COBIT Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 322 436
Rank change year-on-year +30 +114 +120
Contract jobs citing COBIT 12 23 41
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.81% 1.03% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 31
10th Percentile £545 £413 £500
25th Percentile £613 £500 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £888 £634 £638
90th Percentile £955 £729 £775
UK median daily rate £750 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +30.43% -4.17% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,488 2,240 3,140
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.02% 14.60% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,532 2,292
10th Percentile £281 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £420 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £603 £623 £625
90th Percentile £713 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 79 63
10th Percentile £17.98 £12.75 £18.54
25th Percentile £23.13 £14.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £22.87 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.53% -46.81% -2.16%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.38 £61.88
90th Percentile £87.15 £65.00 £72.35
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

COBIT
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing COBIT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

COBIT trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

COBIT
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing COBIT.

COBIT daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

COBIT
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing COBIT over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

COBIT daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

COBIT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Publishing
4 1 (8.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) IT Manager
1 3 (25.00%) IT Risk Manager
1 3 (25.00%) Risk Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Programme Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Risk Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Auditor
3 1 (8.33%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Compliance Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) IT Auditor
3 1 (8.33%) IT Programme Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) SOX Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Risk Management
2 7 (58.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (50.00%) Information Security
4 4 (33.33%) Budget Management
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
4 4 (33.33%) Project Management
5 3 (25.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
5 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (25.00%) IT Governance
5 3 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
5 3 (25.00%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Change Management
6 2 (16.67%) CRM
6 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Data Privacy
6 2 (16.67%) Information Security Management
6 2 (16.67%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) CISA
2 3 (25.00%) CRISC
2 3 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) CISM
3 2 (16.67%) CISSP
4 1 (8.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) NIST
2 5 (41.67%) COSO
2 5 (41.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (33.33%) GDPR
3 4 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (16.67%) ITGC
5 1 (8.33%) GRC
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle
1 1 (8.33%) SAP