COBIT Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 316 364 400
Rank change year-on-year +48 +36 +70
Contract jobs citing COBIT 20 35 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.17% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.97% 1.11% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 42
10th Percentile £571 £384 £550
25th Percentile £673 £500 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £750 £644 £675
90th Percentile - £763 £771
UK median daily rate £750 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +30.43% -4.17% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,060 3,142 3,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.14% 15.13% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,297 1,830 2,400
10th Percentile £209 £252 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £665 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 309 180
10th Percentile £17.28 £10.95 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.63 £18.21
Median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%
75th Percentile £67.03 £43.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £79.92 £67.38 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

COBIT
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for COBIT in the UK excluding London

COBIT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing COBIT in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for COBIT in the UK excluding London

COBIT
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing COBIT in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for COBIT in the UK excluding London

COBIT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing COBIT in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for COBIT in the UK excluding London

COBIT
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBIT within the UK excluding London 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
South East +36 10 £538 +5.65% 14
North of England +21 6 £715 +36.19% 3
North West - 4 £715 - 2
South West +44 3 £750 +15.38% 7
Yorkshire +8 2 £715 +36.19%
Scotland +11 1 £750 +76.47% 6
COBIT
UK

COBIT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) AWS
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) Network Security
2 6 (30.00%) Radio Access Network
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (40.00%) Banking
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Architect
2 11 (55.00%) Security Architect
3 10 (50.00%) Consultant
3 10 (50.00%) Security Consultant
4 8 (40.00%) DevSecOps Architect
4 8 (40.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 6 (30.00%) Head of Architecture
5 6 (30.00%) Head of Security
6 5 (25.00%) Head of Strategy
7 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 1 (5.00%) Analyst
8 1 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
8 1 (5.00%) Head of Mobile
8 1 (5.00%) Head of Networks
8 1 (5.00%) Senior
8 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (5.00%) Service Management Architect
8 1 (5.00%) Service Manager
8 1 (5.00%) SOX Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (40.00%) Private Cloud
2 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) CESG
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (80.00%) OWASP
3 11 (55.00%) Security Management
4 10 (50.00%) ITIL
5 9 (45.00%) DevOps
5 9 (45.00%) Information Security
5 9 (45.00%) Risk Management
6 8 (40.00%) DevSecOps
6 8 (40.00%) Network Architecture
7 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
8 5 (25.00%) Budgeting
9 4 (20.00%) Application Security
9 4 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (20.00%) Security Architecture
9 4 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
9 4 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
10 3 (15.00%) Information Security Management
10 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (15.00%) Security Operations
10 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) CISSP
2 8 (40.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 8 (40.00%) CCSP
2 8 (40.00%) CEH
2 8 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (40.00%) CISM
2 8 (40.00%) OSCP
3 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) ISACA
4 2 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) CISA
5 1 (5.00%) CRISC
5 1 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (85.00%) NIST
2 9 (45.00%) PCI DSS
3 8 (40.00%) GDPR
4 2 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (5.00%) COSO
5 1 (5.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (5.00%) ITGC
5 1 (5.00%) JSP 440
5 1 (5.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) BMC
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle
1 1 (5.00%) Remedy
1 1 (5.00%) SAP
1 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow