Compliance Management Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Compliance Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Compliance Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 316 389
Rank change year-on-year -64 +73 +82
Contract jobs citing Compliance Management 11 30 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.061% 0.22% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.072% 0.25% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 3
10th Percentile £469 £331 -
25th Percentile £481 £392 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £555
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -9.91% +30.59%
75th Percentile £575 £701 £754
90th Percentile £695 £785 £872
UK median daily rate £496 £518 £850
% change year-on-year -4.15% -39.12% +58.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 6
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +421.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Compliance Management 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,291 12,110 17,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.17% 87.95% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,354 7,075 10,854
10th Percentile £222 £239 £250
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,670 680 1,286
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.26 £20.00 £17.02
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.11 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -20.86% -31.42% +59.64%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.16 £73.75 £76.77
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.25 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.00% -20.38% +16.41%

Compliance Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Compliance Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Compliance Management job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Compliance Management
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Compliance Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Compliance Management

Compliance Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Compliance Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Compliance Management in the UK excluding London

Compliance Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Compliance Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Compliance Management

Compliance Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Compliance Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
South East -16 4 £750 +110.67% 5
North of England -53 4 £488 -2.50% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £488 - 2
East of England -24 1 £550 -31.25% 2
West Midlands -41 1 - - 1
Midlands -51 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - -
Compliance Management
UK

Compliance Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
2 4 (36.36%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) Apple Pay
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (18.18%) Google Pay
3 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) Network Security
3 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Security Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Migration Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Product Owner
3 1 (9.09%) Category Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Service Design Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Service Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Service Transition Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Security Posture
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security Posture
2 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (36.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (36.36%) Onboarding
2 4 (36.36%) Public Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
4 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Wallet
4 1 (9.09%) Life Science
4 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
4 1 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (9.09%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Roadmaps
2 6 (54.55%) Regulatory Compliance
2 6 (54.55%) SDLC
3 5 (45.45%) Information Security
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
4 4 (36.36%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (36.36%) Data Security
4 4 (36.36%) DevSecOps
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) Project Management
4 4 (36.36%) Security Architecture
4 4 (36.36%) Security Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 4 (36.36%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (36.36%) TOGAF
4 4 (36.36%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (36.36%) AWS Certification
1 4 (36.36%) Azure Certification
1 4 (36.36%) CCSP
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (36.36%) CISSP
2 2 (18.18%) OCP
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (18.18%) PgMP
2 2 (18.18%) PMI Certification
2 2 (18.18%) PMP
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (36.36%) GDPR
2 4 (36.36%) NIST
2 4 (36.36%) PCI DSS
2 4 (36.36%) PSD2
3 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
3 2 (18.18%) GRC
4 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Samsung
2 1 (9.09%) Rockwell