Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 19 April 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Sarbanes-Oxley skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 19 April 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
UK
6 months to
19 Apr 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 648 636 620
Rank change year-on-year -12 -16 -59
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 229 194 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.78% 1.80% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 111 156
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.88% - +6.25%
10th Percentile £263 £275 £305
90th Percentile £666 £575 £524
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £415
% change year-on-year +12.50% -3.61% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 11
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £39.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +12.82% -25.71% +128.26%
10th Percentile £29.58 £12.58 £18.70
90th Percentile £63.88 £52.90 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £39.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +10.26% -25.71% +61.54%

Sarbanes-Oxley is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK
Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 12,840 10,759 12,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.70% 11.61% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,282 7,017 7,825
UK median daily rate £450 £430 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +4.65% +7.50% -
10th Percentile £260 £238 £226
90th Percentile £638 £625 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 360 420
UK median hourly rate £22.85 £22.50 £24.23
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +1.53% -7.14% +12.44%
10th Percentile £12.25 £11.00 £12.23
90th Percentile £57.50 £53.83 £52.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.56 £22.45 £25.00
% change year-on-year +9.40% -10.20% +13.68%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Contractor daily rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 19 April 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 19 April 2018.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 April 2018. 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
Job
Vacancies
England -15 217 £455 +7.06% 42
UK excluding London 0 133 £450 +12.50% 24
London -26 84 £475 +5.56% 20
South East -14 60 £463 +9.47% 8
North of England +18 32 £300 -27.05% 4
Midlands +7 26 £350 -6.67% 7
Yorkshire +6 20 £288 -31.55% 3
West Midlands -17 16 £325 -13.33% 6
East Midlands +4 10 £540 +35.00% 1
North West -18 10 £438 +8.70%
Scotland -33 6 - - 2
South West 0 4 £491 +31.00%
East of England -8 4 £375 -16.67% 3
North East - 2 £225 - 1
Wales -11 1 - -

For the 6 months to 19 April 2018, IT contractor jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Sarbanes-Oxley.

1 94 (41.05%) Finance
2 62 (27.07%) Windows
3 51 (22.27%) Information Security
4 48 (20.96%) SAP
5 43 (18.78%) PCI DSS
6 42 (18.34%) CISSP
7 38 (16.59%) Management Information System
8 37 (16.16%) ITIL
9 36 (15.72%) Unix
10 34 (14.85%) Oracle
11 33 (14.41%) Linux
12 30 (13.10%) Change Management
12 30 (13.10%) Data Centre
12 30 (13.10%) GDPR
13 28 (12.23%) Degree
14 27 (11.79%) Firewall
15 26 (11.35%) Risk Management
16 25 (10.92%) COBIT
17 24 (10.48%) SQL
17 24 (10.48%) Active Directory
18 23 (10.04%) Microsoft
19 22 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
20 21 (9.17%) SLA
20 21 (9.17%) Microsoft Excel
20 21 (9.17%) Banking
21 20 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
21 20 (8.73%) Project Management
21 20 (8.73%) Cybersecurity
21 20 (8.73%) Amazon AWS
21 20 (8.73%) HIPAA

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.18%) Cloud Foundry
1 5 (2.18%) MS Exchange
2 3 (1.31%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (1.31%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (1.31%) IIS
2 3 (1.31%) SAS
2 3 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.87%) Apache
3 2 (0.87%) CMS
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (9.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (3.49%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.49%) SAP ERP
1 8 (3.49%) SAP GRC
2 7 (3.06%) SAP CO
2 7 (3.06%) SAP FI
2 7 (3.06%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (2.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 5 (2.18%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.87%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.87%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.44%) Cognos TM1
5 1 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.44%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.44%) SAP FI-AP
5 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.73%) Amazon AWS
2 15 (6.55%) Microsoft Azure
3 8 (3.49%) PaaS
3 8 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (2.62%) IaaS
5 4 (1.75%) Office 365
5 4 (1.75%) SaaS
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.44%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 27 (11.79%) Firewall
2 11 (4.80%) LAN
3 10 (4.37%) WAN
4 9 (3.93%) SMS
5 8 (3.49%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.06%) Multicast
7 2 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.87%) Network Security
7 2 (0.87%) SSL
7 2 (0.87%) VPN
8 1 (0.44%) DNS
8 1 (0.44%) IPsec
8 1 (0.44%) Junos
8 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.44%) MPLS
8 1 (0.44%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.44%) SAN
8 1 (0.44%) TACACS
8 1 (0.44%) Wireless
8 1 (0.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.37%) Big Data
1 10 (4.37%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.62%) SAP HANA
3 5 (2.18%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 5 (2.18%) Hadoop
3 5 (2.18%) SAP BW
4 4 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.75%) DB2
4 4 (1.75%) Sqoop
5 3 (1.31%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (1.31%) SQL Server 2012
5 3 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.87%) BusinessObjects XI
6 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.44%) GIS
7 1 (0.44%) MySQL
7 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.62%) JIRA
2 4 (1.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.44%) Maven
3 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 94 (41.05%) Finance
2 21 (9.17%) Banking
3 16 (6.99%) Billing
4 12 (5.24%) Legal
5 9 (3.93%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.49%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (3.06%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.06%) Retail
8 6 (2.62%) Digital Economy
9 4 (1.75%) German Language
10 3 (1.31%) French Language
10 3 (1.31%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.31%) Law
10 3 (1.31%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.87%) Dutch Language
11 2 (0.87%) Retail Finance
11 2 (0.87%) Swedish Language
12 1 (0.44%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.44%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.44%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 47 (20.52%) Analyst
2 40 (17.47%) Architect
3 25 (10.92%) Consultant
4 13 (5.68%) Security Architect
5 11 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.37%) Business Analyst
6 10 (4.37%) SAP Consultant
6 10 (4.37%) Security Consultant
7 9 (3.93%) Coordinator
7 9 (3.93%) Developer
8 8 (3.49%) Azure Architect
8 8 (3.49%) SOC Analyst
9 6 (2.62%) Billing Analyst
9 6 (2.62%) Data Analyst
9 6 (2.62%) Project Manager
9 6 (2.62%) Security Officer
10 5 (2.18%) Head of IT
10 5 (2.18%) SAP Security Consultant
10 5 (2.18%) Security Analyst
10 5 (2.18%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.49%) SailPoint
2 6 (2.62%) EDI
2 6 (2.62%) SAML
2 6 (2.62%) Web Services
3 5 (2.18%) Middleware
3 5 (2.18%) OAuth
3 5 (2.18%) RESTful
4 4 (1.75%) LDAP
5 3 (1.31%) .NET
6 2 (0.87%) JSON
6 2 (0.87%) Node.js
6 2 (0.87%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.87%) XML
7 1 (0.44%) J2EE
7 1 (0.44%) Kafka
7 1 (0.44%) Memcached
7 1 (0.44%) PhoneGap
7 1 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.44%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.44%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 38 (16.59%) Management Information System
2 30 (13.10%) Data Centre
3 22 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.37%) Clustering
4 10 (4.37%) Mainframe
5 7 (3.06%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.06%) Computer Science
5 7 (3.06%) PKI
5 7 (3.06%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.62%) Credit Risk
6 6 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.75%) FMCG
7 4 (1.75%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.31%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.87%) CMDB
9 2 (0.87%) Fintech
9 2 (0.87%) Life Science
9 2 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 62 (27.07%) Windows
2 36 (15.72%) Unix
3 33 (14.41%) Linux
4 14 (6.11%) Solaris
5 12 (5.24%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (4.37%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.49%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (3.06%) AIX
8 7 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (2.62%) CentOS
9 6 (2.62%) HPUX
10 2 (0.87%) zOS
11 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (22.27%) Information Security
2 37 (16.16%) ITIL
3 30 (13.10%) Change Management
4 26 (11.35%) Risk Management
5 20 (8.73%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (8.73%) Project Management
5 20 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (8.30%) Identity Access Management
7 18 (7.86%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (7.86%) Security Architecture
7 18 (7.86%) SIEM
7 18 (7.86%) TOGAF
8 17 (7.42%) Identity Management
8 17 (7.42%) Service Delivery
9 16 (6.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (6.99%) DevOps
9 16 (6.99%) ERP
10 15 (6.55%) Data Protection
10 15 (6.55%) Service Management
11 14 (6.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 24 (10.48%) SQL
2 11 (4.80%) VBA
3 8 (3.49%) C#
4 5 (2.18%) Java
5 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.44%) Python
6 1 (0.44%) Scala
6 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.44%) X++
Qualifications
1 42 (18.34%) CISSP
2 28 (12.23%) Degree
3 19 (8.30%) CISM
4 12 (5.24%) CISA
4 12 (5.24%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (2.62%) CISMP
6 4 (1.75%) ACCA
6 4 (1.75%) SAP Certification
7 3 (1.31%) CRISC
7 3 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.31%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.31%) SANS
7 3 (1.31%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.87%) CCNP
8 2 (0.87%) CEH
8 2 (0.87%) CGEIT
8 2 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.87%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.44%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (18.78%) PCI DSS
2 30 (13.10%) GDPR
3 25 (10.92%) COBIT
4 21 (9.17%) SLA
5 20 (8.73%) HIPAA
6 10 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (3.93%) GxP
8 8 (3.49%) IFRS
9 7 (3.06%) Basel II
9 7 (3.06%) QA
10 6 (2.62%) IFRS 9
11 5 (2.18%) PMO
12 4 (1.75%) COSO
12 4 (1.75%) ISAE 3402
12 4 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (1.31%) FISMA
13 3 (1.31%) GAAP
13 3 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (1.31%) MiFID
14 2 (0.87%) Data Quality
System Software
1 24 (10.48%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.75%) Apache Flume
3 4 (1.75%) HDFS
4 3 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.87%) RACF
6 1 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.44%) Corosync
6 1 (0.44%) Docker
6 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.44%) IAG
6 1 (0.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 5 (2.18%) MIIS
1 5 (2.18%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 4 (1.75%) HP ALM
3 3 (1.31%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.87%) Ansible
4 2 (0.87%) Puppet
4 2 (0.87%) RSA enVision
5 1 (0.44%) AppManager
5 1 (0.44%) CASB
5 1 (0.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.44%) Control-M
5 1 (0.44%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.44%) Pacemaker
5 1 (0.44%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.44%) SCCM
5 1 (0.44%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 48 (20.96%) SAP
2 34 (14.85%) Oracle
3 23 (10.04%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.68%) HP
5 11 (4.80%) Splunk
6 8 (3.49%) IBM
7 6 (2.62%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.62%) Dell
8 5 (2.18%) Ping Identity
8 5 (2.18%) Tableau
9 4 (1.75%) ArcSight
9 4 (1.75%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.75%) F5
10 3 (1.31%) JD Edwards
10 3 (1.31%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.31%) Sybase
10 3 (1.31%) VMware
10 3 (1.31%) Workday
11 2 (0.87%) Remedy
11 2 (0.87%) Symantec