Security Auditing Contracts in England

Security Auditing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 572 763
Rank change year-on-year +65 +191 -5
Contract jobs citing Security Auditing 7 17 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.042% 0.001%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.048% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 0
10th Percentile £524 £374 -
25th Percentile £538 £435 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £540 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% - -
75th Percentile £615 £588 -
90th Percentile £650 £626 -
UK median daily rate £581 £540 £900
% change year-on-year +7.64% -40.00% +111.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,975 35,624 61,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 88.74% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,463 24,518 43,144
10th Percentile £313 £313 £339
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 1,490 1,588
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.00 £19.06 £17.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Security Auditing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Auditing in England

Security Auditing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Auditing in England.

Daily rate trend for Security Auditing in England

Security Auditing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Auditing in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Auditing in England

Security Auditing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Auditing within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +46 4 £578 +6.94% 3
South East +40 3 £600 - 1
Security Auditing
UK

Security Auditing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) SD-WAN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MariaDB
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Consultant
1 3 (42.86%) DBA
1 3 (42.86%) Security Consultant
1 3 (42.86%) SQL DBA
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Lead
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared DBA
3 1 (14.29%) IT Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) IT Security Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Database Security
2 4 (57.14%) Data Encryption
2 4 (57.14%) Ethical Hacking
2 4 (57.14%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (57.14%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (57.14%) SIEM
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
3 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (42.86%) Database Tuning
3 3 (42.86%) Key Management
3 3 (42.86%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (42.86%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Kusto Query Language
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
1 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Remedy