Compliance Officer
UK

The median Compliance Officer salary in the UK is £47,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 858 964 1196
Rank change year-on-year +106 +232 -337
Permanent jobs requiring a Compliance Officer 31 14 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.013% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.014% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 29 8 15
10th Percentile £24,000 £31,900 £37,550
25th Percentile £34,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £49,375 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% -17.71% +53.85%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £88,125
90th Percentile - - £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,250 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +26.00% -16.67% +15.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,477 96,786 147,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 66,588 60,676 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Compliance Officer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Compliance Officer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Compliance Officer in the UK

Compliance Officer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Compliance Officer.

Salary trend for Compliance Officer in the UK

Compliance Officer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Compliance Officer over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Compliance Officer in the UK

Compliance Officer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Compliance Officer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 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 +131 30 £47,250 +8.00% 37
UK excluding London +23 28 £47,250 +26.00% 13
East of England +39 10 £55,000 +25.71% 2
Work from Home +79 9 £47,500 -8.43% 8
North of England +48 9 £47,500 +111.11% 4
Yorkshire - 6 £47,500 - 1
South West -9 4 £24,000 -36.00%
South East - 4 £47,000 - 5
London +129 3 £38,500 -35.83% 26
North West +6 3 £45,000 +100.00% 3
Scotland - 1 £39,000 - 2

Compliance Officer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Compliance Officer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Compliance Officer in the job title.

1 12 (38.71%) Legal
2 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 8 (25.81%) Internal Audit
3 8 (25.81%) Master's Degree
3 8 (25.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (25.81%) Degree
3 8 (25.81%) PhD
4 7 (22.58%) Information Security
5 6 (19.35%) GDPR
6 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (16.13%) Business Continuity
6 5 (16.13%) ISO 9001
6 5 (16.13%) Service Management
6 5 (16.13%) Quality Management
6 5 (16.13%) Security Management
7 4 (12.90%) ISO 14001
7 4 (12.90%) Information Security Management
7 4 (12.90%) Business Continuity Management
7 4 (12.90%) ISO 22301
8 3 (9.68%) Data Protection
9 2 (6.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 2 (6.45%) Data Security
9 2 (6.45%) Risk Management
9 2 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (6.45%) Commercial Awareness
9 2 (6.45%) GRC
10 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
10 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (3.23%) Full Text Search

Compliance Officer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (3.23%) Azure
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
General
1 12 (38.71%) Legal
2 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
1 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) Internal Audit
2 7 (22.58%) Information Security
3 5 (16.13%) Business Continuity
3 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (16.13%) Quality Management
3 5 (16.13%) Security Management
3 5 (16.13%) Service Management
4 4 (12.90%) Business Continuity Management
4 4 (12.90%) Information Security Management
5 3 (9.68%) Data Protection
6 2 (6.45%) Commercial Awareness
6 2 (6.45%) Data Security
6 2 (6.45%) Risk Management
6 2 (6.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (3.23%) Configuration Management
7 1 (3.23%) Data Loss Prevention
7 1 (3.23%) Data Management
7 1 (3.23%) Full Text Search
7 1 (3.23%) ITIL
7 1 (3.23%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Degree
1 8 (25.81%) Master's Degree
1 8 (25.81%) PhD
2 1 (3.23%) CISM
2 1 (3.23%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (19.35%) GDPR
3 5 (16.13%) ISO 9001
4 4 (12.90%) ISO 14001
4 4 (12.90%) ISO 22301
5 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (6.45%) GRC
6 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 20000