GLBA Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA, GLB Act)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring GLBA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GLBA 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.067% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £675 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

GLBA 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 689 491 740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.35% 12.44% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 282 427
10th Percentile £300 £263 £263
25th Percentile £360 £360 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £483
Median % change year-on-year - -6.74% -3.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
England median daily rate £500 £512 £540
% change year-on-year -2.34% -5.19% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 23 38
10th Percentile £15.25 £11.88 £15.22
25th Percentile £20.97 £13.50 £17.04
Median hourly rate £28.50 £16.00 £20.29
Median % change year-on-year +78.13% -21.12% -61.67%
75th Percentile £57.10 £24.18 £35.25
90th Percentile £70.55 £29.90 £74.56
England median hourly rate £30.00 £31.37 £39.96
% change year-on-year -4.37% -21.50% +53.69%

GLBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GLBA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

GLBA job vacancy trend in the North of England

GLBA
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GLBA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GLBA

GLBA
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GLBA within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Yorkshire - 3 £675 - 1
GLBA
England

GLBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (100.00%) TPMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SNMP
1 3 (100.00%) SSH
1 3 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cryptography Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) OWASP
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (66.67%) Thales