GRC Job Trends in Cambridge

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring GRC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - 83
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing GRC 10 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 1.19% - 0.100%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.66% - 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,900 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,100 - -
75th Percentile £36,300 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £34,100 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 79 32 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 9.37% 12.26% 9.48%
Number of salaries quoted 64 19 74
10th Percentile £30,829 £26,250 £24,410
25th Percentile £45,000 £29,500 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £53,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.17% +41.33% -11.24%
75th Percentile £78,250 £71,875 £59,331
90th Percentile £83,698 £104,500 £78,875
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £59,450 £54,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year +10.09% +40.26% -9.41%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

GRC job vacancy trend in Cambridge

GRC
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing GRC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing GRC

GRC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
General
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (50.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Governance Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Lead
1 5 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Compliance Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Security Compliance Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Information Security
1 9 (90.00%) Risk Management
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Project Management
2 5 (50.00%) Risk Register
3 4 (40.00%) Information Security Governance
3 4 (40.00%) ISMS
3 4 (40.00%) Security Management
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (10.00%) RBAC
4 1 (10.00%) SDLC
4 1 (10.00%) SIEM
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
4 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) DBS Check
1 9 (90.00%) Degree
2 6 (60.00%) CRISC
3 4 (40.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (10.00%) CISA
4 1 (10.00%) CISM
4 1 (10.00%) CISSP
4 1 (10.00%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (10.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (60.00%) ISO 31000
2 6 (60.00%) NIST
3 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 4 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (10.00%) NIST 800
5 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google