Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts in the UK excluding London

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 370 395
Rank change year-on-year +75 +25 +83
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 39 24 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.12% 0.25%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.89% 0.77% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 34
10th Percentile £406 £481 £383
25th Percentile £438 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +12.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £597
90th Percentile £625 £697 £659
UK median daily rate £583 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +1.44% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £70.00 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% +76.77% -
75th Percentile £88.75 £72.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £51.25 £39.60
% change year-on-year +75.61% +29.42% -56.24%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,061 3,114 3,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.13% 15.04% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,294 1,822 2,393
10th Percentile £211 £254 £219
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £667 £687 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 307 183
10th Percentile £17.72 £10.95 £12.67
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.53 £18.09
Median hourly rate £46.30 £18.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +157.22% -48.57% +66.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.38 £61.00
90th Percentile £80.32 £67.43 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.75 £20.61 £36.25
% change year-on-year +68.65% -43.16% +31.82%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
North of England +14 11 £513 -8.48% 11
Midlands +23 7 £564 -9.76% 12
Yorkshire +10 7 £450 +32.35% 7
South East +34 6 £550 - 20
West Midlands +16 5 £603 -3.52% 11
Scotland - 5 - - 3
East of England +36 4 £575 +5.99% 4
South West +33 4 £550 -37.14%
North West +11 4 £575 -0.86% 4
East Midlands - 2 £443 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
Sarbanes-Oxley
UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (5.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (17.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (7.69%) SAP ERP
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (5.13%) SAP BPC
3 2 (5.13%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.38%) AWS
2 5 (12.82%) Azure
3 4 (10.26%) GCP
4 3 (7.69%) GitHub
4 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.13%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
1 1 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) SAP BW
1 3 (7.69%) SAP HANA
2 2 (5.13%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 3 (7.69%) JIRA
1 3 (7.69%) JMeter
1 3 (7.69%) LoadRunner
1 3 (7.69%) NeoLoad
2 1 (2.56%) Git
General
1 17 (43.59%) Finance
2 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (23.08%) Banking
4 5 (12.82%) Legal
4 5 (12.82%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (7.69%) Retail Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.13%) Retail
7 1 (2.56%) Automotive
7 1 (2.56%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Analyst
2 6 (15.38%) Consultant
3 5 (12.82%) Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) Security Consultant
4 4 (10.26%) Security Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Information Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Information Security Manager
5 3 (7.69%) IT Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Lead
5 3 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) Security Architect
5 3 (7.69%) SOX Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.13%) SAP Security Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Test Leader
7 1 (2.56%) Active Directory Specialist
7 1 (2.56%) ERP Consultant
7 1 (2.56%) Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) SailPoint
1 3 (7.69%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (5.13%) AWS CDK
2 2 (5.13%) Spring
2 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.13%) Web Services
3 1 (2.56%) iXBRL
3 1 (2.56%) LDAP
3 1 (2.56%) Node.js
3 1 (2.56%) OAuth
3 1 (2.56%) OpenID
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Security Posture
2 3 (7.69%) FMCG
2 3 (7.69%) Life Science
2 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.56%) CESG
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) AIX
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.64%) Risk Management
2 9 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
2 9 (23.08%) Information Security
2 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (20.51%) Agile
4 6 (15.38%) Validation
5 5 (12.82%) ERP
5 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
5 5 (12.82%) Process Improvement
6 4 (10.26%) Computer Science
6 4 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (10.26%) Data Protection
6 4 (10.26%) Project Management
6 4 (10.26%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (10.26%) Waterfall
7 3 (7.69%) Matrix Management
7 3 (7.69%) Programme Management
7 3 (7.69%) Service Management
7 3 (7.69%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.69%) Java
2 3 (7.69%) Python
2 3 (7.69%) SQL
2 3 (7.69%) VBA
3 2 (5.13%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.56%) Bash
4 1 (2.56%) Perl
4 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) CISSP
2 5 (12.82%) CISM
3 4 (10.26%) CISA
3 4 (10.26%) Degree
4 3 (7.69%) ACCA
4 3 (7.69%) CRISC
5 2 (5.13%) CIMA
5 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.56%) AAT
6 1 (2.56%) CEH
6 1 (2.56%) CISMP
6 1 (2.56%) OCP
6 1 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (33.33%) GDPR
2 8 (20.51%) PCI DSS
3 6 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (15.38%) NIST
4 4 (10.26%) GRC
4 4 (10.26%) GxP
4 4 (10.26%) HIPAA
5 3 (7.69%) SOC 2
6 2 (5.13%) Basel III
6 2 (5.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (5.13%) COBIT
6 2 (5.13%) IFRS
7 1 (2.56%) COSO
7 1 (2.56%) GAAP
7 1 (2.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (2.56%) IFRS 9
7 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (2.56%) JSP 440
7 1 (2.56%) MiFID
7 1 (2.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Ansible
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
1 1 (2.56%) Puppet
1 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) SAP
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.82%) Oracle
4 2 (5.13%) Concur
4 2 (5.13%) Splunk
5 1 (2.56%) Ariba
5 1 (2.56%) Centrify
5 1 (2.56%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.56%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) IBM
5 1 (2.56%) Okta
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.56%) Thycotic