COBIT Contracts

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 534 596
Rank change year-on-year +51 +62 +75
Contract jobs citing COBIT 36 66 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.79% 1.06% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 42 78
10th Percentile £538 £413 £500
25th Percentile £680 £500 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% -2.08% -
75th Percentile £775 £725 £655
90th Percentile £900 £785 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £715 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +30.00% -8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 4,558 6,250 7,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 14.34% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,921 3,951 5,482
10th Percentile £265 £295 £275
25th Percentile £400 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 383 225
10th Percentile £18.04 £10.95 £13.21
25th Percentile £22.21 £13.18 £18.70
Median hourly rate £34.50 £21.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -44.00% +33.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £83.01 £67.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%

COBIT
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing COBIT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for COBIT in the UK

COBIT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing COBIT.

Daily rate trend for COBIT in the UK

COBIT
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing COBIT over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for COBIT in the UK

COBIT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing COBIT.

Hourly rate trend for COBIT in the UK

COBIT
Top 10 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +36 33 £750 +25.00% 46
UK excluding London +40 21 £715 +30.00% 20
London +23 14 £850 +36.00% 29
Work from Home +39 12 £750 +42.86% 26
South East +33 10 £538 +5.65% 4
North of England +30 6 £715 +36.19% 2
North West - 4 £715 - 2
South West +43 3 £750 +15.38% 3
Yorkshire +15 2 £715 +36.19%
Scotland +8 2 £750 +76.47% 3

COBIT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (2.78%) Azure
2 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.22%) Network Security
2 6 (16.67%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (2.78%) Firewall
3 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) GitLab
1 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 11 (30.56%) Banking
2 11 (30.56%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Legal
4 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) International Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Publishing
6 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Architect
2 13 (36.11%) Security Architect
3 10 (27.78%) Consultant
3 10 (27.78%) Security Consultant
4 8 (22.22%) DevSecOps Architect
4 8 (22.22%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 6 (16.67%) Head of Architecture
5 6 (16.67%) Head of Security
6 5 (13.89%) Head of Strategy
7 4 (11.11%) IT Manager
7 4 (11.11%) IT Risk Manager
7 4 (11.11%) Risk Manager
8 3 (8.33%) Senior
9 2 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 2 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 2 (5.56%) IT Project Manager
9 2 (5.56%) Lead
9 2 (5.56%) Programme Manager
9 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
9 2 (5.56%) Risk Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (22.22%) Management Information System
1 8 (22.22%) Private Cloud
2 4 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.56%) CESG
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) Risk Management
2 19 (52.78%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (47.22%) Information Security
4 16 (44.44%) ITIL
4 16 (44.44%) OWASP
5 12 (33.33%) Security Management
5 12 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (27.78%) DevOps
7 9 (25.00%) Network Architecture
8 8 (22.22%) DevSecOps
9 7 (19.44%) Roadmaps
10 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (16.67%) Security Architecture
11 5 (13.89%) Budget Management
11 5 (13.89%) Budgeting
11 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
12 4 (11.11%) Application Security
12 4 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
12 4 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
12 4 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 13 (36.11%) CISSP
2 12 (33.33%) CISM
3 9 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 9 (25.00%) CISA
3 9 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (22.22%) CCSP
4 8 (22.22%) CEH
4 8 (22.22%) OSCP
5 5 (13.89%) Degree
5 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
6 4 (11.11%) CRISC
7 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
7 3 (8.33%) ISACA
8 2 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (5.56%) PMP
8 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
9 1 (2.78%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (2.78%) ISSAP
9 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (75.00%) NIST
2 11 (30.56%) GDPR
3 10 (27.78%) PCI DSS
4 8 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (22.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (13.89%) COSO
6 4 (11.11%) GRC
7 2 (5.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (5.56%) ITGC
7 2 (5.56%) JSP 440
8 1 (2.78%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Ansible
1 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.78%) Puppet
1 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.78%) BMC
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle
2 1 (2.78%) Remedy
2 1 (2.78%) SAP