Regulatory Compliance Job Trends in the Midlands

Regulatory Compliance
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Regulatory Compliance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 208 221
Rank change year-on-year +11 +13 +86
Permanent jobs citing Regulatory Compliance 27 38 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.35% 0.60% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.66% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 23 30 7
10th Percentile - - £52,500
25th Percentile - £24,649 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -44.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56,875 £53,750 £84,375
90th Percentile £83,500 £78,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +24.14% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,361 5,773 4,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.32% 90.47% 86.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,535 2,521 4,072
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Regulatory Compliance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Regulatory Compliance job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Regulatory Compliance
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Regulatory Compliance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Regulatory Compliance

Regulatory Compliance
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regulatory Compliance in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Regulatory Compliance in the Midlands

Regulatory Compliance
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Regulatory Compliance within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
West Midlands +26 24 £45,000 -14.29% 9
East Midlands -23 3 £53,885 +114.66% 19
Regulatory Compliance
England

Regulatory Compliance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 12 (44.44%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
3 2 (7.41%) GCP
3 2 (7.41%) SaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.70%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.70%) IaaS
4 1 (3.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Bluetooth
1 1 (3.70%) Broadband
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) Internet
1 1 (3.70%) RS-232
1 1 (3.70%) RS-485
1 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (3.70%) Wireless
1 1 (3.70%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) GIS
2 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) MLflow
General
1 16 (59.26%) Finance
2 15 (55.56%) Legal
3 12 (44.44%) Fire and Rescue
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Electronics
6 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.70%) Law
6 1 (3.70%) Marketing
6 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 3 (11.11%) Compliance Manager
3 2 (7.41%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (7.41%) Head of IT
3 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering Manager
3 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 1 (3.70%) Analytics Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Data Science Leader
4 1 (3.70%) DevSecOps Architect
4 1 (3.70%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (3.70%) Electronics Design Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) IAM Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Lead
4 1 (3.70%) Senior Analytics Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Senior Engagement Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Senior Risk Manager
4 1 (3.70%) SOC Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) OAuth
2 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.70%) LDAP
2 1 (3.70%) OpenID
2 1 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) SAML
2 1 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (44.44%) SCADA
2 2 (7.41%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.70%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Housing Association
3 1 (3.70%) IoT
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) PKI
3 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (48.15%) Incident Management
3 4 (14.81%) Service Delivery
4 3 (11.11%) Analytics
4 3 (11.11%) BCP
4 3 (11.11%) Change Management
4 3 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 3 (11.11%) IT Strategy
4 3 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 2 (7.41%) Business Continuity Planning
5 2 (7.41%) Coaching
5 2 (7.41%) Cost Control
5 2 (7.41%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (7.41%) Data Science
5 2 (7.41%) FinOps
5 2 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (7.41%) Mentoring
5 2 (7.41%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) SQL
2 2 (7.41%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) Bash
3 1 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) R
3 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (7.41%) GRC
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) ISO 9001
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (3.70%) NCSC
3 1 (3.70%) NIST
3 1 (3.70%) PMO
3 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
1 1 (3.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) QRadar
2 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) EMC
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk