Compliance Audit Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Compliance Auditing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of 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 176 164 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Compliance Audit 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.13% 0.074% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.087% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £466 £464 -
25th Percentile £472 £465 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £485 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% - -
75th Percentile £497 £545 -
90th Percentile £499 £571 -
England median daily rate £525 £565 £525
% change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +32.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,548 3,433 4,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.92% 84.20% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,327 1,909 3,028
10th Percentile £263 £300 £276
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% - -
75th Percentile £575 £580 £600
90th Percentile £674 £675 £675
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 177 207
10th Percentile £14.13 £13.75 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.36 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +28.58% +36.61%
75th Percentile £36.75 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £64.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +43.55%

Compliance Audit
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Compliance Audit in the North of England

Compliance Audit
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Compliance Audit
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Compliance Audit
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
Yorkshire - 3 £500 -
North West -11 2 £475 -2.06% 5
Compliance Audit
England

Compliance Audit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (20.00%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Macie
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Fargate
1 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (40.00%) MS Access
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Lead DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Risk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Discovery
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) FinOps
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) RBAC
2 2 (40.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Secrets Management
2 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) COBOL
2 1 (20.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 2 (40.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) NIST
2 2 (40.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (20.00%) RACF
2 1 (20.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Kustomize
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk