Senior Risk Manager
UK

The median Senior Risk Manager salary in the UK is £107,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 883 954 1181
Rank change year-on-year +71 +227 -277
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Risk Manager 15 26 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.026% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.028% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 9 20 14
10th Percentile £73,750 - £63,878
25th Percentile £83,750 £77,550 £64,175
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £87,203 £80,095
Median % change year-on-year +23.28% +8.87% +3.35%
75th Percentile £122,500 £103,911 £87,944
90th Percentile £124,250 - £112,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £98,442 £67,500
% change year-on-year -21.27% +45.84% +22.73%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Risk Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Risk Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Risk Manager in the UK

Senior Risk Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Risk Manager in the UK

Senior Risk Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Risk Manager over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Risk Manager in the UK

Senior Risk Manager
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Risk Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 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 +93 15 £107,500 +23.28% 9
London +113 13 £112,500 +29.01% 7
Yorkshire +88 2 £77,500 -21.27%
North of England +47 2 £77,500 -21.27%
UK excluding London -14 2 £77,500 -21.27% 1

Senior Risk Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Senior Risk Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Risk Manager in the job title.

1 10 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 8 (53.33%) Finance
3 7 (46.67%) CISM
4 6 (40.00%) Information Security
4 6 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
5 5 (33.33%) People Management
5 5 (33.33%) QA
6 4 (26.67%) CRISC
6 4 (26.67%) Coaching
6 4 (26.67%) Java
6 4 (26.67%) SQL
7 3 (20.00%) .NET
7 3 (20.00%) OOP
7 3 (20.00%) OO
7 3 (20.00%) Python
7 3 (20.00%) N-Tier
7 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (20.00%) C#
7 3 (20.00%) CISA
7 3 (20.00%) Bloomberg
7 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
7 3 (20.00%) Asset Management
7 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (20.00%) Derivative
7 3 (20.00%) Marketing
7 3 (20.00%) Scrum
7 3 (20.00%) Agile

Senior Risk Manager Skill Set
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 1 (6.67%) GlassFish
1 1 (6.67%) JCAPS
1 1 (6.67%) WebLogic
1 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
1 1 (6.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 3 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) FTP
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Ant
2 1 (6.67%) JUnit
2 1 (6.67%) Maven
2 1 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Back Office
3 3 (20.00%) Front Office
3 3 (20.00%) Law
3 3 (20.00%) Marketing
3 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
1 3 (20.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (20.00%) React
1 3 (20.00%) Unity DI Container
2 1 (6.67%) DOM
2 1 (6.67%) J2EE
2 1 (6.67%) Java EE
2 1 (6.67%) JDBC
2 1 (6.67%) JMS
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) SAX
2 1 (6.67%) Spring
2 1 (6.67%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Blog
1 3 (20.00%) Derivative
1 3 (20.00%) Hedge funds
1 3 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (20.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (20.00%) Private Cloud
1 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) Credit Risk
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 6 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 6 (40.00%) Information Security
3 5 (33.33%) People Management
3 5 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (26.67%) Coaching
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) ATDD
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (20.00%) Disruptive Innovation
5 3 (20.00%) Investment Management
5 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (20.00%) Microservices
5 3 (20.00%) Open Source
5 3 (20.00%) Parallel Programming
5 3 (20.00%) Risk Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) SOLID
5 3 (20.00%) TDD
5 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Java
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) C#
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.67%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) CISM
2 4 (26.67%) CRISC
3 3 (20.00%) CISA
4 2 (13.33%) CISSP
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (13.33%) Degree
4 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (6.67%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
2 3 (20.00%) COBIT
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) NCSC
3 1 (6.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle