Sarbanes-Oxley Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Sarbanes-Oxley skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 92 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 2 21 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.14% 1.34% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.71% 7.37% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile £536 £486 -
25th Percentile £555 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £612 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% - -
75th Percentile £693 £619 -
90th Percentile £727 £650 -
UK median daily rate £563 £550 £531
% change year-on-year +2.27% +3.53% -7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £44.04 -
UK median hourly rate £50.75 £69.52 £32.50
% change year-on-year -27.00% +113.91% +17.12%

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 280 285 431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.01% 18.16% 18.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 185 293
10th Percentile £208 £182 £219
25th Percentile £400 £330 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £550 £497 £538
90th Percentile £625 £588 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 7
10th Percentile £13.42 £17.45 £15.42
25th Percentile £16.31 £23.56 £15.71
Median hourly rate £30.50 £35.70 £16.71
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +113.61% +26.98%
75th Percentile £60.94 £71.25 £20.30
90th Percentile £71.25 £77.46 £38.32
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.97% -10.77% +38.09%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Sarbanes-Oxley job vacancy trend in Scotland

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Sarbanes-Oxley

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in Scotland

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Sarbanes-Oxley

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 10 January 2026. 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
Glasgow +1 1 £700 +108.96%
Edinburgh -13 1 £523 -13.73%
Sarbanes-Oxley
UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Finance Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Finance Systems Manager
1 1 (50.00%) ForgeRock Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Compliance Audit
1 1 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Identity
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (50.00%) Order to Cash
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) PSD2
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ForgeRock
1 1 (50.00%) Ping Identity