Security Auditing Contracts in England

Security Auditing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Security Auditing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Auditing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 529 643
Rank change year-on-year +58 +114 +135
Contract jobs citing Security Auditing 14 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.057% 0.035% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.040% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 10
10th Percentile £425 £438 £449
25th Percentile £481 £520 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £540 £510
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% +5.88% +161.54%
75th Percentile £628 £585 £618
90th Percentile £637 - £654
UK median daily rate £600 £540 £510
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% +45.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Security Auditing 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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Security Auditing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Auditing in England

Security Auditing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Auditing in England.

Daily rate trend for Security Auditing in England

Security Auditing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Auditing in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Auditing in England

Security Auditing
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 Security Auditing within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +32 7 £585 +8.33% 3
South West - 6 £600 - 4
South East - 1 £500 - 2
Security Auditing
UK

Security Auditing
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) GitHub
1 4 (28.57%) Nutanix
2 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
1 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
1 4 (28.57%) Subversion
1 4 (28.57%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Administrator
2 6 (42.86%) Security Administrator
3 4 (28.57%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) IAM Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) Identity Management Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Audit Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) SOC Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Mainframe
2 5 (35.71%) Management Information System
3 4 (28.57%) Clustering
3 4 (28.57%) Replication
4 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (14.29%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) zOS
2 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Incident Response
1 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Security Management
3 4 (28.57%) API Integration
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (28.57%) High Availability
3 4 (28.57%) Kernel Tuning
3 4 (28.57%) Storage Management
4 3 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) Cyber Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (14.29%) Privileged Identity Management
5 2 (14.29%) RBAC
5 2 (14.29%) SIEM
5 2 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Bash
1 4 (28.57%) Perl
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) CISSP
2 6 (42.86%) IBM Certification
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.14%) CISA
4 1 (7.14%) CISM
4 1 (7.14%) GCIA
4 1 (7.14%) GCIH
4 1 (7.14%) GIAC
4 1 (7.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) GDPR
2 4 (28.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (7.14%) NIST
4 1 (7.14%) NIST 800
4 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) RACF
2 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Ansible
1 5 (35.71%) QRadar
2 4 (28.57%) EMC NetWorker
2 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (28.57%) Tivoli
2 4 (28.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) IBM
2 5 (35.71%) Splunk
3 4 (28.57%) CyberArk
3 4 (28.57%) EMC
3 4 (28.57%) Qualys
3 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 4 (28.57%) SaltStack
3 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 4 (28.57%) VMware
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco