Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring PERC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PERC over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 700 793 941
Rank change year-on-year +93 +148 +211
Permanent jobs citing PERC 11 117 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.11% 0.023%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.12% 0.86% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 0 33 22
10th Percentile - £37,500 £36,000
25th Percentile - £57,500 £38,862
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile - £87,500 £59,313
90th Percentile - - £63,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +22.22%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,019 13,619 18,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.49% 13.33% 18.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,521 9,184 8,594
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.71%

PERC
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PERC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PERC in the UK

PERC
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PERC.

Salary trend for PERC in the UK

PERC
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PERC within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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
UK excluding London +110 9 - - 22
England +62 9 - - 31
Work from Home +126 8 - - 20
South East +94 8 - - 13
North of England 0 1 - - 5
North West -16 1 - -

PERC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Acrobat
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Google Workspace
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) Google Analytics
2 2 (18.18%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Intranet
General
1 11 (100.00%) Law
2 9 (81.82%) Legal
2 9 (81.82%) Retail
3 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Advertising
4 2 (18.18%) Marketing
5 1 (9.09%) Banking
5 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Compliance Advisor
1 8 (72.73%) Security Advisor
2 2 (18.18%) Digital Executive
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Data Protection Act
1 8 (72.73%) e-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Data Protection
2 9 (81.82%) Impact Assessments
3 8 (72.73%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (72.73%) Data Security
3 8 (72.73%) Information Security
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Agile Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 2 (18.18%) Campaign Management
4 2 (18.18%) Content Writing
4 2 (18.18%) CRM
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (18.18%) Email Marketing
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Generation
4 2 (18.18%) Line Management
4 2 (18.18%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) Storytelling
5 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) GDPR
2 8 (72.73%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (72.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (72.73%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Google
2 8 (72.73%) Adobe
2 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 8 (72.73%) OneTrust