Risk Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Risk Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Risk Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 111 121
Rank change year-on-year +28 +10 +81
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 3,186 3,048 5,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.19% 3.07% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 3.22% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,492 1,647 2,245
10th Percentile £41,138 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,261 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,419 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,000 £104,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,400 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.95% +2.55% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Risk Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Top 18 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 18 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 +59 2,359 £57,500 +1.95% 615
England +16 2,296 £60,000 -7.69% 1,050
Work from Home +7 846 £62,500 -2.87% 427
Scotland +31 796 £63,500 -5.93% 51
London -5 748 £77,500 -3.13% 511
North of England +77 414 £55,000 -4.35% 140
South East -37 378 £54,000 +2.86% 175
Midlands +49 338 £54,325 -1.23% 96
South West +23 301 £66,250 +10.42% 80
North West +85 239 £54,000 -6.09% 75
West Midlands +27 218 £58,000 +5.45% 58
Yorkshire +41 121 £57,732 +0.40% 46
East Midlands +57 110 £54,000 +6.93% 38
East of England +19 98 £54,000 -6.09% 58
North East +37 54 £57,500 +4.55% 22
Wales -8 24 £72,500 +40.58% 20
Northern Ireland +23 8 £62,500 +9.17% 7
Isle of Man -14 4 £46,500 +3.33% 3

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
1 307 (9.64%) Apache Spark
2 123 (3.86%) Apache
3 87 (2.73%) SharePoint
4 82 (2.57%) SAS
5 47 (1.48%) FileNet
6 46 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.63%) Camunda
8 17 (0.53%) Confluence
9 14 (0.44%) CMS
9 14 (0.44%) IIS
10 13 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 5 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.13%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.13%) Drupal
13 3 (0.094%) Apache Pulsar
14 2 (0.063%) Luigi
15 1 (0.031%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.031%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 196 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
3 91 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.41%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.094%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.063%) Trello
10 1 (0.031%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 78 (2.45%) Primavera
2 20 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.47%) Endur
4 11 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.063%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.063%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.063%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.063%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 1 (0.031%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.031%) Data Workbench
8 1 (0.031%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 490 (15.38%) AWS
2 231 (7.25%) Azure
3 134 (4.21%) Power Platform
4 97 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
5 96 (3.01%) GCP
6 83 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
7 71 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
8 63 (1.98%) SaaS
9 59 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
10 58 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
10 58 (1.82%) Serverless
11 54 (1.69%) Amazon S3
12 51 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (1.60%) Amazon EMR
12 51 (1.60%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (0.91%) GitHub
14 27 (0.85%) BlazeMeter
15 26 (0.82%) Entra ID
16 15 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
17 13 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 103 (3.23%) Firewall
2 44 (1.38%) Network Security
3 36 (1.13%) Internet
4 30 (0.94%) LAN
5 25 (0.78%) VPN
5 25 (0.78%) WAN
6 20 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
6 20 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 16 (0.50%) SAN
8 14 (0.44%) 5G
8 14 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (0.41%) PPP
10 11 (0.35%) HTTP
10 11 (0.35%) Wireless
11 10 (0.31%) Intranet
12 7 (0.22%) Extranet
12 7 (0.22%) SSL
13 6 (0.19%) Broadband
13 6 (0.19%) VLAN
14 5 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (10.67%) NoSQL
2 253 (7.94%) Big Data
3 233 (7.31%) Hadoop
4 116 (3.64%) Power BI
5 106 (3.33%) Apache Hive
6 90 (2.82%) HBase
7 66 (2.07%) Electronic Patient Records
8 52 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
9 51 (1.60%) Tableau
10 48 (1.51%) Data Lake
11 47 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
12 46 (1.44%) Qlik Sense
13 43 (1.35%) SQL Server
14 34 (1.07%) Relational Database
15 26 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
16 16 (0.50%) Impala
17 14 (0.44%) QlikView
18 12 (0.38%) Metadata
19 9 (0.28%) BigQuery
19 9 (0.28%) Flink
Development Applications
1 149 (4.68%) Jenkins
2 131 (4.11%) JIRA
3 127 (3.99%) Git
4 74 (2.32%) Bitbucket Server
5 67 (2.10%) JUnit
6 32 (1.00%) Maven
7 30 (0.94%) Gradle
8 27 (0.85%) JMeter
9 26 (0.82%) Jasmine
9 26 (0.82%) Mockito
10 20 (0.63%) CircleCI
10 20 (0.63%) Travis CI
11 9 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.28%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.22%) RStudio
13 5 (0.16%) MSTest
13 5 (0.16%) Postman
13 5 (0.16%) SoapUI
14 4 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 1,700 (53.36%) Finance
2 1,106 (34.71%) Social Skills
3 1,074 (33.71%) Legal
4 950 (29.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 884 (27.75%) Law
6 454 (14.25%) Analytical Skills
7 265 (8.32%) Banking
8 137 (4.30%) Marketing
9 118 (3.70%) Manufacturing
10 117 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
10 117 (3.67%) Retail
11 110 (3.45%) Public Sector
12 106 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
13 78 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
14 61 (1.91%) Telecoms
15 54 (1.69%) Publishing
16 39 (1.22%) Investment Banking
17 36 (1.13%) Aerospace
17 36 (1.13%) Police
18 32 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 720 (22.60%) Software Engineer
2 451 (14.16%) Senior
3 405 (12.71%) Project Manager
4 295 (9.26%) Java Engineer
4 295 (9.26%) Java Software Engineer
5 253 (7.94%) Analyst
6 227 (7.12%) Big Data Engineer
6 227 (7.12%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 205 (6.43%) AWS Engineer
7 205 (6.43%) AWS Software Engineer
8 204 (6.40%) IT Manager
9 188 (5.90%) Senior Manager
10 172 (5.40%) Data Engineer
11 170 (5.34%) Consultant
12 163 (5.12%) Lead
13 155 (4.87%) Full Stack Engineer
14 151 (4.74%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 142 (4.46%) Security Manager
16 124 (3.89%) Security Consultant
17 121 (3.80%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (6.91%) Spring
2 169 (5.30%) React
3 139 (4.36%) Kafka
4 123 (3.86%) AngularJS
5 111 (3.48%) J2EE
6 93 (2.92%) HTML
7 83 (2.61%) Spring Boot
8 79 (2.48%) JMS
9 75 (2.35%) Hibernate
10 71 (2.23%) Node.js
10 71 (2.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 70 (2.20%) PySpark
12 66 (2.07%) CSS
13 55 (1.73%) .NET
14 54 (1.69%) jQuery
15 53 (1.66%) XML
16 50 (1.57%) JSON
17 48 (1.51%) GraphQL
17 48 (1.51%) Spring Integration
18 45 (1.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 520 (16.32%) Algorithms
2 321 (10.08%) Management Information System
3 209 (6.56%) Onboarding
4 131 (4.11%) Cloud Native
5 129 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
6 108 (3.39%) Credit Risk
7 87 (2.73%) Security Posture
8 86 (2.70%) Operational Technology
9 61 (1.91%) Cyber Threat
10 55 (1.73%) Market Risk
11 54 (1.69%) Data Structures
12 43 (1.35%) Legacy Code
13 41 (1.29%) Data Centre
14 40 (1.26%) Cyberattack
15 38 (1.19%) Product Ownership
16 34 (1.07%) Industrial Internet of Things
17 28 (0.88%) PMI
18 26 (0.82%) IoT
19 24 (0.75%) NHS
19 24 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 126 (3.95%) Unix
2 71 (2.23%) Linux
3 65 (2.04%) Windows
4 25 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.47%) Android
5 15 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.19%) zOS
7 3 (0.094%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.063%) AIX
8 2 (0.063%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.031%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.031%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.031%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,205 (37.82%) Agile
2 788 (24.73%) Software Engineering
3 779 (24.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 726 (22.79%) CI/CD
5 698 (21.91%) SDLC
6 660 (20.72%) Project Management
7 570 (17.89%) Operational Stability
8 549 (17.23%) Cybersecurity
9 547 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
10 543 (17.04%) Artificial Intelligence
11 536 (16.82%) Machine Learning
12 532 (16.70%) Visualisation
13 494 (15.51%) Decision-Making
14 435 (13.65%) Community of Practice
15 425 (13.34%) Information Security
16 385 (12.08%) Stakeholder Management
17 298 (9.35%) Change Management
18 284 (8.91%) Project Delivery
19 256 (8.04%) Coaching
20 244 (7.66%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 595 (18.68%) SQL
2 590 (18.52%) Java
3 482 (15.13%) Python
4 129 (4.05%) Scala
5 104 (3.26%) PL/SQL
6 84 (2.64%) JavaScript
7 49 (1.54%) TypeScript
8 44 (1.38%) C#
9 38 (1.19%) R
10 28 (0.88%) PowerShell
11 23 (0.72%) PL/1
11 23 (0.72%) Ruby
12 20 (0.63%) PHP
13 16 (0.50%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.47%) Go
15 12 (0.38%) C++
16 9 (0.28%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.22%) Groovy
18 6 (0.19%) Bash
18 6 (0.19%) JCL
Qualifications
1 638 (20.03%) Degree
2 317 (9.95%) Security Cleared
3 263 (8.25%) CISSP
4 211 (6.62%) CISM
5 206 (6.47%) SC Cleared
6 143 (4.49%) CRISC
7 103 (3.23%) Master's Degree
8 97 (3.04%) CISA
9 96 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 78 (2.45%) PMI Certification
11 64 (2.01%) CESG Certified Professional
12 61 (1.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 52 (1.63%) PMP
14 50 (1.57%) ACCA
15 29 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
16 28 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
16 28 (0.88%) DV Cleared
17 26 (0.82%) CISMP
18 24 (0.75%) CEH
19 21 (0.66%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (8.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 228 (7.16%) NIST
3 190 (5.96%) GDPR
4 143 (4.49%) QA
5 127 (3.99%) GRC
6 125 (3.92%) IFRS
7 102 (3.20%) Data Quality
8 91 (2.86%) NCSC
9 79 (2.48%) PMO
10 69 (2.17%) IFRS 9
11 68 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 62 (1.95%) PCI DSS
13 49 (1.54%) JSP 440
14 44 (1.38%) COBIT
15 43 (1.35%) SLA
16 40 (1.26%) NIST 800
17 33 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 30 (0.94%) RMADS
19 29 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
20 23 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 90 (2.82%) HDFS
2 49 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 44 (1.38%) Docker
4 17 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.19%) Firmware
6 6 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (0.16%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.094%) ACF2
9 3 (0.094%) RACF
9 3 (0.094%) vSphere
10 2 (0.063%) IAG
11 1 (0.031%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.031%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.031%) LXC
11 1 (0.031%) Microcode
11 1 (0.031%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 156 (4.90%) Kubernetes
2 91 (2.86%) Terraform
3 14 (0.44%) SCOM
4 10 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.28%) Grafana
5 9 (0.28%) Nessus
6 7 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (0.19%) Ansible
8 5 (0.16%) CASB
8 5 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.16%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (0.13%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.13%) Puppet
10 3 (0.094%) Kibana
10 3 (0.094%) SCCM
11 2 (0.063%) QRadar
11 2 (0.063%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.031%) Argo
12 1 (0.031%) Functional Safety
12 1 (0.031%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 368 (11.55%) Microsoft
2 160 (5.02%) Databricks
3 135 (4.24%) Oracle
4 83 (2.61%) Informatica
5 61 (1.91%) Alteryx
6 60 (1.88%) Cloudera
7 51 (1.60%) CA
8 40 (1.26%) Google
9 38 (1.19%) SAP
10 32 (1.00%) VMware
11 30 (0.94%) Cisco
12 27 (0.85%) Pega
13 24 (0.75%) ServiceNow
14 23 (0.72%) IFS
14 23 (0.72%) Workday
15 20 (0.63%) Splunk
16 19 (0.60%) IBM
17 16 (0.50%) Qualys
18 14 (0.44%) Veeam
19 13 (0.41%) OpenLink