Compliance Management Contract Job Trends

Compliance Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Compliance Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 477 563
Rank change year-on-year -76 +86 +180
Contract jobs citing Compliance Management 28 43 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.077% 0.14% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.15% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 15
10th Percentile £349 £356 £602
25th Percentile £425 £500 £760
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £518 £850
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -39.12% +58.51%
75th Percentile £500 £738 £925
90th Percentile £553 £800 £945
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £555
% change year-on-year -1.60% -9.91% +30.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +421.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,128 27,808 37,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.80% 88.68% 87.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,262 16,883 24,972
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £743 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,977 884 1,589
10th Percentile £14.52 £15.62 £14.17
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.16
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.69 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.64% -21.75% +15.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £61.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.39 £74.66 £76.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -20.58% -31.43% +51.38%

Compliance Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Compliance Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Compliance Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Compliance Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Compliance Management over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Compliance Management in the UK

Compliance Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Compliance Management
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 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
England -89 23 £500 - 13
London -29 13 £500 -25.93% 6
Work from Home -6 11 £330 -45.68% 6
UK excluding London -67 11 £492 -1.60% 10
South East -18 4 £750 +110.67% 5
North of England -61 4 £488 -2.50% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £488 - 2
East of England -22 1 £550 -31.25% 2
West Midlands -42 1 - - 1
Midlands -51 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - -

Compliance Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) SAP GTS
2 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
1 10 (35.71%) Entra ID
2 8 (28.57%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) Azure AKS
3 5 (17.86%) Azure App Service
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Event Grid
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Functions
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Key Vault
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Machine Learning
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (17.86%) GitHub
3 5 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (17.86%) Serverless
4 4 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (32.14%) Network Security
2 7 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (7.14%) BGP
3 2 (7.14%) NGFW
3 2 (7.14%) OSPF
3 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (7.14%) Wireless
4 1 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Tableau
2 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
2 8 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Architect
1 5 (17.86%) Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Consultant
3 3 (10.71%) Lead
3 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Lead Network Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Migration Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Network Operations Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Product Owner
4 2 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Strategy Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) .NET
1 5 (17.86%) .NET Core
1 5 (17.86%) AngularJS
1 5 (17.86%) Node.js
1 5 (17.86%) PyTorch
1 5 (17.86%) React
1 5 (17.86%) TensorFlow
2 2 (7.14%) 802.1X
2 2 (7.14%) Middleware
3 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.57%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) AI Agents
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
1 5 (17.86%) Security Posture
2 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
2 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 4 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Digital Wallet
4 1 (3.57%) Life Science
4 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Android
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Solaris
1 1 (3.57%) Unix
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (35.71%) Agile
3 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
3 9 (32.14%) Regulatory Compliance
4 8 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 8 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (25.00%) Microservices
5 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (21.43%) AI
6 6 (21.43%) Analytics
6 6 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (21.43%) Information Security
6 6 (21.43%) Risk Management
6 6 (21.43%) SDLC
6 6 (21.43%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (17.86%) Data Science
7 5 (17.86%) Deep Learning
7 5 (17.86%) DevOps
7 5 (17.86%) Machine Learning
7 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) Bicep
2 5 (17.86%) C#
2 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
2 5 (17.86%) SQL
3 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 4 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 4 (14.29%) CCSP
1 4 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (14.29%) CISSP
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) OCP
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (7.14%) PgMP
2 2 (7.14%) PMI Certification
2 2 (7.14%) PMP
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (17.86%) NIST
3 4 (14.29%) GDPR
3 4 (14.29%) PCI DSS
3 4 (14.29%) PSD2
4 3 (10.71%) GRC
5 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
6 1 (3.57%) COBIT
6 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Docker
2 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.86%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Databricks
2 5 (17.86%) OpenAI
3 3 (10.71%) SAP
4 2 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 2 (7.14%) Google
4 2 (7.14%) Palo Alto
4 2 (7.14%) Samsung
5 1 (3.57%) Apple
5 1 (3.57%) Ariba
5 1 (3.57%) Qualys
5 1 (3.57%) Rockwell
5 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.57%) Symantec
5 1 (3.57%) Tanium
5 1 (3.57%) Tenable
5 1 (3.57%) VMware