Internal Audit Contracts

Internal Auditing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 535 525
Rank change year-on-year +68 -10 +44
Contract jobs citing Internal Audit 63 57 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.13% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.15% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 34 124
10th Percentile £391 £238 £333
25th Percentile £421 £477 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £647 £608 £675
90th Percentile £669 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.46
Median hourly rate £33.40 £11.79 £38.98
Median % change year-on-year +183.29% -69.75% +4.13%
75th Percentile - - £40.49
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.40 £11.79 £38.98
% change year-on-year +183.29% -69.75% +4.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,473 37,081 49,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.06% 85.12% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,374 23,644 34,319
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,294 2,582 1,699
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.65 £11.45
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £15.83
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £54.56 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £70.92 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.83 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.86% +17.29% +54.76%

Internal Audit
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Internal Audit in the UK

Internal Audit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Internal Audit in the UK

Internal Audit
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Internal Audit over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Internal Audit in the UK

Internal Audit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Internal Audit in the UK

Internal Audit
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 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
England +82 52 £528 +5.60% 324
London +62 33 £500 -20.00% 152
UK excluding London +43 26 £575 +15.00% 207
Work from Home +43 20 £475 -17.39% 170
North of England +15 8 £600 +23.08% 46
South East +47 6 £650 +15.56% 54
North West -4 5 £528 +8.31% 22
Scotland 0 4 £450 -24.94% 11
Midlands +10 3 £663 -11.67% 35
West Midlands +4 3 £663 -11.67% 17
Northern Ireland - 3 £500 - 11
Yorkshire - 3 £600 - 18
South West +47 2 £450 +125.00% 26

Internal 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 6 (9.52%) SAS
2 4 (6.35%) Confluence
3 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.17%) Windchill
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.76%) AWS
1 3 (4.76%) Azure
1 3 (4.76%) GCP
2 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
2 2 (3.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (3.17%) OpenShift
2 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.59%) GitHub
3 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.59%) Mimecast
3 1 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) Firewall
2 2 (3.17%) FCoE
2 2 (3.17%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (3.17%) iSCSI
2 2 (3.17%) SAN
3 1 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.59%) Network Security
3 1 (1.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.17%) Power BI
1 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.35%) JIRA
2 2 (3.17%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.17%) Git
2 2 (3.17%) GitLab
2 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.59%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.59%) Snyk
3 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (58.73%) Finance
2 22 (34.92%) Social Skills
3 21 (33.33%) Banking
4 10 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (11.11%) Investment Banking
6 6 (9.52%) Corporate Banking
6 6 (9.52%) Financial Institution
6 6 (9.52%) Retail Banking
7 5 (7.94%) Legal
7 5 (7.94%) Retail
8 3 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
9 2 (3.17%) Aerospace
9 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.59%) Aviation
10 1 (1.59%) Law
10 1 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (14.29%) Analyst
2 6 (9.52%) Audit Analyst
2 6 (9.52%) Data Analyst
2 6 (9.52%) Project Manager
3 5 (7.94%) Consultant
3 5 (7.94%) Lead
3 5 (7.94%) Senior
4 4 (6.35%) Coordinator
5 3 (4.76%) Auditor
5 3 (4.76%) Compliance Specialist
5 3 (4.76%) Electronic Trading Specialist
5 3 (4.76%) MiFID Specialist
5 3 (4.76%) Resource Manager
5 3 (4.76%) Risk Manager
5 3 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (4.76%) Senior Data Analyst
6 2 (3.17%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.17%) Finance Manager
6 2 (3.17%) Head of Testing
6 2 (3.17%) Risk Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.17%) Loki
1 2 (3.17%) Middleware
2 1 (1.59%) OAuth
2 1 (1.59%) OpenID
2 1 (1.59%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.59%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.94%) Credit Risk
2 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.35%) Linux
2 2 (3.17%) CentOS
2 2 (3.17%) Unix
2 2 (3.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) Risk Management
2 19 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (22.22%) Analytics
4 12 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (17.46%) Agile
6 9 (14.29%) Validation
7 8 (12.70%) Change Management
7 8 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (12.70%) Mentoring
7 8 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (11.11%) Data Analytics
8 7 (11.11%) Wealth Management
9 6 (9.52%) Project Management
10 5 (7.94%) Data Analysis
10 5 (7.94%) Data Privacy
10 5 (7.94%) Data Protection
10 5 (7.94%) ITIL
10 5 (7.94%) Migration
10 5 (7.94%) Stress Testing
10 5 (7.94%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.46%) Python
2 5 (7.94%) SQL
3 2 (3.17%) Go
3 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.59%) Bash
4 1 (1.59%) Java
4 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.59%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (7.94%) Degree
1 5 (7.94%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.94%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.76%) CISA
2 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.17%) ACCA
3 2 (3.17%) CISSP
3 2 (3.17%) CSSLP
3 2 (3.17%) GIAC
3 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.59%) CIMA
4 1 (1.59%) CISM
4 1 (1.59%) CRISC
4 1 (1.59%) GPEN
4 1 (1.59%) GWAPT
4 1 (1.59%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.94%) IFRS
2 5 (7.94%) IFRS 9
2 5 (7.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (6.35%) GDPR
3 4 (6.35%) MiFID
3 4 (6.35%) NIST
3 4 (6.35%) QA
4 3 (4.76%) PMO
5 2 (3.17%) COBIT
5 2 (3.17%) GRC
5 2 (3.17%) ISO 9001
5 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.17%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.59%) COSO
6 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.59%) GAAP
6 1 (1.59%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.59%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 2 (3.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) Ansible
1 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
1 4 (6.35%) Terraform
2 2 (3.17%) Grafana
2 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.17%) Dell
2 2 (3.17%) F5
2 2 (3.17%) Hitachi
2 2 (3.17%) Red Hat
2 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
2 2 (3.17%) Splunk
2 2 (3.17%) Veritas
2 2 (3.17%) VMware
3 1 (1.59%) Alteryx
3 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
3 1 (1.59%) Cisco
3 1 (1.59%) CyberArk
3 1 (1.59%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.59%) Google
3 1 (1.59%) Hyperion
3 1 (1.59%) Informatica
3 1 (1.59%) Meraki
3 1 (1.59%) Qualys
3 1 (1.59%) Talend