The first table below looks at the demand for COBIT skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COBIT over the 3 months to 24 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 Milton Keynes 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
Rank 52 60 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing COBIT 3 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.565% 0.287% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.500% 3.571% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £568 - -
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
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
40 56 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 7.533% 8.023% 8.140%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 11
Average daily rate £410 £350 £203
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.14% +72.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £207 £115
10% offered a daily rate of more than £725 £380 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 13
Average hourly rate - £14.00 £14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £16.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+8.56% -46.39%
COBIT
Buckinghamshire

COBIT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Milton Keynes COBIT Daily Rate Histogram

COBIT
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 3 (75.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) COSO
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Advertising
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) IT Governance
3 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) IEC 61508
3 1 (25.00%) CISSP

COBIT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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.

General
1 1 (25.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Security
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Information Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) IT Governance
3 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 3 (75.00%) COSO
2 1 (25.00%) IEC 61508