GPG13 Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Good Practice Guide 13 (GPG 13)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GPG13 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GPG13 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.033% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
UK median daily rate £550 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

GPG13 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,008 2,294 3,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.57% 15.30% 15.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,900 1,316 1,896
10th Percentile £285 £210 £260
25th Percentile £400 £354 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.32% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £664 £650 £684
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 143 180
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.70 £14.15
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.50 £17.67
Median hourly rate £20.60 £27.35 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.70% -22.41% +70.95%
75th Percentile £62.73 £62.24 £71.92
90th Percentile £73.75 £67.12 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £25.63 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.80% -21.43% +55.87%

GPG13
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GPG13 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

GPG13 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

GPG13
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GPG13.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GPG13

GPG13
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GPG13 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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 of England - 1 £550 -
GPG13
UK

GPG13
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow