GRC Job Trends in Kent

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring GRC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing GRC 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.29% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.22% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £70,000 £73,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +13.08% +18.18%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 135 87 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 12.88% 12.22% 14.31%
Number of salaries quoted 46 35 78
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,100 -
25th Percentile £31,063 £44,250 £27,965
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,750 £60,000 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.08% +53.85% -16.13%
75th Percentile £66,250 £87,500 £53,438
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,500 £58,250
South East median annual salary £52,500 £59,136 £52,397
% change year-on-year -11.22% +12.86% -0.30%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

GRC job vacancy trend in Kent

GRC
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing GRC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing GRC

GRC
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GRC within the Kent region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Maidstone - 1 £62,500 -
Tunbridge Wells - 1 - -
GRC
South East

GRC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Snyk
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Information Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Information Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Information Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Management
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) Checkmarx
2 1 (33.33%) Qualys