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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 495 520
Rank change year-on-year -25 +25 +88
Contract jobs citing COBIT 112 37 69
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.43% 0.82% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 18 46
10th Percentile £392 £544 £413
25th Percentile £463 £680 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £627 £750 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% +30.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £705 £784 £669
90th Percentile £844 £958 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £633 £715 £575
% change year-on-year -11.54% +24.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 £95.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - -

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 7,836 4,525 6,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.03% 15.42% 14.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,075 2,914 3,997
10th Percentile £336 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £630
90th Percentile £700 £720 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 176 378
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.95 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.00
Median hourly rate £31.86 £32.66 £20.47
Median % change year-on-year -2.43% +59.57% -45.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.40 £82.86 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £33.11 £17.46
% change year-on-year +8.73% +89.63% -50.11%

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 17 April 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 14 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 17 April 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 -43 101 £648 -13.60% 23
UK excluding London -48 63 £633 -11.54% 18
London -41 41 £603 -31.14% 10
Work from Home 0 37 £585 -22.00% 9
South East -40 26 £648 +20.56% 1
South West -9 24 £703 -6.27% 2
North of England -70 6 £775 +8.39% 6
Scotland +7 5 £475 -36.67% 4
Midlands - 5 £550 - 4
West Midlands - 4 £438 - 3
North West -36 2 - - 6
Yorkshire -53 2 - -
North East - 2 £775 -
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 7 (6.25%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 1 (0.89%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (10.71%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.71%) OCI
2 11 (9.82%) Azure
3 8 (7.14%) GCP
4 7 (6.25%) AWS
5 2 (1.79%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (0.89%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (0.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.89%) Boomi
6 1 (0.89%) CloudFront
6 1 (0.89%) Google Ads
6 1 (0.89%) Route 53
6 1 (0.89%) SaaS
6 1 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.89%) Anycast
2 1 (0.89%) BGP
2 1 (0.89%) DMVPN
2 1 (0.89%) DNS
2 1 (0.89%) Firewall
2 1 (0.89%) IPsec
2 1 (0.89%) MPLS
2 1 (0.89%) NAS
2 1 (0.89%) NGFW
2 1 (0.89%) OSPF
2 1 (0.89%) SAN
2 1 (0.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.89%) EDRMS
2 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.89%) AppScan
1 1 (0.89%) Burp Suite
1 1 (0.89%) Metasploit
General
1 30 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 26 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 21 (18.75%) Finance
5 12 (10.71%) Legal
6 7 (6.25%) Banking
7 6 (5.36%) Financial Institution
8 5 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.46%) Military
9 4 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (36.61%) Architect
2 31 (27.68%) Enterprise Architect
3 20 (17.86%) Lead
4 16 (14.29%) Consultant
5 13 (11.61%) Analyst
6 12 (10.71%) Lead Architect
7 11 (9.82%) Lead Enterprise Architect
8 10 (8.93%) IT Analyst
8 10 (8.93%) Security Consultant
9 8 (7.14%) Senior
10 7 (6.25%) IT Manager
11 6 (5.36%) IT Risk Analyst
11 6 (5.36%) Risk Analyst
11 6 (5.36%) Security Architect
12 5 (4.46%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 5 (4.46%) Functional Consultant
12 5 (4.46%) Oracle Consultant
12 5 (4.46%) Oracle Functional Consultant
13 4 (3.57%) Senior Architect
13 4 (3.57%) SOX Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.46%) RESTful
3 1 (0.89%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.46%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.57%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.79%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.89%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.89%) Replication
5 1 (0.89%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.68%) Windows
2 1 (0.89%) Kali Linux
2 1 (0.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (50.89%) ITIL
2 37 (33.04%) Cybersecurity
3 33 (29.46%) IT4IT
4 31 (27.68%) Information Security
5 30 (26.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 27 (24.11%) TOGAF
7 26 (23.21%) Security Management
8 23 (20.54%) Risk Management
9 22 (19.64%) Enterprise Architecture
10 19 (16.96%) Roadmaps
11 17 (15.18%) Information Security Management
12 16 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
12 16 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
13 15 (13.39%) Architectural Design
13 15 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (11.61%) Data Migration
14 13 (11.61%) IT Governance
14 13 (11.61%) Migration
14 13 (11.61%) Validation
15 12 (10.71%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.68%) SQL
2 1 (0.89%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 44 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 33 (29.46%) ISEB
3 30 (26.79%) SC Cleared
4 27 (24.11%) ITIL Certification
5 26 (23.21%) CISSP
6 21 (18.75%) CISM
7 15 (13.39%) CRISC
8 14 (12.50%) CISA
9 13 (11.61%) Degree
10 11 (9.82%) CEH
11 7 (6.25%) OSCP
12 6 (5.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (4.46%) CCSP
13 5 (4.46%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (4.46%) GIAC
14 2 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 2 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
14 2 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (50.89%) NIST
2 49 (43.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (12.50%) GRC
3 14 (12.50%) PCI DSS
4 10 (8.93%) GDPR
4 10 (8.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (8.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 9 (8.04%) JSP 440
6 8 (7.14%) ITGC
6 8 (7.14%) NCSC
6 8 (7.14%) QA
7 5 (4.46%) ISO 31000
8 4 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 4 (3.57%) SLA
9 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.79%) NIST 800
9 2 (1.79%) PMO
9 2 (1.79%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.79%) SOX 404
System Software
1 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.89%) NFS
2 1 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.89%) Ansible
1 1 (0.89%) EMC VPLEX
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.89%) Nessus
1 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
1 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.89%) vMotion
Vendors
1 16 (14.29%) Oracle
2 4 (3.57%) Splunk
2 4 (3.57%) Tenable
3 3 (2.68%) SAP
3 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.79%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.89%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (0.89%) Commvault
5 1 (0.89%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.89%) LogRhythm
5 1 (0.89%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.89%) Okta
5 1 (0.89%) Pure Storage
5 1 (0.89%) Veracode
5 1 (0.89%) VMware