The first table below looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
Rank 190 166 165
Rank change year-on-year
-24 -1
Permanent jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 2 7 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.049% 0.193% 0.126%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.690% 2.692% 2.137%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 4
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% -15.00%
UK excluding London average salary £44,000 £47,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year
-7.36% -3.06%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
290 260 234
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 7.082% 7.174% 5.918%
Number of salaries quoted 261 210 203
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,500 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
Sarbanes-Oxley
North West

Sarbanes-Oxley
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Sarbanes-Oxley Salary Trend

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (62.50%) COBIT
2 3 (37.50%) Problem Management
2 3 (37.50%) SCCM
2 3 (37.50%) SCOM
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (37.50%) XenApp
2 3 (37.50%) BladeLogic
2 3 (37.50%) Altiris
2 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) VMware ESX
2 3 (37.50%) Clustering
2 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity
2 3 (37.50%) HP
2 3 (37.50%) Citrix
2 3 (37.50%) Remedy
2 3 (37.50%) VB
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) DHCP
2 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 3 (37.50%) SLA
3 2 (25.00%) Advertising
4 1 (12.50%) Banking

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

Business Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Advertising
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Consultant
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) Wintel Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Problem Management
1 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (37.50%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) COBIT
2 3 (37.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) XenApp
1 3 (37.50%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
1 3 (37.50%) SCOM
1 3 (37.50%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Altiris
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) HP
2 3 (37.50%) Citrix
2 3 (37.50%) Remedy