Risk Management Job Trends

Risk Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Risk Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 56 112
Rank change year-on-year -31 +56 -9
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 1,480 2,391 1,562
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.47% 4.47% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 4.93% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 719 825 1,014
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £117,560 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £57,882
% change year-on-year +1.69% +1.93% +0.66%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Risk Management 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 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
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 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Risk Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Risk Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Risk Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Risk Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Management over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
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 Management within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 -24 1,366 £70,000 +3.70% 547
UK excluding London -43 799 £60,000 +1.69% 475
London -11 608 £87,500 +9.38% 168
Work from Home +41 538 £67,500 -2.61% 307
South East +19 305 £60,000 -14.29% 182
Midlands -17 142 £55,000 -4.35% 71
South West -6 132 £60,000 - 50
North of England -92 129 £62,617 +7.90% 83
North West -73 79 £57,500 +2.68% 42
East Midlands -4 71 £45,000 -21.74% 26
West Midlands -24 70 £62,000 +12.73% 45
Scotland -58 42 £85,000 +36.00% 21
Yorkshire -34 36 £62,733 -16.36% 36
East of England -45 28 £55,000 -3.72% 53
Wales -29 19 £48,122 -12.51% 20
North East +3 14 £87,500 +34.62% 6
Northern Ireland -26 3 - - 7

Risk Management
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 31 (2.09%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.08%) IIS
5 14 (0.95%) Confluence
6 6 (0.41%) WordPress
7 4 (0.27%) CMS
7 4 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.068%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.068%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.068%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.068%) WebLogic
Applications
1 59 (3.99%) Maya
2 33 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.34%) Windchill
6 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.27%) Fusion 360
6 4 (0.27%) Trello
7 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.20%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.14%) Weka
9 1 (0.068%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 146 (9.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 70 (4.73%) SAP MDG
3 37 (2.50%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 23 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
5 17 (1.15%) SAP IBP
6 13 (0.88%) SAP CO
6 13 (0.88%) SAP FI
6 13 (0.88%) SAP FI/CO
7 11 (0.74%) Endur
8 10 (0.68%) SAP FSCM
9 9 (0.61%) SAP IS-U
10 6 (0.41%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.27%) Primavera
12 3 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
12 3 (0.20%) SAP CX
12 3 (0.20%) SAP GRC
13 2 (0.14%) Adaptiv
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
14 1 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
14 1 (0.068%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 158 (10.68%) Azure
2 131 (8.85%) AWS
3 70 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (4.59%) Power Platform
5 62 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (3.85%) SaaS
7 54 (3.65%) GCP
8 38 (2.57%) Cloud Computing
9 29 (1.96%) Entra ID
10 28 (1.89%) dbt
11 22 (1.49%) OCI
12 20 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
13 18 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.01%) Boomi
15 14 (0.95%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
16 13 (0.88%) Serverless
17 11 (0.74%) Nutanix
18 10 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
19 8 (0.54%) Azure Sentinel
20 7 (0.47%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.99%) Firewall
2 33 (2.23%) Network Security
3 20 (1.35%) WAN
4 18 (1.22%) SD-WAN
5 14 (0.95%) CHAP
6 12 (0.81%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.68%) DMZ
7 10 (0.68%) VLAN
7 10 (0.68%) VPN
8 9 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (0.54%) DHCP
9 8 (0.54%) DNS
10 7 (0.47%) Modbus
11 6 (0.41%) LAN
11 6 (0.41%) SAN
11 6 (0.41%) WebEx
12 4 (0.27%) Bluetooth
12 4 (0.27%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.27%) ZigBee
13 3 (0.20%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (4.39%) Tableau
2 57 (3.85%) Power BI
3 26 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
5 24 (1.62%) Apache Iceberg
6 23 (1.55%) Apache Arrow
6 23 (1.55%) Dremio
7 21 (1.42%) Data Lake
8 18 (1.22%) SAP BW
9 11 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
10 10 (0.68%) GIS
11 8 (0.54%) Metadata
12 7 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.41%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.41%) SQL Server
14 5 (0.34%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (0.27%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 74 (5.00%) JIRA
2 43 (2.91%) eCATT
3 12 (0.81%) NeoLoad
4 11 (0.74%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.47%) GitLab
6 5 (0.34%) Burp Suite
6 5 (0.34%) CircleCI
6 5 (0.34%) Selenium
7 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.20%) Git
8 3 (0.20%) NUnit
8 3 (0.20%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.14%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.14%) VisualVM
9 2 (0.14%) webpack
9 2 (0.14%) YourKit
10 1 (0.068%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 739 (49.93%) Finance
2 652 (44.05%) Social Skills
3 442 (29.86%) Analytical Skills
4 207 (13.99%) Banking
5 147 (9.93%) Legal
6 138 (9.32%) Law
7 135 (9.12%) Influencing Skills
8 117 (7.91%) Marketing
8 117 (7.91%) Presentation Skills
9 111 (7.50%) Public Sector
10 108 (7.30%) Manufacturing
11 107 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 85 (5.74%) Financial Institution
13 69 (4.66%) Games
14 68 (4.59%) Retail
15 44 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
16 38 (2.57%) Electronics
16 38 (2.57%) Telecoms
17 34 (2.30%) Front Office
17 34 (2.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 217 (14.66%) Senior
2 215 (14.53%) Lead
3 177 (11.96%) Analyst
4 122 (8.24%) Consultant
5 120 (8.11%) Architect
6 97 (6.55%) IT Manager
7 93 (6.28%) Project Manager
8 83 (5.61%) Senior Manager
9 66 (4.46%) Security Consultant
10 61 (4.12%) Business Manager
11 59 (3.99%) Developer
12 53 (3.58%) Systems Manager
13 50 (3.38%) Business Systems Manager
14 49 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
15 44 (2.97%) Data Analyst
16 43 (2.91%) Senior Consultant
17 41 (2.77%) Risk Manager
18 38 (2.57%) Security Manager
19 36 (2.43%) Head of Security
20 33 (2.23%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.96%) React
2 26 (1.76%) Pandas
2 26 (1.76%) SAP CAF
3 25 (1.69%) NumPy
4 24 (1.62%) AngularJS
5 23 (1.55%) Node.js
5 23 (1.55%) SciPy
5 23 (1.55%) Vue
6 18 (1.22%) Middleware
7 11 (0.74%) .NET
8 10 (0.68%) RESTful
9 7 (0.47%) CSS
9 7 (0.47%) HTML
9 7 (0.47%) Kafka
9 7 (0.47%) Spring
9 7 (0.47%) XML
10 5 (0.34%) EDI
10 5 (0.34%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (0.34%) Hibernate
10 5 (0.34%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 174 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 90 (6.08%) Cyber Threat
3 86 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
4 83 (5.61%) Operational Technology
5 79 (5.34%) Enterprise Software
6 75 (5.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 70 (4.73%) Security Operations Centre
8 60 (4.05%) Security Posture
9 50 (3.38%) Robotics
10 42 (2.84%) Onboarding
11 40 (2.70%) Cloud Native
11 40 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 33 (2.23%) Blockchain
13 29 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
13 29 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
13 29 (1.96%) Fixed Income
14 27 (1.82%) Equities
15 25 (1.69%) Credit Risk
16 24 (1.62%) Data Centre
17 23 (1.55%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.70%) Windows
2 35 (2.36%) Linux
3 11 (0.74%) Mac OS
3 11 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.34%) Android
5 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
5 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.20%) Unix
6 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.068%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (25.95%) Cybersecurity
2 351 (23.72%) Project Management
3 337 (22.77%) Agile
4 319 (21.55%) Information Security
5 291 (19.66%) Business Strategy
6 286 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 274 (18.51%) Roadmaps
8 265 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 244 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
10 224 (15.14%) AI
11 209 (14.12%) Decision-Making
12 206 (13.92%) Analytics
13 199 (13.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 191 (12.91%) Mentoring
15 174 (11.76%) Coaching
16 150 (10.14%) ITIL
17 148 (10.00%) Process Improvement
18 138 (9.32%) Business Intelligence
19 132 (8.92%) IT Strategy
20 127 (8.58%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (6.76%) Python
2 70 (4.73%) SQL
3 31 (2.09%) JavaScript
4 28 (1.89%) PowerShell
5 27 (1.82%) TypeScript
6 20 (1.35%) Java
7 10 (0.68%) C++
8 9 (0.61%) VBA
9 8 (0.54%) C#
9 8 (0.54%) R
10 5 (0.34%) Go
11 4 (0.27%) Rust
11 4 (0.27%) Scala
12 3 (0.20%) RPG
13 2 (0.14%) Bash
13 2 (0.14%) C
13 2 (0.14%) F#
13 2 (0.14%) Haskell
13 2 (0.14%) OCaml
14 1 (0.068%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 361 (24.39%) Degree
2 283 (19.12%) CISSP
3 189 (12.77%) CISM
4 153 (10.34%) Security Cleared
5 139 (9.39%) CISA
6 134 (9.05%) CRISC
7 128 (8.65%) SC Cleared
8 68 (4.59%) PMI Certification
9 64 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 59 (3.99%) PMP
11 46 (3.11%) Master's Degree
12 44 (2.97%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 38 (2.57%) ACCA
14 36 (2.43%) Numerate Degree
15 25 (1.69%) CGEIT
15 25 (1.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 24 (1.62%) AWS Certification
17 22 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
17 22 (1.49%) CISMP
18 20 (1.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 348 (23.51%) NIST
2 334 (22.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 137 (9.26%) GRC
4 129 (8.72%) GDPR
5 87 (5.88%) PCI DSS
6 75 (5.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 75 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 71 (4.80%) Data Quality
8 63 (4.26%) QA
9 45 (3.04%) PMO
10 44 (2.97%) COBIT
11 36 (2.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 34 (2.30%) NCSC
12 34 (2.30%) NIST 800
13 28 (1.89%) JSP 440
14 26 (1.76%) SOC 2
15 24 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 23 (1.55%) IFRS
17 21 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 18 (1.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.49%) Docker
3 8 (0.54%) Firmware
3 8 (0.54%) Hyper-V
3 8 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.20%) vSphere
5 2 (0.14%) vCloud
6 1 (0.068%) Postfix
6 1 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (3.11%) HP ALM
2 27 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (1.76%) Kubernetes
4 20 (1.35%) Terraform
5 12 (0.81%) CASB
6 9 (0.61%) Ansible
6 9 (0.61%) RSA Archer
6 9 (0.61%) SCCM
7 7 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (0.34%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 4 (0.27%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.27%) Grafana
10 4 (0.27%) Nessus
10 4 (0.27%) Nmap
11 3 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.14%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 205 (13.85%) SAP
2 184 (12.43%) Microsoft
3 47 (3.18%) HP
4 43 (2.91%) Oracle
5 38 (2.57%) OpenText
6 36 (2.43%) Ariba
7 34 (2.30%) Bloomberg
8 31 (2.09%) Alteryx
9 30 (2.03%) Salesforce
10 24 (1.62%) ServiceNow
11 19 (1.28%) Google
12 18 (1.22%) Dell
13 14 (0.95%) Adobe
13 14 (0.95%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.74%) Databricks
15 9 (0.61%) Progress
15 9 (0.61%) Splunk
15 9 (0.61%) VMware
16 8 (0.54%) HubSpot
16 8 (0.54%) OpenLink