Quality Assurance & Compliance Statistics in the UK excluding London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 16 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
QA	46	Up 40 places+40	£47,500	-9.52%	2,358 3.04%	859
Data Quality	135	Up 56 places+56	£55,000	+13.40%	1,027 1.32%	714
Accessibility	146	Up 46 places+46	£50,000	-9.09%	935 1.20%	495
GDPR	159	Up 14 places+14	£50,051	-1.37%	882 1.14%	537
ISO/IEC 27001	167	Up 27 places+27	£57,500	+4.46%	842 1.08%	428
SLA	222	Down -66 places-66	£35,500	+14.51%	644 0.83%	245
Cyber Essentials	263	Up 100 places+100	£47,151	+10.94%	505 0.65%	152
NIST	297	Down -29 places-29	£72,500	+11.53%	434 0.56%	262
GRC	336	Up 131 places+131	£60,000	-9.68%	365 0.47%	192
ISO 9001	368	Up 94 places+94	£40,000	-21.23%	310 0.40%	144
PMO	396	Down -15 places-15	£52,500	-8.69%	274 0.35%	200
PCI DSS	417	Up 33 places+33	£63,857	+27.71%	251 0.32%	68
Cyber Essentials PLUS	471	Up 22 places+22	£45,000	+8.43%	185 0.24%	66
WCAG	509	Up 28 places+28	£59,750	+79.69%	147 0.19%	40
NCSC	544	Down -275 places-275	£70,000	+3.70%	112 0.14%	98
GMP	553	Down -11 places-11	£40,000	-	103 0.13%	48
Actionable Recommendations	559	Down -53 places-53	£63,000	-3.07%	97 0.12%	92
ISO/IEC 20000	591	Down -44 places-44	£47,500	-8.89%	65 0.084%	10
ISO 22301	593	Down -49 places-49	£60,000	-8.36%	63 0.081%	17
SOC 2	594	Down -79 places-79	£65,000	-5.45%	62 0.080%	42
Sarbanes-Oxley	601	Down -139 places-139	£63,750	+50.00%	55 0.071%	42
ISO 14001	601	Down -71 places-71	£39,000	-25.71%	55 0.071%	31
IFRS	607	Down -141 places-141	£60,000	+614.28%	49 0.063%	22
ISO/IEC 15288	609	Down -147 places-147	£60,000	-15.01%	47 0.061%	10
JSP 440	611	Down -85 places-85	£70,000	+3.70%	45 0.058%	18
Def Stans	614	Down -133 places-133	£70,000	+3.70%	42 0.054%	39
GxP	614	Down -103 places-103	£92,500	+198.38%	42 0.054%	37
California Consumer Privacy Act	620	Down -110 places-110	£62,500	+19.04%	36 0.046%	16
Good Clinical Practice	620	Down -73 places-73	£52,500	-4.54%	36 0.046%	12
IEC 61508	621	Down -103 places-103	£50,000	-9.09%	35 0.045%	28
NEBOSH	622	Down -92 places-92	£39,000	-29.09%	34 0.044%	41
ISO 19650	626	Down -93 places-93	£45,000	-30.76%	30 0.039%	53
DO-254	630	Down -86 places-86	£60,000	+19.78%	26 0.034%	22
COBIT	632	Down -128 places-128	£80,000	+45.45%	24 0.031%	20
Software Quality Assurance	633	Down -91 places-91	£45,000	+20.00%	23 0.030%	9
NIST 800	633	Down -101 places-101	£82,500	+22.22%	23 0.030%	26
ISO 26262	635	Down -89 places-89	£77,500	+24.00%	21 0.027%	30
GAAP	636	Down -171 places-171	£55,000	-12.00%	20 0.026%	18
TickIT	636	New entry-	£73,500	-	20 0.026%
ISO/IEC 42001	637	Down -87 places-87	£46,250	-15.90%	19 0.025%	29
HIPAA	637	Down -116 places-116	£55,000	-21.42%	19 0.025%	16
ISO/IEC 12207	638	Down -120 places-120	£63,150	-13.49%	18 0.023%	3
MISRA	638	Down -87 places-87	£77,500	+34.78%	18 0.023%	13
ISO/IEC 27005	638	Down -87 places-87	£74,500	-6.87%	18 0.023%	15
COSHH	638	Down -106 places-106	£39,000	-7.14%	18 0.023%	25
ISO 14000	639	New entry-	£62,500	-	17 0.022%
HAZOP	640	Down -94 places-94	£47,500	-36.66%	16 0.021%	19
Automotive SPICE	641	Down -92 places-92	£77,500	+24.00%	15 0.019%	18
HMG Security Policy Framework	643	Down -105 places-105	£53,171	-21.22%	13 0.017%	11
MISRA C	643	Down -90 places-90	£72,500	+20.83%	13 0.017%	11