Quality Assurance & Compliance Statistics in Manchester

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 17 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
QA	73	Up 6 places+6	£45,000	-18.18%	94 1.92%	60
Data Quality	109	Down -40 places-40	£55,000	-15.38%	49 1.00%	46
ISO/IEC 27001	121	Down -33 places-33	£67,500	+9.31%	37 0.76%	25
Cyber Essentials	126	Down -6 places-6	£45,000	-18.24%	32 0.65%	5
GDPR	128	Down -34 places-34	£53,750	-25.86%	30 0.61%	29
PCI DSS	130	Down -2 places-2	£72,500	+31.71%	28 0.57%	12
Accessibility	136	Down -51 places-51	£57,500	-	22 0.45%	16
NIST	136	Down -38 places-38	£68,750	+5.76%	22 0.45%	18
GRC	138	Down -2 places-2	£74,000	+18.40%	20 0.41%	7
COSHH	138	New entry-	-	-	20 0.41%
SLA	140	Down -41 places-41	£40,000	+26.98%	18 0.37%	10
IFRS	141	Up 2 places+2	£71,250	-	17 0.35%	1
GAAP	142	New entry-	£55,000	-	16 0.33%
ISO 9001	143	Down -12 places-12	£42,750	-31.60%	15 0.31%	3
PMO	145	Down -4 places-4	£57,500	-11.53%	13 0.27%	12
WCAG	153	Down -10 places-10	£70,000	+55.55%	5 0.10%	4
Cyber Essentials PLUS	153	Down -11 places-11	£56,000	+1.81%	5 0.10%	2
ISO 22301	154	Down -11 places-11	£42,750	-18.57%	4 0.082%	2
ISO/IEC 27005	154	New entry-	-	-	4 0.082%
Software Quality Assurance	155	New entry-	£85,000	-	3 0.061%
Actionable Recommendations	155	New entry-	£56,000	-	3 0.061%	2
ISO 14001	155	Down -12 places-12	£40,000	-	3 0.061%	1
SOC 2	156	Down -17 places-17	£72,500	-6.45%	2 0.041%	2
HL7	156	Down -14 places-14	£57,500	-	2 0.041%	2
FINRA	156	New entry-	-	-	2 0.041%
ISO/IEC 20000	156	New entry-	£42,750	-	2 0.041%	1
SOX 404	157	New entry-	£52,000	-	1 0.020%
IEC 61508	157	New entry-	£60,000	-	1 0.020%	1
Solvency II	157	New entry-	£105,000	-	1 0.020%
GxP	157	Down -15 places-15	£70,000	+16.66%	1 0.020%	1
Sarbanes-Oxley	157	Down -34 places-34	£52,000	-	1 0.020%	3
ITGC	157	Down -25 places-25	-	-	1 0.020%