Nottinghamshire Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox) skills within the Nottinghamshire region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Sarbanes-Oxley over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
Location Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Crawley Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Herefordshire Ipswich Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South West Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	30
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	5	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	22.73 %	7.692 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£500
Average daily rate	£475	£500
% change on same period last year	-5.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£387	£397
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
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	£21.93	£30.52
% change on same period last year	-28.16 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Nottinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	22	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.014 %
Daily rates quoted	9	4
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£392
Average daily rate	£411	£392
% change on same period last year	+5.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£423	£392
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£376
% change on same period last year	-0.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£15.33
Average hourly rate	£10.00	£15.67
% change on same period last year	-36.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.00	£16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.52	£24.90
% change on same period last year	-5.54 %
Sarbanes-Oxley East Midlands

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 Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Sarbanes-Oxley within the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Nottingham	-9	2	£650	+30.00 %

Sarbanes-Oxley East Midlands

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 (66.67 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (33.33 %) SAP 2 2 (33.33 %) ISEB 2 2 (33.33 %) Software Testing 3 1 (16.67 %) QA 3 1 (16.67 %) Stress Testing 3 1 (16.67 %) SAP HR 3 1 (16.67 %) Project Management 3 1 (16.67 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (16.67 %) Service Management 3 1 (16.67 %) Manufacturing

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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.

Business Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) SAP HR	General 1 1 (16.67 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 3 (50.00 %) Consultant 2 2 (33.33 %) SAP Manager 2 2 (33.33 %) SAP Test Manager 2 2 (33.33 %) Test Manager 3 1 (16.67 %) IT Auditor 3 1 (16.67 %) Auditor	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (66.67 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (33.33 %) Software Testing 3 1 (16.67 %) Stress Testing 3 1 (16.67 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (16.67 %) Project Management 3 1 (16.67 %) Service Management
Qualifications 1 2 (33.33 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (16.67 %) QA
Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) SAP