COSO Contracts

Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring COSO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited COSO over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 570 666
Rank change year-on-year +26 +96 +184
Contract jobs citing COSO 6 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.009% 0.023%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.12% 0.067% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile £497 - -
25th Percentile £530 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £525 £594
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -11.58% -29.53%
75th Percentile £618 £644 £694
90th Percentile £637 £790 £938
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £525 £481
% change year-on-year +7.14% +9.09% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

COSO 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 5,188 5,931 7,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.31% 13.68% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,324 3,676 5,262
10th Percentile £280 £282 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £749 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 430 256
10th Percentile £14.78 £11.07 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £13.52 £19.36
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.05% -36.53% +38.89%
75th Percentile £62.25 £49.69 £62.68
90th Percentile £83.05 £70.00 £79.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.59 £21.69 £35.50
% change year-on-year +27.21% -38.92% +61.36%

COSO
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for COSO in the UK

COSO
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for COSO in the UK

COSO
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing COSO over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for COSO in the UK

COSO
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for COSO in the UK

COSO
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COSO within the UK over the 6 months to 5 July 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 +55 6 £585 +11.43% 22
Work from Home +29 4 £650 +23.81% 9
UK excluding London +41 3 £563 +7.14% 4
London - 3 £585 - 18
South East +36 2 £650 +18.18% 3
East of England - 1 £475 -

COSO
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Google Sheets
1 1 (16.67%) Google Workspace
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Applications Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Security Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Auditor
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) IT Auditor
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Security Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SOX Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 3 (50.00%) Information Security
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (33.33%) Application Security
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (16.67%) Compliance Audit
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Internal Audit
4 1 (16.67%) IT Audit
4 1 (16.67%) Logistics
4 1 (16.67%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) CISA
2 1 (16.67%) CRISC
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) COBIT
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) ISO 31000
2 1 (16.67%) ISO 9001
2 1 (16.67%) ITGC
2 1 (16.67%) PMO
2 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) SAP