The first table below looks at the demand for COBIT skills in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBIT over the 3 months to 22 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 Middlesex region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
Rank - 56 73
Permanent jobs citing COBIT 0 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex - 0.391% 0.429%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 4.255% 5.357%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 3
Average salary - £83,750 £61,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +36.17%
UK excluding London average salary £48,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-15.65% +15.00%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
67 47 56
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 12.79% 9.198% 8.000%
Number of salaries quoted 58 44 37
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% -
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £37,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
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 Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex COBIT Salary Trend

COBIT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) PRINCE2
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Solaris
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Brocade
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) AS400
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) Sun
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) AIX
2 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL V3
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Apache

COBIT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Team Leader
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX Team Leader
3 1 (25.00%) DBA
3 1 (25.00%) Strategy Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Solaris
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) AIX
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL V3
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Brocade
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) Sun
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Dell