M4 Corridor Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox) skills within the M4 Corridor 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 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
Location Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Crawley Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Ipswich Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North Wales North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Poole Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South West Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex Wilmslow Wiltshire Wrexham	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
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% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average daily rate	£406	£397
% change on same period last year	+2.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.00	£30.39
% change on same period last year	-14.44 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance M4 Corridor
Matching contract IT job ads	10	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.007 %
Daily rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum daily rate	-	£355
Average daily rate	-	£355
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£354
% change on same period last year	+6.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.82	£25.74
% change on same period last year	-7.48 %
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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the M4 Corridor region.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the M4 Corridor region.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor 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 1 (100.00 %) SLA 1 1 (100.00 %) Remedy 1 1 (100.00 %) Telecoms 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor 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.

General 1 1 (100.00 %) Telecoms 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Relationships Manager
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (100.00 %) SLA	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Remedy