risk assessment jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-11-04, risk assessment appears in 1,390 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Security Engineer has the most postings mentioning risk assessment, with demand share up 5.9% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-11-04
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Frequently asked questions about risk assessment
+Is risk assessment in demand in 2026?
Yes. risk assessment appears in 1,390 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-11-04. Security Engineer accounts for the most postings mentioning risk assessment (5.3% of all postings mentioning risk assessment).
+What jobs require risk assessment?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-11-04, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning risk assessment are AI Security Consultant (30.0% of that role’s postings mention risk assessment), Internal Auditor (28.1% of that role’s postings mention risk assessment), AI Governance Specialist (26.9% of that role’s postings mention risk assessment).
+What skills are commonly paired with risk assessment?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-11-04), risk assessment most often appears alongside vulnerability management, incident response, threat modeling, Python, ISO 27001.
+Where is risk assessment most in demand?
As of 2026-11-04, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring risk assessment are New York City, London, San Francisco, Chicago, Pune, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
+How can I keep up with new risk assessment content and jobs?
Skillenai indexes news, blog posts, and research papers mentioning risk assessment alongside the jobs index. You can subscribe to a daily email digest of new risk assessment content from your Skillenai account.
+Which skills come before and after risk assessment?
The skill-flow chart shows skills documented in adjacent positions across observed employer changes. An outgoing skill is documented in the following position but not the preceding one. These are ideas to explore, not proven prerequisites, acquisition dates, or levels of mastery. Each ribbon counts employer moves with that skill pair; one move can contribute several pairs.
Weekly indexed postings requiring risk assessment — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Career paths around risk assessment
Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.
Historical career profiles · all locations
Skills before risk assessment
Skills after risk assessment
How to read this chart · view counts
Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.
The following position documents a skill that the preceding position does not. Skills must be linked to both positions, with clear dates and no overlap. One move can connect several skill pairs. These patterns suggest skills to explore; they do not establish prerequisites, when a skill was learned, or a higher skill level.
Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.
| Connection | Moves |
|---|---|
| Before: sql | 4 |
| Before: AWS | 4 |
| Before: Vulnerability Management | 3 |
| Before: ETL pipelines | 3 |
| Before: python | 3 |
| Before: Jenkins | 3 |
| Before: Tableau | 3 |
| Before: accounts payable | 3 |
| After: sql | 4 |
| After: Power BI | 3 |
| After: Tableau | 3 |
| After: dashboards | 3 |
| After: NIST | 3 |
| After: Linux | 2 |
| After: risk assessments | 2 |
| After: predictive analytics | 2 |
Roles most likely to require risk assessment
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| AI Security Consultant | 6 | 30.0% |
| Internal Auditor | 9 | 28.1% |
| AI Governance Specialist | 7 | 26.9% |
| Risk Manager | 5 | 25.0% |
| GRC Engineer | 5 | 20.8% |
| Business Information Security Officer | 6 | 20.7% |
| Cyber Security Architect | 7 | 16.7% |
| Security Program Manager | 4 | 16.7% |
| Clinical Program Manager | 4 | 16.0% |
| AI Governance Manager | 3 | 15.0% |
Roles with the most risk assessment postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Security Engineer | 74 | 5.3% |
| Program Manager | 66 | 4.7% |
| Systems Engineer | 55 | 4.0% |
| Product Manager | 49 | 3.5% |
| Business Analyst | 39 | 2.8% |
| Information Security Analyst | 28 | 2.0% |
| Technical Program Manager | 27 | 1.9% |
| Product Security Engineer | 19 | 1.4% |
| Security Architect | 18 | 1.3% |
| Software Engineer | 18 | 1.3% |
Top companies posting jobs requiring risk assessment
Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.
| Company | Postings · 90 days |
|---|---|
| Barclays | 43 |
| Meta | 30 |
| Bosch | 16 |
| AbbVie | 13 |
| OpenBrain | 12 |
| Roche | 10 |
| 9 | |
| State Street | 9 |
| Oscar Health | 8 |
| Novartis | 8 |
Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.
Top metros hiring for risk assessment
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 37 | 2.7% |
| London | 34 | 2.4% |
| San Francisco | 29 | 2.1% |
| Chicago | 22 | 1.6% |
| Pune | 21 | 1.5% |
| Bengaluru | 16 | 1.2% |
| Singapore | 13 | 0.9% |
| Washington | 13 | 0.9% |
| Boston | 12 | 0.9% |
Skills commonly paired with risk assessment
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How this was computed
Weekly job-count charts omit the incomplete current week (weeks start Monday, UTC). Totals include all postings in the stated window. Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-11-04. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning risk assessment by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s risk assessment postings by all risk assessment postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills). Adjusted posting share: 0.5% to 0.5%. Demand share change is the relative percentage change between these adjusted shares. Each employer-and-ATS group has at least 10 postings in each 90-day window; its earlier posting count supplies the same weight in both windows. The panel includes 2,472 identified employers and covers 71% of earlier and 70% of latest indexed postings. Windows: 2026-07-07 to 2026-10-05 and 2026-08-04 to 2026-11-02 (UTC; end dates excluded). The windows overlap by 62 days. Dates reflect indexing, not the employer’s posting date. This measures posting mix, not total hiring or market-wide demand. Matching excludes entrants and exits; changes in crawl completeness within an employer or ATS can still affect the result.
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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