Newbury Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox) skills within the Newbury 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 15 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 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 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	32
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	5	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	38.46 %	24.39 %
Daily rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum daily rate	-	£307
Average daily rate	-	£307
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£307
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£370
% change on same period last year	+0.67 %
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	£19.19	£27.83
% change on same period last year	-31.04 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Newbury
Matching contract IT job ads	13	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.046 %
Daily rates quoted	2	18
Average minimum daily rate	£268	£290
Average daily rate	£268	£291
% change on same period last year	-8.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£268	£292
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£370
% change on same period last year	-3.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£18.25
Average hourly rate	-	£20.38
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.65	£22.99
% change on same period last year	-5.85 %
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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the Newbury 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 Newbury region.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 21 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Newbury 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 5 (62.50 %) Telecoms 2 4 (50.00 %) CheckPoint 2 4 (50.00 %) Degree 2 4 (50.00 %) Network Security 2 4 (50.00 %) Firewall 2 4 (50.00 %) ITIL 2 4 (50.00 %) NetScreen 3 3 (37.50 %) SQL 3 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 3 3 (37.50 %) SAN 3 3 (37.50 %) NetApp 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows 3 3 (37.50 %) IBM 3 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 3 3 (37.50 %) HP

3 3 (37.50 %) Tivoli 3 3 (37.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 3 (37.50 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (12.50 %) MCSE 4 1 (12.50 %) ERP

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Newbury 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.

Communications & Networking 1 4 (50.00 %) NetScreen 1 4 (50.00 %) Firewall 1 4 (50.00 %) Network Security 2 3 (37.50 %) SAN	General 1 5 (62.50 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Technical Specialist 1 4 (50.00 %) Security Specialist 2 2 (25.00 %) Firewall Specialist 3 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Server Support 3 1 (12.50 %) Process Analyst	Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) ITIL 2 1 (12.50 %) ERP	Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 4 (50.00 %) Degree 2 1 (12.50 %) MCSE 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 3 (37.50 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 3 (37.50 %) Tivoli 1 3 (37.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) CheckPoint 2 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 2 3 (37.50 %) IBM 2 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 3 (37.50 %) HP 2 3 (37.50 %) NetApp