GRC Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring GRC skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 119 142
Rank change year-on-year +4 +23 +44
Contract jobs citing GRC 6 10 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 0.48% 0.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.73% 2.95% 3.69%
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
Central London median daily rate £625 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +8.70% - -17.86%

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 347 339 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.69% 16.31% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 197 349
10th Percentile £325 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £700
90th Percentile £838 £756 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £595
% change year-on-year -1.79% -5.88% +2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £23.83 £16.60 -
25th Percentile £26.57 £17.50 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% - -
75th Percentile £56.75 £22.50 -
90th Percentile £75.95 £23.40 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £25.18 -
% change year-on-year +35.03% - -

GRC
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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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GRC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GRC

GRC
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 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GRC in the City of London

GRC
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 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%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
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