Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts with Work from Home Options

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 309 389 544
Rank change year-on-year +80 +155 -115
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 32 79 71
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.31% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.47% 2.58% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 56 39
10th Percentile £500 £400 £481
25th Percentile £591 £425 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile £619 £663 £744
90th Percentile £803 £713 £778
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +17.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £28.72 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £32.80 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £100.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.77% -60.40% +60.00%
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,178 3,067 5,831
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.45% 12.22% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,506 2,244 4,151
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £419 £420 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +4.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 64 118
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.56 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £23.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.50 £39.80 £42.73
Median % change year-on-year -40.95% -6.85% +112.19%
75th Percentile £48.75 £60.94 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.28 £66.45
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £27.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +26.13% +31.99%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Sarbanes-Oxley trend for jobs with a WFH option

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Sarbanes-Oxley daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Sarbanes-Oxley daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Sarbanes-Oxley hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (21.88%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.13%) IBM Notes
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (6.25%) SAP GRC
2 2 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) AWS
1 8 (25.00%) SaaS
2 7 (21.88%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (21.88%) GCP
2 7 (21.88%) IaaS
2 7 (21.88%) Nutanix
2 7 (21.88%) PaaS
2 7 (21.88%) Rubrik
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.13%) OCI
3 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) DHCP
1 7 (21.88%) DNS
1 7 (21.88%) Firewall
1 7 (21.88%) Kerberos
1 7 (21.88%) NAS
1 7 (21.88%) SAN
1 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
1 7 (21.88%) VLAN
2 2 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Git
2 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.88%) JIRA
2 7 (21.88%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.13%) GoCD
General
1 21 (65.63%) Finance
2 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.13%) Law
4 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Consultant
2 9 (28.13%) Great Plains Consultant
2 9 (28.13%) Microsoft Consultant
3 2 (6.25%) Architect
3 2 (6.25%) Finance Manager
3 2 (6.25%) Lead
3 2 (6.25%) Security Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Analyst
4 1 (3.13%) Audit Manager
4 1 (3.13%) CISSP Analyst
4 1 (3.13%) DBA
4 1 (3.13%) Finance Systems Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (3.13%) IT Consultant
4 1 (3.13%) Report Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Senior
4 1 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (3.13%) Software Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) SOX Consultant
4 1 (3.13%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) LDAP
2 1 (3.13%) Jest
2 1 (3.13%) Node.js
2 1 (3.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Clustering
1 8 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Windows
2 7 (21.88%) Linux
2 7 (21.88%) Oracle Linux
2 7 (21.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (21.88%) Solaris
2 7 (21.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) User Acceptance Testing
2 9 (28.13%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (28.13%) Test Scripting
2 9 (28.13%) Use Case
3 8 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 7 (21.88%) Agile
4 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (21.88%) Cost Optimisation
4 7 (21.88%) Data Security
4 7 (21.88%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (21.88%) DevOps
4 7 (21.88%) High Availability
4 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (21.88%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (21.88%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (21.88%) Security Hardening
4 7 (21.88%) Service Catalogue
4 7 (21.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (21.88%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) SQL
2 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (25.00%) Python
3 7 (21.88%) Bash
4 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) CISA
3 1 (3.13%) CISM
3 1 (3.13%) CISSP
3 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.13%) PMP
3 1 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (3.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (28.13%) GDPR
2 4 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (9.38%) COBIT
4 2 (6.25%) COSO
4 2 (6.25%) GRC
4 2 (6.25%) NCSC
4 2 (6.25%) NIST
4 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.13%) GLBA
5 1 (3.13%) ISAE 3402
5 1 (3.13%) ISO 9001
5 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (3.13%) ITGC
5 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) Active Directory
2 7 (21.88%) Docker
2 7 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Ansible
1 7 (21.88%) EMC NetWorker
1 7 (21.88%) Kubernetes
1 7 (21.88%) Netcool
1 7 (21.88%) Terraform
1 7 (21.88%) Tivoli
1 7 (21.88%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (3.13%) CASB
2 1 (3.13%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.13%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 18 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.00%) Cisco
2 8 (25.00%) HP
2 8 (25.00%) Oracle
3 7 (21.88%) CyberArk
3 7 (21.88%) Dell
3 7 (21.88%) EMC
3 7 (21.88%) IBM
3 7 (21.88%) Isilon
3 7 (21.88%) Qualys
3 7 (21.88%) Serena
3 7 (21.88%) ServiceNow
3 7 (21.88%) Splunk
3 7 (21.88%) VMware
4 3 (9.38%) SAP
5 2 (6.25%) Ariba
6 1 (3.13%) Axway
6 1 (3.13%) Lotus
6 1 (3.13%) McAfee
6 1 (3.13%) Trend Micro