The first table below looks at the demand for COBIT skills in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBIT over the 3 months to 23 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 Somerset region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
Rank 58 - 58
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing COBIT 7 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 1.118% - 0.201%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.45% - 4.348%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 1
Average salary £50,000 - £54,500
UK excluding London average salary £48,500 £58,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-17.44% +17.50%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
67 22 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 10.70% 4.793% 4.628%
Number of salaries quoted 60 22 21
Average salary £36,000 £34,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.34% -18.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,800 £24,800 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,900 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
COBIT
South West

COBIT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset COBIT Salary Trend

COBIT
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COBIT across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 23 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
Bath - 4 £50,000 -
Taunton - 1 £39,250 -
COBIT
South West

COBIT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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%) TOGAF
2 6 (66.67%) .NET
3 5 (55.56%) Java
3 5 (55.56%) SOA
3 5 (55.56%) Banking
3 5 (55.56%) Telecoms
3 5 (55.56%) Finance
4 4 (44.44%) Change Management
4 4 (44.44%) ISEB
5 3 (33.33%) Service Management
5 3 (33.33%) C#
5 3 (33.33%) PRINCE2
5 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (33.33%) ITSM
5 3 (33.33%) MVC
5 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 3 (33.33%) Migration
5 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity
5 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (33.33%) Data Transformation
6 2 (22.22%) Investment Management
6 2 (22.22%) Java EE
6 2 (22.22%) J2EE
6 2 (22.22%) Oracle
6 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
7 1 (11.11%) Process Management
7 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification

COBIT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 6 (66.67%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (22.22%) Java EE
3 2 (22.22%) J2EE
4 1 (11.11%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (11.11%) XML
4 1 (11.11%) XSLT
4 1 (11.11%) NHibernate
4 1 (11.11%) WCF
4 1 (11.11%) LINQ
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (11.11%) LINQ to SQL
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) CruiseControl
1 1 (11.11%) Subversion
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
1 5 (55.56%) Telecoms
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
1 4 (44.44%) Technical Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Change Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Software Designer
2 3 (33.33%) Designer
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Solutions Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Software Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Software Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) ITIL
1 9 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 5 (55.56%) SOA
3 4 (44.44%) Change Management
4 3 (33.33%) Service Management
4 3 (33.33%) PRINCE2
4 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (33.33%) ITSM
4 3 (33.33%) MVC
4 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 3 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity
4 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) Data Transformation
5 2 (22.22%) Investment Management
6 1 (11.11%) Process Management
6 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (11.11%) TDD
6 1 (11.11%) Workflow
6 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) XQuery
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) ISEB
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (11.11%) MCSD
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) VMware