The first table below looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sarbanes-Oxley over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Edinburgh region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
Rank 54 56 53
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -3
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 1 2 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.121% 0.181% 1.391%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.125% 3.509% 27.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 11
Average daily rate - £375 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £395 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
+5.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.75 £18.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year
+17.56% -50.99%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
32 57 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 3.874% 5.163% 5.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 28 33
Average daily rate £350 £320 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -28.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £225 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £416 £540
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £11.07 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
Sarbanes-Oxley
Scotland

Sarbanes-Oxley
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Edinburgh Sarbanes-Oxley Jobs Demand Trend

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Sarbanes-Oxley Daily Rate Trend

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Sarbanes-Oxley Hourly Rate Trend

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Sarbanes-Oxley also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Sarbanes-Oxley.

1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) HPUX
1 4 (50.00%) Solaris
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) AIX
2 3 (37.50%) UNIX
2 3 (37.50%) DB2
2 3 (37.50%) MySQL
2 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Problem Management
2 3 (37.50%) Risk Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) CISA
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 17799
4 1 (12.50%) IBM
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Sun
4 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (12.50%) WebLogic

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Sarbanes-Oxley also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Sarbanes-Oxley. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET 2.0
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) DB2
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) UNIX Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) HPUX
1 4 (50.00%) Solaris
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) AIX
2 3 (37.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Problem Management
2 3 (37.50%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
2 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISA
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) ClearTrust
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Sun
2 1 (12.50%) HP