COBIT Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands 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 67 - 67
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing COBIT 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.38% - 0.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.19% - 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £422 - -
25th Percentile £435 - £925
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - £950
Median % change year-on-year - - +137.50%
75th Percentile £505 - £975
90th Percentile £525 - -
England median daily rate £556 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -7.33% -4.00% -3.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 137 100 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.36% 12.59% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 56 78
10th Percentile £292 £263 £259
25th Percentile £358 £325 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +11.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £469 £600 £538
90th Percentile £538 £735 £649
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 9
10th Percentile £15.12 - £10.77
25th Percentile £17.69 £12.75 £16.66
Median hourly rate £20.83 £13.50 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +54.30% -34.18% +4.30%
75th Percentile £25.11 £28.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £29.88 £47.35 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £31.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year +4.43% -17.01% +66.67%

COBIT
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing COBIT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for COBIT in the East Midlands

COBIT
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing COBIT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing COBIT

COBIT
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBIT within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire - 1 £465 - 4
COBIT
England

COBIT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
1 3 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) IT Audit
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Fintech
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISA
1 3 (100.00%) CISM
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
1 3 (100.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Alteryx
1 3 (100.00%) Rapid7
2 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow