Scotland Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox) skills within the Scotland 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	92	99
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	12	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	13.19 %	25.58 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£150
Average daily rate	£354	£150
% change on same period last year	+136.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£150
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£370
% change on same period last year	+0.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.50	£11.00
Average hourly rate	£8.93	£11.40
% change on same period last year	-21.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£9.35	£11.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.19	£27.83
% change on same period last year	-31.04 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	91	86
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.117 %	0.097 %
Daily rates quoted	25	20
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£380
Average daily rate	£304	£398
% change on same period last year	-23.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£370
% change on same period last year	-3.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.07	£18.82
Average hourly rate	£30.65	£20.16
% change on same period last year	+52.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.24	£21.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.65	£22.99
% change on same period last year	-5.85 %
Sarbanes-Oxley UK

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 Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the Scotland region over the past 3 months.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the Scotland region.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley within the Scotland region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Edinburgh	-11	6	£340	-
2	Glasgow	+1	4	£250	+66.66 %
3	Aberdeen	-1	1	-	-

Sarbanes-Oxley UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Scotland 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 20 (60.61 %) Finance 2 8 (24.24 %) Banking 3 5 (15.15 %) Retail 4 3 (9.091 %) Degree 4 3 (9.091 %) GAP Analysis 4 3 (9.091 %) SQL 4 3 (9.091 %) SAP 4 3 (9.091 %) Unix 5 2 (6.061 %) Java 5 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 5 2 (6.061 %) Identity Management 5 2 (6.061 %) Six Sigma 5 2 (6.061 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (6.061 %) DNS 5 2 (6.061 %) Microsoft

5 2 (6.061 %) Active Directory 5 2 (6.061 %) HP 5 2 (6.061 %) Auditing 5 2 (6.061 %) HP Data Protector 5 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (6.061 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 2 (6.061 %) Retail Banking 6 1 (3.030 %) Billing 6 1 (3.030 %) Data Management 6 1 (3.030 %) Data Analysis 6 1 (3.030 %) Systems Analysis 6 1 (3.030 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (3.030 %) Data Cleansing 6 1 (3.030 %) SWT 6 1 (3.030 %) Lean Six Sigma

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 1 (3.030 %) .NET 1 1 (3.030 %) XML 1 1 (3.030 %) SWT	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.061 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (3.030 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Project 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Office 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Excel 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.061 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (6.061 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 1 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (3.030 %) Data Cleansing 2 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server 7 2 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) ClearCase
General 1 20 (60.61 %) Finance 2 8 (24.24 %) Banking 3 5 (15.15 %) Retail 4 2 (6.061 %) Retail Banking 4 2 (6.061 %) Auditing 5 1 (3.030 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 27 (81.82 %) Analyst 2 7 (21.21 %) Business Analyst 3 3 (9.091 %) DBA 3 3 (9.091 %) SQL DBA 4 2 (6.061 %) Support Analyst 4 2 (6.061 %) 3rd Line Support 4 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server DBA 5 1 (3.030 %) Junior 5 1 (3.030 %) Developer 5 1 (3.030 %) Administrator 5 1 (3.030 %) Security Analyst 5 1 (3.030 %) Java Developer 5 1 (3.030 %) Change Analyst 5 1 (3.030 %) Junior Business Analyst 5 1 (3.030 %) Senior DBA 5 1 (3.030 %) Senior SQL Server DBA 5 1 (3.030 %) Financial Business Analyst 5 1 (3.030 %) Senior SQL DBA 5 1 (3.030 %) Banking Business Analyst 5 1 (3.030 %) Junior Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.030 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 3 (9.091 %) Unix 2 1 (3.030 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (9.091 %) GAP Analysis 2 2 (6.061 %) Identity Management 2 2 (6.061 %) Six Sigma 3 1 (3.030 %) BPR 3 1 (3.030 %) Change Management 3 1 (3.030 %) OO 3 1 (3.030 %) Data Management 3 1 (3.030 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (3.030 %) Systems Analysis 3 1 (3.030 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (3.030 %) Lean Six Sigma 3 1 (3.030 %) Release Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (9.091 %) SQL 2 2 (6.061 %) Java 3 1 (3.030 %) RPG 3 1 (3.030 %) VBScript 3 1 (3.030 %) VB
Qualifications 1 3 (9.091 %) Degree	System Software 1 2 (6.061 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 2 (6.061 %) HP Data Protector	Vendors 1 3 (9.091 %) SAP 2 2 (6.061 %) Microsoft 2 2 (6.061 %) HP 3 1 (3.030 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.030 %) Sybase