COREP Job Trends

Common Reporting (COREP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring COREP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 705 711
Rank change year-on-year +61 +6 +317
Permanent jobs citing COREP 7 6 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.011% 0.004%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.089% 0.067% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £95,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £87,500 -
90th Percentile - £93,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

COREP 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,877 8,960 7,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.32% 16.22% 15.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,379 4,017 5,685
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,970 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

COREP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing COREP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

COREP job vacancy trend in the UK

COREP
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing COREP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing COREP

COREP
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COREP within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +77 7 £100,000 +25.00% 2
London +31 7 £100,000 +25.00% 2
Work from Home +73 3 £100,000 +25.00% 2

COREP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) German Language
3 2 (28.57%) Law
3 2 (28.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Business Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Business IT Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) IT Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) IT Business Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Regulatory Business Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Report Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Technical Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Technical Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Presales Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Credit Derivative
1 2 (28.57%) Derivative
1 2 (28.57%) Equities
1 2 (28.57%) Interest Rate Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) AI
2 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Fintech
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Presales
2 2 (28.57%) Product Management
2 2 (28.57%) Product Marketing
2 2 (28.57%) Regtech
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) FINREP
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle