Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 175 184
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 +84
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 12 4 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.34% 0.083% 0.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.85% 0.67% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 10
10th Percentile - £515 £465
25th Percentile £531 £519 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £525
90th Percentile £674 £595 £540
England median daily rate £569 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +20.00% -9.09%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 649 596 770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 18.42% 12.36% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 300 486
10th Percentile £200 £234 £241
25th Percentile £389 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £624
90th Percentile £650 £688 £726
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 54 46
10th Percentile £15.12 £10.82 £15.21
25th Percentile £15.34 £15.82 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.83 £31.83 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.87% -36.34% +150.00%
75th Percentile £69.11 £62.90 £55.64
90th Percentile £87.71 £70.00 £72.80
England median hourly rate £31.64 £26.68 £35.00
% change year-on-year +18.59% -23.77% +52.17%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley 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 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract 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 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +19 10 £538 -10.42% 9
Thames Valley +15 10 £538 -10.42% 11
Hampshire - 3 £550 - 2
Surrey +10 1 £625 +16.28%
West Sussex - 1 £750 - 1
Sarbanes-Oxley
England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle Assets
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Automotive
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Architect
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) HR Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Information Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Integration Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Integration Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) IT Architect
2 1 (8.33%) IT Security Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle HRMS Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Security Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 6 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
1 6 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (50.00%) ERP
2 4 (33.33%) Validation
3 3 (25.00%) Data Mapping
3 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 3 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 3 (25.00%) SOA
3 3 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
5 1 (8.33%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Data Security
5 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Security Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) CISMP
1 1 (8.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) SLA
2 4 (33.33%) GDPR
3 2 (16.67%) HIPAA
3 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (8.33%) GAMP
4 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (8.33%) ITGC
4 1 (8.33%) NIST
4 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Oracle