Compliance Audit Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Compliance Auditing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Compliance Audit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 99 -
Rank change year-on-year -53 - -
Contract jobs citing Compliance Audit 9 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.28% 0.14% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £254 - -
25th Percentile £398 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £813 - -
75th Percentile £844 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £519 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +9.21% -20.83% +20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,633 1,241 1,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.27% 88.71% 83.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,701 809 1,055
10th Percentile £313 £193 £275
25th Percentile £404 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £662 £750
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 58 114
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £13.96 £14.03
Median hourly rate £34.38 £18.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +89.60% -19.42% +8.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £24.81 £40.38
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +1.39%

Compliance Audit
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Compliance Audit relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Compliance Audit job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Compliance Audit
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Compliance Audit.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Compliance Audit

Compliance Audit
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Compliance Audit in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Compliance Audit in the West Midlands

Compliance Audit
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 May 2026. 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
Birmingham - 5 £813 -
Shropshire -43 4 £258 - 1
Compliance Audit
England

Compliance Audit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Anypoint
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) iPaaS
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
2 5 (55.56%) Security Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Operations Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) MUnit
1 1 (11.11%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Operational Technology
2 3 (33.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (11.11%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Logistics
2 3 (33.33%) Coaching
2 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Community of Practice
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) People Management
3 2 (22.22%) Practice Management
3 2 (22.22%) Resource Management
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) PMO
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft