Compliance Manager Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Compliance Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Compliance Manager daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 327 456
Rank change year-on-year +30 +129 +154
Contract jobs requiring a Compliance Manager 7 18 21
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.12% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.13% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 9
10th Percentile £475 £540 -
25th Percentile £513 £563 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -15.98%
75th Percentile £588 £775 £500
90th Percentile £595 - £530
UK median daily rate £525 £588 £488
% change year-on-year -10.64% +20.51% -11.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Compliance Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Compliance Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Compliance Manager trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Compliance Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Compliance Manager.

Compliance Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Compliance Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Compliance Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Compliance Manager in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Data Protection
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) NIST
3 3 (42.86%) Snyk
3 3 (42.86%) SonarCloud
3 3 (42.86%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (42.86%) OWASP
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Budget Management
4 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 2 (28.57%) Legal
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
5 1 (14.29%) Internal Audit
5 1 (14.29%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
5 1 (14.29%) Programme Governance
5 1 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) APMP
5 1 (14.29%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
5 1 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (14.29%) GDPR
5 1 (14.29%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (14.29%) Lead Generation

Compliance Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) SonarCloud
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Snyk
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Back Office
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Billing
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) PMI
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Protection
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) OWASP
3 3 (42.86%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Budget Management
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (14.29%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
5 1 (14.29%) Internal Audit
5 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
5 1 (14.29%) Programme Governance
5 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (14.29%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) APMP
1 1 (14.29%) CISA
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) COBIT
2 1 (14.29%) COSO
2 1 (14.29%) EU AI Act
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 9001
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) PMO
2 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (14.29%) SOC 2