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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 564 497
Rank change year-on-year +305 -67 +154
Permanent jobs citing Risk Assessment 677 370 564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.22% 0.36% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 0.43% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 246 272 337
10th Percentile £44,250 £40,000 £47,354
25th Percentile - £47,770 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% -11.11% +22.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £89,375 £85,000 £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 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -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 30 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 30 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 +224 538 £60,000 - 633
London +248 342 £82,801 +18.74% 87
UK excluding London +252 325 £51,645 -10.18% 635
Scotland +205 119 £51,645 +3.29% 30
Work from Home +104 119 £69,384 +15.64% 253
South East +124 55 £67,500 +17.39% 175
East of England +80 53 £50,000 -13.04% 81
North of England +30 50 £55,500 +0.91% 118
North West -9 33 £57,750 +5.00% 54
Midlands +63 30 £55,000 -8.33% 138
West Midlands +37 25 £55,000 -8.33% 78
Yorkshire +60 13 £50,500 +3.06% 47
Northern Ireland +49 9 £82,801 - 13
South West +74 7 £55,000 -16.98% 79
East Midlands +45 5 £37,500 -52.09% 53
North East +43 4 £69,384 -12.32% 17
Wales +46 2 £75,574 +15.58% 23

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 24 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.30%) Kinematics
3 2 (0.30%) TPMS
4 1 (0.15%) CMS
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 297 (43.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 104 (15.36%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.44%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.30%) Autodesk Inventor
5 2 (0.30%) CATIA
5 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.30%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Adaptiv
1 2 (0.30%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.15%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 23 (3.40%) Azure
2 14 (2.07%) AWS
3 13 (1.92%) Entra ID
4 12 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (1.03%) GCP
5 7 (1.03%) Power Platform
6 6 (0.89%) SaaS
7 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (0.44%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.44%) IaaS
8 3 (0.44%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.30%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.30%) Lucidchart
9 2 (0.30%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.30%) Serverless
10 1 (0.15%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.15%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.15%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.15%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.28%) Network Security
2 11 (1.62%) Modbus
3 10 (1.48%) Ethernet
4 6 (0.89%) Firewall
4 6 (0.89%) Profibus
5 4 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (0.59%) MQTT
5 4 (0.59%) VPN
6 1 (0.15%) Broadband
6 1 (0.15%) DNS
6 1 (0.15%) Internet
6 1 (0.15%) IPv4
6 1 (0.15%) IPv6
6 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.62%) Tableau
2 7 (1.03%) Power BI
3 4 (0.59%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.44%) Hadoop
4 3 (0.44%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.30%) Big Data
5 2 (0.30%) Looker
5 2 (0.30%) Metadata
5 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.15%) Base SAS
6 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.15%) GIS
6 1 (0.15%) HBase
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.15%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 4 (0.59%) JIRA
2 3 (0.44%) Git
3 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.30%) ERwin
3 2 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.15%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.15%) Postman
4 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 525 (77.55%) Social Skills
2 393 (58.05%) Finance
3 327 (48.30%) Analytical Skills
3 327 (48.30%) Banking
4 316 (46.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 310 (45.79%) German Language
6 300 (44.31%) Financial Institution
7 289 (42.69%) French Language
8 101 (14.92%) Presentation Skills
9 61 (9.01%) Legal
10 26 (3.84%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.95%) Public Sector
12 14 (2.07%) Retail
13 13 (1.92%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.62%) Local Government
16 10 (1.48%) Law
17 9 (1.33%) Electronics
17 9 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 352 (51.99%) Analyst
2 290 (42.84%) Credit Analyst
3 289 (42.69%) Research Analyst
4 134 (19.79%) Senior
5 35 (5.17%) Risk Manager
6 32 (4.73%) Lead
7 28 (4.14%) Security Analyst
8 25 (3.69%) Security Specialist
9 23 (3.40%) Architect
9 23 (3.40%) Information Specialist
9 23 (3.40%) Security Architect
10 21 (3.10%) Information Security Specialist
11 18 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
12 15 (2.22%) Risk Analyst
13 14 (2.07%) Operations Manager
14 12 (1.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (1.77%) Project Manager
15 11 (1.62%) Systems Engineer
16 10 (1.48%) Consultant
16 10 (1.48%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.10%) SailPoint
2 4 (0.59%) Leaflet
3 3 (0.44%) .NET
3 3 (0.44%) Pandas
4 2 (0.30%) CSS
5 1 (0.15%) JWT
5 1 (0.15%) Middleware
5 1 (0.15%) Node-RED
5 1 (0.15%) OAuth
5 1 (0.15%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.15%) Playwright
5 1 (0.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 292 (43.13%) Credit Risk
2 289 (42.69%) Fixed Income
3 180 (26.59%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.10%) Virtual Team
5 20 (2.95%) Security Posture
6 13 (1.92%) NHS
7 12 (1.77%) SCADA
8 10 (1.48%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.33%) Taxonomies
10 7 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (0.89%) Operational Technology
12 5 (0.74%) Biopharmaceutical
12 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Licensing
13 4 (0.59%) Cloud Native
13 4 (0.59%) Embedded Systems
13 4 (0.59%) IoT
13 4 (0.59%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.92%) Windows
2 5 (0.74%) Linux
3 1 (0.15%) Unix
3 1 (0.15%) VMS
3 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (79.32%) Risk Management
2 418 (61.74%) Decision-Making
3 300 (44.31%) Business Strategy
4 297 (43.87%) Asset Management
5 291 (42.98%) Financial Modelling
6 290 (42.84%) Credit Risk Analysis
7 289 (42.69%) Portfolio Management
8 124 (18.32%) Information Security
9 96 (14.18%) Cybersecurity
10 69 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 66 (9.75%) Mentoring
12 53 (7.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 47 (6.94%) Project Management
13 47 (6.94%) Regulatory Compliance
14 42 (6.20%) Problem-Solving
15 40 (5.91%) Due Diligence
16 36 (5.32%) Agile
17 34 (5.02%) Project Delivery
18 31 (4.58%) Collaborative Working
19 30 (4.43%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 24 (3.55%) PowerShell
2 16 (2.36%) Python
3 11 (1.62%) SQL
4 7 (1.03%) R
5 6 (0.89%) Ladder Logic
6 5 (0.74%) C#
6 5 (0.74%) Java
7 4 (0.59%) C++
8 3 (0.44%) VBA
9 2 (0.30%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.15%) Bash
10 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 481 (71.05%) Degree
2 311 (45.94%) Master's Degree
3 293 (43.28%) CFA
4 98 (14.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 52 (7.68%) CISSP
6 41 (6.06%) CISM
7 40 (5.91%) Chartered Engineer
8 28 (4.14%) Security Cleared
9 26 (3.84%) CRISC
10 21 (3.10%) SC Cleared
11 18 (2.66%) CISA
12 16 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 16 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (2.36%) CompTIA Security+
12 16 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (2.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 7 (1.03%) HNC
14 7 (1.03%) HND
15 5 (0.74%) CEH
15 5 (0.74%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (13.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 60 (8.86%) NIST
3 26 (3.84%) SOC 2
4 18 (2.66%) GDPR
5 17 (2.51%) Accessibility
6 16 (2.36%) NCSC
7 14 (2.07%) GRC
7 14 (2.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.77%) QA
9 9 (1.33%) COBIT
9 9 (1.33%) NIST 800
10 8 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (1.03%) SOC 1
12 6 (0.89%) Data Quality
13 5 (0.74%) PMO
14 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.30%) SLA
16 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
16 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 33 (4.87%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.44%) Docker
3 3 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.30%) vSphere
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (1.18%) RSA Archer
2 5 (0.74%) Functional Safety
3 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.59%) Terraform
4 2 (0.30%) Ansible
4 2 (0.30%) CASB
4 2 (0.30%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.15%) Nessus
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 289 (42.69%) Bloomberg
2 29 (4.28%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.10%) Okta
3 21 (3.10%) Salesforce
4 11 (1.62%) Siemens
5 10 (1.48%) Rockwell
6 7 (1.03%) Allen-Bradley
7 5 (0.74%) Oracle
7 5 (0.74%) ServiceNow
7 5 (0.74%) Tenable
7 5 (0.74%) VMware
8 4 (0.59%) AVEVA
8 4 (0.59%) Murex
9 3 (0.44%) Cisco
9 3 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.44%) NEC
10 2 (0.30%) Autodesk
10 2 (0.30%) Google
10 2 (0.30%) Pure Storage
10 2 (0.30%) Qualys