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 26 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 117 103
Rank change year-on-year +42 -14 +38
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 2,344 1,629 4,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.08% 2.77% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 2.94% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 892 1,095 2,233
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £37,556
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -0.91%
75th Percentile £80,125 £87,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

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 63,908 55,391 135,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.07% 94.35% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 30,608 39,736 76,629
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,497 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,125 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.10% - +5.00%

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 26 October 2024.

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 26 October 2024. 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 +45 2,117 £62,500 -10.71% 664
UK excluding London +42 1,331 £57,500 -4.17% 357
London +46 907 £75,000 -6.25% 356
Work from Home +42 709 £67,500 -3.57% 383
North of England +61 403 £55,000 -8.33% 82
South East +37 344 £62,500 +7.71% 76
North West +67 303 £53,580 -2.66% 52
Midlands +33 238 £57,500 +6.48% 74
West Midlands +8 157 £58,000 +5.45% 53
Scotland +18 132 £61,250 -23.44% 31
South West -19 126 £56,250 -19.64% 48
East Midlands +22 78 £57,500 +6.48% 21
Yorkshire -4 63 £64,000 -5.19% 23
East of England -39 61 £54,000 - 37
North East -2 36 £57,500 +6.48% 7
Wales +23 12 £51,250 +9.28% 11
Northern Ireland +8 12 £68,404 -2.28% 10
Isle of Man - 6 - -

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 62 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 23 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (0.85%) Apache
4 16 (0.68%) Confluence
5 11 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.43%) SAS
7 6 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
7 6 (0.26%) nginx
8 4 (0.17%) Luigi
9 3 (0.13%) Camunda
10 2 (0.085%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.085%) CMS
10 2 (0.085%) FileNet
10 2 (0.085%) IIS
10 2 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.085%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.043%) JBoss
11 1 (0.043%) WildFly
Applications
1 105 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
2 94 (4.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.90%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.38%) Trello
7 2 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.085%) Windchill
8 1 (0.043%) Maya
Business Applications
1 20 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.38%) Primavera
4 7 (0.30%) SAP CO
4 7 (0.30%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
5 5 (0.21%) Endur
5 5 (0.21%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.17%) Maximo
6 4 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.13%) assyst
7 3 (0.13%) Findur
8 2 (0.085%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.085%) SAP PS
8 2 (0.085%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.043%) MetaTrader
9 1 (0.043%) Oracle Retail
9 1 (0.043%) Relativity
9 1 (0.043%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.043%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 183 (7.81%) Azure
2 156 (6.66%) GCP
3 122 (5.20%) AWS
4 76 (3.24%) Power Platform
5 74 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
6 63 (2.69%) SaaS
7 53 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
8 41 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (1.54%) Entra ID
10 32 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
11 31 (1.32%) PaaS
12 29 (1.24%) IaaS
13 22 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
14 21 (0.90%) GitHub
15 18 (0.77%) Snowflake
16 13 (0.55%) WhatsApp
17 11 (0.47%) PowerApps
18 10 (0.43%) Amazon EC2
19 9 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
19 9 (0.38%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 202 (8.62%) Broadband
2 111 (4.74%) Intrusion Detection
3 49 (2.09%) Network Security
4 43 (1.83%) Firewall
5 17 (0.73%) LAN
5 17 (0.73%) PPP
5 17 (0.73%) WAN
6 14 (0.60%) DMZ
7 13 (0.55%) DNS
8 11 (0.47%) DHCP
9 9 (0.38%) HTTP
9 9 (0.38%) Internet
10 7 (0.30%) VPN
10 7 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.21%) SSL
11 5 (0.21%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.13%) 5G
12 3 (0.13%) FTP
12 3 (0.13%) Intranet
12 3 (0.13%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (8.58%) Data Hub
2 62 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (2.56%) Power BI
4 33 (1.41%) Tableau
5 30 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (1.28%) Qlik Sense
6 25 (1.07%) Big Data
7 21 (0.90%) SQL Server
8 20 (0.85%) Relational Database
9 14 (0.60%) MySQL
10 13 (0.55%) Bigtable
10 13 (0.55%) MongoDB
11 12 (0.51%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.51%) Redis
12 10 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.34%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.21%) BigQuery
16 4 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
16 4 (0.17%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 55 (2.35%) JIRA
2 37 (1.58%) Git
3 21 (0.90%) Selenium
4 17 (0.73%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.43%) Artifactory
5 10 (0.43%) GitLab
5 10 (0.43%) SonarQube
6 9 (0.38%) NUnit
6 9 (0.38%) SpecFlow
6 9 (0.38%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.26%) Mercurial
8 5 (0.21%) Ant
9 4 (0.17%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.13%) Babel
10 3 (0.13%) Jasmine
10 3 (0.13%) JUnit
10 3 (0.13%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.13%) webpack
11 2 (0.085%) Maven
11 2 (0.085%) Mockito
General
1 1,148 (48.98%) Social Skills
2 880 (37.54%) Finance
3 465 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
4 335 (14.29%) Legal
5 279 (11.90%) Influencing Skills
6 262 (11.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 143 (6.10%) Banking
8 134 (5.72%) Telecoms
9 107 (4.56%) Law
10 92 (3.92%) Manufacturing
11 81 (3.46%) Retail
12 76 (3.24%) Marketing
13 66 (2.82%) Public Sector
14 59 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
15 57 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
16 55 (2.35%) Financial Institution
17 31 (1.32%) Front Office
18 27 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (0.73%) Aerospace
20 15 (0.64%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 652 (27.82%) Senior
2 478 (20.39%) Analyst
3 291 (12.41%) Project Manager
4 239 (10.20%) Senior Analyst
5 178 (7.59%) Architect
6 140 (5.97%) Lead
7 139 (5.93%) Security Architect
8 133 (5.67%) Senior Manager
9 132 (5.63%) Risk Manager
10 126 (5.38%) IT Manager
11 116 (4.95%) Audit Manager
12 113 (4.82%) Data Analyst
13 96 (4.10%) Security Analyst
13 96 (4.10%) Security Engineer
14 89 (3.80%) Security Manager
15 68 (2.90%) Auditor
16 61 (2.60%) Infrastructure Manager
17 58 (2.47%) Consultant
17 58 (2.47%) Coordinator
17 58 (2.47%) Senior Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (6.74%) HTML
2 32 (1.37%) CSS
2 32 (1.37%) Spring
3 27 (1.15%) .NET
4 26 (1.11%) Web Services
5 24 (1.02%) AngularJS
6 21 (0.90%) Kafka
7 17 (0.73%) Spring Boot
8 16 (0.68%) Pandas
8 16 (0.68%) XML
9 15 (0.64%) LDAP
9 15 (0.64%) REST
10 14 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
11 13 (0.55%) Ajax
11 13 (0.55%) RESTful
12 12 (0.51%) Hugging Face
12 12 (0.51%) Middleware
13 11 (0.47%) React
14 10 (0.43%) FIX Protocol
14 10 (0.43%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 327 (13.95%) Management Information System
2 130 (5.55%) Cyberattack
3 74 (3.16%) Driving Licence
4 72 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
5 59 (2.52%) Security Posture
6 51 (2.18%) Credit Risk
7 43 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
8 40 (1.71%) Cloud Native
8 40 (1.71%) Operational Technology
9 39 (1.66%) Reinsurance
10 38 (1.62%) Data Centre
11 37 (1.58%) Onboarding
12 35 (1.49%) Algorithms
13 25 (1.07%) Virtual Team
14 24 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
15 21 (0.90%) Cyber Security Posture
15 21 (0.90%) Derivative
16 20 (0.85%) CMDB
16 20 (0.85%) Life Science
17 19 (0.81%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 61 (2.60%) Windows
2 52 (2.22%) Linux
3 28 (1.19%) Unix
4 20 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.17%) Windows XP
8 3 (0.13%) Android
8 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.085%) zOS
10 1 (0.043%) VMS
10 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 745 (31.78%) Problem-Solving
2 611 (26.07%) Project Management
3 585 (24.96%) Cybersecurity
4 554 (23.63%) Information Security
5 480 (20.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 445 (18.98%) Agile
7 401 (17.11%) Analytics
8 319 (13.61%) Mentoring
9 273 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 271 (11.56%) Data Governance
11 262 (11.18%) Data Management
12 245 (10.45%) Project Delivery
13 243 (10.37%) Customer Experience
14 241 (10.28%) Coaching
15 208 (8.87%) Decision-Making
16 207 (8.83%) Creative Thinking
16 207 (8.83%) Incident Response
17 204 (8.70%) Data Transformation
18 170 (7.25%) Artificial Intelligence
19 164 (7.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 144 (6.14%) SQL
2 126 (5.38%) Python
3 64 (2.73%) Java
4 41 (1.75%) PowerShell
5 38 (1.62%) JavaScript
6 34 (1.45%) C#
7 31 (1.32%) VBA
8 18 (0.77%) Bash
9 14 (0.60%) Kotlin
10 11 (0.47%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.43%) Go
12 7 (0.30%) R
12 7 (0.30%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.26%) PHP
14 5 (0.21%) C++
15 3 (0.13%) Clojure
15 3 (0.13%) Groovy
15 3 (0.13%) Scala
15 3 (0.13%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.085%) JCL
Qualifications
1 554 (23.63%) Degree
2 362 (15.44%) CISA
3 240 (10.24%) Security Cleared
4 228 (9.73%) CISM
4 228 (9.73%) CISSP
5 142 (6.06%) Master's Degree
6 141 (6.02%) DV Cleared
7 99 (4.22%) PMI Certification
8 91 (3.88%) PMP
9 82 (3.50%) SC Cleared
10 65 (2.77%) CRISC
11 62 (2.65%) ACCA
11 62 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
12 50 (2.13%) NVQ Level 3
13 43 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
14 42 (1.79%) CESG Certified Professional
15 36 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 34 (1.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 31 (1.32%) CEH
18 27 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (13.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 248 (10.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 243 (10.37%) NIST
4 187 (7.98%) GRC
5 109 (4.65%) QA
6 106 (4.52%) GDPR
7 76 (3.24%) IFRS
8 70 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
9 64 (2.73%) PMO
10 59 (2.52%) PCI DSS
11 57 (2.43%) ITGC
12 53 (2.26%) NCSC
13 43 (1.83%) Data Quality
14 36 (1.54%) COBIT
15 33 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 33 (1.41%) GAAP
16 31 (1.32%) SLA
17 27 (1.15%) RMADS
18 26 (1.11%) ISO 9001
19 25 (1.07%) JSP 440
System Software
1 43 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 23 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.60%) Docker
4 10 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 10 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.43%) vSphere
5 3 (0.13%) KVM
5 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.085%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.085%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.043%) ACF2
7 1 (0.043%) NFS
7 1 (0.043%) RACF
Systems Management
1 39 (1.66%) Kubernetes
2 35 (1.49%) Terraform
3 21 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (0.47%) Puppet
5 10 (0.43%) Ansible
5 10 (0.43%) SCOM
6 9 (0.38%) HP ALM
7 7 (0.30%) Autotask
7 7 (0.30%) CASB
8 5 (0.21%) Argo
8 5 (0.21%) SCCM
9 3 (0.13%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.13%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.13%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (0.085%) Grafana
10 2 (0.085%) OfficeScan
10 2 (0.085%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.085%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 2 (0.085%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 249 (10.62%) Microsoft
2 131 (5.59%) Google
3 56 (2.39%) SAP
4 28 (1.19%) ServiceNow
5 26 (1.11%) Oracle
6 18 (0.77%) NEC
7 15 (0.64%) Cisco
7 15 (0.64%) Databricks
7 15 (0.64%) VMware
8 14 (0.60%) HP
9 13 (0.55%) Bloomberg
9 13 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 13 (0.55%) Splunk
10 10 (0.43%) Veracode
10 10 (0.43%) Zscaler
11 8 (0.34%) IFS
11 8 (0.34%) Remedy
12 7 (0.30%) Datto
12 7 (0.30%) OpenText
13 6 (0.26%) Nimble Storage