Sarbanes-Oxley Contract Job Trends in the South East

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Sarbanes-Oxley skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 171 193
Rank change year-on-year +21 +22 +56
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 18 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.50% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.83% 1.11% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 5
10th Percentile £508 £408 £485
25th Percentile £531 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £569 £556 £525
90th Percentile £616 £568 £623
England median daily rate £550 £550 £515
% change year-on-year - +6.80% -6.36%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 635 539 801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.54% 12.58% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 273 504
10th Percentile £250 £250 £202
25th Percentile £406 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +10.53%
75th Percentile £578 £623 £638
90th Percentile £650 £688 £741
England median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 31 59
10th Percentile £14.51 £17.63 £15.21
25th Percentile £15.13 £31.13 £24.42
Median hourly rate £17.48 £55.00 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year -68.22% +7.73% +143.12%
75th Percentile £69.65 £64.08 £66.50
90th Percentile £87.28 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +54.64%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Sarbanes-Oxley job vacancy trend in the South East

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Sarbanes-Oxley

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the South East over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the South East

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Sarbanes-Oxley

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Thames Valley +11 11 £538 - 11
Berkshire +25 10 £538 - 9
Hampshire - 7 £550 -
Surrey +2 2 £625 +16.28%
West Sussex - 1 £750 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £500 - 2
Sarbanes-Oxley
England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle Assets
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle EBS R12
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Lucidchart
2 1 (5.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) HTTP
1 3 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (38.89%) Telecoms
4 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Security Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (5.56%) HR Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) IT Architect
4 1 (5.56%) IT Security Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle HRMS Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) BYOD
1 3 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) ERP
2 6 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 6 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 4 (22.22%) ISMS
3 4 (22.22%) Risk Management
3 4 (22.22%) Validation
4 3 (16.67%) Change Management
4 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 3 (16.67%) Information Security
4 3 (16.67%) Information Security Management
4 3 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
4 3 (16.67%) Security Management
4 3 (16.67%) Security Testing
4 3 (16.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) CISSP
2 4 (22.22%) CISM
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) CISA
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (50.00%) GDPR
2 6 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 6 (33.33%) SLA
3 5 (27.78%) NIST
4 1 (5.56%) COBIT
4 1 (5.56%) COSO
4 1 (5.56%) GAMP
4 1 (5.56%) GRC
4 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (5.56%) ITGC
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Avamar
1 1 (5.56%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (5.56%) RSA Archer
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
1 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
1 1 (5.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Dell
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Veeam
2 1 (5.56%) VMware