COBIT Contracts with Work from Home Options

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 312 421 563
Rank change year-on-year +109 +142 -119
Contract jobs citing COBIT 29 36 60
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.42% 1.21% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 44
10th Percentile £421 £500 £416
25th Percentile £500 £556 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £519
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +15.66% -1.19%
75th Percentile £655 £638 £738
90th Percentile £721 £715 £816
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £610
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.64% +16.19%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,036 2,982 5,763
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 13.80% 12.49% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 2,167 4,130
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £521 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +1.56% +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £613
90th Percentile £750 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 71 128
10th Percentile £12.23 £17.50 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.00 £20.94 £19.44
Median hourly rate £24.50 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -21.35% +134.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £58.38 £56.60
90th Percentile £66.75 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

COBIT
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing COBIT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

COBIT trend for jobs with a WFH option

COBIT
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing COBIT.

COBIT daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

COBIT
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing COBIT over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

COBIT daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

COBIT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (3.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 2 (6.90%) AWS
2 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (6.90%) GitHub
2 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.45%) GCP
3 1 (3.45%) IaaS
3 1 (3.45%) PaaS
3 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) 4G
2 1 (3.45%) 5G
2 1 (3.45%) LAN
2 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (27.59%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Local Government
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.90%) Multimedia
4 2 (6.90%) Retail
4 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.45%) German Language
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Architect
2 7 (24.14%) Consultant
3 5 (17.24%) IT Manager
3 5 (17.24%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (13.79%) Security Architect
4 4 (13.79%) Security Consultant
5 3 (10.34%) IT Security Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Security Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Information Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Information Assurance Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Information Security Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) IT Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Security Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Service Manager
7 1 (3.45%) IT Project Manager
7 1 (3.45%) IT Risk Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Security Posture
2 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.90%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (6.90%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) CMDB
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) IoT
4 1 (3.45%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (41.38%) Information Security
2 10 (34.48%) Risk Management
2 10 (34.48%) TOGAF
3 7 (24.14%) ITIL
3 7 (24.14%) PRINCE2
4 6 (20.69%) Data Management
4 6 (20.69%) IT4IT
4 6 (20.69%) SFIA
5 5 (17.24%) ArchiMate
5 5 (17.24%) BPMN
5 5 (17.24%) Enterprise Modelling
5 5 (17.24%) Penetration Testing
5 5 (17.24%) Security Management
5 5 (17.24%) Service Management
5 5 (17.24%) Technical Architecture
6 4 (13.79%) Information Assurance
6 4 (13.79%) Project Management
6 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (13.79%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) CISSP
2 9 (31.03%) CISM
3 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
4 5 (17.24%) CISA
5 4 (13.79%) CEH
5 4 (13.79%) CSSLP
5 4 (13.79%) Degree
6 3 (10.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (6.90%) CISMP
7 2 (6.90%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (6.90%) CREST Certified
7 2 (6.90%) CRISC
7 2 (6.90%) GCIH
7 2 (6.90%) ISSAP
7 2 (6.90%) Master's Degree
7 2 (6.90%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (48.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (41.38%) NIST
3 7 (24.14%) ISO 22301
4 5 (17.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 4 (13.79%) PCI DSS
6 3 (10.34%) COSO
6 3 (10.34%) GDPR
6 3 (10.34%) ITGC
6 3 (10.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (6.90%) GRC
7 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (6.90%) NCSC
8 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Nessus
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Sparx
2 2 (6.90%) Qualys
3 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Remedy
3 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.45%) Splunk