COBIT Contract Job Trends

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring COBIT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 486 524
Rank change year-on-year -48 +38 +80
Contract jobs citing COBIT 94 36 56
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.16% 0.79% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 19 36
10th Percentile £359 £483 £441
25th Percentile £450 £569 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.31% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £648 £725 £725
90th Percentile £714 £875 £781
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £29.51 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £29.51 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8,088 4,540 6,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.60% 15.89% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,200 2,928 3,815
10th Percentile £344 £263 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.57% -3.24%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 171 394
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.29 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.18
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.50 £21.06
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +54.34% -39.84%
75th Percentile £67.31 £67.50 £47.81
90th Percentile £81.95 £80.00 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £18.27
% change year-on-year +23.08% +77.89% -45.27%

COBIT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

COBIT job vacancy trend in the UK

COBIT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing COBIT

COBIT
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing COBIT over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for COBIT in the UK

COBIT
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing COBIT.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing COBIT

COBIT
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 May 2026. 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
England -73 83 £556 -14.42% 27
London -30 52 £525 -41.67% 15
UK excluding London -93 39 £500 -23.08% 15
Work from Home -28 33 £510 -21.54% 11
South West -20 12 £500 -30.07% 2
South East -59 9 £627 -3.62% 6
Scotland - 8 £475 - 1
North of England -68 7 - - 5
Midlands -66 5 £550 -4.35%
Yorkshire -50 4 - - 3
West Midlands -58 4 £438 -23.91%
North West -40 3 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £650 -

COBIT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (4.26%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.89%) Azure
2 10 (10.64%) GCP
3 6 (6.38%) AWS
3 6 (6.38%) OCI
4 3 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.13%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.06%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (1.06%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.06%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.06%) Boomi
6 1 (1.06%) CloudFront
6 1 (1.06%) Route 53
6 1 (1.06%) SaaS
6 1 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.06%) Anycast
2 1 (1.06%) BGP
2 1 (1.06%) DMVPN
2 1 (1.06%) DNS
2 1 (1.06%) Firewall
2 1 (1.06%) IPsec
2 1 (1.06%) MPLS
2 1 (1.06%) NAS
2 1 (1.06%) NGFW
2 1 (1.06%) OSPF
2 1 (1.06%) SAN
2 1 (1.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (2.13%) Power BI
2 1 (1.06%) EDRMS
2 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.13%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) AppScan
2 1 (1.06%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.06%) Metasploit
General
1 29 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 28 (29.79%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (24.47%) Finance
4 8 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.45%) Legal
6 6 (6.38%) Banking
6 6 (6.38%) Financial Institution
7 5 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.19%) Military
9 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (19.15%) Analyst
1 18 (19.15%) Architect
2 14 (14.89%) Consultant
3 12 (12.77%) IT Analyst
4 11 (11.70%) IT Manager
4 11 (11.70%) Security Consultant
5 9 (9.57%) Enterprise Architect
6 7 (7.45%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 7 (7.45%) Risk Analyst
6 7 (7.45%) Security Architect
7 6 (6.38%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.38%) IT Risk Analyst
7 6 (6.38%) Lead
7 6 (6.38%) Risk Manager
7 6 (6.38%) Senior
8 4 (4.26%) Security Analyst
8 4 (4.26%) SOX Analyst
9 3 (3.19%) Auditor
9 3 (3.19%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 3 (3.19%) IT Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.51%) Oracle Fusion
1 8 (8.51%) RESTful
2 1 (1.06%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.51%) Private Cloud
3 7 (7.45%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.13%) CMDB
4 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.06%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.06%) Replication
5 1 (1.06%) SCADA
5 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.19%) Windows
2 1 (1.06%) Kali Linux
2 1 (1.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (48.94%) Cybersecurity
2 39 (41.49%) ITIL
3 28 (29.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (28.72%) Risk Management
5 25 (26.60%) Information Security
6 23 (24.47%) Security Management
7 17 (18.09%) IT Governance
7 17 (18.09%) Service Management
7 17 (18.09%) TOGAF
8 15 (15.96%) Enterprise Architecture
8 15 (15.96%) Risk Assessment
9 13 (13.83%) Cryptography
9 13 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (12.77%) AI
10 12 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (12.77%) Threat Modelling
11 11 (11.70%) Agile
11 11 (11.70%) Information Security Management
11 11 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (9.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.32%) SQL
2 1 (1.06%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 28 (29.79%) CISSP
2 24 (25.53%) CISM
3 23 (24.47%) Security Cleared
4 15 (15.96%) CEH
5 14 (14.89%) CRISC
5 14 (14.89%) Degree
5 14 (14.89%) SC Cleared
6 12 (12.77%) CISA
7 10 (10.64%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (10.64%) OSCP
8 8 (8.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 8 (8.51%) CCSP
8 8 (8.51%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (8.51%) ISEB
9 7 (7.45%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (7.45%) GIAC
10 3 (3.19%) DV Cleared
10 3 (3.19%) FFIEC
11 2 (2.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 2 (2.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (62.77%) NIST
2 48 (51.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (18.09%) PCI DSS
4 16 (17.02%) GRC
5 10 (10.64%) NCSC
6 9 (9.57%) GDPR
6 9 (9.57%) ITGC
7 8 (8.51%) ISO 31000
7 8 (8.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (7.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 6 (6.38%) SLA
10 4 (4.26%) QA
11 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (2.13%) NIST 800
11 2 (2.13%) PMO
11 2 (2.13%) SOC 2
12 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (1.06%) SOX 404
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.06%) NFS
2 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.13%) SCCM
2 1 (1.06%) Ansible
2 1 (1.06%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.06%) Nessus
2 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.06%) vMotion
Vendors
1 9 (9.57%) Oracle
2 6 (6.38%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.26%) Splunk
3 4 (4.26%) Tenable
4 3 (3.19%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.13%) Nexthink
5 2 (2.13%) SAP
6 1 (1.06%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.06%) Commvault
6 1 (1.06%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.06%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.06%) Okta
6 1 (1.06%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.06%) Veracode
6 1 (1.06%) VMware