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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 389 413
Rank change year-on-year +49 +24 +75
Contract jobs citing IT Audit 10 8 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.038% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.080% 0.046% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 20
10th Percentile - £457 £386
25th Percentile £413 £467 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £517 £517
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% - -12.37%
75th Percentile £473 - £591
90th Percentile £512 £559 £650
UK median daily rate £464 £527 £550
% change year-on-year -12.04% -4.14% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £23.63
25th Percentile - £22.25 £25.31
Median hourly rate - £24.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - -10.91% -
75th Percentile - £26.75 £31.46
90th Percentile - - £36.35
UK median hourly rate - £24.50 £39.60
% change year-on-year - -38.13% -

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 12,447 17,539 20,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.19% 82.81% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,602 10,308 13,870
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.50%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,045 2,172 1,273
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.50 £12.71
25th Percentile £16.92 £15.50 £15.64
Median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.60 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -32.93% +3.45% +39.42%

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
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 29 June 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
Midlands +11 5 £465 -19.13% 20
East Midlands +7 4 £465 -19.13% 5
South East +48 2 - - 15
Scotland - 2 £445 - 7
North of England +7 1 £425 -15.04% 21
Yorkshire +2 1 £425 -17.79% 13
West Midlands - 1 - - 15
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:

Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) LAN
1 3 (30.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) VLAN
2 1 (10.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
1 3 (30.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Field Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Field Service Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Security Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) CCTV
2 1 (10.00%) AS400
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) iSeries
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Agile
1 3 (30.00%) Kanban
1 3 (30.00%) Migration
1 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (20.00%) Data-Driven Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Fintech
2 2 (20.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (20.00%) Information Security
2 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CISA
1 4 (40.00%) CISM
1 4 (40.00%) CISSP
1 4 (40.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) COBIT
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 4 (40.00%) NIST
1 4 (40.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) RSA Archer
2 1 (10.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Rapid7
2 3 (30.00%) Alteryx
3 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (10.00%) Dell
4 1 (10.00%) IBM
4 1 (10.00%) Veeam
4 1 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) Zerto