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Where an IT auditor can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an IT auditor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

IT auditors perform audits of information systems, platforms, and operating procedures in accordance with established corporate standards for efficiency, accuracy and security. They evaluate ICT infrastructure in terms of risk to the organisation and establish controls to mitigate loss. They determine and recommend improvements in the current risk management controls and in the implementation of system changes or upgrades.

Also known as ICT auditor, information technology auditor, IT Quality Appraiser.

Professionals 37 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: ICT auditor manager, 55%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
ICT auditor manager 55% covered director of compliance and in… 42% covered chief ICT security officer 25% covered ICT resilience manager 24% covered embedded systems security eng… 22% covered IT auditor You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from IT auditor, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an IT auditor already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

An IT auditor needs 19 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • develop audit plan management skills
  • ICT quality policy business, administration and law
  • product life-cycle business, administration and law
  • ensure adherence to organisational ICT standards assisting and caring
  • perform ICT security testing working with computers
  • analyse ICT system working with computers
  • organisational resilience business, administration and law
  • ICT process quality models information and communication technologies (icts)
  • ICT security standards information and communication technologies (icts)
  • execute ICT audits information skills
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an IT auditor does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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IT auditor is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an IT auditor’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.