GPG13 Contracts

Good Practice Guide 13 (GPG 13)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GPG13 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GPG13 over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 711 853
Rank change year-on-year +128 +142 -175
Contract jobs citing GPG13 4 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.007% 0.008%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.064% 0.050% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile - £526 £518
25th Percentile - £566 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +8.70% -2.16%
75th Percentile £500 £644 £588
90th Percentile £530 £655 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £625 £575
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -2.16%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

GPG13 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 6,269 8,062 11,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.34% 13.26% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,976 5,531 8,126
10th Percentile £300 £275 £288
25th Percentile £405 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £613
90th Percentile £750 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +4.21% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 236 304
10th Percentile £10.95 £12.92 £11.75
25th Percentile £12.92 £18.44 £17.27
Median hourly rate £20.00 £37.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +36.36% +30.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.19 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.40 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £35.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -49.37% +66.27% +0.24%

GPG13
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GPG13 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GPG13 in the UK

GPG13
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GPG13.

Daily rate trend for GPG13 in the UK

GPG13
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GPG13 within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +127 4 £450 -28.00%
London +113 3 £450 -28.00%
Work from Home - 3 £450 -
UK excluding London +47 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

GPG13
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Data Encryption
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Secure Coding
1 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) CISA
2 1 (25.00%) CISM
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (75.00%) NCSC
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) LogRhythm