GRC Jobs in the West Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 224 242
Rank change year-on-year +38 +18 +23
Permanent jobs citing GRC 14 26 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.31% 0.36% 0.45%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.73% 2.32% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 6 21 22
10th Percentile £49,250 - £32,100
25th Percentile £51,875 £50,000 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -26.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £85,938
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,000 £101,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +26.09% -11.54% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 807 1,122 1,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.07% 15.50% 29.44%
Number of salaries quoted 393 862 734
10th Percentile £28,908 £27,320 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,750 £50,851
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +3.74% +7.05%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,250 £77,500 £81,250
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for GRC in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for GRC in the West Midlands

GRC
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing GRC in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GRC in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GRC within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Warwickshire -18 8 - - 1
Wolverhampton - 2 £59,250 -
Birmingham +30 1 £70,000 - 4
Solihull - 1 £50,000 -
GRC
England

GRC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
2 1 (7.14%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco Firepower
2 3 (21.43%) VPN
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Law
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 9 (64.29%) Security Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Malware Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Governance Manager
3 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) IT Governance Manager
3 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.14%) IT Risk Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) IT Risk Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Risk Manager
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (57.14%) Compliance Management
2 8 (57.14%) ITIL
2 8 (57.14%) Problem Management
3 6 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (21.43%) SIEM
5 2 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (14.29%) EAM
5 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 1 (7.14%) Agile
6 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity
6 1 (7.14%) Data Migration
6 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
6 1 (7.14%) Identity Management
6 1 (7.14%) IT Governance
6 1 (7.14%) Migration
6 1 (7.14%) Project Management
6 1 (7.14%) Security Operations
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) CISA
1 10 (71.43%) CISM
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (57.14%) CISSP
3 8 (57.14%) GIAC
3 8 (57.14%) ISACA
3 8 (57.14%) SANS
4 2 (14.29%) CRISC
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) JSP 440
1 8 (57.14%) NCSC
2 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.14%) COBIT
3 1 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Nessus
2 3 (21.43%) FortiGate
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Tenable
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco
2 3 (21.43%) Fortinet
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow