GRC Contracts in the North of England

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 171 194 239
Rank change year-on-year +23 +45 -47
Contract jobs citing GRC 14 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.29% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.02% 1.04% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 11
10th Percentile £378 £499 £510
25th Percentile £396 £696 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £1,050 £588
Median % change year-on-year -47.62% +78.72% +63.19%
75th Percentile £588 £1,363 £625
90th Percentile £600 £1,535 -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +8.90%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 693 767 968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.30% 14.09% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 467 703
10th Percentile £313 £295 £197
25th Percentile £413 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £593 £578 £575
90th Percentile £670 £650 £639
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 48 55
10th Percentile - £17.24 £11.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £26.84 £15.93
Median hourly rate £12.00 £35.00 £22.29
Median % change year-on-year -65.71% +57.02% +28.47%
75th Percentile £26.66 £47.25 £61.88
90th Percentile £48.75 £56.59 £77.50
England median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for GRC in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for GRC in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GRC in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GRC in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for GRC in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +20 9 £550 -47.62% 4
Yorkshire +15 5 £464 - 4
GRC
England

GRC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) Internet
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Automotive
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Agile Delivery Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Risk Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Banking Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Compliance Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Governance Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) CSS
1 1 (7.14%) HTML
1 1 (7.14%) J2EE
1 1 (7.14%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.14%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Information Security
3 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (28.57%) Records Management
3 4 (28.57%) Workflow
4 3 (21.43%) Change Management
4 3 (21.43%) OWASP
4 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
4 3 (21.43%) SIEM
4 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
5 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
5 2 (14.29%) Co-Creation
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Security Operations
5 2 (14.29%) Service Design
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (14.29%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) CISA
1 1 (7.14%) CRISC
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (21.43%) NIST
2 3 (21.43%) PCI DSS
3 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) Rapid7
2 1 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (7.14%) Darktrace
2 1 (7.14%) Qualys
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow