Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 18 September 2019

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 18 September 2019 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
18 Sep 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 630 673 660
Rank change year-on-year +43 -13 -77
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 197 227 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.22% 0.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.14% 1.97% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 132 129
UK median daily rate £473 £450 £475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.26% +9.01%
10th Percentile £303 £271 £312
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +16.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 5
UK median hourly rate £33.78 £26.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +29.92% -48.00% +42.86%
10th Percentile £19.70 £25.00 £21.75
90th Percentile £46.18 £27.00 £111.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.78 £26.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +29.92% -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 9,185 11,533 11,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.29% 11.19% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,640 7,334 7,736
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £440
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +2.27% +6.54%
10th Percentile £225 £254 £255
90th Percentile £638 £625 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £408 £400
% change year-on-year +3.07% +1.88% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 415 393 364
UK median hourly rate £21.42 £21.73 £21.90
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -1.45% -0.78% -8.75%
10th Percentile £10.83 £11.25 £10.76
90th Percentile £53.75 £50.08 £49.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.59 £20.12 £21.17
% change year-on-year +17.23% -4.95% -15.32%

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 18 September 2019.

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 18 September 2019.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 15 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 18 September 2019. 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 +39 183 £475 +4.40% 25
UK excluding London +41 140 £475 +11.76% 18
South East -4 59 £450 +2.86% 7
London +52 55 £439 -20.23% 9
East of England +34 20 £575 +53.33% 2
North of England +23 20 £563 +37.20% 5
South West -2 18 £475 -15.56%
Yorkshire +40 11 £550 +37.50% 3
Midlands +33 10 £239 -50.00% 2
North West +13 9 £580 +38.10% 2
West Midlands +28 6 £231 -48.61%
Wales - 6 £385 - 1
Scotland +32 4 £600 +60.00% 1
East Midlands +29 4 £308 -54.44% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £498 -

For the 6 months to 18 September 2019, 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 64 (32.49%) Finance
2 46 (23.35%) PCI DSS
3 39 (19.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (19.80%) Information Security
4 37 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (17.26%) ITIL
6 30 (15.23%) Project Management
7 28 (14.21%) Windows
7 28 (14.21%) SQL
7 28 (14.21%) Identity Access Management
8 27 (13.71%) AWS
8 27 (13.71%) Risk Management
9 26 (13.20%) Agile Software Development
9 26 (13.20%) CISSP
10 25 (12.69%) Business Analysis
10 25 (12.69%) Management Information System
10 25 (12.69%) Firewall
10 25 (12.69%) Azure
10 25 (12.69%) SIEM
10 25 (12.69%) Degree
11 24 (12.18%) Microsoft Excel
11 24 (12.18%) Microsoft
12 23 (11.68%) Unix
12 23 (11.68%) SDLC
13 22 (11.17%) SAP
13 22 (11.17%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (10.66%) CISM
14 21 (10.66%) ServiceNow
14 21 (10.66%) IT Audit
15 20 (10.15%) Problem-Solving

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 (4.57%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.05%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.54%) MS Exchange
3 5 (2.54%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.03%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (1.52%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.51%) Apache
6 1 (0.51%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.51%) IIS
6 1 (0.51%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (12.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (7.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.05%) SAP GRC
2 4 (2.03%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.02%) Cognos TM1
4 1 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.51%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.51%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.51%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.51%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 27 (13.71%) AWS
2 25 (12.69%) Azure
3 10 (5.08%) Azure Active Directory
3 10 (5.08%) Google Sheets
4 9 (4.57%) IaaS
5 7 (3.55%) SaaS
6 6 (3.05%) PaaS
7 5 (2.54%) GCP
8 4 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.52%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.51%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.69%) Firewall
2 8 (4.06%) Network Security
3 7 (3.55%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.05%) Internet
4 6 (3.05%) LAN
5 2 (1.02%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (1.02%) DNS
5 2 (1.02%) WAN
6 1 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.51%) DHCP
6 1 (0.51%) DMVPN
6 1 (0.51%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.51%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.51%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.51%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.51%) NAS
6 1 (0.51%) SNMP
6 1 (0.51%) SSL
6 1 (0.51%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.12%) Big Data
2 14 (7.11%) Hadoop
2 14 (7.11%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.05%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.05%) MySQL
4 5 (2.54%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (2.03%) MariaDB
5 4 (2.03%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.03%) SSDT
6 3 (1.52%) DTS
6 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 3 (1.52%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.52%) Power BI
6 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.02%) MS Access
7 2 (1.02%) Redis
7 2 (1.02%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (3.05%) Git (software)
General
1 64 (32.49%) Finance
2 18 (9.14%) Legal
3 15 (7.61%) Pharmaceutical
4 14 (7.11%) Manufacturing
5 7 (3.55%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.54%) Banking
7 2 (1.02%) Marketing
7 2 (1.02%) Retail
8 1 (0.51%) Advertising
8 1 (0.51%) Automotive
8 1 (0.51%) Billing
8 1 (0.51%) Czech Language
8 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.51%) French Language
8 1 (0.51%) German Language
8 1 (0.51%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.51%) Law
8 1 (0.51%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 37 (18.78%) Analyst
2 23 (11.68%) Architect
3 18 (9.14%) Security Engineer
4 17 (8.63%) Consultant
5 15 (7.61%) Business Analyst
6 14 (7.11%) Security Architect
7 12 (6.09%) Security Officer
8 11 (5.58%) IT Security Officer
9 9 (4.57%) Administrator
10 8 (4.06%) Security Consultant
11 6 (3.05%) Service Manager
11 6 (3.05%) Support Analyst
11 6 (3.05%) Technical Leader
12 5 (2.54%) Compliance Analyst
12 5 (2.54%) Financial Analyst
12 5 (2.54%) Hadoop Administrator
12 5 (2.54%) SAP Consultant
12 5 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.54%) Tester
12 5 (2.54%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.58%) SAML
2 7 (3.55%) XML
3 6 (3.05%) Flask
3 6 (3.05%) JSON
3 6 (3.05%) Pandas
4 4 (2.03%) Middleware
4 4 (2.03%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.52%) .NET
6 2 (1.02%) SOAP
6 2 (1.02%) Web Services
7 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.51%) HTML
7 1 (0.51%) JDBC
7 1 (0.51%) LDAP
7 1 (0.51%) Natural Language Processing
7 1 (0.51%) OAuth
7 1 (0.51%) OpenID
7 1 (0.51%) PhoneGap
7 1 (0.51%) REST
7 1 (0.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 37 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (12.69%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.54%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.54%) PKI
3 5 (2.54%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.03%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.03%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.03%) Mainframe
4 4 (2.03%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.52%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.52%) User Experience
5 3 (1.52%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.02%) Derivative
6 2 (1.02%) FMCG
6 2 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.51%) CMDB
7 1 (0.51%) Robotics
7 1 (0.51%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.21%) Windows
2 23 (11.68%) Unix
3 17 (8.63%) Linux
4 5 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.03%) Windows 7
5 4 (2.03%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (1.52%) AIX
6 3 (1.52%) Solaris
7 2 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.02%) Mac OS X
7 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (19.80%) Information Security
2 34 (17.26%) ITIL
3 30 (15.23%) Project Management
4 28 (14.21%) Identity Access Management
5 27 (13.71%) Risk Management
6 26 (13.20%) Agile Software Development
7 25 (12.69%) Business Analysis
7 25 (12.69%) SIEM
8 23 (11.68%) SDLC
9 22 (11.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (10.66%) IT Audit
11 20 (10.15%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (9.64%) Coaching
12 19 (9.64%) ERP
13 18 (9.14%) Change Management
13 18 (9.14%) Project Delivery
13 18 (9.14%) Risk Assessment
14 17 (8.63%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (8.63%) Vulnerability Management
15 16 (8.12%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.21%) SQL
2 9 (4.57%) C
3 7 (3.55%) Python
4 6 (3.05%) Java
4 6 (3.05%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.05%) R
5 5 (2.54%) C++
6 4 (2.03%) C#
6 4 (2.03%) Korn
6 4 (2.03%) PHP
7 3 (1.52%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.52%) VBScript
8 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (13.20%) CISSP
2 25 (12.69%) Degree
3 21 (10.66%) CISM
4 14 (7.11%) CISA
5 10 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (5.08%) FFIEC
6 8 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.05%) SANS
7 6 (3.05%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.05%) Security Cleared
8 5 (2.54%) CCIE
8 5 (2.54%) CCNP
8 5 (2.54%) ISACA
9 4 (2.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.03%) CCSP
9 4 (2.03%) HNC
9 4 (2.03%) PhD
9 4 (2.03%) SSCP
10 3 (1.52%) PMP
11 2 (1.02%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (23.35%) PCI DSS
2 39 (19.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (8.12%) GDPR
4 14 (7.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 12 (6.09%) COBIT
6 11 (5.58%) GxP
6 11 (5.58%) NIST
7 10 (5.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (5.08%) HIPAA
8 7 (3.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (3.55%) ITGC
9 6 (3.05%) SLA
10 4 (2.03%) GAMP
11 3 (1.52%) FISMA
12 2 (1.02%) Data Quality
12 2 (1.02%) GLP
12 2 (1.02%) GMP
12 2 (1.02%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (1.02%) SSAE 16
13 1 (0.51%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 17 (8.63%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.54%) Docker
3 5 (2.54%) VMware NSX
3 5 (2.54%) vSphere
4 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (3.05%) QRadar
3 5 (2.54%) vCenter Server
3 5 (2.54%) vRealize
4 3 (1.52%) Cisco CUCM
4 3 (1.52%) Cisco UCCX
4 3 (1.52%) SCCM
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Identity Manager
5 1 (0.51%) SCOM
Vendors
1 24 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.17%) SAP
3 21 (10.66%) ServiceNow
4 18 (9.14%) Oracle
5 17 (8.63%) Cisco
6 12 (6.09%) VMware
7 10 (5.08%) Google
8 8 (4.06%) Imperva
8 8 (4.06%) Workday
9 6 (3.05%) Citrix
9 6 (3.05%) FireEye
9 6 (3.05%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.05%) IBM
10 5 (2.54%) Alibaba
10 5 (2.54%) Cognos
11 4 (2.03%) Sun
12 3 (1.52%) JD Edwards
12 3 (1.52%) Netezza
13 2 (1.02%) CheckPoint
13 2 (1.02%) Remedy