GRC Job Trends in Bolton

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
Manchester > Bolton

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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 25 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Permanent jobs citing GRC 1 8 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bolton 1.28% 8.00% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.00% 29.63% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 - -
75th Percentile £77,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £72,000 £61,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +17.55% +6.52% -17.86%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bolton

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 requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Bolton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 20 27 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bolton 25.64% 27.00% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 12 16 5
10th Percentile - £55,000 -
25th Percentile £28,500 £72,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £75,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +130.77% -15.03%
75th Percentile £50,313 £77,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £74,425 - £66,750
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £50,803
% change year-on-year +6.80% +1.37% -7.63%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

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

GRC job vacancy trend in Bolton

GRC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Information
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Security
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk