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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 679 548 571
Rank change year-on-year -131 +23 +60
Contract jobs citing GLBA 1 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.009% 0.003%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.010% 0.052% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% - -
75th Percentile £638 £688 -
90th Percentile - - -
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 9,700 5,789 5,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.77% 17.48% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,068 3,693 2,953
10th Percentile £325 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £610 £606 £625
90th Percentile £713 £706 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.42% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 689 282 243
10th Percentile £13.70 £13.60 £13.26
25th Percentile £16.46 £16.61 £16.12
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year - +7.76% -21.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £63.06
90th Percentile £74.25 £79.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.46 £25.11 £28.00
% change year-on-year +25.28% -10.31% -21.68%

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 2 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 10 October 2026. 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 -126 1 £625 -7.41% 3
London - 1 £625 - 3

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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Spark Streaming
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat