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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 502 592
Rank change year-on-year -33 +90 +214
Contract jobs citing Compliance Management 28 49 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.082% 0.13% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% 0.16% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 20
10th Percentile £355 £340 £436
25th Percentile £413 £450 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £535 £551
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% -2.85% -11.89%
75th Percentile £587 £700 £778
90th Percentile £600 £765 £903
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £535
% change year-on-year +3.58% -11.17% -8.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
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 and 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 30,862 31,468 41,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.18% 86.10% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,265 18,925 28,165
10th Percentile £298 £310 £312
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -2.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,997 1,117 1,592
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.50 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% -19.23% +25.57%
75th Percentile £43.20 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.58 £35.00 £43.83
% change year-on-year -35.50% -20.14% +51.54%

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 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 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
England -29 24 £490 -14.83% 37
UK excluding London -43 13 £492 +3.58% 25
London +6 12 £450 -30.77% 19
Work from Home +9 11 £330 -47.51% 15
South East +7 4 £750 +110.67% 16
North of England -40 4 £488 -2.50% 6
Yorkshire - 4 £488 - 5
Midlands -27 3 - -
West Midlands -31 3 - -
Scotland -2 1 - -
East of England -11 1 £550 - 3

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:

Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) SAP GTS
2 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) Entra ID
3 4 (14.29%) GCP
4 3 (10.71%) Miro
5 2 (7.14%) Apple Pay
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (7.14%) Google Pay
5 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.14%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.57%) Azure App Service
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub
6 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Firewall
1 5 (17.86%) Network Security
2 1 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (7.14%) Power BI
1 2 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 13 (46.43%) Finance
2 11 (39.29%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
5 4 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (7.14%) Legal
8 1 (3.57%) Banking
8 1 (3.57%) Law
8 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Analyst
2 6 (21.43%) Business Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Security Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Business Performance Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Migration Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Performance Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Product Owner
5 2 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Compliance Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Developer
6 1 (3.57%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Procurement Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Service Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) .NET
1 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
1 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.57%) Middleware
1 1 (3.57%) Node.js
1 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
1 1 (3.57%) React
1 1 (3.57%) Regular Expression
1 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Security Posture
2 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
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%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
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 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Solaris
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Agile
1 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 7 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (21.43%) Risk Management
4 6 (21.43%) SDLC
4 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (21.43%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
5 5 (17.86%) Information Security
5 5 (17.86%) Project Management
5 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (14.29%) Architectural Design
6 4 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 4 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 4 (14.29%) Secrets Management
6 4 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
6 4 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) SQL
2 2 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) Bash
3 1 (3.57%) Bicep
3 1 (3.57%) C#
3 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (17.86%) GDPR
2 5 (17.86%) PSD2
3 4 (14.29%) NIST
3 4 (14.29%) PCI DSS
4 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
4 2 (7.14%) GRC
5 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (3.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) SAP
3 2 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) Samsung
3 2 (7.14%) VMware
4 1 (3.57%) Ariba
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.57%) Qualys
4 1 (3.57%) Rockwell
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Symantec
4 1 (3.57%) Tanium
4 1 (3.57%) Tenable