The first table below looks at the demand for COBIT skills in IT jobs advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBIT over the 3 months to 20 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 Slough region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
Rank 61 66 44
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -22
Permanent jobs citing COBIT 9 2 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 1.306% 0.298% 1.915%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.86% 2.740% 15.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 9
Average salary £45,500 £41,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.97% -1.20%
UK excluding London average salary £48,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-11.81% +10.00%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
70 73 58
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 10.16% 10.86% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 56 67 49
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £51,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -12.62%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,500 £31,500 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £67,500 £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 Slough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough COBIT Salary Trend

COBIT
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COBIT across the Slough region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Slough COBIT Salary Histogram

COBIT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 9 (100.00%) ITIL
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
2 8 (88.89%) Document Management
2 8 (88.89%) WebSphere
2 8 (88.89%) Oracle 11g
2 8 (88.89%) Java
2 8 (88.89%) PL/SQL
2 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 8 (88.89%) Oracle
2 8 (88.89%) SAP
2 8 (88.89%) XML
2 8 (88.89%) UNIX
2 8 (88.89%) Oracle 9i
2 8 (88.89%) TOAD
2 8 (88.89%) Oracle 10g
2 8 (88.89%) Sage
2 8 (88.89%) Shell Script
2 8 (88.89%) SQLPlus
3 5 (55.56%) Automotive
3 5 (55.56%) OnBase
4 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Network Security
5 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
5 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Data Management
5 1 (11.11%) Marketing
5 1 (11.11%) Information Security
5 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
5 1 (11.11%) CISA
5 1 (11.11%) CISM

COBIT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 8 (88.89%) XML
1 8 (88.89%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) OnBase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle 9i
1 8 (88.89%) TOAD
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle 10g
1 8 (88.89%) SQLPlus
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle 11g
General
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Team Leader
1 6 (66.67%) Support Team Leader
2 4 (44.44%) Systems Support
3 3 (33.33%) Applications Support
4 1 (11.11%) Project Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Support Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Head of Security
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) ITIL
2 8 (88.89%) Document Management
3 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
4 1 (11.11%) Information Security
4 1 (11.11%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Java
1 8 (88.89%) PL/SQL
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
1 8 (88.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) CISA
1 1 (11.11%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle
1 8 (88.89%) SAP
1 8 (88.89%) Sage