COSO Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring COSO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited COSO over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 364 420
Rank change year-on-year -7 +56 -
Contract jobs citing COSO 2 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.038% 0.031%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.076% 0.27% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile - £597 £469
90th Percentile - £771 £593
UK median daily rate £530 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% -37.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £44.04 -
UK median hourly rate - £44.04 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

COSO 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 2,626 2,559 3,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.17% 13.83% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,660 1,460 2,095
10th Percentile £235 £234 £260
25th Percentile £363 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 273 201
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.50 £13.52 £18.09
Median hourly rate £24.83 £25.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -29.58% +64.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.70 £70.00 £79.17
UK median hourly rate £26.93 £25.60 £39.51
% change year-on-year +5.18% -35.21% +58.04%

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
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 2 August 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
East of England +2 1 £475 -5.00%
South East - 1 - - 1
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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) COBIT
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 31000
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 9001