Quality Assurance & Compliance Statistics in Manchester

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
QA	74	Up 5 places+5	£45,000	-18.18%	99 1.97%	54
Data Quality	117	Down -46 places-46	£55,000	-15.38%	51 1.02%	46
ISO/IEC 27001	131	Down -40 places-40	£67,500	+8.00%	37 0.74%	23
Cyber Essentials	136	Down -16 places-16	£45,000	-18.24%	32 0.64%	4
PCI DSS	138	Down -9 places-9	£72,500	+31.71%	30 0.60%	12
GDPR	139	Down -44 places-44	£55,000	-24.13%	29 0.58%	34
GRC	146	Down -9 places-9	£73,250	+4.64%	22 0.44%	7
Accessibility	146	Down -58 places-58	£57,500	-	22 0.44%	21
NIST	147	Down -45 places-45	£67,500	-	21 0.42%	16
SLA	148	Down -49 places-49	£46,500	+47.61%	20 0.40%	9
COSHH	148	New entry-	-	-	20 0.40%
IFRS	151	New entry-	£71,250	-	17 0.34%	1
GAAP	152	New entry-	£55,000	-	16 0.32%
ISO 9001	153	Down -22 places-22	£42,750	-31.60%	15 0.30%	2
PMO	155	Down -14 places-14	£57,500	-11.53%	13 0.26%	11
WCAG	163	Down -20 places-20	£70,000	+55.55%	5 0.100%	3
Cyber Essentials PLUS	163	Down -21 places-21	£56,000	+1.81%	5 0.100%	1
ISO 22301	164	Down -21 places-21	£42,750	-18.57%	4 0.080%	1
ISO/IEC 27005	164	New entry-	-	-	4 0.080%
Actionable Recommendations	165	New entry-	£56,000	-	3 0.060%	3
ISO 14001	165	Down -22 places-22	£40,000	-	3 0.060%	1
Software Quality Assurance	165	New entry-	£85,000	-	3 0.060%
SOC 2	165	Down -26 places-26	£72,500	-6.45%	3 0.060%	2
FINRA	166	New entry-	-	-	2 0.040%
ISO/IEC 20000	166	New entry-	£42,750	-	2 0.040%
GxP	167	Down -25 places-25	£70,000	+16.66%	1 0.020%	1
HL7	167	Down -26 places-26	£60,000	-	1 0.020%	1
Sarbanes-Oxley	167	Down -43 places-43	£52,000	-	1 0.020%	5
ITGC	167	Down -35 places-35	-	-	1 0.020%
SOX 404	167	New entry-	£52,000	-	1 0.020%
IEC 61508	167	New entry-	£60,000	-	1 0.020%	1
Solvency II	167	New entry-	£105,000	-	1 0.020%