The first table below looks at the demand for COBIT skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBIT 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
Rank 194 202 164
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -38
Permanent jobs citing COBIT 21 21 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.408% 0.342% 0.621%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.536% 2.893% 6.491%
Number of salaries quoted 19 17 32
Average salary £45,500 £70,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-35.00% +68.67%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,500 £38,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £95,000 £49,750
UK excluding London average salary £48,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-11.81% +10.00%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
463 726 493
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 8.999% 11.84% 9.573%
Number of salaries quoted 370 655 407
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -10.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,200 £30,000 £28,100
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £85,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
COBIT
South East

COBIT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire COBIT Jobs Demand Trend

COBIT
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing COBIT across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire COBIT Salary Trend

COBIT
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COBIT across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire COBIT Salary Histogram

COBIT
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COBIT within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading -3 12 £43,750 -41.66%
Slough +5 9 £45,500 +10.97%
COBIT
South East

COBIT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited COBIT.

1 30 (85.71%) Finance
2 16 (45.71%) Information Security
3 15 (42.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 13 (37.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (34.29%) ITIL
5 12 (34.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (31.43%) Information Security Management
6 11 (31.43%) Security Management
6 11 (31.43%) Management Information System
6 11 (31.43%) Java
6 11 (31.43%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (31.43%) Data Protection
6 11 (31.43%) Information Management
7 9 (25.71%) Document Management
7 9 (25.71%) WebSphere
7 9 (25.71%) Oracle
8 8 (22.86%) SAP
8 8 (22.86%) PL/SQL
8 8 (22.86%) SQL
8 8 (22.86%) XML
8 8 (22.86%) UNIX
8 8 (22.86%) Oracle 9i
8 8 (22.86%) Shell Script
8 8 (22.86%) SQLPlus
8 8 (22.86%) TOAD
8 8 (22.86%) Oracle 10g
8 8 (22.86%) Sage
8 8 (22.86%) Oracle 11g
9 5 (14.29%) Automotive
9 5 (14.29%) Change Management

COBIT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited COBIT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (25.71%) WebSphere
2 8 (22.86%) XML
3 3 (8.571%) .NET
4 2 (5.714%) Middleware
5 1 (2.857%) J2EE
5 1 (2.857%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (14.29%) OnBase
2 2 (5.714%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.857%) WebSphere MQ
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.571%) Network Security
2 2 (5.714%) Firewall
2 2 (5.714%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.857%) HTTP
3 1 (2.857%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) Oracle 9i
1 8 (22.86%) TOAD
1 8 (22.86%) Oracle 10g
1 8 (22.86%) SQLPlus
1 8 (22.86%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 3 (8.571%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (85.71%) Finance
2 5 (14.29%) Automotive
3 4 (11.43%) Banking
4 1 (2.857%) Marketing
4 1 (2.857%) Legal
4 1 (2.857%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Consultant
1 8 (22.86%) Security Specialist
2 6 (17.14%) Team Leader
2 6 (17.14%) Support Team Leader
2 6 (17.14%) Risk Consultant
3 5 (14.29%) Security Consultant
4 4 (11.43%) Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Systems Support
5 3 (8.571%) IT Consultant
5 3 (8.571%) Applications Support
6 2 (5.714%) IT Security Consultant
6 2 (5.714%) Governance Manager
6 2 (5.714%) Risk Manager
6 2 (5.714%) Compliance Manager
6 2 (5.714%) Senior Security Specialist
6 2 (5.714%) IT Security Specialist
7 1 (2.857%) IT Security Officer
7 1 (2.857%) Security Officer
7 1 (2.857%) Head of Security
7 1 (2.857%) Information Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Management Information System
1 11 (31.43%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.857%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Information Security
2 12 (34.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (34.29%) ITIL
3 11 (31.43%) Information Security Management
3 11 (31.43%) Security Management
3 11 (31.43%) Information Management
3 11 (31.43%) Data Protection
4 9 (25.71%) Document Management
5 5 (14.29%) Change Management
6 4 (11.43%) Project Management
6 4 (11.43%) PRINCE
6 4 (11.43%) Risk Management
6 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (8.571%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (8.571%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (5.714%) TOGAF
8 2 (5.714%) Security Architecture
8 2 (5.714%) Portfolio Management
8 2 (5.714%) Penetration Testing
8 2 (5.714%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) Java
2 8 (22.86%) PL/SQL
2 8 (22.86%) SQL
2 8 (22.86%) Shell Script
3 3 (8.571%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) CISSP
2 3 (8.571%) CISA
3 2 (5.714%) CISM
4 1 (2.857%) CGEIT
4 1 (2.857%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (42.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 13 (37.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (14.29%) PCI DSS
4 4 (11.43%) QA
5 1 (2.857%) ISO/IEC 15504 (SPICE)
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Oracle
2 8 (22.86%) SAP
2 8 (22.86%) Sage
3 1 (2.857%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.857%) Symantec
3 1 (2.857%) Sourcefire
3 1 (2.857%) Juniper
Reading, Thames Valley
A blue chip client is looking for an experienced Information Security and Risk Consultant.
Hudson
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 27 April 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Project Management with £5 million spend on projects background... Detailed knowledge of Project Management methodologies and tools... Work closely with all areas of Technology (Finance, Service Delivery, Enterprise...
Royal Mail Group
Salary: Excellent Salry & Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
The responsibilities of the Governance, Gating and Compliance Manager include designing and implementing governance processes, conducting audits, ensuring processes and compliance on IT projects are adhered to, providing...
Salary: Excellent Salry & Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
The Architecture Team is split into two functions, one focused on delivering solution architectures for projects, the other taking a cross project, enterprise perspective, capturing the current and...
Streamline IT Recruitment
Salary: £80000 - £100000 per annum + car, bonus, bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
The Enterprise Security Architect will work closely with the Head of IT Security to define the Strategic Security Architecture and technology templates for the organisation The role will...
Streamline Connections
Salary: £80000 - £100000 per annum + car, bonus, bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Key skills: Development Architect - Security / Application Design / Governance / Change Management / COBIT / Java / C++ / .Net / Visual Studio - Permanent - up-to £70k - Reading - Finance A global leading financial organisation is...
ComputAppoint
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013