The first table below looks at the demand for COBIT skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBIT over the 3 months to 21 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
Rank 253 258 264
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +6
Permanent jobs citing COBIT 9 12 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.108% 0.137% 0.064%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.158% 1.483% 0.871%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 2
Average salary £48,500 £60,000 £47,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.16% +25.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £48,300 £52,000 £47,550
10% offered a salary of more than £53,000 £70,000 £47,950
UK excluding London average salary £48,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-11.81% +10.00%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
777 809 689
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 9.365% 9.227% 7.345%
Number of salaries quoted 665 645 553
Average salary £39,625 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.93% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,350 £26,000 £25,039
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
COBIT
England

COBIT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England COBIT Salary Trend

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 East of England region over the 3 months to 21 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
Cambridgeshire - 6 £48,500 -
Hertfordshire +1 3 £50,000 -14.89%
COBIT
England

COBIT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 22 (68.75%) ITIL
2 21 (65.63%) PCI DSS
3 19 (59.38%) Security Management
3 19 (59.38%) Information Security
4 16 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
5 15 (46.88%) CISSP
6 13 (40.63%) CISM
7 12 (37.50%) Firewall
8 10 (31.25%) CISA
8 10 (31.25%) Management Information System
8 10 (31.25%) Information Security Management
9 9 (28.13%) Risk Management
10 7 (21.88%) GIAC
10 7 (21.88%) CEH
10 7 (21.88%) Service Delivery
11 6 (18.75%) CheckPoint
11 6 (18.75%) Cisco
11 6 (18.75%) Incident Management
11 6 (18.75%) Finance
11 6 (18.75%) Retail
11 6 (18.75%) Network Security
12 5 (15.63%) Vulnerability Management
12 5 (15.63%) Project Management
12 5 (15.63%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (12.50%) SSCP
13 4 (12.50%) CMMI
13 4 (12.50%) SLA
13 4 (12.50%) Data Security
13 4 (12.50%) Nessus
13 4 (12.50%) Nmap

COBIT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 1 (3.125%) Web Services
1 1 (3.125%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.125%) SharePoint Server
Communications & Networking
1 12 (37.50%) Firewall
2 6 (18.75%) Network Security
3 2 (6.250%) LAN
3 2 (6.250%) WAN
3 2 (6.250%) VPN
3 2 (6.250%) Wireless
4 1 (3.125%) HTTP
General
1 6 (18.75%) Finance
1 6 (18.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Network Engineer
1 6 (18.75%) Service Manager
1 6 (18.75%) Team Leader
1 6 (18.75%) Security Specialist
1 6 (18.75%) Security Engineer
1 6 (18.75%) Service Improvement Manager
2 4 (12.50%) IT Consultant
2 4 (12.50%) Consultant
2 4 (12.50%) Security Consultant
2 4 (12.50%) IT Security Consultant
2 4 (12.50%) IT Security Specialist
3 3 (9.375%) Head of IT
3 3 (9.375%) Security Analyst
3 3 (9.375%) Analyst
4 1 (3.125%) Head of ICT
4 1 (3.125%) IT Support
4 1 (3.125%) Application Security Analyst
4 1 (3.125%) IT Security Analyst
4 1 (3.125%) E-Commerce Manager
4 1 (3.125%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.375%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.125%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.125%) UNIX
1 1 (3.125%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) ITIL
2 19 (59.38%) Security Management
2 19 (59.38%) Information Security
3 16 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
4 10 (31.25%) Information Security Management
5 9 (28.13%) Risk Management
6 7 (21.88%) Service Delivery
7 6 (18.75%) Incident Management
8 5 (15.63%) Vulnerability Management
8 5 (15.63%) Project Management
9 4 (12.50%) CMMI
9 4 (12.50%) Data Security
10 3 (9.375%) Performance Management
11 2 (6.250%) Supplier Management
11 2 (6.250%) Risk Analysis
11 2 (6.250%) ITIL V3
11 2 (6.250%) Continuous Improvement
11 2 (6.250%) Performance Improvement
12 1 (3.125%) Change Control
12 1 (3.125%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 15 (46.88%) CISSP
2 13 (40.63%) CISM
3 10 (31.25%) CISA
4 7 (21.88%) GIAC
4 7 (21.88%) CEH
5 5 (15.63%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (12.50%) SSCP
7 3 (9.375%) Degree
8 2 (6.250%) CCSP
8 2 (6.250%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (65.63%) PCI DSS
2 4 (12.50%) SLA
3 2 (6.250%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Nessus
2 1 (3.125%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) CheckPoint
1 6 (18.75%) Cisco
2 4 (12.50%) Qualys
3 1 (3.125%) Microsoft