The first table below looks at the demand for COBIT skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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 94 99 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing COBIT 1 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.061% 0.178% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.031% 2.614% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £550 £900 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.88% -
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
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
97 153 128
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 5.940% 6.824% 6.765%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 61 54
Average daily rate £325 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £138 £200 £234
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 13
Average hourly rate £16.50 £13.00 £27.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.92% -52.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.89 £8.60 £10.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £58.25 £26.20 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £16.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+8.56% -46.39%
COBIT
England

COBIT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands COBIT Daily Rate Trend

COBIT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Warwickshire -6 1 £550 -38.88%
COBIT
England

COBIT
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Supplier Management
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) iSeries

COBIT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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.

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Supplier Management
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) VMware