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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 303 335
Rank change year-on-year +61 +32 +21
Contract jobs citing GRC 232 70 55
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 0.52% 0.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.95% 2.98% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 44 32
10th Percentile £430 £424 £450
25th Percentile £510 £485 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £644
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -18.45% +11.96%
75th Percentile £675 £595 £781
90th Percentile £825 £660 £1,068
England median daily rate £566 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +10.34% -14.58% +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 3,901 2,346 2,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.35% 17.50% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,643 1,553 1,378
10th Percentile £350 £325 £317
25th Percentile £431 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -3.30%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
England median daily rate £513 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 54 39
10th Percentile £16.04 £23.47 £18.13
25th Percentile £21.33 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.00 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +7.53% +12.43%
75th Percentile £40.72 £44.37 £50.88
90th Percentile £58.75 £62.60 £78.47
England median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £34.47
% change year-on-year -0.32% -5.70% -12.57%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -3 27 £600 -4.00% 34
West London -19 2 £500 +42.86% 3
East London +1 1 £590 +9.26%
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 6 (2.59%) 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 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (6.03%) SAP GRC
1 14 (6.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.43%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.43%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 38 (16.38%) Azure
2 30 (12.93%) AWS
3 17 (7.33%) GCP
4 8 (3.45%) SaaS
5 5 (2.16%) Tricentis Tosca
6 4 (1.72%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.72%) GitHub
6 4 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.86%) Google Gemini
8 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.86%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.86%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.43%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.43%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.45%) 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 5 (2.16%) SAP BW
2 3 (1.29%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.86%) Metadata
3 2 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.86%) Power BI
3 2 (0.86%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.43%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.43%) OLAP
4 1 (0.43%) OLTP
4 1 (0.43%) Parquet
4 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 77 (33.19%) Social Skills
2 60 (25.86%) Finance
3 30 (12.93%) Legal
4 28 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.62%) Banking
6 17 (7.33%) Telecoms
7 15 (6.47%) Public Sector
8 10 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.16%) Law
13 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.86%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.86%) Legal Technology
14 2 (0.86%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
15 1 (0.43%) Marketing
15 1 (0.43%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (21.12%) Architect
2 31 (13.36%) Consultant
3 25 (10.78%) Analyst
4 17 (7.33%) Lead
4 17 (7.33%) Security Consultant
5 14 (6.03%) Senior
6 12 (5.17%) Project Manager
7 9 (3.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 9 (3.88%) SAP Consultant
7 9 (3.88%) ServiceNow Architect
8 8 (3.45%) SAP Security Consultant
8 8 (3.45%) Security Analyst
8 8 (3.45%) Security Architect
9 7 (3.02%) Security Manager
10 6 (2.59%) Developer
10 6 (2.59%) IT Manager
10 6 (2.59%) SAP GRC Consultant
11 5 (2.16%) Delivery Manager
11 5 (2.16%) Risk Analyst
11 5 (2.16%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.05%) REST
2 9 (3.88%) SAP Fiori
2 9 (3.88%) SOAP
3 5 (2.16%) LDAP
3 5 (2.16%) Middleware
4 4 (1.72%) JSON
4 4 (1.72%) XML
5 3 (1.29%) Web Services
6 2 (0.86%) CSS
6 2 (0.86%) HTML
6 2 (0.86%) Kafka
6 2 (0.86%) Playwright
7 1 (0.43%) .NET
7 1 (0.43%) ADO
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.43%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.43%) Flask
7 1 (0.43%) LangChain
7 1 (0.43%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.43%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.07%) Onboarding
2 12 (5.17%) Security Posture
3 11 (4.74%) CMDB
4 9 (3.88%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.88%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.59%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.59%) Taxonomies
6 3 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.29%) FMCG
6 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.86%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.86%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Licensing
7 2 (0.86%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.43%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.43%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.31%) Windows
2 6 (2.59%) 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
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (32.76%) Risk Management
2 75 (32.33%) Cybersecurity
3 65 (28.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 60 (25.86%) Information Security
5 37 (15.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 36 (15.52%) Analytics
7 35 (15.09%) Enterprise Architecture
7 35 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (13.79%) Agile
10 31 (13.36%) Data Integration
10 31 (13.36%) Roadmaps
11 29 (12.50%) ETL
12 28 (12.07%) AI
13 23 (9.91%) Migration
13 23 (9.91%) Security Operations
14 22 (9.48%) Decision-Making
15 21 (9.05%) Regulatory Compliance
16 20 (8.62%) Cloud Security
16 20 (8.62%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.31%) JavaScript
2 5 (2.16%) 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 25 (10.78%) CISSP
4 18 (7.76%) CISM
4 18 (7.76%) CRISC
5 15 (6.47%) Degree
5 15 (6.47%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.88%) CISA
7 8 (3.45%) PMI Certification
8 7 (3.02%) PMP
9 6 (2.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 5 (2.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 3 (1.29%) CESG Certified Professional
12 2 (0.86%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.86%) OSCP
12 2 (0.86%) SANS
12 2 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (24.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 53 (22.84%) NIST
3 21 (9.05%) GDPR
4 16 (6.90%) QA
5 12 (5.17%) PCI DSS
6 11 (4.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (4.74%) NCSC
7 9 (3.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (3.02%) COBIT
9 7 (3.02%) NIST 800
9 7 (3.02%) SOC 2
10 6 (2.59%) Data Quality
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%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (1.29%) JSP 440
System Software
1 6 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.16%) IAG
3 2 (0.86%) Docker
4 1 (0.43%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (0.86%) CASB
1 2 (0.86%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
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 24 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 16 (6.90%) SAP
5 8 (3.45%) CyberArk
6 4 (1.72%) Google
6 4 (1.72%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.29%) Databricks
7 3 (1.29%) Ericsson
7 3 (1.29%) Nokia
7 3 (1.29%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.86%) Ariba
8 2 (0.86%) Cisco
8 2 (0.86%) F5
8 2 (0.86%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.86%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.86%) Snow
9 1 (0.43%) Adobe
9 1 (0.43%) HP
9 1 (0.43%) Splunk