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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 469 506
Rank change year-on-year -43 +37 +113
Contract jobs citing COBIT 117 40 71
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.48% 0.89% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 21 48
10th Percentile £408 £500 £413
25th Percentile £491 £680 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £750 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% +30.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £701 £850 £688
90th Percentile £825 £975 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £630 £715 £575
% change year-on-year -11.96% +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 7,892 4,479 6,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.21% 15.33% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,118 2,893 4,018
10th Percentile £337 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £399 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £630
90th Percentile £700 £720 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 175 374
10th Percentile £14.32 £17.69 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.18
Median hourly rate £31.25 £31.76 £20.55
Median % change year-on-year -1.61% +54.53% -48.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.18 £82.88 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £17.86
% change year-on-year +10.94% +79.17% -52.37%

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 10 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 10 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 -30 106 £648 -13.60% 15
UK excluding London -68 64 £630 -11.96% 11
London -35 45 £650 -23.53% 10
Work from Home -14 37 £593 -30.29% 12
South East -35 26 £648 +20.56% 4
South West -7 24 £703 -6.27% 1
North of England -77 6 £688 -3.85% 1
Midlands - 6 £488 - 1
Scotland +11 5 £475 -36.67% 3
West Midlands - 4 £438 - 1
North West -33 2 £600 -16.08%
Yorkshire -54 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 £538 -
North East - 2 £775 -

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 (5.98%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 1 (0.85%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (10.26%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.26%) OCI
2 9 (7.69%) Azure
3 6 (5.13%) AWS
3 6 (5.13%) GCP
4 2 (1.71%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (0.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (0.85%) Boomi
5 1 (0.85%) CloudFront
5 1 (0.85%) Google Ads
5 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.85%) Route 53
5 1 (0.85%) SaaS
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.85%) Anycast
2 1 (0.85%) BGP
2 1 (0.85%) DMVPN
2 1 (0.85%) DNS
2 1 (0.85%) Firewall
2 1 (0.85%) IPsec
2 1 (0.85%) MPLS
2 1 (0.85%) NAS
2 1 (0.85%) NGFW
2 1 (0.85%) OSPF
2 1 (0.85%) SAN
2 1 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (1.71%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.85%) EDRMS
2 1 (0.85%) Power BI
2 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.85%) AppScan
1 1 (0.85%) Burp Suite
1 1 (0.85%) JIRA
1 1 (0.85%) Metasploit
General
1 30 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (22.22%) Finance
3 25 (21.37%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.26%) Legal
5 7 (5.98%) Banking
6 6 (5.13%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.27%) Military
8 4 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (34.19%) Architect
2 30 (25.64%) Enterprise Architect
3 20 (17.09%) Lead
4 18 (15.38%) Consultant
5 14 (11.97%) Analyst
6 12 (10.26%) Lead Architect
6 12 (10.26%) Senior
7 11 (9.40%) IT Analyst
7 11 (9.40%) Lead Enterprise Architect
8 10 (8.55%) Security Consultant
9 7 (5.98%) IT Manager
10 6 (5.13%) IT Risk Analyst
10 6 (5.13%) Risk Analyst
10 6 (5.13%) Security Architect
11 5 (4.27%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 5 (4.27%) Functional Consultant
11 5 (4.27%) Oracle Consultant
11 5 (4.27%) Oracle Functional Consultant
12 4 (3.42%) IT Auditor
12 4 (3.42%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.97%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.27%) RESTful
3 1 (0.85%) Middleware
3 1 (0.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.98%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.42%) Operational Technology
2 4 (3.42%) Private Cloud
3 2 (1.71%) Security Posture
3 2 (1.71%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.85%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.85%) Replication
4 1 (0.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.56%) Windows
2 1 (0.85%) Kali Linux
2 1 (0.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (48.72%) ITIL
2 36 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
3 33 (28.21%) IT4IT
4 31 (26.50%) Information Security
5 30 (25.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (22.22%) TOGAF
7 25 (21.37%) Security Management
8 24 (20.51%) Risk Management
9 21 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (17.95%) Enterprise Architecture
10 19 (16.24%) Roadmaps
11 17 (14.53%) Information Security Management
11 17 (14.53%) Risk Assessment
12 16 (13.68%) Strategic Roadmap
13 14 (11.97%) Architectural Design
14 13 (11.11%) Data Migration
14 13 (11.11%) IT Audit
14 13 (11.11%) IT Governance
14 13 (11.11%) Migration
14 13 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.56%) SQL
2 1 (0.85%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 43 (36.75%) Security Cleared
2 33 (28.21%) ISEB
3 30 (25.64%) SC Cleared
4 27 (23.08%) ITIL Certification
5 26 (22.22%) CISSP
6 21 (17.95%) CISM
7 15 (12.82%) CISA
7 15 (12.82%) CRISC
8 13 (11.11%) Degree
9 10 (8.55%) CEH
10 6 (5.13%) OSCP
11 5 (4.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (4.27%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (4.27%) GIAC
12 4 (3.42%) CCSP
13 3 (2.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 2 (1.71%) FFIEC
14 2 (1.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 2 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (52.99%) NIST
2 55 (47.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (12.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 14 (11.97%) GRC
5 13 (11.11%) ITGC
5 13 (11.11%) PCI DSS
6 10 (8.55%) GDPR
7 9 (7.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 9 (7.69%) JSP 440
8 8 (6.84%) QA
9 7 (5.98%) NCSC
9 7 (5.98%) SOX 404
10 5 (4.27%) ISO 31000
11 4 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 4 (3.42%) SLA
12 3 (2.56%) NIST 800
13 2 (1.71%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (1.71%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) NFS
2 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.85%) Ansible
1 1 (0.85%) EMC VPLEX
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.85%) Nessus
1 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
1 1 (0.85%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.85%) vMotion
Vendors
1 21 (17.95%) Oracle
2 8 (6.84%) SAP
3 4 (3.42%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.42%) Splunk
3 4 (3.42%) Tenable
4 2 (1.71%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.85%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.85%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (0.85%) Commvault
5 1 (0.85%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.85%) LogRhythm
5 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.85%) Okta
5 1 (0.85%) Pure Storage
5 1 (0.85%) Rapid7
5 1 (0.85%) Veracode
5 1 (0.85%) VMware