Regulatory Compliance Job Trends in the South East

Regulatory Compliance
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Regulatory Compliance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 202 309
Rank change year-on-year -15 +107 +10
Permanent jobs citing Regulatory Compliance 72 46 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.53% 0.68% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.76% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 60 10 47
10th Percentile £41,925 £55,375 £39,000
25th Percentile £62,938 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £76,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% +8.93% +3.05%
75th Percentile £118,750 £95,625 £87,500
90th Percentile £137,000 £128,750 £95,000
England median annual salary £89,000 £90,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.11% +33.33% -3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,059 6,086 13,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 73.70% 89.99% 84.63%
Number of salaries quoted 6,487 3,281 9,716
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Regulatory Compliance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Regulatory Compliance job vacancy trend in the South East

Regulatory Compliance
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Regulatory Compliance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Regulatory Compliance

Regulatory Compliance
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regulatory Compliance in the South East over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Regulatory Compliance in the South East

Regulatory Compliance
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Regulatory Compliance within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
East Sussex - 24 £90,000 - 4
Hampshire -7 19 £67,500 -26.43% 13
Thames Valley -11 12 £66,250 +6.00% 12
Kent -30 12 £101,250 +6.58% 1
Buckinghamshire -18 9 £55,000 -38.89% 2
Berkshire +3 2 - - 8
Surrey -29 2 - - 1
Oxfordshire -10 1 £87,500 +40.00% 2
Sussex - 1 £59,500 - 1
West Sussex - 1 £59,500 - 4
Regulatory Compliance
England

Regulatory Compliance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 36 (50.00%) Azure
2 22 (30.56%) Azure AI
2 22 (30.56%) Azure Machine Learning
2 22 (30.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 22 (30.56%) Snowflake
3 6 (8.33%) SaaS
4 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.78%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.78%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.39%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.78%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Git
1 2 (2.78%) MSTest
1 2 (2.78%) Selenium
2 1 (1.39%) JIRA
General
1 36 (50.00%) Finance
2 20 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.89%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.56%) Banking
5 3 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Electronics
5 3 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.78%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.78%) Aviation
7 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.39%) Law
7 1 (1.39%) Legal
7 1 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Data Manager
2 18 (25.00%) Engineering Manager
2 18 (25.00%) Finance Manager
3 11 (15.28%) Resilience Manager
4 9 (12.50%) IT Manager
5 6 (8.33%) Compliance Manager
5 6 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Senior
6 5 (6.94%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Head of AI
7 4 (5.56%) Head of Finance
7 4 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Commercial Manager
8 3 (4.17%) Procurement Manager
9 2 (2.78%) IT Support Analyst
9 2 (2.78%) Support Analyst
9 2 (2.78%) Technical Analyst
9 2 (2.78%) Technical Support
9 2 (2.78%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.78%) .NET
1 2 (2.78%) ADO
1 2 (2.78%) GraphQL
1 2 (2.78%) LDAP
1 2 (2.78%) OAuth
1 2 (2.78%) OpenID
1 2 (2.78%) Playwright
1 2 (2.78%) REST
1 2 (2.78%) SAML
1 2 (2.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.78%) Cyberattack
4 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.89%) Data Engineering
2 27 (37.50%) Data Governance
2 27 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 26 (36.11%) AI
3 26 (36.11%) Machine Learning
4 25 (34.72%) Data Architecture
5 23 (31.94%) Agile
6 22 (30.56%) Data Development
6 22 (30.56%) Line Management
6 22 (30.56%) Migration
7 21 (29.17%) Risk Management
8 10 (13.89%) Data Security
9 7 (9.72%) Analytics
9 7 (9.72%) Contract Negotiation
9 7 (9.72%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (9.72%) Data Modelling
9 7 (9.72%) Information Security
9 7 (9.72%) Mentoring
9 7 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (9.72%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (2.78%) Bash
2 2 (2.78%) C#
2 2 (2.78%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (4.17%) Degree
2 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.78%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.39%) ACCA
3 1 (1.39%) CIMA
3 1 (1.39%) CISA
3 1 (1.39%) CISM
3 1 (1.39%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.28%) GDPR
2 10 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (9.72%) Data Quality
4 6 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 6 (8.33%) ISO 14001
4 6 (8.33%) ISO 9001
4 6 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (4.17%) NIST
6 2 (2.78%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.78%) NCSC
6 2 (2.78%) QA
6 2 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.78%) WCAG
7 1 (1.39%) IFRS
7 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (30.56%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.78%) Docker
Vendors
1 33 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 26 (36.11%) Databricks
3 2 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.39%) Xero