Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 116 134 152
Rank change year-on-year +18 +18 +21
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 4 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.20% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.48% 0.63% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £564 £147
25th Percentile £563 £570 £176
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £580 £228
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +154.95% -54.50%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £276
90th Percentile - £596 £302
England median daily rate £582 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +1.14% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £70.00 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% +76.77% -
75th Percentile £88.75 £72.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £88.75 £51.25 £39.60
% change year-on-year +73.17% +29.42% -36.46%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 271 480 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.77% 17.42% 14.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 265 293
10th Percentile £271 £325 £289
25th Percentile £375 £425 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +2.70%
75th Percentile £587 £598 £588
90th Percentile £700 £694 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 71 32
10th Percentile £13.50 - £24.44
25th Percentile £16.20 £10.95 £30.23
Median hourly rate £30.38 £12.84 £38.55
Median % change year-on-year +136.60% -66.69% +114.17%
75th Percentile £65.31 £26.66 £48.38
90th Percentile £84.33 £43.75 £66.05
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the North West

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the North West

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the North West

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +19 3 - - 4
Lancashire +3 1 £575 -4.17% 1
Sarbanes-Oxley
England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CESG
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) SABSA
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) COBIT
2 1 (25.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SAP