Security Auditing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Security Auditing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 296 343 473
Rank change year-on-year +47 +130 +157
Contract jobs citing Security Auditing 8 2 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.081% 0.013% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% 0.015% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £560 - £497
25th Percentile - - £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £540 £570
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.09%
75th Percentile £634 - £640
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £540 £510
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% +45.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 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%

Security Auditing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Security Auditing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Security Auditing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Security Auditing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Auditing
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 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Security Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) IAM Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Identity Management Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Audit Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Incident Response
2 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Security Management
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (25.00%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) B2B
5 2 (25.00%) B2C
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (25.00%) Cyber Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
5 2 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (25.00%) Privileged Identity Management
5 2 (25.00%) RBAC
5 2 (25.00%) SIEM
5 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 1 (12.50%) Event Correlation
6 1 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 1 (12.50%) Observability
6 1 (12.50%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) CISSP
2 4 (50.00%) IBM Certification
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (12.50%) CISA
4 1 (12.50%) CISM
4 1 (12.50%) GCIA
4 1 (12.50%) GCIH
4 1 (12.50%) GIAC
4 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) NIST 800
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) RACF
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) QRadar
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk