Contract Quality Assurance & Compliance Statistics in Reading

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
NIST	50	Down -12 places-12	£700	+9.80%	39 3.57%	8
Data Quality	52	Up 2 places+2	£550	-16.60%	37 3.39%	23
ISO/IEC 27001	54	Down -26 places-26	£575	-6.12%	35 3.20%	15
GRC	61	No change0	£550	+30.17%	28 2.56%	7
PMO	63	Down -6 places-6	£625	+56.25%	26 2.38%	9
GDPR	65	Down -35 places-35	£588	-9.61%	24 2.20%	24
QA	74	Down -32 places-32	£525	+5.00%	15 1.37%	20
NIST 800	75	Down -12 places-12	£700	+7.69%	14 1.28%
SLA	79	Down -22 places-22	£500	-6.97%	10 0.91%	7
Cyber Essentials	80	Down -21 places-21	£638	-1.92%	9 0.82%	11
Def Stans	80	New entry-	£700	-	9 0.82%	1
NCSC	81	Down -20 places-20	£700	+3.70%	8 0.73%	4
Cyber Essentials PLUS	82	Down -19 places-19	£613	-	7 0.64%	6
SOC 2	83	Down -20 places-20	£650	-	6 0.55%
COBIT	84	Down -26 places-26	£700	+16.66%	5 0.46%	5
Disclosure Scotland	86	New entry-	£600	-	3 0.27%
Accessibility	86	Down -26 places-26	£400	-5.88%	3 0.27%	26
EU AI Act	86	Down -26 places-26	£700	+21.73%	3 0.27%
Sarbanes-Oxley	87	Down -31 places-31	£448	-16.74%	2 0.18%
GAAP	87	New entry-	£613	-	2 0.18%
JSP 440	88	New entry-	-	-	1 0.092%	1
PCI DSS	88	Down -29 places-29	£375	-46.42%	1 0.092%	4
IFRS	88	New entry-	£613	-	1 0.092%
ISO 26262	88	New entry-	£575	-	1 0.092%
ITGC	88	New entry-	£420	-	1 0.092%
IEC 61508	88	New entry-	£575	-	1 0.092%
DO-254	88	New entry-	£575	-	1 0.092%	1
ARP4761	88	New entry-	£575	-	1 0.092%
DO-160	88	New entry-	£575	-	1 0.092%	1
BS7666	88	New entry-	£400	-	1 0.092%