IT Audit Contracts in England

IT Auditing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring IT Audit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IT Audit over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 537 589
Rank change year-on-year +67 +52 +122
Contract jobs citing IT Audit 26 16 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.043% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.050% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 31
10th Percentile £413 £470 £430
25th Percentile £416 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £527 £517
Median % change year-on-year -11.81% +1.98% -10.09%
75th Percentile £524 £575 £600
90th Percentile £604 £586 £675
UK median daily rate £464 £527 £550
% change year-on-year -12.04% -4.14% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £24.00
25th Percentile - £22.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate - £24.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - -10.91% -
75th Percentile - £26.75 £39.60
90th Percentile - - £57.84
UK median hourly rate - £24.50 £39.60
% change year-on-year - -38.13% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

IT 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 23,265 31,763 42,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.18% 85.54% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,982 20,585 29,701
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,161 2,328 1,553
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.80 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +2.09% +45.40%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.00 £75.82
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

IT Audit
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Audit in England

IT Audit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Audit in England

IT Audit
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Audit in England

IT Audit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Audit in England

IT 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 IT Audit within the England region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
London +56 11 £508 -5.58% 112
Midlands +15 5 £465 -19.13% 16
East Midlands +6 4 £465 -19.13% 2
South East +54 2 - - 18
North of England +5 1 £425 -15.04% 20
Yorkshire 0 1 £425 -17.79% 7
West Midlands - 1 - - 14
IT Audit
UK

IT 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:

Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.85%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) LAN
1 7 (26.92%) WAN
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) SSL
2 1 (3.85%) VLAN
2 1 (3.85%) VPN
2 1 (3.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Power BI
1 5 (19.23%) Tableau
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) JIRA
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Field Engineer
1 7 (26.92%) Field Service Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) IT Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Compliance Manager
3 3 (11.54%) IT Risk Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Quality Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Risk Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Data Compliance Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) SAP Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Security Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Auditor
5 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Disaster Recovery Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Disaster Recovery Test Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) IT Auditor
5 1 (3.85%) Security Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Security Tester
5 1 (3.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) SailPoint
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) CCTV
2 1 (3.85%) AS400
2 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.85%) iSeries
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) PKI
2 1 (3.85%) Replication
2 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Test Automation
2 7 (26.92%) Agile
2 7 (26.92%) Information Security
2 7 (26.92%) Migration
2 7 (26.92%) Risk Management
3 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (23.08%) Kanban
4 5 (19.23%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (15.38%) Generative AI
5 4 (15.38%) Test Strategy
6 3 (11.54%) Analytics
6 3 (11.54%) Data Analytics
6 3 (11.54%) Data-Driven Testing
6 3 (11.54%) Privileged Access Management
6 3 (11.54%) Quality Management
6 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (7.69%) Cloud Security
7 2 (7.69%) Data Analysis
7 2 (7.69%) Impact Assessments
7 2 (7.69%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) CISA
2 7 (26.92%) CISM
2 7 (26.92%) CISSP
2 7 (26.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 4 (15.38%) Degree
4 3 (11.54%) CRISC
5 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) NIST
2 8 (30.77%) COBIT
2 8 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (26.92%) NIST 800
4 6 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (15.38%) ITGC
5 4 (15.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (11.54%) QA
7 2 (7.69%) GRC
7 2 (7.69%) SOX 404
8 1 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (3.85%) COSO
8 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) RSA Archer
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Rapid7
2 5 (19.23%) Alteryx
2 5 (19.23%) SAP
2 5 (19.23%) ServiceNow
3 4 (15.38%) CyberArk
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) Dell
5 1 (3.85%) IBM
5 1 (3.85%) Meraki
5 1 (3.85%) Qualys
5 1 (3.85%) Sophos
5 1 (3.85%) Veeam
5 1 (3.85%) VMware
5 1 (3.85%) Zerto