Risk Register Job Trends in the West Midlands

Risk Register
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Risk Register skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 198 164
Rank change year-on-year +24 -34 +91
Permanent jobs citing Risk Register 4 16 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.077% 0.36% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.40% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile £45,356 £31,175 £43,375
25th Percentile £47,098 £32,563 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £36,250 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -40.82% -2.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,219 £70,313
90th Percentile £56,000 £61,625 £82,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Risk Register 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 4,327 3,981 2,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.21% 90.27% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,221 1,783 2,386
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,253 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Risk Register
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Risk Register relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Risk Register job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Risk Register
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Risk Register.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Risk Register

Risk Register
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 Register within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Birmingham +21 4 £50,000 +53.85% 3
Risk Register
England

Risk Register
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) NAS
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Law
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Architect
1 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Transformation Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (25.00%) Change Advisory Board
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (25.00%) Coaching
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (25.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Tanium
2 1 (25.00%) Tenable
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler