GRC Job Trends in Bedford

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bedford citing GRC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	30	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs citing GRC	2	0	0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bedford	0.52%	-	-
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category	8.00%	-	-
Number of salaries quoted	2	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£62,500	-	-
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£65,000	-	-
75^th Percentile	£67,500	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Bedfordshire median annual salary	£65,000	-	-

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bedford

GRC falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies citing quality assurance or compliance skills in Bedford.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing quality assurance or compliance skills	25	2	4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedford	6.56%	3.23%	4.76%
Number of salaries quoted	20	1	3
10^th Percentile	£39,625	-	-
25^th Percentile	£40,000	-	£31,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£45,000	£57,000	£32,500
Median % change year-on-year	-21.05%	+75.38%	+26.21%
75^th Percentile	£46,750	-	£55,000
90^th Percentile	£67,500	-	£67,750
Bedfordshire median annual salary	£45,000	£51,000	£75,000
% change year-on-year	-11.76%	-32.00%	+30.43%

GRC Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

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

GRC Salary Trend in Bedford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing GRC.

GRC Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford

For the 6 months to 28 October 2026, job vacancies citing GRC also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bedford region citing GRC.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Business Continuity	100.0%	2
1	Cyber Essentials	100.0%	2
1	Cybersecurity	100.0%	2
1	Disaster Recovery	100.0%	2
1	Incident Response	100.0%	2
1	Information Security	100.0%	2
1	Information Security Governance	100.0%	2
1	Information Security Management	100.0%	2
1	Internal Audit	100.0%	2
1	ISMS	100.0%	2
1	ISO/IEC 27001	100.0%	2
1	Network Security	100.0%	2
1	Patch Management	100.0%	2
1	Penetration Testing	100.0%	2
1	Risk Management	100.0%	2
1	SaaS	100.0%	2
1	Security Cleared	100.0%	2
1	Security Management	100.0%	2
1	Software Engineering	100.0%	2
1	Vulnerability Management	100.0%	2
1	Vulnerability Remediation	100.0%	2

GRC Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Quality Assurance & Compliance

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cyber Essentials	100.0%	2
1	ISO/IEC 27001	100.0%	2