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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 109 108
Rank change year-on-year +23 -1 +95
Permanent jobs citing Risk Management 3,198 2,865 5,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.95% 3.08% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 3.22% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,489 1,583 2,295
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £39,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,698 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,419 £82,470
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,890 £56,620
% change year-on-year +2.88% -1.29% +2.95%

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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £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 9 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 9 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
England +2 2,351 £60,000 -7.69% 1,074
UK excluding London +50 2,345 £57,500 +2.88% 606
Work from Home -5 857 £60,202 -7.38% 450
London -10 770 £75,000 -6.25% 487
Scotland +35 751 £62,500 -9.09% 46
North of England +61 410 £55,000 -0.08% 147
South East -31 408 £54,151 +0.28% 162
Midlands +33 338 £55,000 - 86
South West +12 311 £65,000 - 93
North West +71 243 £53,580 -1.99% 97
West Midlands +11 215 £59,300 +7.82% 51
East Midlands +41 115 £54,000 +6.93% 35
Yorkshire +18 112 £60,000 +9.01% 37
East of England +15 96 £54,000 -7.69% 75
North East +30 55 £57,500 +4.55% 16
Wales -5 22 £72,500 +53.60% 8
Northern Ireland +19 8 £63,750 -15.00% 6
Isle of Man -11 4 £46,500 +3.33%

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
1 264 (8.26%) Apache Spark
2 102 (3.19%) Apache
3 85 (2.66%) SharePoint
4 71 (2.22%) SAS
5 47 (1.47%) FileNet
6 41 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.63%) Confluence
8 14 (0.44%) Camunda
9 13 (0.41%) CMS
9 13 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.38%) IIS
11 5 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 5 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.13%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.13%) Drupal
12 4 (0.13%) Luigi
13 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.031%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 207 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 95 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 93 (2.91%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.41%) AutoCAD
5 13 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.094%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.063%) Trello
9 1 (0.031%) SPSS
9 1 (0.031%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 79 (2.47%) 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%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.063%) 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 ERP
Cloud Services
1 462 (14.45%) AWS
2 226 (7.07%) Azure
3 139 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 95 (2.97%) GCP
4 95 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
5 76 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
6 64 (2.00%) SaaS
7 59 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
8 57 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
9 54 (1.69%) Amazon S3
10 52 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
10 52 (1.63%) Serverless
11 45 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (1.41%) Amazon EMR
11 45 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
12 28 (0.88%) Entra ID
12 28 (0.88%) GitHub
13 27 (0.84%) BlazeMeter
14 16 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
15 14 (0.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 104 (3.25%) Firewall
2 57 (1.78%) Network Security
3 35 (1.09%) Internet
4 33 (1.03%) LAN
5 28 (0.88%) WAN
6 25 (0.78%) VPN
7 19 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
7 19 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.50%) SAN
9 15 (0.47%) 5G
9 15 (0.47%) HTTP
10 14 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.41%) PPP
12 10 (0.31%) Intranet
12 10 (0.31%) SSL
13 8 (0.25%) Wireless
14 7 (0.22%) Extranet
15 6 (0.19%) Broadband
15 6 (0.19%) VLAN
16 5 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 314 (9.82%) NoSQL
2 227 (7.10%) Big Data
3 202 (6.32%) Hadoop
4 122 (3.81%) Power BI
5 93 (2.91%) Apache Hive
6 79 (2.47%) HBase
7 60 (1.88%) Electronic Patient Records
8 54 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
9 49 (1.53%) 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 28 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
16 14 (0.44%) Impala
16 14 (0.44%) QlikView
17 12 (0.38%) Metadata
18 10 (0.31%) BigQuery
18 10 (0.31%) Flink
Development Applications
1 139 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 134 (4.19%) JIRA
3 126 (3.94%) Git
4 69 (2.16%) Bitbucket Server
5 67 (2.10%) JUnit
6 27 (0.84%) JMeter
7 26 (0.81%) Jasmine
7 26 (0.81%) Maven
7 26 (0.81%) Mockito
8 24 (0.75%) Gradle
9 14 (0.44%) CircleCI
9 14 (0.44%) Travis CI
10 9 (0.28%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.22%) RStudio
12 6 (0.19%) Postman
12 6 (0.19%) SoapUI
13 5 (0.16%) MSTest
14 4 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 1,678 (52.47%) Finance
2 1,140 (35.65%) Social Skills
3 1,032 (32.27%) Legal
4 909 (28.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 849 (26.55%) Law
6 455 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
7 245 (7.66%) Banking
8 130 (4.07%) Marketing
9 127 (3.97%) Manufacturing
10 124 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
11 113 (3.53%) Public Sector
12 101 (3.16%) Retail
13 97 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
14 74 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
15 63 (1.97%) Telecoms
16 54 (1.69%) Publishing
17 43 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
18 40 (1.25%) Investment Banking
19 36 (1.13%) Aerospace
19 36 (1.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 674 (21.08%) Software Engineer
2 470 (14.70%) Senior
3 414 (12.95%) Project Manager
4 272 (8.51%) Java Engineer
4 272 (8.51%) Java Software Engineer
5 252 (7.88%) Analyst
6 219 (6.85%) IT Manager
7 201 (6.29%) Big Data Engineer
7 201 (6.29%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 200 (6.25%) Senior Manager
9 191 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
9 191 (5.97%) AWS Software Engineer
10 180 (5.63%) Lead
11 168 (5.25%) Consultant
12 159 (4.97%) Data Engineer
13 152 (4.75%) Full Stack Engineer
14 146 (4.57%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 137 (4.28%) Security Manager
16 123 (3.85%) Security Consultant
17 111 (3.47%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (6.25%) Spring
2 165 (5.16%) React
3 137 (4.28%) Kafka
4 124 (3.88%) AngularJS
5 107 (3.35%) J2EE
6 95 (2.97%) HTML
7 75 (2.35%) Hibernate
8 74 (2.31%) JMS
8 74 (2.31%) Spring Boot
9 73 (2.28%) PySpark
10 71 (2.22%) Node.js
10 71 (2.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 68 (2.13%) CSS
12 57 (1.78%) .NET
13 54 (1.69%) jQuery
14 50 (1.56%) JSON
15 49 (1.53%) Spring Integration
15 49 (1.53%) XML
16 48 (1.50%) GraphQL
17 42 (1.31%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 489 (15.29%) Algorithms
2 306 (9.57%) Management Information System
3 196 (6.13%) Onboarding
4 135 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
5 126 (3.94%) Cloud Native
6 94 (2.94%) Credit Risk
7 86 (2.69%) Operational Technology
8 85 (2.66%) Security Posture
9 62 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
10 57 (1.78%) Market Risk
11 55 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 45 (1.41%) Data Centre
13 39 (1.22%) Cyberattack
14 37 (1.16%) Legacy Code
14 37 (1.16%) Product Ownership
15 34 (1.06%) Industrial Internet of Things
16 31 (0.97%) Reinsurance
17 28 (0.88%) PMI
18 24 (0.75%) IoT
19 23 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 117 (3.66%) Unix
2 80 (2.50%) Linux
3 64 (2.00%) Windows
4 25 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.47%) Android
5 15 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.19%) zOS
8 4 (0.13%) Windows XP
9 2 (0.063%) AIX
10 1 (0.031%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.031%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.031%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,145 (35.80%) Agile
2 762 (23.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 743 (23.23%) Software Engineering
4 686 (21.45%) Project Management
5 675 (21.11%) CI/CD
6 650 (20.33%) SDLC
7 581 (18.17%) Cybersecurity
8 568 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
9 525 (16.42%) Operational Stability
10 517 (16.17%) Artificial Intelligence
11 512 (16.01%) Machine Learning
12 500 (15.63%) Visualisation
13 478 (14.95%) Decision-Making
14 430 (13.45%) Information Security
15 416 (13.01%) Community of Practice
16 386 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
17 301 (9.41%) Project Delivery
18 298 (9.32%) Change Management
19 254 (7.94%) Coaching
20 253 (7.91%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 569 (17.79%) SQL
2 552 (17.26%) Java
3 448 (14.01%) Python
4 116 (3.63%) Scala
5 99 (3.10%) PL/SQL
6 86 (2.69%) JavaScript
7 49 (1.53%) TypeScript
8 42 (1.31%) C#
9 28 (0.88%) R
10 26 (0.81%) PowerShell
11 23 (0.72%) PL/1
12 20 (0.63%) Kotlin
12 20 (0.63%) PHP
13 19 (0.59%) Go
14 17 (0.53%) Ruby
15 10 (0.31%) C++
16 9 (0.28%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.25%) Groovy
18 6 (0.19%) Bash
18 6 (0.19%) REXX
Qualifications
1 658 (20.58%) Degree
2 326 (10.19%) Security Cleared
3 261 (8.16%) CISSP
4 208 (6.50%) CISM
4 208 (6.50%) SC Cleared
5 134 (4.19%) CRISC
6 108 (3.38%) Master's Degree
7 102 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 97 (3.03%) CISA
9 83 (2.60%) PMI Certification
10 62 (1.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 60 (1.88%) CESG Certified Professional
12 59 (1.84%) PMP
13 50 (1.56%) ACCA
14 29 (0.91%) DV Cleared
15 28 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
16 26 (0.81%) CISMP
17 25 (0.78%) CEH
18 22 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
19 21 (0.66%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (8.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 229 (7.16%) NIST
3 191 (5.97%) GDPR
4 151 (4.72%) QA
5 125 (3.91%) GRC
6 113 (3.53%) IFRS
7 111 (3.47%) Data Quality
8 91 (2.85%) NCSC
9 78 (2.44%) PMO
10 64 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
11 62 (1.94%) PCI DSS
12 57 (1.78%) IFRS 9
13 48 (1.50%) COBIT
14 47 (1.47%) JSP 440
15 43 (1.34%) SLA
16 40 (1.25%) NIST 800
17 35 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 30 (0.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
19 28 (0.88%) Good Clinical Practice
19 28 (0.88%) RMADS
System Software
1 79 (2.47%) HDFS
2 48 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 45 (1.41%) 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
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
1 161 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 83 (2.60%) Terraform
3 17 (0.53%) SCOM
4 9 (0.28%) Grafana
4 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.25%) Nessus
5 8 (0.25%) Puppet
6 7 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (0.19%) Ansible
7 6 (0.19%) CASB
8 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.16%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (0.094%) Kibana
9 3 (0.094%) SCCM
9 3 (0.094%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.063%) QRadar
11 1 (0.031%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 1 (0.031%) FTK
11 1 (0.031%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 376 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 148 (4.63%) Databricks
3 136 (4.25%) Oracle
4 77 (2.41%) Informatica
5 61 (1.91%) Alteryx
6 51 (1.59%) CA
7 49 (1.53%) Cloudera
8 43 (1.34%) Google
9 38 (1.19%) SAP
10 33 (1.03%) Cisco
10 33 (1.03%) VMware
11 26 (0.81%) Workday
12 25 (0.78%) IFS
13 21 (0.66%) Pega
14 20 (0.63%) Splunk
15 18 (0.56%) IBM
16 17 (0.53%) NEC
17 16 (0.50%) ServiceNow
18 15 (0.47%) Qualys
19 14 (0.44%) Veeam