Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 23 January 2020

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 23 January 2020 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
23 Jan 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 599 623 649
Rank change year-on-year +24 +26 -47
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 150 264 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.03% 2.44% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 158 153
UK median daily rate £438 £500 £475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -12.50% +5.26% +9.13%
10th Percentile £355 £269 £310
90th Percentile £675 £625 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -6.67% -5.26% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 5
UK median hourly rate £15.42 £62.50 £37.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -75.34% +66.67% -
10th Percentile £13.58 £61.25 £24.15
90th Percentile £38.61 £63.75 £56.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year - +66.67% -

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 7,391 10,825 13,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.21% 10.86% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,566 6,784 8,579
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £445
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +1.12% +4.71%
10th Percentile £215 £256 £258
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -2.35% +6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 365 359
UK median hourly rate £22.90 £20.25 £20.60
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +13.11% -1.72% -11.74%
10th Percentile £12.50 £11.00 £11.25
90th Percentile £53.75 £48.55 £50.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.37 £20.25 £22.07
% change year-on-year +20.38% -8.26% -11.73%

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 23 January 2020.

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 23 January 2020.

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 23 January 2020. 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 +29 137 £450 -10.00% 26
UK excluding London +42 88 £420 -6.67% 18
London +61 54 £500 -5.88% 11
South East +18 31 £413 -17.50% 4
East of England +41 20 £525 -3.23%
North of England +23 13 £550 +46.67% 5
Yorkshire +42 11 £550 +46.67% 3
South West +31 10 £380 -
Midlands +37 7 £450 -3.23% 6
Scotland +21 7 £513 +13.89% 3
West Midlands +38 5 £500 +7.53% 4
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 2
North West +16 1 £580 +36.47% 1

For the 6 months to 23 January 2020, 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 50 (33.33%) Finance
2 41 (27.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (26.67%) PCI DSS
4 38 (25.33%) Information Security
5 33 (22.00%) Windows
6 32 (21.33%) DevOps
7 29 (19.33%) AWS
8 28 (18.67%) Firewall
9 24 (16.00%) Project Management
9 24 (16.00%) Linux
9 24 (16.00%) Azure
10 23 (15.33%) ITIL
11 22 (14.67%) Unix
12 21 (14.00%) Oracle
12 21 (14.00%) Microsoft
12 21 (14.00%) Risk Management
12 21 (14.00%) Agile Software Development
12 21 (14.00%) SIEM
13 20 (13.33%) Risk Assessment
13 20 (13.33%) SQL
14 19 (12.67%) Cisco
14 19 (12.67%) Change Management
15 18 (12.00%) CISSP
15 18 (12.00%) Security Architecture
16 16 (10.67%) Network Security
16 16 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
16 16 (10.67%) Degree
17 15 (10.00%) COBIT
17 15 (10.00%) SDLC
17 15 (10.00%) 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 9 (6.00%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.33%) Apache
2 5 (3.33%) BizTalk Server
2 5 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.67%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.00%) IIS
5 2 (1.33%) Confluence
5 2 (1.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.67%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.67%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Cognos TM1
1 2 (1.33%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.67%) HFM
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.67%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.67%) SAP PS
2 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.67%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.67%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.67%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 29 (19.33%) AWS
2 24 (16.00%) Azure
3 14 (9.33%) IaaS
3 14 (9.33%) PaaS
4 13 (8.67%) SaaS
5 10 (6.67%) GCP
6 4 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (2.67%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.67%) Route 53
7 2 (1.33%) Akamai
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (1.33%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (1.33%) CloudFront
7 2 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (18.67%) Firewall
2 16 (10.67%) Network Security
3 6 (4.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (3.33%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.67%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (2.67%) Internet
5 4 (2.67%) tcpdump
6 3 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.33%) DNS
7 2 (1.33%) SSH
7 2 (1.33%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.67%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.67%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.67%) SAN
8 1 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.67%) VoIP
8 1 (0.67%) WAN
8 1 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.00%) Big Data
2 6 (4.00%) Hadoop
3 5 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (3.33%) SSDT
4 4 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.67%) DTS
4 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 4 (2.67%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.67%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (2.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.00%) MySQL
5 3 (2.00%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.00%) Oracle Database 12c
5 3 (2.00%) SAP BW
6 2 (1.33%) DB2
6 2 (1.33%) MS Access
6 2 (1.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (2.67%) Git (software)
2 2 (1.33%) GitLab
2 2 (1.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.33%) JIRA
3 1 (0.67%) LSMW
General
1 50 (33.33%) Finance
2 13 (8.67%) Telecoms
3 10 (6.67%) Legal
4 4 (2.67%) Banking
4 4 (2.67%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.00%) Billing
5 3 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.67%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 30 (20.00%) Analyst
2 21 (14.00%) Architect
3 19 (12.67%) Security Engineer
4 16 (10.67%) Security Architect
5 10 (6.67%) Administrator
5 10 (6.67%) AWS Architect
5 10 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
6 8 (5.33%) Consultant
6 8 (5.33%) VMware Architect
7 6 (4.00%) Service Analyst
7 6 (4.00%) Support Analyst
8 5 (3.33%) DBA
8 5 (3.33%) Security Consultant
9 4 (2.67%) Business Analyst
9 4 (2.67%) Financial Analyst
9 4 (2.67%) Information Security Consultant
9 4 (2.67%) Information Security Engineer
9 4 (2.67%) Integration Specialist
9 4 (2.67%) Production Support Analyst
9 4 (2.67%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.33%) .NET
1 5 (3.33%) Middleware
1 5 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 5 (3.33%) Web Services
2 4 (2.67%) Flask
2 4 (2.67%) Pandas
2 4 (2.67%) XML
3 3 (2.00%) JSON
3 3 (2.00%) OAuth
3 3 (2.00%) OpenID
4 2 (1.33%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.33%) REST
4 2 (1.33%) YAML
5 1 (0.67%) Memcached
5 1 (0.67%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.67%) RESTful
5 1 (0.67%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.67%) SAP Business Workflow
5 1 (0.67%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.67%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (8.67%) Virtual Team
3 12 (8.00%) Public Cloud
4 9 (6.00%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.33%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (4.67%) PKI
7 5 (3.33%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.33%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.67%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.33%) FMCG
10 2 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.33%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.33%) User Experience
11 1 (0.67%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.67%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (0.67%) Life Science
11 1 (0.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 33 (22.00%) Windows
2 24 (16.00%) Linux
3 22 (14.67%) Unix
4 5 (3.33%) Solaris
5 4 (2.67%) Mac OS X
5 4 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.00%) AIX
6 3 (2.00%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.33%) Android
7 2 (1.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.33%) CentOS
7 2 (1.33%) Debian
7 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (25.33%) Information Security
2 32 (21.33%) DevOps
3 24 (16.00%) Project Management
4 23 (15.33%) ITIL
5 21 (14.00%) Agile Software Development
5 21 (14.00%) Risk Management
5 21 (14.00%) SIEM
6 20 (13.33%) Risk Assessment
7 19 (12.67%) Change Management
8 18 (12.00%) Security Architecture
9 15 (10.00%) SDLC
10 13 (8.67%) OWASP
10 13 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (8.67%) Service Management
11 12 (8.00%) Data Protection
11 12 (8.00%) DevSecOps
12 11 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (7.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (6.67%) Business Continuity
13 10 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.33%) SQL
2 14 (9.33%) PowerShell
3 10 (6.67%) Python
4 7 (4.67%) Korn
5 5 (3.33%) Java
5 5 (3.33%) T-SQL
5 5 (3.33%) VBScript
6 4 (2.67%) R
6 4 (2.67%) Ruby
7 3 (2.00%) C
7 3 (2.00%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.33%) AWK
8 2 (1.33%) Bash Shell
8 2 (1.33%) C++
8 2 (1.33%) C-shell
8 2 (1.33%) Perl
9 1 (0.67%) C#
9 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.67%) PHP
9 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (12.00%) CISSP
2 16 (10.67%) Degree
3 13 (8.67%) CISM
4 10 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 9 (6.00%) CCSP
6 8 (5.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 7 (4.67%) SANS
8 5 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.33%) HNC
9 4 (2.67%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.67%) CISA
9 4 (2.67%) CRISC
9 4 (2.67%) SSCP
10 3 (2.00%) PhD
11 2 (1.33%) ACCA
11 2 (1.33%) CIMA
11 2 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (27.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 40 (26.67%) PCI DSS
3 15 (10.00%) COBIT
3 15 (10.00%) HIPAA
4 14 (9.33%) NIST
5 12 (8.00%) GDPR
6 11 (7.33%) GxP
7 5 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 5 (3.33%) QA
7 5 (3.33%) SLA
8 3 (2.00%) Data Quality
8 3 (2.00%) IFRS
8 3 (2.00%) ITGC
9 1 (0.67%) Basel III
9 1 (0.67%) BS25999
9 1 (0.67%) COSHH
9 1 (0.67%) COSO
9 1 (0.67%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.67%) SSAE 16
System Software
1 14 (9.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.33%) VMware NSX
2 8 (5.33%) vSphere
3 6 (4.00%) Docker
4 2 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.67%) Corosync
Systems Management
1 8 (5.33%) vCenter Server
1 8 (5.33%) vRealize
2 6 (4.00%) Opscode Chef
3 5 (3.33%) Puppet
4 4 (2.67%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (1.33%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (1.33%) Cisco UCCX
6 2 (1.33%) Data Guard
6 2 (1.33%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.33%) Nessus
6 2 (1.33%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.33%) RSA Archer
6 2 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.67%) Ansible
7 1 (0.67%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Identity Manager
7 1 (0.67%) Pacemaker
7 1 (0.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 21 (14.00%) Microsoft
1 21 (14.00%) Oracle
2 19 (12.67%) Cisco
3 14 (9.33%) VMware
4 13 (8.67%) SAP
5 9 (6.00%) Imperva
6 8 (5.33%) Alibaba
6 8 (5.33%) Fortinet
7 7 (4.67%) Cognos
7 7 (4.67%) IBM
8 6 (4.00%) F5
8 6 (4.00%) Incapsula
9 4 (2.67%) Splunk
10 3 (2.00%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.33%) Citrix
11 2 (1.33%) Google
11 2 (1.33%) HP
11 2 (1.33%) NetApp
11 2 (1.33%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.33%) Varonis