The first table below looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sarbanes-Oxley over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Oxfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
Rank 46 56 47
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -9
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.443% 0.161% 0.216%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.692% 2.326% 3.125%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £395 £375 £358
% change year-on-year
+5.33% +4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.75 £18.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year
+17.56% -50.99%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
26 43 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 5.765% 6.913% 6.897%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 9
Average daily rate £425 £400 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% +77.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £316 £255 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £530 £476 £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 1
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +36.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
Sarbanes-Oxley
South East

Sarbanes-Oxley
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Oxfordshire Sarbanes-Oxley Jobs Demand Trend

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire Sarbanes-Oxley Hourly Rate Trend

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (100.00%) EJB
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) JSP
1 2 (100.00%) Struts
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (100.00%) JAXB
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) E-business
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Spring

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) EJB
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) JSP
1 2 (100.00%) Struts
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) JAXB
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) Java EE
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Struts2
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Application Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) E-business
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle