COBIT Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring COBIT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 117 131
Rank change year-on-year +10 +14 +41
Contract jobs citing COBIT 8 3 13
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.51% 0.16% 0.55%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.96% 0.86% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £403 £347 £385
25th Percentile £409 £377 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £443 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.78% -11.50% -18.37%
75th Percentile £500 £517 £525
90th Percentile - £552 £625
UK median daily rate £529 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -18.65% +4.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £44.04 -
UK median hourly rate £31.49 £44.04 -
% change year-on-year -28.50% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 270 350 449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.10% 18.98% 19.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 219 317
10th Percentile £216 £192 £178
25th Percentile £400 £323 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year - -2.17% -3.97%
75th Percentile £535 £499 £530
90th Percentile £575 £588 £586
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 3
10th Percentile £13.93 - £13.43
25th Percentile £15.55 £13.52 £13.83
Median hourly rate £40.00 £14.98 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +167.02% +3.31% -20.33%
75th Percentile £61.88 £15.23 £38.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £29.32 £52.90
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -23.61% +45.69%

COBIT
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

COBIT job vacancy trend in Scotland

COBIT
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing COBIT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing COBIT

COBIT
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing COBIT.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing COBIT

COBIT
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBIT within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Edinburgh +19 6 £500 -9.09%
Glasgow -17 1 £400 +19.40% 1
West Lothian - 1 £413 -
COBIT
UK

COBIT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 4 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (12.50%) IP Telephony
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) VLAN
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Legal
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Retail
3 3 (37.50%) Retail Banking
4 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Implementation Specialist
1 4 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Implementation Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Implementation Project Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Project Implementation Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Security Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Support Executive
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) ITIL
2 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (50.00%) Dependency Management
3 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (50.00%) Runbook
3 4 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security
5 1 (12.50%) PRINCE
5 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CISSP
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) CISA
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (12.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 4 (50.00%) Dell
2 4 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 4 (50.00%) F5
2 4 (50.00%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Rapid7
3 1 (12.50%) SAP