ITGC Contract Job Trends

IT General Controls (ITGC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ITGC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 526 592
Rank change year-on-year -26 +66 +176
Contract jobs citing ITGC 32 18 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.053% 0.029%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.50% 0.37% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 9 10
10th Percentile £560 £213 £431
25th Percentile £563 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -3.61% -1.19%
75th Percentile £825 £575 £659
90th Percentile £930 £608 £776
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £575 £538
% change year-on-year +8.70% +6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £44.04 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £44.04 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

ITGC 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 6,357 4,834 6,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.26% 14.14% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,103 2,845 4,280
10th Percentile £313 £263 £313
25th Percentile £405 £378 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £623 £645
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.32% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 187 233
10th Percentile £13.98 £15.00 £14.20
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.75 £19.47
Median hourly rate £25.63 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -21.43% +55.87%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.24 £64.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £82.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.60 £27.35 £35.25
% change year-on-year -24.70% -22.41% +70.95%

ITGC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ITGC job vacancy trend in the UK

ITGC
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

ITGC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITGC over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITGC in the UK

ITGC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

ITGC
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITGC within the UK over the 6 months to 19 December 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 -10 30 £700 +55.56% 11
London +4 23 £700 +69.70% 5
Work from Home +8 9 £625 -7.41% 6
UK excluding London -39 6 £625 +8.70% 9
Midlands -39 2 £800 -
South East - 2 £575 - 6
Wales - 2 £625 -
West Midlands - 2 £800 -

ITGC
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 3 (9.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) SaaS
2 3 (9.38%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) GitHub
3 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
General
1 24 (75.00%) Finance
2 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Front Office
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Applications Manager
1 5 (15.63%) Consultant
1 5 (15.63%) IT Consultant
1 5 (15.63%) Senior
2 4 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Head of Testing
3 3 (9.38%) Scrum Master
3 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Testing Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) IT Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) IT Risk Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Risk Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Senior IT Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) SOX Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) SOX Test Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Test Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Tester
5 1 (3.13%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) WebCenter
2 2 (6.25%) Middleware
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.13%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (31.25%) ERP
2 10 (31.25%) IT Audit
3 8 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 8 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (21.88%) GAP Analysis
5 6 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
6 5 (15.63%) Budget Management
6 5 (15.63%) Business Continuity
6 5 (15.63%) Document Management
6 5 (15.63%) Remediation Plan
7 4 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 4 (12.50%) Validation
8 3 (9.38%) Financial Modelling
8 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (9.38%) Test Automation
8 3 (9.38%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) SQL
2 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) CISSP
2 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.25%) CISA
3 2 (6.25%) CISM
3 2 (6.25%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (53.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 14 (43.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (31.25%) COBIT
3 10 (31.25%) NIST
4 9 (28.13%) SOX 404
5 3 (9.38%) GRC
6 2 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
7 1 (3.13%) QA
7 1 (3.13%) SOC 1
7 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Oracle
2 7 (21.88%) SAP
3 5 (15.63%) Salesforce
4 3 (9.38%) Atlassian
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft