DORA Job Trends in the North of England

Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring DORA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	363	282	304
Rank change year-on-year	-81	+22	-
Permanent jobs citing DORA	2	15	2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England	0.008%	0.16%	0.016%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category	0.092%	1.52%	0.12%
Number of salaries quoted	2	7	0
10^th Percentile	£100,250	£64,316	-
25^th Percentile	£100,625	£72,194	-
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£102,500	£80,000	-
Median % change year-on-year	+28.13%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£105,625	£96,120	-
90^th Percentile	£106,750	£110,000	-
England median annual salary	£90,000	£85,000	£92,500
% change year-on-year	+5.88%	-8.11%	-2.63%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

DORA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the North of England.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills	2,173	984	1,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England	8.99%	10.82%	13.44%
Number of salaries quoted	1,478	452	703
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£27,100	£25,000
25^th Percentile	£37,500	£32,500	£31,963
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£50,000	£50,000	£47,500
Median % change year-on-year	-	+5.26%	-5.00%
75^th Percentile	£67,500	£64,875	£61,180
90^th Percentile	£82,875	£77,500	£80,000
England median annual salary	£55,000	£57,500	£60,000
% change year-on-year	-4.35%	-4.17%	-

DORA Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

DORA Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DORA.

DORA Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DORA within the North of England region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
North West	-41	2	£102,500	+30.39%	6
DORA England

DORA Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 22 October 2026, job vacancies citing DORA also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region with a requirement for DORA.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AI	100.0%	2
1	AWS	100.0%	2
1	Bitbucket	100.0%	2
1	CI/CD	100.0%	2
1	Docker	100.0%	2
1	FastAPI	100.0%	2
1	Git	100.0%	2
1	Jenkins	100.0%	2
1	Kubernetes	100.0%	2
1	LLM	100.0%	2
1	Model Context Protocol	100.0%	2
1	Observability	100.0%	2
1	Open Source	100.0%	2
1	Python	100.0%	2
1	Retrieval-Augmented Generation	100.0%	2
1	Software Engineering	100.0%	2
1	SQL	100.0%	2

DORA Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	100.0%	2