GRC Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring GRC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 70 97
Rank change year-on-year -15 +27 +6
Contract jobs citing GRC 14 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.88% 0.28% 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.76% 1.85% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 3
10th Percentile - £513 £513
25th Percentile £525 £515 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £536 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -6.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £565 £588
90th Percentile £586 £571 -
South East median daily rate £525 £548 £575
% change year-on-year -4.11% -4.78% -2.13%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 243 108 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 15.31% 15.04% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 81 96
10th Percentile £295 £200 £366
25th Percentile £450 £332 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% +14.21%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £733 £638 £671
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 21
10th Percentile £13.82 £21.00 -
25th Percentile £26.00 £21.92 £18.32
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.66 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.21% -34.24% +1.42%
75th Percentile £52.58 - £60.00
90th Percentile £80.92 £26.58 -
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £46.30 £28.75
% change year-on-year +34.99% +61.04% +15.00%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

GRC job vacancy trend in Hampshire

GRC
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing GRC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing GRC

GRC
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GRC within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 27 March 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
Farnborough - 10 £550 - 1
Portsmouth - 2 - - 2
Basingstoke -17 1 - - 1
Southampton - 1 £675 -
GRC
South East

GRC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) BGP
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (7.14%) DMZ
2 1 (7.14%) MPLS
2 1 (7.14%) Multicast
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) OSPF
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) VLAN
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Aviation
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Network Manager
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) CMDB
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (7.14%) Insider Threat
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile Computing
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
2 2 (14.29%) Cyber Resilience
2 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (14.29%) Information Security
2 2 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (14.29%) Security Architecture
3 1 (7.14%) Architectural Design
3 1 (7.14%) Business Strategy
3 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
3 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
3 1 (7.14%) Incident Response
3 1 (7.14%) Key Management
3 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
3 1 (7.14%) SDLC
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Debt
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (7.14%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (7.14%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Bash
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) BC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) CCIE
3 1 (7.14%) CCNP
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CISSP
3 1 (7.14%) GCFA
3 1 (7.14%) GCIH
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 3 (21.43%) NIST
2 2 (14.29%) NCSC
3 1 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (7.14%) JSP 440
3 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
3 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (7.14%) Iperf
1 1 (7.14%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco
1 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
1 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
1 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
1 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
1 1 (7.14%) Tufin