Quality Assurance & Compliance Statistics in Manchester

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
QA	73	Up 5 places+5	£45,000	-18.18%	98 1.94%	48
Data Quality	114	Down -43 places-43	£55,000	-9.36%	52 1.03%	47
ISO/IEC 27001	129	Down -39 places-39	£67,500	+8.00%	37 0.73%	18
Cyber Essentials	134	Down -14 places-14	£45,000	-18.24%	32 0.63%	5
PCI DSS	136	Down -8 places-8	£72,500	+31.71%	30 0.60%	11
GDPR	137	Down -44 places-44	£55,000	-24.13%	29 0.58%	29
GRC	144	Down -8 places-8	£73,250	+4.64%	22 0.44%	5
NIST	145	Down -45 places-45	£67,500	-	21 0.42%	12
SLA	146	Down -48 places-48	£46,500	+47.61%	20 0.40%	7
COSHH	146	New entry-	-	-	20 0.40%
Accessibility	147	Down -62 places-62	£57,500	+4.54%	19 0.38%	14
IFRS	148	New entry-	£55,000	-	18 0.36%	1
GAAP	149	New entry-	£55,000	-	17 0.34%
ISO 9001	151	Down -21 places-21	£42,750	-31.60%	15 0.30%	3
PMO	153	Down -13 places-13	£57,500	-11.53%	13 0.26%	8
Cyber Essentials PLUS	161	Down -19 places-19	£56,000	+1.81%	5 0.099%	2
WCAG	162	Down -20 places-20	£70,000	+55.55%	4 0.079%	1
ISO 22301	162	Down -20 places-20	£42,750	-18.57%	4 0.079%	2
ISO/IEC 27005	162	New entry-	-	-	4 0.079%
Actionable Recommendations	163	New entry-	£56,000	-	3 0.060%	3
ISO 14001	163	Down -21 places-21	£40,000	-	3 0.060%	1
Software Quality Assurance	163	New entry-	£85,000	-	3 0.060%
SOC 2	163	Down -25 places-25	£72,500	-6.45%	3 0.060%	1
FINRA	164	New entry-	-	-	2 0.040%
ISO/IEC 20000	164	New entry-	£42,750	-	2 0.040%
GxP	165	Down -24 places-24	£70,000	+16.66%	1 0.020%
HL7	165	Down -25 places-25	£60,000	-	1 0.020%	2
Sarbanes-Oxley	165	Down -42 places-42	£52,000	-	1 0.020%	2
ITGC	165	Down -34 places-34	-	-	1 0.020%
SOX 404	165	New entry-	£52,000	-	1 0.020%
IEC 61508	165	New entry-	£60,000	-	1 0.020%	1
Solvency II	165	New entry-	£105,000	-	1 0.020%