ITGC Contract Job Trends in England

IT General Controls (ITGC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring ITGC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 501 515
Rank change year-on-year -100 +14 +79
Contract jobs citing ITGC 30 20 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.065% 0.073% 0.009%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.37% 0.42% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 2
10th Percentile £419 £528 -
25th Percentile £481 £559 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £589 £225
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% +161.67% -56.10%
75th Percentile £600 £892 £238
90th Percentile £650 £960 -
UK median daily rate £505 £614 £500
% change year-on-year -17.72% +22.75% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

ITGC 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8,145 4,721 4,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.72% 17.14% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,159 3,087 2,606
10th Percentile £335 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 218 223
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £11.89
25th Percentile £17.21 £18.10 £14.60
Median hourly rate £36.07 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% +15.18% -20.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.69 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.80 £83.83 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £30.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +13.27% +16.81% -26.09%

ITGC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

ITGC job vacancy trend in England

ITGC
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ITGC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ITGC

ITGC
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITGC in England over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ITGC in England

ITGC
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ITGC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ITGC

ITGC
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITGC within the England region over the 6 months to 6 September 2026. 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
London -65 21 £500 -17.01% 27
South East -71 3 £510 -11.30% 7
East of England -23 1 £510 -3.77% 3
North of England - 1 - - 4
South West - 1 £600 - 1
North West - 1 - - 3
ITGC
UK

ITGC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (3.33%) Liferay
1 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.33%) Endur
2 1 (3.33%) SAP CO
2 1 (3.33%) SAP FI
2 1 (3.33%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (3.33%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub
4 1 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (3.33%) OCI
4 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Broadband
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) Intranet
1 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Git
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
1 1 (3.33%) Maven
General
1 16 (53.33%) Finance
2 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.67%) Legal
5 3 (10.00%) Banking
6 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) SOX Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) IT Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Lead
4 3 (10.00%) Risk Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) IT Manager
5 2 (6.67%) IT Risk Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Compliance Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Governance Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) IT Operations Manager
6 1 (3.33%) IT Support
6 1 (3.33%) PMO Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Risk Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) SAP Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) LDAP
1 2 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (3.33%) Bazel
2 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.33%) gRPC
2 1 (3.33%) SailPoint
2 1 (3.33%) Spring
2 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) PKI
3 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.33%) Social Media
3 1 (3.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Change Management
1 12 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (36.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 10 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 9 (30.00%) IT Audit
5 8 (26.67%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (23.33%) Internal Audit
6 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (23.33%) Regulatory Compliance
6 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (20.00%) Attestation
8 5 (16.67%) Agile
8 5 (16.67%) Computer Science
8 5 (16.67%) IT Governance
8 5 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
9 4 (13.33%) Project Management
9 4 (13.33%) RBAC
9 4 (13.33%) Risk Assessment
10 2 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) Java
1 2 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (3.33%) BeanShell
2 1 (3.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) CISA
2 6 (20.00%) CRISC
3 5 (16.67%) CISSP
3 5 (16.67%) Degree
4 2 (6.67%) PMI Certification
4 2 (6.67%) PMP
4 2 (6.67%) SAFe Agilist
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) ACCA
5 1 (3.33%) CISM
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (66.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 13 (43.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (36.67%) NIST
4 8 (26.67%) COBIT
5 7 (23.33%) GRC
6 2 (6.67%) GDPR
6 2 (6.67%) PMO
7 1 (3.33%) NIST 800
7 1 (3.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) SAP
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (6.67%) CyberArk
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) Workday