GLBA Contract Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring GLBA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 565 644
Rank change year-on-year +1 +79 +203
Contract jobs citing GLBA 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.003% 0.004%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.018% 0.019% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.07%
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

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 5,616 5,155 7,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.20% 13.43% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,600 3,054 4,806
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £610 £630 £650
90th Percentile £712 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £500
% change year-on-year -0.73% -4.30% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 255 259
10th Percentile £13.60 £12.39 £14.02
25th Percentile £16.61 £15.22 £18.84
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -22.54% +54.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.38 £62.50
90th Percentile £81.38 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.02 £27.50 £38.55
% change year-on-year -1.76% -28.66% +83.57%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GLBA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GLBA

GLBA
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GLBA within the UK over the 6 months to 21 September 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
England +15 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -

GLBA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) TPMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk