The first table below looks at the demand for COBIT skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COBIT over the 3 months to 19 June 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 England 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
Rank 455 437 491
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +54
Contract jobs citing COBIT 77 108 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.178% 0.204% 0.155%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.516% 2.693% 2.156%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 77 57
Average daily rate £440 £475 £445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.36% +6.74%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £580 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £385 £520 £363
% change year-on-year
-25.96% +43.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £20.00
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
3061 4011 4128
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 7.074% 7.574% 7.210%
Number of daily rates quoted 1849 2098 2342
Average daily rate £417 £415 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.48% -7.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £239
10% offered a daily rate of more than £569 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 215 267
Average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -30.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.80 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.15% -44.26%
COBIT
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COBIT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England COBIT Daily Rate Trend

COBIT
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing COBIT across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England COBIT Daily Rate Histogram

COBIT
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing COBIT across the England region.

England COBIT Hourly Rate Trend

COBIT
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBIT within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +3 51 £450 -5.26% 4
South East +33 15 £420 -18.76% 11
North West +16 4 £325 - 1
South West +30 3 £458 -
Yorkshire +3 2 £307 -35.47%
East of England +14 1 £325 -44.08%
West Midlands 0 1 £550 -12.00% 1
East Midlands - - - -
COBIT
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COBIT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 110 (74.83%) ITIL
2 56 (38.10%) Finance
3 50 (34.01%) Risk Management
4 49 (33.33%) PRINCE2
5 48 (32.65%) Service Management
6 40 (27.21%) IT Governance
7 35 (23.81%) Project Management
8 32 (21.77%) Six Sigma
9 30 (20.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 29 (19.73%) Microsoft
10 29 (19.73%) Information Security
11 28 (19.05%) Fixed Income
11 28 (19.05%) Service Delivery
12 25 (17.01%) CMMI
12 25 (17.01%) ITSM
13 24 (16.33%) Banking
14 23 (15.65%) MS Excel
15 21 (14.29%) UML
15 21 (14.29%) MS Visio
15 21 (14.29%) CISSP
15 21 (14.29%) Process Improvement
16 20 (13.61%) Portfolio Management
16 20 (13.61%) PMI
16 20 (13.61%) PMI Certification
16 20 (13.61%) Change Management
16 20 (13.61%) Performance Management
17 19 (12.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 19 (12.93%) Equities
18 17 (11.56%) QA
18 17 (11.56%) Configuration Management

COBIT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

Application Development
1 4 (2.721%) SAP XI
2 3 (2.041%) WCF
2 3 (2.041%) WPF
2 3 (2.041%) WF
2 3 (2.041%) .NET Framework
2 3 (2.041%) HTML
2 3 (2.041%) .NET
2 3 (2.041%) ASP
2 3 (2.041%) CSS
2 3 (2.041%) XML
2 3 (2.041%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 10 (6.803%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.401%) CMS
3 3 (2.041%) MS Exchange
3 3 (2.041%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (1.361%) SAS
4 2 (1.361%) WebLogic
Applications
1 23 (15.65%) MS Excel
2 21 (14.29%) MS Visio
3 16 (10.88%) MS Project
4 12 (8.163%) MS PowerPoint
5 6 (4.082%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.721%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.680%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.680%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.680%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.401%) Network Security
2 4 (2.721%) Firewall
3 3 (2.041%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.361%) EIGRP
4 2 (1.361%) 802.11
4 2 (1.361%) OSPF
4 2 (1.361%) Wireless
4 2 (1.361%) VPN
4 2 (1.361%) DNS
4 2 (1.361%) DHCP
4 2 (1.361%) RIP
4 2 (1.361%) SAN
4 2 (1.361%) LDAP
4 2 (1.361%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.680%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.401%) SAP BW
2 3 (2.041%) Spotfire
2 3 (2.041%) Oracle OLAP
2 3 (2.041%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (2.041%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (2.041%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.041%) OLAP
3 2 (1.361%) Data Mart
4 1 (0.680%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (10.88%) QuickTest Pro
2 5 (3.401%) AppScan
3 3 (2.041%) Subversion
3 3 (2.041%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.361%) JIRA
General
1 56 (38.10%) Finance
2 24 (16.33%) Banking
3 15 (10.20%) Investment Banking
3 15 (10.20%) Legal
4 4 (2.721%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (2.041%) Retail
6 2 (1.361%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.680%) French Language
7 1 (0.680%) Advertising
7 1 (0.680%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (21.09%) Analyst
2 24 (16.33%) Consultant
3 15 (10.20%) Security Consultant
4 11 (7.483%) Architect
4 11 (7.483%) Project Manager
5 10 (6.803%) QA Manager
5 10 (6.803%) Security Manager
5 10 (6.803%) Risk Analyst
6 9 (6.122%) Portfolio Manager
6 9 (6.122%) Process Analyst
6 9 (6.122%) Process Improvement Analyst
7 6 (4.082%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (3.401%) Head of Operations
8 5 (3.401%) Compliance Manager
8 5 (3.401%) Security Specialist
8 5 (3.401%) Information Security Consultant
8 5 (3.401%) Coordinator
8 5 (3.401%) IT Risk Analyst
8 5 (3.401%) Operational Risk Analyst
9 4 (2.721%) Risk Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.05%) Fixed Income
2 20 (13.61%) PMI
3 19 (12.93%) Equities
4 11 (7.483%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.442%) SWIFT
6 5 (3.401%) E-Learning
7 4 (2.721%) CMDB
8 3 (2.041%) Computer Science
8 3 (2.041%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.361%) Freedom of Information Act
9 2 (1.361%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.680%) Video on Demand
10 1 (0.680%) iSeries
10 1 (0.680%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.88%) Windows
2 9 (6.122%) Linux
3 7 (4.762%) Windows 7
4 5 (3.401%) UNIX
5 3 (2.041%) Windows XP
5 3 (2.041%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.361%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.361%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.680%) zOS
7 1 (0.680%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (74.83%) ITIL
2 50 (34.01%) Risk Management
3 49 (33.33%) PRINCE2
4 48 (32.65%) Service Management
5 40 (27.21%) IT Governance
6 35 (23.81%) Project Management
7 32 (21.77%) Six Sigma
8 29 (19.73%) Information Security
9 28 (19.05%) Service Delivery
10 25 (17.01%) CMMI
10 25 (17.01%) ITSM
11 21 (14.29%) UML
11 21 (14.29%) Process Improvement
12 20 (13.61%) Portfolio Management
12 20 (13.61%) Change Management
12 20 (13.61%) Performance Management
13 17 (11.56%) Configuration Management
14 16 (10.88%) PRINCE
14 16 (10.88%) Regression Testing
14 16 (10.88%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.122%) C
2 5 (3.401%) VBScript
2 5 (3.401%) VB
2 5 (3.401%) Java
3 4 (2.721%) SQL
4 3 (2.041%) VB6
4 3 (2.041%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.041%) C#
Qualifications
1 21 (14.29%) CISSP
2 20 (13.61%) PMI Certification
3 16 (10.88%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 16 (10.88%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.88%) Security Cleared
4 13 (8.844%) CISM
5 12 (8.163%) Degree
6 10 (6.803%) CISA
7 9 (6.122%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (6.122%) ISEB
8 6 (4.082%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (4.082%) MCSE
9 4 (2.721%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 3 (2.041%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (2.041%) GIAC
10 3 (2.041%) ISEB Practitioner
10 3 (2.041%) MCSD
11 2 (1.361%) CRISC
11 2 (1.361%) GCIA
11 2 (1.361%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 19 (12.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (11.56%) QA
4 16 (10.88%) COSO
5 13 (8.844%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 13 (8.844%) PCI DSS
6 5 (3.401%) Basel II
7 3 (2.041%) ISO 9000
7 3 (2.041%) GxP
7 3 (2.041%) SLA
7 3 (2.041%) TickIT
8 2 (1.361%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.361%) GAMP
8 2 (1.361%) BS25999
9 1 (0.680%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 4 (2.721%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.721%) Nmap
2 2 (1.361%) VMware ESX
2 2 (1.361%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.680%) Snort
Systems Management
1 16 (10.88%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (3.401%) WebInspect
3 2 (1.361%) Tivoli
3 2 (1.361%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 2 (1.361%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (0.680%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.803%) Niku
3 9 (6.122%) Oracle
4 8 (5.442%) IBM
5 5 (3.401%) VMware
5 5 (3.401%) Business Objects
5 5 (3.401%) SAP
5 5 (3.401%) HP
5 5 (3.401%) Remedy
6 4 (2.721%) Citrix
7 3 (2.041%) Cisco
8 2 (1.361%) Q1 Labs
8 2 (1.361%) ArcSight
8 2 (1.361%) EMC
8 2 (1.361%) Qualys
9 1 (0.680%) LANDesk
9 1 (0.680%) CA
9 1 (0.680%) NetApp
9 1 (0.680%) Red Hat
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