GRC Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring GRC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
31 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 19 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing GRC 3 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.55% 4.38% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.38% 23.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £535 £570 -
25th Percentile £569 £581 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £650 £600 -
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cambridge

GRC falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 32 30 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 16.49% 18.75% 16.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 7
10th Percentile £360 £400 £323
25th Percentile £513 £410 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £568
90th Percentile £672 £639 £605
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £550 £535 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.25 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £14.37 £33.63 £14.00
% change year-on-year -57.28% +140.18% -12.50%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GRC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

GRC job vacancy trend in Cambridge

GRC
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing GRC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing GRC

GRC
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GRC in Cambridge over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GRC in Cambridge

GRC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
GRC jobs