GRC Contract Job Trends

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring GRC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 374 477
Rank change year-on-year +67 +103 +47
Contract jobs citing GRC 394 159 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.53% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.59% 3.22% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 91 80
10th Percentile £400 £350 £400
25th Percentile £458 £437 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £703
90th Percentile £738 £750 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £417 £585
% change year-on-year +25.90% -28.72% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile - £68.50 -
25th Percentile - £73.75 -
Median hourly rate £64.09 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £91.25 -
90th Percentile £90.20 £96.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.09 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -35.91% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

GRC 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 8,584 4,943 5,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.87% 16.34% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,498 3,166 3,714
10th Percentile £340 £275 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £723 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 201 432
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.09 £11.06
25th Percentile £19.24 £18.50 £13.30
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +32.94% -36.53%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £50.27
90th Percentile £82.22 £83.41 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £31.57 £19.50
% change year-on-year +25.14% +61.87% -45.07%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

GRC job vacancy trend in the UK

GRC
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

GRC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GRC over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GRC in the UK

GRC
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GRC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GRC

GRC
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GRC over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GRC in the UK

GRC
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GRC within the UK over the 6 months to 26 June 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 +63 356 £525 -4.55% 147
UK excluding London -6 183 £525 +25.90% 84
London +38 182 £550 -14.06% 84
Work from Home +25 124 £538 -6.52% 65
North of England -16 64 £490 +19.80% 13
South East -19 46 £500 -4.31% 42
North West -12 42 £509 +41.78% 9
Midlands -57 30 £590 +47.50% 9
Yorkshire -26 22 £475 -9.52% 4
West Midlands -46 20 £550 -12.04% 4
Scotland -3 17 £533 +25.41% 3
East of England -19 16 £575 +4.55% 15
South West -28 11 £525 +26.35% 6
East Midlands -15 10 £638 +68.21% 5

GRC
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 15 (3.81%) Confluence
2 11 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.27%) IIS
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.25%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 32 (8.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (6.85%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.51%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.25%) SAP CCM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP FI-AR
4 1 (0.25%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (0.25%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 61 (15.48%) Azure
2 52 (13.20%) AWS
3 22 (5.58%) GCP
4 13 (3.30%) Power Platform
5 12 (3.05%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.79%) SaaS
7 10 (2.54%) GitHub
8 9 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.28%) Microsoft Copilot
8 9 (2.28%) SuccessFactors
9 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.52%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (1.27%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (1.02%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.51%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.82%) Network Security
2 6 (1.52%) Firewall
3 5 (1.27%) HTTPS
3 5 (1.27%) NGFW
4 3 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.51%) Internet
5 2 (0.51%) VPN
6 1 (0.25%) BGP
6 1 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.25%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.25%) MPLS
6 1 (0.25%) Multicast
6 1 (0.25%) NAS
6 1 (0.25%) OSPF
6 1 (0.25%) SAN
6 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) VLAN
6 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.30%) Power BI
2 10 (2.54%) Metadata
3 8 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.52%) Power Query
5 5 (1.27%) SAP HANA
6 4 (1.02%) SAP BW
7 3 (0.76%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.51%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.25%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.25%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 19 (4.82%) JIRA
2 4 (1.02%) Git
2 4 (1.02%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.25%) Flyway
3 1 (0.25%) GitLab
3 1 (0.25%) Liquibase
General
1 134 (34.01%) Social Skills
2 107 (27.16%) Finance
3 47 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (11.68%) Legal
5 36 (9.14%) Public Sector
6 34 (8.63%) Banking
7 14 (3.55%) Aerospace
8 11 (2.79%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.03%) Law
12 6 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.02%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.02%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.02%) Marketing
13 4 (1.02%) Military
14 3 (0.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 56 (14.21%) Consultant
2 54 (13.71%) Analyst
3 42 (10.66%) Lead
4 40 (10.15%) Architect
5 32 (8.12%) Senior
6 29 (7.36%) Security Consultant
7 23 (5.84%) Risk Manager
8 20 (5.08%) Project Manager
9 18 (4.57%) Security Manager
10 17 (4.31%) Security Analyst
11 16 (4.06%) Security Architect
11 16 (4.06%) Senior Consultant
12 15 (3.81%) Business Analyst
12 15 (3.81%) Governance Manager
13 14 (3.55%) Developer
14 13 (3.30%) Compliance Manager
15 12 (3.05%) IT Manager
16 11 (2.79%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 11 (2.79%) Risk Analyst
16 11 (2.79%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.09%) SAP Fiori
2 22 (5.58%) REST
3 13 (3.30%) SOAP
4 5 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.02%) .NET
5 4 (1.02%) JSON
5 4 (1.02%) Loki
5 4 (1.02%) OAuth
5 4 (1.02%) OpenID
5 4 (1.02%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.02%) SAML
5 4 (1.02%) Web Services
6 3 (0.76%) ADO
6 3 (0.76%) LDAP
6 3 (0.76%) OAuth2
6 3 (0.76%) XML
7 2 (0.51%) Middleware
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.25%) CSS
8 1 (0.25%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.63%) Onboarding
2 29 (7.36%) Security Posture
3 24 (6.09%) Operational Technology
4 23 (5.84%) Management Information System
5 21 (5.33%) Product Ownership
6 17 (4.31%) CMDB
7 14 (3.55%) Cloud Native
8 10 (2.54%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (2.28%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.78%) Taxonomies
11 6 (1.52%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.52%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.27%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.02%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.79%) Linux
2 10 (2.54%) Windows
3 5 (1.27%) AIX
3 5 (1.27%) HPUX
3 5 (1.27%) Oracle Linux
3 5 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.27%) Solaris
3 5 (1.27%) SUSE
3 5 (1.27%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (38.32%) Risk Management
2 127 (32.23%) Cybersecurity
3 101 (25.63%) Information Security
4 96 (24.37%) Stakeholder Management
5 88 (22.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 61 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 57 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (13.71%) Agile
9 53 (13.45%) Roadmaps
10 52 (13.20%) Security Operations
11 45 (11.42%) Vulnerability Management
12 43 (10.91%) Data Protection
13 38 (9.64%) Regulatory Compliance
14 36 (9.14%) Risk Assessment
15 35 (8.88%) Analytics
15 35 (8.88%) Incident Response
16 33 (8.38%) AI
16 33 (8.38%) Decision-Making
16 33 (8.38%) Risk Register
17 31 (7.87%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (2.54%) Python
2 9 (2.28%) SQL
3 7 (1.78%) Bash
3 7 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 7 (1.78%) JavaScript
4 6 (1.52%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.02%) Bicep
5 4 (1.02%) Go
6 1 (0.25%) ABAP
6 1 (0.25%) Java
6 1 (0.25%) Korn
6 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 98 (24.87%) Security Cleared
2 70 (17.77%) SC Cleared
3 61 (15.48%) CISSP
4 40 (10.15%) CISM
5 31 (7.87%) Degree
6 26 (6.60%) CRISC
7 25 (6.35%) CISA
8 22 (5.58%) DV Cleared
9 17 (4.31%) PMI Certification
10 16 (4.06%) PMP
11 10 (2.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 9 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (2.03%) Azure Certification
13 8 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (2.03%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (2.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 7 (1.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (1.52%) CCSP
15 6 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
16 5 (1.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (28.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 94 (23.86%) NIST
3 46 (11.68%) GDPR
4 29 (7.36%) PCI DSS
5 18 (4.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 17 (4.31%) QA
6 17 (4.31%) SOC 2
7 16 (4.06%) NCSC
8 15 (3.81%) COBIT
9 11 (2.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (2.28%) Data Quality
10 9 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 9 (2.28%) ITGC
10 9 (2.28%) NIST 800
10 9 (2.28%) SLA
11 8 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (1.78%) ISO 31000
12 7 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (1.78%) PMO
13 6 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 11 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.02%) IAG
3 2 (0.51%) Docker
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (3.05%) Terraform
2 11 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (2.54%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.52%) RSA Archer
5 5 (1.27%) Grafana
6 4 (1.02%) Istio
6 4 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.76%) Rancher
8 2 (0.51%) Ansible
8 2 (0.51%) QRadar
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.25%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.25%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.25%) Iperf
9 1 (0.25%) logstash
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.25%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.25%) Nmap
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 58 (14.72%) ServiceNow
2 37 (9.39%) SAP
3 36 (9.14%) Microsoft
4 15 (3.81%) Oracle
5 7 (1.78%) Palo Alto
6 6 (1.52%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.27%) CyberArk
7 5 (1.27%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.27%) HP
7 5 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.27%) Splunk
8 4 (1.02%) Google
8 4 (1.02%) Okta
9 3 (0.76%) Ericsson
9 3 (0.76%) Nokia
9 3 (0.76%) OneTrust
10 2 (0.51%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.51%) Rapid7
10 2 (0.51%) Snow
10 2 (0.51%) Tenable
160 GRC jobs Nationwide