East Midlands Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox) skills within the East Midlands 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	80	80
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	15	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	18.75 %	9.589 %
Daily rates quoted	8	0
Average minimum daily rate	£402	-
Average daily rate	£408	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£413	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£372
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	-
Average hourly rate	£12.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.80	£26.57
% change on same period last year	-29.23 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	80	73
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.103 %	0.082 %
Daily rates quoted	22	26
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£352
Average daily rate	£381	£359
% change on same period last year	+6.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£402	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£372
% change on same period last year	-4.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.88	£19.25
Average hourly rate	£16.32	£20.48
% change on same period last year	-20.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.76	£21.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.60	£22.88
% change on same period last year	-5.60 %
Sarbanes-Oxley England

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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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	Derbyshire	+6	4	-	-
1	Northamptonshire	-11	4	£505	-
1	Nottinghamshire	-	4	£300	-
2	Leicestershire	-3	1	-	-
2	Lincolnshire	-	1	£300	-

Sarbanes-Oxley England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 7 (33.33 %) Finance 2 5 (23.81 %) Banking 2 5 (23.81 %) Retail 3 4 (19.05 %) Risk Assessment 4 3 (14.29 %) MFGPRO 4 3 (14.29 %) Retail Banking 4 3 (14.29 %) Test Scripting 4 3 (14.29 %) Cisco Certification 4 3 (14.29 %) Cisco 4 3 (14.29 %) CCNP 4 3 (14.29 %) CCNA 5 2 (9.524 %) ACCA 5 2 (9.524 %) Basel II 5 2 (9.524 %) CISA 5 2 (9.524 %) CISM

5 2 (9.524 %) CIMA 5 2 (9.524 %) CISSP 5 2 (9.524 %) MBA 5 2 (9.524 %) Auditing 5 2 (9.524 %) COBIT 6 1 (4.762 %) PCI DSS 6 1 (4.762 %) Information Security 6 1 (4.762 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (4.762 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (4.762 %) Active Directory 6 1 (4.762 %) Microsoft 6 1 (4.762 %) VBScript 6 1 (4.762 %) IIS 6 1 (4.762 %) MS Office 6 1 (4.762 %) Windows

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 (4.762 %) IIS 1 1 (4.762 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (4.762 %) SAS	Applications 1 1 (4.762 %) MS Office 1 1 (4.762 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 3 (14.29 %) MFGPRO	Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.762 %) DHCP 1 1 (4.762 %) WINS 1 1 (4.762 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.762 %) MS Access	General 1 7 (33.33 %) Finance 2 5 (23.81 %) Banking 2 5 (23.81 %) Retail 3 3 (14.29 %) Retail Banking 4 2 (9.524 %) Auditing 5 1 (4.762 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 8 (38.10 %) Consultant 2 3 (14.29 %) Analyst 2 3 (14.29 %) Administrator 2 3 (14.29 %) Network Administrator 3 2 (9.524 %) IT Consultant 4 1 (4.762 %) Project Manager 4 1 (4.762 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (4.762 %) Desktop Support 4 1 (4.762 %) Analyst Programmer 4 1 (4.762 %) Programmer 4 1 (4.762 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (4.762 %) Applications Support 4 1 (4.762 %) 3rd Line Support 4 1 (4.762 %) Team Leader 4 1 (4.762 %) Support Team Leader 4 1 (4.762 %) Desktop Analyst 4 1 (4.762 %) Auditor 4 1 (4.762 %) Operations Manager 4 1 (4.762 %) IT Auditor 4 1 (4.762 %) Change Manager	Operating Systems 1 1 (4.762 %) Windows 1 1 (4.762 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (19.05 %) Risk Assessment 2 3 (14.29 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (4.762 %) Information Security	Programming Languages 1 1 (4.762 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 3 (14.29 %) Cisco Certification 1 3 (14.29 %) CCNP 1 3 (14.29 %) CCNA 2 2 (9.524 %) CISSP 2 2 (9.524 %) ACCA 2 2 (9.524 %) CISA 2 2 (9.524 %) CISM 2 2 (9.524 %) CIMA 2 2 (9.524 %) MBA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (9.524 %) Basel II 1 2 (9.524 %) COBIT 2 1 (4.762 %) PCI DSS
System Software 1 1 (4.762 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 3 (14.29 %) Cisco 2 1 (4.762 %) Microsoft