COSO Contracts with Work from Home Options

Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for COSO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited COSO over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 472 616
Rank change year-on-year +127 +144 -130
Contract jobs citing COSO 3 4 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.016% 0.013%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.14% 0.13% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £508 £416 £822
25th Percentile £519 £439 £822
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £481 £845
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -43.05% +12.67%
75th Percentile £725 £527 £869
90th Percentile £823 £552 £873
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £771
% change year-on-year -2.22% -27.07% +14.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

COSO is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,195 3,120 5,941
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.49% 12.22% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,518 2,277 4,228
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £420 £420 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% +3.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.24% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 66 118
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.60 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £23.67 £18.50
Median hourly rate £21.94 £39.80 £44.23
Median % change year-on-year -44.89% -10.01% +116.68%
75th Percentile £46.56 £59.82 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.13 £66.45
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +27.27% +30.95%

COSO
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing COSO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

COSO trend for jobs with a WFH option

COSO
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing COSO.

COSO daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

COSO
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing COSO over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

COSO daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

COSO
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP GRC
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Audit Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Compliance Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Finance Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Report Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
1 1 (33.33%) Internal Audit
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISA
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) COBIT
1 2 (66.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) GRC
2 1 (33.33%) ITGC
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP