Regulatory Compliance Job Trends

Regulatory Compliance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Regulatory Compliance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 320 485
Rank change year-on-year +23 +165 +117
Permanent jobs citing Regulatory Compliance 713 404 287
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.82% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.92% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 349 212 137
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,575 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.41% -12.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,813 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,250 £124,750 £117,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,885 £54,500
% change year-on-year +27.74% -6.63% -7.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,229 43,738 58,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 88.90% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 59,718 24,553 31,325
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,925
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,243 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,600
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.70% -2.59%

Regulatory Compliance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Regulatory Compliance job vacancy trend in the UK

Regulatory Compliance
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Regulatory Compliance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Regulatory Compliance

Regulatory Compliance
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regulatory Compliance over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Regulatory Compliance in the UK

Regulatory Compliance
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Regulatory Compliance within the UK over the 6 months to 15 October 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 -1 608 £71,250 -1.38% 637
UK excluding London -20 400 £65,000 +27.74% 296
London +7 279 £85,000 -5.56% 372
Work from Home +23 186 £70,000 -3.45% 273
South East -66 96 £56,000 +1.82% 62
North of England -8 95 £75,000 +50.00% 71
South West -22 61 £70,000 -47.17% 20
Wales -9 60 £137,253 +96.08% 7
Midlands -28 51 £52,500 +16.67% 48
North West -9 47 £65,500 +31.00% 33
East Midlands -5 31 £52,500 +4.44% 13
North East -35 30 £80,000 +14.29% 13
East of England -32 24 £61,250 +17.29% 34
West Midlands -53 19 £47,000 +4.44% 35
Yorkshire -21 18 £70,000 +21.74% 26
Scotland +17 13 £110,000 +102.05% 31

Regulatory Compliance
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.42%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.42%) Confluence
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) Simulink
5 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.14%) CATIA
6 1 (0.14%) Mathcad
6 1 (0.14%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 15 (2.10%) SAP EHS
1 15 (2.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 13 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.98%) Actimize
3 7 (0.98%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.28%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.28%) SAP SCM
5 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 68 (9.54%) AWS
2 56 (7.85%) Azure
3 38 (5.33%) Stripe
4 28 (3.93%) GCP
5 27 (3.79%) Power Platform
6 24 (3.37%) SaaS
7 23 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (2.95%) Microsoft Purview
9 18 (2.52%) Snowflake
10 14 (1.96%) Serverless
11 13 (1.82%) Collibra
12 12 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (1.26%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.12%) Mimecast
16 7 (0.98%) Entra ID
16 7 (0.98%) GitHub
16 7 (0.98%) Google Analytics
16 7 (0.98%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.10%) Firewall
1 15 (2.10%) Wireless
2 11 (1.54%) VPN
3 10 (1.40%) BGP
3 10 (1.40%) GSM
3 10 (1.40%) Network Security
4 9 (1.26%) WAN
5 8 (1.12%) 3GPP
5 8 (1.12%) Radio Access Network
6 7 (0.98%) Internet
6 7 (0.98%) LTE
6 7 (0.98%) RANAP
6 7 (0.98%) SD-WAN
6 7 (0.98%) SS7
6 7 (0.98%) UMTS
6 7 (0.98%) Wireshark
7 6 (0.84%) DNS
7 6 (0.84%) IPsec
7 6 (0.84%) LAN
7 6 (0.84%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.89%) Tableau
2 38 (5.33%) Metabase
3 28 (3.93%) Metadata
4 27 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (3.79%) Power BI
5 11 (1.54%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (1.12%) BigQuery
6 8 (1.12%) MySQL
7 7 (0.98%) Looker
8 5 (0.70%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.70%) SAP HANA
8 5 (0.70%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (0.70%) Stardog
8 5 (0.70%) Triplestore
9 4 (0.56%) Big Data
9 4 (0.56%) Spark SQL
9 4 (0.56%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 21 (2.95%) Git
2 13 (1.82%) JIRA
3 10 (1.40%) LabVIEW
4 9 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.98%) GCC
5 7 (0.98%) GDB
5 7 (0.98%) GitLab
6 6 (0.84%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.56%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.56%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.56%) MLflow
8 1 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.14%) Snyk
8 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.14%) Subversion
8 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 334 (46.84%) Finance
2 282 (39.55%) Social Skills
3 170 (23.84%) Legal
4 139 (19.50%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (12.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 88 (12.34%) Banking
7 87 (12.20%) Law
8 78 (10.94%) Organisational Skills
9 75 (10.52%) Retail
10 58 (8.13%) Manufacturing
11 46 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
12 39 (5.47%) Financial Institution
13 34 (4.77%) Pharmaceutical
14 29 (4.07%) Public Sector
14 29 (4.07%) Telecoms
15 26 (3.65%) Electronics
16 20 (2.81%) Marketing
17 14 (1.96%) Aerospace
18 12 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (1.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (11.92%) Lead
2 84 (11.78%) Senior
3 53 (7.43%) Consultant
4 50 (7.01%) Architect
5 33 (4.63%) Analyst
6 31 (4.35%) Compliance Manager
7 27 (3.79%) Systems Engineer
8 21 (2.95%) Security Specialist
9 19 (2.66%) Functional Consultant
9 19 (2.66%) Head of Compliance
9 19 (2.66%) Safety Consultant
10 18 (2.52%) Security Consultant
11 17 (2.38%) Data Architect
11 17 (2.38%) Test Engineer
12 15 (2.10%) Lead Systems Engineer
12 15 (2.10%) Lead Test Engineer
12 15 (2.10%) Systems Test Engineer
13 14 (1.96%) Governance Manager
13 14 (1.96%) Head of Operations
13 14 (1.96%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.81%) Terraform
2 11 (1.54%) REST
3 7 (0.98%) Kafka
3 7 (0.98%) Ruby on Rails
3 7 (0.98%) STL
4 6 (0.84%) React
4 6 (0.84%) SAP Basis
5 5 (0.70%) ARM Templates
5 5 (0.70%) R2RML
5 5 (0.70%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.56%) ONNX
6 4 (0.56%) PySpark
7 3 (0.42%) Flash
7 3 (0.42%) JSON
7 3 (0.42%) SOAP
7 3 (0.42%) XML
8 2 (0.28%) OAuth
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.28%) RESTful
8 2 (0.28%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 98 (13.74%) Onboarding
2 54 (7.57%) Management Information System
3 46 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 25 (3.51%) Security Posture
4 25 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (3.23%) Operational Technology
6 22 (3.09%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.52%) Product Ownership
7 18 (2.52%) Renewable Energy
8 16 (2.24%) Cyber Threat
9 14 (1.96%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.82%) CMDB
11 12 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.54%) LIMS
13 10 (1.40%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.40%) Taxonomies
14 9 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.26%) Derivative
14 9 (1.26%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.81%) Linux
2 13 (1.82%) Windows
3 4 (0.56%) Kali Linux
3 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.14%) Unix
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (32.12%) Continuous Improvement
2 214 (30.01%) Risk Management
3 179 (25.11%) AI
4 164 (23.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 134 (18.79%) Decision-Making
6 115 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 107 (15.01%) Cybersecurity
8 104 (14.59%) Roadmaps
9 97 (13.60%) Data Protection
10 94 (13.18%) Mentoring
11 88 (12.34%) Information Security
12 86 (12.06%) Data Governance
13 82 (11.50%) Analytics
14 79 (11.08%) Agile
15 71 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 71 (9.96%) Validation
16 67 (9.40%) Business Continuity
17 64 (8.98%) Machine Learning
18 61 (8.56%) Performance Management
19 60 (8.42%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 138 (19.35%) Python
2 107 (15.01%) SQL
3 20 (2.81%) Java
4 19 (2.66%) C++
5 11 (1.54%) MATLAB
5 11 (1.54%) PowerShell
6 10 (1.40%) R
7 9 (1.26%) C#
8 7 (0.98%) C
8 7 (0.98%) Ruby
9 6 (0.84%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.70%) SHACL
10 5 (0.70%) SPARQL
11 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.42%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.28%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.14%) Bash
14 1 (0.14%) Bicep
14 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 124 (17.39%) Degree
2 53 (7.43%) Security Cleared
3 48 (6.73%) Master's Degree
4 46 (6.45%) CISSP
5 40 (5.61%) CISM
6 35 (4.91%) SC Cleared
7 34 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (3.09%) ACCA
9 20 (2.81%) CRISC
10 19 (2.66%) CISA
11 18 (2.52%) CIMA
12 15 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.96%) DBS Check
14 13 (1.82%) DV Cleared
15 12 (1.68%) PhD
16 11 (1.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 9 (1.26%) AWS Certification
17 9 (1.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 8 (1.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (21.32%) GDPR
2 101 (14.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (9.40%) GRC
4 66 (9.26%) PCI DSS
5 61 (8.56%) Data Quality
6 46 (6.45%) NIST
7 40 (5.61%) Actionable Recommendations
8 27 (3.79%) QA
9 26 (3.65%) ISO 9001
10 25 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 19 (2.66%) Accessibility
11 19 (2.66%) NCSC
12 16 (2.24%) COBIT
13 15 (2.10%) ISO 14001
14 13 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 10 (1.40%) GxP
15 10 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 9 (1.26%) SOC 2
17 8 (1.12%) NEBOSH
17 8 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (1.54%) Firmware
2 10 (1.40%) Docker
3 5 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.70%) vSphere
4 4 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.42%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (2.95%) Functional Safety
2 18 (2.52%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.12%) EnCase
3 8 (1.12%) FTK
4 7 (0.98%) Ansible
5 5 (0.70%) Nessus
6 4 (0.56%) Kubeflow
6 4 (0.56%) Nmap
7 2 (0.28%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.28%) Grafana
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.28%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.14%) CASB
8 1 (0.14%) SCOM
8 1 (0.14%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 76 (10.66%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.91%) SAP
3 15 (2.10%) ServiceNow
4 14 (1.96%) Google
5 13 (1.82%) Informatica
6 11 (1.54%) Cisco
7 10 (1.40%) Fortinet
8 8 (1.12%) Cellebrite
8 8 (1.12%) Databricks
8 8 (1.12%) EMC
8 8 (1.12%) Nuix
8 8 (1.12%) Relativity
9 7 (0.98%) F5
9 7 (0.98%) Oracle
10 6 (0.84%) Bloomberg
10 6 (0.84%) NEC
10 6 (0.84%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.84%) OpenText
11 5 (0.70%) Splunk
11 5 (0.70%) VMware