The first table below looks at the demand for Sarbanes-Oxley skills in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sarbanes-Oxley over the 3 months to 22 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 Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
Rank 43 64 59
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -5
Permanent jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 27 5 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 4.530% 0.853% 0.176%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 35.53% 17.24% 1.587%
Number of salaries quoted 23 3 1
Average salary £35,500 £27,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+29.09% -45.00%
UK excluding London average salary £44,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-7.36% -5.00%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
76 29 63
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 12.75% 4.949% 11.07%
Number of salaries quoted 55 24 60
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +28.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £31,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
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 Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Sarbanes-Oxley Salary Trend

Sarbanes-Oxley
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Cannock +6 19 £35,500 +31.33%
Burton-upon-Trent - 2 £42,500 -
Lichfield - 1 £50,000 -
Sarbanes-Oxley
West Midlands

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 33 (86.84%) ITIL
2 31 (81.58%) Service Management
3 24 (63.16%) PRINCE2
4 19 (50.00%) Programme Management
5 17 (44.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (42.11%) MCSE
7 15 (39.47%) TOGAF
8 14 (36.84%) Degree
8 14 (36.84%) Six Sigma
9 12 (31.58%) Project Management
10 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
11 9 (23.68%) Citrix
12 7 (18.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
14 4 (10.53%) Cisco
14 4 (10.53%) Management Information System
14 4 (10.53%) Resource Management
14 4 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (7.895%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 3 (7.895%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 3 (7.895%) COBIT
15 3 (7.895%) PCI DSS
15 3 (7.895%) VMware
15 3 (7.895%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (7.895%) Windows
16 2 (5.263%) ETL
16 2 (5.263%) PBX
16 2 (5.263%) SQL Server
16 2 (5.263%) C
16 2 (5.263%) Active Directory

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 1 (2.632%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.632%) Middleware
1 1 (2.632%) .NET
1 1 (2.632%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.263%) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.263%) PBX
1 2 (5.263%) MPLS
1 2 (5.263%) Wireless
2 1 (2.632%) Firewall
2 1 (2.632%) SAN
2 1 (2.632%) WLAN
2 1 (2.632%) WAN
2 1 (2.632%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (7.895%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (5.263%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.263%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.263%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 2 (5.263%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Analyst
2 7 (18.42%) Architect
2 7 (18.42%) Project Manager
3 6 (15.79%) Data Centre Architect
3 6 (15.79%) Data Architect
4 5 (13.16%) Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Project Management Officer
5 4 (10.53%) Report Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Project Officer
6 3 (7.895%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (7.895%) Network Analyst
6 3 (7.895%) Junior
7 2 (5.263%) Technical Project Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Development Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Systems Support
7 2 (5.263%) Support Specialist
7 2 (5.263%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) Agile Project Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Software Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Compliance Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.263%) Mainframe
2 2 (5.263%) AS400
2 2 (5.263%) iSeries
3 1 (2.632%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.895%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (86.84%) ITIL
2 31 (81.58%) Service Management
3 24 (63.16%) PRINCE2
4 19 (50.00%) Programme Management
5 15 (39.47%) TOGAF
6 14 (36.84%) Six Sigma
7 12 (31.58%) Project Management
8 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (10.53%) Resource Management
10 2 (5.263%) ETL
10 2 (5.263%) Business Continuity
10 2 (5.263%) Information Security
10 2 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
10 2 (5.263%) Identity Management
10 2 (5.263%) Scrum
10 2 (5.263%) Data Protection
10 2 (5.263%) Load Balancing
10 2 (5.263%) Time Management
10 2 (5.263%) Supplier Management
11 1 (2.632%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.263%) C
2 1 (2.632%) C#
2 1 (2.632%) SQL
2 1 (2.632%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (44.74%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (42.11%) MCSE
3 14 (36.84%) Degree
4 7 (18.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (7.895%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (5.263%) CCNP
6 2 (5.263%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.632%) MCITP
7 1 (2.632%) CCAA
7 1 (2.632%) CISA
7 1 (2.632%) CISM
7 1 (2.632%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.632%) CCNA
7 1 (2.632%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (2.632%) CISSP
7 1 (2.632%) MCSD
7 1 (2.632%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.895%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.895%) COBIT
1 3 (7.895%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.632%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2 (5.263%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.632%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.263%) CA SiteMinder
1 2 (5.263%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 9 (23.68%) Citrix
3 4 (10.53%) Cisco
4 3 (7.895%) VMware
5 2 (5.263%) CA
5 2 (5.263%) ArcSight