Quality Assurance & Compliance Statistics in the East Midlands

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
QA	45	Up 8 places+8	£50,000	+0.22%	174 2.92%	32
GDPR	105	Down -5 places-5	£45,000	+26.76%	69 1.16%	24
Data Quality	109	Up 6 places+6	£59,000	+38.82%	64 1.07%	21
SLA	120	Down -47 places-47	£31,000	+5.08%	53 0.89%	14
ISO/IEC 27001	128	Up 5 places+5	£59,295	+18.58%	45 0.75%	11
Accessibility	132	Down -7 places-7	£35,000	-36.36%	41 0.69%	21
Cyber Essentials	137	Down -2 places-2	£58,589	+67.39%	36 0.60%	9
GRC	140	Up 4 places+4	£60,000	-5.88%	33 0.55%	1
GMP	145	New entry-	£50,000	-	28 0.47%	4
Cyber Essentials PLUS	157	Down -13 places-13	£58,589	+67.39%	16 0.27%	4
ISO 9001	158	Down -17 places-17	£38,500	-7.55%	15 0.25%	8
NIST	159	Down -13 places-13	£60,000	-4.00%	14 0.23%	4
PMO	160	Down -18 places-18	£45,000	-20.00%	13 0.22%	7
PCI DSS	166	Down -23 places-23	£25,000	-50.00%	7 0.12%	2
Def Stans	167	New entry-	£70,000	-	6 0.10%	1
JTAG	167	New entry-	-	-	6 0.10%	1
PERC	168	New entry-	£70,000	-	5 0.084%	1
NCSC	168	Down -33 places-33	£100,000	-	5 0.084%	1
ISO 19650	169	Down -20 places-20	£45,000	-35.71%	4 0.067%	2
SOC 2	169	New entry-	£60,000	-	4 0.067%	1
COBIT	170	Down -21 places-21	£52,000	-5.45%	3 0.050%
COSHH	170	New entry-	£29,000	-	3 0.050%	7
Actionable Recommendations	170	Down -23 places-23	£40,125	+48.61%	3 0.050%	4
Software Quality Assurance	171	New entry-	£30,000	-	2 0.034%
WCAG	172	New entry-	-	-	1 0.017%
ITGC	172	New entry-	£51,500	-	1 0.017%	1
ISO/IEC 15288	172	Down -25 places-25	-	-	1 0.017%	2
ISO/IEC 17025	172	New entry-	£25,235	-	1 0.017%	2
PSD2	172	New entry-	£72,000	-	1 0.017%
ISO 9002	172	New entry-	£28,000	-	1 0.017%
GxP	172	New entry-	£110,000	-	1 0.017%