IT Audit Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

IT Auditing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring IT Audit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 126 132
Rank change year-on-year -30 +6 +63
Contract jobs citing IT Audit 8 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.26% 0.24% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.28% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £500 £553 -
England median daily rate £550 £480 £517
% change year-on-year +14.58% -7.16% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £24.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year - -10.91% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,688 2,125 2,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.96% 84.70% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 1,322 1,557
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £373 £375 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £689
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 80 104
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.04
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.94 £17.41
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% -6.51% +41.41%
75th Percentile £25.15 £34.06 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

IT Audit
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IT Audit relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

IT Audit job vacancy trend in the Midlands

IT Audit
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IT Audit.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IT Audit

IT Audit
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IT Audit.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IT Audit

IT Audit
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
East Midlands -11 8 £449 -21.91% 2
IT Audit
England

IT Audit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
1 1 (12.50%) VLAN
1 1 (12.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Power BI
1 5 (62.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Security Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) Kanban
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Fintech
3 3 (37.50%) AI
3 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
3 3 (37.50%) Data-Driven Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Generative AI
3 3 (37.50%) Information Security
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) CISA
1 7 (87.50%) CISM
1 7 (87.50%) CISSP
1 7 (87.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) COBIT
1 7 (87.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (87.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 7 (87.50%) NIST
1 7 (87.50%) NIST 800
2 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) RSA Archer
2 1 (12.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Rapid7
2 5 (62.50%) Alteryx
2 5 (62.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) Veeam
3 1 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Zerto