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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 672 833
Rank change year-on-year +102 +161 -159
Contract jobs citing COSO 6 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.021% 0.018%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.099% 0.16% 0.14%
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% +14.26%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £868
90th Percentile £790 £668 £874
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £563 -
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,042 7,608 11,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.20% 13.36% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,843 5,204 7,919
10th Percentile £282 £281 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £743 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +0.83% +6.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 236 309
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.29 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.74 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.84% +7.69% +54.76%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £32.94 £22.50
% change year-on-year -44.54% +46.41% +7.14%

COSO
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for COSO in the UK

COSO
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for COSO in the UK

COSO
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing COSO over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for COSO in the UK

COSO
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COSO within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +108 6 £525 -6.67% 3
UK excluding London +51 6 £525 -6.67% 2
Work from Home +121 4 £525 +9.09% 2
South West - 3 £500 -
North of England +23 2 - -
North West +16 2 - -
South East +9 1 £550 -12.00% 2

COSO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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