Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts in the UK excluding London

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 390 471
Rank change year-on-year +16 +81 -59
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 22 57 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.24% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.73% 1.64% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 32 24
10th Percentile £481 £378 £230
25th Percentile £513 £425 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £606 £641 £700
90th Percentile £699 £663 £718
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +17.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +76.77% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £67.07
% change year-on-year +76.77% -40.96% +7.31%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,034 3,482 4,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.81% 14.84% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,787 2,340 3,050
10th Percentile £250 £220 £203
25th Percentile £363 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £479 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +6.50% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £571
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 188 193
10th Percentile £10.95 £12.67 £11.39
25th Percentile £12.66 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.06 £31.89 £21.04
Median % change year-on-year -43.37% +51.54% -0.05%
75th Percentile £45.00 £59.46 £44.69
90th Percentile £68.00 £77.50 £64.19
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £27.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +26.13% +31.99%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +4 9 £550 +10.00% 2
North of England +29 8 £560 +142.60% 5
Yorkshire +21 5 £340 -11.30% 2
North West +13 3 £580 +154.95% 2
East of England +9 3 £560 +24.44% 3
Midlands +35 2 £625 +13.64% 9
West Midlands +22 2 £625 +13.64% 5
South West +14 1 £875 -
Sarbanes-Oxley
UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (22.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (13.64%) SAP BPC
3 2 (9.09%) SAP GRC
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (4.55%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.09%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) OCI
3 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
3 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
3 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) Internet
1 2 (9.09%) Network Security
1 2 (9.09%) NX-OS
1 2 (9.09%) VPN
1 2 (9.09%) WAN
1 2 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SAP HANA
2 2 (9.09%) Power BI
2 2 (9.09%) SAP BW
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) GoCD
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Legal
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.55%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Compliance Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Security Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Finance Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Network Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Network Security Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Compliance Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) ERP Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) IAM Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) SailPoint Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Senior ERP Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) SOX Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) SOX Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) SOX Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) SailPoint
2 1 (4.55%) Jest
2 1 (4.55%) LDAP
2 1 (4.55%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) React
2 1 (4.55%) SAML
2 1 (4.55%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Life Science
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) Analytics
2 4 (18.18%) Project Management
2 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
3 3 (13.64%) Business Analysis
3 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
3 3 (13.64%) User Stories
4 2 (9.09%) Biotechnology
4 2 (9.09%) Cost Reduction
4 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
4 2 (9.09%) Data Science
4 2 (9.09%) Decision-Making
4 2 (9.09%) Order to Cash
4 2 (9.09%) Product Backlog
4 2 (9.09%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 2 (9.09%) Record to Report
4 2 (9.09%) Use Case
4 2 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) ABAP
1 1 (4.55%) SQL
1 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) CISA
2 1 (4.55%) CISM
2 1 (4.55%) CISSP
2 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.55%) PMP
2 1 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (4.55%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) GDPR
1 4 (18.18%) PCI DSS
2 3 (13.64%) GxP
2 3 (13.64%) ITGC
3 2 (9.09%) COSO
3 2 (9.09%) GRC
4 1 (4.55%) COBIT
4 1 (4.55%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) SAP
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Concur
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle
4 2 (9.09%) Ariba
4 2 (9.09%) Cisco
4 2 (9.09%) Hyperion
4 2 (9.09%) Juniper
4 2 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.55%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.55%) HP
5 1 (4.55%) OneTrust
5 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.55%) Thycotic