Quality Assurance & Compliance Statistics in Northern Ireland

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 19 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
QA	19	Up 6 places+6	£30,000	-76.92%	152 10.29%	71
GRC	60	New entry-	-	-	59 3.99%	9
NIST	69	Down -32 places-32	-	-	49 3.32%	12
ISO 22301	71	New entry-	-	-	47 3.18%
ISO/IEC 27001	100	Down -71 places-71	£43,750	-34.39%	12 0.81%	17
Data Quality	103	Down -66 places-66	£45,000	+50.00%	9 0.61%	40
GDPR	104	Down -70 places-70	£47,500	-	8 0.54%	19
PMO	105	Down -67 places-67	£46,250	-	7 0.47%	10
GMP	106	Down -67 places-67	-	-	6 0.41%	2
ISO/IEC 20000	107	New entry-	-	-	5 0.34%	3
Accessibility	108	Down -70 places-70	-	-	4 0.27%	88
Cyber Essentials	109	Down -70 places-70	£47,500	-	3 0.20%	5
SLA	109	Down -73 places-73	£34,500	-8.00%	3 0.20%	7
NIST 800	110	Down -71 places-71	-	-	2 0.14%
ISO 9001	110	Down -77 places-77	-	-	2 0.14%	6
NCSC	110	Down -74 places-74	-	-	2 0.14%	8
Def Stans	110	New entry-	-	-	2 0.14%
ISO/IEC 42001	111	New entry-	-	-	1 0.068%	5
Cyber Essentials PLUS	111	New entry-	£47,500	-	1 0.068%	2
MIL-STD-1553	111	New entry-	-	-	1 0.068%
PCI DSS	111	New entry-	-	-	1 0.068%	3
HIPAA	111	Down -72 places-72	-	-	1 0.068%	2
Sarbanes-Oxley	111	Down -73 places-73	-	-	1 0.068%	2
ISO 8583	111	New entry-	-	-	1 0.068%