Birmingham Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox) skills within the Birmingham 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	52	62
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	7	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	17.50 %	6.667 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£325	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£350	-
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 Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	40	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.051 %	0.034 %
Daily rates quoted	7	3
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£333
Average daily rate	£374	£333
% change on same period last year	+12.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£372
% change on same period last year	-4.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.84	£14.88
Average hourly rate	£18.26	£15.64
% change on same period last year	+16.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.69	£16.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.60	£22.88
% change on same period last year	-5.60 %
Sarbanes-Oxley West Midlands

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 Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

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 Birmingham region.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 4 (50.00 %) CISSP 1 4 (50.00 %) Financial Institution 1 4 (50.00 %) Data Security 1 4 (50.00 %) Finance 1 4 (50.00 %) Information Security 1 4 (50.00 %) PCI DSS 2 2 (25.00 %) Service Delivery 2 2 (25.00 %) ITIL 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows 3 1 (12.50 %) MCSE 3 1 (12.50 %) CRM 3 1 (12.50 %) LAN 3 1 (12.50 %) WAN 3 1 (12.50 %) ISO17799 3 1 (12.50 %) SLA

3 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory 3 1 (12.50 %) Citrix Certification 3 1 (12.50 %) SAP 3 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (12.50 %) SAP FI 3 1 (12.50 %) ACCA 3 1 (12.50 %) SAP CO 3 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (12.50 %) Auditing 3 1 (12.50 %) COBIT 3 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (12.50 %) Migration 3 1 (12.50 %) SAP FI/CO 3 1 (12.50 %) Amdocs

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2007	Business Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) SAP FI 1 1 (12.50 %) SAP FI/CO 1 1 (12.50 %) SAP CO
Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) LAN 1 1 (12.50 %) WAN	General 1 4 (50.00 %) Financial Institution 1 4 (50.00 %) Finance 2 1 (12.50 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Consultant 2 4 (50.00 %) Security Consultant 3 2 (25.00 %) Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) 3rd Line Support 4 1 (12.50 %) Service Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) SAP FI/CO Consultant 4 1 (12.50 %) SAP Consultant 4 1 (12.50 %) IT Support Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Integration Analyst	Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) Data Security 1 4 (50.00 %) Information Security 2 2 (25.00 %) Service Delivery 2 2 (25.00 %) ITIL 3 1 (12.50 %) CRM 3 1 (12.50 %) Service Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Migration	Qualifications 1 4 (50.00 %) CISSP 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (12.50 %) ACCA 2 1 (12.50 %) CIMA 2 1 (12.50 %) MCSE 2 1 (12.50 %) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (50.00 %) PCI DSS 2 1 (12.50 %) ISO17799 2 1 (12.50 %) SLA 2 1 (12.50 %) COBIT	System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) SAP 1 1 (12.50 %) Amdocs