IT Audit Contract Job Trends in the North of England

IT Auditing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring IT Audit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 166 186
Rank change year-on-year -22 +20 +63
Contract jobs citing IT Audit 5 3 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.12% 0.074% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.088% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 12
10th Percentile £423 £464 £470
25th Percentile £447 £465 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £485 £517
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% -6.19% +59.08%
75th Percentile - £510 -
90th Percentile £574 £514 £547
England median daily rate £517 £500 £517
% change year-on-year +3.40% -3.29% -6.00%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,749 3,407 4,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.09% 84.27% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,464 1,852 3,020
10th Percentile £250 £294 £281
25th Percentile £369 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £655 £680
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 178 211
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.28 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.55 £18.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £24.38 £35.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.34% +20.69% +36.47%
75th Percentile £41.46 £51.90 £46.18
90th Percentile £64.88 £70.00 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

IT Audit
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

IT Audit job vacancy trend in the North of England

IT Audit
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

IT Audit
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Audit in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Audit in the North of England

IT Audit
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

IT 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 IT Audit within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 October 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 -25 4 £454 -12.28% 2
North West -15 1 £600 +25.00% 9
IT Audit
England

IT Audit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Audit Consultant
1 4 (80.00%) Consultant
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 4 (80.00%) IT Audit Consultant
1 4 (80.00%) IT Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Auditor
2 1 (20.00%) IT Auditor
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (80.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (80.00%) Internal Audit
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) COBIT
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft