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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 126 149
Rank change year-on-year +19 +23 +35
Contract jobs citing COBIT 12 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.68% 0.19% 0.30%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.49% 1.17% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £516 £437 £543
25th Percentile £522 £445 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £475 £680
Median % change year-on-year +10.79% -30.15% -2.86%
75th Percentile £549 £509 -
90th Percentile £571 £526 £737
Central London median daily rate £526 £475 £680
% change year-on-year +10.79% -30.15% -2.86%

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 344 343 455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.51% 16.35% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 201 344
10th Percentile £323 £363 £400
25th Percentile £415 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £700
90th Percentile £838 £751 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £598
% change year-on-year -0.18% -7.78% +3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £23.83 £16.60 -
25th Percentile £26.57 £17.50 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% - -
75th Percentile £56.75 £22.50 -
90th Percentile £75.95 £23.40 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £25.18 -
% change year-on-year +35.03% - -

COBIT
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing COBIT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for COBIT 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (25.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (25.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 11 (91.67%) Finance
2 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Financial Institution
4 3 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (16.67%) Banking
6 1 (8.33%) International Banking
6 1 (8.33%) Legal
6 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (8.33%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Service Management Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Architect
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (25.00%) RESTful
1 3 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) CMDB
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) ITIL
2 5 (41.67%) Service Management
2 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (33.33%) ITSM
3 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) ArchiMate
4 3 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) CRM
4 3 (25.00%) Information Security
4 3 (25.00%) IT Governance
4 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (25.00%) SDLC
4 3 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Degree
2 5 (41.67%) CISA
3 3 (25.00%) CISSP
4 2 (16.67%) CISM
4 2 (16.67%) CRISC
5 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) NIST
2 3 (25.00%) GDPR
2 3 (25.00%) GRC
2 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (16.67%) ITGC
4 1 (8.33%) COSO
4 1 (8.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Databricks
3 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (25.00%) Workday