Software Audit Contracts

Software Auditing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Software Audit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Audit over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 693 839
Rank change year-on-year +117 +146 -114
Contract jobs citing Software Audit 8 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.007% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.008% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile - - £306
25th Percentile £513 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -30.77% +52.94%
75th Percentile £538 - £675
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - £585
% change year-on-year - - +37.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £39.24 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £41.59 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £46.96 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.44% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.88 -
90th Percentile - £52.36 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £46.96 -
% change year-on-year +22.44% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software Audit 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Software Audit
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Software Audit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software Audit in the UK

Software Audit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Audit.

Daily rate trend for Software Audit in the UK

Software Audit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Audit.

Hourly rate trend for Software Audit in the UK

Software Audit
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Audit within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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 +90 8 £525 +16.67% 6
UK excluding London +34 7 £525 - 5
Midlands - 5 - - 1
West Midlands - 5 - -
Work from Home +117 2 £525 - 2
North of England +17 2 £525 - 3
North West +14 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 2

Software Audit
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:

Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Simulink
1 5 (62.50%) Stateflow
1 5 (62.50%) TargetLink
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Bitbucket
1 5 (62.50%) Git
1 5 (62.50%) Subversion
General
1 5 (62.50%) Automotive
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Control Systems Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Asset Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Software Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Management Information System
2 5 (62.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) Black-Box Testing
1 5 (62.50%) Functional Testing
1 5 (62.50%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
1 5 (62.50%) Integration Testing
1 5 (62.50%) Line Management
1 5 (62.50%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) Project Management
1 5 (62.50%) QMS
1 5 (62.50%) Quality Management
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) Software Testing
1 5 (62.50%) UML
1 5 (62.50%) Validation
1 5 (62.50%) Verification and Validation
1 5 (62.50%) White-Box Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Software Asset Management
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C
1 5 (62.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
1 5 (62.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) AUTOSAR
1 5 (62.50%) ISO 26262
1 5 (62.50%) MISRA
1 5 (62.50%) MISRA C