COSO Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 299 343 473
Rank change year-on-year +44 +130 +153
Contract jobs citing COSO 5 2 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.013% 0.015%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.34% 0.089% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £570 £416
25th Percentile - £619 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £713 £481
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +48.05% -43.05%
75th Percentile - £806 £527
90th Percentile - £855 £552
UK median daily rate £650 £550 £594
% change year-on-year +18.18% -7.37% -23.01%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 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%

COSO
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

COSO trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

COSO
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

COSO daily rate 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:

General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Legal
4 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) IT Manager
1 3 (60.00%) IT Risk Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Manager
2 2 (40.00%) IT Project Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Auditor
3 1 (20.00%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Compliance Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) IT Auditor
3 1 (20.00%) IT Programme Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) SOX Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (60.00%) Budget Management
3 3 (60.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 3 (60.00%) Project Management
3 3 (60.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (60.00%) Resource Allocation
3 3 (60.00%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
4 2 (40.00%) Data Privacy
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Information Security
5 1 (20.00%) IT Governance
5 1 (20.00%) ITIL
5 1 (20.00%) Logistics
5 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
5 1 (20.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CISA
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) CRISC
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) COBIT
2 4 (80.00%) NIST
2 4 (80.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (60.00%) GDPR
4 1 (20.00%) ITGC
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) SAP