Our 2025/26 Compliance Salary Survey provides a comprehensive overview of compensation, hiring activity and talent mobility across London’s compliance landscape. The report reflects a market operating under continued headcount discipline, heightened regulatory scrutiny and a measured return to selective hiring across private markets and alternative investment platforms.

Throughout 2025, hiring confidence strengthened in the second half of the year, with improved activity across private credit, infrastructure and hedge fund platforms, while internal salary progression moderated at mid-senior levels, prompting greater external mobility among experienced compliance professionals.

The guide includes detailed salary benchmarks, bonus expectations and total compensation data across hedge funds, private markets, capital markets and wealth management, alongside dedicated benchmarking for legal and in-house functions.