GRC Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GRC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GRC over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 450 486 602
Rank change year-on-year +36 +116 -55
Contract jobs citing GRC 100 150 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.97% 2.36% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 114 143
10th Percentile £400 £404 £450
25th Percentile £500 £503 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +8.90%
75th Percentile £738 £736 £702
90th Percentile £875 £850 £818
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £594
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.05% +12.19%
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 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,067 6,357 9,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.51% 13.52% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,193 4,313 6,338
10th Percentile £300 £300 £290
25th Percentile £406 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 382 229 265
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.17 £12.56
25th Percentile £12.88 £20.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%
75th Percentile £51.31 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £69.40
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

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 12 June 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 12 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
London +49 60 £575 -4.17% 23
North of England +23 14 £550 -47.62% 8
Midlands +12 10 £675 +1.89% 8
North West +20 9 £550 -47.62% 4
West Midlands +14 7 £775 +10.71% 5
South East +10 7 £588 - 14
Yorkshire +15 5 £464 - 4
South West -4 4 £660 +5.60% 2
East Midlands +6 3 £383 -23.39% 3
East of England +3 1 - - 2
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 4 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.00%) Confluence
3 1 (1.00%) Apache
3 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.00%) SAP GRC
1 5 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.00%) SAP BPC
2 2 (2.00%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.00%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.00%) Azure
2 7 (7.00%) AWS
3 5 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.00%) SaaS
6 2 (2.00%) GCP
6 2 (2.00%) IaaS
6 2 (2.00%) OCI
6 2 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.00%) Alation
7 1 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.00%) Kong
7 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.00%) Network Security
2 2 (2.00%) DNS
2 2 (2.00%) Internet
2 2 (2.00%) SNMP
3 1 (1.00%) Firewall
3 1 (1.00%) Intranet
3 1 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) SAP BW
2 2 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.00%) Power BI
2 2 (2.00%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.00%) Metadata
3 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.00%) PowerCenter
3 1 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.00%) Git
General
1 30 (30.00%) Finance
1 30 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.00%) Banking
4 6 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.00%) Legal
5 4 (4.00%) Retail
6 3 (3.00%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.00%) Automotive
7 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.00%) French Language
8 1 (1.00%) German Language
8 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.00%) Law
8 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (20.00%) Consultant
2 16 (16.00%) Analyst
3 15 (15.00%) Security Consultant
4 14 (14.00%) Lead
5 11 (11.00%) Architect
5 11 (11.00%) Senior
6 8 (8.00%) Governance Analyst
7 7 (7.00%) Risk Analyst
8 6 (6.00%) Developer
8 6 (6.00%) Risk Manager
8 6 (6.00%) ServiceNow Developer
9 5 (5.00%) Senior Consultant
10 4 (4.00%) Compliance Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (4.00%) Head of Security
10 4 (4.00%) Information Manager
10 4 (4.00%) Information Security Consultant
10 4 (4.00%) Information Security Manager
10 4 (4.00%) Security Manager
11 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.00%) CSS
2 3 (3.00%) HTML
2 3 (3.00%) REST
2 3 (3.00%) SailPoint
2 3 (3.00%) SAP Business Workflow
3 2 (2.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.00%) LDAP
3 2 (2.00%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (2.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.00%) XML
4 1 (1.00%) .NET
4 1 (1.00%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.00%) J2EE
4 1 (1.00%) JDBC
4 1 (1.00%) Kafka
4 1 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.00%) Spring
4 1 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.00%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.00%) CMDB
3 6 (6.00%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.00%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.00%) IoT
5 3 (3.00%) NHS
5 3 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.00%) SCADA
7 1 (1.00%) BBC
7 1 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.00%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.00%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.00%) Smart Energy
7 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (37.00%) Information Security
1 37 (37.00%) Risk Management
2 29 (29.00%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (18.00%) Agile
4 12 (12.00%) Cloud Security
5 11 (11.00%) Workflow
6 10 (10.00%) Security Management
7 9 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (8.00%) Data Protection
8 8 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (8.00%) Incident Response
8 8 (8.00%) Roadmaps
9 7 (7.00%) DevOps
9 7 (7.00%) Security Operations
10 6 (6.00%) Computer Science
10 6 (6.00%) ERP
10 6 (6.00%) ISMS
10 6 (6.00%) ITSM
10 6 (6.00%) Migration
10 6 (6.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (4.00%) SQL
3 2 (2.00%) Java
3 2 (2.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.00%) C#
4 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (12.00%) CISSP
1 12 (12.00%) Degree
2 10 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (8.00%) CISM
5 6 (6.00%) CRISC
6 5 (5.00%) CISA
7 4 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (3.00%) CCNP
8 3 (3.00%) CCSP
8 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.00%) CCSK
9 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.00%) CCA
10 1 (1.00%) CEH
10 1 (1.00%) CISMP
10 1 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (27.00%) NIST
2 25 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (10.00%) GDPR
3 10 (10.00%) PCI DSS
4 5 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 5 (5.00%) NCSC
4 5 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (3.00%) HIPAA
5 3 (3.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 3 (3.00%) ITGC
6 2 (2.00%) COBIT
6 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (2.00%) QA
7 1 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.00%) COSO
7 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.00%) ISO 9001
7 1 (1.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.00%) RSA Archer
3 1 (1.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (15.00%) ServiceNow
2 12 (12.00%) SAP
3 10 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.00%) Oracle
4 3 (3.00%) Splunk
5 2 (2.00%) Cisco
5 2 (2.00%) Concur
5 2 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.00%) Darktrace
5 2 (2.00%) Google
5 2 (2.00%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.00%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.00%) Informatica
6 1 (1.00%) Okta
6 1 (1.00%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.00%) Qualys
6 1 (1.00%) Symantec
6 1 (1.00%) Talend
6 1 (1.00%) Varonis
6 1 (1.00%) Workday