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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 306 352
Rank change year-on-year +62 +46 +1
Contract jobs citing GRC 223 68 39
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 0.50% 0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.72% 2.93% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 44 25
10th Percentile £429 £428 £404
25th Percentile £510 £485 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £528 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.74% -12.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £678 £638 £700
90th Percentile £825 £660 £760
England median daily rate £557 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +8.73% -6.82% -4.35%
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 3,900 2,319 2,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.19% 17.19% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,630 1,534 1,452
10th Percentile £350 £325 £331
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 £725 £750 £800
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 51 42
10th Percentile £15.93 - £18.13
25th Percentile £21.33 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.00 £29.81
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +14.06% -14.83%
75th Percentile £40.00 £43.98 £49.69
90th Percentile £57.75 £55.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £33.98 £32.25 £29.50
% change year-on-year +5.36% +9.32% -15.71%

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 12 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 12 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 +2 25 £530 -15.20% 31
West London -22 2 £500 +42.86% 8
East London +1 1 £590 +9.26% 4
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 (12.11%) SAS
2 5 (2.24%) IIS
3 3 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (6.73%) SAP GRC
1 15 (6.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.45%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.45%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 39 (17.49%) Azure
2 30 (13.45%) AWS
3 14 (6.28%) GCP
4 7 (3.14%) SaaS
5 5 (2.24%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.24%) Tricentis Tosca
6 4 (1.79%) GitHub
6 4 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.90%) Google Gemini
8 2 (0.90%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.90%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.45%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.45%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.45%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.69%) Network Security
2 5 (2.24%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.79%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (1.35%) Firewall
5 2 (0.90%) 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 (2.69%) SAP BW
2 2 (0.90%) Metadata
2 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.90%) 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%) Power BI
3 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (3.14%) JIRA
2 5 (2.24%) 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 (31.84%) Social Skills
2 55 (24.66%) Finance
3 26 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (11.66%) Legal
4 19 (8.52%) Banking
5 16 (7.17%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.17%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.59%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.69%) Law
9 4 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.90%) Legal Technology
11 2 (0.90%) Local Government
11 2 (0.90%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (22.87%) Architect
2 25 (11.21%) Consultant
3 22 (9.87%) Analyst
4 17 (7.62%) Lead
5 16 (7.17%) Senior
6 14 (6.28%) Security Consultant
7 11 (4.93%) Project Manager
8 10 (4.48%) SAP Consultant
9 9 (4.04%) SAP Security Consultant
9 9 (4.04%) Security Architect
9 9 (4.04%) ServiceNow Architect
10 8 (3.59%) Security Manager
11 7 (3.14%) SAP GRC Consultant
12 6 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
13 5 (2.24%) Developer
13 5 (2.24%) Information Architect
13 5 (2.24%) Information Security Architect
13 5 (2.24%) Risk Analyst
13 5 (2.24%) Security Analyst
13 5 (2.24%) Security Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.42%) REST
2 10 (4.48%) SAP Fiori
3 9 (4.04%) SOAP
4 5 (2.24%) LDAP
4 5 (2.24%) Middleware
5 4 (1.79%) XML
6 3 (1.35%) JSON
6 3 (1.35%) Web Services
7 2 (0.90%) CSS
7 2 (0.90%) HTML
7 2 (0.90%) Kafka
7 2 (0.90%) Playwright
8 1 (0.45%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.45%) Apache Avro
8 1 (0.45%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.45%) Flask
8 1 (0.45%) LangChain
8 1 (0.45%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.45%) React
8 1 (0.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.52%) Onboarding
2 12 (5.38%) Security Posture
3 11 (4.93%) CMDB
4 10 (4.48%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.59%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.59%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.14%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.69%) Taxonomies
8 5 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.35%) FMCG
9 3 (1.35%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.90%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.90%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.45%) Autonomous Agent
11 1 (0.45%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.04%) Windows
2 5 (2.24%) 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 72 (32.29%) Risk Management
2 64 (28.70%) Cybersecurity
3 61 (27.35%) Information Security
4 59 (26.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 35 (15.70%) Enterprise Architecture
5 35 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (15.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 33 (14.80%) Agile
8 32 (14.35%) Analytics
8 32 (14.35%) Roadmaps
9 31 (13.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (13.00%) Data Integration
10 29 (13.00%) ETL
11 24 (10.76%) AI
11 24 (10.76%) Security Operations
12 22 (9.87%) Migration
12 22 (9.87%) Regulatory Compliance
13 20 (8.97%) Decision-Making
13 20 (8.97%) Service Delivery
14 19 (8.52%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.48%) JavaScript
2 3 (1.35%) Korn
2 3 (1.35%) Python
3 1 (0.45%) Bicep
3 1 (0.45%) C#
3 1 (0.45%) Java
3 1 (0.45%) SQL
3 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 63 (28.25%) Security Cleared
2 48 (21.52%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.11%) CISSP
4 16 (7.17%) CISM
4 16 (7.17%) CRISC
5 14 (6.28%) Degree
5 14 (6.28%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.48%) CISA
7 8 (3.59%) PMI Certification
8 7 (3.14%) PMP
9 5 (2.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 5 (2.24%) OSCP
9 5 (2.24%) SANS
10 4 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 3 (1.35%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.35%) CESG Certified Professional
12 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (24.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (20.18%) NIST
3 21 (9.42%) GDPR
4 16 (7.17%) QA
5 12 (5.38%) PCI DSS
6 10 (4.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (4.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (3.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (3.59%) SOC 2
9 7 (3.14%) NCSC
10 5 (2.24%) COBIT
10 5 (2.24%) Data Quality
10 5 (2.24%) HIPAA
10 5 (2.24%) ITGC
10 5 (2.24%) NIST 800
11 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (1.35%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (1.35%) JSP 440
12 3 (1.35%) PMO
13 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 6 (2.69%) Active Directory
1 6 (2.69%) IAG
2 2 (0.90%) Docker
3 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (0.90%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.90%) RSA Archer
1 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.45%) CASB
2 1 (0.45%) Grafana
2 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (16.14%) ServiceNow
2 33 (14.80%) Oracle
3 21 (9.42%) Microsoft
4 17 (7.62%) SAP
5 8 (3.59%) CyberArk
6 4 (1.79%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.35%) Databricks
7 3 (1.35%) Ericsson
7 3 (1.35%) Google
7 3 (1.35%) Nokia
7 3 (1.35%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.90%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.90%) Snow
9 1 (0.45%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (0.45%) Okta
9 1 (0.45%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.45%) Workday
9 1 (0.45%) Zscaler