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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 304 326
Rank change year-on-year +16 +22 +155
Contract jobs citing GRC 93 73 83
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 0.47% 0.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.59% 3.48% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 43 59
10th Percentile £416 £372 £405
25th Percentile £475 £513 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +17.39% -10.85%
75th Percentile £619 £855 £863
90th Percentile £714 £1,000 £1,065
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 2,593 2,098 2,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.14% 13.45% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,722 1,290 2,042
10th Percentile £325 £306 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.65%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £689
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 28 46
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.70 £18.58
25th Percentile £25.15 £32.84 £22.07
Median hourly rate £31.49 £40.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.72% +25.38% +5.69%
75th Percentile £43.60 £79.60 £50.33
90th Percentile £68.12 £95.75 £66.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £35.79
% change year-on-year -13.28% -18.97% +59.07%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 10 £725 +34.88% 11
West London - 1 £350 -
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 (5.38%) Confluence
2 3 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.23%) Trello
3 2 (2.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.38%) SAP GRC
2 2 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.08%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.08%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.08%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.13%) Azure
2 12 (12.90%) Miro
3 10 (10.75%) AWS
4 6 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.38%) GCP
6 4 (4.30%) SaaS
7 3 (3.23%) Asana
8 2 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.15%) GitHub
8 2 (2.15%) IaaS
8 2 (2.15%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.15%) PaaS
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.08%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.08%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.68%) Firewall
2 3 (3.23%) Network Security
3 2 (2.15%) DMZ
3 2 (2.15%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.15%) SSH
3 2 (2.15%) Telnet
3 2 (2.15%) VLAN
3 2 (2.15%) WAN
4 1 (1.08%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.08%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.45%) Power BI
2 3 (3.23%) Tableau
3 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.08%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.08%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (6.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.08%) Git
General
1 34 (36.56%) Social Skills
2 25 (26.88%) Finance
3 15 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 14 (15.05%) Banking
5 10 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (8.60%) Legal
8 6 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (6.45%) Telecoms
9 4 (4.30%) Financial Institution
9 4 (4.30%) Law
10 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (2.15%) Investment Banking
11 2 (2.15%) Police
12 1 (1.08%) Billing
12 1 (1.08%) Games
12 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (36.56%) Analyst
2 14 (15.05%) Consultant
3 13 (13.98%) Business Analyst
4 10 (10.75%) Architect
5 9 (9.68%) Lead
6 8 (8.60%) Senior
7 7 (7.53%) Security Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Risk Analyst
8 6 (6.45%) Security Analyst
9 5 (5.38%) Telecoms Analyst
9 5 (5.38%) Telecoms Business Analyst
10 4 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Project Manager
10 4 (4.30%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.23%) Business Consultant
11 3 (3.23%) Security Consultant
11 3 (3.23%) Security Manager
11 3 (3.23%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.15%) REST
1 2 (2.15%) Web Services
2 1 (1.08%) .NET
2 1 (1.08%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.05%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.38%) Security Posture
2 5 (5.38%) Virtual Team
3 4 (4.30%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.23%) CMDB
4 3 (3.23%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.23%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.15%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.15%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.15%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.15%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.15%) NHS
5 2 (2.15%) PMI
6 1 (1.08%) IoT
6 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.08%) PropTech
6 1 (1.08%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (44.09%) Risk Management
2 34 (36.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 28 (30.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (29.03%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (24.73%) Information Security
6 17 (18.28%) Cloud Security
7 16 (17.20%) Agile
8 14 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (15.05%) Roadmaps
9 13 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (12.90%) Project Management
11 11 (11.83%) BPMN
11 11 (11.83%) ITIL
12 10 (10.75%) Incident Response
12 10 (10.75%) Translating Business Requirements
13 9 (9.68%) Decision-Making
13 9 (9.68%) IT Audit
13 9 (9.68%) Scrum
13 9 (9.68%) SIEM
14 8 (8.60%) eTOM
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.23%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.08%) Java
2 1 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.08%) Python
2 1 (1.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 14 (15.05%) CISSP
4 11 (11.83%) CISM
4 11 (11.83%) Degree
5 8 (8.60%) Master's Degree
6 7 (7.53%) FFIEC
7 6 (6.45%) CISA
8 5 (5.38%) CRISC
9 3 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (3.23%) CISMP
9 3 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 3 (3.23%) PMI Certification
10 2 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.15%) CCSP
10 2 (2.15%) CEH
10 2 (2.15%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (2.15%) CGEIT
10 2 (2.15%) OSCP
11 1 (1.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (35.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (30.11%) NIST
3 16 (17.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 12 (12.90%) PCI DSS
5 8 (8.60%) GDPR
6 6 (6.45%) NCSC
7 4 (4.30%) COBIT
8 3 (3.23%) QA
9 2 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (2.15%) HIPAA
9 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (2.15%) ITGC
9 2 (2.15%) MiFID
9 2 (2.15%) SOC 2
10 1 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (1.08%) GxP
10 1 (1.08%) ISO 31000
10 1 (1.08%) ISO 9001
10 1 (1.08%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.15%) Firmware
2 1 (1.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) IAG
Systems Management
1 6 (6.45%) RSA Archer
2 2 (2.15%) Terraform
3 1 (1.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (18.28%) ServiceNow
2 8 (8.60%) SAP
3 5 (5.38%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.23%) Google
5 2 (2.15%) Oracle
5 2 (2.15%) Qualys
5 2 (2.15%) Rapid7
5 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.15%) Tenable
6 1 (1.08%) Ariba
6 1 (1.08%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.08%) Commvault
6 1 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.08%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.08%) IBM
6 1 (1.08%) Intel
6 1 (1.08%) Snow
6 1 (1.08%) Veeam