GRC Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring GRC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 122 124
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 +62
Contract jobs citing GRC 17 13 25
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.61% 0.49% 0.87%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.48% 3.19% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 19
10th Percentile - £375 £445
25th Percentile £350 £389 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £425 £600 £738
90th Percentile £625 - £778
England median daily rate £513 £600 £561
% change year-on-year -14.58% +6.90% -6.46%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 489 408 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.52% 15.32% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 257 279
10th Percentile £313 £224 £296
25th Percentile £383 £341 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -9.00% +7.67%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £700 £718 £688
England median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 23
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.00 £13.87
25th Percentile £16.12 £14.70 £17.31
Median hourly rate £22.92 £21.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% -21.82% +39.84%
75th Percentile £30.97 £47.13 £33.13
90th Percentile £37.36 £53.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £31.50 £33.93 £35.82
% change year-on-year -7.16% -5.26% +49.23%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GRC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

GRC job vacancy trend in the Midlands

GRC
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GRC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GRC

GRC
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GRC in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GRC in the Midlands

GRC
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GRC within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
East Midlands -6 13 £400 - 5
West Midlands -16 4 £663 +32.50% 2
GRC
England

GRC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) SAP GRC
1 2 (11.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.88%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (11.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) SAP BW
1 1 (5.88%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Analyst
2 12 (70.59%) Security Analyst
3 10 (58.82%) Information Analyst
3 10 (58.82%) Information Security Analyst
4 6 (35.29%) Governance Analyst
5 4 (23.53%) Compliance Analyst
5 4 (23.53%) Risk Analyst
6 3 (17.65%) Information Governance Analyst
6 3 (17.65%) Information Risk Analyst
6 3 (17.65%) Security Compliance Analyst
6 3 (17.65%) Security Risk Analyst
7 2 (11.76%) Architect
7 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (5.88%) Category Manager
8 1 (5.88%) Consultant
8 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
8 1 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
8 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) SailPoint
1 1 (5.88%) SAP Basis
1 1 (5.88%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
1 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Information Security
2 12 (70.59%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (64.71%) ITSM
3 11 (64.71%) Penetration Testing
4 8 (47.06%) Business Continuity
4 8 (47.06%) Data Protection
5 7 (41.18%) Ticket Management
6 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
7 2 (11.76%) Regulatory Compliance
7 2 (11.76%) Remediation Plan
7 2 (11.76%) Security Architecture
7 2 (11.76%) Service Management
8 1 (5.88%) Compliance Management
8 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (5.88%) Contract Management
8 1 (5.88%) Contract Negotiation
8 1 (5.88%) Incident Response
8 1 (5.88%) Risk and Compliance Management
8 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (5.88%) Tech Ops
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) CISM
1 2 (11.76%) CISSP
1 2 (11.76%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) GDPR
2 2 (11.76%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) SAP
2 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) Concur