Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts in the Midlands

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 131 163
Rank change year-on-year +27 +32 +35
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 7 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.37% 0.073% 0.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.13% 0.52% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £449 £550 £425
25th Percentile £490 £569 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +13.64% +50.17%
75th Percentile £624 £669 £588
90th Percentile £662 £680 £595
England median daily rate £582 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +1.14% +4.55% -4.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 328 384 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.14% 13.93% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 263 341
10th Percentile £196 £254 £250
25th Percentile £318 £354 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £539 £613 £588
90th Percentile £600 £756 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 44 13
10th Percentile - £11.34 £11.30
25th Percentile £14.70 £13.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £14.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.40% -28.75% +17.28%
75th Percentile £30.38 £27.92 £27.13
90th Percentile £44.20 £58.75 £51.02
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the Midlands

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the Midlands

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the Midlands

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +17 5 £603 -3.52% 9
East Midlands - 2 £443 -
Sarbanes-Oxley
England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (28.57%) SAP BPC
2 2 (28.57%) SAP GRC
3 1 (14.29%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SAP BW
1 2 (28.57%) SAP HANA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Security Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) ERP Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security Advisor
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Advisor
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) SailPoint
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OpenID
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (14.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Programme Management
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Conflict Resolution
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) ERP
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
2 2 (28.57%) SAP Security
3 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
3 1 (14.29%) Budgeting
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) AAT
2 1 (14.29%) ACCA
2 1 (14.29%) CEH
2 1 (14.29%) CIMA
2 1 (14.29%) CISA
2 1 (14.29%) CISM
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) OCP
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GRC
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) Basel III
2 1 (14.29%) GAAP
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
2 1 (14.29%) IFRS
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (14.29%) MiFID
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) Concur
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle