GLBA Contracts

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA, GLB Act)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring GLBA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GLBA over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank - 590 674
Rank change year-on-year - +84 +160
Contract jobs citing GLBA 0 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK - 0.002% 0.014%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 0.017% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £575
25th Percentile - - £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile - - £622
90th Percentile - - £631
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £606
% change year-on-year - - +15.48%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,022 5,909 7,594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.30% 13.69% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,222 3,664 5,184
10th Percentile £279 £281 £300
25th Percentile £400 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -1.16% -4.04% +7.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 431 254
10th Percentile £14.78 £11.07 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £13.50 £19.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.05% -36.95% +37.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £49.38 £63.23
90th Percentile £83.41 £70.00 £79.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.18 £20.46 £37.50
% change year-on-year +37.73% -45.44% +66.67%

GLBA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GLBA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GLBA in the UK

GLBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GLBA in the UK