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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 290 326
Rank change year-on-year +9 +36 +134
Contract jobs citing GRC 96 77 80
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.52% 0.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.65% 3.78% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 48 57
10th Percentile £413 £363 £354
25th Percentile £463 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £688 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.36% +25.00% -8.71%
75th Percentile £617 £803 £800
90th Percentile £758 £1,000 £1,060
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -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 2,630 2,039 2,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.20% 13.73% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,759 1,236 1,912
10th Percentile £335 £300 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +1.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £696
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 31 49
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.00 £17.90
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.99 £22.29
Median hourly rate £27.75 £36.80 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +13.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £38.44 £78.40 £51.75
90th Percentile £73.02 £95.00 £65.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £31.12 £34.50
% change year-on-year -19.18% -9.80% +51.65%

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 27 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 27 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 -4 10 £563 +4.65% 37
West London - 1 £350 - 1
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 6 (6.25%) Confluence
2 3 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.13%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) SAP GRC
2 2 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.04%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.04%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.04%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.58%) Azure
2 10 (10.42%) Miro
3 9 (9.38%) AWS
4 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.21%) GCP
5 5 (5.21%) SaaS
6 3 (3.13%) Asana
7 2 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.08%) GitHub
7 2 (2.08%) IaaS
7 2 (2.08%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.08%) PaaS
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.04%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.04%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.38%) Firewall
2 3 (3.13%) Network Security
3 2 (2.08%) DMZ
3 2 (2.08%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.08%) SSH
3 2 (2.08%) Telnet
3 2 (2.08%) VLAN
3 2 (2.08%) WAN
4 1 (1.04%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.04%) Internet
4 1 (1.04%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.25%) Power BI
2 3 (3.13%) Tableau
3 1 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.04%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (7.29%) JIRA
2 1 (1.04%) Git
General
1 38 (39.58%) Social Skills
2 29 (30.21%) Finance
3 16 (16.67%) Banking
4 14 (14.58%) Public Sector
5 11 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (8.33%) Legal
8 7 (7.29%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (4.17%) Financial Institution
9 4 (4.17%) Law
9 4 (4.17%) Telecoms
10 3 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
11 2 (2.08%) Police
12 1 (1.04%) Billing
12 1 (1.04%) Marketing
12 1 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (31.25%) Analyst
2 14 (14.58%) Consultant
3 11 (11.46%) Business Analyst
4 9 (9.38%) Architect
5 8 (8.33%) Lead
5 8 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 8 (8.33%) Senior
6 7 (7.29%) Risk Analyst
6 7 (7.29%) Security Analyst
7 5 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Compliance Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Governance Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) IT Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Security Consultant
9 3 (3.13%) Security Manager
9 3 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.13%) Threat Intelligence Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.08%) REST
1 2 (2.08%) Web Services
2 1 (1.04%) .NET
2 1 (1.04%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.04%) SOAP
2 1 (1.04%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.25%) Security Posture
3 4 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.17%) Operational Technology
4 3 (3.13%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.13%) PMI
4 3 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.08%) CMDB
5 2 (2.08%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.08%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.08%) NHS
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) IoT
6 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.04%) PropTech
6 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (42.71%) Risk Management
2 32 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 30 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (27.08%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (25.00%) Information Security
6 18 (18.75%) Cloud Security
7 17 (17.71%) Agile
8 14 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (12.50%) Project Management
9 12 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 10 (10.42%) Incident Response
10 10 (10.42%) ITIL
11 9 (9.38%) IT Audit
11 9 (9.38%) Risk Assessment
11 9 (9.38%) SIEM
12 8 (8.33%) BPMN
12 8 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
12 8 (8.33%) Data Protection
12 8 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
2 2 (2.08%) SQL
3 1 (1.04%) Java
3 1 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.63%) CISSP
3 14 (14.58%) SC Cleared
4 13 (13.54%) CISM
5 9 (9.38%) Degree
6 7 (7.29%) CISA
6 7 (7.29%) FFIEC
7 6 (6.25%) CRISC
8 5 (5.21%) Master's Degree
9 4 (4.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 4 (4.17%) PMI Certification
10 3 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (3.13%) CISMP
11 2 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (2.08%) CBAP
11 2 (2.08%) CCSP
11 2 (2.08%) CEH
11 2 (2.08%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (2.08%) CGEIT
11 2 (2.08%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (29.17%) NIST
3 16 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 12 (12.50%) PCI DSS
5 9 (9.38%) GDPR
6 5 (5.21%) COBIT
6 5 (5.21%) NCSC
7 3 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (3.13%) QA
8 2 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (2.08%) HIPAA
8 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (2.08%) ITGC
8 2 (2.08%) MiFID
8 2 (2.08%) SOC 2
9 1 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (1.04%) COSO
9 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
9 1 (1.04%) IFRS
9 1 (1.04%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Firmware
2 1 (1.04%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) IAG
Systems Management
1 6 (6.25%) RSA Archer
2 2 (2.08%) Terraform
3 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (19.79%) ServiceNow
2 9 (9.38%) SAP
3 6 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.17%) Google
5 2 (2.08%) Ariba
5 2 (2.08%) Oracle
5 2 (2.08%) Qualys
5 2 (2.08%) Rapid7
5 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.08%) Tenable
6 1 (1.04%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.04%) Commvault
6 1 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.04%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.04%) IBM
6 1 (1.04%) Intel
6 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.04%) Snow
6 1 (1.04%) Veeam