COBIT Contracts in the North of England

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring COBIT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited COBIT over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 181 208
Rank change year-on-year +21 +27 +22
Contract jobs citing COBIT 6 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.084% 0.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.27% 0.54% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 9
10th Percentile £621 - -
25th Percentile £680 £500 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +36.19% -8.70% +53.33%
75th Percentile £750 £550 £588
90th Percentile £769 - £600
England median daily rate £750 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +25.00% +4.35% -5.74%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 471 745 813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.29% 15.63% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 418 493
10th Percentile £235 £320 £288
25th Percentile £371 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £698 £672 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 85 40
10th Percentile £14.27 - £13.47
25th Percentile £22.14 £10.95 £29.30
Median hourly rate £24.67 £12.84 £38.55
Median % change year-on-year +92.15% -66.69% +106.15%
75th Percentile £39.69 £26.66 £49.08
90th Percentile £79.39 £48.75 £58.45
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing COBIT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for COBIT in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing COBIT in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for COBIT in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing COBIT in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for COBIT in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing COBIT in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for COBIT in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBIT within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West - 4 £715 - 2
Yorkshire +8 2 £715 +36.19%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
2 5 (83.33%) Security Architect
3 4 (66.67%) Consultant
3 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps Architect
3 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 4 (66.67%) Security Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (66.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) CESG
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 4 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) OWASP
2 4 (66.67%) Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) IT Governance
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (66.67%) CCSP
1 4 (66.67%) CEH
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (66.67%) CISM
1 4 (66.67%) CISSP
1 4 (66.67%) OSCP
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) NIST
1 5 (83.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (16.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) JSP 440
2 1 (16.67%) NIST 800
2 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) BMC
1 1 (16.67%) Remedy
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow