Security Auditing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Auditing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Security Auditing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Auditing 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 328 - 459
Rank change year-on-year - - +48
Contract jobs citing Security Auditing 8 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% - 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% - 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £540 - -
25th Percentile £585 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £640
Median % change year-on-year - - +228.21%
75th Percentile - - £708
90th Percentile £694 - £748
UK median daily rate £600 £540 £510
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% +45.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Security Auditing 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%

Security Auditing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Auditing in the UK excluding London

Security Auditing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Auditing in the UK excluding London

Security Auditing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Auditing in the UK excluding London

Security Auditing
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 Security Auditing 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 West - 6 £600 - 4
Scotland - 1 £775 -
South East - 1 £500 - 2
Security Auditing
UK

Security Auditing
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Administrator
1 6 (75.00%) Security Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Audit Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Integration Manager
2 1 (12.50%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Mainframe
2 5 (62.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (75.00%) Incident Response
3 5 (62.50%) Security Management
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
4 1 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Server Management
4 1 (12.50%) SIEM
4 1 (12.50%) SOAR
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) CISSP
2 6 (75.00%) IBM Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CISA
3 1 (12.50%) CISM
3 1 (12.50%) GCIA
3 1 (12.50%) GCIH
3 1 (12.50%) GIAC
3 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) NIST 800
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk