Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 16 July 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 16 July 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
16 Jul 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 650 694 608
Rank change year-on-year +44 -86 -28
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 244 177 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.97% 1.59% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 96 180
UK median daily rate £459 £442 £430
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +3.85% +2.91% +1.06%
10th Percentile £263 £272 £260
90th Percentile £675 £588 £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £413
% change year-on-year +5.88% +3.03% -2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 4
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £27.75 £36.25
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +62.16% -23.45% +3.57%
10th Percentile £30.40 £11.91 £17.90
90th Percentile £66.00 £98.25 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £16.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year +166.67% -54.48% +3.57%

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 12,415 11,136 12,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 11.73% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,931 7,232 7,980
UK median daily rate £450 £438 £405
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +2.86% +8.02% +1.25%
10th Percentile £255 £250 £225
90th Percentile £638 £625 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +1.25% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 375 421
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +4.53%
10th Percentile £11.63 £11.00 £11.25
90th Percentile £53.35 £52.50 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £19.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year +15.38% -14.29% +5.69%

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 16 July 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 16 July 2018.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 13 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 16 July 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 +47 232 £463 +2.89% 32
UK excluding London +23 147 £450 +5.88% 28
London -34 86 £550 +20.55% 9
South East +18 85 £453 -2.16% 13
North of England -9 32 £400 -20.00% 3
Yorkshire -5 18 £294 -48.91% 1
North West -24 14 £420 -6.93% 2
Midlands -20 10 £425 +13.33% 2
East of England +8 8 £450 - 5
West Midlands -18 7 £425 +30.77% 2
South West +7 6 £491 +40.36%
Scotland -41 6 £325 -18.75% 5
East Midlands -1 3 £675 +8.00%

For the 6 months to 16 July 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.

1 111 (45.49%) Finance
2 64 (26.23%) Information Security
3 58 (23.77%) ITIL
3 58 (23.77%) Windows
4 57 (23.36%) CISSP
5 56 (22.95%) PCI DSS
6 51 (20.90%) SAP
6 51 (20.90%) Management Information System
7 43 (17.62%) GDPR
8 40 (16.39%) Degree
9 38 (15.57%) Oracle
10 36 (14.75%) Microsoft
11 35 (14.34%) Amazon AWS
12 34 (13.93%) TOGAF
13 33 (13.52%) Data Centre
14 32 (13.11%) Security Architecture
14 32 (13.11%) COBIT
15 30 (12.30%) CISM
15 30 (12.30%) Firewall
16 29 (11.89%) Change Management
16 29 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (11.89%) Linux
16 29 (11.89%) Identity Access Management
17 28 (11.48%) DevOps
17 28 (11.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
18 27 (11.07%) Project Management
19 26 (10.66%) SLA
19 26 (10.66%) Identity Management
20 25 (10.25%) Active Directory
20 25 (10.25%) Analytical Skills

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 12 (4.92%) IIS
2 5 (2.05%) Cloud Foundry
3 4 (1.64%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (1.64%) MS Exchange
3 4 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.82%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.41%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (6.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.46%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (5.33%) SAP ERP
2 12 (4.92%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 9 (3.69%) SAP CO
3 9 (3.69%) SAP FI
4 8 (3.28%) SAP FI/CO
5 6 (2.46%) SAP SD
6 4 (1.64%) SAP GRC
7 3 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.82%) Cognos TM1
8 2 (0.82%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.82%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.82%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.41%) SAP APO
9 1 (0.41%) SAP BPC
9 1 (0.41%) SAP FI-AP
Cloud Services
1 35 (14.34%) Amazon AWS
2 22 (9.02%) Microsoft Azure
3 9 (3.69%) Office 365
3 9 (3.69%) PaaS
4 8 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (2.46%) IaaS
6 5 (2.05%) SaaS
7 2 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.41%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.41%) Google Cloud Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (12.30%) Firewall
2 13 (5.33%) LAN
3 10 (4.10%) WAN
4 9 (3.69%) Network Security
5 6 (2.46%) SMS
6 5 (2.05%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.64%) DNS
7 4 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (1.23%) Kerberos
8 3 (1.23%) MPLS
8 3 (1.23%) SSL
8 3 (1.23%) VPN
9 2 (0.82%) Broadband
9 2 (0.82%) DHCP
9 2 (0.82%) Multicast
9 2 (0.82%) NFC
9 2 (0.82%) SAN
9 2 (0.82%) Wireless
10 1 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.33%) SAP HANA
2 9 (3.69%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.87%) Big Data
4 6 (2.46%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 6 (2.46%) SAP BW
5 5 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.64%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (1.64%) SQL Server 2012
7 3 (1.23%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.82%) BusinessObjects XI
8 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.82%) Sqoop
9 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
9 1 (0.41%) DB2
9 1 (0.41%) MySQL
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.41%) QlikView
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.87%) SonarQube
2 5 (2.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (1.64%) JIRA
4 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 111 (45.49%) Finance
2 20 (8.20%) Banking
3 17 (6.97%) Legal
4 16 (6.56%) Billing
5 14 (5.74%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.10%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (2.87%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.46%) Digital Economy
9 5 (2.05%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.64%) Retail
11 3 (1.23%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.23%) Law
12 2 (0.82%) Dutch Language
12 2 (0.82%) German Language
12 2 (0.82%) Polish Language
12 2 (0.82%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.41%) Back Office
13 1 (0.41%) French Language
13 1 (0.41%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.41%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 58 (23.77%) Architect
2 32 (13.11%) Analyst
3 25 (10.25%) Consultant
3 25 (10.25%) Security Architect
4 18 (7.38%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (5.33%) Project Manager
6 11 (4.51%) Identity Management Architect
7 10 (4.10%) SAP Consultant
7 10 (4.10%) Security Manager
8 9 (3.69%) Security Consultant
9 8 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
9 8 (3.28%) Security Officer
9 8 (3.28%) TOGAF Architect
10 7 (2.87%) Administrator
10 7 (2.87%) Billing Analyst
10 7 (2.87%) Coordinator
11 6 (2.46%) 2nd Line Support
11 6 (2.46%) Business Analyst
11 6 (2.46%) Information Architect
11 6 (2.46%) IT Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.38%) SailPoint
2 14 (5.74%) SAML
3 13 (5.33%) OAuth
4 11 (4.51%) RESTful
5 7 (2.87%) EDI
6 6 (2.46%) Node.js
6 6 (2.46%) Web Services
7 5 (2.05%) Middleware
8 4 (1.64%) LDAP
9 2 (0.82%) JAAS
9 2 (0.82%) OpenID
9 2 (0.82%) XACML
10 1 (0.41%) .NET
10 1 (0.41%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.41%) Kafka
10 1 (0.41%) Memcached
10 1 (0.41%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.41%) Regular Expression
10 1 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
10 1 (0.41%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.90%) Management Information System
2 33 (13.52%) Data Centre
3 25 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.92%) Computer Science
4 12 (4.92%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.87%) Driving Licence
5 7 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.46%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (2.46%) Mainframe
6 6 (2.46%) Mobile Payment
6 6 (2.46%) Smartcard
7 5 (2.05%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.05%) Clustering
7 5 (2.05%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.64%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.64%) PKI
9 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.23%) iSeries
10 2 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (23.77%) Windows
2 29 (11.89%) Linux
3 20 (8.20%) Unix
4 14 (5.74%) Windows Server
5 10 (4.10%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (3.28%) Solaris
7 6 (2.46%) AIX
7 6 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (2.05%) CentOS
8 5 (2.05%) HPUX
8 5 (2.05%) Windows 7
9 4 (1.64%) Apple iOS
9 4 (1.64%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.64%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (26.23%) Information Security
2 58 (23.77%) ITIL
3 34 (13.93%) TOGAF
4 32 (13.11%) Security Architecture
5 29 (11.89%) Change Management
5 29 (11.89%) Identity Access Management
5 29 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (11.48%) DevOps
7 27 (11.07%) Project Management
8 26 (10.66%) Identity Management
9 24 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (9.02%) Risk Management
11 20 (8.20%) ERP
11 20 (8.20%) ITIL V3
12 18 (7.38%) Agile Software Development
12 18 (7.38%) Analytics
12 18 (7.38%) Service Management
13 16 (6.56%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (6.56%) Data Protection
13 16 (6.56%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 19 (7.79%) SQL
2 10 (4.10%) C#
2 10 (4.10%) Java
3 5 (2.05%) VBA
4 4 (1.64%) Scala
5 2 (0.82%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.82%) Python
6 1 (0.41%) C
6 1 (0.41%) Perl
6 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.41%) VBScript
6 1 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 57 (23.36%) CISSP
2 40 (16.39%) Degree
3 30 (12.30%) CISM
4 22 (9.02%) CISA
5 18 (7.38%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (3.28%) IISP
7 7 (2.87%) CREST Certified
8 6 (2.46%) CISMP
8 6 (2.46%) SAP Certification
9 5 (2.05%) ACCA
9 5 (2.05%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (2.05%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.64%) CEH
10 4 (1.64%) CRISC
10 4 (1.64%) Security Cleared
11 3 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.23%) SC Cleared
12 2 (0.82%) CIMA
12 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (22.95%) PCI DSS
2 43 (17.62%) GDPR
3 32 (13.11%) COBIT
4 28 (11.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (10.66%) SLA
6 23 (9.43%) HIPAA
7 15 (6.15%) GxP
8 10 (4.10%) ISAE 3402
8 10 (4.10%) QA
9 8 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 7 (2.87%) ISO 22301
10 7 (2.87%) ISO 31000
10 7 (2.87%) ISO 9001
10 7 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 5 (2.05%) Basel II
11 5 (2.05%) FISMA
11 5 (2.05%) GAMP
11 5 (2.05%) IFRS
12 4 (1.64%) COSO
12 4 (1.64%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 25 (10.25%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.82%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.82%) HDFS
3 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.41%) Corosync
4 1 (0.41%) Docker
4 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.41%) IAG
4 1 (0.41%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 11 (4.51%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 7 (2.87%) Nessus
2 7 (2.87%) Trend Micro Deep Security
3 6 (2.46%) MIIS
4 5 (2.05%) HP ALM
5 4 (1.64%) SCCM
6 3 (1.23%) HP Quality Center
6 3 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.82%) Ansible
8 1 (0.41%) AppManager
8 1 (0.41%) CASB
8 1 (0.41%) Control-M
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.41%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.41%) Pacemaker
8 1 (0.41%) Puppet
8 1 (0.41%) RSA enVision
8 1 (0.41%) ServiceCenter
8 1 (0.41%) WMI
Vendors
1 51 (20.90%) SAP
2 38 (15.57%) Oracle
3 36 (14.75%) Microsoft
4 15 (6.15%) Splunk
5 14 (5.74%) IBM
6 13 (5.33%) HP
7 12 (4.92%) Cisco
8 11 (4.51%) Ping Identity
9 9 (3.69%) ArcSight
9 9 (3.69%) Imperva
10 8 (3.28%) McAfee
10 8 (3.28%) Qualys
11 7 (2.87%) Barracuda Networks
11 7 (2.87%) Centrify
11 7 (2.87%) CyberArk
11 7 (2.87%) Trend Micro
11 7 (2.87%) Tripwire
12 6 (2.46%) Dell
12 6 (2.46%) F5
12 6 (2.46%) Sun