COSO Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 634 761
Rank change year-on-year +109 +127 -134
Contract jobs citing COSO 6 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.025% 0.023%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.12% 0.19% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 12
10th Percentile - - £613
25th Percentile £500 £400 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £771
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -27.07% +15.33%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £868
90th Percentile £790 £668 £874
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £771
% change year-on-year -6.67% -27.07% +14.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,123 6,466 9,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.07% 13.34% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,288 4,381 6,401
10th Percentile £300 £300 £289
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 220 270
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.21 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £19.88 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.42 £37.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.21% +31.58% +35.71%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £49.44
90th Percentile £68.75 £79.78 £69.13
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +16.67% +42.86%

COSO
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing COSO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for COSO in England

COSO
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing COSO in England.

Daily rate trend for COSO in England

COSO
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing COSO in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for COSO in England

COSO
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COSO within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West - 3 £500 -
North of England +27 2 - - 1
North West +13 2 - -
South East +17 1 £550 -12.00% 2
COSO
UK

COSO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (16.67%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) PPP
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Security Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Audit Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Compliance Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Finance Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Report Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Technical Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Contingency Planning
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 2 (33.33%) Financial Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Internal Audit
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
2 3 (50.00%) COBIT
3 2 (33.33%) GDPR
3 2 (33.33%) ISO 31000
3 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (16.67%) GRC
4 1 (16.67%) ITGC
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
1 1 (16.67%) SAP
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk