The first table below looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sarbanes-Oxley over the 3 months to 24 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
Rank 101 - 87
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 17 0 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.000% - 0.298%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.83% - 3.846%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 4
Average salary £55,000 - £41,000
90% offered a salary of more than £46,500 - £38,300
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 - £44,400
UK excluding London average salary £44,000 £47,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year
-7.36% -3.06%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
157 106 104
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 9.235% 7.152% 7.738%
Number of salaries quoted 119 95 87
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,400 £24,500 £24,900
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
Sarbanes-Oxley
West Midlands

Sarbanes-Oxley
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Sarbanes-Oxley Salary Trend

Sarbanes-Oxley
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Birmingham Sarbanes-Oxley Salary Histogram

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 16 (53.33%) Change Management
2 13 (43.33%) Retail
2 13 (43.33%) Degree
3 10 (33.33%) SAP ALE
3 10 (33.33%) SAP FI/CO
3 10 (33.33%) SAP CO
3 10 (33.33%) Cash Management
3 10 (33.33%) SAP FI
3 10 (33.33%) SAP
3 10 (33.33%) CCA
4 8 (26.67%) Citrix
4 8 (26.67%) SQL
4 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
4 8 (26.67%) UNIX
4 8 (26.67%) Windows
5 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
5 7 (23.33%) CISA
5 7 (23.33%) COBIT
6 6 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 6 (20.00%) Information Security
6 6 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
6 6 (20.00%) Finance
6 6 (20.00%) HP
6 6 (20.00%) IBM
6 6 (20.00%) SAN
6 6 (20.00%) MS Excel
6 6 (20.00%) MS Exchange
7 5 (16.67%) HPUX
7 5 (16.67%) Linux
7 5 (16.67%) Red Hat

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 Development
1 10 (33.33%) SAP ALE
Application Platforms
1 6 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.333%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.333%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 10 (33.33%) SAP FI/CO
1 10 (33.33%) SAP CO
1 10 (33.33%) SAP FI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (3.333%) Firewall
2 1 (3.333%) LAN
2 1 (3.333%) WAN
2 1 (3.333%) VPN
2 1 (3.333%) SSL
General
1 13 (43.33%) Retail
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Analyst
1 7 (23.33%) Audit Manager
1 7 (23.33%) Technical Analyst
1 7 (23.33%) IT Audit Manager
2 6 (20.00%) IT Assistant
2 6 (20.00%) Technical Architect
2 6 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (3.333%) Technical Support Analyst
3 1 (3.333%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 1 (3.333%) Internal Audit Manager
3 1 (3.333%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (3.333%) Support Analyst
3 1 (3.333%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.333%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.333%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.333%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) UNIX
1 8 (26.67%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) HPUX
2 5 (16.67%) Linux
2 5 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Change Management
2 10 (33.33%) Cash Management
3 6 (20.00%) Information Security
3 6 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (3.333%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (3.333%) Change Control
4 1 (3.333%) Project Management
4 1 (3.333%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (43.33%) Degree
2 10 (33.33%) CCA
3 7 (23.33%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) COBIT
2 1 (3.333%) COSO
2 1 (3.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.333%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) SAP
2 8 (26.67%) Citrix
2 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (20.00%) HP
3 6 (20.00%) IBM
4 5 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.333%) VMware
5 1 (3.333%) Lotus
5 1 (3.333%) Oracle