Security Auditing Contracts

Security Auditing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 586 703
Rank change year-on-year +82 +117 +146
Contract jobs citing Security Auditing 15 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.032% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.037% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 10
10th Percentile £425 £438 £449
25th Percentile £500 £520 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £540 £510
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% +45.92%
75th Percentile £630 £585 £618
90th Percentile £638 - £654
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - £640
% change year-on-year - - +228.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Security Auditing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Auditing in the UK

Security Auditing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Auditing.

Daily rate trend for Security Auditing in the UK

Security Auditing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Auditing over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Auditing in the UK

Security Auditing
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +64 14 £593 +9.72% 13
Work from Home +56 8 £600 +11.11% 4
UK excluding London - 8 £600 - 11
London +29 7 £585 +8.33% 2
South West - 6 £600 - 4
Scotland - 1 £775 -
South East - 1 £500 - 1

Security Auditing
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) GitHub
1 4 (26.67%) Nutanix
2 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) DNS
1 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
1 4 (26.67%) Subversion
1 4 (26.67%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Administrator
2 6 (40.00%) Security Administrator
3 4 (26.67%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Specialist
4 2 (13.33%) IAM Specialist
4 2 (13.33%) Identity Management Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Audit Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Integration Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) SOC Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Mainframe
2 5 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 4 (26.67%) Clustering
3 4 (26.67%) Replication
4 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (13.33%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) zOS
2 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (53.33%) Incident Response
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Security Management
4 4 (26.67%) API Integration
4 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (26.67%) High Availability
4 4 (26.67%) Kernel Tuning
4 4 (26.67%) Storage Management
5 3 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (13.33%) Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (13.33%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (13.33%) Privileged Identity Management
6 2 (13.33%) RBAC
6 2 (13.33%) SIEM
6 2 (13.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Bash
1 4 (26.67%) Perl
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) CISSP
2 6 (40.00%) IBM Certification
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (6.67%) CISA
4 1 (6.67%) CISM
4 1 (6.67%) GCIA
4 1 (6.67%) GCIH
4 1 (6.67%) GIAC
4 1 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) GDPR
2 4 (26.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (6.67%) NIST
4 1 (6.67%) NIST 800
4 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) RACF
2 4 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Ansible
1 5 (33.33%) QRadar
2 4 (26.67%) EMC NetWorker
2 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (26.67%) Tivoli
2 4 (26.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) IBM
2 5 (33.33%) Splunk
3 4 (26.67%) CyberArk
3 4 (26.67%) EMC
3 4 (26.67%) Qualys
3 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
3 4 (26.67%) SaltStack
3 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
3 4 (26.67%) VMware
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco
5 1 (6.67%) SAP