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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 298 344
Rank change year-on-year +62 +46 +27
Contract jobs citing GRC 232 71 53
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 0.53% 0.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.89% 3.04% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 46 34
10th Percentile £440 £431 £422
25th Percentile £512 £491 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £644
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -18.45% +11.96%
75th Percentile £675 £603 £775
90th Percentile £825 £660 £1,053
England median daily rate £571 £513 £588
% change year-on-year +11.34% -12.77% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £33.50 -
% change year-on-year +126.87% - -

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 3,937 2,336 2,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.36% 17.33% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,676 1,550 1,420
10th Percentile £350 £325 £331
25th Percentile £431 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 50 42
10th Percentile £15.88 £24.91 £18.13
25th Percentile £21.33 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.00 £29.73
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +14.36% +5.71%
75th Percentile £40.00 £41.75 £49.69
90th Percentile £55.78 £54.05 £71.88
England median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £33.93
% change year-on-year -0.32% -4.21% -5.75%

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 26 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 26 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 -7 27 £600 -4.00% 30
West London -22 2 £500 +42.86% 5
East London +1 1 £590 +9.26% 1
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 (11.64%) SAS
2 5 (2.16%) IIS
3 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (6.47%) SAP GRC
1 15 (6.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.43%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.43%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 39 (16.81%) Azure
2 30 (12.93%) AWS
3 16 (6.90%) GCP
4 7 (3.02%) SaaS
5 5 (2.16%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.16%) Tricentis Tosca
6 4 (1.72%) GitHub
6 4 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.86%) Google Gemini
8 2 (0.86%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.86%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (0.43%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.43%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.43%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.02%) Network Security
2 5 (2.16%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.72%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (1.29%) Firewall
5 2 (0.86%) NGFW
6 1 (0.43%) HTTP
6 1 (0.43%) Internet
6 1 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.59%) SAP BW
2 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.86%) Metadata
2 2 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.86%) Power BI
2 2 (0.86%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.43%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.43%) OLAP
3 1 (0.43%) OLTP
3 1 (0.43%) Parquet
3 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (3.45%) JIRA
2 5 (2.16%) Git
3 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.43%) GitLab
3 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.43%) JMeter
3 1 (0.43%) Postman
3 1 (0.43%) Selenium
3 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 76 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 59 (25.43%) Finance
3 28 (12.07%) Legal
4 27 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.62%) Banking
6 17 (7.33%) Telecoms
7 16 (6.90%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.16%) Law
11 5 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.86%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.86%) Legal Technology
13 2 (0.86%) Military
13 2 (0.86%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.43%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (21.55%) Architect
2 31 (13.36%) Consultant
3 22 (9.48%) Analyst
4 19 (8.19%) Security Consultant
5 16 (6.90%) Lead
6 14 (6.03%) Senior
7 12 (5.17%) Project Manager
8 10 (4.31%) SAP Consultant
9 9 (3.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 9 (3.88%) SAP Security Consultant
9 9 (3.88%) ServiceNow Architect
10 8 (3.45%) Security Architect
11 7 (3.02%) SAP GRC Consultant
11 7 (3.02%) Security Manager
12 6 (2.59%) Developer
12 6 (2.59%) IT Manager
12 6 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
12 6 (2.59%) Security Analyst
13 5 (2.16%) Delivery Manager
13 5 (2.16%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.05%) REST
2 10 (4.31%) SAP Fiori
3 9 (3.88%) SOAP
4 5 (2.16%) LDAP
4 5 (2.16%) Middleware
5 4 (1.72%) JSON
5 4 (1.72%) XML
6 3 (1.29%) Web Services
7 2 (0.86%) CSS
7 2 (0.86%) HTML
7 2 (0.86%) Kafka
7 2 (0.86%) Playwright
8 1 (0.43%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.43%) Apache Avro
8 1 (0.43%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.43%) Flask
8 1 (0.43%) LangChain
8 1 (0.43%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.43%) React
8 1 (0.43%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.64%) Onboarding
2 13 (5.60%) Security Posture
3 11 (4.74%) CMDB
4 9 (3.88%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.02%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.59%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.29%) FMCG
8 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.86%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Licensing
9 2 (0.86%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.43%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.43%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.88%) Windows
2 5 (2.16%) Linux
3 1 (0.43%) AIX
3 1 (0.43%) Android
3 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.43%) HPUX
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.43%) Solaris
3 1 (0.43%) SUSE
3 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (32.33%) Risk Management
2 71 (30.60%) Cybersecurity
3 65 (28.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 59 (25.43%) Information Security
5 38 (16.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 36 (15.52%) Enterprise Architecture
7 35 (15.09%) Analytics
7 35 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (13.79%) Agile
8 32 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (13.79%) Roadmaps
9 30 (12.93%) Data Integration
10 29 (12.50%) ETL
11 28 (12.07%) AI
12 23 (9.91%) Migration
12 23 (9.91%) Security Operations
13 22 (9.48%) Decision-Making
13 22 (9.48%) Regulatory Compliance
14 20 (8.62%) Data Protection
15 19 (8.19%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.31%) JavaScript
2 4 (1.72%) Korn
3 3 (1.29%) Python
4 2 (0.86%) SQL
5 1 (0.43%) Bicep
5 1 (0.43%) C#
5 1 (0.43%) Java
5 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (28.88%) Security Cleared
2 52 (22.41%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.21%) CISSP
4 18 (7.76%) CRISC
5 17 (7.33%) CISM
6 15 (6.47%) DV Cleared
7 14 (6.03%) Degree
8 9 (3.88%) CISA
9 8 (3.45%) PMI Certification
10 7 (3.02%) PMP
11 6 (2.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 5 (2.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 3 (1.29%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.29%) CESG Certified Professional
13 3 (1.29%) OSCP
13 3 (1.29%) SANS
14 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (23.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 51 (21.98%) NIST
3 20 (8.62%) GDPR
4 16 (6.90%) QA
5 11 (4.74%) PCI DSS
6 10 (4.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (4.31%) NCSC
7 9 (3.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (3.02%) COBIT
9 7 (3.02%) SOC 2
10 6 (2.59%) Data Quality
10 6 (2.59%) NIST 800
11 5 (2.16%) HIPAA
11 5 (2.16%) ITGC
12 4 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (1.72%) PMO
13 3 (1.29%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (1.29%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 6 (2.59%) Active Directory
1 6 (2.59%) IAG
2 2 (0.86%) Docker
3 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (0.86%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.43%) CASB
2 1 (0.43%) Grafana
2 1 (0.43%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (15.95%) ServiceNow
2 33 (14.22%) Oracle
3 23 (9.91%) Microsoft
4 17 (7.33%) SAP
5 8 (3.45%) CyberArk
6 4 (1.72%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.29%) Databricks
7 3 (1.29%) Ericsson
7 3 (1.29%) Google
7 3 (1.29%) Nokia
7 3 (1.29%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.86%) Ariba
8 2 (0.86%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.86%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.86%) Snow
9 1 (0.43%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (0.43%) Foundry
9 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Workday
9 1 (0.43%) Zscaler