SAP GRC Job Trends

SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) formerly SAP Virsa
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SAP GRC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 708 723
Rank change year-on-year +68 +15 +284
Permanent jobs citing SAP GRC 11 4 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.007% 0.025%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.43% 0.13% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 9
10th Percentile - £55,250 £49,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £55,625 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -11.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £60,625 £77,715
90th Percentile - £61,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £81,250 £58,750 £67,224
% change year-on-year +38.30% -12.60% -

All Business Application Skills
UK

SAP GRC falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 2,551 3,138 2,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.28% 5.88% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,427 1,509 2,065
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,350
25th Percentile £38,438 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,033 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% -3.28% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

SAP GRC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SAP GRC job vacancy trend in the UK

SAP GRC
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAP GRC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAP GRC

SAP GRC
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAP GRC within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
UK excluding London +74 10 £81,250 +38.30% 2
England +76 9 £81,250 +41.30% 4
Work from Home +70 5 £77,500 - 1
North of England +32 5 £77,500 +34.78% 2
Yorkshire - 5 £77,500 - 2
South East +25 3 £85,000 +41.67%
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
London +56 1 - - 2

SAP GRC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) SAP S/4HANA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Senior
2 5 (45.45%) Consultant
2 5 (45.45%) SAP Consultant
3 3 (27.27%) Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Principal Consultant
3 3 (27.27%) Principal SAP Consultant
3 3 (27.27%) Risk Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Security Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Security Risk Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Risk Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Security Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Principal Technical Consultant
4 2 (18.18%) SAP GRC Consultant
4 2 (18.18%) SAP Security Consultant
4 2 (18.18%) SAP Security Specialist
4 2 (18.18%) SAP Technical Consultant
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) SAP Basis
2 2 (18.18%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Public Cloud
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) Private Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (36.36%) SAP Security
3 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (18.18%) Application Security
4 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (18.18%) EAM
4 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
4 2 (18.18%) Information Security
4 2 (18.18%) Information Security Management
4 2 (18.18%) RBAC
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Security Management
5 1 (9.09%) QMS
5 1 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CGEIT
1 3 (27.27%) CISSP
1 3 (27.27%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (81.82%) GRC
2 4 (36.36%) GDPR
2 4 (36.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (27.27%) NIST
4 1 (9.09%) GxP
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) SAP
2 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow