Security Auditing Jobs

Security Auditing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Security Auditing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Auditing over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 721 877 954
Rank change year-on-year +156 +77 +225
Permanent jobs citing Security Auditing 9 22 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.022% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.026% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 6 21 14
10th Percentile £55,000 - £37,615
25th Percentile £58,750 £45,000 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -17.24% -14.71%
75th Percentile £90,938 £70,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,250 - £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +33.33% -18.64% -7.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Security Auditing 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,380 85,029 95,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.31% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,622 59,821 55,996
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,079 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,375 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,810 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.62% -9.09% +4.76%

Security Auditing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Security Auditing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Security Auditing in the UK

Security Auditing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Auditing.

Salary trend for Security Auditing in the UK

Security Auditing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Auditing over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Auditing in the UK

Security Auditing
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Auditing within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +126 9 £80,000 +33.33% 13
UK excluding London +166 7 £80,000 +33.33% 12
Yorkshire +57 6 £80,000 +60.00% 4
North of England +38 6 £80,000 +60.00% 4
London +112 2 - - 3
Midlands +54 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

Security Auditing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
General
1 6 (66.67%) Law
2 3 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Consultant
1 6 (66.67%) Information Security Consultant
1 6 (66.67%) Security Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IAM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (66.67%) Cyberattack
1 6 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (33.33%) Operational Technology
3 2 (22.22%) IoT
4 1 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Information Security
2 6 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 6 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 6 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 6 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 6 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 6 (66.67%) Risk Register
2 6 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 6 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 6 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 6 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 6 (66.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 1 (11.11%) API Management
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (66.67%) GDPR
1 6 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Google