GRC Contracts in London

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for GRC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GRC over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 400 488
Rank change year-on-year +81 +88 -72
Contract jobs citing GRC 75 95 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.42% 0.35% 0.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.01% 2.67% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 71 84
10th Percentile £354 £365 £463
25th Percentile £475 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £713 £738
90th Percentile £925 £800 £809
England median daily rate £575 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.13% +8.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +100.00% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

GRC is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,494 3,552 5,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.96% 13.01% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,767 2,555 3,534
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £650
90th Percentile £792 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 39 82
10th Percentile £12.68 £21.19 £21.00
25th Percentile £17.56 £21.24 £25.88
Median hourly rate £24.18 £43.86 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.87% -1.44% +122.50%
75th Percentile £39.00 £62.25 £49.25
90th Percentile £53.73 £80.50 £67.00
England median hourly rate £20.61 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -51.52% +54.55% +31.26%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing GRC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for GRC in London

GRC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GRC in London.

Daily rate trend for GRC in London

GRC
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GRC in London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GRC in London

GRC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GRC in London.

Hourly rate trend for GRC in London

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 23 April 2024. 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 +39 9 £575 +4.55% 3
GRC
England

GRC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.67%) Apache
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.33%) IIS
3 1 (1.33%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.33%) SAP GRC
2 2 (2.67%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.33%) Azure
2 8 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (8.00%) AWS
3 6 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (2.67%) IaaS
6 2 (2.67%) OCI
6 2 (2.67%) SaaS
7 1 (1.33%) Alation
7 1 (1.33%) GCP
7 1 (1.33%) Kong
7 1 (1.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.33%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) DNS
1 2 (2.67%) SNMP
2 1 (1.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.33%) DB2
2 1 (1.33%) Metadata
2 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.33%) Power BI
2 1 (1.33%) PowerCenter
2 1 (1.33%) Tableau
General
1 28 (37.33%) Finance
2 17 (22.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.00%) Banking
4 4 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Law
6 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.67%) Legal
6 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (21.33%) Consultant
2 12 (16.00%) Analyst
3 11 (14.67%) Security Consultant
4 10 (13.33%) Lead
5 8 (10.67%) Architect
6 6 (8.00%) Security Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Administrator
7 5 (6.67%) Governance Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Information Security Consultant
7 5 (6.67%) Senior
8 4 (5.33%) Head of Security
8 4 (5.33%) Risk Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Security Administrator
9 3 (4.00%) Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Information Manager
9 3 (4.00%) Information Security Manager
9 3 (4.00%) Project Manager
9 3 (4.00%) Security Manager
9 3 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (4.00%) Senior Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.00%) CSS
1 3 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (4.00%) REST
1 3 (4.00%) SailPoint
1 3 (4.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (4.00%) XML
2 2 (2.67%) HTML
2 2 (2.67%) LDAP
2 2 (2.67%) Web Services
3 1 (1.33%) .NET
3 1 (1.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.33%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.33%) EJB
3 1 (1.33%) J2EE
3 1 (1.33%) JDBC
3 1 (1.33%) JSP
3 1 (1.33%) Kafka
3 1 (1.33%) Servlets
3 1 (1.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (8.00%) CMDB
3 5 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.00%) IoT
4 3 (4.00%) NHS
5 2 (2.67%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.67%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.33%) BBC
6 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.33%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.33%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.00%) Information Security
2 29 (38.67%) Risk Management
3 24 (32.00%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (16.00%) Security Management
5 11 (14.67%) Cloud Security
6 10 (13.33%) Data Protection
7 9 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (12.00%) Roadmaps
8 7 (9.33%) Mentoring
8 7 (9.33%) Security Operations
8 7 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (8.00%) Agile
9 6 (8.00%) Decision-Making
9 6 (8.00%) Incident Response
9 6 (8.00%) SIEM
9 6 (8.00%) Use Case
9 6 (8.00%) Workflow
10 5 (6.67%) Cyber Resilience
10 5 (6.67%) Due Diligence
10 5 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.67%) SQL
2 4 (5.33%) Java
2 4 (5.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (14.67%) CISSP
2 10 (13.33%) CISM
3 6 (8.00%) Degree
4 4 (5.33%) CISA
4 4 (5.33%) CRISC
5 3 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.67%) CCNP
6 2 (2.67%) CCSK
6 2 (2.67%) CCSP
6 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.33%) CCA
7 1 (1.33%) CEH
7 1 (1.33%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.33%) PMP
7 1 (1.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (34.67%) NIST
2 23 (30.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (9.33%) GDPR
4 5 (6.67%) NCSC
4 5 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (5.33%) COBIT
5 4 (5.33%) ISO 9001
5 4 (5.33%) PCI DSS
6 3 (4.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
7 2 (2.67%) HIPAA
7 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.67%) RSA Archer
2 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (17.33%) ServiceNow
2 8 (10.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.00%) Oracle
3 6 (8.00%) SAP
4 4 (5.33%) Darktrace
5 3 (4.00%) Splunk
6 2 (2.67%) Cisco
6 2 (2.67%) Cognos
6 2 (2.67%) IBM
6 2 (2.67%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.33%) Cadence
7 1 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.33%) Google
7 1 (1.33%) Informatica
7 1 (1.33%) Okta
7 1 (1.33%) Symantec
7 1 (1.33%) Talend
7 1 (1.33%) Varonis
7 1 (1.33%) Workday