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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 312 340
Rank change year-on-year +28 +28 +153
Contract jobs citing GRC 89 74 84
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 0.47% 0.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.51% 3.54% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 43 59
10th Percentile £415 £372 £360
25th Percentile £475 £506 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +17.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £600 £855 £863
90th Percentile £722 £1,000 £1,065
England median daily rate £525 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -10.64% +6.82% -8.33%

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 2,533 2,088 2,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.05% 13.32% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,677 1,281 2,063
10th Percentile £325 £306 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.90% -1.77%
75th Percentile £644 £668 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £545
% change year-on-year - -8.26% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 29 46
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.60 £17.51
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.75 £21.63
Median hourly rate £31.50 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.01% +15.38% +14.04%
75th Percentile £44.75 £65.00 £50.33
90th Percentile £69.94 £95.50 £66.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -19.44% +58.24%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 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
Central London -1 10 £725 +34.88% 5
West London - 1 £350 -
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 5 (5.62%) Confluence
2 3 (3.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.37%) Trello
3 2 (2.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.62%) SAP GRC
2 2 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.12%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.12%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.12%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.61%) Azure
2 12 (13.48%) Miro
3 10 (11.24%) AWS
4 6 (6.74%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.62%) GCP
6 4 (4.49%) SaaS
7 3 (3.37%) Asana
8 2 (2.25%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.25%) GitHub
8 2 (2.25%) IaaS
8 2 (2.25%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.25%) PaaS
9 1 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.12%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.12%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.12%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.11%) Firewall
2 2 (2.25%) DMZ
2 2 (2.25%) Network Security
2 2 (2.25%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.25%) SSH
2 2 (2.25%) Telnet
2 2 (2.25%) VLAN
2 2 (2.25%) WAN
3 1 (1.12%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.12%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.74%) Power BI
2 3 (3.37%) Tableau
3 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.12%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.12%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (6.74%) JIRA
2 1 (1.12%) Git
General
1 33 (37.08%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.97%) Finance
3 15 (16.85%) Public Sector
4 13 (14.61%) Banking
5 10 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (10.11%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (8.99%) Legal
8 6 (6.74%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (6.74%) Telecoms
9 4 (4.49%) Financial Institution
9 4 (4.49%) Law
10 3 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
11 2 (2.25%) Police
12 1 (1.12%) Billing
12 1 (1.12%) Games
12 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (38.20%) Analyst
2 13 (14.61%) Business Analyst
2 13 (14.61%) Consultant
3 10 (11.24%) Architect
4 9 (10.11%) Lead
5 7 (7.87%) Senior
6 6 (6.74%) Risk Analyst
6 6 (6.74%) Security Analyst
7 5 (5.62%) Security Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Telecoms Analyst
7 5 (5.62%) Telecoms Business Analyst
8 4 (4.49%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.49%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.37%) Business Consultant
9 3 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Governance Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) Security Manager
9 3 (3.37%) Threat Intelligence Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.25%) REST
1 2 (2.25%) Web Services
2 1 (1.12%) .NET
2 1 (1.12%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.12%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.61%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.62%) Security Posture
2 5 (5.62%) Virtual Team
3 4 (4.49%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.37%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.37%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.25%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.25%) CMDB
5 2 (2.25%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.25%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.25%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.25%) NHS
5 2 (2.25%) PMI
6 1 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (46.07%) Risk Management
2 34 (38.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 28 (31.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (29.21%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (24.72%) Information Security
6 15 (16.85%) Agile
6 15 (16.85%) Cloud Security
7 14 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (14.61%) Roadmaps
9 12 (13.48%) Project Management
10 11 (12.36%) BPMN
10 11 (12.36%) ITIL
11 10 (11.24%) Incident Response
12 9 (10.11%) Decision-Making
12 9 (10.11%) IT Audit
12 9 (10.11%) Scrum
12 9 (10.11%) SIEM
12 9 (10.11%) Translating Business Requirements
13 8 (8.99%) eTOM
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.37%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.12%) Java
2 1 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.12%) Python
2 1 (1.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.85%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.61%) CISSP
4 11 (12.36%) Degree
5 10 (11.24%) CISM
6 8 (8.99%) Master's Degree
7 7 (7.87%) FFIEC
8 6 (6.74%) CISA
9 4 (4.49%) CRISC
10 3 (3.37%) CISMP
10 3 (3.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 3 (3.37%) PMI Certification
11 2 (2.25%) CEH
11 2 (2.25%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (2.25%) OSCP
12 1 (1.12%) CBAP
12 1 (1.12%) CCSP
12 1 (1.12%) CGEIT
12 1 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (35.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (31.46%) NIST
3 16 (17.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 12 (13.48%) PCI DSS
5 8 (8.99%) GDPR
6 6 (6.74%) NCSC
7 4 (4.49%) COBIT
8 3 (3.37%) QA
9 2 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (2.25%) HIPAA
9 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (2.25%) ITGC
9 2 (2.25%) MiFID
10 1 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (1.12%) IFRS
10 1 (1.12%) ISO 31000
10 1 (1.12%) PMO
10 1 (1.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.25%) Firmware
2 1 (1.12%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) IAG
Systems Management
1 6 (6.74%) RSA Archer
2 2 (2.25%) Terraform
3 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (17.98%) ServiceNow
2 8 (8.99%) SAP
3 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.37%) Google
5 2 (2.25%) Oracle
5 2 (2.25%) Qualys
5 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.25%) Tenable
6 1 (1.12%) Ariba
6 1 (1.12%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.12%) Commvault
6 1 (1.12%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.12%) IBM
6 1 (1.12%) Intel
6 1 (1.12%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.12%) Snow
6 1 (1.12%) Veeam