Manchester Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox) skills within the Manchester 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
Location Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Crawley Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire 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 Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South West Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex Wilmslow Wiltshire Wrexham	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	75	66
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	6	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	9.836 %	5.128 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£507
Average daily rate	-	£519
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£532
UK excluding London average daily rate	£395	£411
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.00	-
Average hourly rate	£15.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.93	£28.34
% change on same period last year	-15.55 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	61	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.081 %	0.039 %
Daily rates quoted	8	11
Average minimum daily rate	£403	£444
Average daily rate	£432	£453
% change on same period last year	-4.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£461	£462
UK excluding London average daily rate	£368	£371
% change on same period last year	-0.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.56	£13.83
Average hourly rate	£18.96	£13.92
% change on same period last year	+36.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.36	£14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.31	£24.73
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Sarbanes-Oxley North West

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 Manchester 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 Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 5 (62.50 %) SLA 1 5 (62.50 %) Dutch Language 1 5 (62.50 %) French Language 1 5 (62.50 %) German Language 1 5 (62.50 %) Incident Management 2 3 (37.50 %) LiveLink 3 1 (12.50 %) Document Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Change Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Finance 3 1 (12.50 %) Migration 3 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (12.50 %) Lean Six Sigma 3 1 (12.50 %) Problem Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Release Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory

3 1 (12.50 %) Alcatel 3 1 (12.50 %) ARCserve 3 1 (12.50 %) Six Sigma 3 1 (12.50 %) BPR 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) IIS 3 1 (12.50 %) ERP 3 1 (12.50 %) LAN 3 1 (12.50 %) WAN 3 1 (12.50 %) DHCP 3 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (12.50 %) DNS

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) LiveLink 2 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (12.50 %) IIS	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) LAN 1 1 (12.50 %) WAN 1 1 (12.50 %) DHCP 1 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (12.50 %) DNS
General 1 1 (12.50 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Analyst 2 3 (37.50 %) Support Analyst 2 3 (37.50 %) Applications Support 3 1 (12.50 %) 3rd Line Support 3 1 (12.50 %) Change Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Financial Business Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Coordinator 3 1 (12.50 %) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 5 (62.50 %) Dutch Language 1 5 (62.50 %) French Language 1 5 (62.50 %) German Language	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (62.50 %) Incident Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Lean Six Sigma 2 1 (12.50 %) Problem Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Release Management 2 1 (12.50 %) ERP 2 1 (12.50 %) Six Sigma 2 1 (12.50 %) BPR 2 1 (12.50 %) Change Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Migration 2 1 (12.50 %) Document Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (62.50 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (12.50 %) ARCserve
Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Alcatel