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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GLBA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GLBA over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 702 797
Rank change year-on-year +117 +95 -118
Contract jobs citing GLBA 1 20 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.033% 0.038%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.016% 0.25% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 14 21
10th Percentile - £500 £434
25th Percentile - £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +50.00%
75th Percentile - £592 £600
90th Percentile - £634 £606
UK excluding London median daily rate - £525 £525

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

GLBA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,264 8,008 11,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.35% 13.34% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,961 5,483 8,038
10th Percentile £297 £275 £294
25th Percentile £405 £410 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £618
90th Percentile £750 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 234 300
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.05 £18.50 £17.19
Median hourly rate £20.49 £37.75 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.74% +33.63% +34.36%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.71 £77.44 £67.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £35.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -49.37% +66.27% +0.24%

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

GLBA
Top 3 Contract 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 25 April 2024. 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
Work from Home +123 1 - - 2
London +104 1 - - 2
England +101 1 - - 2

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%) IBM Notes
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Internal Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISAE 3402
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CASB
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Axway
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Netskope
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Micro