Security Auditing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Security Auditing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Auditing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 870 968 1136
Rank change year-on-year +98 +168 -271
Permanent jobs citing Security Auditing 24 21 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.020% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.028% 0.021% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 23 17 35
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,834 £44,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% -11.76% +36.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £88,750
90th Percentile - £91,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £70,000 £69,000
% change year-on-year -16.07% +1.45% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Security Auditing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Security Auditing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Auditing in the UK

Security Auditing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Auditing.

Salary trend for Security Auditing in the UK

Security Auditing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Auditing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Auditing in the UK

Security Auditing
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Auditing within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +116 24 £57,500 -17.86% 7
UK excluding London +22 22 £58,750 -16.07% 3
Yorkshire +96 11 £50,000 - 2
North of England +50 11 £50,000 - 2
Midlands +14 8 £65,000 +4.00%
East Midlands - 8 £65,000 -
South West - 3 £55,000 -
Work from Home +90 2 £51,250 -31.67% 2
London +117 1 - - 4

Security Auditing
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (37.50%) AWS
3 8 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (33.33%) Cloudflare
4 2 (8.33%) Azure
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 8 (33.33%) Games
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Consultant
1 11 (45.83%) Security Consultant
2 10 (41.67%) Information Security Consultant
3 8 (33.33%) Lead
3 8 (33.33%) Technical Leader
4 1 (4.17%) Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) IT Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) IT Security Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Support Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) Laravel
2 2 (8.33%) EJB
3 1 (4.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) PKI
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.17%) Cyberattack
4 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.17%) Insider Threat
4 1 (4.17%) IoT
4 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) CentOS
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Incident Response
1 17 (70.83%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 14 (58.33%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (54.17%) Information Security
4 11 (45.83%) Vulnerability Management
5 10 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (41.67%) Security Operations
6 9 (37.50%) Cloud Security
6 9 (37.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 9 (37.50%) Data Protection
6 9 (37.50%) DevOps
6 9 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
6 9 (37.50%) Security Testing
6 9 (37.50%) Threat Intelligence
7 8 (33.33%) Business Continuity
7 8 (33.33%) Fintech
7 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (29.17%) Risk Register
9 3 (12.50%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) PHP
1 8 (33.33%) Rust
2 1 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) CISSP
3 1 (4.17%) CESG Certified Professional
3 1 (4.17%) CISA
3 1 (4.17%) CISM
3 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (4.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (45.83%) Cyber Essentials
1 11 (45.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (41.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 9 (37.50%) GDPR
4 7 (29.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (20.83%) COBIT
5 5 (20.83%) NIST
6 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (4.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) CA