Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts in the East of England

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 100 117
Rank change year-on-year +12 +17 +18
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 6 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.47% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.82% 2.19% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £603 £517 -
25th Percentile £606 £524 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £543 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.21% +20.56% -25.00%
75th Percentile £644 £554 -
90th Percentile £648 £558 -
England median daily rate £569 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -5.25% +20.00% -9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 213 137 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.71% 8.73% 14.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 66 142
10th Percentile £209 £254 £273
25th Percentile £348 £308 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -15.79% +10.98%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £589
90th Percentile £638 £581 £686
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 22 20
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.03 £15.09 £13.29
Median hourly rate £31.64 £24.50 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +29.14% +22.81% +31.42%
75th Percentile £88.00 £60.31 £50.50
90th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £70.75
England median hourly rate £31.64 £26.62 £35.50
% change year-on-year +18.86% -25.01% +57.78%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the East of England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Sarbanes-Oxley

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Sarbanes-Oxley

Sarbanes-Oxley
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bedfordshire -1 6 £625 +15.21%
Sarbanes-Oxley
England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (83.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (33.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
1 3 (50.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
1 3 (50.00%) JMeter
1 3 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 3 (50.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 6 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Life Science
2 3 (50.00%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ERP
2 4 (66.67%) Data Management
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Biotechnology
3 3 (50.00%) Business Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Data Science
3 3 (50.00%) Matrix Management
3 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 3 (50.00%) Service Management
3 3 (50.00%) Test Management
3 3 (50.00%) Use Case
3 3 (50.00%) User Experience
3 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) GxP
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) SAP
2 2 (33.33%) Ariba