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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
29 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 440 503
Rank change year-on-year +44 +63 +139
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 189 121 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.99% 2.42% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 70 74
10th Percentile £388 £325 £253
25th Percentile £506 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £513 £541
Median % change year-on-year +11.02% -5.31% -1.59%
75th Percentile £681 £619 £613
90th Percentile £775 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £29.23 £49.14 -
25th Percentile £38.56 £56.78 £31.25
Median hourly rate £50.75 £69.52 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% +113.91% +17.12%
75th Percentile £55.50 £82.26 £33.75
90th Percentile £56.40 £89.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £44.04 -
% change year-on-year -10.31% - -

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 6,330 4,993 6,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.56% 13.70% 14.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,066 2,907 4,382
10th Percentile £311 £266 £313
25th Percentile £404 £384 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £601 £625 £645
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 226 242
10th Percentile £13.60 £13.52 £15.26
25th Percentile £17.58 £17.53 £20.70
Median hourly rate £26.31 £26.75 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% -27.21% +53.13%
75th Percentile £61.09 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.96 £70.00 £83.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.82 £26.50 £42.25
% change year-on-year -13.89% -37.28% +101.19%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 16 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 29 November 2025. 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 +57 173 £556 +11.25% 48
London +70 104 £550 - 25
UK excluding London -15 68 £563 +12.50% 47
Work from Home +44 66 £525 +16.93% 10
North of England -32 25 £575 +56.46% 4
South West +21 14 £512 - 1
Yorkshire -23 14 £575 +56.46% 1
South East +9 11 £550 +46.67% 27
North West -18 11 £585 +41.70% 3
East of England -10 8 £650 +18.18% 2
Midlands -34 6 £525 -12.50% 6
West Midlands -22 5 £525 +133.33% 5
Scotland -17 2 £562 -6.42% 1
Wales - 2 £625 - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £550 - 5
East Midlands -16 1 £525 -12.50% 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 18 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (0.53%) CICS
2 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (6.88%) MS Visio
2 12 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.53%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (10.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (7.94%) NetSuite
3 4 (2.12%) SAP GRC
4 3 (1.59%) SAP IBP
5 2 (1.06%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (1.06%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.06%) SAP CO
5 2 (1.06%) SAP EWM
5 2 (1.06%) SAP FI
5 2 (1.06%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (1.06%) SAP GTS
5 2 (1.06%) SAP MM
5 2 (1.06%) SAP PP
5 2 (1.06%) SAP SCM
5 2 (1.06%) SAP SRM
6 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.53%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.53%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (17.46%) Azure
2 20 (10.58%) SaaS
3 16 (8.47%) AWS
4 15 (7.94%) Entra ID
5 14 (7.41%) OCI
6 12 (6.35%) Power Platform
7 11 (5.82%) Lucidchart
8 8 (4.23%) GitHub
9 5 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.65%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.06%) GCP
10 2 (1.06%) IaaS
10 2 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.53%) Alation
11 1 (0.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.53%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.53%) Boomi
11 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.35%) Firewall
2 8 (4.23%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.70%) HTTP
4 5 (2.65%) DNS
4 5 (2.65%) Network Security
5 4 (2.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.53%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.35%) Power BI
2 7 (3.70%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.17%) SAP HANA
4 4 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.53%) Ataccama
6 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.53%) DB2
6 1 (0.53%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.53%) Metadata
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.53%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.53%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 25 (13.23%) JIRA
2 6 (3.17%) Git
3 5 (2.65%) GitLab
4 4 (2.12%) Subversion
4 4 (2.12%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.59%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 104 (55.03%) Finance
2 65 (34.39%) Social Skills
3 52 (27.51%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.64%) Banking
5 20 (10.58%) Manufacturing
6 11 (5.82%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.70%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.70%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.12%) Legal
10 4 (2.12%) Marketing
11 3 (1.59%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.59%) Retail
12 2 (1.06%) Electronics
12 2 (1.06%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.53%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 25 (13.23%) Analyst
2 15 (7.94%) Architect
2 15 (7.94%) Consultant
3 14 (7.41%) Lead
4 12 (6.35%) Incident Manager
5 11 (5.82%) Programme Manager
5 11 (5.82%) Project Manager
5 11 (5.82%) Senior
5 11 (5.82%) Technical Writer
6 8 (4.23%) Business Analyst
6 8 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (3.70%) SAP Manager
8 6 (3.17%) Accountant
8 6 (3.17%) Developer
8 6 (3.17%) Security Analyst
9 5 (2.65%) ForgeRock Developer
10 4 (2.12%) Head of Testing
10 4 (2.12%) IT Consultant
10 4 (2.12%) Product Owner
10 4 (2.12%) SOX Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.88%) LDAP
1 13 (6.88%) SailPoint
2 11 (5.82%) OAuth
2 11 (5.82%) SAML
3 8 (4.23%) OpenID
4 7 (3.70%) REST
5 6 (3.17%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.65%) RESTful
7 3 (1.59%) Middleware
7 3 (1.59%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (1.06%) ISPF
8 2 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.53%) .NET
9 1 (0.53%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.53%) Great Expectations
9 1 (0.53%) JSON
9 1 (0.53%) PySpark
9 1 (0.53%) React
9 1 (0.53%) SAP Core Interface
9 1 (0.53%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (3.17%) Life Science
2 6 (3.17%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.65%) Clustering
3 5 (2.65%) Replication
4 4 (2.12%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.12%) PMI
5 3 (1.59%) BYOD
5 3 (1.59%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.06%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.06%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.06%) IoT
6 2 (1.06%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.23%) Linux
1 8 (4.23%) Windows
2 4 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.12%) Solaris
3 2 (1.06%) zOS
4 1 (0.53%) Unix
4 1 (0.53%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (24.34%) Stakeholder Management
2 32 (16.93%) ERP
2 32 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (16.40%) Risk Management
4 30 (15.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 27 (14.29%) Agile
5 27 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 24 (12.70%) Identity Access Management
6 24 (12.70%) Project Management
7 23 (12.17%) ITSM
8 20 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (10.05%) Decision-Making
9 19 (10.05%) DevOps
10 18 (9.52%) Privileged Access Management
11 17 (8.99%) Incident Management
12 16 (8.47%) IT Audit
12 16 (8.47%) Mentoring
12 16 (8.47%) Revenue Recognition
13 15 (7.94%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (7.94%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 23 (12.17%) Python
2 20 (10.58%) SQL
3 17 (8.99%) PowerShell
4 11 (5.82%) Java
5 5 (2.65%) Bash
6 4 (2.12%) C#
6 4 (2.12%) Perl
7 2 (1.06%) BeanShell
7 2 (1.06%) JCL
8 1 (0.53%) CLIST
8 1 (0.53%) COBOL
8 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.53%) R
8 1 (0.53%) REXX
8 1 (0.53%) VB
8 1 (0.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (15.87%) Degree
2 19 (10.05%) ACCA
2 19 (10.05%) CISSP
3 14 (7.41%) CIMA
3 14 (7.41%) CISM
4 9 (4.76%) CISA
4 9 (4.76%) PMI Certification
5 7 (3.70%) FFIEC
6 5 (2.65%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.65%) PMP
7 4 (2.12%) CRISC
7 4 (2.12%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.12%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.53%) CBAP
9 1 (0.53%) GIAC
9 1 (0.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.53%) MBA
9 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (41.27%) GDPR
2 38 (20.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (16.40%) NIST
4 23 (12.17%) PCI DSS
5 19 (10.05%) GRC
6 17 (8.99%) IFRS
6 17 (8.99%) ITGC
7 16 (8.47%) HIPAA
8 15 (7.94%) GxP
9 9 (4.76%) COBIT
9 9 (4.76%) SOX 404
10 7 (3.70%) SLA
11 6 (3.17%) QA
12 5 (2.65%) PSD2
13 2 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (1.06%) COSO
13 2 (1.06%) GAAP
13 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (1.06%) PMO
13 2 (1.06%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.65%) Docker
4 4 (2.12%) NDS
4 4 (2.12%) NetIQ eDirectory
4 4 (2.12%) NFS
4 4 (2.12%) Veritas File System
4 4 (2.12%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 4 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.06%) RACF
6 1 (0.53%) IAG
6 1 (0.53%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (0.53%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (6.88%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (3.17%) Ansible
3 5 (2.65%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.65%) Terraform
4 4 (2.12%) QRadar
4 4 (2.12%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (2.12%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.53%) Avamar
5 1 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Identity Manager
5 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.53%) VxRail
5 1 (0.53%) zSecure
Vendors
1 37 (19.58%) SAP
2 29 (15.34%) Oracle
3 24 (12.70%) ServiceNow
4 19 (10.05%) Microsoft
5 17 (8.99%) CyberArk
6 8 (4.23%) Okta
7 7 (3.70%) VMware
8 6 (3.17%) Workday
9 5 (2.65%) BeyondTrust
9 5 (2.65%) ForgeRock
9 5 (2.65%) Ping Identity
9 5 (2.65%) Splunk
10 4 (2.12%) NetIQ
10 4 (2.12%) Qualys
10 4 (2.12%) Red Hat
10 4 (2.12%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.59%) Ariba
11 3 (1.59%) OpenText
11 3 (1.59%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.59%) Thycotic
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