Regulatory Compliance Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Regulatory Compliance
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Regulatory Compliance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 99 115
Rank change year-on-year -16 +16 +54
Contract jobs citing Regulatory Compliance 21 25 29
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.00% 1.25% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.40% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 11
10th Percentile £366 £302 £450
25th Percentile £431 £500 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +0.80% -23.37%
75th Percentile £556 £638 £546
90th Percentile £775 £649 £650
South East median daily rate £544 £527 £500
% change year-on-year +3.18% +5.40% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £59.79
25th Percentile - - £61.04
Median hourly rate - - £63.29
75th Percentile - - £64.76
90th Percentile - - £68.18
South East median hourly rate - - £63.29
% change year-on-year - - +334.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Regulatory Compliance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,830 1,780 2,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.48% 89.04% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 1,046 1,460
10th Percentile £266 £276 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £686 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 51 103
10th Percentile £15.23 £19.30 £18.95
25th Percentile £18.00 £30.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +14.11% +136.81%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.00 £63.90
90th Percentile £89.63 £67.00 £72.33
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.78 £53.50
% change year-on-year -52.91% -10.69% +42.67%

Regulatory Compliance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Regulatory Compliance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Regulatory Compliance job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Regulatory Compliance
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Regulatory Compliance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Regulatory Compliance

Regulatory Compliance
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regulatory Compliance in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Regulatory Compliance in the Thames Valley

Regulatory Compliance
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Regulatory Compliance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Regulatory Compliance

Regulatory Compliance
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Regulatory Compliance within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -17 17 £516 -6.14% 4
Buckinghamshire +4 3 £400 -20.00% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 3
Regulatory Compliance
South East

Regulatory Compliance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (4.76%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) AWS
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) Collibra
2 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Alation
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.76%) Serverless
3 1 (4.76%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) Firewall
2 7 (33.33%) Wireless
3 3 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Metadata
2 2 (9.52%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.76%) EDMS
3 1 (4.76%) Power BI
3 1 (4.76%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Burp Suite
1 7 (33.33%) Metasploit
2 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 15 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (42.86%) Finance
3 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Agriculture
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Penetration Tester
1 7 (33.33%) Tester
2 5 (23.81%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Security Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Governance Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Coordinator
4 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Programme Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Programme Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Security Penetration Tester
4 1 (4.76%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Google JAX
1 1 (4.76%) JAX
1 1 (4.76%) JSON
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (4.76%) PySpark
1 1 (4.76%) PyTorch
1 1 (4.76%) scikit-learn
1 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
1 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Security Posture
2 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Cloud Security
1 8 (38.10%) Information Security
2 7 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 7 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 6 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (28.57%) Data Privacy
4 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 5 (23.81%) Data Governance
4 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (19.05%) Business Development
5 4 (19.05%) Commercial Awareness
5 4 (19.05%) Customer Service
5 4 (19.05%) Data Management
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (19.05%) Line Management
5 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
5 4 (19.05%) Security Architecture
5 4 (19.05%) SIEM
5 4 (19.05%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (19.05%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) C++
2 1 (4.76%) Java
2 1 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
3 7 (33.33%) CHECK Team Member
4 6 (28.57%) Degree
5 5 (23.81%) CREST Certified
5 5 (23.81%) Cyber Scheme
5 5 (23.81%) Postgraduate
6 3 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
6 3 (14.29%) CCSP
6 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (14.29%) CISSP
7 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (71.43%) GDPR
2 12 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (47.62%) PCI DSS
4 5 (23.81%) Data Quality
4 5 (23.81%) NIST
4 5 (23.81%) QA
5 4 (19.05%) PMO
6 3 (14.29%) PSD2
7 2 (9.52%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Nmap
2 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Informatica
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle