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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 109 115
Rank change year-on-year +25 +6 +90
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 3,198 3,033 5,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.17% 3.08% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 3.22% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,501 1,639 2,254
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £39,563
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,000 £49,520
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,780 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.08% +1.42% -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 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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% +10.53%

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 23 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 23 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 +61 2,365 £57,500 +3.08% 564
England +11 2,307 £60,000 -7.69% 945
Work from Home +11 853 £60,101 -7.54% 401
Scotland +30 797 £61,750 -10.18% 56
London -7 752 £77,500 -1.59% 416
North of England +79 412 £55,000 -0.08% 149
South East -37 382 £54,000 +2.86% 132
Midlands +41 340 £54,650 -0.64% 88
South West +21 304 £65,000 +8.33% 77
North West +73 238 £54,000 -4.85% 84
West Midlands +27 219 £58,000 +5.45% 54
Yorkshire +34 120 £60,000 +9.01% 48
East Midlands +63 111 £54,000 +6.93% 34
East of England +21 97 £54,000 -6.90% 56
North East +37 54 £57,500 +4.55% 20
Wales -7 23 £72,500 +40.58% 14
Northern Ireland +29 8 £63,750 +11.35% 8
Isle of Man -11 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
1 301 (9.41%) Apache Spark
2 119 (3.72%) Apache
3 86 (2.69%) SharePoint
4 76 (2.38%) SAS
5 48 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
6 47 (1.47%) FileNet
7 20 (0.63%) Camunda
8 17 (0.53%) Confluence
9 14 (0.44%) CMS
10 13 (0.41%) 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
12 4 (0.13%) Luigi
13 3 (0.094%) Apache Pulsar
14 1 (0.031%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.031%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 198 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 95 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 92 (2.88%) 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 (2.44%) Primavera
2 19 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.47%) Endur
4 11 (0.34%) 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%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.063%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.063%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 1 (0.031%) BusinessWorks
8 1 (0.031%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.031%) Data Workbench
8 1 (0.031%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 490 (15.32%) AWS
2 228 (7.13%) Azure
3 134 (4.19%) Power Platform
4 99 (3.10%) GCP
5 96 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
6 83 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
7 71 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
8 63 (1.97%) SaaS
9 60 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
10 58 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
10 58 (1.81%) Serverless
11 54 (1.69%) Amazon S3
12 51 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (1.59%) Amazon EMR
12 51 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (0.91%) GitHub
14 27 (0.84%) BlazeMeter
14 27 (0.84%) Entra ID
15 15 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 104 (3.25%) Firewall
2 55 (1.72%) Network Security
3 36 (1.13%) Internet
4 31 (0.97%) LAN
5 26 (0.81%) WAN
6 25 (0.78%) VPN
7 20 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
7 20 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.50%) SAN
9 14 (0.44%) 5G
9 14 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.41%) PPP
11 12 (0.38%) HTTP
12 10 (0.31%) Intranet
12 10 (0.31%) Wireless
13 8 (0.25%) SSL
14 7 (0.22%) Extranet
15 6 (0.19%) Broadband
15 6 (0.19%) VLAN
16 5 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (10.63%) NoSQL
2 255 (7.97%) Big Data
3 233 (7.29%) Hadoop
4 117 (3.66%) Power BI
5 106 (3.31%) Apache Hive
6 90 (2.81%) HBase
7 66 (2.06%) Electronic Patient Records
8 54 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
9 50 (1.56%) Tableau
10 48 (1.50%) Data Lake
11 47 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
12 46 (1.44%) Qlik Sense
13 42 (1.31%) SQL Server
14 34 (1.06%) Relational Database
15 26 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
16 16 (0.50%) Impala
17 14 (0.44%) QlikView
18 13 (0.41%) Metadata
19 9 (0.28%) BigQuery
19 9 (0.28%) Flink
Development Applications
1 149 (4.66%) Jenkins
2 130 (4.07%) JIRA
3 129 (4.03%) Git
4 74 (2.31%) Bitbucket Server
5 67 (2.10%) JUnit
6 32 (1.00%) Maven
7 30 (0.94%) Gradle
8 27 (0.84%) JMeter
9 26 (0.81%) Jasmine
9 26 (0.81%) 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 1,701 (53.19%) Finance
2 1,110 (34.71%) Social Skills
3 1,068 (33.40%) Legal
4 952 (29.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 889 (27.80%) Law
6 452 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
7 258 (8.07%) Banking
8 137 (4.28%) Marketing
9 119 (3.72%) Manufacturing
10 117 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
11 110 (3.44%) Public Sector
11 110 (3.44%) Retail
12 101 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
13 78 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
14 60 (1.88%) Telecoms
15 54 (1.69%) Publishing
16 39 (1.22%) Investment Banking
17 36 (1.13%) Aerospace
17 36 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
17 36 (1.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 721 (22.55%) Software Engineer
2 462 (14.45%) Senior
3 404 (12.63%) Project Manager
4 295 (9.22%) Java Engineer
4 295 (9.22%) Java Software Engineer
5 250 (7.82%) Analyst
6 227 (7.10%) Big Data Engineer
6 227 (7.10%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 206 (6.44%) IT Manager
8 205 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
8 205 (6.41%) AWS Software Engineer
9 192 (6.00%) Senior Manager
10 173 (5.41%) Data Engineer
11 169 (5.28%) Consultant
11 169 (5.28%) Lead
12 155 (4.85%) Full Stack Engineer
13 151 (4.72%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 140 (4.38%) Security Manager
15 123 (3.85%) Security Consultant
16 121 (3.78%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (6.88%) Spring
2 169 (5.28%) React
3 139 (4.35%) Kafka
4 123 (3.85%) AngularJS
5 111 (3.47%) J2EE
6 93 (2.91%) HTML
7 83 (2.60%) Spring Boot
8 79 (2.47%) JMS
9 75 (2.35%) Hibernate
10 72 (2.25%) PySpark
11 71 (2.22%) Node.js
11 71 (2.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 66 (2.06%) CSS
13 55 (1.72%) .NET
14 54 (1.69%) jQuery
15 53 (1.66%) XML
16 50 (1.56%) JSON
17 48 (1.50%) GraphQL
17 48 (1.50%) Spring Integration
18 44 (1.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 520 (16.26%) Algorithms
2 318 (9.94%) Management Information System
3 208 (6.50%) Onboarding
4 132 (4.13%) Cloud Native
5 129 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
6 100 (3.13%) Credit Risk
7 87 (2.72%) Security Posture
8 86 (2.69%) Operational Technology
9 62 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
10 55 (1.72%) Market Risk
11 54 (1.69%) Data Structures
12 43 (1.34%) Legacy Code
13 42 (1.31%) Data Centre
14 39 (1.22%) Cyberattack
15 36 (1.13%) Product Ownership
16 34 (1.06%) Industrial Internet of Things
17 28 (0.88%) PMI
18 25 (0.78%) Reinsurance
19 24 (0.75%) IoT
19 24 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 127 (3.97%) Unix
2 72 (2.25%) Linux
3 64 (2.00%) Windows
4 24 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.47%) Android
5 15 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.19%) zOS
8 3 (0.094%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.063%) AIX
9 2 (0.063%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.031%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.031%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,203 (37.62%) Agile
2 789 (24.67%) Software Engineering
3 786 (24.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 727 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 696 (21.76%) SDLC
6 665 (20.79%) Project Management
7 571 (17.85%) Operational Stability
8 559 (17.48%) Cybersecurity
9 552 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
10 543 (16.98%) Artificial Intelligence
11 538 (16.82%) Machine Learning
12 532 (16.64%) Visualisation
13 497 (15.54%) Decision-Making
14 436 (13.63%) Community of Practice
15 424 (13.26%) Information Security
16 386 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
17 298 (9.32%) Change Management
18 286 (8.94%) Project Delivery
19 254 (7.94%) Coaching
20 245 (7.66%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 597 (18.67%) SQL
2 590 (18.45%) Java
3 477 (14.92%) Python
4 129 (4.03%) Scala
5 104 (3.25%) PL/SQL
6 83 (2.60%) JavaScript
7 49 (1.53%) TypeScript
8 42 (1.31%) C#
9 32 (1.00%) R
10 27 (0.84%) PowerShell
11 23 (0.72%) PL/1
11 23 (0.72%) Ruby
12 20 (0.63%) PHP
13 17 (0.53%) Kotlin
14 16 (0.50%) Go
15 11 (0.34%) C++
16 9 (0.28%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.22%) Groovy
18 6 (0.19%) Bash
18 6 (0.19%) JCL
Qualifications
1 634 (19.82%) Degree
2 317 (9.91%) Security Cleared
3 261 (8.16%) CISSP
4 208 (6.50%) CISM
5 206 (6.44%) SC Cleared
6 137 (4.28%) CRISC
7 104 (3.25%) Master's Degree
8 99 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 96 (3.00%) CISA
10 79 (2.47%) PMI Certification
11 63 (1.97%) CESG Certified Professional
12 61 (1.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 54 (1.69%) PMP
14 50 (1.56%) ACCA
15 29 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
16 28 (0.88%) DV Cleared
17 26 (0.81%) CISMP
17 26 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
18 25 (0.78%) CEH
19 21 (0.66%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (8.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 228 (7.13%) NIST
3 191 (5.97%) GDPR
4 142 (4.44%) QA
5 128 (4.00%) GRC
6 119 (3.72%) IFRS
7 106 (3.31%) Data Quality
8 90 (2.81%) NCSC
9 79 (2.47%) PMO
10 65 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
11 64 (2.00%) PCI DSS
12 63 (1.97%) IFRS 9
13 48 (1.50%) JSP 440
14 46 (1.44%) COBIT
15 42 (1.31%) SLA
16 40 (1.25%) NIST 800
17 32 (1.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 31 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 29 (0.91%) RMADS
20 22 (0.69%) ITGC
System Software
1 90 (2.81%) HDFS
2 50 (1.56%) 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
10 2 (0.063%) IAG
10 2 (0.063%) vSphere
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
1 158 (4.94%) Kubernetes
2 92 (2.88%) Terraform
3 14 (0.44%) SCOM
4 10 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.28%) Grafana
6 8 (0.25%) Nessus
7 7 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 6 (0.19%) Ansible
8 6 (0.19%) CASB
9 5 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (0.16%) OMEGAMON
9 5 (0.16%) Puppet
10 4 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.094%) Kibana
11 3 (0.094%) SCCM
12 2 (0.063%) QRadar
12 2 (0.063%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.031%) FTK
13 1 (0.031%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.031%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 372 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 162 (5.07%) Databricks
3 135 (4.22%) Oracle
4 83 (2.60%) Informatica
5 61 (1.91%) Alteryx
6 60 (1.88%) Cloudera
7 51 (1.59%) CA
8 43 (1.34%) Google
9 38 (1.19%) SAP
10 32 (1.00%) VMware
11 31 (0.97%) Cisco
12 27 (0.84%) Pega
13 23 (0.72%) IFS
13 23 (0.72%) Workday
14 20 (0.63%) ServiceNow
14 20 (0.63%) Splunk
15 18 (0.56%) IBM
16 15 (0.47%) Qualys
17 14 (0.44%) Veeam
18 13 (0.41%) OpenLink