The first table below looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sarbanes-Oxley over the 3 months to 22 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 South East 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
Rank 200 199 181
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -18
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 29 47 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.366% 0.454% 0.594%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.631% 5.353% 8.311%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 25
Average daily rate £420 £450 £358
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +25.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £353 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £483
UK excluding London average daily rate £395 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
+5.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Average hourly rate £25.50 £19.25 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+32.46% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.75 £18.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year
+17.56% -50.99%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
515 878 734
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 6.501% 8.488% 7.151%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 341 293
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £213 £202
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £525 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 63 60
Average hourly rate £14.50 £16.72 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.27% -12.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £32.50 £46.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
Sarbanes-Oxley
England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Sarbanes-Oxley Jobs Demand Trend

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the South East region.

South East Sarbanes-Oxley Daily Rate Trend

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East Sarbanes-Oxley Daily Rate Histogram

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 South East region.

South East Sarbanes-Oxley Hourly Rate Trend

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley within the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Middlesex +14 10 £275 -
Buckinghamshire +7 9 £420 -
Berkshire -10 7 £450 -
Oxfordshire +4 2 - -
Hampshire -4 1 £425 -
Sarbanes-Oxley
England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 20 (31.75%) Finance
2 19 (30.16%) ITIL
3 16 (25.40%) SAP
4 12 (19.05%) Project Management
5 11 (17.46%) Information Security
6 9 (14.29%) Banking
6 9 (14.29%) Retail
6 9 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 9 (14.29%) COBIT
7 8 (12.70%) Management Information System
7 8 (12.70%) Telecoms
7 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
8 7 (11.11%) Security Management
8 7 (11.11%) PCI DSS
9 6 (9.524%) Service Management
9 6 (9.524%) Data Analysis
9 6 (9.524%) JD Edwards
9 6 (9.524%) PRINCE2
9 6 (9.524%) Cognos
9 6 (9.524%) Data Modelling
10 5 (7.937%) MS Excel
10 5 (7.937%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (7.937%) MS Project
10 5 (7.937%) Oracle
10 5 (7.937%) Risk Management
10 5 (7.937%) Retail Banking
10 5 (7.937%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (7.937%) ISMS
10 5 (7.937%) COSO
11 4 (6.349%) PRINCE2 Practitioner

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 (3.175%) Struts2
1 2 (3.175%) jQuery
1 2 (3.175%) Ajax
1 2 (3.175%) Java EE
1 2 (3.175%) Hibernate
1 2 (3.175%) Spring
1 2 (3.175%) EJB
1 2 (3.175%) CSS
1 2 (3.175%) JSP
1 2 (3.175%) Struts
1 2 (3.175%) Web Services
1 2 (3.175%) XML
1 2 (3.175%) J2EE
1 2 (3.175%) HTML
1 2 (3.175%) JAXB
2 1 (1.587%) Application Packaging
2 1 (1.587%) SAP Business Workflow
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.175%) Oracle Application Server
1 2 (3.175%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (7.937%) MS Excel
1 5 (7.937%) MS Project
2 4 (6.349%) MS PowerPoint
3 3 (4.762%) MS Office
4 1 (1.587%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.762%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (3.175%) SAP R/3
3 1 (1.587%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.587%) SAP PS
3 1 (1.587%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.587%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.587%) SAP FI-AP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.175%) Firewall
2 1 (1.587%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.762%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.175%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (3.175%) MySQL
2 2 (3.175%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.175%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (1.587%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.587%) OLAP
3 1 (1.587%) Spotfire
3 1 (1.587%) Oracle OLAP
General
1 20 (31.75%) Finance
2 9 (14.29%) Banking
2 9 (14.29%) Retail
3 8 (12.70%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.937%) Retail Banking
5 3 (4.762%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.587%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.587%) Billing
6 1 (1.587%) Advertising
6 1 (1.587%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.587%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 26 (41.27%) Analyst
2 16 (25.40%) Project Manager
3 6 (9.524%) Security Analyst
4 4 (6.349%) DBA
4 4 (6.349%) Administrator
4 4 (6.349%) Change Analyst
5 3 (4.762%) Data Analyst
5 3 (4.762%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (4.762%) Database Analyst
5 3 (4.762%) Consultant
5 3 (4.762%) SAP Manager
5 3 (4.762%) Security Manager
5 3 (4.762%) Head of Information Security
5 3 (4.762%) Head of Security
6 2 (3.175%) Change Project Manager
6 2 (3.175%) Senior Change Manager
6 2 (3.175%) Credit Risk Project Manager
6 2 (3.175%) SAP Service Delivery Manager
6 2 (3.175%) Business Change Project Manager
6 2 (3.175%) Applications Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.762%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.175%) FMCG
3 2 (3.175%) EPoS
4 1 (1.587%) Thin Client
4 1 (1.587%) Clustering
4 1 (1.587%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.587%) Life Science
4 1 (1.587%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.587%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.762%) Windows
2 2 (3.175%) UNIX
2 2 (3.175%) Solaris
2 2 (3.175%) Linux
3 1 (1.587%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.16%) ITIL
2 12 (19.05%) Project Management
3 11 (17.46%) Information Security
4 9 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 7 (11.11%) Security Management
6 6 (9.524%) Service Management
6 6 (9.524%) Data Analysis
6 6 (9.524%) PRINCE2
6 6 (9.524%) Data Modelling
7 5 (7.937%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (7.937%) Risk Management
7 5 (7.937%) ISMS
8 4 (6.349%) Data Protection
8 4 (6.349%) Risk Analysis
8 4 (6.349%) Matrix Management
8 4 (6.349%) Information Security Management
8 4 (6.349%) Change Management
8 4 (6.349%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (4.762%) BPR
9 3 (4.762%) SAP Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.762%) SQL
2 2 (3.175%) C
2 2 (3.175%) Java
2 2 (3.175%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (6.349%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 4 (6.349%) Degree
1 4 (6.349%) CISSP
1 4 (6.349%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (4.762%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (4.762%) MCSE
3 2 (3.175%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 2 (3.175%) CISM
3 2 (3.175%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.587%) CCNP
4 1 (1.587%) CCNA
4 1 (1.587%) CCA
4 1 (1.587%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (1.587%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.587%) MCSA
4 1 (1.587%) CCENT
4 1 (1.587%) CCEE
4 1 (1.587%) CCAA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) COBIT
2 7 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 5 (7.937%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (7.937%) COSO
4 2 (3.175%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.175%) SLA
5 1 (1.587%) GAMP
5 1 (1.587%) GxP
5 1 (1.587%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 1 (1.587%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 16 (25.40%) SAP
2 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.524%) JD Edwards
3 6 (9.524%) Cognos
4 5 (7.937%) Oracle
5 4 (6.349%) Siebel
6 2 (3.175%) CheckPoint
6 2 (3.175%) Symantec
7 1 (1.587%) SunGard
7 1 (1.587%) Citrix
7 1 (1.587%) Cisco
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