Risk Management Jobs in the West Midlands

Risk Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 83 106
Rank change year-on-year +50 +23 +2
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 243 216 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.86% 2.74% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.43% 3.38% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 55 147 134
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,150 £45,000
25th Percentile £49,588 £43,098 £48,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,379 £68,750 £77,188
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,400 £86,250
England median annual salary £71,991 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.99% -7.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,781 6,392 5,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.20% 81.17% 96.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,553 4,666 3,157
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,625
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Risk Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in the West Midlands

Risk Management
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Risk Management in the West Midlands

Risk Management
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Risk Management in the West Midlands

Risk Management
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Warwickshire +44 95 £51,887 -7.76% 16
Birmingham +42 88 £60,500 +10.00% 54
Coventry +17 25 £85,000 +21.43% 36
Staffordshire -11 11 £52,344 +21.45% 41
Solihull +15 6 £75,000 +36.36% 1
Wolverhampton +20 5 £64,000 +6.67% 34
Shropshire +16 3 £37,500 - 73
Willenhall - 3 - -
Herefordshire +6 1 £67,500 +92.86%
Walsall - 1 £95,000 -
Risk Management
England

Risk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.29%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (3.70%) AWS
1 9 (3.70%) Azure
2 7 (2.88%) Power Platform
3 4 (1.65%) GCP
4 3 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (1.23%) Amazon S3
4 3 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (1.23%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (0.82%) AWS KMS
5 2 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (0.82%) Lucidchart
5 2 (0.82%) OneDrive
5 2 (0.82%) Route 53
5 2 (0.82%) SaaS
5 2 (0.82%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.41%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.41%) Miro
6 1 (0.41%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.65%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (1.23%) Network Security
3 2 (0.82%) Firewall
4 1 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.47%) Power BI
2 5 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.06%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.23%) Tableau
4 2 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.82%) Big Data
4 2 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.82%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.82%) Looker
4 2 (0.82%) Metadata
4 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.06%) JIRA
2 3 (1.23%) Git
2 3 (1.23%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.23%) JUnit
2 3 (1.23%) Maven
2 3 (1.23%) Mockito
2 3 (1.23%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (0.82%) DbUnit
3 2 (0.82%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.82%) ERwin
3 2 (0.82%) jMock
3 2 (0.82%) PowerDesigner
General
1 68 (27.98%) Finance
2 43 (17.70%) Social Skills
3 34 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.35%) Retail
5 23 (9.47%) Marketing
5 23 (9.47%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.53%) Financial Institution
6 11 (4.53%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (4.53%) Legal
7 10 (4.12%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.47%) Banking
9 6 (2.47%) Law
10 4 (1.65%) Police
10 4 (1.65%) Prime Brokerage
11 3 (1.23%) Billing
12 2 (0.82%) Advertising
12 2 (0.82%) Automotive
12 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (51.85%) Security Engineer
2 98 (40.33%) Principal Engineer
2 98 (40.33%) Principal Security Engineer
3 70 (28.81%) Analyst
4 60 (24.69%) Security Analyst
5 59 (24.28%) Principal Security Analyst
5 59 (24.28%) Product Analyst
6 39 (16.05%) Product Engineer
6 39 (16.05%) Risk Manager
7 37 (15.23%) Senior
8 28 (11.52%) Senior Security Engineer
9 24 (9.88%) Technology Risk Manager
10 12 (4.94%) Lead
11 11 (4.53%) Project Manager
12 7 (2.88%) Credit Risk Manager
13 6 (2.47%) Developer
13 6 (2.47%) IT Manager
13 6 (2.47%) Senior Manager
14 4 (1.65%) Head of Operations
14 4 (1.65%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.23%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (1.23%) AngularJS
1 3 (1.23%) Bootstrap
1 3 (1.23%) JPA
1 3 (1.23%) REST
1 3 (1.23%) SOAP
1 3 (1.23%) Spring
1 3 (1.23%) Spring Boot
1 3 (1.23%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (0.82%) EDI
2 2 (0.82%) Hibernate
2 2 (0.82%) JSON
2 2 (0.82%) PowerMock
2 2 (0.82%) React
2 2 (0.82%) RESTful
2 2 (0.82%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (0.82%) Spring Batch
2 2 (0.82%) Spring Integration
2 2 (0.82%) Web Services
2 2 (0.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.11%) Blockchain
2 23 (9.47%) Robotics
3 8 (3.29%) Credit Risk
4 5 (2.06%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.65%) Derivative
5 4 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.65%) Hedge funds
5 4 (1.65%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.23%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.23%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.82%) PKI
7 2 (0.82%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.82%) SCADA
7 2 (0.82%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.41%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.23%) Linux
2 1 (0.41%) Windows
2 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (58.44%) Cybersecurity
2 127 (52.26%) Project Management
3 107 (44.03%) Information Security
4 100 (41.15%) Cyber Resilience
5 98 (40.33%) Security Testing
6 54 (22.22%) Agile
7 31 (12.76%) Analytics
7 31 (12.76%) Computer Science
8 30 (12.35%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (11.93%) Artificial Intelligence
10 28 (11.52%) Data Analytics
10 28 (11.52%) Project Delivery
11 27 (11.11%) Mentoring
12 26 (10.70%) Creative Thinking
13 25 (10.29%) Coaching
13 25 (10.29%) IT Governance
14 24 (9.88%) People Management
15 23 (9.47%) Robotic Process Automation
16 17 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 14 (5.76%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.53%) SQL
2 3 (1.23%) Java
2 3 (1.23%) PowerShell
2 3 (1.23%) Python
3 2 (0.82%) C#
3 2 (0.82%) JavaScript
3 2 (0.82%) R
3 2 (0.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 145 (59.67%) Degree
2 127 (52.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 108 (44.44%) CISM
4 105 (43.21%) CISSP
5 98 (40.33%) CESG Certified Professional
6 9 (3.70%) Security Cleared
7 6 (2.47%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.06%) CRISC
9 4 (1.65%) SANS
10 3 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.82%) CISA
11 2 (0.82%) CITP
11 2 (0.82%) IISP
11 2 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.82%) PMP
12 1 (0.41%) CBAP
12 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (42.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 103 (42.39%) NIST
3 98 (40.33%) JSP 440
3 98 (40.33%) RMADS
4 24 (9.88%) ITGC
5 8 (3.29%) GDPR
5 8 (3.29%) PMO
6 4 (1.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.65%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.65%) QA
7 3 (1.23%) COBIT
8 2 (0.82%) GRC
8 2 (0.82%) NCSC
9 1 (0.41%) PMBOK
9 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (1.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.23%) Docker
3 2 (0.82%) Postfix
4 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (1.23%) Grafana
1 3 (1.23%) Prometheus
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.82%) QRadar
3 1 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 19 (7.82%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.88%) Avaloq
3 5 (2.06%) Oracle
4 4 (1.65%) Google
5 2 (0.82%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.82%) Citrix
5 2 (0.82%) Databricks
5 2 (0.82%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (0.82%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.82%) Splunk
6 1 (0.41%) BMC
6 1 (0.41%) Dell
6 1 (0.41%) EMC
6 1 (0.41%) Remedy
6 1 (0.41%) SAP
6 1 (0.41%) Snow
6 1 (0.41%) SonicWALL