Quality Assurance & Compliance Statistics in Manchester

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 7 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
QA	61	Up 16 places+16	£45,000	-18.18%	158 2.18%	124
Data Quality	76	Up 49 places+49	£55,000	+18.91%	130 1.79%	143
ISO/IEC 27001	130	Down -8 places-8	£60,000	+14.28%	63 0.87%	53
GDPR	135	Down -15 places-15	£55,000	-	58 0.80%	83
Accessibility	137	Down -25 places-25	£55,000	-	55 0.76%	108
SLA	148	Down -37 places-37	£46,500	+31.91%	44 0.61%	22
NIST	158	Down -25 places-25	£60,000	-1.63%	34 0.47%	53
PCI DSS	163	Down -13 places-13	£72,500	+31.71%	29 0.40%	6
GRC	166	Down -13 places-13	£72,500	+3.57%	26 0.36%	27
Cyber Essentials	172	Down -27 places-27	£44,625	+20.60%	20 0.28%	16
WCAG	177	Down -22 places-22	£60,000	+20.00%	15 0.21%	6
PMO	178	Down -21 places-21	£47,000	+51.61%	14 0.19%	21
ISO 9001	181	Down -31 places-31	£40,000	+8.10%	11 0.15%	6
SOC 2	183	New entry-	£72,500	-	9 0.12%	8
Actionable Recommendations	184	Down -27 places-27	£56,000	-53.33%	8 0.11%	17
California Consumer Privacy Act	185	Down -32 places-32	-	-	7 0.097%	1
Sarbanes-Oxley	186	Down -35 places-35	£105,000	-	6 0.083%	8
Cyber Essentials PLUS	186	Down -32 places-32	£52,925	+92.45%	6 0.083%	3
IFRS	188	Down -50 places-50	£55,000	-	4 0.055%	6
Software Quality Assurance	188	New entry-	£85,000	-	4 0.055%	1
GAAP	190	Down -52 places-52	£55,000	-	2 0.028%	2
ISO 22301	190	Down -33 places-33	£55,000	-	2 0.028%
ISO 14001	190	Down -34 places-34	£40,000	-40.74%	2 0.028%	2
COSO	190	New entry-	-	-	2 0.028%
NCSC	190	Down -86 places-86	£58,750	-15.32%	2 0.028%	14
ISO 19650	190	Down -34 places-34	-	-	2 0.028%	13
IFRS 9	191	New entry-	-	-	1 0.014%	1
ISO/IEC 20000	191	New entry-	£44,447	-	1 0.014%	2
Disclosure Scotland	191	New entry-	-	-	1 0.014%	1
IEC 61131	191	New entry-	-	-	1 0.014%
NIST 800	191	New entry-	-	-	1 0.014%	3
Solvency II	191	New entry-	£105,000	-	1 0.014%	1
COBIT	191	Down -37 places-37	£44,447	-25.92%	1 0.014%	8