GRC Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 40 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing GRC 4 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.06% 2.48% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.26% 18.18% -
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 - - -
East of England median daily rate £600 £600 £563
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +4.65%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 39 44 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.34% 13.66% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 16
10th Percentile £305 £401 £293
25th Percentile £346 £450 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £596 £609 £656
90th Percentile £666 £650 £688
East of England median daily rate £510 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.00% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - £20.16 -
25th Percentile £13.57 £24.72 £13.29
Median hourly rate £14.37 £33.63 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.28% +140.18% -12.50%
75th Percentile £15.16 £43.72 £14.16
90th Percentile - £48.99 -
East of England median hourly rate £18.50 £36.31 £44.50
% change year-on-year -49.05% -18.40% +151.13%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

GRC job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

GRC
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing GRC

GRC
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for GRC in Cambridgeshire

GRC
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GRC within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge -14 3 £650 +8.33% 5
GRC
East of England

GRC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Process Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Risk Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) AI Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) BPMN
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (25.00%) SOAR
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow