Market Risk
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Market Risk in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Market Risk over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 734 851 1123
Rank change year-on-year +117 +272 -358
Permanent jobs citing Market Risk 171 142 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.14% 0.068%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 0.32% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 15 68 85
10th Percentile £83,350 £62,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £88,125 £76,875 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £98,442 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.58% +12.51% +2.94%
75th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £128,500 £144,125 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £98,442 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.58% +40.63% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Market Risk is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Market Risk
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Market Risk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Market Risk in the UK

Market Risk
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Market Risk in the UK

Market Risk
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Market Risk over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Market Risk in the UK

Market Risk
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Market Risk within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
UK excluding London +131 146 £90,000 -8.58% 1
Scotland +58 131 - -
England -10 38 £90,000 -8.58% 37
London +38 23 £95,000 -5.00% 36
Yorkshire +86 9 £90,000 -8.58%
North of England +56 9 £90,000 -8.58%
Work from Home +34 8 £90,000 +20.00% 9
South West -18 6 - -

Market Risk
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 11 (6.43%) Confluence
2 6 (3.51%) SAS
3 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (15.79%) BlazeMeter
1 27 (15.79%) Figma
1 27 (15.79%) SurveyMonkey
2 8 (4.68%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (2.34%) Amazon S3
3 4 (2.34%) AWS
3 4 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (2.34%) Serverless
4 2 (1.17%) WeChat
5 1 (0.58%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (36.84%) NoSQL
2 8 (4.68%) Power BI
3 6 (3.51%) Tableau
4 3 (1.75%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.17%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.58%) CockroachDB
6 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.58%) MS Access
6 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (21.64%) JIRA
2 27 (15.79%) JMeter
3 10 (5.85%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 9 (5.26%) Cypress.io
4 9 (5.26%) Gradle
4 9 (5.26%) Maven
5 5 (2.92%) Git
6 4 (2.34%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.34%) Sourcetree
7 1 (0.58%) Postman
7 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 158 (92.40%) Finance
2 149 (87.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 145 (84.80%) Law
4 135 (78.95%) Marketing
5 59 (34.50%) Financial Institution
6 38 (22.22%) Social Skills
7 37 (21.64%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (11.70%) Banking
9 16 (9.36%) Social Science
10 10 (5.85%) Front Office
10 10 (5.85%) Investment Banking
10 10 (5.85%) Legal
11 2 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.17%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (34.50%) Engineering Manager
1 59 (34.50%) Software Engineering Manager
2 30 (17.54%) Software Engineer
3 27 (15.79%) Java Engineer
3 27 (15.79%) Java Software Engineer
4 24 (14.04%) Senior
5 22 (12.87%) Full Stack Engineer
6 18 (10.53%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 16 (9.36%) Lead
8 13 (7.60%) Analyst
9 11 (6.43%) Designer
9 11 (6.43%) Risk Analyst
9 11 (6.43%) Senior Designer
9 11 (6.43%) Senior UX Designer
9 11 (6.43%) User Experience Researcher
9 11 (6.43%) UX Designer
10 9 (5.26%) Developer
10 9 (5.26%) Market Risk Analyst
10 9 (5.26%) QA Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) QA Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (34.50%) NumPy
1 59 (34.50%) Pandas
2 38 (22.22%) React
3 11 (6.43%) CSS
3 11 (6.43%) HTML
4 9 (5.26%) Ext JS
4 9 (5.26%) Spring
4 9 (5.26%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.34%) Svelte
6 1 (0.58%) .NET
6 1 (0.58%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 59 (34.50%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.94%) Product Ownership
3 12 (7.02%) Credit Risk
4 7 (4.09%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.09%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.51%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.17%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (66.67%) Agile
2 96 (56.14%) Software Engineering
3 87 (50.88%) CI/CD
3 87 (50.88%) SDLC
4 71 (41.52%) Computer Science
5 65 (38.01%) Mathematics
6 59 (34.50%) Continuous Delivery
7 56 (32.75%) Risk Management
8 38 (22.22%) Interaction Design
8 38 (22.22%) User Experience
8 38 (22.22%) UX Research
9 37 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (19.88%) Test Automation
11 28 (16.37%) BDD
11 28 (16.37%) TDD
12 27 (15.79%) Electronic Trading
12 27 (15.79%) Fintech
12 27 (15.79%) Microservices
12 27 (15.79%) Psychology
12 27 (15.79%) Qualitative Research
Programming Languages
1 81 (47.37%) SQL
2 79 (46.20%) Python
3 43 (25.15%) Java
4 22 (12.87%) R
5 20 (11.70%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.09%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.51%) VBA
8 1 (0.58%) C#
Qualifications
1 69 (40.35%) Degree
2 28 (16.37%) Master's Degree
3 27 (15.79%) PhD
4 11 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.17%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.43%) Accessibility
2 10 (5.85%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.34%) Grafana
2 1 (0.58%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (9.94%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.36%) Qualtrics
3 14 (8.19%) Oracle
4 9 (5.26%) TOWER Software
5 6 (3.51%) Alteryx
5 6 (3.51%) Pega
5 6 (3.51%) UiPath
6 4 (2.34%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.34%) Splunk
7 3 (1.75%) SAP
8 2 (1.17%) Murex
8 2 (1.17%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.58%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.58%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.58%) Triple Point