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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 293 318
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 +134
Contract jobs citing GRC 96 73 78
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 0.50% 0.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.65% 3.65% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 45 56
10th Percentile £421 £394 £351
25th Percentile £463 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £617 £800 £800
90th Percentile £758 £1,000 £1,063
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%

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 2,630 2,001 2,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.24% 13.69% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,755 1,212 1,871
10th Percentile £340 £300 £363
25th Percentile £415 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 30 49
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.81 £17.90
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.65 £22.29
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £38.75 £78.40 £51.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £95.25 £64.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.11 £33.75
% change year-on-year -16.46% -10.80% +45.05%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -6 10 £563 +4.65% 33
West London - 1 £350 - 1
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 6 (6.25%) Confluence
2 3 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.13%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) SAP GRC
2 2 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.04%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.04%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.04%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.54%) Azure
2 10 (10.42%) Miro
3 8 (8.33%) AWS
4 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.21%) SaaS
6 4 (4.17%) GCP
7 3 (3.13%) Asana
8 2 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.08%) GitHub
8 2 (2.08%) IaaS
8 2 (2.08%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.08%) PaaS
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.04%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (2.08%) Network Security
3 1 (1.04%) DMZ
3 1 (1.04%) Internet
3 1 (1.04%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.04%) SSH
3 1 (1.04%) Telnet
3 1 (1.04%) VLAN
3 1 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.25%) Power BI
2 3 (3.13%) Tableau
3 1 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.04%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (7.29%) JIRA
2 1 (1.04%) Git
General
1 38 (39.58%) Social Skills
2 29 (30.21%) Finance
3 16 (16.67%) Banking
4 14 (14.58%) Public Sector
5 12 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (8.33%) Legal
8 7 (7.29%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (4.17%) Financial Institution
9 4 (4.17%) Law
9 4 (4.17%) Telecoms
10 3 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
11 2 (2.08%) Police
12 1 (1.04%) Billing
12 1 (1.04%) Marketing
12 1 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (32.29%) Analyst
2 14 (14.58%) Consultant
3 11 (11.46%) Business Analyst
4 9 (9.38%) Architect
5 8 (8.33%) Lead
5 8 (8.33%) Risk Analyst
5 8 (8.33%) Senior
6 7 (7.29%) Security Analyst
6 7 (7.29%) Security Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) IT Analyst
8 4 (4.17%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Compliance Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Governance Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Security Consultant
9 3 (3.13%) Security Manager
9 3 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.13%) Telecoms Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.08%) REST
1 2 (2.08%) Web Services
2 1 (1.04%) .NET
2 1 (1.04%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.04%) SOAP
2 1 (1.04%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.25%) Security Posture
3 4 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.17%) Operational Technology
4 3 (3.13%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.13%) PMI
4 3 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.08%) CMDB
5 2 (2.08%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.08%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.08%) NHS
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) IoT
6 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (43.75%) Risk Management
2 32 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 30 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (27.08%) Cybersecurity
5 25 (26.04%) Information Security
6 18 (18.75%) Cloud Security
7 17 (17.71%) Agile
8 15 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (12.50%) Project Management
9 12 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 10 (10.42%) ITIL
10 10 (10.42%) Risk Assessment
11 9 (9.38%) Incident Response
11 9 (9.38%) IT Audit
11 9 (9.38%) SIEM
12 8 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
12 8 (8.33%) Data Protection
12 8 (8.33%) Decision-Making
12 8 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
2 2 (2.08%) SQL
3 1 (1.04%) Java
3 1 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.63%) CISSP
3 14 (14.58%) CISM
3 14 (14.58%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.38%) Degree
5 8 (8.33%) CISA
6 7 (7.29%) CRISC
6 7 (7.29%) FFIEC
7 5 (5.21%) Master's Degree
8 4 (4.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 4 (4.17%) PMI Certification
9 3 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (3.13%) CISMP
10 2 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.08%) CBAP
10 2 (2.08%) CCSP
10 2 (2.08%) CEH
10 2 (2.08%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (2.08%) CGEIT
10 2 (2.08%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (32.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (28.13%) NIST
3 16 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 11 (11.46%) PCI DSS
5 9 (9.38%) GDPR
6 6 (6.25%) COBIT
7 5 (5.21%) NCSC
8 3 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (3.13%) QA
9 2 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (2.08%) HIPAA
9 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (2.08%) ITGC
9 2 (2.08%) MiFID
10 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (1.04%) FedRAMP
10 1 (1.04%) IFRS
10 1 (1.04%) ISO 31000
10 1 (1.04%) PMO
10 1 (1.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.04%) Docker
1 1 (1.04%) Firmware
1 1 (1.04%) IAG
Systems Management
1 6 (6.25%) RSA Archer
2 2 (2.08%) Terraform
3 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (19.79%) ServiceNow
2 9 (9.38%) SAP
3 6 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.17%) Google
5 2 (2.08%) Ariba
5 2 (2.08%) Oracle
5 2 (2.08%) Rapid7
5 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.04%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.04%) Commvault
6 1 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.04%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.04%) IBM
6 1 (1.04%) Intel
6 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.04%) Qualys
6 1 (1.04%) Snow
6 1 (1.04%) Tenable
6 1 (1.04%) Veeam