%) Consultant
9 9 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (3.51%) Information Analyst
10 8 (3.51%) Information Security Analyst
10 8 (3.51%) Security Consultant
10 8 (3.51%) Security Manager
10 8 (3.51%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.19%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.75%) EDI
3 3 (1.32%) OAuth
3 3 (1.32%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 54 (23.68%) Management Information System
2 29 (12.72%) Security Posture
3 11 (4.82%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.07%) CMDB
5 6 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.63%) Equities
5 6 (2.63%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.63%) Reinsurance
6 5 (2.19%) Blockchain
6 5 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (2.19%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.32%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.32%) NHS
9 2 (0.88%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.63%) Linux
1 6 (2.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (49.56%) Risk Management
2 106 (46.49%) Information Security
3 60 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
4 59 (25.88%) Due Diligence
5 57 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 54 (23.68%) Business Continuity
7 50 (21.93%) Process Improvement
8 48 (21.05%) Supply Chain Management
9 45 (19.74%) Business Continuity Management
9 45 (19.74%) Operations Management
10 42 (18.42%) Agile
11 41 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (14.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 27 (11.84%) Incident Response
15 24 (10.53%) Internal Audit
15 24 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
16 23 (10.09%) Decision-Making
17 22 (9.65%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.63%) Ladder Logic
2 4 (1.75%) C++
2 4 (1.75%) SQL
3 3 (1.32%) Java
3 3 (1.32%) Python
4 1 (0.44%) C#
4 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 96 (42.11%) CISSP
2 70 (30.70%) CISA
3 67 (29.39%) CRISC
4 47 (20.61%) CISM
5 37 (16.23%) Degree
6 19 (8.33%) Security Cleared
7 16 (7.02%) SC Cleared
8 15 (6.58%) CGEIT
9 12 (5.26%) SANS
10 10 (4.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (4.39%) FFIEC
10 10 (4.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 10 (4.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 10 (4.39%) Master's Degree
11 9 (3.95%) DBS Check
12 7 (3.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (3.07%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (2.63%) CEH
13 6 (2.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (45.18%) NIST
2 59 (25.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (23.68%) PCI DSS
4 27 (11.84%) GRC
5 25 (10.96%) GDPR
6 19 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (7.02%) SOC 2
8 11 (4.82%) COBIT
9 10 (4.39%) NIST 800
9 10 (4.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (2.63%) PMO
12 5 (2.19%) JSP 440
12 5 (2.19%) SOC 1
13 4 (1.75%) GMP
13 4 (1.75%) ISO 22301
13 4 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 4 (1.75%) NCSC
14 3 (1.32%) P3O
15 2 (0.88%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.19%) RSA Archer
2 2 (0.88%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (0.44%) Ansible
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.51%) Salesforce
3 7 (3.07%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.63%) Siemens
5 5 (2.19%) SAP
6 4 (1.75%) Adobe
6 4 (1.75%) Qualys
7 3 (1.32%) Checkmarx
7 3 (1.32%) Cognos
7 3 (1.32%) Oracle
8 2 (0.88%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.88%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.88%) CQG
8 2 (0.88%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.88%) ION Trading
8 2 (0.88%) LogRhythm
8 2 (0.88%) Patsystems
8 2 (0.88%) Reuters
8 2 (0.88%) Trayport
8 2 (0.88%) Trend Micro