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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 110 107
Rank change year-on-year +28 -3 +99
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 3,176 3,222 5,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.22% 3.10% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 3.25% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,476 1,757 2,263
10th Percentile £41,125 £41,047 £40,488
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +3.08% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £57,810 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.11% -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 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £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 3 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 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 +49 2,353 £57,000 -1.40% 490
England +17 2,285 £60,000 -11.11% 926
Work from Home +8 855 £60,000 -7.69% 393
Scotland +28 795 £58,250 -16.12% 55
London -6 746 £79,500 +2.58% 482
North of England +67 410 £55,000 -5.98% 114
South East -43 363 £53,250 +0.95% 119
Midlands +50 339 £54,000 -1.82% 78
South West +22 307 £68,500 +9.60% 67
North West +73 236 £53,580 -7.32% 74
West Midlands +26 220 £57,650 +4.82% 49
Yorkshire +33 122 £55,000 -7.60% 26
East Midlands +63 109 £54,000 +6.93% 29
East of England +29 102 £54,000 -10.00% 42
North East +37 52 £55,000 - 14
Wales -4 26 £70,000 +21.74% 18
Northern Ireland +32 9 £93,750 +63.76% 9
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
1 309 (9.73%) Apache Spark
2 123 (3.87%) Apache
3 86 (2.71%) SharePoint
4 84 (2.64%) SAS
5 47 (1.48%) FileNet
6 44 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.63%) Camunda
8 15 (0.47%) Confluence
9 14 (0.44%) CMS
9 14 (0.44%) IIS
10 12 (0.38%) Anypoint
10 12 (0.38%) 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 2 (0.063%) Alfresco
13 2 (0.063%) Apache Pulsar
13 2 (0.063%) Captiva
Applications
1 184 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
3 89 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.41%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.35%) 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 (2.46%) Primavera
2 20 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.47%) Endur
4 10 (0.31%) 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
Cloud Services
1 485 (15.27%) AWS
2 232 (7.30%) Azure
3 133 (4.19%) Power Platform
4 96 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
5 92 (2.90%) GCP
6 79 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
7 71 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
8 64 (2.02%) SaaS
9 58 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (1.83%) Serverless
10 56 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
11 54 (1.70%) Amazon S3
12 51 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (1.61%) Amazon EMR
12 51 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (0.91%) GitHub
14 27 (0.85%) BlazeMeter
14 27 (0.85%) Entra ID
15 15 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 97 (3.05%) Firewall
2 46 (1.45%) Network Security
3 36 (1.13%) Internet
4 25 (0.79%) VPN
5 24 (0.76%) LAN
6 21 (0.66%) WAN
7 20 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
7 20 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.50%) SAN
9 14 (0.44%) 5G
10 12 (0.38%) PPP
10 12 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.35%) Wireless
12 10 (0.31%) Intranet
13 8 (0.25%) HTTP
14 7 (0.22%) Extranet
15 6 (0.19%) Broadband
15 6 (0.19%) VLAN
16 5 (0.16%) NGFW
16 5 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 338 (10.64%) NoSQL
2 250 (7.87%) Big Data
3 233 (7.34%) Hadoop
4 116 (3.65%) Power BI
5 106 (3.34%) Apache Hive
6 90 (2.83%) HBase
7 66 (2.08%) Electronic Patient Records
8 51 (1.61%) Tableau
9 50 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
10 48 (1.51%) Data Lake
11 47 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
12 46 (1.45%) Qlik Sense
13 45 (1.42%) SQL Server
14 35 (1.10%) Relational Database
15 27 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
16 16 (0.50%) Impala
17 14 (0.44%) QlikView
18 11 (0.35%) Metadata
19 9 (0.28%) Spotfire
20 8 (0.25%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 149 (4.69%) Jenkins
2 129 (4.06%) JIRA
3 127 (4.00%) Git
4 74 (2.33%) Bitbucket Server
5 67 (2.11%) JUnit
6 32 (1.01%) 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 1,692 (53.27%) Finance
2 1,106 (34.82%) Social Skills
3 1,082 (34.07%) Legal
4 943 (29.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 880 (27.71%) Law
6 449 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
7 274 (8.63%) Banking
8 133 (4.19%) Marketing
9 123 (3.87%) Public Sector
9 123 (3.87%) Retail
10 121 (3.81%) Manufacturing
11 120 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
12 101 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
13 79 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
14 64 (2.02%) Telecoms
15 54 (1.70%) Publishing
16 36 (1.13%) Investment Banking
16 36 (1.13%) Police
17 35 (1.10%) Aerospace
18 31 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 717 (22.58%) Software Engineer
2 440 (13.85%) Senior
3 408 (12.85%) Project Manager
4 295 (9.29%) Java Engineer
4 295 (9.29%) Java Software Engineer
5 239 (7.53%) Analyst
6 227 (7.15%) Big Data Engineer
6 227 (7.15%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 206 (6.49%) IT Manager
8 205 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
8 205 (6.45%) AWS Software Engineer
9 182 (5.73%) Senior Manager
10 173 (5.45%) Data Engineer
11 171 (5.38%) Consultant
12 155 (4.88%) Full Stack Engineer
13 151 (4.75%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 150 (4.72%) Lead
15 145 (4.57%) Security Manager
16 125 (3.94%) Security Consultant
17 121 (3.81%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (6.86%) Spring
2 169 (5.32%) React
3 137 (4.31%) Kafka
4 122 (3.84%) AngularJS
5 110 (3.46%) J2EE
6 91 (2.87%) HTML
7 81 (2.55%) Spring Boot
8 79 (2.49%) JMS
9 75 (2.36%) Hibernate
10 71 (2.24%) Node.js
10 71 (2.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 67 (2.11%) PySpark
12 64 (2.02%) CSS
13 56 (1.76%) .NET
14 54 (1.70%) jQuery
14 54 (1.70%) XML
15 50 (1.57%) JSON
16 48 (1.51%) GraphQL
17 47 (1.48%) Spring Integration
18 43 (1.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 517 (16.28%) Algorithms
2 326 (10.26%) Management Information System
3 208 (6.55%) Onboarding
4 132 (4.16%) Self-Motivation
5 130 (4.09%) Cloud Native
6 114 (3.59%) Credit Risk
7 87 (2.74%) Security Posture
8 82 (2.58%) Operational Technology
9 61 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
10 56 (1.76%) Market Risk
11 51 (1.61%) Data Structures
12 43 (1.35%) Legacy Code
13 42 (1.32%) Cyberattack
14 39 (1.23%) Data Centre
14 39 (1.23%) Product Ownership
15 34 (1.07%) Industrial Internet of Things
16 27 (0.85%) PMI
17 25 (0.79%) IoT
18 23 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 22 (0.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 121 (3.81%) Unix
2 67 (2.11%) Linux
3 58 (1.83%) Windows
4 22 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.47%) Android
5 15 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.16%) zOS
7 3 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.094%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.063%) AIX
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 1,222 (38.48%) Agile
2 784 (24.69%) Software Engineering
3 766 (24.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 725 (22.83%) CI/CD
5 698 (21.98%) SDLC
6 656 (20.65%) Project Management
7 568 (17.88%) Operational Stability
8 543 (17.10%) Artificial Intelligence
9 536 (16.88%) Cybersecurity
10 532 (16.75%) Machine Learning
11 529 (16.66%) Visualisation
12 520 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
13 503 (15.84%) Decision-Making
14 433 (13.63%) Community of Practice
15 411 (12.94%) Information Security
16 406 (12.78%) Stakeholder Management
17 300 (9.45%) Change Management
18 298 (9.38%) Project Delivery
19 251 (7.90%) Coaching
20 240 (7.56%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 589 (18.55%) Java
1 589 (18.55%) SQL
2 485 (15.27%) Python
3 128 (4.03%) Scala
4 104 (3.27%) PL/SQL
5 84 (2.64%) JavaScript
6 49 (1.54%) TypeScript
7 47 (1.48%) C#
8 41 (1.29%) R
9 26 (0.82%) PowerShell
10 23 (0.72%) PL/1
11 22 (0.69%) Ruby
12 20 (0.63%) PHP
13 17 (0.54%) C++
14 13 (0.41%) Kotlin
15 12 (0.38%) Go
16 10 (0.31%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.19%) Bash
17 6 (0.19%) Groovy
17 6 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 631 (19.87%) Degree
2 320 (10.08%) Security Cleared
3 267 (8.41%) CISSP
4 217 (6.83%) CISM
5 206 (6.49%) SC Cleared
6 148 (4.66%) CRISC
7 102 (3.21%) Master's Degree
8 93 (2.93%) CISA
9 92 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 72 (2.27%) PMI Certification
11 66 (2.08%) CESG Certified Professional
12 56 (1.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 50 (1.57%) ACCA
14 46 (1.45%) PMP
15 36 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
16 33 (1.04%) DV Cleared
17 29 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
18 27 (0.85%) CISMP
19 24 (0.76%) CEH
20 23 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 263 (8.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 221 (6.96%) NIST
3 186 (5.86%) GDPR
4 145 (4.57%) QA
5 128 (4.03%) IFRS
6 123 (3.87%) GRC
7 99 (3.12%) Data Quality
8 89 (2.80%) NCSC
9 86 (2.71%) PMO
10 72 (2.27%) IFRS 9
11 69 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
12 58 (1.83%) PCI DSS
13 49 (1.54%) JSP 440
14 42 (1.32%) NIST 800
15 41 (1.29%) SLA
16 40 (1.26%) COBIT
17 33 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 31 (0.98%) RMADS
19 25 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
20 21 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 90 (2.83%) HDFS
2 51 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 43 (1.35%) Docker
4 17 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.19%) Firmware
7 5 (0.16%) 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
1 150 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 89 (2.80%) Terraform
3 13 (0.41%) SCOM
4 10 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.31%) Nessus
5 9 (0.28%) Grafana
6 7 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (0.19%) Ansible
8 5 (0.16%) CASB
8 5 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.13%) OMEGAMON
10 3 (0.094%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.094%) Kibana
10 3 (0.094%) SCCM
11 2 (0.063%) PingFederate
11 2 (0.063%) QRadar
12 1 (0.031%) OfficeScan
12 1 (0.031%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.031%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
12 1 (0.031%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 358 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 158 (4.97%) Databricks
3 138 (4.35%) Oracle
4 83 (2.61%) Informatica
5 61 (1.92%) Alteryx
6 60 (1.89%) Cloudera
7 52 (1.64%) CA
8 38 (1.20%) SAP
9 36 (1.13%) Google
10 32 (1.01%) ServiceNow
11 30 (0.94%) VMware
12 26 (0.82%) Cisco
12 26 (0.82%) Pega
13 24 (0.76%) Salesforce
14 23 (0.72%) IFS
14 23 (0.72%) Workday
15 19 (0.60%) Splunk
16 17 (0.54%) IBM
16 17 (0.54%) Qualys
17 14 (0.44%) Veeam