Compliance Audit Contracts

Compliance Auditing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 502 567 704
Rank change year-on-year +65 +137 +105
Contract jobs citing Compliance Audit 18 15 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.034% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.040% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 10
10th Percentile £318 £393 -
25th Percentile £369 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% +0.76%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £650
90th Percentile £661 £700 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -7.69% +36.84% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £69.25
Median hourly rate - - £70.50
75th Percentile - - £71.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Compliance Audit
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Compliance Audit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Compliance Audit in the UK

Compliance Audit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Compliance Audit.

Daily rate trend for Compliance Audit in the UK

Compliance Audit
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Compliance Audit over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Compliance Audit in the UK

Compliance Audit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Compliance Audit.

Hourly rate trend for Compliance Audit in the UK

Compliance Audit
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 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
England +66 18 £475 -20.83% 87
London +42 10 £400 -31.91% 46
UK excluding London +64 6 £600 -7.69% 52
Work from Home +33 5 £650 +13.04% 21
South West +48 3 £538 +49.31% 17
Midlands +23 2 - - 2
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
South East - 1 £650 - 19

Compliance Audit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (11.11%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) iTrent
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (5.56%) SAP MDG
1 1 (5.56%) SAP MM
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (5.56%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) SaaS
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (11.11%) IaaS
3 2 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Google Docs
4 1 (5.56%) Google Sheets
4 1 (5.56%) Google Workspace
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Engagement Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Governance Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Build Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Compliance Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Information Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) SOX Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Build Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Life Science
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Risk Management
2 6 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (22.22%) Resource Management
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 3 (16.67%) Remediation Plan
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (11.11%) Business Case
6 2 (11.11%) Commercial Awareness
6 2 (11.11%) Conflict Management
6 2 (11.11%) Internal Audit
6 2 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
6 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 2 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 2 (11.11%) CISA
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (11.11%) CISSP
1 2 (11.11%) CRISC
2 1 (5.56%) A+ Certification
2 1 (5.56%) CBAP
2 1 (5.56%) CISM
2 1 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) SANS
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) GRC
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (16.67%) NIST
1 3 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (11.11%) ITGC
2 2 (11.11%) SLA
3 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.56%) COBIT
3 1 (5.56%) COSO
3 1 (5.56%) GLP
3 1 (5.56%) GMP
3 1 (5.56%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (5.56%) GxP
3 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.56%) ISO 13485
3 1 (5.56%) ISO 9001
3 1 (5.56%) NIST 800
3 1 (5.56%) QA
3 1 (5.56%) SOX 404
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.56%) OPNET
1 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
1 3 (16.67%) SAP
2 2 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Ariba
3 1 (5.56%) Citrix
3 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Varonis
3 1 (5.56%) VMware