IT Audit Contracts

IT Auditing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for IT Audit skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IT Audit over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 660 794
Rank change year-on-year +82 +134 -151
Contract jobs citing IT Audit 16 56 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.094% 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.10% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 39 31
10th Percentile £453 £423 £350
25th Percentile £500 £456 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £556 £650 £650
90th Percentile £575 £675 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £517 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -6.00% -6.78% -14.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £42.64 -
25th Percentile - £47.20 £21.27
Median hourly rate - £54.80 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year - +143.07% +28.83%
75th Percentile - £62.40 £23.82
90th Percentile - £66.96 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £39.60 £22.55
% change year-on-year - +75.65% +28.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

IT 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 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

IT Audit
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Audit in the UK

IT Audit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Audit in the UK

IT Audit
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Audit over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Audit in the UK

IT Audit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Audit in the UK

IT Audit
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Audit within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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
England +83 15 £517 -6.00% 24
London +87 10 £538 -2.27% 15
Work from Home +124 7 £517 -12.00% 8
UK excluding London +47 6 £517 -6.00% 10
North of England +28 4 £500 -5.39% 6
Yorkshire +24 3 £517 -6.00%
Scotland +29 1 - -
North West +18 1 £450 +8.76% 4
South East +16 1 £538 -6.52% 1

IT 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 2 (12.50%) Postman
1 2 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) IT Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) IT Risk Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Risk Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) QA Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) QA Test Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Test Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Operational Risk Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Service Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Auditor
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Information Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Information Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Information Security Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) IT Auditor
5 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (12.50%) Derivative
1 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
1 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (25.00%) Information Security
2 4 (25.00%) Information Security Management
2 4 (25.00%) ITIL
2 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (25.00%) Security Management
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Defect Tracking
3 3 (18.75%) Functional Testing
3 3 (18.75%) Process Improvement
3 3 (18.75%) Scrum
3 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
3 3 (18.75%) Test Planning
3 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
4 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 2 (12.50%) Information Security Governance
4 2 (12.50%) ISMS
4 2 (12.50%) IT Governance
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) CISA
2 7 (43.75%) CISM
2 7 (43.75%) CISSP
3 5 (31.25%) CRISC
4 3 (18.75%) Degree
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
1 4 (25.00%) GRC
1 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (25.00%) NIST
2 3 (18.75%) COBIT
2 3 (18.75%) QA
3 1 (6.25%) ITGC
3 1 (6.25%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) OneTrust
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft