GRC Contracts

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 515 624
Rank change year-on-year +55 +109 -13
Contract jobs citing GRC 115 168 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.92% 2.21% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 124 169
10th Percentile £400 £400 £450
25th Percentile £500 £494 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +12.57%
75th Percentile £738 £713 £688
90th Percentile £863 £838 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% -53.33%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,992 7,585 11,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.92% 13.53% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,782 5,156 7,966
10th Percentile £280 £289 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.35% +9.05%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £454
% change year-on-year -2.26% +7.17% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 244 308
10th Percentile £10.98 £13.29 £12.05
25th Percentile £13.20 £18.65 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.42 £37.50 £28.12
Median % change year-on-year -40.21% +33.38% +33.88%
75th Percentile £47.81 £63.23 £49.44
90th Percentile £69.44 £77.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.97 £36.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -47.67% +64.77% +6.41%

GRC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GRC in the UK

GRC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GRC in the UK

GRC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GRC over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GRC in the UK

GRC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GRC in the UK

GRC
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GRC within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +36 98 £575 -4.17% 65
London +62 61 £575 - 24
Work from Home +79 41 £563 -6.25% 50
UK excluding London +21 34 £600 -4.00% 38
North of England +29 13 £550 -58.49% 14
North West +24 8 £550 -58.49% 6
Midlands +17 8 £775 +24.00% 10
West Midlands +11 7 £775 +16.98% 6
South East +5 7 £588 - 12
Yorkshire +21 5 £464 - 6
South West 0 4 £660 +5.60% 1
Scotland +34 1 £595 -6.67% 1
East Midlands +9 1 - - 4
East of England +4 1 - - 1

GRC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.61%) Apache
3 2 (1.74%) IIS
3 2 (1.74%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.74%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (3.48%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.35%) SAP GRC
1 5 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.74%) SAP BPC
2 2 (1.74%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.43%) Azure
2 7 (6.09%) AWS
3 5 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (4.35%) Entra ID
3 5 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.61%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.61%) SaaS
6 2 (1.74%) GCP
6 2 (1.74%) IaaS
6 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (1.74%) OCI
6 2 (1.74%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.87%) Alation
7 1 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.87%) Kong
7 1 (0.87%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) Network Security
2 2 (1.74%) DNS
2 2 (1.74%) Internet
2 2 (1.74%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.74%) SNMP
3 1 (0.87%) Firewall
3 1 (0.87%) Intranet
3 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.35%) SAP BW
2 2 (1.74%) DB2
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (1.74%) Power BI
2 2 (1.74%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.87%) Metadata
3 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.87%) PowerCenter
3 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.74%) JIRA
2 1 (0.87%) Git
2 1 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 36 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 33 (28.70%) Finance
3 11 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.70%) Banking
5 5 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.48%) Legal
7 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Automotive
8 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Law
8 2 (1.74%) Retail
8 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) French Language
9 1 (0.87%) German Language
9 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (20.87%) Consultant
2 16 (13.91%) Analyst
3 15 (13.04%) Architect
3 15 (13.04%) Lead
3 15 (13.04%) Security Consultant
4 11 (9.57%) Senior
5 9 (7.83%) Security Manager
6 8 (6.96%) Governance Analyst
6 8 (6.96%) Risk Manager
7 7 (6.09%) Risk Analyst
8 6 (5.22%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.35%) Governance Manager
9 5 (4.35%) Information Manager
9 5 (4.35%) Information Security Manager
9 5 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
10 4 (3.48%) Administrator
10 4 (3.48%) Compliance Analyst
10 4 (3.48%) Developer
10 4 (3.48%) Security Architect
10 4 (3.48%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.35%) SailPoint
2 4 (3.48%) CSS
2 4 (3.48%) LDAP
2 4 (3.48%) XML
3 3 (2.61%) .NET
3 3 (2.61%) HTML
3 3 (2.61%) J2EE
3 3 (2.61%) REST
3 3 (2.61%) SAP Business Workflow
3 3 (2.61%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.61%) Web Services
4 2 (1.74%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.74%) EJB
4 2 (1.74%) JSP
4 2 (1.74%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.74%) Servlets
5 1 (0.87%) JDBC
5 1 (0.87%) Kafka
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.87%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.30%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.09%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.35%) CMDB
3 5 (4.35%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.61%) IoT
4 3 (2.61%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (2.61%) NHS
4 3 (2.61%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.74%) SCADA
6 1 (0.87%) BBC
6 1 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.87%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (41.74%) Risk Management
2 47 (40.87%) Information Security
3 37 (32.17%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (12.17%) Identity Access Management
5 13 (11.30%) Agile
6 12 (10.43%) Cloud Security
6 12 (10.43%) Workflow
7 11 (9.57%) Roadmaps
8 10 (8.70%) Incident Response
8 10 (8.70%) Security Management
8 10 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (7.83%) Due Diligence
10 8 (6.96%) Data Protection
10 8 (6.96%) Mentoring
10 8 (6.96%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (6.09%) Business Continuity
11 7 (6.09%) DevOps
11 7 (6.09%) Information Assurance
11 7 (6.09%) ISMS
11 7 (6.09%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.22%) JavaScript
1 6 (5.22%) SQL
2 5 (4.35%) Java
3 2 (1.74%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.87%) C#
4 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.87%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (15.65%) CISSP
2 17 (14.78%) Degree
3 14 (12.17%) Security Cleared
4 13 (11.30%) SC Cleared
5 9 (7.83%) CISM
6 8 (6.96%) CRISC
7 7 (6.09%) CISA
8 6 (5.22%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.61%) CCNP
10 3 (2.61%) CCSP
10 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.74%) CCSK
11 2 (1.74%) CEH
11 2 (1.74%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.74%) SANS
12 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 1 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (30.43%) NIST
2 34 (29.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (11.30%) GDPR
4 12 (10.43%) PCI DSS
5 8 (6.96%) NCSC
6 7 (6.09%) Data Quality
7 6 (5.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (4.35%) COBIT
8 5 (4.35%) ITGC
9 4 (3.48%) HIPAA
10 3 (2.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (2.61%) SOC 2
11 2 (1.74%) ISO 9001
11 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (1.74%) QA
12 1 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.87%) COSO
12 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.74%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (10.43%) SAP
1 12 (10.43%) ServiceNow
2 8 (6.96%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.35%) CyberArk
3 5 (4.35%) Oracle
4 3 (2.61%) Splunk
5 2 (1.74%) Cisco
5 2 (1.74%) Cognos
5 2 (1.74%) Concur
5 2 (1.74%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.74%) Darktrace
5 2 (1.74%) Google
5 2 (1.74%) IBM
5 2 (1.74%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.87%) Informatica
6 1 (0.87%) Okta
6 1 (0.87%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.87%) Symantec
6 1 (0.87%) Varonis
6 1 (0.87%) Workday