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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 525 574
Rank change year-on-year +34 +49 +185
Contract jobs citing ITGC 21 3 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.076% 0.009% 0.038%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.44% 0.070% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 4
10th Percentile £513 - £322
25th Percentile £544 £213 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £225 £513
Median % change year-on-year +155.56% -56.10% -6.82%
75th Percentile £824 £238 £797
90th Percentile £960 - £994
UK median daily rate £603 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +37.71% -12.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £39.60
UK median hourly rate - £44.04 £39.60
% change year-on-year - +11.21% -

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 4,786 4,309 5,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.22% 13.08% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,125 2,575 4,009
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £657
90th Percentile £725 £762 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 215 227
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.96 £15.22 £19.47
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% -17.01% +66.67%
75th Percentile £61.13 £64.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.85 £70.00 £78.36
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year +9.09% -22.82% +54.91%

ITGC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ITGC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ITGC in England

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITGC in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITGC in England

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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

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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 18 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
London +35 16 £589 +161.67% 6
South East - 2 £575 - 3
East of England - 1 £530 -
ITGC
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.76%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Front Office
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (14.29%) Consultant
1 3 (14.29%) IT Consultant
1 3 (14.29%) IT Manager
1 3 (14.29%) Scrum Master
1 3 (14.29%) Testing Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) Analyst
2 2 (9.52%) SOX Analyst
2 2 (9.52%) SOX Test Analyst
2 2 (9.52%) Test Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Audit Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) IT Audit Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) SailPoint
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Risk Management
2 7 (33.33%) IT Audit
3 6 (28.57%) Change Management
4 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
5 4 (19.05%) Agile
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (19.05%) Release Management
5 4 (19.05%) Remediation Plan
5 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy
6 3 (14.29%) Burndown Charts
6 3 (14.29%) Financial Modelling
6 3 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (14.29%) Information Security
6 3 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
6 3 (14.29%) Scrum
6 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) SQL
2 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) CISA
1 5 (23.81%) CRISC
2 3 (14.29%) CISSP
3 2 (9.52%) CISM
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (52.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (23.81%) GRC
3 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (19.05%) SOX 404
4 2 (9.52%) COBIT
4 2 (9.52%) NIST
5 1 (4.76%) GDPR
5 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
5 1 (4.76%) SOC 1
5 1 (4.76%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) CyberArk
2 3 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) SAP