COBIT Contracts in the UK excluding London

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring COBIT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited COBIT 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 370 378 473
Rank change year-on-year +8 +95 -67
Contract jobs citing COBIT 31 52 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.23% 0.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.04% 1.55% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 37 17
10th Percentile £473 £550 £343
25th Percentile £500 £563 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +50.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £659 £675 £575
90th Percentile £763 £730 £626
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £610
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.64% +16.19%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

COBIT falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,989 3,358 4,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.02% 14.80% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,712 2,194 3,095
10th Percentile £250 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £363 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £455
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +6.81% +7.06%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 198 198
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.50
25th Percentile £12.72 £18.02 £15.13
Median hourly rate £19.18 £37.50 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -48.87% +67.45% +7.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.69 £48.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.18 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

COBIT
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing COBIT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for COBIT in the UK excluding London

COBIT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing COBIT in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for COBIT in the UK excluding London

COBIT
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing COBIT in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for COBIT in the UK excluding London

COBIT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing COBIT in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for COBIT in the UK excluding London

COBIT
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBIT within the UK excluding London region 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
South East +17 17 £550 -12.00% 3
South West +2 5 £617 +2.75% 1
North of England +8 4 £525 -8.70% 4
Scotland +33 2 £425 -32.00% 1
Yorkshire +15 2 £525 -30.00% 1
East of England +6 2 £600 - 1
North East - 2 £525 -
West Midlands +16 1 £900 +50.00% 1
Midlands +15 1 £900 +50.00% 1
COBIT
UK

COBIT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) Azure
2 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.23%) AWS
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (32.26%) Network Security
2 1 (3.23%) 4G
2 1 (3.23%) 5G
2 1 (3.23%) LAN
2 1 (3.23%) WAN
General
1 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.68%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Legal
4 2 (6.45%) Local Government
5 1 (3.23%) Automotive
5 1 (3.23%) French Language
5 1 (3.23%) German Language
5 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Consultant
2 9 (29.03%) Architect
2 9 (29.03%) Security Consultant
3 6 (19.35%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 5 (16.13%) Security Architect
5 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 4 (12.90%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) IT Manager
6 3 (9.68%) Project Manager
6 3 (9.68%) Security Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Compliance Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Information Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Information Assurance Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Information Security Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Lead
7 2 (6.45%) Lead Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) Lead Security Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) Risk Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Data Centre
2 6 (19.35%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (6.45%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.23%) Cyberattack
4 1 (3.23%) IoT
4 1 (3.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
1 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (48.39%) Information Security
2 15 (48.39%) ITIL
2 15 (48.39%) Risk Management
3 11 (35.48%) Application Security
4 10 (32.26%) Identity Access Management
4 10 (32.26%) Roadmaps
4 10 (32.26%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (29.03%) Conflict Resolution
5 9 (29.03%) Information Security Management
5 9 (29.03%) OWASP
5 9 (29.03%) Security Management
5 9 (29.03%) Vulnerability Management
6 7 (22.58%) Budget Management
6 7 (22.58%) Budgeting
6 7 (22.58%) Capacity Management
6 7 (22.58%) Project Planning
7 5 (16.13%) Agile
7 5 (16.13%) Cloud Security
7 5 (16.13%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) CISSP
2 8 (25.81%) CISM
3 7 (22.58%) CISA
3 7 (22.58%) ISACA
3 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
4 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
5 4 (12.90%) ISSAP
6 3 (9.68%) Degree
7 2 (6.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (6.45%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (6.45%) CRISC
7 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
7 2 (6.45%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
8 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
8 1 (3.23%) CCSP
8 1 (3.23%) CISMP
8 1 (3.23%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (51.61%) NIST
2 11 (35.48%) GDPR
3 8 (25.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (9.68%) COSO
5 3 (9.68%) PCI DSS
6 2 (6.45%) GRC
6 2 (6.45%) ITGC
7 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (3.23%) ISO 22301
7 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.23%) Netskope
1 1 (3.23%) Sparx
1 1 (3.23%) Splunk