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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 44 79
Rank change year-on-year -75 +35 +26
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 1,429 2,541 3,112
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.56% 5.81% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 6.22% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 849 881 1,464
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £41,125
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,600 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.96% +13.04% -

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 67,346 40,822 82,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.74% 93.29% 85.15%
Number of salaries quoted 43,359 22,211 59,550
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.97%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

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 16 May 2026.

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 16 May 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 -76 1,295 £74,800 +2.13% 678
UK excluding London -121 685 £63,076 -2.96% 426
London -35 644 £90,000 +4.35% 315
Work from Home -27 484 £69,500 -0.71% 329
South East -29 187 £65,000 -7.80% 158
Midlands -30 144 £60,000 -4.00% 49
North of England -152 135 £60,000 -14.29% 100
South West -72 106 £67,500 +22.73% 50
West Midlands -44 103 £60,000 +2.56% 36
North West -123 72 £63,076 -1.29% 55
East of England -42 59 £67,500 +22.73% 44
Yorkshire -85 52 £57,239 -20.49% 41
East Midlands -32 41 £65,000 -13.33% 13
Scotland -68 35 £72,500 +16.00% 19
Wales -65 15 £72,500 +38.10% 8
North East -42 11 £68,076 -6.10% 5
Northern Ireland -53 8 - - 4
Isle of Man +5 3 £45,000 -16.67%

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 21 (1.47%) SharePoint
2 14 (0.98%) Confluence
2 14 (0.98%) Palantir Foundry
3 13 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.28%) SAS
5 2 (0.14%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.070%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.070%) CMS
6 1 (0.070%) Jupyter
Applications
1 49 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.98%) Maya
6 8 (0.56%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.28%) Fusion 360
9 3 (0.21%) Simulink
10 2 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.14%) Weka
Business Applications
1 15 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.42%) Primavera
3 4 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.21%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) Endur
5 2 (0.14%) Magento
5 2 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.070%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.070%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.070%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.070%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.070%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 169 (11.83%) Azure
2 131 (9.17%) AWS
3 70 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (4.34%) Power Platform
5 55 (3.85%) SaaS
6 51 (3.57%) Entra ID
7 44 (3.08%) GCP
8 41 (2.87%) Microsoft Purview
9 30 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
9 30 (2.10%) Serverless
10 25 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (1.40%) Amazon S3
12 20 (1.40%) Datadog
12 20 (1.40%) PaaS
13 18 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (1.12%) IaaS
16 15 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
17 10 (0.70%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 89 (6.23%) Firewall
2 48 (3.36%) Network Security
3 28 (1.96%) WAN
4 25 (1.75%) CHAP
5 19 (1.33%) SD-WAN
6 15 (1.05%) LAN
6 15 (1.05%) VPN
7 10 (0.70%) DMZ
8 9 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
9 6 (0.42%) SMS
10 4 (0.28%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.21%) Modbus
12 2 (0.14%) DKIM
12 2 (0.14%) DMARC
12 2 (0.14%) DNS
12 2 (0.14%) VLAN
13 1 (0.070%) Cisco ASA
13 1 (0.070%) NAS
13 1 (0.070%) TCAP
13 1 (0.070%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.43%) Power BI
2 27 (1.89%) Tableau
3 17 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (1.19%) DynamoDB
3 17 (1.19%) NoSQL
4 13 (0.91%) SQL Server
5 11 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (0.70%) DB2
7 7 (0.49%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.35%) Metadata
9 4 (0.28%) DB2 UDB
9 4 (0.28%) QlikView
9 4 (0.28%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.21%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.21%) SAS EBI
11 2 (0.14%) Ataccama
11 2 (0.14%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 27 (1.89%) JIRA
2 24 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.26%) GitLab
4 17 (1.19%) CircleCI
5 8 (0.56%) Git
6 4 (0.28%) Selenium
6 4 (0.28%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.21%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.21%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.14%) Gatling
8 2 (0.14%) webpack
9 1 (0.070%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.070%) Toad
9 1 (0.070%) Visual Studio
General
1 687 (48.08%) Finance
2 536 (37.51%) Social Skills
3 290 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (14.00%) Banking
5 180 (12.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 167 (11.69%) Legal
7 119 (8.33%) Public Sector
8 106 (7.42%) Law
9 104 (7.28%) Retail
10 101 (7.07%) Influencing Skills
11 73 (5.11%) Financial Institution
12 46 (3.22%) Marketing
13 43 (3.01%) Manufacturing
14 42 (2.94%) Local Government
15 37 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
15 37 (2.59%) Telecoms
16 32 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
17 25 (1.75%) Games
18 24 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
19 22 (1.54%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 254 (17.77%) Senior
2 135 (9.45%) Analyst
3 118 (8.26%) Consultant
4 117 (8.19%) Lead
5 111 (7.77%) Senior Manager
6 98 (6.86%) IT Manager
7 94 (6.58%) Project Manager
8 75 (5.25%) Security Manager
9 67 (4.69%) Architect
10 55 (3.85%) Security Analyst
11 54 (3.78%) Security Consultant
12 48 (3.36%) Senior Consultant
13 44 (3.08%) Developer
14 43 (3.01%) Risk Manager
15 40 (2.80%) Auditor
16 38 (2.66%) Head of IT
17 37 (2.59%) Development Manager
18 35 (2.45%) Senior Project Manager
19 34 (2.38%) Governance Manager
20 33 (2.31%) Head of Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.47%) Kafka
1 21 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
2 20 (1.40%) RESTful
3 18 (1.26%) gRPC
4 17 (1.19%) web3js
5 14 (0.98%) .NET
6 12 (0.84%) React
7 11 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (0.63%) REST
9 7 (0.49%) Middleware
9 7 (0.49%) SAP CAF
9 7 (0.49%) WebSockets
10 6 (0.42%) Gherkin
11 4 (0.28%) HTML
11 4 (0.28%) Node.js
11 4 (0.28%) PySpark
11 4 (0.28%) Spring
11 4 (0.28%) Spring Boot
12 3 (0.21%) .NET Framework
12 3 (0.21%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 169 (11.83%) Management Information System
2 123 (8.61%) Security Posture
3 68 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 62 (4.34%) Onboarding
5 60 (4.20%) Data Centre
6 41 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
7 37 (2.59%) Blockchain
8 36 (2.52%) Product Ownership
8 36 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (2.31%) Driving Licence
10 26 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
12 21 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
12 21 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 20 (1.40%) Operational Technology
14 19 (1.33%) Web3
15 18 (1.26%) NHS
16 17 (1.19%) Blog
17 16 (1.12%) Market Risk
17 16 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (3.29%) Windows
2 29 (2.03%) Linux
3 15 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.77%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.28%) Android
7 3 (0.21%) AIX
7 3 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (30.16%) Cybersecurity
2 353 (24.70%) Continuous Improvement
3 325 (22.74%) Information Security
4 275 (19.24%) Agile
5 257 (17.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 247 (17.28%) Project Management
7 241 (16.86%) Decision-Making
8 202 (14.14%) Roadmaps
9 201 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
10 188 (13.16%) Mentoring
11 186 (13.02%) AI
12 182 (12.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 176 (12.32%) Analytics
14 172 (12.04%) Incident Response
15 136 (9.52%) Data Protection
16 126 (8.82%) Business Continuity
17 124 (8.68%) Coaching
18 110 (7.70%) Strategic Thinking
19 106 (7.42%) Vulnerability Management
20 98 (6.86%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 95 (6.65%) Python
2 67 (4.69%) SQL
3 41 (2.87%) Java
4 20 (1.40%) Go
5 18 (1.26%) PowerShell
6 15 (1.05%) R
7 14 (0.98%) C#
8 13 (0.91%) JavaScript
8 13 (0.91%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.42%) Bash
9 6 (0.42%) C
10 4 (0.28%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.28%) RPG
10 4 (0.28%) VBA
11 3 (0.21%) Scala
12 2 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.14%) VB
13 1 (0.070%) ABAP
13 1 (0.070%) C++
13 1 (0.070%) PHP
Qualifications
1 273 (19.10%) Degree
2 258 (18.05%) CISSP
3 188 (13.16%) Security Cleared
4 181 (12.67%) CISM
5 118 (8.26%) SC Cleared
6 112 (7.84%) CISA
7 98 (6.86%) CRISC
8 66 (4.62%) PMI Certification
9 64 (4.48%) PMP
10 53 (3.71%) Master's Degree
11 51 (3.57%) DV Cleared
12 45 (3.15%) ACCA
13 42 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
14 40 (2.80%) SANS
15 37 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
15 37 (2.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 33 (2.31%) FFIEC
17 28 (1.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (1.82%) CGEIT
18 26 (1.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 330 (23.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 293 (20.50%) NIST
3 186 (13.02%) GRC
4 174 (12.18%) GDPR
5 114 (7.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 87 (6.09%) PCI DSS
7 77 (5.39%) QA
8 58 (4.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 50 (3.50%) Data Quality
10 45 (3.15%) COBIT
10 45 (3.15%) PMO
11 38 (2.66%) Accessibility
12 35 (2.45%) NIST 800
13 27 (1.89%) SOC 2
14 22 (1.54%) NCSC
15 21 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 20 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 19 (1.33%) IFRS
17 19 (1.33%) JSP 440
18 18 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (2.24%) Docker
2 28 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.35%) vSphere
5 3 (0.21%) IAG
6 2 (0.14%) Firmware
7 1 (0.070%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.070%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.070%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.070%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (2.59%) Kubernetes
2 28 (1.96%) Terraform
3 20 (1.40%) Prometheus
4 15 (1.05%) RSA Archer
5 14 (0.98%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.77%) CASB
8 8 (0.56%) SCCM
9 7 (0.49%) Ansible
9 7 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.28%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 4 (0.28%) Grafana
11 3 (0.21%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.21%) SCOM
11 3 (0.21%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.14%) BMC PATROL
12 2 (0.14%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 1 (0.070%) Control-M
13 1 (0.070%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.070%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 208 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 50 (3.50%) SAP
3 35 (2.45%) Oracle
4 28 (1.96%) Google
5 19 (1.33%) ServiceNow
6 16 (1.12%) Foundry
7 14 (0.98%) Palantir
7 14 (0.98%) Salesforce
7 14 (0.98%) VMware
8 11 (0.77%) Alteryx
9 10 (0.70%) Databricks
10 9 (0.63%) FIS
10 9 (0.63%) ION Trading
11 8 (0.56%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.42%) Apple
12 6 (0.42%) Cisco
12 6 (0.42%) iManage
12 6 (0.42%) OneTrust
13 5 (0.35%) Citrix
13 5 (0.35%) IBM