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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 557 636
Rank change year-on-year +3 +79 +182
Contract jobs citing GLBA 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.066% 0.021% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £694 - -
90th Percentile £698 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 - -

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 6,052 4,807 6,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.65% 13.24% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,879 2,816 4,481
10th Percentile £302 £275 £313
25th Percentile £401 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £731 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £471 £500
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.90% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 211 254
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.26 £14.68
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £27.77 £26.68 £38.46
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% -30.63% +47.92%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -13.21% -33.75% +77.05%

GLBA
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GLBA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

GLBA job vacancy trend 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 3 November 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 -14 3 £675 - 1
UK excluding London - 3 £675 - 1
North of England - 3 £675 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £675 - 1

GLBA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) TPMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SNMP
1 4 (100.00%) SSH
1 4 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 4 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Cryptography Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Data Security
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
1 4 (100.00%) OWASP
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
1 4 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 3 (75.00%) Thales