The first table below looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sarbanes-Oxley over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
Rank 90 - 75
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 5 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.461% - 0.354%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.731% - 3.191%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 3
Average salary £50,000 - £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £44,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-7.36% -5.00%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
134 114 94
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 12.36% 11.55% 11.10%
Number of salaries quoted 118 93 93
Average salary £38,000 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.58% +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,600 £31,350 £26,700
10% offered a salary of more than £57,950 £47,500 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
Sarbanes-Oxley
East of England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Bedfordshire Sarbanes-Oxley Jobs Demand Trend

Sarbanes-Oxley
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Sarbanes-Oxley Salary Trend

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bedford - 3 £50,000 -
Dunstable - 2 - -
Sarbanes-Oxley
East of England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Sarbanes-Oxley also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Sarbanes-Oxley.

1 7 (87.50%) Oracle
2 5 (62.50%) UNIX
2 5 (62.50%) Solaris
2 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) MS Excel
2 5 (62.50%) AWK
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (62.50%) Perl
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
2 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
2 5 (62.50%) Korn
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (62.50%) Data Guard
2 5 (62.50%) C-shell
2 5 (62.50%) Bash shell
2 5 (62.50%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (50.00%) Oracle Application Server
3 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (37.50%) SAP
4 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) ERP
4 3 (37.50%) TOGAF
4 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (37.50%) Java
4 3 (37.50%) ABAP
4 3 (37.50%) Degree
5 1 (12.50%) SAP ERP
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Sarbanes-Oxley also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Sarbanes-Oxley. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP ERP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) DBA
1 5 (62.50%) Administrator
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (37.50%) Applications Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Architect
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) UNIX
1 5 (62.50%) Solaris
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
1 5 (62.50%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (37.50%) TOGAF
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
1 5 (62.50%) AWK
1 5 (62.50%) Korn
1 5 (62.50%) C-shell
1 5 (62.50%) Bash shell
1 5 (62.50%) Perl
2 3 (37.50%) ABAP
2 3 (37.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 5 (62.50%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft