GRC Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring GRC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GRC over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 117 162
Rank change year-on-year 0 +45 +27
Contract jobs citing GRC 6 10 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 0.46% 0.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.06% 2.66% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 11
10th Percentile £546 £340 £365
25th Percentile £597 £472 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £598 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% +3.91% -5.74%
75th Percentile £691 £675 £720
90th Percentile £719 £765 £850
Central London median daily rate £645 £598 £575
% change year-on-year +7.95% +3.91% -10.58%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 291 376 463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.57% 17.15% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 271 338
10th Percentile £375 £363 £393
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% +7.87%
75th Percentile £713 £650 £725
90th Percentile £800 £750 £838
Central London median daily rate £557 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +1.27% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £23.40 £23.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.43% -45.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for GRC in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GRC in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for GRC in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GRC in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GRC in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) International Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Implementation Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
1 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Security Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Senior
1 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) e-Learning
1 1 (16.67%) Learning Management System
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
3 1 (16.67%) Business Case
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Business Process Mapping
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CISM
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) COBIT
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Ariba
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys