GRC Contracts in Manchester

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring GRC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GRC over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 89 115
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 +19
Contract jobs citing GRC 3 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.32% 0.46% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.19% 2.87% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £432 £501 -
25th Percentile £466 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £1,650
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -66.67% +177.89%
75th Percentile £637 £600 -
90th Percentile £682 - -
North West median daily rate £363 £550 £1,650
% change year-on-year -34.00% -66.67% +180.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 137 244 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.79% 16.08% 15.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 151 191
10th Percentile £360 £375 £320
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £594
90th Percentile £708 £713 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 5
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.84 £11.85
25th Percentile £16.11 £13.19 £13.50
Median hourly rate £22.63 £37.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.07% +65.03% +80.00%
75th Percentile £55.06 £68.78 £39.60
90th Percentile £76.25 £72.14 £63.84
North West median hourly rate £30.38 £12.84 £38.55
% change year-on-year +136.60% -66.69% +114.17%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for GRC in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for GRC in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GRC in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GRC in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) API Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Artefact Management
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Security
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) OWASP
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Records Management
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow