compliance jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills

As of 2026-10-13, compliance appears in 2,107 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Product Manager has the most postings mentioning compliance, with demand share up 1.5% vs the prior 4 weeks.

Last updated · 90d ending 2026-10-13

Postings · last 90 days
2,107
Demand vs prior month
up 1.5% vs the prior 4 weeks
Top role · 17.7% of skill postings
Top hiring metro
New York City

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Frequently asked questions about compliance

+Is compliance in demand in 2026?

Yes. compliance appears in 2,107 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-10-13. Product Manager accounts for the most postings mentioning compliance (17.7% of all postings mentioning compliance).

+What jobs require compliance?

According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-10-13, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning compliance are Agent Product Manager (23.1% of that role’s postings mention compliance), AI Governance Lead (19.2% of that role’s postings mention compliance), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) (17.9% of that role’s postings mention compliance).

+What skills are commonly paired with compliance?

Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-10-13), compliance most often appears alongside security, Risk Management, Product Management, governance, observability.

+Where is compliance most in demand?

As of 2026-10-13, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring compliance are New York City, London, San Francisco, Bengaluru, Toronto, according to the Skillenai jobs index.

+How can I keep up with new compliance content and jobs?

Skillenai indexes news, blog posts, and research papers mentioning compliance alongside the jobs index. You can subscribe to a daily email digest of new compliance content from your Skillenai account.

+Which skills come before and after compliance?

The skill-flow chart shows skills documented in adjacent positions across observed employer changes. An outgoing skill is documented in the following position but not the preceding one. These are ideas to explore, not proven prerequisites, acquisition dates, or levels of mastery. Each ribbon counts employer moves with that skill pair; one move can contribute several pairs.

Weekly indexed postings requiring compliance — last 90 days

Salary distribution

Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized

Career paths around compliance

Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.

Historical career profiles · all locations

Skills before compliance

Before compliancepython → compliance: 12 observed employer moves with this skill pairAWS → compliance: 11 observed employer moves with this skill pairsql → compliance: 10 observed employer moves with this skill pairAzure → compliance: 8 observed employer moves with this skill pairincident response → compliance: 7 observed employer moves with this skill pairterraform → compliance: 7 observed employer moves with this skill pairExcel → compliance: 6 observed employer moves with this skill pairTableau → compliance: 6 observed employer moves with this skill paircompliancepython: 12 movespython12 movesAWS: 11 movesAWS11 movessql: 10 movessql10 movesAzure: 8 movesAzure8 movesincident response: 7 movesincident response7 movesterraform: 7 movesterraform7 movesExcel: 6 movesExcel6 movesTableau: 6 movesTableau6 moves

Skills after compliance

After compliancecompliance → python: 11 observed employer moves with this skill paircompliance → Power BI: 7 observed employer moves with this skill paircompliance → sql: 7 observed employer moves with this skill paircompliance → Azure DevOps: 5 observed employer moves with this skill paircompliance → Data analytics: 5 observed employer moves with this skill paircompliance → risk management: 5 observed employer moves with this skill paircompliance → HIPAA: 5 observed employer moves with this skill paircompliance → automation: 4 observed employer moves with this skill paircompliancepython: 11 movespython11 movesPower BI: 7 movesPower BI7 movessql: 7 movessql7 movesAzure DevOps: 5 movesAzure DevOps5 movesData analytics: 5 movesData analytics5 movesrisk management: 5 movesrisk management5 movesHIPAA: 5 movesHIPAA5 movesautomation: 4 movesautomation4 moves
How to read this chart · view counts

Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.

The following position documents a skill that the preceding position does not. Skills must be linked to both positions, with clear dates and no overlap. One move can connect several skill pairs. These patterns suggest skills to explore; they do not establish prerequisites, when a skill was learned, or a higher skill level.

Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.

Observed connections and move counts
ConnectionMoves
Before: python12
Before: AWS11
Before: sql10
Before: Azure8
Before: incident response7
Before: terraform7
Before: Excel6
Before: Tableau6
After: python11
After: Power BI7
After: sql7
After: Azure DevOps5
After: Data analytics5
After: risk management5
After: HIPAA5
After: automation4

Roles most likely to require compliance

Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.

RolePostings mentioning skill% of role postings mentioning skill
Agent Product Manager923.1%
AI Governance Lead519.2%
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)517.9%
Quality Assurance Officer313.0%
Information Security Manager1412.0%
Information Security Intern411.1%
Quality Assurance Intern410.8%
VP of Engineering410.8%
Chief Information Security Officer710.0%
Database Administrator (DBA)310.0%

Roles with the most compliance postings

RolePostings mentioning skillShare of skill postings
Product Manager37217.7%
Software Engineer1477.0%
Engineering Manager643.0%
Program Manager552.6%
Technical Program Manager522.5%
Product Owner381.8%
Security Engineer361.7%
Solution Architect341.6%
Solutions Architect291.4%
Enterprise Architect261.2%

Top companies posting jobs requiring compliance

Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.

Top companies posting jobs requiring compliance
CompanyPostings · 90 days
Bjakcareer109
Stripe42
Barclays18
Anthropic18
JJ18
OpenAI14
ServiceNow14
JPMorgan Chase & Co.14
CLERA12
Wise12

Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.

Top metros hiring for compliance

NamePostingsShare
New York City874.1%
London743.5%
San Francisco733.5%
Bengaluru482.3%
Toronto301.4%
Sydney231.1%
Pune221.0%
Los Angeles200.9%
Seattle200.9%

Skills commonly paired with compliance

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How this was computed

Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-10-13. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning compliance by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s compliance postings by all compliance postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills). Adjusted posting share: 0.9% to 0.9%. Demand share change is the relative percentage change between these adjusted shares. Each employer-and-ATS group has at least 10 postings in each 90-day window; its earlier posting count supplies the same weight in both windows. The panel includes 2,614 identified employers and covers 71% of earlier and 72% of latest indexed postings. Windows: 2026-06-16 to 2026-09-14 and 2026-07-14 to 2026-10-12 (UTC; end dates excluded). The windows overlap by 62 days. Dates reflect indexing, not the employer’s posting date. This measures posting mix, not total hiring or market-wide demand. Matching excludes entrants and exits; changes in crawl completeness within an employer or ATS can still affect the result.

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Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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Compiled by Jared Rand · Data sourced from the Skillenai labor market index