COBIT Jobs

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for COBIT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited COBIT over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) UK
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	694	556	631
Rank change year-on-year	-138	+75
Permanent jobs citing COBIT	189	405	369
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.21%	0.41%	0.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category	1.79%	3.15%	2.61%
Number of salaries quoted	150	330	280
Median salary	£65,000	£62,250	£65,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+4.41%	-4.23%
90% offered a salary of more than	£45,000	£40,000	£45,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£85,000	£80,000	£85,000
UK excluding London median salary	£60,000	£55,000	£62,500
% change year-on-year	+9.09%	-12.00%

COBIT is in the quality assurance and compliance skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance and compliance skills.

Quality Assurance & Compliance Skills UK
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance and compliance skills	10532	12863	14134
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	11.97%	13.06%	12.74%
Number of salaries quoted	7952	10270	11137
Median salary	£50,000	£50,000	£46,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	-	+7.52%
90% offered a salary of more than	£30,000	£30,000	£27,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£75,000	£75,000	£75,000
UK excluding London median salary	£45,000	£45,000	£42,500
% change year-on-year	-	+5.88%

COBIT
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing COBIT as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

COBIT
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing COBIT.

COBIT
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing COBIT over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

COBIT
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COBIT within the UK over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-114	182	£65,000	+4.00%	23
London	-26	115	£67,500	-	15
South East	+3	23	£60,000	+9.09%	2
City of London	+23	15	£67,500	+6.93%	2
South West	-12	14	£67,500	+35.00%	1
West Midlands	-15	11	£60,000	+26.31%
East of England	-9	8	£60,000	+4.34%
Bristol	-18	8	£82,500	+114.28%
North West	-43	8	£77,500	+19.23%	3
Yorkshire	-15	7	£55,000	+7.84%	2
Bedfordshire	+23	6	£56,000	-17.03%
Luton	+12	6	£56,000	-17.03%
Berkshire	+29	5	£85,000	+78.94%
Birmingham	-4	5	£45,000	-30.76%
Surrey	-4	5	£60,000	+9.09%
Manchester	-28	5	£80,000	+18.51%	1
West Sussex	-	5	£50,000	-	1
Stoke-on-Trent	+14	4	£66,250	+39.47%
Staffordshire	+7	4	£66,250	-1.85%
Guildford	-1	4	£55,000	-21.42%
South Yorkshire	-7	4	-	-	1
Gloucestershire	-10	4	£67,500	+3.84%
Doncaster	-	4	-	-
Hampshire	+12	3	£60,000	-5.51%
Southampton	+10	3	£60,000	-4.00%
Buckinghamshire	+5	3	£50,000	-16.66%
West Yorkshire	-4	3	£55,000	+7.84%	1
Coventry	-6	3	£60,000	+39.53%
Cheshire	-25	3	£70,000	-	2
Croydon	-	3	-	-

COBIT
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT jobs citing COBIT also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for COBIT.

1	253 (62.16%)	ITIL
2	194 (47.67%)	Information Security
3	182 (44.72%)	Finance
4	176 (43.24%)	CISSP
5	173 (42.51%)	ISO/IEC 27001
6	136 (33.42%)	Management Information System
7	133 (32.68%)	CISM
8	115 (28.26%)	Risk Management
9	113 (27.76%)	CISA
10	96 (23.59%)	TOGAF
11	84 (20.64%)	Agile Software Development
12	79 (19.41%)	PRINCE2
13	77 (18.92%)	Degree
14	68 (16.71%)	Stakeholder Management
15	64 (15.72%)	Microsoft

16	62 (15.23%)	Security Architecture
17	59 (14.50%)	Security Management
18	57 (14.00%)	IT Strategy
19	51 (12.53%)	Project Management
20	47 (11.55%)	PCI DSS
21	46 (11.30%)	Banking
22	41 (10.07%)	IT Governance
23	40 (9.83%)	Security Cleared
23	40 (9.83%)	Cybersecurity
23	40 (9.83%)	SDLC
24	39 (9.58%)	IT Audit
24	39 (9.58%)	CRISC
24	39 (9.58%)	Service Management
25	38 (9.34%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
25	38 (9.34%)	Target Operating Model

COBIT
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	16 (3.93%)	Oracle SOA Suite
2	13 (3.19%)	SharePoint
3	10 (2.46%)	MS Exchange
4	6 (1.47%)	BizTalk Server
5	3 (0.74%)	IIS
5	3 (0.74%)	SharePoint 2010
6	2 (0.49%)	OpenEdge
7	1 (0.25%)	OpenStack

Applications
1	28 (6.88%)	Microsoft Excel
2	25 (6.14%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
3	10 (2.46%)	Microsoft Office
4	6 (1.47%)	MS Visio
5	2 (0.49%)	Maya
6	1 (0.25%)	Microsoft Project

Business Applications
1	10 (2.46%)	Oracle Applications
2	6 (1.47%)	SAP CRM
3	3 (0.74%)	Remedy ITSM
4	2 (0.49%)	assyst
4	2 (0.49%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	1 (0.25%)	SAP GRC

Cloud Services
1	25 (6.14%)	Microsoft Azure
2	22 (5.41%)	Amazon AWS
3	9 (2.21%)	AWS CloudFormation
3	9 (2.21%)	Virtual Private Cloud
4	6 (1.47%)	Cloud Computing
5	3 (0.74%)	Office 365
6	2 (0.49%)	IaaS
6	2 (0.49%)	Mimecast
6	2 (0.49%)	PaaS
6	2 (0.49%)	SaaS
7	1 (0.25%)	IBM Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	27 (6.63%)	Firewall
2	26 (6.39%)	Network Security
3	14 (3.44%)	DNS
3	14 (3.44%)	VPN
4	11 (2.70%)	HTTP
5	10 (2.46%)	Cisco ASA
5	10 (2.46%)	SMTP
6	8 (1.97%)	Internet
7	7 (1.72%)	BGP
7	7 (1.72%)	Cisco Nexus
7	7 (1.72%)	EIGRP
7	7 (1.72%)	FTP
7	7 (1.72%)	HTTPS
7	7 (1.72%)	IGRP
7	7 (1.72%)	IPsec
7	7 (1.72%)	OSPF
7	7 (1.72%)	VLAN
7	7 (1.72%)	VXLAN
8	6 (1.47%)	DHCP
9	4 (0.98%)	WAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	30 (7.37%)	Big Data
2	6 (1.47%)	BusinessObjects
2	6 (1.47%)	SAP BW
3	5 (1.23%)	SQL Server
4	4 (0.98%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
4	4 (0.98%)	SQL Server Integration Services
4	4 (0.98%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
5	3 (0.74%)	Data Warehouse
5	3 (0.74%)	SQL Server 2012
5	3 (0.74%)	SQL Server 2014
6	1 (0.25%)	GIS
6	1 (0.25%)	SAP HANA

Development Applications
1	9 (2.21%)	Jenkins
2	4 (0.98%)	HP UFT
2	4 (0.98%)	Rational Functional Tester
2	4 (0.98%)	Selenium
2	4 (0.98%)	SilkTest

General
1	182 (44.72%)	Finance
2	46 (11.30%)	Banking
3	23 (5.65%)	Retail
4	21 (5.16%)	Local Government
5	18 (4.42%)	Legal
6	11 (2.70%)	Marketing
7	9 (2.21%)	Telecoms
8	5 (1.23%)	Manufacturing
9	4 (0.98%)	Financial Institution
9	4 (0.98%)	Private Banking
10	3 (0.74%)	Investment Banking
10	3 (0.74%)	Pharmaceutical
10	3 (0.74%)	Retail Banking
11	2 (0.49%)	Electronics
12	1 (0.25%)	Advertising
12	1 (0.25%)	Aerospace
12	1 (0.25%)	French Language
12	1 (0.25%)	International Banking
12	1 (0.25%)	Law
12	1 (0.25%)	Publishing

Job Titles
1	79 (19.41%)	Architect
2	78 (19.16%)	Consultant
3	59 (14.50%)	Analyst
4	45 (11.06%)	IT Manager
5	42 (10.32%)	Risk Manager
6	37 (9.09%)	Security Consultant
7	33 (8.11%)	Solutions Architect
8	31 (7.62%)	Security Manager
9	29 (7.13%)	Security Analyst
10	25 (6.14%)	Information Manager
11	23 (5.65%)	IT Risk Manager
12	21 (5.16%)	COBIT Manager
12	21 (5.16%)	Enterprise Architect
13	19 (4.67%)	Security Architect
14	18 (4.42%)	Risk Analyst
15	17 (4.18%)	Information Analyst
15	17 (4.18%)	Information Risk Manager
15	17 (4.18%)	Information Security Consultant
15	17 (4.18%)	IT Consultant
16	15 (3.69%)	Senior Consultant

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	22 (5.41%)	.NET
2	13 (3.19%)	Web Services
3	12 (2.95%)	Java EE
4	9 (2.21%)	boto
5	7 (1.72%)	XML
6	4 (0.98%)	ASP.NET
6	4 (0.98%)	HTML
6	4 (0.98%)	SOAP
6	4 (0.98%)	XBRL
7	3 (0.74%)	SailPoint
8	1 (0.25%)	Ajax
8	1 (0.25%)	jQuery
8	1 (0.25%)	Middleware

Miscellaneous
1	136 (33.42%)	Management Information System
2	24 (5.90%)	Analytical Skills
3	23 (5.65%)	Computer Science
4	12 (2.95%)	Data Centre
5	11 (2.70%)	Virtual Team
6	10 (2.46%)	Mainframe
7	9 (2.21%)	CESG
7	9 (2.21%)	Data Protection Act
8	8 (1.97%)	Enterprise Software
9	7 (1.72%)	Hedge funds
10	6 (1.47%)	Internet of Things
11	4 (0.98%)	PMI
12	3 (0.74%)	Fintech
12	3 (0.74%)	Life Science
13	2 (0.49%)	AS400
13	2 (0.49%)	FMCG
13	2 (0.49%)	NHS
13	2 (0.49%)	PKI
13	2 (0.49%)	Reinsurance
13	2 (0.49%)	Security Operations Centre

Operating Systems
1	36 (8.85%)	Windows
2	24 (5.90%)	Linux
3	16 (3.93%)	Unix
4	1 (0.25%)	AIX
4	1 (0.25%)	Android
4	1 (0.25%)	Solaris

Processes & Methodologies
1	253 (62.16%)	ITIL
2	194 (47.67%)	Information Security
3	115 (28.26%)	Risk Management
4	96 (23.59%)	TOGAF
5	84 (20.64%)	Agile Software Development
6	79 (19.41%)	PRINCE2
7	68 (16.71%)	Stakeholder Management
8	62 (15.23%)	Security Architecture
9	59 (14.50%)	Security Management
10	57 (14.00%)	IT Strategy
11	51 (12.53%)	Project Management
12	41 (10.07%)	IT Governance
13	40 (9.83%)	Cybersecurity
13	40 (9.83%)	SDLC
14	39 (9.58%)	IT Audit
14	39 (9.58%)	Service Management
15	38 (9.34%)	Target Operating Model
16	35 (8.60%)	Continuous Improvement
17	34 (8.35%)	Data Protection
17	34 (8.35%)	SFIA

Programming Languages
1	36 (8.85%)	C
2	20 (4.91%)	Python
3	16 (3.93%)	SQL
4	14 (3.44%)	PowerShell
5	11 (2.70%)	PHP
6	9 (2.21%)	Perl
6	9 (2.21%)	Ruby
7	4 (0.98%)	Java
7	4 (0.98%)	VB.NET
8	1 (0.25%)	C#

Qualifications
1	176 (43.24%)	CISSP
2	133 (32.68%)	CISM
3	113 (27.76%)	CISA
4	77 (18.92%)	Degree
5	40 (9.83%)	Security Cleared
6	39 (9.58%)	CRISC
7	27 (6.63%)	DV Cleared
8	18 (4.42%)	SC Cleared
9	17 (4.18%)	Cisco Certification
10	14 (3.44%)	ITIL Certification
10	14 (3.44%)	SANS
11	12 (2.95%)	CESG Certified Professional
11	12 (2.95%)	Microsoft Certification
12	10 (2.46%)	(ISC)2 CCSP
12	10 (2.46%)	A+ Certification
12	10 (2.46%)	CCSP
12	10 (2.46%)	ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12	10 (2.46%)	MCTS
12	10 (2.46%)	Network+ Certification
13	9 (2.21%)	GSLC

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	173 (42.51%)	ISO/IEC 27001
2	47 (11.55%)	PCI DSS
3	38 (9.34%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4	31 (7.62%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
5	21 (5.16%)	QA
6	19 (4.67%)	GDPR
7	15 (3.69%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
8	12 (2.95%)	Cyber Essentials
8	12 (2.95%)	ISO/IEC 20000
9	11 (2.70%)	COSO
10	10 (2.46%)	NIST 800
11	8 (1.97%)	BS25999
11	8 (1.97%)	ISO/IEC 27005
11	8 (1.97%)	SSAE 16
12	6 (1.47%)	JSP 440
12	6 (1.47%)	PMO
13	5 (1.23%)	ISO 31000
14	4 (0.98%)	ISO 22301
14	4 (0.98%)	PMBOK
15	3 (0.74%)	Val IT

System Software
1	11 (2.70%)	Active Directory
2	7 (1.72%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	2 (0.49%)	KVM
3	2 (0.49%)	RACF

Systems Management
1	11 (2.70%)	SCCM
2	9 (2.21%)	Ansible
2	9 (2.21%)	Puppet
3	6 (1.47%)	CSIRT
4	5 (1.23%)	Nessus
5	2 (0.49%)	Tivoli
6	1 (0.25%)	BladeLogic
6	1 (0.25%)	IBM BigFix
6	1 (0.25%)	WSUS

Vendors
1	64 (15.72%)	Microsoft
2	28 (6.88%)	Oracle
3	20 (4.91%)	Cognizant
4	18 (4.42%)	SAP
5	16 (3.93%)	IBM
6	14 (3.44%)	Cisco
7	13 (3.19%)	VMware
8	12 (2.95%)	Citrix
9	11 (2.70%)	ServiceNow
10	10 (2.46%)	CheckPoint
11	8 (1.97%)	Qualys
12	7 (1.72%)	F5
12	7 (1.72%)	Juniper
13	4 (0.98%)	CA
14	3 (0.74%)	ArcSight
14	3 (0.74%)	CyberArk
14	3 (0.74%)	Remedy
14	3 (0.74%)	Software AG
14	3 (0.74%)	webMethods
15	2 (0.49%)	Symantec