Oxfordshire Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox) skills within the Oxfordshire 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 28 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
Location Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell 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 Oxfordshire Poole Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South West Southampton 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 28 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	53
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	18.75 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£396	£405
% change on same period last year	-2.37 %
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	£26.15	£32.33
% change on same period last year	-19.13 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	34	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.016 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£180	£300
Average daily rate	£190	£325
% change on same period last year	-41.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£200	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£358
% change on same period last year	+6.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.75	£9.99
Average hourly rate	£28.25	£10.61
% change on same period last year	+166.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.75	£11.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.63
% change on same period last year	-8.25 %
Sarbanes-Oxley South East

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 Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

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 Oxfordshire region.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, 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 1 (100.00 %) ITIL 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance 1 1 (100.00 %) Auditing

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, 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.

General 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance 1 1 (100.00 %) Auditing	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Coordinator 1 1 (100.00 %) Administrator 1 1 (100.00 %) IT Administrator
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) ITIL