GRC Contracts in Reading

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 57 85 85
Rank change year-on-year +28 0 +7
Contract jobs citing GRC 3 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% 0.50% 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.26% 3.39% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £65 -
25th Percentile - £100 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £168 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -73.10% +2.04%
75th Percentile - £248 £638
90th Percentile - £289 -
Berkshire median daily rate £675 £522 £625
% change year-on-year +29.28% -16.46% +2.04%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 92 177 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 15.41% 14.85% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 85 77
10th Percentile £308 £313 £363
25th Percentile £363 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +7.36%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £625
90th Percentile £600 - £723
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £23.80
25th Percentile - - £31.75
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +221.43%
75th Percentile - - £60.38
90th Percentile - - £69.60
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -5.39% +217.07% -2.61%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for GRC in Reading

GRC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for GRC in Reading

GRC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Law
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Compliance Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Web Filtering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NIST