Regulatory Compliance Job Trends in Scotland

Regulatory Compliance
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Regulatory Compliance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 128 189
Rank change year-on-year +8 +61 +5
Permanent jobs citing Regulatory Compliance 19 19 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.70% 0.70% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.76% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £58,120 £54,175 -
25th Percentile £60,100 £56,313 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,900 £66,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% -11.67% +76.47%
75th Percentile £74,200 £90,625 -
90th Percentile £77,680 £123,250 -
UK median annual salary £73,750 £90,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -18.06% +24.14% +3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,203 2,494 2,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 80.93% 92.17% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,078 1,070 1,739
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,475 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £41,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -8.54%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,547 £88,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Regulatory Compliance
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Regulatory Compliance job vacancy trend in Scotland

Regulatory Compliance
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Regulatory Compliance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Regulatory Compliance

Regulatory Compliance
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regulatory Compliance in Scotland over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Regulatory Compliance in Scotland

Regulatory Compliance
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Regulatory Compliance within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 31 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
Stirling - 4 - -
West Lothian - 4 - -
Midlothian - 3 - -
Glasgow +6 1 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
Renfrewshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
East Lothian - 1 - -
Fife - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 £56,800 -
Regulatory Compliance
UK

Regulatory Compliance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) Azure
1 15 (78.95%) Entra ID
1 15 (78.95%) Google Workspace
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (78.95%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Rational DOORS
General
1 17 (89.47%) Social Skills
2 15 (78.95%) Games
2 15 (78.95%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Legal
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Senior
2 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 8 (42.11%) IAM Developer
3 7 (36.84%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.26%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Service Transition Leader
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (78.95%) GraphQL
1 15 (78.95%) LDAP
1 15 (78.95%) OAuth
1 15 (78.95%) OpenID
1 15 (78.95%) REST
1 15 (78.95%) SAML
1 15 (78.95%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (78.95%) Cyber Threat
1 15 (78.95%) Cyberattack
2 1 (5.26%) Life Science
2 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.26%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Cybersecurity
1 15 (78.95%) Identity Access Management
1 15 (78.95%) Mentoring
1 15 (78.95%) Programme Delivery
1 15 (78.95%) Roadmaps
2 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
2 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (5.26%) Asset Management
3 1 (5.26%) Change Management
3 1 (5.26%) Customer Experience
3 1 (5.26%) Incident Response
3 1 (5.26%) ITIL
3 1 (5.26%) Patch Management
3 1 (5.26%) Service Design
3 1 (5.26%) Service Management
3 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Bash
1 15 (78.95%) PowerShell
1 15 (78.95%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (78.95%) NCSC
1 15 (78.95%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (78.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft