COSO Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring COSO skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 - 683
Rank change year-on-year - - -68
Permanent jobs citing COSO 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.003% - 0.005%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.027% - 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - -
UK median annual salary £49,250 £141,250 £66,500
% change year-on-year -65.13% +112.41% +2.31%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,434 4,894 7,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.63% 14.09% 12.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,700 2,630 4,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £34,816 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.45%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -6.82%

COSO
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing COSO relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

COSO job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

COSO
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing COSO.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing COSO

COSO
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COSO within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
South East - 2 £40,000 -
COSO
UK

COSO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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