The first table below looks at the demand for COSO skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COSO over the 3 months to 23 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 City of London 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO)
Rank 198 218 244
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +26
Contract jobs citing COSO 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% 0.013% 0.010%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.202% 0.140% 0.125%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £490 £575 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.78% -4.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 - £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
494 714 797
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 7.777% 9.070% 7.992%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 480 556
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 30 13
Average hourly rate £135.00 £18.85 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+616.18% -0.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
COSO
London

COSO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London COSO Jobs Demand Trend

COSO
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London COSO Daily Rate Trend

COSO
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing COSO 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 COSO.

1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) COBIT
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) SAP GRC
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Security
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) WebInspect
2 1 (50.00%) AppScan
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE
2 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management

COSO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing COSO 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 COSO. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP GRC
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) AppScan
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Security
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) COBIT
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) HP