Compliance Audit Contracts

Compliance Auditing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Compliance Audit skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Compliance Audit over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 679 802
Rank change year-on-year +107 +123 -143
Contract jobs citing Compliance Audit 14 14 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.024% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.027% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 35
10th Percentile £377 - £320
25th Percentile £525 £463 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +1.52% +17.61%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £720 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +36.84% +11.76% +5.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £19.45
25th Percentile - £69.25 £32.88
Median hourly rate - £70.50 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year - +27.03% -3.48%
75th Percentile - £71.75 £77.88
90th Percentile - - £91.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £11.00
% change year-on-year - - -80.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Compliance Audit 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Compliance Audit
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Compliance Audit in the UK

Compliance Audit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Compliance Audit in the UK

Compliance Audit
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Compliance Audit over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Compliance Audit in the UK

Compliance Audit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Compliance Audit in the UK

Compliance Audit
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Compliance Audit within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
Work from Home +125 12 £575 -14.81% 36
England +91 8 £600 +20.00% 39
London +100 5 £600 - 10
UK excluding London +70 5 £650 +36.84% 30
Scotland +39 2 £700 +47.37%
Midlands +31 1 £650 - 7
South West - 1 £360 - 6
Yorkshire - 1 £600 - 5
East Midlands - 1 £650 - 4
North of England - 1 £600 - 9

Compliance Audit
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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP GRC
1 1 (7.14%) SAP GTS
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Alation
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
1 1 (7.14%) GCP
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (7.14%) PaaS
1 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
1 1 (7.14%) SaaS
1 1 (7.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DHCP
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
1 4 (28.57%) Network Security
1 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 4 (28.57%) VLAN
1 4 (28.57%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) Internet
2 1 (7.14%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Metadata
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) PowerCenter
1 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Back Office
4 2 (14.29%) Games
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Security Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Compliance Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Auditor
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) IT Auditor
4 1 (7.14%) IT Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Auditor
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (14.29%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Risk Management
2 6 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 6 (42.86%) Decision-Making
2 6 (42.86%) Project Management
2 6 (42.86%) Security Architecture
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
4 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (28.57%) Information Security
4 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 4 (28.57%) Project Planning
4 4 (28.57%) SABSA
4 4 (28.57%) SIEM
4 4 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (28.57%) TOGAF
5 2 (14.29%) Change Management
5 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 1 (7.14%) Data Stewardship
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Degree
2 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) APMP
3 4 (28.57%) CCNA
3 4 (28.57%) CEH
3 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (28.57%) CISM
3 4 (28.57%) CISSP
3 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (28.57%) PMP
4 1 (7.14%) ACCA
4 1 (7.14%) CIMA
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) ECDL
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) GRC
2 1 (7.14%) IFRS
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) Datix
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Informatica
2 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
2 1 (7.14%) Okta
2 1 (7.14%) OneTrust
2 1 (7.14%) Symantec
2 1 (7.14%) Talend
2 1 (7.14%) Varonis