IT Audit Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IT Auditing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 338 468
Rank change year-on-year +48 +130 +140
Contract jobs citing IT Audit 14 7 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.046% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.052% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile £389 £487 £409
25th Percentile £409 £509 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £517 £588
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -12.00% -0.42%
75th Percentile £601 £575 £647
90th Percentile £614 £580 £731
UK median daily rate £481 £517 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% -6.00% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £39.60
UK median hourly rate - - £54.80
% change year-on-year - - +143.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

IT Audit
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing IT Audit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IT Audit trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IT Audit
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IT Audit.

IT Audit daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Audit
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing IT Audit over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

IT Audit daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT Audit
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IT Audit.

IT Audit hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Audit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Retail
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.14%) International Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Auditor
1 5 (35.71%) IT Auditor
2 2 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 2 (14.29%) IT Security Auditor
2 2 (14.29%) Security Auditor
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Auditor
2 2 (14.29%) Senior IT Auditor
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery Test Manager
3 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) IT Risk Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) AS400
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Risk Management
1 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
1 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
2 4 (28.57%) Project Management
3 3 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (21.43%) Information Security
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (14.29%) Internal Audit
4 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (14.29%) Security Architecture
4 2 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Test Strategy
5 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
5 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.14%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) CISA
2 4 (28.57%) CRISC
3 1 (7.14%) CISM
3 1 (7.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (35.71%) NIST
2 4 (28.57%) GRC
2 4 (28.57%) ITGC
2 4 (28.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (14.29%) COBIT
3 2 (14.29%) NIST 800
3 2 (14.29%) SOX 404
4 1 (7.14%) COSO
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) CyberArk
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) IBM