GRC Contract Job Trends in London

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring GRC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 310 343
Rank change year-on-year +71 +33 +5
Contract jobs citing GRC 220 61 45
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 0.46% 0.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.75% 2.70% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 41 28
10th Percentile £438 £463 £407
25th Percentile £510 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -10.42% -10.11%
75th Percentile £684 £650 £738
90th Percentile £825 £725 £828
England median daily rate £558 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +8.78% -6.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year +16.92% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,826 2,261 2,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.10% 17.03% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,579 1,507 1,467
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £756 £800
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 51 40
10th Percentile £19.76 - £18.13
25th Percentile £23.50 £25.15 £23.35
Median hourly rate £28.55 £34.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% +21.78% +1.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £43.98 £50.44
90th Percentile £58.25 £55.00 £72.56
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

GRC job vacancy trend in London

GRC
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GRC

GRC
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GRC in London over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GRC in London

GRC
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GRC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GRC

GRC
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GRC within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +3 24 £565 -9.60% 29
West London -14 2 £500 +42.86% 10
East London +2 1 £590 +9.26% 3
North London - 1 £400 -
GRC
England

GRC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 27 (12.27%) SAS
2 5 (2.27%) IIS
3 3 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (6.82%) SAP GRC
1 15 (6.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.45%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.45%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 41 (18.64%) Azure
2 31 (14.09%) AWS
3 15 (6.82%) GCP
4 7 (3.18%) SaaS
5 5 (2.27%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.27%) Tricentis Tosca
6 4 (1.82%) GitHub
6 4 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.91%) Google Gemini
8 2 (0.91%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.91%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (0.45%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.45%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.45%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.73%) Network Security
2 5 (2.27%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.82%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (1.36%) Firewall
5 2 (0.91%) NGFW
6 1 (0.45%) HTTP
6 1 (0.45%) Internet
6 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.73%) SAP BW
2 2 (0.91%) Metadata
2 2 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.91%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.45%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.45%) OLAP
3 1 (0.45%) OLTP
3 1 (0.45%) Parquet
3 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (3.64%) JIRA
2 5 (2.27%) Git
3 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.45%) GitLab
3 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.45%) JMeter
3 1 (0.45%) Postman
3 1 (0.45%) Selenium
3 1 (0.45%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (32.27%) Social Skills
2 54 (24.55%) Finance
3 27 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.82%) Legal
5 18 (8.18%) Banking
6 17 (7.73%) Telecoms
7 16 (7.27%) Public Sector
8 9 (4.09%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.73%) Law
11 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.91%) Legal Technology
12 2 (0.91%) Local Government
12 2 (0.91%) Marketing
12 2 (0.91%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (23.64%) Architect
2 24 (10.91%) Consultant
3 22 (10.00%) Analyst
4 18 (8.18%) Lead
5 17 (7.73%) Senior
6 14 (6.36%) Security Consultant
7 11 (5.00%) Project Manager
8 10 (4.55%) SAP Consultant
8 10 (4.55%) ServiceNow Architect
9 9 (4.09%) SAP Security Consultant
9 9 (4.09%) Security Architect
9 9 (4.09%) Security Manager
10 7 (3.18%) SAP GRC Consultant
11 6 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
12 5 (2.27%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 5 (2.27%) Information Security Architect
12 5 (2.27%) IT Manager
12 5 (2.27%) Risk Analyst
12 5 (2.27%) Security Technical Architect
12 5 (2.27%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.09%) REST
2 10 (4.55%) SAP Fiori
2 10 (4.55%) SOAP
3 5 (2.27%) Middleware
4 4 (1.82%) XML
5 3 (1.36%) JSON
5 3 (1.36%) LDAP
5 3 (1.36%) Web Services
6 2 (0.91%) ADO
6 2 (0.91%) CSS
6 2 (0.91%) HTML
6 2 (0.91%) Kafka
6 2 (0.91%) Playwright
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.45%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.45%) Flask
7 1 (0.45%) LangChain
7 1 (0.45%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.45%) RESTful
7 1 (0.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.73%) Onboarding
2 13 (5.91%) CMDB
3 12 (5.45%) Security Posture
4 10 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.64%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.64%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.18%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.82%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.36%) FMCG
9 3 (1.36%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.36%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.91%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.91%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.45%) Life Science
11 1 (0.45%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.64%) Windows
2 3 (1.36%) Linux
3 1 (0.45%) AIX
3 1 (0.45%) Android
3 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.45%) HPUX
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.45%) Solaris
3 1 (0.45%) SUSE
3 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (30.91%) Risk Management
2 61 (27.73%) Cybersecurity
3 59 (26.82%) Information Security
3 59 (26.82%) Stakeholder Management
4 37 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (16.36%) Agile
5 36 (16.36%) Enterprise Architecture
6 35 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 34 (15.45%) Roadmaps
8 32 (14.55%) Analytics
9 29 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (13.18%) Data Integration
9 29 (13.18%) ETL
10 25 (11.36%) Security Operations
11 23 (10.45%) AI
12 21 (9.55%) Regulatory Compliance
13 20 (9.09%) Migration
13 20 (9.09%) Service Delivery
14 19 (8.64%) Data Protection
14 19 (8.64%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (1.36%) Python
3 2 (0.91%) Korn
4 1 (0.45%) Bicep
4 1 (0.45%) C#
4 1 (0.45%) Java
4 1 (0.45%) SQL
4 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 62 (28.18%) Security Cleared
2 49 (22.27%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.27%) CISSP
4 15 (6.82%) CISM
4 15 (6.82%) Degree
5 14 (6.36%) CRISC
6 12 (5.45%) DV Cleared
7 11 (5.00%) CISA
8 8 (3.64%) PMI Certification
9 7 (3.18%) PMP
10 5 (2.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 5 (2.27%) OSCP
10 5 (2.27%) SANS
11 4 (1.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 3 (1.36%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.36%) CSSLP
13 2 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.91%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (24.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (20.91%) NIST
3 19 (8.64%) GDPR
4 17 (7.73%) QA
5 12 (5.45%) PCI DSS
6 10 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (4.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (3.64%) SOC 2
9 7 (3.18%) NCSC
10 6 (2.73%) ITGC
11 5 (2.27%) COBIT
11 5 (2.27%) Data Quality
11 5 (2.27%) HIPAA
12 4 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (1.82%) NIST 800
13 3 (1.36%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (1.36%) PMO
14 2 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 6 (2.73%) IAG
2 4 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.91%) Docker
4 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (0.91%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.91%) RSA Archer
1 2 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.45%) CASB
2 1 (0.45%) Grafana
2 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (15.91%) ServiceNow
2 33 (15.00%) Oracle
3 22 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 17 (7.73%) SAP
5 6 (2.73%) CyberArk
6 4 (1.82%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.36%) Databricks
7 3 (1.36%) Ericsson
7 3 (1.36%) Google
7 3 (1.36%) Nokia
7 3 (1.36%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.91%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.91%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.91%) Snow
9 1 (0.45%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (0.45%) F5
9 1 (0.45%) Foundry
9 1 (0.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.45%) Workday
9 1 (0.45%) Zscaler