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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 - 150
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 6 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.35% - 0.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.09% - 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £498
25th Percentile £575 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £600
75th Percentile £625 - £650
90th Percentile - - £725
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -9.09%

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 287 381 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.82% 18.38% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 237 438
10th Percentile £210 £182 £199
25th Percentile £368 £288 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% -7.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £532 £525 £538
90th Percentile £589 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 25 5
10th Percentile £13.65 - £13.70
25th Percentile £15.95 £13.52 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.94 £14.98 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% -31.13% -41.89%
75th Percentile £26.33 £19.17 £47.73
90th Percentile £50.44 £60.75 £56.59
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £38.00
% change year-on-year +26.05% -37.37% +40.74%

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 3 July 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 - - 7
Perthshire - 1 £600 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) SOX Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) SOX Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Testing Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) AIX
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 2 (33.33%) SIEM
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Identification
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
2 1 (16.67%) Internal Audit
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Product Requirements
2 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ACCA
1 1 (16.67%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
2 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Okta
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat