Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Sarbanes-Oxley skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 114 155
Rank change year-on-year +8 +41 +29
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 13 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.74% 0.55% 0.44%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.50% 3.18% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 8
10th Percentile £636 - £400
25th Percentile £641 - £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.42% +14.23% -4.50%
75th Percentile £750 - £628
90th Percentile £818 £615 £721
Central London median daily rate £715 £600 £525
% change year-on-year +19.21% +14.23% -4.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 289 377 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.56% 17.23% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 271 337
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £704 £674 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £23.40 £23.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.43% -43.37%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the City of London

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the City of London

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) GitHub
1 3 (23.08%) OCI
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Rubrik
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (7.69%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) Serena SBM
1 1 (7.69%) Subversion
1 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Legal
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) IT Manager
2 3 (23.08%) IT Risk Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Risk Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Security Architect
3 2 (15.38%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Risk Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Compliance Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Compliance Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Engagement Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Programme Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) OAuth
1 5 (38.46%) OpenID
2 3 (23.08%) SAML
3 2 (15.38%) Kafka
3 2 (15.38%) NumPy
3 2 (15.38%) OAuth2
3 2 (15.38%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (15.38%) Pandas
3 2 (15.38%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) LDAP
4 1 (7.69%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Clustering
3 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Solaris
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Project Management
1 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (30.77%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
3 3 (23.08%) Budget Management
3 3 (23.08%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
3 3 (23.08%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (23.08%) Resource Allocation
3 3 (23.08%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Key Management
4 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Quantitative Finance
4 2 (15.38%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Perl
4 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Ruby
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) CISA
2 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (23.08%) OCP
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) NIST
2 5 (38.46%) GDPR
3 4 (30.77%) COBIT
4 3 (23.08%) COSO
4 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (15.38%) HIPAA
6 1 (7.69%) ITGC
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Control-M
2 1 (7.69%) Data Guard
2 1 (7.69%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (7.69%) QRadar
2 1 (7.69%) Tivoli
2 1 (7.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) BMC
2 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
2 1 (7.69%) EMC
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Qualys
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Serena
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Sybase
2 1 (7.69%) VMware