Sarbanes-Oxley Contract Job Trends in Central London

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Sarbanes-Oxley skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 127 152
Rank change year-on-year +11 +25 +43
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 10 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.51% 0.31% 0.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.72% 1.89% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 8
10th Percentile £636 £548 £378
25th Percentile £641 £581 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -14.26%
75th Percentile £750 - £581
90th Percentile £870 £660 £626
London median daily rate £603 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +0.42% +9.09% -10.20%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

Sarbanes-Oxley falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 367 370 501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.75% 16.24% 14.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 227 380
10th Percentile £313 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £700
90th Percentile £825 £755 £813
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 0
10th Percentile £22.60 £17.80 -
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.50 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £23.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.30% - -
75th Percentile £35.50 £24.64 -
90th Percentile £63.15 £25.79 -
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.92 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.78% -20.23% +41.19%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in Central London

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Sarbanes-Oxley

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in Central London over the 6 months to 8 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in Central London

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Sarbanes-Oxley

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley within the Central London region over the 6 months to 8 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +4 8 £678 +12.92% 10
Sarbanes-Oxley
London

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Workday HCM
2 1 (10.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (10.00%) SAP CO
2 1 (10.00%) SAP FI
2 1 (10.00%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) OCI
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Billing
3 1 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Programme Director
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) PMO Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Project Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) OAuth
1 3 (30.00%) OpenID
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (30.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (30.00%) Risk Assessment
2 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) ERP
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Key Management
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Budget Management
4 1 (10.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) RBAC
4 1 (10.00%) Revenue Recognition
4 1 (10.00%) Sales Enablement
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Enablement
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) OCP
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle Certification
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CISA
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (30.00%) NIST
3 1 (10.00%) GDPR
3 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (10.00%) IFRS
3 1 (10.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Workday
3 2 (20.00%) Adaptive Insights
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow