GRC Contracts in Northern Ireland

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GRC 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.26% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 30 16 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 18.87% 10.74% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 16
10th Percentile £179 £283 £231
25th Percentile £273 £313 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £325 £385
Median % change year-on-year +25.38% -15.58% -0.65%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £542
90th Percentile £648 £569 £653
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £27.16 - -
25th Percentile £31.64 - -
Median hourly rate £54.24 £12.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +342.76% - -
75th Percentile £82.41 - -
90th Percentile £89.52 - -
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for GRC in Northern Ireland

GRC
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GRC within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
County Antrim - 2 - - 3
GRC
UK

GRC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Information Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley