Risk Assessment Jobs

Risk Assessment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Risk Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Risk Assessment over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 547 499
Rank change year-on-year +341 -48 +151
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 776 378 578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.49% 0.38% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 0.45% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 228 280 344
10th Percentile £43,350 £40,000 £47,575
25th Percentile - £48,505 £52,111
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% -3.70% +22.73%
75th Percentile £60,625 £80,447 £84,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.55% -

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 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Risk Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Risk Assessment.

Salary trend for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 +275 630 £57,670 -11.28% 343
London +264 451 £77,750 +3.67% 185
UK excluding London +265 311 £51,645 -10.18% 210
Scotland +212 120 £51,645 +3.29% 20
Work from Home +161 98 £55,000 -12.00% 175
East of England +101 63 £50,000 -13.04% 12
South East +130 45 £65,000 +13.04% 59
North of England +54 39 £52,500 -4.55% 50
North West +9 25 £55,500 +6.73% 27
Midlands +52 21 £58,750 -2.08% 38
West Midlands +21 17 £55,000 -8.33% 15
Yorkshire +76 13 £50,500 +3.06% 16
South West +87 10 £55,000 -25.81% 19
Northern Ireland +41 9 £110,000 - 11
East Midlands +49 4 £66,000 -15.68% 22
Wales +47 4 £43,302 -33.78% 1
North East +42 1 £39,100 -50.05% 7

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (3.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.26%) Kinematics
3 2 (0.26%) TPMS
4 1 (0.13%) CMS
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 427 (55.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 107 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.26%) Autodesk Inventor
4 2 (0.26%) CATIA
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.26%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (0.64%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 25 (3.22%) Azure
2 17 (2.19%) AWS
3 12 (1.55%) Entra ID
3 12 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (1.16%) Power Platform
5 8 (1.03%) GCP
6 6 (0.77%) SaaS
7 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (0.52%) Mimecast
9 3 (0.39%) IaaS
9 3 (0.39%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.26%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.26%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.26%) Lucidchart
10 2 (0.26%) Serverless
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (0.13%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.13%) OCI
11 1 (0.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.80%) Network Security
2 7 (0.90%) Firewall
3 4 (0.52%) VPN
4 3 (0.39%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.26%) DNS
5 2 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.26%) Modbus
5 2 (0.26%) Profibus
6 1 (0.13%) Broadband
6 1 (0.13%) IPv4
6 1 (0.13%) IPv6
6 1 (0.13%) SSL
6 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.90%) Power BI
2 4 (0.52%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.52%) Tableau
3 3 (0.39%) Hadoop
3 3 (0.39%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.26%) Big Data
4 2 (0.26%) Looker
4 2 (0.26%) Metadata
4 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.13%) Base SAS
5 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.13%) GIS
5 1 (0.13%) HBase
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 4 (0.52%) JIRA
2 2 (0.26%) ER Studio
2 2 (0.26%) ERwin
2 2 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.13%) Bugzilla
3 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.13%) JUnit
3 1 (0.13%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.13%) Postman
3 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.13%) Selenium
3 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.13%) Subversion
3 1 (0.13%) TestRail
3 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 624 (80.41%) Social Skills
2 510 (65.72%) Finance
3 459 (59.15%) Analytical Skills
4 451 (58.12%) Banking
5 443 (57.09%) German Language
5 443 (57.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 435 (56.06%) Financial Institution
7 421 (54.25%) French Language
8 100 (12.89%) Presentation Skills
9 45 (5.80%) Legal
10 21 (2.71%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.06%) Retail
12 15 (1.93%) Public Sector
13 14 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.80%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.29%) Law
15 6 (0.77%) Police
16 5 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 479 (61.73%) Analyst
2 421 (54.25%) Credit Analyst
2 421 (54.25%) Research Analyst
3 131 (16.88%) Senior
4 24 (3.09%) Information Specialist
5 22 (2.84%) Information Security Specialist
5 22 (2.84%) Risk Manager
5 22 (2.84%) Security Analyst
5 22 (2.84%) Security Specialist
6 19 (2.45%) Lead
7 18 (2.32%) Risk Analyst
8 17 (2.19%) Project Manager
8 17 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
9 14 (1.80%) Operations Manager
10 13 (1.68%) Consultant
11 12 (1.55%) Onboarding Analyst
12 9 (1.16%) IT Analyst
12 9 (1.16%) Technologist
13 8 (1.03%) Facilities Manager
13 8 (1.03%) Facilities Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.84%) SailPoint
2 4 (0.52%) Leaflet
3 2 (0.26%) Web Services
4 1 (0.13%) JWT
4 1 (0.13%) Middleware
4 1 (0.13%) OAuth
4 1 (0.13%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (0.13%) Playwright
4 1 (0.13%) PySpark
4 1 (0.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 422 (54.38%) Credit Risk
2 421 (54.25%) Fixed Income
3 180 (23.20%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.96%) Virtual Team
5 16 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.42%) Security Posture
8 7 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (0.77%) NHS
10 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Licensing
11 4 (0.52%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.52%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.39%) Embedded Systems
12 3 (0.39%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.39%) SCADA
13 2 (0.26%) 3D Printing
13 2 (0.26%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.26%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.42%) Windows
2 5 (0.64%) Linux
3 2 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (81.57%) Risk Management
2 533 (68.69%) Decision-Making
3 432 (55.67%) Business Strategy
4 424 (54.64%) Asset Management
5 423 (54.51%) Financial Modelling
6 422 (54.38%) Credit Risk Analysis
7 421 (54.25%) Portfolio Management
8 100 (12.89%) Information Security
9 71 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
10 59 (7.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (5.80%) Project Management
12 41 (5.28%) Mentoring
12 41 (5.28%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (5.03%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (4.90%) Regulatory Compliance
15 35 (4.51%) Collaborative Working
16 33 (4.25%) Agile
16 33 (4.25%) Due Diligence
17 30 (3.87%) Project Delivery
18 26 (3.35%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 25 (3.22%) PowerShell
2 13 (1.68%) Python
3 9 (1.16%) SQL
4 6 (0.77%) R
5 4 (0.52%) Java
6 3 (0.39%) C++
6 3 (0.39%) VBA
7 2 (0.26%) C#
7 2 (0.26%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (0.13%) Bash
8 1 (0.13%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 599 (77.19%) Degree
2 431 (55.54%) Master's Degree
3 421 (54.25%) CFA
4 98 (12.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 47 (6.06%) CISSP
6 36 (4.64%) Chartered Engineer
7 27 (3.48%) CISM
8 21 (2.71%) Security Cleared
9 19 (2.45%) CISA
10 17 (2.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 16 (2.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 16 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.06%) CompTIA Security+
11 16 (2.06%) SC Cleared
12 15 (1.93%) CRISC
13 12 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (1.55%) DV Cleared
14 5 (0.64%) CEH
14 5 (0.64%) CISMP
15 4 (0.52%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (7.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 41 (5.28%) NIST
3 18 (2.32%) GDPR
4 15 (1.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 14 (1.80%) SOC 2
6 11 (1.42%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.29%) COBIT
7 10 (1.29%) GRC
8 6 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.64%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.52%) PMO
10 4 (0.52%) QA
11 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.26%) ISO 14001
12 2 (0.26%) NEBOSH
12 2 (0.26%) SLA
13 1 (0.13%) COSO
13 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 34 (4.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.52%) Docker
3 2 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.26%) vSphere
4 1 (0.13%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (0.64%) Terraform
2 3 (0.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.26%) Ansible
3 2 (0.26%) CASB
4 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.13%) Nessus
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 421 (54.25%) Bloomberg
2 28 (3.61%) Microsoft
3 22 (2.84%) Okta
3 22 (2.84%) Salesforce
4 6 (0.77%) Oracle
5 5 (0.64%) Cisco
5 5 (0.64%) SAP
5 5 (0.64%) Tenable
6 4 (0.52%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.39%) Allen-Bradley
7 3 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (0.39%) Databricks
7 3 (0.39%) Siemens
8 2 (0.26%) Autodesk
8 2 (0.26%) Google
8 2 (0.26%) Intel
8 2 (0.26%) Pure Storage
8 2 (0.26%) Qualys
8 2 (0.26%) Rockwell
8 2 (0.26%) VMware