The first table below looks at the demand for COBIT skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
Rank 120 117 113
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -4
Permanent jobs citing COBIT 12 16 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.570% 0.708% 0.054%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.417% 5.714% 0.694%
Number of salaries quoted 10 14 1
Average salary £43,750 £75,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-41.66% +66.66%
UK excluding London average salary £48,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-11.81% +10.00%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
187 280 144
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 8.879% 12.39% 7.734%
Number of salaries quoted 147 253 122
Average salary £45,750 £43,750 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.57% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £30,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,250 £65,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
COBIT
Berkshire

COBIT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading COBIT Salary Trend

COBIT
Salary Histogram

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

Reading COBIT Salary Histogram

COBIT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 20 (86.96%) Finance
2 14 (60.87%) Information Security
3 13 (56.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 12 (52.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (47.83%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (47.83%) Data Protection
5 11 (47.83%) Information Management
5 11 (47.83%) Information Security Management
5 11 (47.83%) Security Management
5 11 (47.83%) Management Information System
5 11 (47.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (21.74%) Change Management
7 4 (17.39%) Project Management
7 4 (17.39%) PRINCE
7 4 (17.39%) QA
8 3 (13.04%) PCI DSS
8 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (13.04%) Banking
8 3 (13.04%) C++
8 3 (13.04%) Java
8 3 (13.04%) .NET
8 3 (13.04%) Visual Studio
8 3 (13.04%) ITIL
8 3 (13.04%) Risk Management
9 2 (8.696%) SharePoint
9 2 (8.696%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (8.696%) Penetration Testing
9 2 (8.696%) Service Delivery
9 2 (8.696%) Network Security
9 2 (8.696%) Continuous Improvement

COBIT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 3 (13.04%) .NET
2 1 (4.348%) J2EE
2 1 (4.348%) Middleware
2 1 (4.348%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.696%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.348%) WebSphere MQ
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.696%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (8.696%) Network Security
2 1 (4.348%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.348%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (86.96%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Banking
3 1 (4.348%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Security Specialist
2 7 (30.43%) Consultant
3 6 (26.09%) Risk Consultant
4 4 (17.39%) Security Consultant
5 3 (13.04%) Architect
6 2 (8.696%) Risk Manager
6 2 (8.696%) Compliance Manager
6 2 (8.696%) Senior Security Specialist
6 2 (8.696%) IT Security Specialist
6 2 (8.696%) Governance Manager
6 2 (8.696%) IT Consultant
7 1 (4.348%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (4.348%) IT Security Officer
7 1 (4.348%) Security Officer
7 1 (4.348%) Information Security Consultant
7 1 (4.348%) IT Security Analyst
7 1 (4.348%) Security Manager
7 1 (4.348%) Process Improvement Consultant
7 1 (4.348%) Analyst
7 1 (4.348%) Process Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Management Information System
1 11 (47.83%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Information Security
2 11 (47.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (47.83%) Information Management
2 11 (47.83%) Information Security Management
2 11 (47.83%) Security Management
2 11 (47.83%) Data Protection
3 5 (21.74%) Change Management
4 4 (17.39%) PRINCE
4 4 (17.39%) Project Management
5 3 (13.04%) Risk Management
5 3 (13.04%) ITIL
5 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (8.696%) Portfolio Management
6 2 (8.696%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (8.696%) Service Delivery
6 2 (8.696%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (4.348%) Strategic Planning
7 1 (4.348%) Document Management
7 1 (4.348%) Computer Forensics
7 1 (4.348%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) C++
1 3 (13.04%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.348%) CISSP
1 1 (4.348%) CISA
1 1 (4.348%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (56.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 12 (52.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (17.39%) QA
4 3 (13.04%) PCI DSS
5 1 (4.348%) ISO/IEC 15504 (SPICE)
Vendors
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle
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: 19 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: 18 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