GRC Contract Job Trends in Central London

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring GRC skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 114 144
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 +49
Contract jobs citing GRC 6 10 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.31% 0.44% 0.52%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.62% 2.65% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 15
10th Percentile £533 £480 £408
25th Percentile £563 £513 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -17.86%
75th Percentile £688 £615 £850
90th Percentile £718 £658 £970
London median daily rate £525 £600 £640
% change year-on-year -12.50% -6.25% -1.54%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 371 377 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.11% 16.48% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 219 378
10th Percentile £308 £360 £393
25th Percentile £413 £463 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £595
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -7.39% +2.59%
75th Percentile £706 £675 £700
90th Percentile £834 £753 £813
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 0
10th Percentile £22.60 £19.00 -
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.45 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £25.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.03% - -
75th Percentile £35.50 £32.89 -
90th Percentile £63.15 £35.00 -
London median hourly rate £34.00 £29.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +14.06% -14.83% +41.64%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing GRC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for GRC in Central London

GRC
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing GRC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing GRC

GRC
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GRC in Central London over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GRC in Central London

GRC
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GRC within the Central London region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
City of London +1 6 £625 +8.70% 21
GRC
London

GRC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
1 1 (16.67%) Senior
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) CMDB
2 1 (16.67%) e-Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Learning Management System
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) IT Audit
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Instructional Design
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISA
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) CRISC
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) COBIT
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) ITGC
2 2 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) IBM