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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 83 114
Rank change year-on-year +36 +31 +4
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 2,689 3,176 3,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.96% 3.20% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.29% 3.74% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,086 1,486 1,678
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,188 £40,401
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £49,045
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £57,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.18% -0.43% +4.55%

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 50,790 84,812 96,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.76% 85.58% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,810 59,843 56,946
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Top 19 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 9 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
England +47 2,286 £70,000 +16.67% 2,013
UK excluding London +10 1,521 £58,500 +2.18% 1,069
London +70 1,088 £87,500 +12.90% 1,274
Work from Home +20 535 £70,000 +16.28% 1,964
North of England -2 344 £62,500 +13.64% 218
Midlands +35 333 £60,000 +10.45% 129
North West -4 241 £59,250 +10.58% 143
West Midlands +43 238 £56,750 -2.13% 84
Scotland -5 230 £51,645 -11.72% 80
South East +12 226 £70,500 +30.56% 425
South West +29 170 £56,250 -16.67% 105
East of England +41 109 £55,000 +1.85% 87
East Midlands +27 95 £75,000 +38.89% 40
Yorkshire +31 91 £71,991 +30.89% 57
Wales +77 80 £50,000 -28.57% 16
Northern Ireland +55 28 £82,801 +44.00% 37
North East +12 12 £72,500 +31.82% 21
Channel Islands - 3 £78,750 -
Isle of Man +12 1 £54,000 +16.13% 2

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 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (1.15%) CMS
5 28 (1.04%) Confluence
6 15 (0.56%) SAS
7 6 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.11%) IIS
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.074%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.074%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.037%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.037%) Apache
10 1 (0.037%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.037%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.037%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.037%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.037%) Tornado
10 1 (0.037%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.037%) WordPress
Applications
1 426 (15.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 184 (6.84%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
4 37 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
5 36 (1.34%) Maya
6 9 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.33%) Trello
7 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.074%) LaTeX
8 2 (0.074%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.037%) Stata
Business Applications
1 22 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.33%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.15%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.15%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.15%) SAP FSCM
6 3 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.11%) Relativity
6 3 (0.11%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.074%) Endur
7 2 (0.074%) Magento
7 2 (0.074%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.074%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.074%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.074%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.074%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.074%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.074%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 214 (7.96%) Azure
2 191 (7.10%) AWS
3 129 (4.80%) GCP
4 66 (2.45%) Power Platform
5 63 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (1.93%) SaaS
7 46 (1.71%) dbt
8 41 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
8 41 (1.52%) PaaS
9 31 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (1.08%) IaaS
11 25 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
12 23 (0.86%) Entra ID
13 19 (0.71%) PowerApps
14 17 (0.63%) iPaaS
15 16 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (0.48%) Amazon S3
16 13 (0.48%) Boomi
16 13 (0.48%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 101 (3.76%) Firewall
2 79 (2.94%) Network Security
3 39 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
4 25 (0.93%) VPN
5 15 (0.56%) WAN
6 13 (0.48%) DNS
7 12 (0.45%) DHCP
8 11 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (0.37%) Internet
10 9 (0.33%) LAN
11 8 (0.30%) VLAN
12 7 (0.26%) BGP
12 7 (0.26%) Intranet
12 7 (0.26%) OSPF
12 7 (0.26%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.22%) Wireshark
14 5 (0.19%) HTTP
15 4 (0.15%) Broadband
15 4 (0.15%) DMZ
15 4 (0.15%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (1.75%) Power BI
3 45 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
3 45 (1.67%) Apache Arrow
3 45 (1.67%) Apache Iceberg
3 45 (1.67%) Dremio
4 40 (1.49%) Tableau
5 36 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (1.23%) NoSQL
7 30 (1.12%) Data Lake
8 18 (0.67%) Big Data
9 17 (0.63%) SQL Server
10 15 (0.56%) Metadata
11 13 (0.48%) MongoDB
12 12 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.45%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.41%) Relational Database
14 9 (0.33%) Data Mining
14 9 (0.33%) MS Access
14 9 (0.33%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 75 (2.79%) JIRA
2 20 (0.74%) Jenkins
3 19 (0.71%) Git
4 14 (0.52%) GitLab
5 6 (0.22%) CircleCI
6 5 (0.19%) JUnit
6 5 (0.19%) Maven
7 4 (0.15%) Gradle
7 4 (0.15%) Mockito
8 3 (0.11%) AppScan
8 3 (0.11%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.11%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.11%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.11%) git-flow
8 3 (0.11%) Metasploit
8 3 (0.11%) Selenium
9 2 (0.074%) Babel
9 2 (0.074%) Gatling
9 2 (0.074%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.074%) webpack
General
1 1,501 (55.82%) Finance
2 1,406 (52.29%) Social Skills
3 841 (31.28%) Analytical Skills
4 612 (22.76%) Banking
5 524 (19.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 459 (17.07%) Financial Institution
7 430 (15.99%) German Language
8 416 (15.47%) French Language
9 194 (7.21%) Legal
10 184 (6.84%) Presentation Skills
11 130 (4.83%) Marketing
12 116 (4.31%) Manufacturing
13 89 (3.31%) Retail
14 88 (3.27%) Law
15 84 (3.12%) Public Sector
16 82 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
17 76 (2.83%) Front Office
18 74 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
19 64 (2.38%) Telecoms
20 37 (1.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 691 (25.70%) Analyst
2 539 (20.04%) Senior
3 420 (15.62%) Credit Analyst
4 407 (15.14%) Project Manager
5 404 (15.02%) Research Analyst
6 220 (8.18%) Senior Manager
7 219 (8.14%) Security Engineer
8 189 (7.03%) Senior Project Manager
9 155 (5.76%) Principal Engineer
10 154 (5.73%) Architect
11 147 (5.47%) Principal Security Engineer
12 145 (5.39%) Lead
13 143 (5.32%) Security Analyst
14 142 (5.28%) Risk Manager
15 93 (3.46%) Developer
16 89 (3.31%) Product Analyst
17 87 (3.24%) Principal Security Analyst
18 71 (2.64%) Security Manager
19 69 (2.57%) IT Manager
20 64 (2.38%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (2.05%) AngularJS
2 52 (1.93%) React
3 48 (1.79%) Node.js
4 47 (1.75%) NumPy
4 47 (1.75%) Pandas
5 46 (1.71%) SciPy
6 45 (1.67%) Vue
7 41 (1.52%) .NET
8 27 (1.00%) Kafka
9 25 (0.93%) Middleware
10 23 (0.86%) SailPoint
11 21 (0.78%) RESTful
12 17 (0.63%) Web Services
13 14 (0.52%) REST
14 13 (0.48%) HTML
15 12 (0.45%) CSS
16 11 (0.41%) EDI
17 10 (0.37%) gRPC
17 10 (0.37%) RabbitMQ
18 9 (0.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 484 (18.00%) Credit Risk
2 456 (16.96%) Fixed Income
3 356 (13.24%) Management Information System
4 200 (7.44%) Driving Licence
5 118 (4.39%) Security Posture
6 67 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 54 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 49 (1.82%) Cloud Native
8 49 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
9 47 (1.75%) Product Ownership
10 42 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
11 41 (1.52%) Virtual Team
12 40 (1.49%) Equities
13 39 (1.45%) Blockchain
14 37 (1.38%) PMI
15 32 (1.19%) Operational Technology
16 28 (1.04%) Data Centre
16 28 (1.04%) Public Cloud
17 26 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
17 26 (0.97%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 66 (2.45%) Windows
2 29 (1.08%) Linux
3 23 (0.86%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.78%) Windows Vista
5 11 (0.41%) Unix
6 8 (0.30%) zOS
7 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.11%) Android
9 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.037%) AIX
10 1 (0.037%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.037%) SUSE
10 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.037%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 776 (28.86%) Project Management
2 735 (27.33%) Decision-Making
3 632 (23.50%) Risk Assessment
4 600 (22.31%) Cybersecurity
5 546 (20.30%) Business Strategy
6 501 (18.63%) Information Security
7 476 (17.70%) Agile
8 467 (17.37%) Asset Management
9 464 (17.26%) Stakeholder Management
10 440 (16.36%) Portfolio Management
11 407 (15.14%) Financial Modelling
12 406 (15.10%) Credit Risk Analysis
13 375 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 357 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
15 261 (9.71%) Coaching
16 255 (9.48%) Analytics
17 252 (9.37%) Project Delivery
18 225 (8.37%) Mentoring
19 195 (7.25%) Scorecard
20 193 (7.18%) Balanced Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 157 (5.84%) Python
2 90 (3.35%) SQL
3 73 (2.71%) JavaScript
4 68 (2.53%) Java
5 59 (2.19%) PowerShell
6 47 (1.75%) TypeScript
7 30 (1.12%) C#
8 28 (1.04%) R
9 22 (0.82%) C++
10 11 (0.41%) Bash
11 10 (0.37%) Go
12 7 (0.26%) C
13 6 (0.22%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.15%) Rust
14 4 (0.15%) VBA
15 3 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.11%) Ruby
15 3 (0.11%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.074%) JCL
16 2 (0.074%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,105 (41.09%) Degree
2 477 (17.74%) Master's Degree
3 405 (15.06%) CFA
4 399 (14.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 331 (12.31%) CISSP
6 287 (10.67%) CISM
7 158 (5.88%) CESG Certified Professional
8 140 (5.21%) Security Cleared
9 124 (4.61%) CRISC
10 79 (2.94%) DV Cleared
11 73 (2.71%) CISA
11 73 (2.71%) PMI Certification
12 70 (2.60%) SC Cleared
13 52 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
14 50 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
15 42 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 41 (1.52%) PMP
17 33 (1.23%) Chartered Engineer
17 33 (1.23%) DBS Check
18 32 (1.19%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 408 (15.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 361 (13.43%) NIST
3 154 (5.73%) RMADS
4 153 (5.69%) JSP 440
5 133 (4.95%) GDPR
6 86 (3.20%) GRC
7 74 (2.75%) COBIT
7 74 (2.75%) PCI DSS
8 59 (2.19%) QA
9 58 (2.16%) ITGC
10 57 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 55 (2.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 40 (1.49%) Data Quality
13 34 (1.26%) Accessibility
14 33 (1.23%) SOC 2
15 30 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 24 (0.89%) NCSC
17 23 (0.86%) NIST 800
18 22 (0.82%) PMO
19 19 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 25 (0.93%) Docker
3 14 (0.52%) Hyper-V
3 14 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.11%) vSphere
5 2 (0.074%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.037%) HDFS
6 1 (0.037%) NFS
6 1 (0.037%) Postfix
6 1 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.037%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 44 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 33 (1.23%) Terraform
3 16 (0.60%) FortiGate
3 16 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (0.41%) Ansible
5 10 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.33%) CASB
7 7 (0.26%) Nessus
8 6 (0.22%) RSA Archer
9 5 (0.19%) CSIRT
9 5 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (0.15%) Grafana
10 4 (0.15%) SCCM
11 3 (0.11%) Iperf
11 3 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.11%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.11%) QRadar
11 3 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.074%) Host Intrusion Detection System
13 1 (0.037%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 406 (15.10%) Bloomberg
2 235 (8.74%) Microsoft
3 90 (3.35%) SAP
4 49 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 37 (1.38%) Google
6 33 (1.23%) Avaloq
7 29 (1.08%) Oracle
8 22 (0.82%) Okta
9 19 (0.71%) ServiceNow
9 19 (0.71%) VMware
10 18 (0.67%) Atlassian
11 17 (0.63%) Cisco
12 15 (0.56%) Adobe
13 14 (0.52%) Databricks
13 14 (0.52%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.48%) Citrix
14 13 (0.48%) Dell
15 12 (0.45%) Ariba
15 12 (0.45%) IBM
16 11 (0.41%) Fortinet