COSO Contracts in the UK excluding London

Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for COSO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited COSO over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 437 -
Rank change year-on-year +54 - -
Contract jobs citing COSO 5 10 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.042% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.16% 0.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £508 - -
25th Percentile £519 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - -
75th Percentile £725 £663 -
90th Percentile £823 £668 -
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £771
% change year-on-year -2.22% -27.07% +14.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

COSO is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,076 3,535 4,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.90% 14.80% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,806 2,382 3,098
10th Percentile £251 £219 £204
25th Percentile £363 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £479 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +6.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £572
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 189 193
10th Percentile £10.95 £12.67 £11.39
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.09 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £32.50 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -44.62% +54.39% -
75th Percentile £45.00 £59.28 £45.20
90th Percentile £67.70 £77.50 £64.19
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +25.00% +33.33%

COSO
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for COSO in the UK excluding London

COSO
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for COSO in the UK excluding London

COSO
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing COSO in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for COSO in the UK excluding London

COSO
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 COSO within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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 of England +24 2 - -
North West +23 2 - -
South West - 2 £688 - 1
South East +17 1 £550 -12.00% 2
COSO
UK

COSO
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 (20.00%) SAP GRC
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) PPP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Audit Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Compliance Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Finance Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Report Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Contingency Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Internal Audit
3 1 (20.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISA
1 1 (20.00%) CISM
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
2 2 (40.00%) COBIT
2 2 (40.00%) ISO 31000
2 2 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) GRC
3 1 (20.00%) ITGC
3 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) SAP