GRC Job Trends in Lancashire

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring GRC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 - 83
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing GRC 2 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 0.12% - 0.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.33% - 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £55,234
25th Percentile £71,250 - £55,897
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £57,000
75th Percentile £73,750 - £63,500
90th Percentile - - £67,400
North West median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +43.75% -39.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 150 126 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 9.32% 11.11% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 115 24 77
10th Percentile £30,400 £26,900 £25,200
25th Percentile £38,772 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,592 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -3.41% +3.73%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,125 £58,943
90th Percentile £73,967 £68,750 £64,250
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

GRC job vacancy trend in Lancashire

GRC
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing GRC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing GRC

GRC
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GRC within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 25 September 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
Preston - 1 £72,500 - 7
GRC
North West

GRC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Development
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable