The first table below looks at the demand for COBIT skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COBIT 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 Surrey 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
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
Rank - 97 94
Contract jobs citing COBIT 0 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey - 0.062% 0.321%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 0.855% 5.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 6
Average daily rate - £517 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +37.86%
UK excluding London average daily rate £395 £588 £375
% change year-on-year
-32.76% +56.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £20.00
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
52 117 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 4.522% 7.267% 6.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 66 55
Average daily rate £390 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.42% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £294 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £522 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
Average hourly rate - £16.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -45.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
COBIT
South East

COBIT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey COBIT Daily Rate Trend

COBIT
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) OLAP
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) CRM
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
1 3 (75.00%) Process Management
1 3 (75.00%) Spotfire
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle OLAP
1 3 (75.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (50.00%) Data Mart
3 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
3 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (25.00%) CISSP
3 1 (25.00%) GAMP
3 1 (25.00%) GxP
3 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS

COBIT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) OLAP
1 3 (75.00%) Spotfire
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (50.00%) Data Mart
General
1 3 (75.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Applications Manager
1 3 (75.00%) CRM Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) CRM
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
1 3 (75.00%) Process Management
2 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (25.00%) GAMP
1 1 (25.00%) GxP
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle