Software Audit Contracts

Software Auditing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Software Audit skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Audit over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 693 854
Rank change year-on-year +122 +161 -195
Contract jobs citing Software Audit 8 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.012% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% 0.013% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile - - £573
25th Percentile £513 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -30.77% +52.94%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £675
90th Percentile - £720 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +52.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £39.24 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £41.59 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £46.96 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.44% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.88 -
90th Percentile - £52.36 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £46.96 -
% change year-on-year +22.44% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software Audit is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

Software Audit
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Audit in the UK

Software Audit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Software Audit in the UK

Software Audit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Audit in the UK

Software 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 Software Audit within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 +115 8 £525 +16.67% 6
UK excluding London +72 7 £525 - 7
West Midlands - 5 - - 2
Midlands - 5 - - 2
Work from Home +121 2 £525 -32.26% 4
North of England +25 2 £525 - 3
Yorkshire +19 1 £525 - 2
North West +19 1 - - 1

Software 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 (62.50%) Simulink
1 5 (62.50%) Stateflow
1 5 (62.50%) TargetLink
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Bitbucket
1 5 (62.50%) Git
1 5 (62.50%) Subversion
General
1 5 (62.50%) Automotive
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Control Systems Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Asset Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Software Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Management Information System
2 5 (62.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) Black-Box Testing
1 5 (62.50%) Functional Testing
1 5 (62.50%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
1 5 (62.50%) Integration Testing
1 5 (62.50%) Line Management
1 5 (62.50%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) Project Management
1 5 (62.50%) QMS
1 5 (62.50%) Quality Management
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) Software Testing
1 5 (62.50%) UML
1 5 (62.50%) Validation
1 5 (62.50%) Verification and Validation
1 5 (62.50%) White-Box Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Software Asset Management
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C
1 5 (62.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
1 5 (62.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) AUTOSAR
1 5 (62.50%) ISO 26262
1 5 (62.50%) MISRA
1 5 (62.50%) MISRA C