Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts in Scotland

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 111 - 152
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 5 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.31% - 0.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.76% - 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £506
25th Percentile - - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £600
75th Percentile - - £650
90th Percentile - - £713
UK median daily rate £582 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +1.14% +4.55% -4.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 284 417 568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.48% 18.81% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 259 479
10th Percentile £192 £191 £213
25th Percentile £363 £326 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £528 £538 £550
90th Percentile £605 £610 £639
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 3
10th Percentile £18.53 £15.32 £26.25
25th Percentile £21.90 £16.18 £34.30
Median hourly rate £27.35 £18.27 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year +49.70% -61.72% +44.64%
75th Percentile £49.19 £51.28 £50.74
90th Percentile £75.28 £60.75 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in Scotland

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in Scotland

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in Scotland

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh - 5 - -
Sarbanes-Oxley
UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SOX Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SOX Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Testing Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Unix Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) AIX
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Identification
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ACCA
1 1 (20.00%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat