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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 369 549
Rank change year-on-year +23 +180 +145
Permanent jobs citing Regulatory Compliance 340 389 165
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.73% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.80% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 177 234 117
10th Percentile £33,355 £45,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £45,974 £62,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +28.57% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £122,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £111,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,135 £52,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year -4.51% -7.08% -5.83%

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 48,808 48,616 49,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.95% 90.71% 89.93%
Number of salaries quoted 28,796 23,669 37,967
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%

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 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Regulatory Compliance in the UK

Regulatory Compliance
Top 17 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 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 +23 294 £75,000 -16.67% 312
London +41 168 £90,000 -21.74% 114
UK excluding London +18 157 £50,135 -4.51% 300
Work from Home -17 100 £70,000 -39.13% 242
South East +41 59 £38,500 -51.88% 111
Midlands +10 27 £45,000 +28.57% 28
North of England +2 27 £62,500 +24.00% 45
West Midlands +25 24 £45,000 -14.29% 9
Scotland +11 24 £65,900 +1.38% 26
North West +18 17 £62,500 +27.55% 25
Yorkshire -15 9 £80,000 -5.68% 15
South West -7 8 £55,000 -30.16% 36
Northern Ireland - 8 - - 5
East of England +17 3 £190,000 +280.00% 39
East Midlands -28 3 £53,885 +114.66% 19
North East +9 1 £31,500 - 5
Wales -3 1 £70,000 +40.00% 21

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 7 (2.06%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.88%) Confluence
4 2 (0.59%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.29%) CMS
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 40 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (9.41%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (4.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (3.82%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.29%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.18%) Endur
3 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.59%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.59%) SAP IBP
3 2 (0.59%) SAP MII
3 2 (0.59%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.59%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.29%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 98 (28.82%) Azure
2 51 (15.00%) Entra ID
3 36 (10.59%) AWS
4 33 (9.71%) Google Workspace
5 27 (7.94%) SaaS
6 26 (7.65%) Power Platform
7 25 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (6.18%) GCP
9 11 (3.24%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (2.35%) dbt
10 8 (2.35%) Snowflake
11 7 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.76%) GitHub
13 5 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (1.18%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 32 (9.41%) Broadband
2 4 (1.18%) Firewall
3 2 (0.59%) ATM
3 2 (0.59%) DHCP
3 2 (0.59%) DNS
3 2 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.59%) Network Security
3 2 (0.59%) RS-232
3 2 (0.59%) RS-485
3 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.59%) Wireless
4 1 (0.29%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.29%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.29%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.29%) Internet
4 1 (0.29%) Intranet
4 1 (0.29%) NGFW
4 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.29%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.76%) Power BI
2 17 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (5.00%) Metadata
3 16 (4.71%) Data Lake
4 14 (4.12%) GIS
5 7 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.06%) Tableau
6 6 (1.76%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.47%) Redis
7 5 (1.47%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.18%) Data Mining
8 4 (1.18%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.18%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.18%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.88%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.59%) MySQL
11 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (3.24%) ERwin
2 6 (1.76%) JIRA
3 5 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.18%) Git
4 4 (1.18%) GitLab
5 2 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.29%) MLflow
General
1 172 (50.59%) Social Skills
2 151 (44.41%) Finance
3 71 (20.88%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (16.47%) Legal
5 47 (13.82%) Organisational Skills
6 28 (8.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (7.06%) Games
8 22 (6.47%) Banking
9 21 (6.18%) Law
10 20 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (5.59%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (5.59%) Manufacturing
12 18 (5.29%) Financial Institution
13 12 (3.53%) Fire and Rescue
14 11 (3.24%) Automotive
15 10 (2.94%) Retail
16 9 (2.65%) Electronics
17 6 (1.76%) Marketing
17 6 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (1.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 66 (19.41%) Senior
2 44 (12.94%) Architect
3 42 (12.35%) Lead
4 35 (10.29%) Analyst
5 26 (7.65%) Data Architect
6 20 (5.88%) IT Manager
7 17 (5.00%) Developer
8 16 (4.71%) Senior Manager
9 15 (4.41%) IAM Developer
9 15 (4.41%) Technical Analyst
10 14 (4.12%) IT Analyst
11 13 (3.82%) IT Support
11 13 (3.82%) IT Support Analyst
11 13 (3.82%) Lead Architect
11 13 (3.82%) Support Analyst
11 13 (3.82%) Technical Support
11 13 (3.82%) Technical Support Analyst
12 12 (3.53%) Infrastructure Manager
12 12 (3.53%) Lead Data Architect
12 12 (3.53%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.71%) OAuth
2 32 (9.41%) GraphQL
2 32 (9.41%) LDAP
2 32 (9.41%) OpenID
2 32 (9.41%) REST
2 32 (9.41%) SAML
2 32 (9.41%) SOAP
3 6 (1.76%) Middleware
4 3 (0.88%) .NET
4 3 (0.88%) PySpark
5 2 (0.59%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.59%) Django
5 2 (0.59%) Kafka
5 2 (0.59%) Laravel
5 2 (0.59%) RESTful
5 2 (0.59%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.29%) EDI
6 1 (0.29%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.29%) React
6 1 (0.29%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 57 (16.76%) Management Information System
2 36 (10.59%) Cyber Threat
3 33 (9.71%) Cyberattack
4 25 (7.35%) Onboarding
5 17 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (4.41%) Data Structures
6 15 (4.41%) SCADA
7 13 (3.82%) Product Ownership
7 13 (3.82%) Security Posture
8 12 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (3.24%) Credit Risk
9 11 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.06%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.06%) Cloud Native
10 7 (2.06%) Data Centre
10 7 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.76%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.76%) Web Conferencing
12 5 (1.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.18%) Windows
2 10 (2.94%) Linux
3 6 (1.76%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.18%) Unix
5 2 (0.59%) Android
5 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (24.41%) Data Governance
2 82 (24.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 79 (23.24%) Roadmaps
4 77 (22.65%) Analytics
4 77 (22.65%) Cybersecurity
5 74 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (19.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 62 (18.24%) AI
8 56 (16.47%) Mentoring
9 53 (15.59%) Decision-Making
10 52 (15.29%) Risk Management
11 48 (14.12%) Data Analysis
12 44 (12.94%) Identity Access Management
13 43 (12.65%) Agile
13 43 (12.65%) Data Modelling
13 43 (12.65%) Data Protection
14 37 (10.88%) Data Architecture
15 36 (10.59%) Data Strategy
15 36 (10.59%) Machine Learning
15 36 (10.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 43 (12.65%) PowerShell
2 36 (10.59%) Bash
3 32 (9.41%) SQL
3 32 (9.41%) T-SQL
4 26 (7.65%) Python
5 4 (1.18%) Go
6 3 (0.88%) C#
6 3 (0.88%) R
7 2 (0.59%) C++
7 2 (0.59%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.59%) PHP
8 1 (0.29%) Bicep
8 1 (0.29%) C
8 1 (0.29%) Java
8 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 54 (15.88%) Degree
2 23 (6.76%) Master's Degree
3 21 (6.18%) CISSP
4 19 (5.59%) CISM
4 19 (5.59%) Security Cleared
5 17 (5.00%) DBS Check
6 15 (4.41%) SC Cleared
7 14 (4.12%) CISA
8 13 (3.82%) CRISC
9 11 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.65%) PMI Certification
11 8 (2.35%) CIMA
12 7 (2.06%) ACCA
12 7 (2.06%) PMP
13 5 (1.47%) Six Sigma Black Belt
13 5 (1.47%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 5 (1.47%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
14 4 (1.18%) AWS Certification
14 4 (1.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 4 (1.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (20.29%) GDPR
2 52 (15.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 49 (14.41%) NIST
4 44 (12.94%) Data Quality
5 32 (9.41%) NCSC
6 18 (5.29%) QA
7 15 (4.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (4.12%) Accessibility
8 14 (4.12%) GRC
9 9 (2.65%) PCI DSS
9 9 (2.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (2.06%) ISO 9001
11 5 (1.47%) EMIR
11 5 (1.47%) ISO 13485
11 5 (1.47%) SLA
12 4 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (1.18%) GLP
12 4 (1.18%) HIPAA
12 4 (1.18%) PSD2
13 3 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 51 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.06%) Firmware
3 6 (1.76%) Docker
3 6 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.24%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (2.94%) Terraform
4 6 (1.76%) Ansible
5 4 (1.18%) Kubeflow
5 4 (1.18%) Rancher
5 4 (1.18%) vRealize
6 3 (0.88%) SCCM
7 2 (0.59%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.29%) Puppet
8 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 83 (24.41%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.71%) SAP
3 12 (3.53%) Google
3 12 (3.53%) VMware
4 8 (2.35%) Databricks
5 6 (1.76%) NEC
6 5 (1.47%) Cisco
7 4 (1.18%) Concur
7 4 (1.18%) Facebook
7 4 (1.18%) OpenLink
7 4 (1.18%) Sage
7 4 (1.18%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.88%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.88%) YouTube
9 2 (0.59%) Adyen
9 2 (0.59%) Allen-Bradley
9 2 (0.59%) EMC
9 2 (0.59%) Siemens
9 2 (0.59%) VocaLink
9 2 (0.59%) Zuora