Compliance Audit Contracts in the UK excluding London

Compliance Auditing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Compliance Audit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Compliance Audit over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 369 418
Rank change year-on-year +18 +49 +84
Contract jobs citing Compliance Audit 16 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.033% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.039% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 2
10th Percentile £450 £392 £529
25th Percentile £500 £441 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -3.56% +47.54%
75th Percentile £750 £644 £584
90th Percentile - £723 £586
UK median daily rate £525 £558 £550
% change year-on-year -5.83% +1.36% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £23.25
25th Percentile - - £24.38
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £27.50
% change year-on-year - - -50.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,697 15,217 19,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.29% 83.12% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,222 9,130 13,018
10th Percentile £240 £250 £261
25th Percentile £369 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,357 1,546 1,190
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.85 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.87 £17.30
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.45%
75th Percentile £44.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.19
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.33
% change year-on-year -39.40% -1.95% +59.73%

Compliance Audit
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Compliance Audit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Compliance Audit in the UK excluding London

Compliance Audit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Compliance Audit in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Compliance Audit in the UK excluding London

Compliance Audit
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Compliance Audit in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Compliance Audit in the UK excluding London

Compliance Audit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Compliance Audit in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Compliance Audit in the UK excluding London

Compliance Audit
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
South West +34 8 £525 -5.41% 6
Yorkshire -11 3 £500 -16.67% 1
North of England -13 3 £500 -7.83% 6
South East - 2 £400 - 16
Midlands - 1 - - 5
West Midlands - 1 - - 3
Scotland - 1 - - 2
East of England - 1 - - 5
Compliance Audit
UK

Compliance Audit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (6.25%) CICS
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon Macie
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
1 2 (12.50%) AWS KMS
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (12.50%) GitHub
1 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (12.50%) Serverless
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) Network Security
1 2 (12.50%) SSL
1 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) DB2
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Electronics
4 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
4 3 (18.75%) Marketing
4 3 (18.75%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
5 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 1 (6.25%) Law
6 1 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Lead
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Incident Manager
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL Incident Manager
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL Manager
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Change and Release Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Change Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Information Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Information Governance Officer
5 1 (6.25%) Information Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) PMO Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Release Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) CMDB
1 3 (18.75%) Operational Technology
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (6.25%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
1 1 (6.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (43.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (37.50%) ITIL
3 5 (31.25%) Configuration Management
4 4 (25.00%) Change Management
4 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 4 (25.00%) Service Management
4 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
5 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
5 3 (18.75%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (18.75%) Problem Management
5 3 (18.75%) Release Management
5 3 (18.75%) Security Management
5 3 (18.75%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
5 3 (18.75%) Service Catalogue
5 3 (18.75%) SIEM
5 3 (18.75%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Python
1 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.25%) COBOL
2 1 (6.25%) JCL
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) Degree
3 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) CEH
5 1 (6.25%) CISSP
5 1 (6.25%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) GDPR
2 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (18.75%) NCSC
3 3 (18.75%) NIST
4 2 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (12.50%) SOC 2
5 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
5 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
5 1 (6.25%) ISO 9001
5 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
5 1 (6.25%) PERC
5 1 (6.25%) PMO
5 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (6.25%) RACF
2 1 (6.25%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Grafana
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (12.50%) Kustomize
1 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
1 2 (12.50%) Puppet
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Remedy
2 3 (18.75%) SAP
3 2 (12.50%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) BMC
4 1 (6.25%) Citrix
4 1 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) Tenable
4 1 (6.25%) Varonis
4 1 (6.25%) VMware