Security Auditing Contracts in England

Security Auditing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Auditing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Auditing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 645 781
Rank change year-on-year +121 +136 -148
Contract jobs citing Security Auditing 16 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.020% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.023% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 2
10th Percentile £456 £449 -
25th Percentile £529 £496 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £510 £195
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +161.54% -56.67%
75th Percentile £585 £618 £218
90th Percentile £614 £654 -
UK median daily rate £563 £510 £350
% change year-on-year +10.29% +45.92% -22.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Security Auditing is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,821 44,233 63,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.48% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,850 31,044 45,163
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,250 1,565 1,721
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.68 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Security Auditing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Auditing in England

Security Auditing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Auditing in England

Security Auditing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Auditing in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Auditing in England

Security Auditing
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 Security Auditing within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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 +95 13 £540 +8.54% 2
South East +27 3 £600 -20.00% 4
Security Auditing
UK

Security Auditing
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (75.00%) Firewall
2 10 (62.50%) SD-WAN
2 10 (62.50%) WAN
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MariaDB
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Consultant
1 10 (62.50%) Security Consultant
2 5 (31.25%) Cloud Consultant
2 5 (31.25%) Cloud Security Consultant
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Consultant
3 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 3 (18.75%) DBA
4 3 (18.75%) SQL DBA
5 2 (12.50%) Administrator
5 2 (12.50%) Applications Consultant
5 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 2 (12.50%) IT Consultant
5 2 (12.50%) IT Security Consultant
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco Security Consultant
6 1 (6.25%) CISSP Manager
6 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared DBA
6 1 (6.25%) Information Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Information Security Manager
6 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
6 1 (6.25%) IT Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) PKI
2 4 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Database Security
2 13 (81.25%) Penetration Testing
3 12 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
3 12 (75.00%) SIEM
4 11 (68.75%) Data Encryption
4 11 (68.75%) Risk Assessment
5 10 (62.50%) Cloud Security
5 10 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (62.50%) Ethical Hacking
5 10 (62.50%) Key Management
6 8 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 6 (37.50%) Application Security
8 5 (31.25%) ERP
8 5 (31.25%) SDLC
9 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps
10 3 (18.75%) Database Tuning
10 3 (18.75%) Information Security
10 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
11 2 (12.50%) Analytics
11 2 (12.50%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) CISM
3 1 (6.25%) CISSP
3 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (68.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (6.25%) GDPR
3 1 (6.25%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
3 1 (6.25%) Rapid7
3 1 (6.25%) Remedy
3 1 (6.25%) SAP