Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 21 July 2017

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 21 July 2017 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
21 Jul 2017		 Same period 2016 Same period 2015
Rank 673 607 572
Rank change year-on-year -66 -35 -46
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 169 301 311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.27% 0.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.51% 2.42% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 177 186
UK median daily rate £434 £433 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +0.35% +1.76% -
10th Percentile £286 £260 £253
90th Percentile £608 £547 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £423
% change year-on-year - +0.59% +5.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 3
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £20.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +95.00% -42.86% -9.09%
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.25 £20.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +36.25% -42.86% +21.21%

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

Contract Quality Assurance & Compliance Skills
UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance and compliance skills 11194 12415 13189
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK 11.67% 11.28% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7260 7978 8341
UK median daily rate £438 £410 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +6.71% +2.50% -
10th Percentile £250 £225 £225
90th Percentile £625 £594 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £375
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +5.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 372 419 394
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £21.54
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.15% +7.69%
10th Percentile £11.00 £10.75 £11.25
90th Percentile £52.50 £50.55 £51.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.25 £22.50 £21.54
% change year-on-year -14.44% +4.47% +10.45%

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 21 July 2017.

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 21 July 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 14 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 21 July 2017. 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 -62 155 £450 +4.05% 31
UK excluding London -34 89 £425 - 20
London -24 74 £450 -4.56% 12
South East -7 37 £463 +21.71% 7
North of England +24 14 £500 +25.00% 5
Midlands +20 11 £375 -4.76% 2
Scotland +36 10 £400 -20.00% 1
North West +16 9 £451 +20.33% 4
South West +4 8 £350 -23.08% 1
East of England -14 8 £450 -5.26% 4
West Midlands +33 7 £325 -13.33% 2
Yorkshire +3 5 £575 +33.88% 1
East Midlands -18 3 £625 +49.25%
Wales - 1 - -

For the 6 months to 21 July 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Sarbanes-Oxley.

1 63 (37.28%) Finance
2 41 (24.26%) SAP
3 40 (23.67%) Banking
4 38 (22.49%) ITIL
5 35 (20.71%) Risk Management
6 33 (19.53%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (18.34%) Information Security
8 30 (17.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 27 (15.98%) CISSP
10 24 (14.20%) PCI DSS
11 23 (13.61%) Windows
11 23 (13.61%) Microsoft Excel
12 22 (13.02%) Microsoft
13 20 (11.83%) SQL
14 18 (10.65%) Unix
14 18 (10.65%) Management Information System
14 18 (10.65%) CISA
15 17 (10.06%) Service Management
16 16 (9.47%) Change Management
16 16 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (9.47%) Oracle
16 16 (9.47%) Microsoft Office
17 15 (8.88%) Linux
17 15 (8.88%) Project Management
17 15 (8.88%) SAP Security
18 14 (8.28%) Migration
18 14 (8.28%) Identity Access Management
19 13 (7.69%) ERP
19 13 (7.69%) CRISC
20 12 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement

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 8 (4.73%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.55%) SAS
3 5 (2.96%) MS Exchange
4 3 (1.78%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (1.78%) IIS
5 2 (1.18%) Apache
5 2 (1.18%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.59%) Confluence
6 1 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.59%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.59%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 23 (13.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (9.47%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (4.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.96%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (5.92%) SAP GRC
2 4 (2.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 3 (1.78%) Pegasus Opera
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.18%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.59%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.59%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.59%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.59%) Sentinel
Cloud Services
1 6 (3.55%) Amazon AWS
2 3 (1.78%) Office 365
3 2 (1.18%) Akamai
4 1 (0.59%) IaaS
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Azure
4 1 (0.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.14%) Firewall
1 7 (4.14%) LAN
1 7 (4.14%) WAN
2 5 (2.96%) SAN
3 4 (2.37%) SSL
3 4 (2.37%) Wireless
4 3 (1.78%) BGP
4 3 (1.78%) HTTP
4 3 (1.78%) Internet
4 3 (1.78%) MVNO
4 3 (1.78%) Network Security
4 3 (1.78%) VPN
4 3 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.18%) FTP
5 2 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.18%) SSH
6 1 (0.59%) Skype
6 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.55%) SAP HANA
1 6 (3.55%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.37%) Oracle Database
2 4 (2.37%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.78%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (1.78%) Crystal Reports
3 3 (1.78%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.78%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (1.78%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.18%) Big Data
4 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle9i Database
4 2 (1.18%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.59%) Essbase
5 1 (0.59%) GIS
5 1 (0.59%) MS Access
5 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Git (software)
2 2 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (1.18%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.59%) CA Gen
3 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.59%) JIRA
3 1 (0.59%) JUnit
3 1 (0.59%) Log4j
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.59%) Toad
General
1 63 (37.28%) Finance
2 40 (23.67%) Banking
3 9 (5.33%) Manufacturing
4 7 (4.14%) Legal
5 5 (2.96%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (2.96%) Retail
5 5 (2.96%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.37%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.37%) Retail Banking
7 3 (1.78%) Billing
7 3 (1.78%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (0.59%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.59%) Games
8 1 (0.59%) German Language
8 1 (0.59%) Marketing
8 1 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (25.44%) Analyst
2 15 (8.88%) Consultant
3 14 (8.28%) Architect
3 14 (8.28%) Developer
3 14 (8.28%) Project Manager
4 10 (5.92%) Security Analyst
5 9 (5.33%) Risk Consultant
5 9 (5.33%) Security Engineer
6 8 (4.73%) IT Manager
6 8 (4.73%) Security Manager
7 7 (4.14%) Risk Manager
7 7 (4.14%) Security Consultant
7 7 (4.14%) Service Manager
7 7 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.55%) IT Support
8 6 (3.55%) SAP Support
9 5 (2.96%) Business Analyst
9 5 (2.96%) Data Analyst
9 5 (2.96%) IT Consultant
9 5 (2.96%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.73%) .NET
2 3 (1.78%) Middleware
2 3 (1.78%) Web Services
3 2 (1.18%) CSS
3 2 (1.18%) HTML
3 2 (1.18%) Memcached
3 2 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.18%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.59%) EDI
4 1 (0.59%) ISPF
4 1 (0.59%) JDBC
4 1 (0.59%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.59%) SAP XI
4 1 (0.59%) Spring
4 1 (0.59%) Spring Batch
4 1 (0.59%) Spring Integration
4 1 (0.59%) XML
4 1 (0.59%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 33 (19.53%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (10.65%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.73%) Mainframe
4 7 (4.14%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.14%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.96%) FMCG
6 3 (1.78%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.78%) Fintech
7 2 (1.18%) Clustering
7 2 (1.18%) Derivative
7 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.18%) PKI
7 2 (1.18%) PMI
7 2 (1.18%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.18%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.59%) Equities
8 1 (0.59%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.59%) Replication
8 1 (0.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.61%) Windows
2 18 (10.65%) Unix
3 15 (8.88%) Linux
4 10 (5.92%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.55%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (2.96%) Windows 7
6 5 (2.96%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.78%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (1.78%) zOS
8 2 (1.18%) AIX
8 2 (1.18%) HPUX
8 2 (1.18%) Solaris
9 1 (0.59%) Mesosphere
9 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (22.49%) ITIL
2 35 (20.71%) Risk Management
3 31 (18.34%) Information Security
4 17 (10.06%) Service Management
5 16 (9.47%) Change Management
5 16 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (8.88%) Project Management
6 15 (8.88%) SAP Security
7 14 (8.28%) Identity Access Management
7 14 (8.28%) Migration
8 13 (7.69%) ERP
9 12 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (7.10%) Data Analysis
9 12 (7.10%) Data Protection
9 12 (7.10%) Security Management
10 11 (6.51%) Agile Software Development
10 11 (6.51%) Information Security Management
10 11 (6.51%) IT Audit
10 11 (6.51%) Remediation Plan
11 10 (5.92%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 20 (11.83%) SQL
2 5 (2.96%) Java
2 5 (2.96%) Shell Script
3 4 (2.37%) C#
3 4 (2.37%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.37%) Python
3 4 (2.37%) VBA
4 3 (1.78%) PL/SQL
4 3 (1.78%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.18%) C
5 2 (1.18%) JCL
5 2 (1.18%) Perl
5 2 (1.18%) VB
6 1 (0.59%) ABAP
6 1 (0.59%) PHP
6 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.59%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (15.98%) CISSP
2 18 (10.65%) CISA
3 13 (7.69%) CRISC
4 12 (7.10%) Degree
5 8 (4.73%) CISM
6 5 (2.96%) ACCA
6 5 (2.96%) CIMA
7 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.78%) GCIA
8 3 (1.78%) GCIH
8 3 (1.78%) HND
8 3 (1.78%) MCSE
8 3 (1.78%) Security Cleared
9 2 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.18%) CNA
9 2 (1.18%) CNE
9 2 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.18%) Novell Certification
9 2 (1.18%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.18%) Security+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (17.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (14.20%) PCI DSS
3 10 (5.92%) COBIT
4 9 (5.33%) GDPR
5 6 (3.55%) SLA
6 4 (2.37%) Basel II
7 3 (1.78%) GxP
7 3 (1.78%) PMO
8 2 (1.18%) Basel III
8 2 (1.18%) COSO
8 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.18%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.18%) IFRS
8 2 (1.18%) IFRS 9
8 2 (1.18%) QA
9 1 (0.59%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.59%) GLP
9 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.59%) MiFID
9 1 (0.59%) PA-DSS
System Software
1 12 (7.10%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.78%) ACF2
3 3 (1.78%) RACF
3 3 (1.78%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.18%) Corosync
4 2 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.59%) Docker
5 1 (0.59%) IAG
5 1 (0.59%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.59%) Snort
5 1 (0.59%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.78%) NetBackup
1 3 (1.78%) zSecure
2 2 (1.18%) Ansible
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (1.18%) Pacemaker
2 2 (1.18%) Puppet
2 2 (1.18%) RSA Archer
2 2 (1.18%) SCCM
2 2 (1.18%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
2 2 (1.18%) WSUS
3 1 (0.59%) AppManager
3 1 (0.59%) BladeLogic
3 1 (0.59%) Control-M
3 1 (0.59%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.59%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (0.59%) Mesos
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 1 (0.59%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 41 (24.26%) SAP
2 22 (13.02%) Microsoft
3 16 (9.47%) Oracle
4 11 (6.51%) IBM
4 11 (6.51%) VMware
5 8 (4.73%) HP
6 7 (4.14%) Cisco
7 5 (2.96%) Symantec
8 4 (2.37%) McAfee
8 4 (2.37%) NetApp
8 4 (2.37%) Remedy
9 3 (1.78%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.78%) EMC
9 3 (1.78%) FireEye
9 3 (1.78%) Genesys
9 3 (1.78%) JD Edwards
9 3 (1.78%) Pegasus
9 3 (1.78%) QAD
9 3 (1.78%) Qualys
9 3 (1.78%) Red Hat
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