Compliance Audit Contract Job Trends in England

Compliance Auditing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Compliance Audit skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 487 581
Rank change year-on-year +8 +94 +162
Contract jobs citing Compliance Audit 31 28 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.087% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.10% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 21 11
10th Percentile £360 £308 £425
25th Percentile £438 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +32.91%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £594
90th Percentile £750 £738 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £531
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.68% +32.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £23.25
25th Percentile - - £24.38
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £27.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Compliance Audit falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,250 27,687 37,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.00% 86.24% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,041 16,911 25,840
10th Percentile £300 £313 £315
25th Percentile £405 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £655
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,537 1,195 1,462
10th Percentile £14.39 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.02
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +43.55%
75th Percentile £47.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.35 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +44.07%

Compliance Audit
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Compliance Audit in England

Compliance Audit
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Compliance Audit.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Compliance Audit

Compliance Audit
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Compliance Audit in England over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Compliance Audit in England

Compliance Audit
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Compliance Audit.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Compliance Audit

Compliance Audit
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 Compliance Audit within the England region over the 6 months to 30 September 2025. 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
South West +25 11 £525 +45.83% 4
London +16 9 £475 -24.00% 10
North of England -12 5 £488 +0.52% 5
Yorkshire - 3 £500 -
South East - 3 £380 - 6
North West -11 2 £475 -2.06% 5
East of England 0 1 - - 5
West Midlands -16 1 - - 1
Midlands -22 1 - - 1
Compliance Audit
UK

Compliance Audit
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) CICS
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (6.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (3.23%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (3.23%) SAP MDG
1 1 (3.23%) SAP MM
1 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.23%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) AWS
3 5 (16.13%) Entra ID
4 4 (12.90%) SaaS
4 4 (12.90%) Serverless
5 3 (9.68%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (9.68%) IaaS
5 3 (9.68%) PaaS
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon Macie
6 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) VPN
2 2 (6.45%) DNS
2 2 (6.45%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) LAN
2 2 (6.45%) Network Security
2 2 (6.45%) SSL
2 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (6.45%) DynamoDB
1 2 (6.45%) MS Access
1 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.23%) DB2
2 1 (3.23%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
1 2 (6.45%) GitLab
1 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.45%) Postman
General
1 16 (51.61%) Finance
2 11 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
4 8 (25.81%) Public Sector
5 5 (16.13%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (16.13%) Electronics
5 5 (16.13%) Manufacturing
5 5 (16.13%) Marketing
5 5 (16.13%) Telecoms
6 4 (12.90%) Banking
7 3 (9.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
9 1 (3.23%) Law
9 1 (3.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Analyst
1 7 (22.58%) Lead
2 5 (16.13%) Incident Manager
2 5 (16.13%) ITIL Incident Manager
2 5 (16.13%) ITIL Manager
3 4 (12.90%) Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Governance Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 2 (6.45%) ForgeRock Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Integration Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Security Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Senior
6 1 (3.23%) Change Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Information Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Information Security Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Risk Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) OAuth
2 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.45%) JSON
2 2 (6.45%) OAuth2
2 2 (6.45%) OpenID
2 2 (6.45%) REST
2 2 (6.45%) RESTful
2 2 (6.45%) SAML
2 2 (6.45%) XML
2 2 (6.45%) XSLT
3 1 (3.23%) ISPF
3 1 (3.23%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) CMDB
2 4 (12.90%) Onboarding
3 3 (9.68%) Operational Technology
3 3 (9.68%) Security Posture
4 2 (6.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.23%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (3.23%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.23%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (32.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (25.81%) ITIL
3 8 (25.81%) Risk Assessment
4 7 (22.58%) Configuration Management
5 6 (19.35%) Service Management
6 5 (16.13%) Analytics
6 5 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (16.13%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (16.13%) Problem Management
6 5 (16.13%) Programme Management
6 5 (16.13%) Resource Management
6 5 (16.13%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
6 5 (16.13%) Service Catalogue
6 5 (16.13%) Software Licensing
7 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (12.90%) Incident Response
7 4 (12.90%) RBAC
7 4 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (9.68%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.90%) Python
3 2 (6.45%) C#
3 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.23%) COBOL
4 1 (3.23%) JCL
4 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (41.94%) SC Cleared
1 13 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) AWS Certification
3 4 (12.90%) Degree
4 3 (9.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Certification
4 3 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.23%) CEH
6 1 (3.23%) CISA
6 1 (3.23%) CISSP
6 1 (3.23%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.23%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) GDPR
2 5 (16.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (16.13%) SLA
3 4 (12.90%) NIST
3 4 (12.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (9.68%) NCSC
5 2 (6.45%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (6.45%) PSD2
5 2 (6.45%) SOC 2
6 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
6 1 (3.23%) GRC
6 1 (3.23%) HIPAA
6 1 (3.23%) ISO 9001
6 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (3.23%) ITGC
6 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
6 1 (3.23%) PERC
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) BitLocker
2 1 (3.23%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (3.23%) RACF
2 1 (3.23%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Ansible
1 2 (6.45%) Grafana
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.45%) Kustomize
1 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
1 2 (6.45%) Puppet
1 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (6.45%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) SAP
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 6 (19.35%) Remedy
3 2 (6.45%) Citrix
3 2 (6.45%) ForgeRock
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Ping Identity
3 2 (6.45%) Splunk
3 2 (6.45%) VMware
4 1 (3.23%) Ariba
4 1 (3.23%) BMC
4 1 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.23%) Tenable
4 1 (3.23%) Varonis