Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts in the Thames Valley

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Sarbanes-Oxley skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 128 159
Rank change year-on-year -6 +31 -19
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 6 22 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.23% 0.77% 0.086%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.36% 5.23% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 0
10th Percentile £515 £410 -
25th Percentile £538 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% - -
75th Percentile £600 £500 -
90th Percentile £664 £663 -
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £588
% change year-on-year +10.00% -14.89% +19.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

Sarbanes-Oxley is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 440 421 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.70% 14.79% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 251 336
10th Percentile £183 £252 £225
25th Percentile £316 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +7.78% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £600 £675 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 15
10th Percentile £18.20 £17.88 £11.39
25th Percentile £22.50 £19.25 £13.16
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +4.76% -0.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £34.50 £21.28
90th Percentile £69.11 £63.67 £25.30
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £24.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +12.24% +16.67% -23.11%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the Thames Valley

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the Thames Valley

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the Thames Valley

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the Thames Valley

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -11 6 £575 +43.75%
Sarbanes-Oxley
South East

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) General Ledger
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Compliance Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Compliance Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Finance Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Finance Systems Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Process Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) SOX Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) SOX Compliance Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Change Management
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
1 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (16.67%) Backlog Management
2 1 (16.67%) Business Transformation
2 1 (16.67%) Community of Practice
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Internal Audit
2 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Product Backlog
2 1 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CISA
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PMP
1 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ITGC
2 1 (16.67%) COBIT
2 1 (16.67%) COSO
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Ariba
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Concur
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) SAP