COBIT Contracts in the Thames Valley

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for COBIT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited COBIT over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 132 158
Rank change year-on-year +16 +26 -10
Contract jobs citing COBIT 14 13 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.53% 0.45% 0.25%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.40% 3.19% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile £492 - £573
25th Percentile £509 £613 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.35% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £584 £738 £638
90th Percentile £624 £762 -
South East median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +76.74%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

COBIT 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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 412 408 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.62% 14.26% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 236 333
10th Percentile £198 £306 £220
25th Percentile £316 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £588
90th Percentile £600 £675 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 16
10th Percentile £18.20 £15.80 £10.26
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.50 £11.93
Median hourly rate £27.50 £23.00 £17.76
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% +29.54% -15.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.45 £22.00
90th Percentile £69.11 £73.72 £46.93
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -5.17% +38.10% -23.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing COBIT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for COBIT in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing COBIT in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for COBIT in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing COBIT in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for COBIT in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing COBIT in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for COBIT in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBIT within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 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
Berkshire -8 12 £600 -7.69% 4
Buckinghamshire +30 1 £480 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £538 -
COBIT
South East

COBIT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) 4G
2 1 (7.14%) 5G
General
1 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.14%) Automotive
2 1 (7.14%) French Language
2 1 (7.14%) German Language
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Consultant
1 7 (50.00%) Security Consultant
2 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 5 (35.71%) Architect
3 5 (35.71%) Security Architect
4 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Lead
5 2 (14.29%) Lead Consultant
5 2 (14.29%) Lead Security Consultant
6 1 (7.14%) Cloud Consultant
6 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Consultant
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) IT Security Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Operations Consultant
6 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
6 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Cyberattack
2 1 (7.14%) IoT
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (71.43%) Application Security
2 10 (71.43%) Identity Access Management
2 10 (71.43%) ITIL
3 9 (64.29%) Information Security
3 9 (64.29%) Information Security Management
3 9 (64.29%) OWASP
3 9 (64.29%) Security Management
3 9 (64.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (64.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 8 (57.14%) Conflict Resolution
4 8 (57.14%) Risk Management
5 7 (50.00%) Budget Management
5 7 (50.00%) Budgeting
5 7 (50.00%) Capacity Management
5 7 (50.00%) Project Planning
5 7 (50.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 2 (14.29%) SIEM
7 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) ISACA
2 3 (21.43%) CISA
2 3 (21.43%) CISSP
3 2 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) CCSP
4 1 (7.14%) CISM
4 1 (7.14%) CISMP
4 1 (7.14%) CRISC
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (71.43%) NIST
2 9 (64.29%) GDPR
3 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (14.29%) ITGC
5 1 (7.14%) COSO
5 1 (7.14%) GRC
5 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
5 1 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (7.14%) Netskope