GRC Jobs in the South West

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring GRC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GRC over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 277 249
Rank change year-on-year +112 -28 +46
Permanent jobs citing GRC 10 16 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.28% 0.17% 0.30%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.74% 1.27% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 13
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £54,844
25th Percentile £55,625 £50,625 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £69,443 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,108 £80,875 £79,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +26.09% -11.54% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 575 1,257 1,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.14% 13.58% 18.01%
Number of salaries quoted 268 832 620
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,716 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.02% -1.49% +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £65,688
90th Percentile £84,117 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing GRC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for GRC in the South West

GRC
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GRC in the South West.

Salary trend for GRC in the South West

GRC
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing GRC in the South West over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GRC in the South West

GRC
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GRC within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 May 2025. 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
Bristol +51 5 £59,746 -20.34% 4
Devon - 4 - -
Wiltshire +38 1 £65,000 +8.33%
GRC
England

GRC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
General
1 4 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (40.00%) Legal
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Military
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Information Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Information Security Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (40.00%) Information Security
3 3 (30.00%) Information Security Governance
4 1 (10.00%) Adaptive Web Design
4 1 (10.00%) ArchiMate
4 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Attestation
4 1 (10.00%) BDD
4 1 (10.00%) Business Development
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Information Assurance
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Release Management
4 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) CCSK
2 1 (10.00%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (10.00%) CISM
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (10.00%) JSP 440
3 1 (10.00%) NCSC