Compliance Audit Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Compliance Auditing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Compliance Audit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Compliance Audit 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.17% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £335 - -
25th Percentile £350 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 - -
75th Percentile £478 - -
90th Percentile £484 - -
South East median daily rate £404 £650 -
% change year-on-year -37.85% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,459 1,393 2,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 81.75% 92.87% 87.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,623 856 1,256
10th Percentile £303 £290 £213
25th Percentile £402 £404 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.05% -1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 57 167
10th Percentile £16.35 - £14.17
25th Percentile £28.56 £14.20 £19.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £31.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.73% -30.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.08 £78.31 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £27.76 £47.50
% change year-on-year +98.13% -41.56% -5.00%

Compliance Audit
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Compliance Audit job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Compliance Audit
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Compliance Audit.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Compliance Audit

Compliance Audit
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Compliance Audit.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Compliance Audit

Compliance Audit
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 May 2026. 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
Berkshire - 3 £354 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £463 -
Compliance Audit
South East

Compliance Audit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Data Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Automation Specialist
2 2 (40.00%) Compliance Specialist
2 2 (40.00%) Server Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (60.00%) Change Control
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (40.00%) Facilities Management
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Snow
1 2 (40.00%) Sophos
1 2 (40.00%) Tenable