COBIT Contracts in Scotland

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for COBIT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited COBIT over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 146 173
Rank change year-on-year +21 +27 -21
Contract jobs citing COBIT 3 17 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% 0.59% 0.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.72% 2.99% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 5
10th Percentile - - £370
25th Percentile £413 £550 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £400
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +56.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £438 £700 £475
90th Percentile - £700 £483
UK median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +14.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

COBIT is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 419 568 692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.87% 19.85% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 479 509
10th Percentile £184 £213 £217
25th Percentile £319 £400 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +2.41%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £624 £639 £600
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 13
10th Percentile £15.32 £26.25 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.18 £34.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £18.27 £47.73 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.72% +44.64% +37.50%
75th Percentile £51.28 £50.74 £43.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £52.55 £52.60
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £37.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year -44.00% +33.93% +33.02%

COBIT
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing COBIT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for COBIT in Scotland

COBIT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing COBIT in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for COBIT in Scotland

COBIT
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBIT within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Lothian - 2 £425 -
Aberdeen - 1 - -
COBIT
UK

COBIT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) PRINCE
2 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
2 2 (66.67%) Supplier Management
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security Management
3 1 (33.33%) IT Audit
3 1 (33.33%) IT Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) CISA
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) OneTrust