Regulatory Compliance Job Trends in the South West

Regulatory Compliance
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West 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 179 185 214
Rank change year-on-year +6 +29 +49
Permanent jobs citing Regulatory Compliance 5 15 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.100% 0.35% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.41% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £71,625 £71,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,188 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -1.56% +14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,188 £85,000
90th Percentile - £93,375 -
England median annual salary £73,750 £90,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year -18.06% +22.03% +1.72%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,638 3,658 3,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.60% 84.34% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,464 1,879 3,024
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +7.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,781
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
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 South West

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

Regulatory Compliance job vacancy trend in the South West

Regulatory Compliance
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Regulatory Compliance
Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Gloucestershire - 4 - - 2
Bristol +4 1 £70,000 -11.11% 4
Regulatory Compliance
England

Regulatory Compliance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Quality Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Quality Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Continuity
1 4 (80.00%) Collaborative Working
1 4 (80.00%) Contingency Planning
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (80.00%) Data Analysis
1 4 (80.00%) QMS
1 4 (80.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) User Stories
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Solvency II