East of England Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox) skills within the East of England 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	147	136
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	10	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	4.739 %	6.915 %
Daily rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum daily rate	£394	£383
Average daily rate	£424	£417
% change on same period last year	+1.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£454	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£372
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.50	£33.80
Average hourly rate	£36.75	£34.30
% change on same period last year	+7.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.00	£34.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.80	£26.57
% change on same period last year	-29.23 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	211	188
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.271 %	0.211 %
Daily rates quoted	90	73
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£324
Average daily rate	£349	£359
% change on same period last year	-2.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£394
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£372
% change on same period last year	-4.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.61	£24.14
Average hourly rate	£23.99	£26.39
% change on same period last year	-9.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.37	£28.64
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 of England 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 of England 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 of England 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 of England region.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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 of England 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	Essex	-15	6	£525	+5.00 %
2	Suffolk	-	2	£310	-
3	Cambridgeshire	-11	1	£550	+57.14 %
3	Hertfordshire	-6	1	-	-

Sarbanes-Oxley England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England 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 6 (46.15 %) Java 1 6 (46.15 %) SQL 1 6 (46.15 %) J2EE 1 6 (46.15 %) UML 1 6 (46.15 %) N-Tier 1 6 (46.15 %) ILOG 1 6 (46.15 %) JRules 1 6 (46.15 %) WebSphere 1 6 (46.15 %) Unit Testing 2 4 (30.77 %) Insurance 2 4 (30.77 %) Finance 2 4 (30.77 %) Business Intelligence 2 4 (30.77 %) OO 2 4 (30.77 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (30.77 %) Struts

3 3 (23.08 %) SAP 3 3 (23.08 %) Datawarehouse 4 2 (15.38 %) SOAP 4 2 (15.38 %) Unix 4 2 (15.38 %) WebServices 4 2 (15.38 %) XML 4 2 (15.38 %) XSLT 4 2 (15.38 %) Oracle 4 2 (15.38 %) Business Objects 4 2 (15.38 %) BusinessObjects 4 2 (15.38 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 4 2 (15.38 %) Trillium 4 2 (15.38 %) HTTP 4 2 (15.38 %) Informatica 4 2 (15.38 %) SAP XI

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England 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 6 (46.15 %) J2EE 1 6 (46.15 %) JRules 1 6 (46.15 %) WebSphere 2 4 (30.77 %) Struts 3 2 (15.38 %) WebServices 3 2 (15.38 %) XML 3 2 (15.38 %) XSLT 3 2 (15.38 %) SAP XI 3 2 (15.38 %) SOAP	Communications & Networking 1 2 (15.38 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (23.08 %) Datawarehouse 2 2 (15.38 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 2 (15.38 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
General 1 4 (30.77 %) Finance 1 4 (30.77 %) Insurance 2 1 (7.692 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 6 (46.15 %) Developer 2 4 (30.77 %) Project Manager 3 2 (15.38 %) Junior 3 2 (15.38 %) J2EE Developer 3 2 (15.38 %) Junior Project Manager 4 1 (7.692 %) Senior J2EE Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) Security Manager 4 1 (7.692 %) SAP Security Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) SAP Authorisations Consultant 4 1 (7.692 %) SAP Consultant 4 1 (7.692 %) Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) IT Manager 4 1 (7.692 %) Consultant 4 1 (7.692 %) Senior Developer 4 1 (7.692 %) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 6 (46.15 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 2 (15.38 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (46.15 %) UML 1 6 (46.15 %) Unit Testing 2 4 (30.77 %) OO 2 4 (30.77 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (30.77 %) Business Intelligence 3 2 (15.38 %) Project Management 4 1 (7.692 %) CMMI 4 1 (7.692 %) Risk Assessment 4 1 (7.692 %) ITIL 4 1 (7.692 %) OOD	Programming Languages 1 6 (46.15 %) Java 1 6 (46.15 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (7.692 %) ISEB 1 1 (7.692 %) CISSP 1 1 (7.692 %) CISM	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.692 %) ISO17799
Vendors 1 6 (46.15 %) ILOG 2 3 (23.08 %) SAP 3 2 (15.38 %) Trillium 3 2 (15.38 %) Informatica 3 2 (15.38 %) Oracle 3 2 (15.38 %) Business Objects