COBIT Contract Job Trends in the South West

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring COBIT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 131 149
Rank change year-on-year +12 +18 +24
Contract jobs citing COBIT 2 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.097% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.48% 1.00% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £801 - £519
25th Percentile £803 - £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £813 £500 £596
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -16.07% +58.87%
75th Percentile £828 £575 £631
90th Percentile £834 £620 £642
England median daily rate £575 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -11.54% - -3.70%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 421 301 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 20.40% 12.38% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 156 252
10th Percentile £263 £236 £359
25th Percentile £358 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £706 £690 £743
England median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 49 47
10th Percentile £15.58 £12.24 £25.16
25th Percentile £19.08 £13.26 £34.50
Median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £73.31
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% -4.52% +35.76%
75th Percentile £64.75 - £83.40
90th Percentile £70.50 £70.80 -
England median hourly rate £30.75 £33.50 £35.82
% change year-on-year -8.22% -6.46% +44.47%

COBIT
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

COBIT job vacancy trend in the South West

COBIT
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing COBIT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing COBIT

COBIT
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBIT within the South West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Wiltshire +6 2 £813 +62.50% 4
COBIT
England

COBIT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Head of Information
1 2 (100.00%) Head of Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Head of Security
2 1 (50.00%) Head of Information Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISA
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST