Senior Compliance Analyst Jobs

Senior Compliance Analyst
UK

The median Senior Compliance Analyst salary in the UK is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 716 892 972
Rank change year-on-year +176 +80 +242
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Compliance Analyst 1 2 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.002% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% 0.002% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78,750 - £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -12.50% +60.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 - £82,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £70,000 -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 49,922 93,907 92,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.63% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 27,447 67,290 58,243
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £80,627
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Senior Compliance Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Compliance Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Compliance Analyst in the UK

Senior Compliance Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Compliance Analyst.

Salary trend for Senior Compliance Analyst in the UK

Senior Compliance Analyst
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Compliance Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +148 1 £82,500 +17.86%
London - 1 £82,500 -

Senior Compliance Analyst Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, Senior Compliance Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Compliance Analyst in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) CRISC
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Contingency Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture

Senior Compliance Analyst Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Contingency Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (100.00%) NIST