GRC Contracts in the UK excluding London

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 365 377 442
Rank change year-on-year +12 +65 -36
Contract jobs citing GRC 36 53 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.23% 0.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.20% 1.58% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 39 54
10th Percentile £389 £450 £427
25th Percentile £500 £488 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +25.71%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £638
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £594
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.05% +12.19%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,989 3,358 4,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.02% 14.80% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,712 2,194 3,095
10th Percentile £250 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £363 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £455
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +6.81% +7.06%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 198 198
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.50
25th Percentile £12.72 £18.02 £15.13
Median hourly rate £19.18 £37.50 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -48.87% +67.45% +7.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.69 £48.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.18 £68.75
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GRC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GRC in the UK excluding London

GRC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GRC in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GRC in the UK excluding London

GRC
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GRC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GRC in the UK excluding London

GRC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GRC in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GRC in the UK excluding London

GRC
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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 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
Scotland +46 1 £595 -6.67% 1
East of England +3 1 - - 2
GRC
UK

GRC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (8.33%) SAP GRC
3 2 (5.56%) SAP BPC
3 2 (5.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.56%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (2.78%) AWS
3 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (2.78%) Firewall
2 1 (2.78%) Internet
2 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) SAP BW
2 2 (5.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Git
General
1 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Finance
4 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Automotive
5 2 (5.56%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Legal
5 2 (5.56%) Retail
6 1 (2.78%) Banking
6 1 (2.78%) French Language
6 1 (2.78%) German Language
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Consultant
1 9 (25.00%) Lead
2 7 (19.44%) Senior
3 6 (16.67%) Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Security Consultant
4 5 (13.89%) Senior Consultant
5 4 (11.11%) Risk Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Risk Consultant
7 2 (5.56%) Agile Delivery Lead
7 2 (5.56%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Lead Enterprise Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.56%) SAP Consultant
7 2 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
7 2 (5.56%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Risk Manager
7 2 (5.56%) SOX Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) SAP Business Workflow
2 2 (5.56%) SailPoint
2 2 (5.56%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.78%) .NET
3 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.78%) CSS
3 1 (2.78%) HTML
3 1 (2.78%) J2EE
3 1 (2.78%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.33%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.56%) SCADA
4 1 (2.78%) CMDB
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.78%) Smart Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Information Security
2 10 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (27.78%) Risk Management
3 9 (25.00%) Agile
4 7 (19.44%) Workflow
5 5 (13.89%) Cloud Security
5 5 (13.89%) ERP
5 5 (13.89%) Incident Response
5 5 (13.89%) SAP Security
6 4 (11.11%) Business Continuity
6 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.11%) Records Management
6 4 (11.11%) Remediation Plan
6 4 (11.11%) Waterfall
7 3 (8.33%) Change Management
7 3 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (8.33%) ISMS
7 3 (8.33%) OWASP
7 3 (8.33%) SIEM
7 3 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
1 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.78%) C#
2 1 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) CISSP
2 5 (13.89%) Degree
3 4 (11.11%) CRISC
4 3 (8.33%) CISM
5 2 (5.56%) CISA
5 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.78%) CCNP
6 1 (2.78%) CCSP
6 1 (2.78%) CISMP
6 1 (2.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (2.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (22.22%) NIST
3 6 (16.67%) PCI DSS
4 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
4 3 (8.33%) ITGC
4 3 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (5.56%) COBIT
5 2 (5.56%) GDPR
6 1 (2.78%) COSO
6 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (2.78%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.78%) QA
6 1 (2.78%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 6 (16.67%) SAP
2 2 (5.56%) Concur
2 2 (5.56%) Rapid7
2 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.78%) Darktrace
3 1 (2.78%) Google
3 1 (2.78%) Qualys