IT Audit Contracts

IT Auditing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 570 623
Rank change year-on-year +69 +53 +147
Contract jobs citing IT Audit 29 16 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.095% 0.037% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.043% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 39
10th Percentile £413 £470 £422
25th Percentile £416 £505 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £527 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% -4.14% -6.78%
75th Percentile £518 £575 £650
90th Percentile £597 £586 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £517 £517
% change year-on-year -13.93% - -13.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £24.75
25th Percentile - £22.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate - £24.50 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year - -38.13% -
75th Percentile - £26.75 -
90th Percentile - - £51.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £24.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year - -10.91% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,791 36,956 49,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.01% 85.22% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,543 23,553 34,315
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -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 1,341 2,551 1,689
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.74 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.95 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -34.42% +8.91% +66.67%

IT Audit
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Audit in the UK

IT Audit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Audit in the UK

IT Audit
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Audit over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Audit in the UK

IT Audit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Audit in the UK

IT Audit
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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 +56 26 £465 -11.81% 60
London +50 11 £508 -5.58% 28
Work from Home +43 10 £442 -14.51% 39
UK excluding London +41 10 £445 -13.93% 39
Midlands +13 5 £465 -19.13% 12
East Midlands +8 4 £465 -19.13% 2
South East +50 2 - - 3
Scotland - 2 £445 - 4
North of England +10 1 £425 -15.04% 10
Yorkshire +3 1 £425 -17.79% 6
West Midlands - 1 - - 10

IT 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:

Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) AWS
3 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.45%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) LAN
1 7 (24.14%) WAN
2 1 (3.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) SSL
2 1 (3.45%) VLAN
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
2 1 (3.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Power BI
1 5 (17.24%) Tableau
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) JIRA
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Finance
5 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Field Engineer
1 7 (24.14%) Field Service Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) IT Manager
3 4 (13.79%) IT Risk Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Risk Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Compliance Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Quality Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Data Compliance Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) SAP Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Security Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Security Tester
5 2 (6.90%) Tester
6 1 (3.45%) Auditor
6 1 (3.45%) COBIT Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Disaster Recovery Test Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) IT Auditor
6 1 (3.45%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) SailPoint
2 1 (3.45%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) CCTV
2 1 (3.45%) AS400
2 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.45%) iSeries
2 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.45%) PKI
2 1 (3.45%) Replication
2 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Test Automation
2 8 (27.59%) Information Security
2 8 (27.59%) Risk Management
3 7 (24.14%) Agile
3 7 (24.14%) Migration
4 6 (20.69%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (20.69%) Kanban
5 5 (17.24%) Generative AI
6 4 (13.79%) Data-Driven Testing
6 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (13.79%) Test Strategy
7 3 (10.34%) Analytics
7 3 (10.34%) Cloud Security
7 3 (10.34%) Data Analytics
7 3 (10.34%) Privileged Access Management
7 3 (10.34%) Quality Management
8 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (6.90%) Impact Assessments
8 2 (6.90%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) SQL
2 1 (3.45%) C#
2 1 (3.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) CISA
2 8 (27.59%) CISM
2 8 (27.59%) CISSP
2 8 (27.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 5 (17.24%) Degree
4 4 (13.79%) CRISC
5 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (34.48%) COBIT
1 10 (34.48%) NIST
2 9 (31.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (27.59%) NIST 800
4 7 (24.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (13.79%) ITGC
5 4 (13.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (10.34%) QA
7 2 (6.90%) GRC
7 2 (6.90%) SOX 404
8 1 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (3.45%) COSO
8 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) RSA Archer
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Rapid7
2 5 (17.24%) Alteryx
2 5 (17.24%) SAP
2 5 (17.24%) ServiceNow
3 4 (13.79%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle
5 1 (3.45%) Dell
5 1 (3.45%) IBM
5 1 (3.45%) Meraki
5 1 (3.45%) Qualys
5 1 (3.45%) Sophos
5 1 (3.45%) Veeam
5 1 (3.45%) VMware
5 1 (3.45%) Zerto