Maidenhead Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox) skills within the Maidenhead 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
Location Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Brentwood 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 Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North Wales North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South West Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex Wilmslow Wrexham	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	41
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	2	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	10.53 %	8.333 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£505
Average daily rate	£450	£515
% change on same period last year	-12.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£525
UK excluding London average daily rate	£387	£404
% change on same period last year	-4.41 %
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	£26.17	£32.33
% change on same period last year	-19.07 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Maidenhead
Matching contract IT job ads	19	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.024 %
Daily rates quoted	2	10
Average minimum daily rate	£417	£415
Average daily rate	£417	£431
% change on same period last year	-3.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£446
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£361
% change on same period last year	+5.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.00	£8.25
Average hourly rate	£9.83	£10.13
% change on same period last year	-2.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£11.67	£12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.98	£24.91
% change on same period last year	-3.72 %
Sarbanes-Oxley Berkshire

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 Maidenhead 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 IT contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the Maidenhead 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 Maidenhead region.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Maidenhead 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 2 (66.67 %) Validation 1 2 (66.67 %) QA 2 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Volume Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Integration Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) SAP XI 2 1 (33.33 %) Risk Assessment 2 1 (33.33 %) ISO27001 2 1 (33.33 %) SAP 2 1 (33.33 %) GxP 2 1 (33.33 %) SAP BW 2 1 (33.33 %) webMethods 2 1 (33.33 %) BCP 2 1 (33.33 %) Regression Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Risk Management

2 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 2 1 (33.33 %) Health

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Maidenhead 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 (33.33 %) SAP XI	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SAP BW
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 1 1 (33.33 %) Health	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) SAP Tester 1 1 (33.33 %) Tester
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Validation 2 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Volume Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Integration Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Risk Assessment 2 1 (33.33 %) BCP 2 1 (33.33 %) Regression Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Risk Management	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (66.67 %) QA 2 1 (33.33 %) ISO27001 2 1 (33.33 %) GxP
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) SAP 1 1 (33.33 %) webMethods