Security Auditing Contracts

Security Auditing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Security Auditing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Auditing over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 674 843
Rank change year-on-year +115 +169 -169
Contract jobs citing Security Auditing 17 10 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.018% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.020% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 4
10th Percentile £456 £449 -
25th Percentile £529 £496 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £510 £350
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +45.92% -22.33%
75th Percentile £585 £618 £572
90th Percentile £614 £654 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £640 £195
% change year-on-year -6.25% +228.21% -60.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Security Auditing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Auditing in the UK

Security Auditing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Auditing over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Auditing in the UK

Security Auditing
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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
England +120 16 £563 +10.29% 8
London +110 13 £540 +8.54%
UK excluding London +55 3 £600 -6.25% 8
South East +15 3 £600 -20.00% 4
Work from Home +119 2 £540 -5.26%

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 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (70.59%) Firewall
2 10 (58.82%) SD-WAN
2 10 (58.82%) WAN
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (11.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MariaDB
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (64.71%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Consultant
1 10 (58.82%) Security Consultant
2 5 (29.41%) Cloud Consultant
2 5 (29.41%) Cloud Security Consultant
3 4 (23.53%) Azure Consultant
3 4 (23.53%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 3 (17.65%) DBA
4 3 (17.65%) SQL DBA
5 2 (11.76%) Administrator
5 2 (11.76%) Applications Consultant
5 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 2 (11.76%) IT Consultant
5 2 (11.76%) IT Security Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Architect
6 1 (5.88%) CISSP Manager
6 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared DBA
6 1 (5.88%) Information Manager
6 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) Siebel Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) PKI
2 4 (23.53%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Database Security
2 13 (76.47%) Penetration Testing
3 12 (70.59%) Data Encryption
3 12 (70.59%) Identity Access Management
3 12 (70.59%) SIEM
4 11 (64.71%) Risk Assessment
5 10 (58.82%) Cloud Security
5 10 (58.82%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (58.82%) Ethical Hacking
5 10 (58.82%) Key Management
6 8 (47.06%) Knowledge Transfer
7 7 (41.18%) Application Security
8 5 (29.41%) ERP
8 5 (29.41%) SDLC
9 4 (23.53%) DevSecOps
9 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (17.65%) Database Tuning
10 3 (17.65%) Information Security
11 2 (11.76%) Analytics
11 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) CISM
3 1 (5.88%) CISSP
3 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (70.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (64.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.88%) Rapid7
3 1 (5.88%) Remedy
3 1 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Siebel