The first table below looks at the demand for COBIT skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COBIT over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Cambridgeshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
Rank - 63 -
Contract jobs citing COBIT 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire - 0.286% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 5.882% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £800 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £395 £581 £375
% change year-on-year
-32.04% +55.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £20.00
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
45 34 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 8.212% 4.857% 7.915%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 22
Average daily rate £350 £413 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% +17.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £242 £315 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £429 £601 £412
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 10
Average hourly rate £72.50 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+190.00% -23.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
COBIT
East of England

COBIT
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing COBIT across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Cambridgeshire COBIT Jobs Demand Trend

COBIT
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing COBIT across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire COBIT Daily Rate Trend

COBIT
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing COBIT also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited COBIT.

1 6 (100.00%) MS Office
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
1 6 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 6 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 6 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (66.67%) Matrix Management
2 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (66.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Legal
3 2 (33.33%) Degree

COBIT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing COBIT also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited COBIT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 6 (100.00%) MS Office
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
1 6 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 6 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (66.67%) Matrix Management
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001