GRC Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring GRC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 105 102
Rank change year-on-year -31 -3 +50
Contract jobs citing GRC 5 6 14
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.24% 0.31% 0.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.37% 1.95% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 11
10th Percentile £579 £320 £425
25th Percentile £603 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £728 - £706
90th Percentile £756 £613 £775
England median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 366 307 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.44% 16.09% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 191 203
10th Percentile £315 £250 £322
25th Percentile £405 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £701 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £501 £540
% change year-on-year -0.10% -7.31% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 13
10th Percentile £12.63 £12.00 £17.20
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.70 £25.00
Median hourly rate £18.32 £21.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% -21.82% +68.40%
75th Percentile £30.97 £33.93 £34.50
90th Percentile £37.72 £50.75 £73.00
England median hourly rate £26.54 £30.11 £36.00
% change year-on-year -11.86% -16.38% +46.94%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

GRC job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

GRC
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GRC

GRC
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GRC in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GRC in the West Midlands

GRC
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GRC within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Warwickshire -9 2 £750 +50.00%
Birmingham +1 1 - - 3
Coventry - 1 - -
Solihull - 1 £575 -
GRC
England

GRC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SAP GRC
1 2 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (20.00%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SAP BW
1 1 (20.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Category Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Basis
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) EAM
2 1 (20.00%) ERP
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Market Research
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Security
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Spend Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Concur
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow