Risk Management Jobs

Risk Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Risk Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Risk Management over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 87 107
Rank change year-on-year +35 +20 +5
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 2,726 3,177 2,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.85% 2.86% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.24% 3.48% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,023 1,487 1,563
10th Percentile £49,150 £41,250 £39,776
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,646
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £97,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £57,500 £55,890
% change year-on-year +1.74% +2.88% -1.29%

All Process and 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 52,011 91,296 87,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.63% 82.28% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26,082 62,964 53,217
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,934 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Management over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Top 18 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 17 June 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 +49 2,352 £73,159 +21.93% 11,883
UK excluding London +20 1,590 £58,500 +1.74% 8,499
London +64 1,048 £92,250 +23.00% 4,726
Work from Home +48 812 £75,000 +24.58% 4,324
North of England +61 545 £63,900 +16.18% 1,878
North West +61 436 £63,900 +18.33% 952
Midlands +38 286 £64,000 +16.80% 1,334
South East -2 229 £70,250 +29.73% 2,301
Scotland -13 229 £51,645 -17.37% 587
West Midlands +49 198 £58,000 -2.19% 755
South West +1 120 £55,000 -15.38% 911
East of England +35 101 £55,000 +1.85% 1,068
Yorkshire +48 93 £70,250 +17.08% 778
East Midlands +25 88 £75,000 +38.89% 574
Wales +74 55 £56,250 -22.41% 250
Northern Ireland +52 24 £78,901 +23.77% 202
North East +7 16 £71,250 +23.91% 150
Channel Islands - 3 £78,750 -

Risk Management
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 73 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 32 (1.17%) CMS
5 30 (1.10%) Confluence
6 10 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.29%) SAS
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.073%) IIS
9 2 (0.073%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.037%) Apache
10 1 (0.037%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.037%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.037%) Mule
10 1 (0.037%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.037%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.037%) WordPress
Applications
1 308 (11.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 185 (6.79%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 34 (1.25%) Maya
5 30 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.37%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.33%) Trello
8 5 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.073%) LaTeX
10 2 (0.073%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.037%) Stata
Business Applications
1 25 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.37%) SAP IBP
4 7 (0.26%) Adaptiv
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.22%) SAP FI
5 6 (0.22%) SAP FSCM
6 5 (0.18%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.11%) Primavera
7 3 (0.11%) Relativity
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CX
7 3 (0.11%) SAP IS-U
8 2 (0.073%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.073%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.073%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.073%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.073%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 233 (8.55%) AWS
2 204 (7.48%) Azure
3 163 (5.98%) GCP
4 72 (2.64%) Power Platform
5 71 (2.60%) dbt
6 64 (2.35%) SaaS
7 54 (1.98%) PaaS
8 48 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
9 42 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
10 35 (1.28%) IaaS
11 27 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
12 25 (0.92%) Entra ID
12 25 (0.92%) iPaaS
13 17 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (0.62%) Amazon S3
13 17 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (0.62%) PowerApps
14 15 (0.55%) Serverless
15 14 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (0.48%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 285 (10.45%) VPN
2 262 (9.61%) Cisco IOS
3 78 (2.86%) Firewall
4 69 (2.53%) Network Security
5 27 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
6 14 (0.51%) WAN
7 9 (0.33%) DNS
7 9 (0.33%) LAN
8 8 (0.29%) DHCP
9 7 (0.26%) Internet
9 7 (0.26%) Intranet
9 7 (0.26%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.26%) VLAN
10 6 (0.22%) Wireshark
11 5 (0.18%) Broadband
11 5 (0.18%) DMZ
11 5 (0.18%) HTTP
12 4 (0.15%) BGP
12 4 (0.15%) OSPF
12 4 (0.15%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
2 70 (2.57%) Apache Arrow
2 70 (2.57%) Apache Iceberg
2 70 (2.57%) Dremio
3 60 (2.20%) Power BI
4 38 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (1.39%) Tableau
5 34 (1.25%) NoSQL
6 33 (1.21%) Data Lake
7 23 (0.84%) SQL Server
8 22 (0.81%) Big Data
9 18 (0.66%) DynamoDB
10 16 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (0.48%) Metadata
11 13 (0.48%) MongoDB
12 12 (0.44%) SAP BW
13 9 (0.33%) MS Access
14 8 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
15 7 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 67 (2.46%) JIRA
2 29 (1.06%) Git
3 19 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.48%) GitLab
5 9 (0.33%) CircleCI
5 9 (0.33%) Maven
6 8 (0.29%) JUnit
7 5 (0.18%) Mockito
8 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.11%) AppScan
9 3 (0.11%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (0.11%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.11%) DbUnit
9 3 (0.11%) jMock
9 3 (0.11%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.073%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.073%) ERwin
10 2 (0.073%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.073%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.037%) Gatling
General
1 1,399 (51.32%) Finance
2 1,270 (46.59%) Social Skills
3 985 (36.13%) Analytical Skills
4 759 (27.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 528 (19.37%) Banking
6 371 (13.61%) Financial Institution
7 302 (11.08%) German Language
8 290 (10.64%) French Language
9 286 (10.49%) Legal
10 223 (8.18%) Law
11 185 (6.79%) Presentation Skills
12 159 (5.83%) Marketing
13 115 (4.22%) Front Office
14 112 (4.11%) Retail
15 87 (3.19%) Public Sector
16 84 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
17 77 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
18 76 (2.79%) Manufacturing
19 55 (2.02%) Telecoms
20 40 (1.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 516 (18.93%) Analyst
2 400 (14.67%) Senior
3 284 (10.42%) Credit Analyst
4 281 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 278 (10.20%) Project Manager
6 277 (10.16%) Research Analyst
7 215 (7.89%) Lead
8 182 (6.68%) Risk Manager
9 162 (5.94%) Security Engineer
10 153 (5.61%) Software Engineer
11 146 (5.36%) Architect
12 136 (4.99%) Senior Manager
13 126 (4.62%) Developer
14 122 (4.48%) Principal Engineer
15 119 (4.37%) Principal Security Engineer
16 110 (4.04%) Security Analyst
17 97 (3.56%) Senior Project Manager
18 79 (2.90%) AWS Developer
19 75 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
20 74 (2.71%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (9.61%) Elastic Stack
2 92 (3.37%) React
3 82 (3.01%) AngularJS
4 77 (2.82%) Pandas
5 74 (2.71%) Node.js
5 74 (2.71%) NumPy
6 71 (2.60%) SciPy
7 70 (2.57%) Vue
8 43 (1.58%) Kafka
9 34 (1.25%) .NET
10 31 (1.14%) RESTful
11 29 (1.06%) Spring
12 27 (0.99%) Middleware
13 23 (0.84%) SailPoint
14 21 (0.77%) REST
15 18 (0.66%) Web Services
16 13 (0.48%) gRPC
17 12 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
18 11 (0.40%) SOAP
19 10 (0.37%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 359 (13.17%) Fixed Income
2 352 (12.91%) Credit Risk
3 338 (12.40%) Management Information System
4 283 (10.38%) Cyberattack
5 110 (4.04%) Driving Licence
6 94 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 84 (3.08%) Security Posture
8 73 (2.68%) Cloud Native
9 68 (2.49%) Equities
10 63 (2.31%) Blockchain
11 56 (2.05%) Product Ownership
11 56 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
12 46 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
13 44 (1.61%) Virtual Team
14 43 (1.58%) Derivative
15 39 (1.43%) Public Cloud
16 34 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
16 34 (1.25%) Hedge funds
16 34 (1.25%) PMI
17 33 (1.21%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 306 (11.23%) Windows
2 293 (10.75%) Linux
3 265 (9.72%) Android
4 21 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.33%) Unix
5 9 (0.33%) Windows Vista
6 8 (0.29%) zOS
7 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.037%) AIX
9 1 (0.037%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.037%) SUSE
9 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.037%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 635 (23.29%) Decision-Making
2 630 (23.11%) Project Management
3 600 (22.01%) Problem-Solving
4 585 (21.46%) Agile
5 547 (20.07%) Risk Assessment
6 530 (19.44%) Cybersecurity
7 467 (17.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 440 (16.14%) Information Security
9 417 (15.30%) Business Strategy
10 416 (15.26%) DevOps
11 384 (14.09%) Asset Management
12 364 (13.35%) Line Management
13 347 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 322 (11.81%) Mathematics
15 313 (11.48%) Portfolio Management
16 293 (10.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 288 (10.56%) Financial Modelling
17 288 (10.56%) Platform Engineering
18 277 (10.16%) Credit Risk Analysis
19 270 (9.90%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 433 (15.88%) Python
2 314 (11.52%) PowerShell
3 266 (9.76%) Bash
4 127 (4.66%) Java
5 100 (3.67%) JavaScript
6 97 (3.56%) SQL
7 78 (2.86%) TypeScript
8 35 (1.28%) R
9 29 (1.06%) C++
10 28 (1.03%) C#
11 25 (0.92%) Go
12 19 (0.70%) Kotlin
13 12 (0.44%) C
14 7 (0.26%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.18%) Groovy
15 5 (0.18%) Scala
16 4 (0.15%) Rust
16 4 (0.15%) VBA
17 3 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.073%) JCL
Qualifications
1 915 (33.57%) Degree
2 335 (12.29%) Master's Degree
3 309 (11.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 292 (10.71%) CISSP
5 291 (10.67%) CFA
6 249 (9.13%) CISM
7 156 (5.72%) Security Cleared
8 130 (4.77%) CESG Certified Professional
9 106 (3.89%) CRISC
10 83 (3.04%) PMI Certification
11 78 (2.86%) DV Cleared
12 75 (2.75%) SC Cleared
13 62 (2.27%) CISA
14 51 (1.87%) PMP
15 45 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
16 44 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
17 35 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 33 (1.21%) Chartered Engineer
19 27 (0.99%) ACCA
20 24 (0.88%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 370 (13.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 320 (11.74%) NIST
3 139 (5.10%) GDPR
4 127 (4.66%) RMADS
5 125 (4.59%) JSP 440
6 82 (3.01%) QA
7 79 (2.90%) GRC
8 56 (2.05%) COBIT
8 56 (2.05%) ITGC
9 53 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
9 53 (1.94%) PCI DSS
10 50 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 44 (1.61%) Accessibility
12 40 (1.47%) SOC 2
13 34 (1.25%) PMO
14 32 (1.17%) NCSC
15 28 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 28 (1.03%) Data Quality
16 27 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 22 (0.81%) NIST 800
System Software
1 290 (10.64%) Docker
2 275 (10.09%) Hyper-V
3 263 (9.65%) vSphere
4 262 (9.61%) VMware NSX
5 43 (1.58%) Active Directory
6 14 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.11%) Postfix
8 2 (0.073%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.037%) HDFS
9 1 (0.037%) NFS
9 1 (0.037%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 289 (10.60%) Terraform
2 269 (9.87%) Ansible
3 47 (1.72%) Kubernetes
4 15 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 14 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.48%) FortiGate
7 9 (0.33%) Grafana
7 9 (0.33%) RSA Archer
8 7 (0.26%) Nessus
9 6 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (0.18%) CSIRT
10 5 (0.18%) SCCM
11 4 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.11%) CASB
12 3 (0.11%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.11%) Iperf
13 2 (0.073%) Host Intrusion Detection System
13 2 (0.073%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.073%) QRadar
14 1 (0.037%) OPNET
Vendors
1 281 (10.31%) Bloomberg
2 277 (10.16%) Cisco
3 269 (9.87%) Splunk
4 263 (9.65%) Juniper
5 262 (9.61%) 3PAR
6 243 (8.91%) Microsoft
7 98 (3.60%) SAP
8 46 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 40 (1.47%) Oracle
10 33 (1.21%) Avaloq
11 31 (1.14%) Google
12 21 (0.77%) Okta
13 19 (0.70%) Murex
14 18 (0.66%) Atlassian
14 18 (0.66%) ServiceNow
15 17 (0.62%) VMware
16 16 (0.59%) MuleSoft
17 15 (0.55%) Databricks
18 14 (0.51%) Adobe
18 14 (0.51%) Dell