GRC Contracts in Scotland

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 104 150
Rank change year-on-year -9 +46 +33
Contract jobs citing GRC 8 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.47% 0.32% 0.039%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.86% 1.75% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 0
10th Percentile - £335 -
25th Percentile £400 £338 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% - -
75th Percentile £469 £371 -
90th Percentile £533 £505 -
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £595
% change year-on-year -1.33% -11.76% -2.46%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 280 342 519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.45% 18.45% 20.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 213 400
10th Percentile £200 £179 £181
25th Percentile £368 £281 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.48% +3.88%
75th Percentile £529 £500 £538
90th Percentile £575 £600 £590
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 21 5
10th Percentile £14.23 - £13.70
25th Percentile £15.77 £13.52 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.94 £14.98 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% -31.13% -1.14%
75th Percentile £36.60 £18.27 £47.73
90th Percentile £64.63 £19.50 £56.59
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £26.16 £35.25
% change year-on-year +7.71% -25.78% +41.82%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for GRC in Scotland

GRC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for GRC in Scotland

GRC
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GRC in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GRC in Scotland

GRC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GRC in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for GRC in Scotland

GRC
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GRC within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
Glasgow -14 7 £425 +22.30% 5
Aberdeen - 1 - -
GRC
UK

GRC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
1 5 (62.50%) ServiceNow Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) CSS
1 5 (62.50%) HTML
2 4 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (50.00%) HTML5
2 4 (50.00%) jQuery
2 4 (50.00%) REST
2 4 (50.00%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CMDB
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Life Science
1 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
1 1 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (12.50%) SCADA
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 4 (50.00%) User Stories
1 4 (50.00%) Web Development
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 2 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 1 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (12.50%) Information Security
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Network Design
4 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) ServiceNow
2 4 (50.00%) Snow
3 2 (25.00%) Google
4 1 (12.50%) Rockwell