Sarbanes-Oxley Contract Job Trends

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Sarbanes-Oxley skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 393 514
Rank change year-on-year -37 +121 +34
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 185 129 71
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.44% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.44% 2.91% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 79 43
10th Percentile £450 £313 £455
25th Percentile £501 £425 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +2.68% +12.00%
75th Percentile £662 £684 £606
90th Percentile £767 £818 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £34.20 - £34.88
25th Percentile £51.00 - £40.31
Median hourly rate £55.00 £95.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% +85.37% +26.54%
75th Percentile £62.00 - £62.81
90th Percentile £63.05 - £68.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.50 - £70.00

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,569 4,433 6,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.40% 15.15% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,883 2,841 4,076
10th Percentile £336 £260 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 177 370
10th Percentile £15.34 £17.26 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.45 £22.14 £13.50
Median hourly rate £28.28 £31.76 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.97% +38.09% -39.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.56 £68.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.58 £31.76 £19.24
% change year-on-year -3.72% +65.12% -42.38%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Sarbanes-Oxley job vacancy trend in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 15 Contract Job 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 20 March 2026. 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
England -44 162 £600 +4.35% 31
London -24 105 £600 - 16
UK excluding London -59 57 £563 +2.27% 22
Work from Home -10 56 £600 +9.09% 16
South East -46 17 £544 +27.94% 11
North of England -68 12 £662 +60.48% 4
North West -25 10 £694 +20.61% 3
Midlands -59 9 £600 +33.33% 3
West Midlands -59 8 £600 +33.33% 2
East of England -14 7 £600 +9.09% 3
South West -22 6 £512 -7.00%
Scotland +1 5 £612 +4.09% 1
Yorkshire -63 2 £500 +21.21% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £550 -
East Midlands -36 1 - - 1

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (2.70%) Confluence
2 4 (2.16%) Apache
3 3 (1.62%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.62%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.54%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.54%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.70%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (9.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.70%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (2.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 5 (2.70%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (2.16%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (2.16%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.62%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.62%) SAP GRC
5 2 (1.08%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 2 (1.08%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (1.08%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.54%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.54%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.54%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.54%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.54%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.54%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.54%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.54%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (31.89%) Azure
2 28 (15.14%) AWS
3 26 (14.05%) Entra ID
4 15 (8.11%) Power Platform
5 13 (7.03%) OCI
6 7 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.24%) SaaS
8 5 (2.70%) IaaS
9 4 (2.16%) Lucidchart
9 4 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.16%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.62%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (1.62%) GCP
10 3 (1.62%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.08%) PaaS
11 2 (1.08%) Veeva
12 1 (0.54%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.19%) DNS
2 16 (8.65%) DHCP
3 15 (8.11%) Kerberos
4 11 (5.95%) HTTP
4 11 (5.95%) Network Security
5 4 (2.16%) Firewall
6 2 (1.08%) SSL
6 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.54%) LAN
7 1 (0.54%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.54%) WAN
7 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.11%) Power BI
2 8 (4.32%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.32%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.78%) Data Lake
3 7 (3.78%) Spark SQL
4 4 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.62%) Big Data
5 3 (1.62%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.54%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.54%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 14 (7.57%) Git
1 14 (7.57%) GitLab
2 10 (5.41%) JIRA
3 6 (3.24%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.16%) Selenium
5 3 (1.62%) Postman
5 3 (1.62%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.62%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.54%) Introscope
General
1 113 (61.08%) Finance
2 81 (43.78%) Social Skills
3 35 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (15.14%) Banking
5 12 (6.49%) Legal
6 11 (5.95%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (5.95%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.32%) General Ledger
8 7 (3.78%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.78%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.24%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.70%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.16%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.62%) Billing
12 3 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.08%) Marketing
13 2 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (14.05%) Analyst
2 21 (11.35%) Lead
3 19 (10.27%) Consultant
4 13 (7.03%) Architect
4 13 (7.03%) Senior
5 10 (5.41%) Developer
6 9 (4.86%) Business Analyst
6 9 (4.86%) Programme Manager
7 8 (4.32%) Project Manager
7 8 (4.32%) Security Analyst
8 6 (3.24%) Information Officer
8 6 (3.24%) Information Security Officer
8 6 (3.24%) Security Officer
9 5 (2.70%) ForgeRock Developer
9 5 (2.70%) QA Engineer
9 5 (2.70%) Technical Leader
10 4 (2.16%) Change Manager
10 4 (2.16%) Engineering Manager
10 4 (2.16%) IT Manager
10 4 (2.16%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.43%) OAuth
1 23 (12.43%) SAML
2 20 (10.81%) LDAP
3 7 (3.78%) OpenID
3 7 (3.78%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (3.78%) PySpark
3 7 (3.78%) SailPoint
3 7 (3.78%) Spark Streaming
4 6 (3.24%) Middleware
4 6 (3.24%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.70%) RESTful
6 4 (2.16%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (1.62%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.62%) CSS
7 3 (1.62%) Node.js
7 3 (1.62%) pytest
7 3 (1.62%) REST
7 3 (1.62%) Spring
7 3 (1.62%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.11%) Replication
2 12 (6.49%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.86%) BYOD
4 8 (4.32%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.78%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (3.24%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.70%) PMI
8 4 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.62%) CMDB
9 3 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.62%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.08%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.08%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.08%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.08%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.08%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.08%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.08%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.54%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.97%) Windows
2 15 (8.11%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.78%) Linux
4 2 (1.08%) zOS
5 1 (0.54%) AIX
5 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (29.19%) Stakeholder Management
2 50 (27.03%) Agile
3 34 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 31 (16.76%) Identity Access Management
4 31 (16.76%) RBAC
5 29 (15.68%) ERP
6 27 (14.59%) CI/CD
7 26 (14.05%) DevOps
8 24 (12.97%) Change Management
9 23 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (12.43%) Risk Management
9 23 (12.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (11.35%) ETL
10 21 (11.35%) Waterfall
11 19 (10.27%) Cybersecurity
11 19 (10.27%) Migration
12 18 (9.73%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (9.73%) Information Security
12 18 (9.73%) Procure-to-Pay
13 17 (9.19%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.76%) SQL
2 29 (15.68%) PowerShell
3 28 (15.14%) Python
4 18 (9.73%) Java
5 3 (1.62%) C#
5 3 (1.62%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.62%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.08%) CLIST
6 2 (1.08%) JCL
6 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.08%) REXX
7 1 (0.54%) Bash
7 1 (0.54%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.54%) Jython
7 1 (0.54%) R
7 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (16.76%) Degree
2 19 (10.27%) Security Cleared
3 18 (9.73%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.19%) CISSP
5 14 (7.57%) CISM
5 14 (7.57%) PMI Certification
6 10 (5.41%) PMP
7 6 (3.24%) ACCA
8 5 (2.70%) CIMA
8 5 (2.70%) CISA
9 4 (2.16%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (2.16%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 2 (1.08%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.54%) CRISC
12 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.54%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (44.86%) GDPR
2 37 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (16.76%) NIST
4 23 (12.43%) PCI DSS
5 15 (8.11%) ITGC
6 13 (7.03%) COBIT
7 10 (5.41%) GRC
7 10 (5.41%) QA
8 8 (4.32%) IFRS
9 7 (3.78%) GAAP
9 7 (3.78%) HIPAA
9 7 (3.78%) SOX 404
10 6 (3.24%) Data Quality
10 6 (3.24%) SLA
11 5 (2.70%) Basel III
11 5 (2.70%) PSD2
12 3 (1.62%) IFRS 9
12 3 (1.62%) PMO
13 2 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (1.08%) COSO
System Software
1 25 (13.51%) Active Directory
2 13 (7.03%) Docker
3 2 (1.08%) NDS
3 2 (1.08%) NetIQ eDirectory
3 2 (1.08%) RACF
3 2 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.54%) IAG
4 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (12.97%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (8.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 14 (7.57%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.16%) Terraform
5 3 (1.62%) RSA Archer
6 2 (1.08%) Ansible
6 2 (1.08%) Control-M
6 2 (1.08%) zSecure
7 1 (0.54%) Avamar
7 1 (0.54%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.54%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Identity Manager
7 1 (0.54%) Puppet
7 1 (0.54%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.54%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (21.08%) Microsoft
2 38 (20.54%) SAP
3 26 (14.05%) Oracle
4 18 (9.73%) Okta
5 17 (9.19%) ServiceNow
6 10 (5.41%) CyberArk
7 6 (3.24%) Workday
8 5 (2.70%) ForgeRock
8 5 (2.70%) Ping Identity
9 4 (2.16%) Ariba
9 4 (2.16%) IBM
9 4 (2.16%) Informatica
9 4 (2.16%) OpenText
9 4 (2.16%) VMware
10 3 (1.62%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (1.08%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.08%) Databricks
11 2 (1.08%) NetIQ
11 2 (1.08%) Remedy
11 2 (1.08%) Thycotic
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