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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 495 528
Rank change year-on-year -80 +33 +51
Contract jobs citing COBIT 90 57 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.99% 1.03% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 34 33
10th Percentile £393 £414 £450
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £649 £644 £675
90th Percentile £719 £789 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -10.64% +11.90% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £29.51 £44.04
Median % change year-on-year - -32.99% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £29.51 £44.04
% change year-on-year - -32.99% -

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 9,072 5,544 5,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.09% 16.84% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,813 3,578 3,441
10th Percentile £338 £281 £296
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £623
90th Percentile £700 £715 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +6.50% -1.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 248 353
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.57 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.49 £17.47 £14.41
Median hourly rate £38.86 £27.59 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.87% +10.34% -34.21%
75th Percentile £69.81 £60.56 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.96 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.86 £25.04 £25.00
% change year-on-year +55.21% +0.15% -28.57%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -79 81 £550 -4.35% 29
London -40 53 £518 -1.43% 18
Work from Home -37 38 £525 -2.23% 8
UK excluding London -98 34 £525 -10.64% 14
South East -72 12 £595 -0.92% 6
North of England -76 7 - - 2
Scotland -10 6 £475 +10.79%
South West -32 5 £572 -28.56% 3
Midlands -50 5 £550 +10.00% 2
West Midlands -51 4 £438 -18.60% 1
Yorkshire - 4 - - 1
North West -50 3 - - 1
East Midlands -15 1 £650 +39.78% 1

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 2 (2.22%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.78%) Azure
2 9 (10.00%) GCP
3 6 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.56%) AWS
5 3 (3.33%) OCI
6 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.22%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon Macie
7 1 (1.11%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.11%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.11%) Route 53
7 1 (1.11%) SaaS
7 1 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.11%) Anycast
2 1 (1.11%) BGP
2 1 (1.11%) DMVPN
2 1 (1.11%) DNS
2 1 (1.11%) Firewall
2 1 (1.11%) IPsec
2 1 (1.11%) MPLS
2 1 (1.11%) NAS
2 1 (1.11%) NGFW
2 1 (1.11%) OSPF
2 1 (1.11%) SAN
2 1 (1.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (1.11%) AppScan
2 1 (1.11%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.11%) Metasploit
General
1 36 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (31.11%) Finance
3 26 (28.89%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 6 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.56%) Legal
5 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.44%) Banking
7 3 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Military
9 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (22.22%) Analyst
2 14 (15.56%) Architect
3 13 (14.44%) Consultant
4 11 (12.22%) IT Manager
4 11 (12.22%) Security Consultant
5 9 (10.00%) Business Analyst
6 8 (8.89%) IT Analyst
6 8 (8.89%) Security Architect
7 6 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 6 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
7 6 (6.67%) Lead
7 6 (6.67%) Risk Manager
8 5 (5.56%) IT Support
8 5 (5.56%) IT Support Manager
8 5 (5.56%) ITIL Manager
8 5 (5.56%) Support Manager
9 4 (4.44%) Security Analyst
9 4 (4.44%) Senior
9 4 (4.44%) SOX Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.00%) RESTful
2 5 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.11%) Private Cloud
2 8 (8.89%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.78%) Operational Technology
4 5 (5.56%) CMDB
5 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.11%) Replication
6 1 (1.11%) SCADA
6 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.11%) Kali Linux
1 1 (1.11%) Linux
1 1 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (54.44%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (44.44%) ITIL
3 31 (34.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (22.22%) Risk Management
4 20 (22.22%) Security Management
4 20 (22.22%) Service Management
5 19 (21.11%) IT Governance
6 18 (20.00%) Information Security
7 15 (16.67%) Cryptography
8 13 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (14.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (14.44%) Threat Modelling
9 12 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
9 12 (13.33%) TOGAF
10 11 (12.22%) Agile
10 11 (12.22%) AI
10 11 (12.22%) ITSM
11 10 (11.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 10 (11.11%) OWASP
12 9 (10.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.89%) SQL
2 1 (1.11%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 28 (31.11%) CISSP
2 21 (23.33%) CISM
3 19 (21.11%) Security Cleared
4 16 (17.78%) CEH
5 12 (13.33%) OSCP
6 11 (12.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 11 (12.22%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (12.22%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (11.11%) CCSP
7 10 (11.11%) SC Cleared
8 9 (10.00%) CRISC
8 9 (10.00%) Degree
9 6 (6.67%) CISA
9 6 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (6.67%) FFIEC
9 6 (6.67%) GIAC
10 4 (4.44%) ISEB
11 2 (2.22%) DV Cleared
11 2 (2.22%) IISP
11 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (63.33%) NIST
2 42 (46.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (17.78%) PCI DSS
4 13 (14.44%) GRC
5 9 (10.00%) NCSC
6 8 (8.89%) ISO 31000
6 8 (8.89%) ITGC
7 7 (7.78%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 7 (7.78%) SLA
8 6 (6.67%) GDPR
9 5 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
10 3 (3.33%) NIST 800
11 2 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (2.22%) PMO
11 2 (2.22%) QA
11 2 (2.22%) SOC 2
12 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.11%) NFS
2 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.22%) SCCM
2 1 (1.11%) Ansible
2 1 (1.11%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.11%) Nessus
2 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.11%) vMotion
Vendors
1 13 (14.44%) ServiceNow
2 6 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.56%) Oracle
4 3 (3.33%) Splunk
4 3 (3.33%) Tenable
5 2 (2.22%) Nexthink
6 1 (1.11%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.11%) Commvault
6 1 (1.11%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.11%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.11%) Okta
6 1 (1.11%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.11%) Veracode
6 1 (1.11%) VMware