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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
Rank 147 151 144
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -7
Permanent jobs citing COBIT 7 2 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.219% 0.057% 0.351%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.823% 0.922% 3.896%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 9
Average salary £58,000 £32,500 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+78.46% -16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £48,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-15.65% +15.00%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
248 217 308
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 7.772% 6.200% 9.008%
Number of salaries quoted 132 146 229
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,200 £28,500 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £58,000 £57,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
COBIT
UK

COBIT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland COBIT Salary Trend

COBIT
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COBIT across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 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
Edinburgh - 4 £80,000 -
Stirling +18 2 £38,000 +16.92%
Aberdeen - 1 - -
COBIT
UK

COBIT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 8 (88.89%) Finance
2 7 (77.78%) Management Information System
3 6 (66.67%) Information Security
4 4 (44.44%) Risk Management
4 4 (44.44%) Project Management
4 4 (44.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (44.44%) CISA
4 4 (44.44%) COSO
5 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 3 (33.33%) Security Management
5 3 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (22.22%) GIAC
6 2 (22.22%) Banking
6 2 (22.22%) Information Management
6 2 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (22.22%) CISM
6 2 (22.22%) QiCA
6 2 (22.22%) Firewall
6 2 (22.22%) Information Security Management
6 2 (22.22%) SSCP
6 2 (22.22%) CISSP
6 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 1 (11.11%) Degree
7 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
7 1 (11.11%) Process Management
7 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking

COBIT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
General
1 8 (88.89%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Security Officer
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Security Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Information Systems Auditor
2 2 (22.22%) Auditor
2 2 (22.22%) Information Security Officer
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) IT Security Officer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Information Security Officer
3 1 (11.11%) Coordinator
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Security Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Management Information System
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Information Security
2 4 (44.44%) Risk Management
2 4 (44.44%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 3 (33.33%) Security Management
3 3 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Information Management
4 2 (22.22%) Information Security Management
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Process Management
5 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) CISA
2 2 (22.22%) GIAC
2 2 (22.22%) CISM
2 2 (22.22%) QiCA
2 2 (22.22%) SSCP
2 2 (22.22%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 4 (44.44%) COSO
2 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
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