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 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 336 371 536
Rank change year-on-year +35 +165 +128
Permanent jobs citing Regulatory Compliance 294 337 148
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 0.70% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.77% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 169 216 106
10th Percentile £32,634 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £62,500 £55,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +24.14% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £122,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +28.57% -

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 42,676 43,550 44,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.20% 90.77% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 25,628 21,301 34,459
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,750 £42,500
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 £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
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 13 January 2026.

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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +36 169 £90,000 -21.74% 112
South East +38 59 £38,500 -51.88% 111
Midlands +15 27 £45,000 +28.57% 24
North of England +15 26 £62,500 +24.00% 41
West Midlands +29 24 £45,000 -14.29% 6
North West +21 16 £62,500 +27.55% 23
Yorkshire -11 9 £80,000 -5.68% 15
South West +3 8 £55,000 -30.16% 36
East of England +14 3 £190,000 +280.00% 38
East Midlands -24 3 £53,885 +114.66% 18
North East +2 1 £31,500 - 3
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 7 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.68%) Confluence
3 2 (0.68%) SAS
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 35 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (9.18%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (5.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (4.42%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.34%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.36%) Endur
3 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.68%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.68%) 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
Cloud Services
1 76 (25.85%) Azure
2 33 (11.22%) AWS
3 31 (10.54%) Entra ID
4 25 (8.50%) Power Platform
5 24 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (7.82%) SaaS
7 19 (6.46%) GCP
8 12 (4.08%) Google Workspace
9 11 (3.74%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (2.72%) dbt
10 8 (2.72%) Snowflake
11 7 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.04%) GitHub
13 5 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (1.36%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.36%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.08%) Broadband
2 5 (1.70%) Firewall
3 3 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (1.02%) Network Security
3 3 (1.02%) Wireless
4 2 (0.68%) ATM
4 2 (0.68%) DHCP
4 2 (0.68%) DNS
4 2 (0.68%) RS-232
4 2 (0.68%) RS-485
4 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.34%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.34%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.34%) Internet
5 1 (0.34%) Intranet
5 1 (0.34%) NGFW
5 1 (0.34%) VPN
5 1 (0.34%) WAN
5 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.34%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.48%) Power BI
2 16 (5.44%) Metadata
3 15 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (4.76%) Data Lake
4 14 (4.76%) GIS
5 7 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.04%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.04%) Tableau
7 5 (1.70%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.36%) Data Mining
8 4 (1.36%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.36%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.36%) Redis
8 4 (1.36%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.68%) MySQL
11 1 (0.34%) Looker
Development Applications
1 11 (3.74%) ERwin
2 5 (1.70%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.70%) JIRA
3 4 (1.36%) Git
3 4 (1.36%) GitLab
4 1 (0.34%) MLflow
General
1 143 (48.64%) Finance
2 141 (47.96%) Social Skills
3 67 (22.79%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (18.03%) Legal
5 27 (9.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (8.84%) Organisational Skills
7 22 (7.48%) Banking
8 18 (6.12%) Financial Institution
8 18 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (6.12%) Law
9 14 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (4.08%) Fire and Rescue
10 12 (4.08%) Manufacturing
11 9 (3.06%) Automotive
12 8 (2.72%) Electronics
13 6 (2.04%) Public Sector
14 5 (1.70%) Retail
14 5 (1.70%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.36%) Billing
15 4 (1.36%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 51 (17.35%) Senior
2 40 (13.61%) Architect
3 39 (13.27%) Lead
4 32 (10.88%) Analyst
5 23 (7.82%) Data Architect
6 19 (6.46%) IT Manager
7 16 (5.44%) Senior Manager
8 15 (5.10%) Technical Analyst
9 14 (4.76%) IT Analyst
10 13 (4.42%) IT Support
10 13 (4.42%) IT Support Analyst
10 13 (4.42%) Lead Architect
10 13 (4.42%) Support Analyst
10 13 (4.42%) Technical Support
10 13 (4.42%) Technical Support Analyst
11 12 (4.08%) Lead Data Architect
11 12 (4.08%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.74%) Infrastructure Manager
12 11 (3.74%) Project Manager
13 9 (3.06%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.42%) OAuth
2 12 (4.08%) GraphQL
2 12 (4.08%) LDAP
2 12 (4.08%) OpenID
2 12 (4.08%) REST
2 12 (4.08%) SAML
2 12 (4.08%) SOAP
3 6 (2.04%) Middleware
4 3 (1.02%) .NET
4 3 (1.02%) PySpark
5 2 (0.68%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.68%) Django
5 2 (0.68%) Laravel
5 2 (0.68%) RESTful
6 1 (0.34%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.34%) EDI
6 1 (0.34%) Kafka
6 1 (0.34%) React
6 1 (0.34%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.34%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 58 (19.73%) Management Information System
2 25 (8.50%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.78%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (5.44%) Cyber Threat
5 15 (5.10%) Data Structures
6 14 (4.76%) SCADA
7 13 (4.42%) Cyberattack
7 13 (4.42%) Product Ownership
7 13 (4.42%) Security Posture
8 12 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (3.74%) Credit Risk
9 11 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (3.06%) Data Centre
11 7 (2.38%) Algorithms
12 6 (2.04%) Cloud Native
12 6 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (2.04%) Reinsurance
12 6 (2.04%) Web Conferencing
13 5 (1.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.48%) Windows
2 11 (3.74%) Linux
3 7 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.36%) Unix
5 2 (0.68%) Android
5 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (27.21%) Data Governance
2 79 (26.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 74 (25.17%) Analytics
4 61 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (20.41%) AI
6 59 (20.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 58 (19.73%) Cybersecurity
7 58 (19.73%) Roadmaps
8 51 (17.35%) Risk Management
9 48 (16.33%) Data Analysis
10 44 (14.97%) Decision-Making
11 43 (14.63%) Agile
12 42 (14.29%) Data Modelling
13 40 (13.61%) Data Protection
14 35 (11.90%) Data Architecture
14 35 (11.90%) Information Security
14 35 (11.90%) Machine Learning
14 35 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 34 (11.56%) Data Integration
15 34 (11.56%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (10.88%) SQL
2 26 (8.84%) Python
3 23 (7.82%) PowerShell
4 16 (5.44%) Bash
5 12 (4.08%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.36%) Go
7 3 (1.02%) C#
7 3 (1.02%) R
8 2 (0.68%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.68%) 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 53 (18.03%) Degree
2 23 (7.82%) CISSP
3 22 (7.48%) Master's Degree
4 21 (7.14%) CISM
5 18 (6.12%) Security Cleared
6 16 (5.44%) DBS Check
7 14 (4.76%) CISA
7 14 (4.76%) SC Cleared
8 13 (4.42%) CRISC
9 12 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (3.06%) PMI Certification
11 7 (2.38%) PMP
12 5 (1.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 5 (1.70%) Six Sigma Black Belt
12 5 (1.70%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 5 (1.70%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
13 4 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.36%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (22.79%) GDPR
2 54 (18.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (14.63%) Data Quality
4 29 (9.86%) NIST
5 18 (6.12%) QA
6 15 (5.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (4.42%) Accessibility
7 13 (4.42%) GRC
8 12 (4.08%) NCSC
9 9 (3.06%) PCI DSS
9 9 (3.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (2.38%) ISO 9001
11 5 (1.70%) EMIR
11 5 (1.70%) HIPAA
11 5 (1.70%) ISO 13485
11 5 (1.70%) SLA
12 4 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (1.36%) GLP
12 4 (1.36%) PSD2
13 3 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 31 (10.54%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.38%) Firmware
3 6 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.70%) Docker
5 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (3.40%) Terraform
4 6 (2.04%) Ansible
5 4 (1.36%) Kubeflow
5 4 (1.36%) Rancher
5 4 (1.36%) vRealize
6 2 (0.68%) CSIRT
6 2 (0.68%) 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 77 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.42%) VMware
3 10 (3.40%) SAP
4 8 (2.72%) Databricks
5 6 (2.04%) Google
5 6 (2.04%) NEC
6 5 (1.70%) Cisco
7 4 (1.36%) Concur
7 4 (1.36%) OpenLink
7 4 (1.36%) Sage
7 4 (1.36%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.02%) Facebook
8 3 (1.02%) YouTube
9 2 (0.68%) Adyen
9 2 (0.68%) Allen-Bradley
9 2 (0.68%) EMC
9 2 (0.68%) Siemens
9 2 (0.68%) VocaLink
9 2 (0.68%) Zuora
10 1 (0.34%) Xero