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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for COSO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited COSO over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 900 948 1195
Rank change year-on-year +48 +247 -281
Permanent jobs citing COSO 7 12 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.012% 0.021%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.051% 0.064% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 28
10th Percentile - £63,500 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile - £68,000 -
90th Percentile - £78,200 £93,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £85,000 -

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,597 18,784 27,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.61% 18.87% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,194 8,736 13,244
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,650
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.93% +0.32%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing COSO.

Salary trend for COSO in the UK

COSO
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COSO within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +69 7 - - 5
UK excluding London +3 6 - - 3
South East -2 3 - - 2
North of England - 3 - - 1
North West - 3 - -
London +90 1 - - 1

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) PPP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco IPT
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) Legal
2 3 (42.86%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
1 3 (42.86%) Risk Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Technology Risk Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Auditor
2 1 (14.29%) IT Auditor
2 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Risk Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Operational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) Information Security
3 3 (42.86%) Asset Management
3 3 (42.86%) Business Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (42.86%) Conflict Management
3 3 (42.86%) Contingency Planning
3 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
3 3 (42.86%) Financial Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (42.86%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (42.86%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (14.29%) Application Security
4 1 (14.29%) Internal Audit
4 1 (14.29%) IT Audit
4 1 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Servant Leadership
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CISA
1 4 (57.14%) CRISC
2 1 (14.29%) CIMA
2 1 (14.29%) CISM
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) NIST
2 4 (57.14%) COBIT
3 3 (42.86%) ISO 31000
3 3 (42.86%) ITGC
4 1 (14.29%) AIFMD
4 1 (14.29%) GDPR
4 1 (14.29%) GRC
4 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (14.29%) PSD2
4 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley