Surrey Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox) skills within the Surrey 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	86	90
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	11	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	14.10 %	23.01 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£525	£450
Average daily rate	£539	£475
% change on same period last year	+13.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£552	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£370
% change on same period last year	+0.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£60.00
Average hourly rate	£17.00	£65.00
% change on same period last year	-73.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.00	£70.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.19	£27.83
% change on same period last year	-31.04 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	78	113
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.100 %	0.127 %
Daily rates quoted	17	35
Average minimum daily rate	£362	£349
Average daily rate	£392	£373
% change on same period last year	+5.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£423	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£370
% change on same period last year	-3.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.60	£18.44
Average hourly rate	£26.30	£19.03
% change on same period last year	+38.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£19.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.65	£22.99
% change on same period last year	-5.85 %
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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the Surrey 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 Surrey region.

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 Surrey region.

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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 Surrey 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	Guildford	-9	1	-	-
1	Staines	-	1	£477	-

Sarbanes-Oxley South East

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Surrey 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 18 (62.07 %) Finance 2 13 (44.83 %) Telecoms 3 8 (27.59 %) Active Directory 4 5 (17.24 %) Microsoft 5 4 (13.79 %) Remedy 5 4 (13.79 %) SAP 5 4 (13.79 %) MS Excel 6 3 (10.34 %) ITIL 7 2 (6.897 %) Microsoft Certification 7 2 (6.897 %) MS Office 7 2 (6.897 %) DNS 7 2 (6.897 %) Windows 7 2 (6.897 %) CISA 7 2 (6.897 %) QiCA 7 2 (6.897 %) Wireless

8 1 (3.448 %) FileNet 8 1 (3.448 %) Workflow 8 1 (3.448 %) Oracle Workflow 8 1 (3.448 %) Clustering 8 1 (3.448 %) Hyperion Essbase 8 1 (3.448 %) Supplier Management 8 1 (3.448 %) MS PowerPoint 8 1 (3.448 %) WebSphere 8 1 (3.448 %) Degree 8 1 (3.448 %) Application Packaging 8 1 (3.448 %) Test Scripting 8 1 (3.448 %) Network Security 8 1 (3.448 %) Altiris 8 1 (3.448 %) HFM 8 1 (3.448 %) AIX

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Surrey 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 (3.448 %) COM 1 1 (3.448 %) WebSphere 1 1 (3.448 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.448 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 1 (3.448 %) IIS 1 1 (3.448 %) MTS 1 1 (3.448 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 4 (13.79 %) MS Excel 2 2 (6.897 %) MS Office 3 1 (3.448 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (3.448 %) SAP R/3 1 1 (3.448 %) HFM
Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.897 %) DNS 1 2 (6.897 %) Wireless 2 1 (3.448 %) Network Security 2 1 (3.448 %) BOOTP 2 1 (3.448 %) TELNET 2 1 (3.448 %) FTP 2 1 (3.448 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (3.448 %) VPN 2 1 (3.448 %) WINS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.448 %) MS Access 1 1 (3.448 %) Hyperion Essbase
General 1 18 (62.07 %) Finance 2 13 (44.83 %) Telecoms 3 1 (3.448 %) Pharmaceutical	Job Titles 1 6 (20.69 %) Support Engineer 1 6 (20.69 %) Helpdesk Support 1 6 (20.69 %) Helpdesk Engineer 2 2 (6.897 %) IT Audit Manager 2 2 (6.897 %) Analyst 2 2 (6.897 %) IT Manager 2 2 (6.897 %) Audit Manager 3 1 (3.448 %) Applications Specialist 3 1 (3.448 %) Applications Packager 3 1 (3.448 %) Coordinator 3 1 (3.448 %) Project Manager 3 1 (3.448 %) Systems Analyst 3 1 (3.448 %) Consultant 3 1 (3.448 %) Technical Analyst 3 1 (3.448 %) SAP Project Manager 3 1 (3.448 %) Project Office Support 3 1 (3.448 %) Security Consultant 3 1 (3.448 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (3.448 %) Project Coordinator 3 1 (3.448 %) SAP Support
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.448 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 2 (6.897 %) Windows 2 1 (3.448 %) AIX 2 1 (3.448 %) HPUX 2 1 (3.448 %) Windows XP 2 1 (3.448 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (10.34 %) ITIL 2 1 (3.448 %) Project Management 2 1 (3.448 %) Workflow 2 1 (3.448 %) Supplier Management 2 1 (3.448 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 1 (3.448 %) Java 1 1 (3.448 %) JavaScript 1 1 (3.448 %) SQL 1 1 (3.448 %) VB
Qualifications 1 2 (6.897 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (6.897 %) CISA 1 2 (6.897 %) QiCA 2 1 (3.448 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.448 %) SLA
System Software 1 8 (27.59 %) Active Directory 2 1 (3.448 %) NFS	Systems Management 1 1 (3.448 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (3.448 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 5 (17.24 %) Microsoft 2 4 (13.79 %) SAP 2 4 (13.79 %) Remedy 3 1 (3.448 %) FileNet 3 1 (3.448 %) Altiris 3 1 (3.448 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.448 %) Hyperion