PERC Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PERC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 583 544
Rank change year-on-year +50 -39 +278
Permanent jobs citing PERC 5 27 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.055% 0.059%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.11% 0.41% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile £46,900 £48,500 £47,625
25th Percentile £54,625 £51,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £55,313
90th Percentile - - £56,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.64% +7.27% +3.77%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

PERC 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,602 6,555 4,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.47% 13.32% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,463 2,782 3,389
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,000 £28,290
25th Percentile £33,000 £35,763 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £58,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% +6.67%

PERC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PERC relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

PERC job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

PERC
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PERC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PERC

PERC
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PERC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Salary histogram for PERC in the UK excluding London

PERC
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 PERC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
North West +16 2 - -
North of England +13 2 - - 2
Scotland +2 2 £70,000 - 4
South East +32 1 £43,500 -27.50% 11
PERC
UK

PERC
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (80.00%) Law
1 4 (80.00%) Legal
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Advertising
3 2 (40.00%) Marketing
4 1 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Data Management Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Data Sharing
3 2 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Records Management
4 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Change
4 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act