compliance jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-28, compliance appears in 2,045 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Product Manager has the most postings mentioning compliance, with demand down 26% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-28
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+Is compliance in demand in 2026?
Yes. compliance appears in 2,045 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, with demand down 26% vs the prior 4 weeks. Product Manager accounts for the most postings mentioning compliance (19.0% of all postings mentioning compliance).
+What jobs require compliance?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning compliance are Agent Product Manager (19.5% of that role’s postings mention compliance), AI Governance Lead (18.2% of that role’s postings mention compliance), Chief Information Security Officer (12.1% of that role’s postings mention compliance).
+What skills are commonly paired with compliance?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-28), compliance most often appears alongside security, Risk Management, Product Management, governance, Python.
+Where is compliance most in demand?
As of 2026-09-28, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring compliance are New York City, San Francisco, London, Bengaluru, Toronto, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
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Weekly job postings requiring compliance — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Roles most likely to require compliance
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Agent Product Manager | 8 | 19.5% |
| AI Governance Lead | 4 | 18.2% |
| Chief Information Security Officer | 7 | 12.1% |
| Information Security Manager | 13 | 11.9% |
| VP of Engineering | 4 | 11.4% |
| Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) | 3 | 10.7% |
| Cybersecurity Director | 3 | 10.7% |
| Clinical Program Manager | 3 | 10.3% |
| Information Security Intern | 3 | 10.0% |
| Analytics Engineering Director | 2 | 10.0% |
Roles with the most compliance postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Product Manager | 389 | 19.0% |
| Software Engineer | 151 | 7.4% |
| Engineering Manager | 70 | 3.4% |
| Program Manager | 52 | 2.5% |
| Technical Program Manager | 47 | 2.3% |
| Product Owner | 35 | 1.7% |
| Solution Architect | 33 | 1.6% |
| Solutions Architect | 32 | 1.6% |
| Security Engineer | 29 | 1.4% |
| Enterprise Architect | 26 | 1.3% |
Top metros hiring for compliance
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 86 | 4.2% |
| San Francisco | 77 | 3.8% |
| London | 75 | 3.7% |
| Bengaluru | 46 | 2.2% |
| Toronto | 29 | 1.4% |
| Seattle | 21 | 1.0% |
| Sydney | 19 | 0.9% |
| Boston | 18 | 0.9% |
| Los Angeles | 18 | 0.9% |
Skills commonly paired with compliance
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Explore related pages
- Agent Product Manager
- AI Governance Lead
- Chief Information Security Officer
- Information Security Manager
- VP of Engineering
- Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
- Cybersecurity Director
- Clinical Program Manager
- security
- Risk Management
- Product Management
- governance
- Python
- observability
- stakeholder management
- data governance
How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28. 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).
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