Surrey COBIT Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) skills within the Surrey region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBIT over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Canary Wharf Cheshire Chippenham City of London Coventry Docklands, London Dudley East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Fareham Farnborough Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Knutsford Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough South Croydon South East South West Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Telford Thames Valley UK Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	190	238
Rank change on same period last year	+48
Matching permanent IT job ads	47	31
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	7.025 %	5.439 %
Salaries quoted	9	27
Average minimum salary	£55,222	£56,741
Average salary	£61,056	£58,315
% change on same period last year	+4.69 %
Average maximum salary	£66,889	£59,889
UK excluding London average salary	£52,764	£53,841
% change on same period last year	-2.00 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Surrey
Matching permanent IT job ads	669	570
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.360 %	0.238 %
Salaries quoted	397	495
Average minimum salary	£34,709	£41,509
Average salary	£37,228	£44,435
% change on same period last year	-16.21 %
Average maximum salary	£39,747	£47,361
UK excluding London average salary	£39,422	£40,055
% change on same period last year	-1.58 %
COBIT South East

COBIT
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing COBIT across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

COBIT
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing COBIT across the Surrey region.

COBIT
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COBIT across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

COBIT
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COBIT within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Guildford	+14	2	£65,000	+1.96 %
Staines	-11	1	£72,500	+35.93 %

COBIT South East

COBIT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 50 (89.29 %) ITIL 2 42 (75.00 %) Finance 3 38 (67.86 %) Service Delivery 3 38 (67.86 %) Operations Management 4 33 (58.93 %) Matrix Management 5 20 (35.71 %) Health 6 14 (25.00 %) CMMI 6 14 (25.00 %) MS Visio 7 10 (17.86 %) Validation 7 10 (17.86 %) IT Governance 8 8 (14.29 %) Legal 9 3 (5.357 %) Risk Management 10 2 (3.571 %) Network Security 10 2 (3.571 %) Service Management 10 2 (3.571 %) Change Management

10 2 (3.571 %) PRINCE 10 2 (3.571 %) Project Management 10 2 (3.571 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 10 2 (3.571 %) Mainframe 10 2 (3.571 %) Security Management 10 2 (3.571 %) Insurance 11 1 (1.786 %) Risk Assessment 11 1 (1.786 %) Information Security 11 1 (1.786 %) Pensions 11 1 (1.786 %) Technical Architecture 11 1 (1.786 %) BS7799 11 1 (1.786 %) ISO17799 11 1 (1.786 %) UNIX 11 1 (1.786 %) Windows 11 1 (1.786 %) E-business

COBIT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Surrey 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.

Applications 1 14 (25.00 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.571 %) Network Security
General 1 42 (75.00 %) Finance 2 20 (35.71 %) Health 3 8 (14.29 %) Legal 4 2 (3.571 %) Insurance 5 1 (1.786 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 39 (69.64 %) Architect 2 12 (21.43 %) Process Manager 3 7 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Architect 4 3 (5.357 %) Consultant 5 2 (3.571 %) Technical Consultant 5 2 (3.571 %) IT Manager 5 2 (3.571 %) Technical Architect 5 2 (3.571 %) Security Manager 6 1 (1.786 %) Information Manager 6 1 (1.786 %) Information Security Manager 6 1 (1.786 %) Infrastructure Consultant 6 1 (1.786 %) IT Security Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.571 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 1 (1.786 %) UNIX 1 1 (1.786 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 50 (89.29 %) ITIL 2 38 (67.86 %) Service Delivery 2 38 (67.86 %) Operations Management 3 33 (58.93 %) Matrix Management 4 14 (25.00 %) CMMI 5 10 (17.86 %) Validation 5 10 (17.86 %) IT Governance 6 3 (5.357 %) Risk Management 7 2 (3.571 %) Security Management 7 2 (3.571 %) Change Management 7 2 (3.571 %) PRINCE 7 2 (3.571 %) Project Management 7 2 (3.571 %) Service Management 8 1 (1.786 %) E-business 8 1 (1.786 %) Identity Management 8 1 (1.786 %) Information Security Management 8 1 (1.786 %) Risk Assessment 8 1 (1.786 %) Information Security 8 1 (1.786 %) Technical Architecture 8 1 (1.786 %) Risk Analysis	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.571 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (1.786 %) ISO17799 2 1 (1.786 %) BS7799