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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 333 444
Rank change year-on-year +34 +111 +144
Contract jobs citing IT Audit 10 9 13
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.099% 0.061% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.070% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 6
10th Percentile £390 £487 £419
25th Percentile £413 £509 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £517 £546
Median % change year-on-year -14.51% -5.31% -7.46%
75th Percentile £473 £575 £594
90th Percentile £551 £580 £694
UK median daily rate £464 £527 £550
% change year-on-year -12.04% -4.14% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £27.63
25th Percentile - - £35.33
Median hourly rate - - £39.60
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £24.50 £39.60
% change year-on-year - -38.13% -

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 9,224 12,802 21,352
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.77% 87.21% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,250 8,610 15,077
10th Percentile £325 £325 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.93%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £760 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 551 508
10th Percentile £13.40 £15.17 £17.50
25th Percentile £19.09 £25.50 £25.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% -18.10% +31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.93 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

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 3 July 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) IT Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Security Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Auditor
3 1 (10.00%) COBIT Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Auditor
3 1 (10.00%) IT Risk Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) AS400
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (40.00%) Information Security
2 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Data-Driven Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Data Privacy
5 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (10.00%) Logistics
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) CISA
2 3 (30.00%) CISM
2 3 (30.00%) CISSP
2 3 (30.00%) CRISC
2 3 (30.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) COBIT
2 4 (40.00%) ITGC
2 4 (40.00%) NIST
2 4 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (30.00%) NIST 800
4 2 (20.00%) GRC
4 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (20.00%) SOX 404
5 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (10.00%) COSO
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) CyberArk
2 3 (30.00%) SAP
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Rapid7
4 1 (10.00%) IBM
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow