Internal Audit Contracts in Scotland

Internal Auditing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Internal Audit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Internal Audit 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 111 123 151
Rank change year-on-year +12 +28 -
Contract jobs citing Internal Audit 5 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.31% 0.27% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.31% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 8
10th Percentile £422 £576 -
25th Percentile £424 £595 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £604 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.29% +15.05% -
75th Percentile £541 £608 £589
90th Percentile £546 - £651
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -11.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Internal 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Internal Audit
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Internal Audit in Scotland

Internal Audit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Internal Audit in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Internal Audit in Scotland

Internal Audit
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Internal Audit in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Internal Audit in Scotland

Internal Audit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Internal Audit in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Internal Audit in Scotland

Internal Audit
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Internal Audit within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +6 4 £488 -19.29% 10
Edinburgh +1 1 - - 10
Internal Audit
UK

Internal Audit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Support
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) SOX Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SOX Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Testing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Loki
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Garbage Collection
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Investment Management
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery Management
3 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ACCA
1 1 (20.00%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 2 (40.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
1 2 (40.00%) Veritas
1 2 (40.00%) VMware