Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 152 168
Rank change year-on-year +46 +16 +6
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.24% 0.031% 0.055%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.41% 0.17% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £530 - -
25th Percentile £538 £863 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £875 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% - -
75th Percentile - £888 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £582 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -3.08% +9.09% -4.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 284 572 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.85% 17.93% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 335 300
10th Percentile £306 £263 £200
25th Percentile £400 £408 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year - +1.20% +8.41%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £702
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 44
10th Percentile £39.13 £12.41 £17.65
25th Percentile £62.50 £14.00 £49.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £64.57
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -30.31% -5.84%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £79.81
90th Percentile £77.59 £72.53 £83.40
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.34 £41.25
% change year-on-year +56.67% -45.84% +50.00%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the South West

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the South West

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the South West

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Wiltshire - 4 £550 -
Sarbanes-Oxley
England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SAP BW
1 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) General Ledger
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Product Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Financial Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Technical Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Fiori
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (75.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 3 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
3 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (75.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) Basel III
3 1 (25.00%) IFRS
3 1 (25.00%) IFRS 17
3 1 (25.00%) IFRS 9
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SAP