IT Audit Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Auditing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IT Audit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IT 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 326 393 438
Rank change year-on-year +67 +45 +53
Contract jobs citing IT Audit 10 6 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.029% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.034% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 17
10th Percentile - £457 £420
25th Percentile £175 £467 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £517 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -6.00% -6.78%
75th Percentile £600 - £600
90th Percentile - £541 £650
UK median daily rate £481 £517 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% -6.00% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £39.60
UK median hourly rate - - £54.80
% change year-on-year - - +143.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 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%

IT Audit
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Audit in the UK excluding London

IT Audit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Audit in the UK excluding London

IT Audit
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Audit in the UK excluding London

IT Audit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Audit in the UK excluding London

IT 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 IT 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 +49 4 £180 -66.51% 44
East of England - 2 - - 27
West Midlands - 2 £600 - 25
Midlands - 2 £600 - 40
North of England +16 1 £425 -15.04% 35
Scotland +13 1 - - 7
Yorkshire +6 1 £425 -17.79% 16
IT Audit
UK

IT 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Electronics
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (20.00%) Marketing
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Retail
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Auditor
1 4 (40.00%) IT Auditor
2 2 (20.00%) Audit Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Field Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Field Service Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Security Auditor
2 2 (20.00%) Project Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Auditor
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Auditor
2 2 (20.00%) Senior IT Auditor
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) CCTV
1 2 (20.00%) NHS
1 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) AS400
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) iSeries
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) ITSM
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CISA
2 1 (10.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (40.00%) NIST
2 2 (20.00%) GRC
2 2 (20.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) IBM