GRC Contracts in England

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GRC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GRC over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 501 602
Rank change year-on-year +75 +101 -47
Contract jobs citing GRC 111 150 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.31% 0.25%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.17% 2.34% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 111 136
10th Percentile £340 £400 £450
25th Percentile £475 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £738 £713 £718
90th Percentile £881 £838 £813
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +12.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +100.00% -53.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

GRC is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,125 6,421 9,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.09% 13.33% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,289 4,357 6,302
10th Percentile £300 £290 £290
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 215 265
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.63 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £20.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +27.12% +40.48%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £79.90 £69.52
UK median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -39.84% +7.69% +54.76%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GRC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GRC in England

GRC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GRC in England.

Daily rate trend for GRC in England

GRC
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GRC in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GRC in England

GRC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GRC in England.

Hourly rate trend for GRC in England

GRC
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GRC within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +83 71 £575 -4.17% 32
North of England +32 12 £550 -58.49% 13
South East +10 12 £575 -2.13% 14
North West +23 8 £550 -58.49% 6
Midlands +15 6 £775 +29.17% 9
West Midlands +13 5 £775 +29.17% 6
Yorkshire +16 4 £378 - 3
South West +4 4 £660 +5.60% 2
East of England +10 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 3
GRC
UK

GRC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.80%) Apache
3 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.90%) IIS
3 1 (0.90%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.90%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.70%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) SAP GRC
1 4 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.90%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.90%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.81%) Azure
2 7 (6.31%) AWS
2 7 (6.31%) Azure Sentinel
2 7 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (4.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.80%) GCP
5 2 (1.80%) IaaS
5 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (1.80%) OCI
5 2 (1.80%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.80%) SaaS
6 1 (0.90%) Alation
6 1 (0.90%) Kong
6 1 (0.90%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.70%) Internet
2 2 (1.80%) Broadband
2 2 (1.80%) DNS
2 2 (1.80%) Network Security
2 2 (1.80%) SNMP
3 1 (0.90%) Firewall
3 1 (0.90%) Intranet
3 1 (0.90%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.60%) SAP BW
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (1.80%) Power BI
3 1 (0.90%) DB2
3 1 (0.90%) Metadata
3 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.90%) PowerCenter
3 1 (0.90%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.80%) JIRA
General
1 35 (31.53%) Finance
2 32 (28.83%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.11%) Banking
5 5 (4.50%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.60%) French Language
6 4 (3.60%) German Language
6 4 (3.60%) Legal
6 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Automotive
8 2 (1.80%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.80%) Law
8 2 (1.80%) Retail
9 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (23.42%) Consultant
2 20 (18.02%) Security Consultant
3 18 (16.22%) Analyst
4 17 (15.32%) Lead
5 12 (10.81%) Architect
6 10 (9.01%) Senior
7 9 (8.11%) Governance Analyst
8 7 (6.31%) Risk Analyst
9 6 (5.41%) Risk Manager
10 5 (4.50%) Administrator
10 5 (4.50%) Cloud Consultant
10 5 (4.50%) Cloud Security Consultant
10 5 (4.50%) Information Manager
10 5 (4.50%) Information Security Manager
10 5 (4.50%) Security Analyst
10 5 (4.50%) Security Manager
11 4 (3.60%) Compliance Analyst
11 4 (3.60%) Head of Security
11 4 (3.60%) Senior Consultant
11 4 (3.60%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.60%) CSS
2 3 (2.70%) HTML
2 3 (2.70%) LDAP
2 3 (2.70%) REST
2 3 (2.70%) SAP Business Workflow
2 3 (2.70%) Spring Boot
2 3 (2.70%) XML
3 2 (1.80%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.80%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.80%) Web Services
4 1 (0.90%) .NET
4 1 (0.90%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.90%) EJB
4 1 (0.90%) J2EE
4 1 (0.90%) JDBC
4 1 (0.90%) JSP
4 1 (0.90%) Kafka
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.90%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.90%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.81%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.41%) CMDB
2 6 (5.41%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.50%) IoT
4 4 (3.60%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.60%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.70%) NHS
5 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.80%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (1.80%) SCADA
7 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.90%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.90%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.90%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.90%) Smart Energy
7 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.54%) Risk Management
2 44 (39.64%) Information Security
3 41 (36.94%) Cybersecurity
4 19 (17.12%) Cloud Security
5 15 (13.51%) Identity Access Management
6 13 (11.71%) Agile
6 13 (11.71%) Business Continuity
7 12 (10.81%) Security Management
7 12 (10.81%) Workflow
8 10 (9.01%) Data Protection
8 10 (9.01%) Incident Response
8 10 (9.01%) Roadmaps
9 8 (7.21%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (7.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (6.31%) Mentoring
10 7 (6.31%) SIEM
11 6 (5.41%) Computer Science
11 6 (5.41%) Data Governance
11 6 (5.41%) DevOps
11 6 (5.41%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.50%) JavaScript
1 5 (4.50%) SQL
2 4 (3.60%) Java
3 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.90%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (19.82%) CISSP
2 18 (16.22%) CISM
3 16 (14.41%) Degree
4 13 (11.71%) CRISC
5 11 (9.91%) CISA
5 11 (9.91%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (9.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 8 (7.21%) Security Cleared
8 7 (6.31%) CISMP
8 7 (6.31%) SC Cleared
9 5 (4.50%) CCSP
10 3 (2.70%) CCNP
10 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.80%) CCSK
11 2 (1.80%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.90%) CCA
12 1 (0.90%) CEH
12 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (36.94%) NIST
2 39 (35.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (9.91%) COBIT
4 10 (9.01%) GDPR
4 10 (9.01%) PCI DSS
5 5 (4.50%) Data Quality
5 5 (4.50%) NCSC
6 4 (3.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (2.70%) HIPAA
7 3 (2.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (2.70%) ISO 9001
7 3 (2.70%) ITGC
8 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (1.80%) QA
9 1 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.90%) COSO
9 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.80%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 12 (10.81%) ServiceNow
2 11 (9.91%) SAP
3 8 (7.21%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.60%) Darktrace
4 4 (3.60%) Oracle
5 3 (2.70%) Splunk
6 2 (1.80%) Cisco
6 2 (1.80%) Cognos
6 2 (1.80%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.80%) Google
6 2 (1.80%) IBM
7 1 (0.90%) Concur
7 1 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.90%) Informatica
7 1 (0.90%) Okta
7 1 (0.90%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.90%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.90%) Talend
7 1 (0.90%) Varonis
7 1 (0.90%) Workday