The first table below looks at the demand for COSO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COSO over the 3 months to 17 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 Kent 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing COSO 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £725 - £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
23 16 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 7.516% 6.038% 7.210%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 11
Average daily rate £293 £325 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -38.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £263 £241
10% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £384 £570
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -43.62%
COSO
South East

COSO
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) COBIT
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing

COSO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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.

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Security
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Information Security
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (100.00%) COBIT