Quality Assurance & Compliance Statistics in Manchester

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
QA	57	Up 26 places+26	£45,000	-18.18%	145 2.24%	61
Data Quality	91	Up 15 places+15	£55,000	+10.00%	97 1.50%	44
GDPR	125	Up 2 places+2	£57,925	-7.32%	57 0.88%	31
ISO/IEC 27001	125	No change0	£60,000	+2.12%	57 0.88%	25
Accessibility	137	Down -24 places-24	£58,750	+2.17%	45 0.70%	26
SLA	145	Down -30 places-30	£47,000	+42.42%	37 0.57%	17
NIST	149	Down -15 places-15	£60,000	-13.52%	33 0.51%	17
Cyber Essentials	153	Down -5 places-5	£45,000	-18.24%	29 0.45%	10
PCI DSS	154	Up 5 places+5	£72,500	+31.71%	28 0.43%	10
GRC	159	Up 2 places+2	£72,500	-	23 0.36%	4
WCAG	164	Up 2 places+2	£60,000	-7.69%	18 0.28%	5
ISO 9001	168	Down -8 places-8	£41,375	-32.44%	14 0.22%	2
PMO	169	Down -3 places-3	£54,000	+12.50%	13 0.20%	9
SOC 2	174	Down -8 places-8	£72,500	-	8 0.12%	2
Cyber Essentials PLUS	175	Down -8 places-8	£55,850	+1.54%	7 0.11%	4
California Consumer Privacy Act	175	Down -9 places-9	-	-	7 0.11%
COSHH	177	New entry-	-	-	5 0.077%
IFRS	178	Down -30 places-30	£55,000	-	4 0.062%
Sarbanes-Oxley	178	Down -28 places-28	£105,000	-	4 0.062%
ISO 22301	178	New entry-	£48,875	-	4 0.062%
Software Quality Assurance	178	New entry-	£85,000	-	4 0.062%
Actionable Recommendations	179	New entry-	£56,000	-	3 0.046%	4
ISO/IEC 20000	180	New entry-	£42,750	-	2 0.031%
GAAP	180	Down -32 places-32	£55,000	-	2 0.031%
ISO 14001	180	Down -13 places-13	£40,000	-33.33%	2 0.031%	1
NCSC	180	Down -65 places-65	£58,750	-15.32%	2 0.031%	3
IFRS 9	181	New entry-	-	-	1 0.016%
Disclosure Scotland	181	New entry-	-	-	1 0.016%
IEC 61131	181	New entry-	-	-	1 0.016%
ITGC	181	Down -26 places-26	-	-	1 0.016%
IEC 61508	181	New entry-	£60,000	-	1 0.016%
Solvency II	181	New entry-	£105,000	-	1 0.016%