Compliance Specialist Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Compliance Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Compliance Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 570 566
Rank change year-on-year +72 -4 +199
Permanent jobs requiring a Compliance Specialist 8 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.006% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.006% 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £46,745 £51,800 -
25th Percentile £50,500 £53,375 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +45.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile - £61,875 -
90th Percentile - £63,000 -
UK median annual salary £55,500 £58,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.31% -22.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 38,179 33,328 33,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,318 16,178 25,075
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Compliance Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Compliance Specialist' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Compliance Specialist job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Compliance Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Compliance Specialist job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Compliance Specialist job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Compliance Specialist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Compliance Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Compliance Specialist in the UK excluding London

Compliance Specialist
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Compliance Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England +31 4 £51,000 -4.67% 1
North West - 3 - - 1
South East - 3 £60,000 - 1
Scotland +2 1 £60,000 -4.00% 1
Yorkshire -7 1 £51,000 -4.67%
Compliance Specialist
UK

Compliance Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Compliance Specialist job roles required 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 UK excluding London region featuring Compliance Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (25.00%) ISMS
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) Change Control
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
2 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
2 1 (12.50%) Data Management
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) Dataiku
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) ETL
2 1 (12.50%) Freshdesk
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
2 1 (12.50%) Information Management
2 1 (12.50%) Information Security
2 1 (12.50%) Information Security Management
2 1 (12.50%) Internal Audit

Compliance Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
1 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Automotive
1 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) ISMS
2 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) Change Control
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
2 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
2 1 (12.50%) Data Management
2 1 (12.50%) ETL
2 1 (12.50%) Information Management
2 1 (12.50%) Information Security Management
2 1 (12.50%) IT Governance
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) ITSM
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
2 1 (12.50%) Security Management
2 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Dataiku
2 1 (12.50%) Freshdesk