Regulatory Compliance Job Trends in England

Regulatory Compliance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Regulatory Compliance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 378 545
Rank change year-on-year +44 +167 +75
Permanent jobs citing Regulatory Compliance 297 319 122
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 0.64% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.71% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 172 197 86
10th Percentile £33,355 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £61,250 £55,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £90,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -18.06% +22.03% +1.72%
75th Percentile £92,500 £122,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £113,125
UK median annual salary £73,750 £90,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -18.06% +24.14% +3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Regulatory Compliance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,885 44,702 41,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.30% 90.14% 91.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,602 22,418 32,186
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Regulatory Compliance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Regulatory Compliance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Regulatory Compliance job vacancy trend in England

Regulatory Compliance
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Regulatory Compliance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Regulatory Compliance

Regulatory Compliance
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regulatory Compliance in England over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Regulatory Compliance in England

Regulatory Compliance
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Regulatory Compliance within the England region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +56 171 £90,000 -21.74% 132
South East +47 61 £38,500 -51.88% 204
Midlands +16 29 £45,000 +12.50% 136
West Midlands +30 26 £45,000 -17.05% 69
North of England +6 24 £62,500 +24.00% 149
North West +18 15 £62,500 +27.55% 72
Yorkshire -1 8 £80,000 -5.68% 68
East of England +15 5 £190,000 +280.00% 105
South West +6 5 £70,000 -11.11% 85
East Midlands -28 3 £53,885 +114.66% 56
North East +3 1 £31,500 - 9
Regulatory Compliance
UK

Regulatory Compliance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.67%) Confluence
3 2 (0.67%) SAS
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 37 (12.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (5.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (4.38%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.34%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.35%) Endur
3 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.67%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.34%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.34%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.34%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.34%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 74 (24.92%) Azure
2 34 (11.45%) AWS
3 26 (8.75%) Entra ID
3 26 (8.75%) SaaS
4 25 (8.42%) Power Platform
5 24 (8.08%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (7.07%) GCP
7 12 (4.04%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.69%) dbt
8 8 (2.69%) Snowflake
9 7 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.02%) GitHub
10 6 (2.02%) Google Workspace
11 5 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.02%) Broadband
2 4 (1.35%) Firewall
2 4 (1.35%) Wireless
3 3 (1.01%) Network Security
3 3 (1.01%) WAN
4 2 (0.67%) ATM
4 2 (0.67%) DHCP
4 2 (0.67%) DNS
4 2 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.67%) RS-232
4 2 (0.67%) RS-485
4 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.67%) VPN
5 1 (0.34%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.34%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.34%) Internet
5 1 (0.34%) Intranet
5 1 (0.34%) LAN
5 1 (0.34%) NGFW
5 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.41%) Power BI
2 16 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (5.39%) GIS
3 14 (4.71%) Data Lake
3 14 (4.71%) Metadata
4 7 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.02%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.02%) Tableau
6 5 (1.68%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.68%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.35%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.01%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.01%) Redis
8 3 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.67%) Big Data
9 2 (0.67%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.67%) MySQL
10 1 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.34%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 11 (3.70%) ERwin
2 6 (2.02%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.68%) GitLab
4 4 (1.35%) Git
4 4 (1.35%) JIRA
5 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.34%) MagicDraw
5 1 (0.34%) MLflow
General
1 146 (49.16%) Finance
2 141 (47.47%) Social Skills
3 64 (21.55%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (18.52%) Legal
5 24 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (6.73%) Banking
7 19 (6.40%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (6.40%) Organisational Skills
8 18 (6.06%) Law
9 16 (5.39%) Financial Institution
9 16 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (4.71%) Fire and Rescue
11 13 (4.38%) Manufacturing
12 9 (3.03%) Automotive
13 8 (2.69%) Electronics
14 5 (1.68%) Marketing
14 5 (1.68%) Public Sector
14 5 (1.68%) Retail
14 5 (1.68%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.35%) Billing
Job Titles
1 51 (17.17%) Senior
2 40 (13.47%) Lead
3 38 (12.79%) Architect
4 33 (11.11%) Analyst
5 21 (7.07%) Data Architect
6 19 (6.40%) IT Manager
7 15 (5.05%) IT Analyst
7 15 (5.05%) Senior Manager
7 15 (5.05%) Technical Analyst
8 14 (4.71%) Network Engineer
9 13 (4.38%) IT Support
9 13 (4.38%) IT Support Analyst
9 13 (4.38%) Lead Architect
9 13 (4.38%) Support Analyst
9 13 (4.38%) Technical Support
9 13 (4.38%) Technical Support Analyst
10 12 (4.04%) Lead Data Architect
10 12 (4.04%) Risk Manager
11 11 (3.70%) Infrastructure Manager
12 9 (3.03%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.36%) Middleware
1 7 (2.36%) OAuth
2 6 (2.02%) GraphQL
2 6 (2.02%) LDAP
2 6 (2.02%) OpenID
2 6 (2.02%) REST
2 6 (2.02%) SAML
2 6 (2.02%) SOAP
3 3 (1.01%) .NET
3 3 (1.01%) PySpark
4 2 (0.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.67%) Django
4 2 (0.67%) FHIR
4 2 (0.67%) Laravel
4 2 (0.67%) RESTful
5 1 (0.34%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.34%) LangChain
5 1 (0.34%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.34%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.34%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 62 (20.88%) Management Information System
2 25 (8.42%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.72%) SCADA
3 17 (5.72%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.71%) Security Posture
5 13 (4.38%) Data Structures
6 12 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.70%) Credit Risk
7 11 (3.70%) Data Centre
8 10 (3.37%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (3.37%) Product Ownership
9 9 (3.03%) Cloud Native
10 7 (2.36%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.36%) Cyberattack
11 6 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (2.02%) LIMS
11 6 (2.02%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (2.02%) Web Conferencing
12 5 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.41%) Windows
2 11 (3.70%) Linux
3 6 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.35%) Unix
5 2 (0.67%) Android
5 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (28.62%) Continuous Improvement
2 77 (25.93%) Analytics
3 75 (25.25%) Data Governance
4 63 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (20.54%) AI
6 57 (19.19%) Risk Management
7 55 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 54 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
9 52 (17.51%) Roadmaps
10 48 (16.16%) Data Analysis
11 47 (15.82%) Agile
12 45 (15.15%) Decision-Making
13 38 (12.79%) Data Modelling
14 37 (12.46%) Data Protection
14 37 (12.46%) Information Security
14 37 (12.46%) Machine Learning
14 37 (12.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 35 (11.78%) Data Strategy
16 34 (11.45%) Business Strategy
17 33 (11.11%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 28 (9.43%) Python
2 27 (9.09%) SQL
3 18 (6.06%) PowerShell
4 11 (3.70%) Bash
5 6 (2.02%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.35%) Go
6 4 (1.35%) R
7 3 (1.01%) C#
8 2 (0.67%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.67%) PHP
9 1 (0.34%) Bicep
9 1 (0.34%) C++
9 1 (0.34%) Java
9 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 57 (19.19%) Degree
2 28 (9.43%) CISSP
3 23 (7.74%) CISM
3 23 (7.74%) Master's Degree
4 18 (6.06%) Security Cleared
5 17 (5.72%) CRISC
6 14 (4.71%) DBS Check
6 14 (4.71%) SC Cleared
7 13 (4.38%) CISA
7 13 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.03%) PMI Certification
9 8 (2.69%) PMP
10 5 (1.68%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.68%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.68%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 5 (1.68%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 5 (1.68%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
11 4 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.35%) HNC
11 4 (1.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (23.23%) GDPR
2 52 (17.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (14.14%) Data Quality
4 27 (9.09%) NIST
5 19 (6.40%) QA
6 14 (4.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (4.71%) GRC
7 11 (3.70%) Accessibility
8 9 (3.03%) PCI DSS
8 9 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (2.36%) SOC 2
10 6 (2.02%) GLP
10 6 (2.02%) ISO 9001
10 6 (2.02%) NCSC
11 5 (1.68%) EMIR
11 5 (1.68%) ISO 13485
11 5 (1.68%) SLA
12 4 (1.35%) HIPAA
12 4 (1.35%) PMO
12 4 (1.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 26 (8.75%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.36%) Firmware
3 6 (2.02%) Docker
4 5 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.34%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 16 (5.39%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.38%) Terraform
3 12 (4.04%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (2.69%) Ansible
5 4 (1.35%) Kubeflow
5 4 (1.35%) Rancher
5 4 (1.35%) vRealize
6 2 (0.67%) CSIRT
6 2 (0.67%) SCCM
7 1 (0.34%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.34%) Puppet
7 1 (0.34%) QRadar
Vendors
1 79 (26.60%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.04%) VMware
3 10 (3.37%) SAP
4 8 (2.69%) Databricks
5 6 (2.02%) Google
6 5 (1.68%) Cisco
7 4 (1.35%) Concur
7 4 (1.35%) NEC
7 4 (1.35%) OpenLink
7 4 (1.35%) Sage
7 4 (1.35%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.01%) Allen-Bradley
8 3 (1.01%) Facebook
8 3 (1.01%) Siemens
8 3 (1.01%) YouTube
9 2 (0.67%) Adyen
9 2 (0.67%) EMC
9 2 (0.67%) VocaLink
9 2 (0.67%) Zuora
10 1 (0.34%) Xero