Regulatory Compliance Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Regulatory Compliance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Regulatory Compliance 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 180 270 347
Rank change year-on-year +90 +77 +75
Contract jobs citing Regulatory Compliance 246 76 56
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.37% 0.55% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 0.63% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 52 24
10th Percentile £402 £315 £418
25th Percentile £458 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £668 £624 £575
90th Percentile £700 £670 £698
UK median daily rate £550 £671 £538
% change year-on-year -17.97% +24.74% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 13
10th Percentile £17.13 - £30.30
25th Percentile £17.88 - £50.53
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.00 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -33.62% -53.07% +323.80%
75th Percentile £27.50 - £63.29
90th Percentile £45.08 - £64.86
UK median hourly rate £23.38 £29.00 £61.79
% change year-on-year -19.40% -53.07% +323.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 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%

Regulatory Compliance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Regulatory Compliance job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Regulatory Compliance
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Regulatory Compliance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Regulatory Compliance in the UK excluding London

Regulatory Compliance
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Regulatory Compliance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Regulatory Compliance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Regulatory Compliance in the UK excluding London

Regulatory Compliance
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 Regulatory Compliance 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
Midlands +11 74 £500 -16.67% 27
North of England +11 73 £500 +6.67% 46
South East +6 51 £563 +2.27% 109
North West +9 48 £534 +49.16% 26
West Midlands -2 48 £519 -13.50% 8
East Midlands +4 26 £460 -23.33% 19
Scotland +24 24 £525 -14.29% 24
South West +5 23 £700 +40.00% 38
Yorkshire -20 21 £485 -13.82% 14
East of England -10 16 £646 -0.69% 46
Wales +5 6 £413 - 21
North East -4 5 £525 -8.70% 6
Regulatory Compliance
UK

Regulatory Compliance
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:

Application Platforms
1 27 (10.98%) Confluence
2 12 (4.88%) SAS
3 4 (1.63%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 39 (15.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (12.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (6.10%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.66%) SAP EHS
1 9 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.41%) Primavera
3 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 71 (28.86%) Azure
2 69 (28.05%) AWS
3 39 (15.85%) GCP
4 15 (6.10%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.28%) GitHub
6 12 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (3.66%) Entra ID
9 8 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (3.25%) Google Sheets
9 8 (3.25%) Google Workspace
9 8 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.85%) Serverless
11 6 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.44%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (2.03%) SaaS
13 4 (1.63%) AWS Control Tower
13 4 (1.63%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 33 (13.41%) Firewall
2 14 (5.69%) Wireless
3 11 (4.47%) Network Security
4 5 (2.03%) VLAN
5 4 (1.63%) Internet
6 3 (1.22%) BGP
6 3 (1.22%) DNS
6 3 (1.22%) HTTP
6 3 (1.22%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.22%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.22%) VPN
7 2 (0.81%) Intranet
8 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.91%) Tableau
2 15 (6.10%) Power BI
3 8 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.85%) Metadata
5 6 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (2.44%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.22%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.81%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.81%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (0.81%) Redis
8 1 (0.41%) Ataccama
8 1 (0.41%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.41%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 35 (14.23%) JIRA
2 12 (4.88%) Burp Suite
2 12 (4.88%) Metasploit
3 11 (4.47%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.03%) GitLab
5 4 (1.63%) Git
5 4 (1.63%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.22%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.81%) Selenium
8 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.41%) JMeter
8 1 (0.41%) Postman
General
1 110 (44.72%) Finance
2 93 (37.80%) Social Skills
3 56 (22.76%) Banking
4 49 (19.92%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.91%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.69%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.47%) Legal
8 7 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.44%) Retail Banking
10 5 (2.03%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (1.63%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.22%) Automotive
12 3 (1.22%) Law
12 3 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.22%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.81%) Billing
13 2 (0.81%) Military
13 2 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (21.54%) Architect
2 27 (10.98%) Analyst
3 21 (8.54%) Consultant
4 20 (8.13%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (7.32%) Senior
6 13 (5.28%) Lead
6 13 (5.28%) Penetration Tester
6 13 (5.28%) Project Manager
6 13 (5.28%) Tester
7 11 (4.47%) Business Analyst
7 11 (4.47%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 10 (4.07%) Payments Architect
8 10 (4.07%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.25%) Management Consultant
9 8 (3.25%) Security Architect
10 7 (2.85%) Engagement Manager
10 7 (2.85%) Software Engineer
11 6 (2.44%) SAP Consultant
11 6 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (2.44%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.47%) YAML
2 9 (3.66%) SAP Fiori
3 6 (2.44%) Node.js
4 5 (2.03%) Kafka
4 5 (2.03%) OAuth
5 3 (1.22%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.81%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.81%) CrewAI
6 2 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.81%) Flash
6 2 (0.81%) LangGraph
6 2 (0.81%) LDAP
6 2 (0.81%) OpenID
6 2 (0.81%) pgvector
6 2 (0.81%) SAML
6 2 (0.81%) Smart Contracts
7 1 (0.41%) FHIR
7 1 (0.41%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.41%) JWT
7 1 (0.41%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.20%) Product Ownership
2 20 (8.13%) Security Posture
3 16 (6.50%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.28%) Credit Risk
5 12 (4.88%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.85%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.85%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.44%) IVR
8 6 (2.44%) NHS
8 6 (2.44%) Operational Technology
8 6 (2.44%) PMI
9 5 (2.03%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.63%) PKI
10 4 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.22%) BYOD
11 3 (1.22%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.60%) Windows
2 20 (8.13%) Linux
3 10 (4.07%) Unix
4 4 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (27.24%) Stakeholder Management
2 49 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (19.51%) DevOps
3 48 (19.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 46 (18.70%) Agile
5 45 (18.29%) Cybersecurity
6 44 (17.89%) Risk Management
7 40 (16.26%) CI/CD
8 38 (15.45%) Analytics
9 37 (15.04%) Migration
10 34 (13.82%) Cloud Security
10 34 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (11.79%) Data Protection
13 27 (10.98%) Change Management
13 27 (10.98%) Information Security
14 26 (10.57%) AI
14 26 (10.57%) DevSecOps
15 25 (10.16%) Data Governance
15 25 (10.16%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 31 (12.60%) Python
2 20 (8.13%) SQL
3 13 (5.28%) PowerShell
4 12 (4.88%) R
5 10 (4.07%) Java
6 6 (2.44%) Bash
7 3 (1.22%) Go
7 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.81%) Rust
8 2 (0.81%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 62 (25.20%) Security Cleared
2 53 (21.54%) SC Cleared
3 41 (16.67%) Degree
4 21 (8.54%) CISSP
5 15 (6.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (5.28%) CISM
7 12 (4.88%) CHECK Team Member
8 10 (4.07%) CREST Certified
8 10 (4.07%) Cyber Scheme
8 10 (4.07%) DV Cleared
8 10 (4.07%) Postgraduate
9 9 (3.66%) AWS Certification
9 9 (3.66%) PMI Certification
10 8 (3.25%) Azure Certification
10 8 (3.25%) Master's Degree
10 8 (3.25%) PMP
11 7 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (2.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (2.03%) CCSP
12 5 (2.03%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (26.83%) GDPR
2 46 (18.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (12.60%) PCI DSS
4 28 (11.38%) QA
5 25 (10.16%) NIST
6 19 (7.72%) Data Quality
7 16 (6.50%) PMO
8 13 (5.28%) NCSC
9 7 (2.85%) Basel III
10 5 (2.03%) HIPAA
10 5 (2.03%) PSD2
11 4 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (1.63%) SOC 2
12 3 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (1.22%) EU AI Act
12 3 (1.22%) GRC
12 3 (1.22%) SLA
13 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (9.35%) Docker
2 4 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (13.41%) Kubernetes
2 29 (11.79%) Terraform
3 12 (4.88%) Nmap
4 7 (2.85%) Ansible
5 4 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.22%) Grafana
6 3 (1.22%) QRadar
7 2 (0.81%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.81%) Kibana
7 2 (0.81%) logstash
7 2 (0.81%) PingFederate
7 2 (0.81%) Puppet
8 1 (0.41%) Control-M
Vendors
1 35 (14.23%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.94%) Google
3 19 (7.72%) ServiceNow
4 17 (6.91%) SAP
5 10 (4.07%) Pega
6 8 (3.25%) Cisco
6 8 (3.25%) CyberArk
7 7 (2.85%) BeyondTrust
8 6 (2.44%) Oracle
8 6 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.44%) Splunk
9 5 (2.03%) Avaya
9 5 (2.03%) Genesys
10 4 (1.63%) Databricks
11 3 (1.22%) Informatica
11 3 (1.22%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.22%) Temenos
11 3 (1.22%) VMware
12 2 (0.81%) HP
12 2 (0.81%) IBM