COSO Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring COSO skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 - 193
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing COSO 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.028% - 0.062%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.26% - 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - -
South East median annual salary £40,000 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

COSO falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 774 665 571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.79% 16.83% 11.72%
Number of salaries quoted 516 248 269
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,250 £31,100
25th Percentile £43,125 £39,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%

COSO
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing COSO relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

COSO job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

COSO
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing COSO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing COSO

COSO
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COSO within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire - 2 £40,000 - 2
COSO
South East

COSO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) IT Audit
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Assurance
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISA
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CRISC
1 2 (100.00%) CTC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) COBIT
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CA Agile Central