The Datum Report

Occupation 2482 · Professional occupations

Quality assurance and regulatory professionals

Half of full-time quality assurance and regulatory professionals in the UK earn more than £50,083 a year, and half earn less.

Quality assurance and regulatory professionals plan, organise, co-ordinate and direct the effective measurement monitoring and reporting on the qualitative and regulatory aspects of a specified tangible (industrial production) or non-tangible (service provision) output.

How people enter it

Entry normally requires a degree or equivalent qualification with relevant experience. Off and on-the-job training is available. A variety of vocational qualifications that encompass quality assurance elements are available at up to level 4.

What the work involves

• develops and implements visual, physical, functional or other appropriate measures and tests of quality
• analyses and reports upon the results of quality control tests to ensure that production remains within specification
• considers the impact of legislation upon specification requirements
• examines current operating procedures to determine how quality may be improved
• examines operating procedures to ensure the process and the product meet regulatory standards and implements changes necessary to ensure compliance

Also called

Compliance manager · Financial regulator · Quality assurance manager · Quality manager

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for quality assurance and regulatory professionals, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 11 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

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