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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 294 397
Rank change year-on-year -139 +103 +103
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 224 527 345
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.97% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.08% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 122 172 211
10th Percentile £44,406 £35,125 £51,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,393 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.13% -20.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,125 £76,563 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £91,350 £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 48,544 49,000 48,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.18% 90.28% 90.00%
Number of salaries quoted 28,525 24,011 36,948
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £78,750
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% -4.55%

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 January 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 8 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 -127 209 £70,000 +26.13% 81
UK excluding London -58 124 £52,000 -3.70% 66
Work from Home +101 114 £70,000 +24.44% 45
London -91 87 £71,684 +2.91% 28
Midlands +25 41 £51,058 -18.31% 10
South West +25 39 £57,500 -25.81% 5
East Midlands +12 23 £51,058 -11.20% 4
South East -6 21 £53,500 +7.00% 25
West Midlands +22 17 £43,105 -36.83% 6
North of England -20 15 £46,750 -15.77% 13
North West +4 13 £46,750 -15.38% 10
Northern Ireland -8 3 £52,000 -24.97% 1
East of England -37 3 £52,000 +15.56% 8
Wales +6 2 £66,250 +34.92% 1
North East +3 1 - -
Yorkshire -24 1 - - 3

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 (1.34%) Confluence
2 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Q-Pulse
1 4 (1.79%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.89%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.93%) Azure
2 17 (7.59%) AWS
3 14 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (5.36%) SaaS
5 6 (2.68%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.34%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.34%) GCP
7 3 (1.34%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.34%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.89%) Serverless
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.45%) IaaS
9 1 (0.45%) OCI
9 1 (0.45%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.36%) CHAP
2 6 (2.68%) Firewall
3 5 (2.23%) Multicast
3 5 (2.23%) Wireless
4 4 (1.79%) VPN
5 3 (1.34%) AMQP
5 3 (1.34%) HTTP
5 3 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.89%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.23%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (1.34%) Power BI
3 2 (0.89%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Power Query
4 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.34%) JIRA
1 3 (1.34%) Snyk
2 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
General
1 109 (48.66%) Finance
2 80 (35.71%) Banking
3 72 (32.14%) Social Skills
4 30 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (7.14%) Financial Institution
7 15 (6.70%) Legal
8 13 (5.80%) Law
9 12 (5.36%) Public Sector
10 11 (4.91%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (3.13%) Retail
13 5 (2.23%) Marketing
13 5 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (2.23%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.79%) Agriculture
14 4 (1.79%) Games
15 3 (1.34%) Back Office
16 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.89%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 33 (14.73%) Senior
2 32 (14.29%) Analyst
3 22 (9.82%) Auditor
4 21 (9.38%) IT Manager
5 14 (6.25%) Architect
6 12 (5.36%) Internal Auditor
6 12 (5.36%) Security Architect
6 12 (5.36%) Security Auditor
7 11 (4.91%) Security Analyst
8 10 (4.46%) Consultant
8 10 (4.46%) IT Auditor
8 10 (4.46%) Senior Auditor
8 10 (4.46%) Senior IT Auditor
9 9 (4.02%) Change Manager
9 9 (4.02%) IT Change Manager
9 9 (4.02%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (3.57%) Information Analyst
10 8 (3.57%) Information Security Analyst
10 8 (3.57%) Risk Manager
10 8 (3.57%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.23%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (1.79%) EDI
3 3 (1.34%) OAuth
3 3 (1.34%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 54 (24.11%) Management Information System
2 26 (11.61%) Security Posture
3 11 (4.91%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (4.91%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.02%) CMDB
5 7 (3.13%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.68%) Blockchain
6 6 (2.68%) Equities
6 6 (2.68%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.68%) Reinsurance
7 5 (2.23%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (2.23%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.34%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.34%) NHS
10 2 (0.89%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.89%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.68%) Linux
1 6 (2.68%) Windows
2 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (49.11%) Risk Management
2 104 (46.43%) Information Security
3 60 (26.79%) Cybersecurity
4 57 (25.45%) Due Diligence
4 57 (25.45%) Roadmaps
5 54 (24.11%) Business Continuity
6 50 (22.32%) Process Improvement
7 48 (21.43%) Supply Chain Management
8 45 (20.09%) Business Continuity Management
8 45 (20.09%) Operations Management
9 43 (19.20%) Agile
10 38 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 29 (12.95%) Incident Response
14 26 (11.61%) Internal Audit
15 24 (10.71%) Data Protection
16 23 (10.27%) Analytics
16 23 (10.27%) Decision-Making
16 23 (10.27%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.23%) Ladder Logic
2 4 (1.79%) C++
2 4 (1.79%) SQL
3 3 (1.34%) Java
3 3 (1.34%) Python
4 1 (0.45%) C#
4 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 98 (43.75%) CISSP
2 73 (32.59%) CISA
3 62 (27.68%) CRISC
4 46 (20.54%) CISM
5 33 (14.73%) Degree
6 21 (9.38%) Security Cleared
7 17 (7.59%) CGEIT
8 16 (7.14%) SC Cleared
9 14 (6.25%) SANS
10 12 (5.36%) FFIEC
11 10 (4.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (4.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 10 (4.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 9 (4.02%) DBS Check
13 8 (3.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
15 6 (2.68%) City & Guilds
15 6 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (2.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (45.09%) NIST
2 55 (24.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (23.66%) PCI DSS
4 26 (11.61%) GDPR
5 25 (11.16%) GRC
6 19 (8.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (5.80%) COBIT
8 12 (5.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (4.91%) SOC 2
10 7 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (3.13%) NIST 800
11 6 (2.68%) NCSC
12 5 (2.23%) JSP 440
13 4 (1.79%) GMP
13 4 (1.79%) ISO 22301
13 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 4 (1.79%) PMO
14 2 (0.89%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.89%) QA
14 2 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.89%) BMC PATROL
1 2 (0.89%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.45%) Ansible
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.02%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.23%) SAP
4 5 (2.23%) Siemens
5 4 (1.79%) Adobe
5 4 (1.79%) Qualys
6 3 (1.34%) Checkmarx
6 3 (1.34%) Cognos
6 3 (1.34%) Oracle
7 2 (0.89%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.89%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.89%) CQG
7 2 (0.89%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.89%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.89%) LogRhythm
7 2 (0.89%) Patsystems
7 2 (0.89%) Reuters
7 2 (0.89%) Trayport
7 2 (0.89%) Trend Micro