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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 271 312
Rank change year-on-year -1 +41 +97
Contract jobs citing GRC 140 82 79
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 0.65% 0.44%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.40% 4.15% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 58 57
10th Percentile £410 £431 £380
25th Percentile £455 £553 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +22.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £664 £736 £750
90th Percentile £798 £875 £925
England median daily rate £525 £645 £575
% change year-on-year -18.60% +12.17% -4.17%

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 3,185 1,977 2,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.36% 15.63% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,140 1,312 1,759
10th Percentile £350 £313 £353
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £765 £788
England median daily rate £508 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.93% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 23 61
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £20.67 £22.27 £17.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £39.00 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year -33.05% +48.63% -40.17%
75th Percentile £34.22 £65.00 £49.08
90th Percentile £64.31 £91.64 £60.00
England median hourly rate £29.04 £33.11 £20.50
% change year-on-year -12.29% +61.51% -51.76%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 -8 11 £505 -22.27% 19
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 (3.57%) Confluence
1 5 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.43%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.57%) SAP GRC
2 2 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (15.71%) Azure
2 15 (10.71%) AWS
3 10 (7.14%) GCP
4 6 (4.29%) SaaS
5 5 (3.57%) Miro
5 5 (3.57%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.14%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.14%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.43%) Asana
8 2 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.43%) GitHub
8 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.43%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.43%) Serverless
9 1 (0.71%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.86%) Network Security
2 2 (1.43%) Firewall
3 1 (0.71%) Internet
3 1 (0.71%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.57%) Power BI
2 3 (2.14%) Metadata
3 2 (1.43%) Tableau
4 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.71%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 7 (5.00%) JIRA
2 2 (1.43%) Git
3 1 (0.71%) GitLab
General
1 64 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 38 (27.14%) Finance
3 24 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (15.00%) Legal
5 17 (12.14%) Banking
6 16 (11.43%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.29%) Law
8 5 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.57%) Marketing
9 4 (2.86%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.14%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.43%) Police
12 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.71%) Local Government
12 1 (0.71%) Military
12 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (19.29%) Analyst
2 19 (13.57%) Consultant
3 12 (8.57%) Lead
3 12 (8.57%) Senior
4 11 (7.86%) Architect
5 10 (7.14%) Security Manager
6 9 (6.43%) Security Analyst
6 9 (6.43%) Security Consultant
6 9 (6.43%) Security Specialist
7 8 (5.71%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.00%) Security Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 6 (4.29%) Developer
9 6 (4.29%) Programme Manager
9 6 (4.29%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Risk Analyst
10 5 (3.57%) Security Architect
10 5 (3.57%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.86%) REST
2 2 (1.43%) ADO
2 2 (1.43%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (1.43%) SOAP
3 1 (0.71%) .NET
3 1 (0.71%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.71%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.00%) Security Posture
2 10 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.29%) CMDB
3 6 (4.29%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.29%) Operational Technology
3 6 (4.29%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.29%) Virtual Team
4 5 (3.57%) IoT
5 4 (2.86%) PropTech
5 4 (2.86%) Taxonomies
6 3 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.43%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.43%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.43%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (1.43%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.43%) NHS
7 2 (1.43%) PMI
8 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.71%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (40.71%) Risk Management
2 54 (38.57%) Information Security
3 41 (29.29%) Cybersecurity
4 40 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 32 (22.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 22 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (15.00%) Cloud Security
8 20 (14.29%) Agile
8 20 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
9 18 (12.86%) Regulatory Compliance
10 17 (12.14%) Risk Register
10 17 (12.14%) Roadmaps
11 16 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
13 13 (9.29%) AI
13 13 (9.29%) Data Protection
14 11 (7.86%) Incident Response
14 11 (7.86%) ITIL
14 11 (7.86%) ITSM
15 10 (7.14%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.14%) SQL
2 2 (1.43%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.43%) Python
3 1 (0.71%) Bicep
3 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (0.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 28 (20.00%) CISSP
2 18 (12.86%) CISM
2 18 (12.86%) Security Cleared
3 17 (12.14%) SC Cleared
4 14 (10.00%) Degree
5 13 (9.29%) CRISC
6 12 (8.57%) CISA
7 9 (6.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 6 (4.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 5 (3.57%) CSSLP
10 4 (2.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.86%) CCSP
10 4 (2.86%) CGEIT
10 4 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.86%) CISMP
10 4 (2.86%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.86%) OSCP
10 4 (2.86%) RIBA
10 4 (2.86%) SANS
11 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (32.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (27.14%) NIST
3 15 (10.71%) GDPR
4 10 (7.14%) PCI DSS
4 10 (7.14%) SOC 2
5 8 (5.71%) COBIT
6 7 (5.00%) SLA
7 6 (4.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (2.86%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (2.86%) ITGC
8 4 (2.86%) NIST 800
9 3 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 3 (2.14%) NCSC
9 3 (2.14%) PMO
10 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (1.43%) GxP
10 2 (1.43%) ISO 22301
10 2 (1.43%) ISO 31000
10 2 (1.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (1.43%) IAG
2 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.00%) RSA Archer
2 3 (2.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.43%) Terraform
4 1 (0.71%) QRadar
Vendors
1 21 (15.00%) ServiceNow
2 13 (9.29%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.00%) SAP
4 4 (2.86%) Rapid7
5 3 (2.14%) Google
5 3 (2.14%) IBM
6 2 (1.43%) Ariba
6 2 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.43%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.43%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.71%) BT
7 1 (0.71%) Carbon Black
7 1 (0.71%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.71%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.71%) Okta
7 1 (0.71%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.71%) Qualys
7 1 (0.71%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.71%) Snow