Sarbanes-Oxley Contract Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Sarbanes-Oxley skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 152 180
Rank change year-on-year -17 +28 +71
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 24 17 20
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.57% 0.42% 0.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.58% 3.39% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 15
10th Percentile £459 £342 £382
25th Percentile £507 £359 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £368 £400
Median % change year-on-year +55.65% -8.13% +25.14%
75th Percentile £659 £382 £505
90th Percentile £689 £417 £527
England median daily rate £550 £550 £515
% change year-on-year - +6.80% -6.36%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 671 502 768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.95% 12.42% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 285 448
10th Percentile £285 £265 £265
25th Percentile £360 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £481
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.30% -3.75%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £575
90th Percentile £643 £639 £636
England median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 41
10th Percentile £16.14 £11.88 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.14 £15.13 £17.14
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.62 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.25% -13.38% -61.97%
75th Percentile £52.50 £25.92 £35.75
90th Percentile £68.10 £43.10 £75.00
England median hourly rate £31.50 £33.93 £35.82
% change year-on-year -7.16% -5.26% +49.23%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sarbanes-Oxley relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Sarbanes-Oxley job vacancy trend in the North of England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the North of England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Yorkshire -26 13 £575 +56.46% 4
North West -7 11 £569 +37.94% 7
Sarbanes-Oxley
England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (20.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) AWS
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Alation
2 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.17%) GCP
2 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Ataccama
1 1 (4.17%) DB2
1 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
1 1 (4.17%) Metadata
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (58.33%) JIRA
General
1 16 (66.67%) Finance
2 14 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (8.33%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Incident Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Programme Manager
3 4 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Major Incident Manager
4 3 (12.50%) SAP Manager
4 3 (12.50%) SAP Programme Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Data Steward
5 1 (4.17%) Finance Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Product Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Programmer
5 1 (4.17%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Security Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Service Manager
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.17%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) SailPoint
2 1 (4.17%) Great Expectations
2 1 (4.17%) ISPF
2 1 (4.17%) LDAP
2 1 (4.17%) Middleware
2 1 (4.17%) OAuth
2 1 (4.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.17%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows XP
1 1 (4.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) ITSM
2 14 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (54.17%) Incident Management
4 12 (50.00%) Backlog Management
4 12 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 12 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 11 (45.83%) Incident Response
6 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (25.00%) Risk Management
8 5 (20.83%) Programme Management
8 5 (20.83%) Service Design
8 5 (20.83%) Service Management
9 3 (12.50%) Agile
9 3 (12.50%) Business Analysis
9 3 (12.50%) Change Management
9 3 (12.50%) Major Incident Management
9 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (8.33%) Identity Management
10 2 (8.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) COBOL
1 1 (4.17%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) CBAP
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (70.83%) GDPR
2 6 (25.00%) GxP
3 1 (4.17%) Basel III
3 1 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) GRC
3 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.17%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (4.17%) RACF
1 1 (4.17%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) ServiceNow
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.83%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Ariba
4 1 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) Okta