Internal Audit Contracts in the UK excluding London

Internal Auditing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 308 364 389
Rank change year-on-year +56 +25 +58
Contract jobs citing Internal Audit 28 35 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.17% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.20% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 44
10th Percentile £398 £244 £319
25th Percentile £425 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +7.69% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £602 £595
90th Percentile - £655 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -11.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £38.54 - £21.75
25th Percentile £46.24 - £24.37
Median hourly rate £61.45 £11.79 £29.49
Median % change year-on-year +421.20% -60.02% +61.38%
75th Percentile £79.04 - £35.37
90th Percentile £88.17 - £38.44
UK median hourly rate £61.45 £11.79 £29.49
% change year-on-year +421.20% -60.02% +30.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Internal Audit in the UK excluding London

Internal Audit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Internal Audit in the UK excluding London

Internal Audit
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Internal Audit in the UK excluding London

Internal Audit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Internal Audit in the UK excluding London

Internal Audit
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Internal Audit in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Internal Audit in the UK excluding London

Internal 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 Internal Audit within the UK excluding London 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
South East +46 8 £650 +13.04% 149
North of England +14 8 £450 -8.21% 115
North West +10 6 £450 -8.21% 52
Scotland +12 5 £488 -19.29% 30
Northern Ireland - 3 £500 - 24
South West +45 2 £450 +125.00% 89
Midlands +16 2 £300 -60.00% 120
Yorkshire - 2 £600 - 50
West Midlands +7 1 - - 66
East Midlands - 1 £300 - 47
Internal Audit
UK

Internal 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 5 (17.86%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (10.71%) MS Visio
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) LAN
1 3 (10.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
1 2 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 17 (60.71%) Finance
2 13 (46.43%) Banking
3 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Legal
6 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
7 1 (3.57%) Aviation
7 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Analyst
2 3 (10.71%) Network Analyst
2 3 (10.71%) Risk Analyst
2 3 (10.71%) Service Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Applications Support
3 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Coordinator
3 2 (7.14%) Credit Risk Manager
3 2 (7.14%) Lead
3 2 (7.14%) Risk Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (3.57%) Business Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Consultant
4 1 (3.57%) Data Consultant
4 1 (3.57%) Internal Auditor
4 1 (3.57%) Project Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Security Consultant
4 1 (3.57%) Senior
4 1 (3.57%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (3.57%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Loki
1 2 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Credit Risk
2 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Analytics
2 9 (32.14%) Risk Management
3 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (21.43%) Agile
4 6 (21.43%) Validation
5 5 (17.86%) Credit Risk Management
5 5 (17.86%) Data Analytics
5 5 (17.86%) Portfolio Management
5 5 (17.86%) Project Management
5 5 (17.86%) Stress Testing
6 4 (14.29%) Regulatory Change
6 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Change Management
7 3 (10.71%) Data Analysis
7 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
7 3 (10.71%) DevOps
7 3 (10.71%) Service Delivery
8 2 (7.14%) Data Security
8 2 (7.14%) Risk Assessment
8 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) Python
1 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) ACCA
2 2 (7.14%) CIMA
3 1 (3.57%) CISA
3 1 (3.57%) HNC
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) IFRS
2 5 (17.86%) IFRS 9
3 3 (10.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (7.14%) GDPR
4 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (7.14%) PMO
4 2 (7.14%) QA
5 1 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (3.57%) COSHH
5 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
5 1 (3.57%) ISO 9001
5 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (3.57%) MiFID
5 1 (3.57%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 2 (7.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Ansible
1 2 (7.14%) Grafana
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
1 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Splunk
2 2 (7.14%) Veritas
2 2 (7.14%) VMware