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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
Rank 245 241 227
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -14
Permanent jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 3 10 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.042% 0.142% 0.204%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.575% 1.795% 3.077%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 13
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 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-7.36% -5.00%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
522 557 455
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 7.321% 7.900% 6.630%
Number of salaries quoted 431 470 402
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
Sarbanes-Oxley
England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Sarbanes-Oxley Salary Trend

Sarbanes-Oxley
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West Sarbanes-Oxley Salary Histogram

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 North West 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
Manchester -23 3 £40,000 -5.88%
Sarbanes-Oxley
England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (43.75%) ITIL
4 6 (37.50%) COBIT
5 5 (31.25%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (31.25%) Banking
6 4 (25.00%) QiCA
6 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
7 3 (18.75%) Altiris
7 3 (18.75%) Migration
7 3 (18.75%) VMware
7 3 (18.75%) VMware ESX
7 3 (18.75%) Clustering
7 3 (18.75%) Business Continuity
7 3 (18.75%) BPEL
7 3 (18.75%) Technical Architecture
7 3 (18.75%) BladeLogic
7 3 (18.75%) XPath
7 3 (18.75%) Oracle 11g
7 3 (18.75%) SCCM
7 3 (18.75%) SCOM
7 3 (18.75%) Problem Management
7 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
7 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (18.75%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (18.75%) SLA
7 3 (18.75%) XQuery
7 3 (18.75%) HP
7 3 (18.75%) Citrix

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 3 (18.75%) SOAP
1 3 (18.75%) Web Services
1 3 (18.75%) XML
1 3 (18.75%) XSD
1 3 (18.75%) XSLT
1 3 (18.75%) WSDL
1 3 (18.75%) Middleware
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) WebLogic
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Service Bus
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
1 3 (18.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DHCP
1 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MySQL
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle 8/8i
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle 11g
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (12.50%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Consultant
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Consultant
2 4 (25.00%) Risk Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Wintel Support
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Architect
5 1 (6.250%) Principal Architect
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Information Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Information Security Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Information Security Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Security Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Security Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Information Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Clustering
2 2 (12.50%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
1 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) ITIL
2 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (18.75%) Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Business Continuity
3 3 (18.75%) SOA
3 3 (18.75%) BPEL
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (18.75%) Problem Management
3 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (12.50%) Business Process Improvement
4 2 (12.50%) B2B
4 2 (12.50%) Project Management
4 2 (12.50%) EAI
4 2 (12.50%) Information Security
4 2 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.250%) IT Governance
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) VB
1 3 (18.75%) XQuery
1 3 (18.75%) XPath
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) QiCA
2 2 (12.50%) CISA
3 1 (6.250%) CISM
3 1 (6.250%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) COBIT
2 3 (18.75%) SLA
2 3 (18.75%) Basel III
3 1 (6.250%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.250%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) VMware ESX
1 3 (18.75%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) BladeLogic
1 3 (18.75%) SCCM
1 3 (18.75%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) HP
2 3 (18.75%) Citrix
2 3 (18.75%) Remedy
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
2 3 (18.75%) Altiris
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) Cognizant