COBIT Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring COBIT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 115 127
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 +59
Contract jobs citing COBIT 8 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.43% 0.19% 0.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.06% 1.26% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £515 - £483
25th Percentile £519 £725 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £750 £680
Median % change year-on-year -29.67% +10.29% +7.45%
75th Percentile £561 £775 -
90th Percentile £576 - -
Central London median daily rate £528 £750 £680
% change year-on-year -29.67% +10.29% +7.45%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

COBIT falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 388 318 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.08% 15.47% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 171 295
10th Percentile £319 £348 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £666 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £561 £575
% change year-on-year -6.46% -2.39% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £26.52 - -
25th Percentile £26.55 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +271.79%
75th Percentile £40.81 - £73.75
90th Percentile £50.38 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -24.09% -51.72% +271.79%

COBIT
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing COBIT relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

COBIT job vacancy trend in the City of London

COBIT
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing COBIT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing COBIT

COBIT
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing COBIT.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing COBIT

COBIT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (12.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (12.50%) PaaS
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Financial Institution
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Legal
4 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Security Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Service Management Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (37.50%) Information Security
3 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) IT Audit
4 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) Service Management
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Workflow
5 1 (12.50%) ArchiMate
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) IT Governance
5 1 (12.50%) Operations Management
5 1 (12.50%) SDLC
5 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) CISA
2 3 (37.50%) CISSP
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) CISM
3 2 (25.00%) CRISC
4 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) NIST
2 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (25.00%) GRC
3 2 (25.00%) ITGC
4 1 (12.50%) COSO
4 1 (12.50%) GDPR
4 1 (12.50%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) Workday