Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 529 666
Rank change year-on-year 0 +137 -66
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 69 191 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.32% 0.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.11% 2.39% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 106 91
10th Percentile £481 £400 £340
25th Percentile £513 £434 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +19.48%
75th Percentile £603 £650 £700
90th Percentile £737 £713 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £34.88 £28.65 £45.36
25th Percentile £40.31 £32.63 £62.20
Median hourly rate £51.25 £39.60 £90.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.42% -56.24% +44.80%
75th Percentile £62.81 £40.68 £95.38
90th Percentile £68.63 £41.32 £98.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 -
% change year-on-year +76.77% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,212 7,992 11,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.35% 13.36% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,921 5,491 8,030
10th Percentile £297 £275 £292
25th Percentile £405 £410 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £619
90th Percentile £750 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 225 302
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.50 £17.06
Median hourly rate £20.61 £37.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.05% +31.58% +35.71%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £77.50 £67.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £35.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -48.57% +66.27% +0.24%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +33 64 £588 +11.90% 57
London +32 38 £600 - 25
Work from Home +86 31 £600 +9.09% 20
UK excluding London +27 23 £560 +12.00% 36
South East +2 8 £550 +22.22% 8
North of England +32 7 £580 +151.26% 7
East of England +21 6 £543 +20.56% 8
Yorkshire +21 4 - - 5
North West +14 3 £580 +154.95% 2
West Midlands +28 2 £625 +13.64% 7
Midlands +21 2 £625 +13.64% 10
South West +21 1 £875 -

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (11.59%) Confluence
2 6 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.80%) Mendix
4 1 (1.45%) IBM Notes
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (13.04%) Dynamics GP
2 8 (11.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (7.25%) SAP GRC
4 4 (5.80%) SAP BPC
5 2 (2.90%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (2.90%) SAP ERP
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.94%) GCP
2 10 (14.49%) Azure
3 9 (13.04%) AWS
3 9 (13.04%) SaaS
4 8 (11.59%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (11.59%) IaaS
4 8 (11.59%) Nutanix
4 8 (11.59%) PaaS
4 8 (11.59%) Rubrik
5 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.90%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.45%) OCI
6 1 (1.45%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.49%) DNS
1 10 (14.49%) Firewall
2 8 (11.59%) DHCP
2 8 (11.59%) Kerberos
2 8 (11.59%) NAS
2 8 (11.59%) SAN
2 8 (11.59%) TCP/IP
2 8 (11.59%) VLAN
3 5 (7.25%) Network Security
4 2 (2.90%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (2.90%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (2.90%) Internet
4 2 (2.90%) NX-OS
4 2 (2.90%) VPN
4 2 (2.90%) WAN
4 2 (2.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) SAP HANA
2 2 (2.90%) Power BI
2 2 (2.90%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (13.04%) Git
2 8 (11.59%) Jenkins
2 8 (11.59%) JIRA
2 8 (11.59%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.45%) GoCD
General
1 39 (56.52%) Finance
2 25 (36.23%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Banking
5 3 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.90%) Legal
6 2 (2.90%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.45%) Law
7 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (30.43%) Consultant
2 9 (13.04%) Great Plains Consultant
2 9 (13.04%) Microsoft Consultant
3 6 (8.70%) Analyst
3 6 (8.70%) Lead
4 5 (7.25%) SOX Consultant
5 4 (5.80%) Compliance Analyst
5 4 (5.80%) Risk Manager
5 4 (5.80%) SAP Consultant
5 4 (5.80%) Security Consultant
5 4 (5.80%) Senior
6 3 (4.35%) Architect
6 3 (4.35%) Cloud Consultant
6 3 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.35%) GCP Consultant
6 3 (4.35%) Oracle Consultant
6 3 (4.35%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
6 3 (4.35%) Service Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.04%) LDAP
2 6 (8.70%) SailPoint
3 3 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.45%) Jest
4 1 (1.45%) Node.js
4 1 (1.45%) React
4 1 (1.45%) SAML
4 1 (1.45%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Clustering
1 8 (11.59%) Replication
2 3 (4.35%) Life Science
3 2 (2.90%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.04%) Windows
2 8 (11.59%) Linux
2 8 (11.59%) Oracle Linux
2 8 (11.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (11.59%) Solaris
2 8 (11.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.39%) Use Case
2 11 (15.94%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (15.94%) Risk Management
2 11 (15.94%) User Acceptance Testing
3 10 (14.49%) Agile
4 9 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (13.04%) Data Security
4 9 (13.04%) Test Scripting
5 8 (11.59%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (11.59%) Deployment Automation
5 8 (11.59%) DevOps
5 8 (11.59%) High Availability
5 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (11.59%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (11.59%) Security Hardening
5 8 (11.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 8 (11.59%) Storage Management
5 8 (11.59%) Vulnerability Management
6 7 (10.14%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.49%) SQL
2 9 (13.04%) PowerShell
2 9 (13.04%) Python
3 8 (11.59%) Bash
4 2 (2.90%) ABAP
5 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (13.04%) Degree
2 5 (7.25%) SC Cleared
2 5 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) CISSP
4 3 (4.35%) CISA
4 3 (4.35%) CISM
5 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.90%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.90%) PMP
6 1 (1.45%) CRISC
6 1 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.84%) GDPR
2 8 (11.59%) GRC
2 8 (11.59%) GxP
3 6 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (8.70%) PCI DSS
4 5 (7.25%) COBIT
5 3 (4.35%) COSO
5 3 (4.35%) ITGC
5 3 (4.35%) NCSC
6 2 (2.90%) NIST
7 1 (1.45%) GLBA
7 1 (1.45%) ISAE 3402
7 1 (1.45%) ISO 9001
7 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.45%) PMO
7 1 (1.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (15.94%) Active Directory
2 8 (11.59%) Docker
2 8 (11.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (11.59%) Ansible
1 8 (11.59%) EMC NetWorker
1 8 (11.59%) Kubernetes
1 8 (11.59%) Netcool
1 8 (11.59%) Terraform
1 8 (11.59%) Tivoli
1 8 (11.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (1.45%) CASB
2 1 (1.45%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.45%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (23.19%) Oracle
3 13 (18.84%) SAP
4 11 (15.94%) Cisco
5 9 (13.04%) CyberArk
5 9 (13.04%) HP
6 8 (11.59%) Dell
6 8 (11.59%) EMC
6 8 (11.59%) IBM
6 8 (11.59%) Isilon
6 8 (11.59%) Qualys
6 8 (11.59%) Serena
6 8 (11.59%) ServiceNow
6 8 (11.59%) Splunk
6 8 (11.59%) VMware
7 5 (7.25%) Ariba
8 3 (4.35%) Concur
8 3 (4.35%) Google
8 3 (4.35%) Hyperion
9 2 (2.90%) Palo Alto