Risk Management Jobs

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 106 116
Rank change year-on-year +21 +10 +85
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 3,217 2,969 5,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.07% 3.14% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 3.29% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,502 1,616 2,291
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £39,483
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,419 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% - -2.61%

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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +57 2,367 £57,500 +2.68% 630
England +10 2,341 £60,000 -7.69% 1,116
Work from Home -6 852 £62,500 -3.85% 391
Scotland +34 782 £61,250 -10.91% 54
London -6 768 £77,500 -3.13% 518
North of England +68 411 £55,000 -0.08% 157
South East -40 399 £54,151 -1.54% 162
Midlands +39 337 £54,650 -0.64% 91
South West +17 309 £65,000 - 86
North West +76 241 £54,000 -1.89% 92
West Midlands +10 216 £59,300 +7.82% 55
Yorkshire +24 116 £60,000 +9.01% 43
East Midlands +54 112 £54,000 +6.93% 36
East of England +14 97 £54,000 -6.90% 77
North East +32 54 £57,500 +4.55% 25
Wales -7 22 £72,500 +54.59% 8
Northern Ireland +23 8 £63,750 +11.35% 8
Isle of Man -13 4 £46,500 +3.33% 1

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
1 286 (8.89%) Apache Spark
2 113 (3.51%) Apache
3 85 (2.64%) SharePoint
4 73 (2.27%) SAS
5 47 (1.46%) FileNet
6 45 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
7 18 (0.56%) Camunda
7 18 (0.56%) Confluence
8 13 (0.40%) CMS
8 13 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 12 (0.37%) IIS
10 5 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 5 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.12%) Drupal
11 4 (0.12%) Luigi
12 1 (0.031%) IBM Domino
12 1 (0.031%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 206 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
3 92 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.40%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.37%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.093%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.062%) Trello
10 1 (0.031%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 78 (2.42%) Primavera
2 20 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.47%) Endur
4 11 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.062%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.062%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 1 (0.031%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.031%) Data Workbench
8 1 (0.031%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.031%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.031%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 481 (14.95%) AWS
2 227 (7.06%) Azure
3 139 (4.32%) Power Platform
4 99 (3.08%) GCP
5 96 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
6 80 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
7 67 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
8 64 (1.99%) SaaS
9 60 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
10 56 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
10 56 (1.74%) Serverless
11 54 (1.68%) Amazon S3
12 49 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (1.52%) Amazon EMR
12 49 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
13 28 (0.87%) GitHub
14 27 (0.84%) BlazeMeter
14 27 (0.84%) Entra ID
15 17 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 103 (3.20%) Firewall
2 56 (1.74%) Network Security
3 35 (1.09%) Internet
4 33 (1.03%) LAN
5 28 (0.87%) WAN
6 25 (0.78%) VPN
7 19 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
7 19 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.50%) SAN
9 14 (0.44%) 5G
9 14 (0.44%) HTTP
9 14 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.40%) PPP
11 10 (0.31%) Intranet
12 9 (0.28%) SSL
12 9 (0.28%) Wireless
13 7 (0.22%) Extranet
14 6 (0.19%) Broadband
14 6 (0.19%) VLAN
15 5 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (10.32%) NoSQL
2 245 (7.62%) Big Data
3 221 (6.87%) Hadoop
4 122 (3.79%) Power BI
5 100 (3.11%) Apache Hive
6 86 (2.67%) HBase
7 64 (1.99%) Electronic Patient Records
8 54 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
9 50 (1.55%) Tableau
10 48 (1.49%) Data Lake
11 47 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
12 46 (1.43%) Qlik Sense
13 40 (1.24%) SQL Server
14 34 (1.06%) Relational Database
15 28 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
16 14 (0.44%) Impala
16 14 (0.44%) QlikView
17 13 (0.40%) Metadata
18 10 (0.31%) BigQuery
18 10 (0.31%) Flink
Development Applications
1 146 (4.54%) Jenkins
2 130 (4.04%) JIRA
3 129 (4.01%) Git
4 72 (2.24%) Bitbucket Server
5 67 (2.08%) JUnit
6 30 (0.93%) Maven
7 28 (0.87%) Gradle
8 27 (0.84%) JMeter
9 26 (0.81%) Jasmine
9 26 (0.81%) Mockito
10 18 (0.56%) CircleCI
10 18 (0.56%) 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 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 1,709 (53.12%) Finance
2 1,132 (35.19%) Social Skills
3 1,058 (32.89%) Legal
4 942 (29.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 878 (27.29%) Law
6 454 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
7 251 (7.80%) Banking
8 134 (4.17%) Marketing
9 124 (3.85%) Manufacturing
10 122 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
11 112 (3.48%) Public Sector
12 105 (3.26%) Retail
13 101 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
14 73 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
15 62 (1.93%) Telecoms
16 54 (1.68%) Publishing
17 42 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
18 41 (1.27%) Investment Banking
19 36 (1.12%) Aerospace
19 36 (1.12%) Police
Job Titles
1 708 (22.01%) Software Engineer
2 473 (14.70%) Senior
3 410 (12.74%) Project Manager
4 292 (9.08%) Java Engineer
4 292 (9.08%) Java Software Engineer
5 249 (7.74%) Analyst
6 216 (6.71%) Big Data Engineer
6 216 (6.71%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 213 (6.62%) IT Manager
8 203 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
8 203 (6.31%) AWS Software Engineer
9 198 (6.15%) Senior Manager
10 179 (5.56%) Lead
11 170 (5.28%) Consultant
12 166 (5.16%) Data Engineer
13 156 (4.85%) Full Stack Engineer
14 150 (4.66%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 135 (4.20%) Security Manager
16 124 (3.85%) Security Consultant
17 115 (3.57%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (6.65%) Spring
2 167 (5.19%) React
3 139 (4.32%) Kafka
4 123 (3.82%) AngularJS
5 110 (3.42%) J2EE
6 94 (2.92%) HTML
7 80 (2.49%) Spring Boot
8 78 (2.42%) JMS
9 75 (2.33%) Hibernate
10 73 (2.27%) PySpark
11 71 (2.21%) Node.js
11 71 (2.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 67 (2.08%) CSS
13 57 (1.77%) .NET
14 54 (1.68%) jQuery
15 52 (1.62%) XML
16 50 (1.55%) JSON
17 48 (1.49%) GraphQL
17 48 (1.49%) Spring Integration
18 44 (1.37%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 511 (15.88%) Algorithms
2 311 (9.67%) Management Information System
3 205 (6.37%) Onboarding
4 132 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
5 130 (4.04%) Cloud Native
6 96 (2.98%) Credit Risk
7 86 (2.67%) Operational Technology
7 86 (2.67%) Security Posture
8 61 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
9 57 (1.77%) Market Risk
10 55 (1.71%) Data Structures
11 44 (1.37%) Data Centre
12 41 (1.27%) Legacy Code
13 39 (1.21%) Cyberattack
14 38 (1.18%) Product Ownership
15 34 (1.06%) Industrial Internet of Things
16 30 (0.93%) Reinsurance
17 29 (0.90%) PMI
18 24 (0.75%) IoT
19 23 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 124 (3.85%) Unix
2 75 (2.33%) Linux
3 62 (1.93%) Windows
4 25 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.47%) Android
5 15 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.19%) zOS
8 4 (0.12%) Windows XP
9 2 (0.062%) AIX
10 1 (0.031%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.031%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.031%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,177 (36.59%) Agile
2 781 (24.28%) Continuous Improvement
3 777 (24.15%) Software Engineering
4 709 (22.04%) CI/CD
5 679 (21.11%) Project Management
5 679 (21.11%) SDLC
6 575 (17.87%) Cybersecurity
7 569 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
8 555 (17.25%) Operational Stability
9 537 (16.69%) Artificial Intelligence
10 534 (16.60%) Machine Learning
11 522 (16.23%) Visualisation
12 488 (15.17%) Decision-Making
13 430 (13.37%) Community of Practice
14 427 (13.27%) Information Security
15 380 (11.81%) Stakeholder Management
16 298 (9.26%) Change Management
16 298 (9.26%) Project Delivery
17 255 (7.93%) Coaching
18 249 (7.74%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 591 (18.37%) SQL
2 581 (18.06%) Java
3 467 (14.52%) Python
4 123 (3.82%) Scala
5 102 (3.17%) PL/SQL
6 84 (2.61%) JavaScript
7 49 (1.52%) TypeScript
8 42 (1.31%) C#
9 29 (0.90%) R
10 26 (0.81%) PowerShell
11 23 (0.71%) PL/1
12 21 (0.65%) Ruby
13 20 (0.62%) Kotlin
13 20 (0.62%) PHP
14 19 (0.59%) Go
15 10 (0.31%) C++
16 9 (0.28%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.22%) Groovy
18 6 (0.19%) Bash
18 6 (0.19%) REXX
Qualifications
1 653 (20.30%) Degree
2 322 (10.01%) Security Cleared
3 260 (8.08%) CISSP
4 208 (6.47%) SC Cleared
5 207 (6.43%) CISM
6 136 (4.23%) CRISC
7 105 (3.26%) Master's Degree
8 102 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 96 (2.98%) CISA
10 82 (2.55%) PMI Certification
11 61 (1.90%) CESG Certified Professional
12 60 (1.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 57 (1.77%) PMP
14 50 (1.55%) ACCA
15 29 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
15 29 (0.90%) DV Cleared
16 26 (0.81%) CISMP
17 25 (0.78%) CEH
18 24 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
19 21 (0.65%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (8.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 230 (7.15%) NIST
3 193 (6.00%) GDPR
4 147 (4.57%) QA
5 126 (3.92%) GRC
6 116 (3.61%) IFRS
7 111 (3.45%) Data Quality
8 91 (2.83%) NCSC
9 78 (2.42%) PMO
10 63 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
10 63 (1.96%) PCI DSS
11 60 (1.87%) IFRS 9
12 48 (1.49%) JSP 440
13 47 (1.46%) COBIT
14 42 (1.31%) SLA
15 39 (1.21%) NIST 800
16 33 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 30 (0.93%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 29 (0.90%) RMADS
19 28 (0.87%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 86 (2.67%) HDFS
2 48 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 44 (1.37%) 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 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.093%) ACF2
9 3 (0.093%) RACF
10 2 (0.062%) 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
11 1 (0.031%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 160 (4.97%) Kubernetes
2 90 (2.80%) Terraform
3 17 (0.53%) SCOM
4 9 (0.28%) Grafana
4 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.25%) Nessus
6 7 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 7 (0.22%) Puppet
7 6 (0.19%) Ansible
7 6 (0.19%) CASB
8 5 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.16%) OMEGAMON
9 4 (0.12%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.093%) Kibana
10 3 (0.093%) SCCM
11 2 (0.062%) QRadar
11 2 (0.062%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.031%) Argo
12 1 (0.031%) Functional Safety
12 1 (0.031%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 375 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 158 (4.91%) Databricks
3 135 (4.20%) Oracle
4 80 (2.49%) Informatica
5 61 (1.90%) Alteryx
6 56 (1.74%) Cloudera
7 51 (1.59%) CA
8 44 (1.37%) Google
9 38 (1.18%) SAP
10 32 (0.99%) Cisco
10 32 (0.99%) VMware
11 25 (0.78%) IFS
11 25 (0.78%) Pega
12 24 (0.75%) Workday
13 20 (0.62%) Splunk
14 18 (0.56%) ServiceNow
15 17 (0.53%) IBM
16 15 (0.47%) NEC
16 15 (0.47%) Qualys
17 14 (0.44%) Veeam