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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 645 535 558
Rank change year-on-year -110 +23 +70
Contract jobs citing ITGC 29 23 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.053% 0.070% 0.029%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.31% 0.41% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 7
10th Percentile £419 £516 £213
25th Percentile £475 £558 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £603 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.35% +20.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £688 £563
90th Percentile £680 £960 £580
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £625 £563
% change year-on-year -18.40% +11.11% +60.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £44.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £44.04
% change year-on-year - - +11.21%

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 9,494 5,631 5,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.46% 17.11% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,999 3,606 3,096
10th Percentile £325 £300 £282
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% -3.29%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £712 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +3.05% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 267 262
10th Percentile £13.91 £13.60 £12.37
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.92 £15.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £27.09
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +10.74% -22.60%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £58.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.10 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £27.53 £26.50
% change year-on-year +23.43% +3.89% -24.29%

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 13 September 2026.

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 11 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 13 September 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 -104 27 £510 -11.30% 37
London -86 19 £500 -15.07% 26
Work from Home -60 18 £500 -17.01% 8
UK excluding London -94 7 £510 -18.40% 12
South East -61 3 £510 -11.30% 6
Wales -15 1 £500 -20.00%
East of England -21 1 £510 -3.77% 2
Scotland - 1 - -
South West - 1 £600 -
North West - 1 - - 4
North of England - 1 - - 5

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 1 (3.45%) Liferay
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.45%) Endur
2 1 (3.45%) SAP CO
2 1 (3.45%) SAP FI
2 1 (3.45%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (3.45%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.90%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub
4 1 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (3.45%) OCI
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Broadband
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) Intranet
1 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
1 1 (3.45%) Maven
General
1 16 (55.17%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.24%) Legal
5 3 (10.34%) Banking
5 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) Lead
2 5 (17.24%) SOX Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) IT Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Risk Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) Compliance Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Governance Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) IT Manager
4 2 (6.90%) IT Risk Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Compliance Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Risk Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.45%) IT Risk Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) SAP Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) LDAP
1 2 (6.90%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (3.45%) Bazel
2 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.45%) gRPC
2 1 (3.45%) SailPoint
2 1 (3.45%) Spring
2 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) PKI
2 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.45%) Social Media
3 1 (3.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (41.38%) Risk Management
2 12 (41.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 11 (37.93%) Change Management
4 9 (31.03%) Identity Access Management
4 9 (31.03%) IT Audit
5 8 (27.59%) Internal Audit
5 8 (27.59%) Regulatory Compliance
6 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (17.24%) Agile
8 5 (17.24%) Attestation
8 5 (17.24%) IT Governance
8 5 (17.24%) Privileged Access Management
9 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
9 4 (13.79%) Project Management
9 4 (13.79%) RBAC
9 4 (13.79%) Risk Assessment
10 3 (10.34%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) Java
1 2 (6.90%) SQL
2 1 (3.45%) BeanShell
2 1 (3.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) CISA
2 6 (20.69%) CRISC
3 5 (17.24%) CISSP
4 4 (13.79%) Degree
5 2 (6.90%) CISM
5 2 (6.90%) PMI Certification
5 2 (6.90%) PMP
5 2 (6.90%) SAFe Agilist
5 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.45%) ACCA
6 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (62.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 13 (44.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (37.93%) NIST
4 8 (27.59%) GRC
5 7 (24.14%) COBIT
6 2 (6.90%) GDPR
6 2 (6.90%) PMO
7 1 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (3.45%) NIST 800
7 1 (3.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) SAP
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (6.90%) CyberArk
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Workday