Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 24 September 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 24 September 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
24 Sep 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 668 663 580
Rank change year-on-year -5 -83 +4
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 226 216 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.01% 1.83% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 133 179
UK median daily rate £450 £485 £434
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -7.22% +11.75% +2.12%
10th Percentile £275 £311 £260
90th Percentile £675 £663 £590
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £485 £400
% change year-on-year -12.37% +21.25% -5.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -48.00% +42.86% -
10th Percentile £25.00 £21.75 £21.70
90th Percentile £27.00 £111.40 £37.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £41.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.35% +18.57% -

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 11,258 11,800 12,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.04% 12.12% 11.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,166 7,700 7,853
UK median daily rate £450 £438 £413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +2.86% +6.06% +3.13%
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
90th Percentile £625 £638 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +2.50% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 397 365 431
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £21.50 £23.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -2.33% -8.51% +9.05%
10th Percentile £11.25 £10.61 £10.75
90th Percentile £50.04 £48.09 £46.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.17 £20.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +0.85% -21.57% +18.33%

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 24 September 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
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 24 September 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 -15 209 £455 -6.19% 44
UK excluding London +21 149 £425 -12.37% 33
South East +18 91 £438 -6.67% 16
London -32 69 £550 +10.00% 14
North of England -22 23 £410 -3.53% 6
North West -10 17 £420 +10.53% 5
Scotland -19 11 £375 -11.76% 2
Midlands -24 10 £475 -12.04% 6
East of England +1 9 £375 +3.45% 2
West Midlands -19 8 £455 +1.11% 4
Yorkshire -21 6 £400 -
South West -12 5 - -
East Midlands -2 2 £675 +25.00% 2

For the 6 months to 24 September 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.

1 109 (48.23%) Finance
2 58 (25.66%) Management Information System
2 58 (25.66%) ITIL
3 56 (24.78%) SAP
4 55 (24.34%) Information Security
5 46 (20.35%) PCI DSS
6 42 (18.58%) Degree
7 41 (18.14%) GDPR
8 39 (17.26%) CISSP
9 37 (16.37%) Microsoft
10 34 (15.04%) Windows
10 34 (15.04%) Identity Access Management
11 33 (14.60%) TOGAF
11 33 (14.60%) Change Management
11 33 (14.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (14.16%) COBIT
13 31 (13.72%) Oracle
14 30 (13.27%) ERP
14 30 (13.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 30 (13.27%) Microsoft Azure
14 30 (13.27%) DevOps
15 29 (12.83%) Amazon AWS
16 28 (12.39%) Active Directory
16 28 (12.39%) CISA
16 28 (12.39%) CISM
16 28 (12.39%) Firewall
17 27 (11.95%) Project Management
18 25 (11.06%) Data Protection
19 24 (10.62%) Security Architecture
19 24 (10.62%) Analytics

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 14 (6.19%) IIS
2 7 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.21%) MS Exchange
4 3 (1.33%) Apache
4 3 (1.33%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.88%) CMS
5 2 (0.88%) nginx
6 1 (0.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (3.54%) MS Visio
4 7 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.44%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (4.87%) SAP ERP
1 11 (4.87%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 9 (3.98%) SAP GRC
3 5 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.77%) SAP CO
4 4 (1.77%) SAP FI
5 3 (1.33%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.33%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.88%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.88%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.88%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.44%) Cognos TM1
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.44%) SAP APO
7 1 (0.44%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.44%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (13.27%) Microsoft Azure
2 29 (12.83%) Amazon AWS
3 12 (5.31%) SaaS
4 11 (4.87%) PaaS
5 10 (4.42%) IaaS
6 8 (3.54%) Azure Active Directory
7 7 (3.10%) Office 365
8 4 (1.77%) Google Cloud Platform
9 2 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.39%) Firewall
2 19 (8.41%) Network Security
3 17 (7.52%) LAN
4 15 (6.64%) WAN
5 13 (5.75%) VPN
6 11 (4.87%) Intrusion Detection
6 11 (4.87%) SSL
7 10 (4.42%) Wireless
8 9 (3.98%) WLAN
9 5 (2.21%) DNS
9 5 (2.21%) NFC
10 3 (1.33%) SAN
11 2 (0.88%) Broadband
11 2 (0.88%) DHCP
11 2 (0.88%) Internet
11 2 (0.88%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.88%) MPLS
11 2 (0.88%) PuTTY
11 2 (0.88%) SSH
12 1 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.19%) SAP HANA
2 6 (2.65%) Big Data
2 6 (2.65%) SAP BW
3 3 (1.33%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (1.33%) Power BI
3 3 (1.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (1.33%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (0.88%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects XI
5 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.44%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.44%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.44%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 10 (4.42%) SonarQube
2 4 (1.77%) JIRA
2 4 (1.77%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 109 (48.23%) Finance
2 23 (10.18%) Telecoms
3 21 (9.29%) Legal
4 19 (8.41%) Banking
5 6 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (2.21%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.21%) Retail Banking
7 4 (1.77%) Back Office
7 4 (1.77%) Law
8 3 (1.33%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.33%) Retail
9 2 (0.88%) Billing
9 2 (0.88%) Digital Economy
9 2 (0.88%) German Language
10 1 (0.44%) Advertising
10 1 (0.44%) French Language
10 1 (0.44%) Polish Language
10 1 (0.44%) Publishing
10 1 (0.44%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.44%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 51 (22.57%) Architect
2 44 (19.47%) Analyst
3 31 (13.72%) Security Architect
4 20 (8.85%) Consultant
5 17 (7.52%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (5.75%) Administrator
7 12 (5.31%) Business Analyst
7 12 (5.31%) Project Manager
8 10 (4.42%) Identity Management Architect
8 10 (4.42%) Security Manager
9 9 (3.98%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (3.98%) IT Manager
9 9 (3.98%) SAP Consultant
9 9 (3.98%) Security Analyst
10 8 (3.54%) Azure Architect
10 8 (3.54%) TOGAF Architect
11 7 (3.10%) Security Consultant
11 7 (3.10%) Security Officer
12 6 (2.65%) Configuration Analyst
12 6 (2.65%) IT Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.29%) OAuth
1 21 (9.29%) SAML
2 15 (6.64%) SailPoint
3 11 (4.87%) OpenID
4 10 (4.42%) RESTful
5 6 (2.65%) Node.js
6 5 (2.21%) Web Services
7 3 (1.33%) Middleware
8 2 (0.88%) JAAS
8 2 (0.88%) LDAP
8 2 (0.88%) XACML
9 1 (0.44%) EDI
9 1 (0.44%) Flash
9 1 (0.44%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 58 (25.66%) Management Information System
2 23 (10.18%) Data Centre
3 20 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.08%) Computer Science
5 13 (5.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 12 (5.31%) Public Cloud
7 10 (4.42%) Driving Licence
8 9 (3.98%) Cloud Native
9 8 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (2.65%) Embedded Systems
11 6 (2.65%) Mobile Payment
11 6 (2.65%) Smartcard
12 5 (2.21%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.77%) Mainframe
13 4 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (1.33%) FMCG
14 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
14 3 (1.33%) iSeries
14 3 (1.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (15.04%) Windows
2 20 (8.85%) Linux
3 9 (3.98%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.65%) Unix
4 6 (2.65%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (2.21%) Solaris
6 4 (1.77%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.33%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.33%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.33%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.88%) AIX
8 2 (0.88%) CentOS
8 2 (0.88%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (25.66%) ITIL
2 55 (24.34%) Information Security
3 34 (15.04%) Identity Access Management
4 33 (14.60%) Change Management
4 33 (14.60%) Stakeholder Management
4 33 (14.60%) TOGAF
5 30 (13.27%) DevOps
5 30 (13.27%) ERP
6 27 (11.95%) Project Management
7 25 (11.06%) Data Protection
8 24 (10.62%) Analytics
8 24 (10.62%) Security Architecture
9 22 (9.73%) ITIL V3
10 21 (9.29%) Cryptography
10 21 (9.29%) Identity Management
10 21 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (9.29%) Risk Management
11 20 (8.85%) Service Management
12 17 (7.52%) Process Improvement
13 16 (7.08%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.87%) Java
2 10 (4.42%) C#
2 10 (4.42%) SQL
3 4 (1.77%) Scala
3 4 (1.77%) Shell Script
4 2 (0.88%) Perl
4 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.88%) Python
5 1 (0.44%) C
5 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.44%) PHP
5 1 (0.44%) R
5 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (18.58%) Degree
2 39 (17.26%) CISSP
3 28 (12.39%) CISA
3 28 (12.39%) CISM
4 14 (6.19%) TOGAF Certification
5 11 (4.87%) IISP
6 10 (4.42%) CREST Certified
6 10 (4.42%) Security Cleared
7 9 (3.98%) SC Cleared
8 6 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (2.65%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.21%) CRISC
10 4 (1.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.77%) CCSP
10 4 (1.77%) CLAS
11 2 (0.88%) ACCA
11 2 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.88%) PMP
11 2 (0.88%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (20.35%) PCI DSS
2 41 (18.14%) GDPR
3 32 (14.16%) COBIT
4 30 (13.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (9.29%) HIPAA
6 16 (7.08%) SLA
7 14 (6.19%) QA
8 10 (4.42%) ISAE 3402
8 10 (4.42%) ISO 22301
8 10 (4.42%) ISO 31000
8 10 (4.42%) ISO 9001
8 10 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 9 (3.98%) FedRAMP
9 9 (3.98%) GxP
10 8 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 6 (2.65%) GAMP
12 4 (1.77%) COSO
12 4 (1.77%) PMO
13 2 (0.88%) FISMA
13 2 (0.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 28 (12.39%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.77%) ISA Server
3 4 (1.77%) RACF
4 3 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (4.87%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 10 (4.42%) Nessus
2 10 (4.42%) Trend Micro Deep Security
3 9 (3.98%) CASB
4 6 (2.65%) MIIS
5 4 (1.77%) SCCM
5 4 (1.77%) zSecure
6 2 (0.88%) Ansible
6 2 (0.88%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.44%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.44%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.44%) QRadar
7 1 (0.44%) WMI
Vendors
1 56 (24.78%) SAP
2 37 (16.37%) Microsoft
3 31 (13.72%) Oracle
4 18 (7.96%) Imperva
5 16 (7.08%) IBM
6 15 (6.64%) Cisco
7 13 (5.75%) Okta
8 12 (5.31%) Qualys
9 11 (4.87%) McAfee
9 11 (4.87%) Splunk
9 11 (4.87%) Tripwire
10 10 (4.42%) ArcSight
10 10 (4.42%) Barracuda Networks
10 10 (4.42%) Centrify
10 10 (4.42%) Ping Identity
10 10 (4.42%) Trend Micro
11 8 (3.54%) VMware
12 7 (3.10%) Google
12 7 (3.10%) Sun
13 6 (2.65%) JD Edwards