Internal Audit Job Trends in Edinburgh

Internal Auditing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Internal Audit skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 84 108
Rank change year-on-year -24 +24 +35
Permanent jobs citing Internal Audit 2 19 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.20% 1.60% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 1.68% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £70,700 - £37,250
25th Percentile £71,750 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.16%
75th Percentile £75,250 - £50,000
90th Percentile £76,300 - £59,000
Scotland median annual salary £73,500 - £44,750
% change year-on-year - - -22.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Internal Audit falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 886 1,131 956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 86.52% 95.28% 92.91%
Number of salaries quoted 379 437 764
10th Percentile £25,950 £36,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £28,625 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £93,778 £96,096
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -7.08%

Internal Audit
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Internal Audit relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Internal Audit job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Internal Audit
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Internal Audit.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Internal Audit

Internal Audit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Audit Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (50.00%) Security Auditing
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISA
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GRC
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow