Regulatory Compliance Job Trends in the West Midlands

Regulatory Compliance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Regulatory Compliance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 179 178
Rank change year-on-year +29 -1 +79
Permanent jobs citing Regulatory Compliance 24 19 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.46% 0.46% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.50% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 21 15 6
10th Percentile - £50,000 £56,250
25th Percentile - £51,250 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -26.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £71,250 £84,688
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +24.14% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,323 3,783 3,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.09% 91.51% 87.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,245 1,682 2,769
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,719 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Regulatory Compliance
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Regulatory Compliance job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Regulatory Compliance
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Regulatory Compliance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Regulatory Compliance

Regulatory Compliance
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regulatory Compliance in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Regulatory Compliance in the West Midlands

Regulatory Compliance
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Regulatory Compliance within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
Birmingham +29 8 £80,000 +23.08% 1
Walsall - 7 £45,000 -
Warwickshire +22 1 - - 1
Worcestershire - 1 £64,500 - 2
Staffordshire - 1 £50,000 -
Regulatory Compliance
England

Regulatory Compliance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) GCP
2 2 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.17%) IaaS
3 1 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Bluetooth
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
1 1 (4.17%) Internet
1 1 (4.17%) RS-232
1 1 (4.17%) RS-485
1 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (4.17%) Wireless
1 1 (4.17%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (50.00%) GIS
2 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) MLflow
General
1 15 (62.50%) Finance
2 13 (54.17%) Legal
3 12 (50.00%) Fire and Rescue
4 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Electronics
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Compliance Manager
2 2 (8.33%) Engineering Manager
2 2 (8.33%) Head of IT
2 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering Manager
2 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Analytics Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Change Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Credit Risk Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Data Science Leader
3 1 (4.17%) DevSecOps Architect
3 1 (4.17%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (4.17%) Electronics Design Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Risk Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Senior Analytics Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Senior Engagement Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Senior Risk Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Service Manager
3 1 (4.17%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) SCADA
2 2 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.17%) Credit Risk
3 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Housing Association
3 1 (4.17%) IoT
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Incident Management
1 13 (54.17%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (12.50%) Analytics
2 3 (12.50%) IT Strategy
2 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
2 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 2 (8.33%) BCP
3 2 (8.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (8.33%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (8.33%) Change Management
3 2 (8.33%) Cost Control
3 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (8.33%) Data Science
3 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (8.33%) FinOps
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (8.33%) IT Governance
3 2 (8.33%) Wealth Management
4 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Python
1 2 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (4.17%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) GRC
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) ISO 9001
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
1 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) QRadar
2 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) EMC
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk