City of London COBIT Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited COBIT over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
Location Berkshire Buckinghamshire City of London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Hertfordshire Leicester Leicestershire London Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Scotland Shropshire Slough South East Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Walsall West Midlands	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	218	185
Rank change on same period last year	-33
Matching contract IT job ads	5	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	1.466 %	3.815 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£700	£533
Average daily rate	£700	£550
% change on same period last year	+27.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£700	£567
UK excluding London average daily rate	£447	£417
% change on same period last year	+7.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	-
Average hourly rate	£27.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.00	£27.86
% change on same period last year	-24.61 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	341	367
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.453 %	0.377 %
Daily rates quoted	190	163
Average minimum daily rate	£395	£453
Average daily rate	£440	£478
% change on same period last year	-7.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£485	£503
UK excluding London average daily rate	£366	£372
% change on same period last year	-1.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.33	£28.74
Average hourly rate	£18.85	£32.48
% change on same period last year	-41.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.37	£36.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.95	£24.98
% change on same period last year	-4.12 %
COBIT London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

COBIT
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing COBIT across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

COBIT
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing COBIT across the City of London region.

COBIT
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing COBIT across the City of London region.

COBIT
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 (66.67 %) Finance 2 4 (44.44 %) Information Security 2 4 (44.44 %) Banking 2 4 (44.44 %) Investment Banking 2 4 (44.44 %) ITIL 2 4 (44.44 %) MS Excel 2 4 (44.44 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 3 (33.33 %) CISSP 3 3 (33.33 %) Internet 3 3 (33.33 %) CISM 3 3 (33.33 %) ISO17799 3 3 (33.33 %) VB 3 3 (33.33 %) MS Office 3 3 (33.33 %) SAP 3 3 (33.33 %) ISO27001

3 3 (33.33 %) Degree 4 2 (22.22 %) CISA 5 1 (11.11 %) French Language 5 1 (11.11 %) Problem Management 5 1 (11.11 %) SAP Oil and Gas 5 1 (11.11 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (11.11 %) IT Governance 5 1 (11.11 %) Business Objects 5 1 (11.11 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (11.11 %) Management Information System 5 1 (11.11 %) Risk Management 5 1 (11.11 %) Workflow 5 1 (11.11 %) BCP 5 1 (11.11 %) Service Management

COBIT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 4 (44.44 %) MS Excel 2 3 (33.33 %) MS Office 3 1 (11.11 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (11.11 %) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking 1 3 (33.33 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (11.11 %) BusinessObjects
General 1 6 (66.67 %) Finance 2 4 (44.44 %) Banking 2 4 (44.44 %) Investment Banking	Job Titles 1 3 (33.33 %) Consultant 1 3 (33.33 %) Compliance Manager 2 2 (22.22 %) Security Consultant 2 2 (22.22 %) Information Security Consultant 3 1 (11.11 %) Risk Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) Business Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) Administrator 3 1 (11.11 %) Information Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) Information Security Officer 3 1 (11.11 %) Security Officer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (11.11 %) Management Information System 1 1 (11.11 %) French Language	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (44.44 %) ITIL 1 4 (44.44 %) Information Security 2 1 (11.11 %) IT Governance 2 1 (11.11 %) Problem Management 2 1 (11.11 %) BCP 2 1 (11.11 %) Service Management 2 1 (11.11 %) Risk Management 2 1 (11.11 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 3 (33.33 %) VB	Qualifications 1 3 (33.33 %) CISSP 1 3 (33.33 %) CISM 1 3 (33.33 %) Degree 2 2 (22.22 %) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (44.44 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 3 (33.33 %) ISO27001 2 3 (33.33 %) ISO17799	Vendors 1 3 (33.33 %) SAP 2 1 (11.11 %) Business Objects