Berkshire Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Sarbanes-Oxley over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
Location Aberdeen Andover Aylesbury Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Leicestershire Lincolnshire London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Reading Scotland Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	100	113
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	28	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.043 %
As % of the category below	14.21 %	14.79 %
Daily rates quoted	18	22
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£326
Average daily rate	£377	£333
% change on same period last year	+13.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£372
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.80	£26.57
% change on same period last year	-29.23 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	197	257
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.253 %	0.289 %
Daily rates quoted	61	92
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£345
Average daily rate	£342	£360
% change on same period last year	-5.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£372
% change on same period last year	-4.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.11	£14.10
Average hourly rate	£11.84	£15.78
% change on same period last year	-24.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.57	£17.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.60	£22.88
% change on same period last year	-5.60 %
Sarbanes-Oxley South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the Berkshire region.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the Berkshire region.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley within the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Reading	+6	7	£406	-
2	Newbury	+12	5	-	-
3	Maidenhead	+9	3	£362	-3.55 %
4	Slough	-	1	£357	-

Sarbanes-Oxley South East

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Sarbanes-Oxley also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

1 17 (34.69 %) QA 2 16 (32.65 %) SAP 2 16 (32.65 %) Telecoms 3 11 (22.45 %) Validation 4 10 (20.41 %) Oracle 5 9 (18.37 %) Test Scripting 6 8 (16.33 %) Degree 7 7 (14.29 %) Finance 8 5 (10.20 %) Microsoft 9 4 (8.163 %) MS Office 9 4 (8.163 %) ITIL 9 4 (8.163 %) NetScreen 9 4 (8.163 %) IBM 9 4 (8.163 %) CheckPoint 9 4 (8.163 %) Middleware

9 4 (8.163 %) Firewall 9 4 (8.163 %) SAP XI 9 4 (8.163 %) Network Security 10 3 (6.122 %) Test Management 10 3 (6.122 %) Backup Exec 10 3 (6.122 %) GAP Analysis 10 3 (6.122 %) Disaster Recovery 10 3 (6.122 %) Wireless 10 3 (6.122 %) Tivoli 10 3 (6.122 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 10 3 (6.122 %) Business Intelligence 10 3 (6.122 %) SAN 10 3 (6.122 %) NetApp 10 3 (6.122 %) Project Management 10 3 (6.122 %) Windows

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Sarbanes-Oxley also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Sarbanes-Oxley. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (8.163 %) Middleware 1 4 (8.163 %) SAP XI	Applications 1 4 (8.163 %) MS Office 2 3 (6.122 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.041 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 4 (8.163 %) NetScreen 1 4 (8.163 %) Firewall 1 4 (8.163 %) Network Security 2 3 (6.122 %) SAN 2 3 (6.122 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.041 %) ETL
General 1 16 (32.65 %) Telecoms 2 7 (14.29 %) Finance 3 2 (4.082 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (2.041 %) Health 4 1 (2.041 %) Legal 4 1 (2.041 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 10 (20.41 %) Coordinator 1 10 (20.41 %) Consultant 2 7 (14.29 %) SAP Consultant 3 6 (12.24 %) Administrator 4 5 (10.20 %) Test Manager 5 4 (8.163 %) SAP Programmer 5 4 (8.163 %) SAP XI Developer 5 4 (8.163 %) Technical Specialist 5 4 (8.163 %) Security Specialist 5 4 (8.163 %) SAP Developer 5 4 (8.163 %) Programmer 5 4 (8.163 %) Developer 5 4 (8.163 %) Analyst 6 3 (6.122 %) Project Administrator 7 2 (4.082 %) Systems Administrator 7 2 (4.082 %) Firewall Specialist 8 1 (2.041 %) Financial Analyst 8 1 (2.041 %) Server Support 8 1 (2.041 %) Process Consultant 8 1 (2.041 %) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.082 %) Computer Science 2 1 (2.041 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 3 (6.122 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (22.45 %) Validation 2 9 (18.37 %) Test Scripting 3 4 (8.163 %) ITIL 4 3 (6.122 %) Business Intelligence 4 3 (6.122 %) Test Management 4 3 (6.122 %) Project Management 4 3 (6.122 %) Disaster Recovery 4 3 (6.122 %) GAP Analysis 5 2 (4.082 %) Six Sigma 6 1 (2.041 %) ERP 6 1 (2.041 %) Stakeholder Management 6 1 (2.041 %) Information Management 6 1 (2.041 %) Document Management 6 1 (2.041 %) Requirements Analysis	Programming Languages 1 3 (6.122 %) SQL 2 1 (2.041 %) C
Qualifications 1 8 (16.33 %) Degree 2 3 (6.122 %) ISEB 3 1 (2.041 %) CISSP 3 1 (2.041 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (2.041 %) ACCA 3 1 (2.041 %) CISA 3 1 (2.041 %) CIMA 3 1 (2.041 %) MCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 17 (34.69 %) QA 2 1 (2.041 %) GxP
System Software 1 3 (6.122 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 3 (6.122 %) Tivoli 1 3 (6.122 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 16 (32.65 %) SAP 2 10 (20.41 %) Oracle 3 5 (10.20 %) Microsoft 4 4 (8.163 %) CheckPoint 4 4 (8.163 %) IBM 5 3 (6.122 %) HP 5 3 (6.122 %) NetApp 6 1 (2.041 %) JD Edwards