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

 6 months to
14 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 438 509
Rank change year-on-year +61 +71 +158
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 191 118 130
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.32% 0.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.04% 2.42% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 72 81
10th Percentile £384 £329 £253
25th Percentile £503 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £674 £621 £600
90th Percentile £750 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £556 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +5.95% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile - - £32.09
25th Percentile £21.50 - £33.34
Median hourly rate £35.25 £44.04 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year -19.96% +22.16% +29.91%
75th Percentile £52.69 - £38.14
90th Percentile £55.28 - £39.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £44.04 -
% change year-on-year -47.77% - -

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 6,284 4,879 6,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.68% 13.30% 14.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,028 2,848 4,452
10th Percentile £305 £275 £313
25th Percentile £402 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £645
90th Percentile £700 £730 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £471 £500
% change year-on-year +2.02% -5.90% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 219 255
10th Percentile £13.56 £13.26 £14.72
25th Percentile £16.92 £15.50 £20.29
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% -22.82% +45.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.91 £70.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.14 £26.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.45% -29.33% +78.57%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +56 174 £550 +7.32% 90
London +68 101 £550 -2.22% 42
UK excluding London -13 72 £556 +5.95% 57
Work from Home +49 67 £525 +5.00% 44
North of England -32 25 £572 +55.65% 10
South West +14 16 £508 - 3
Yorkshire -31 14 £575 +56.46% 2
South East +6 13 £538 +19.44% 18
North West -12 11 £569 +37.94% 8
East of England -12 7 £650 +18.18% 8
Midlands -32 5 £525 -12.50% 8
West Midlands -30 4 £525 +16.67% 6
Northern Ireland - 4 £550 - 6
Scotland -25 2 £562 -6.42% 4
Wales - 2 £625 -
East Midlands -17 1 £525 -12.50% 2

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 (9.42%) Confluence
2 1 (0.52%) CICS
2 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (6.81%) MS Visio
2 12 (6.28%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (9.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (7.85%) NetSuite
3 5 (2.62%) Oracle Assets
3 5 (2.62%) Oracle EBS R12
3 5 (2.62%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.57%) SAP CO
4 3 (1.57%) SAP FI
4 3 (1.57%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (1.57%) SAP GRC
4 3 (1.57%) SAP IBP
4 3 (1.57%) Workday HCM
5 2 (1.05%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.05%) SAP EWM
5 2 (1.05%) SAP GTS
5 2 (1.05%) SAP MM
5 2 (1.05%) SAP PP
5 2 (1.05%) SAP SCM
5 2 (1.05%) SAP SRM
6 1 (0.52%) Actimize
6 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (16.75%) Azure
2 24 (12.57%) SaaS
3 18 (9.42%) AWS
4 16 (8.38%) Entra ID
5 14 (7.33%) OCI
6 11 (5.76%) Lucidchart
6 11 (5.76%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.19%) GitHub
8 4 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.57%) GCP
9 3 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.05%) IaaS
11 1 (0.52%) Alation
11 1 (0.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.52%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.52%) Boomi
11 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.28%) Firewall
2 8 (4.19%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.66%) HTTP
4 5 (2.62%) DNS
4 5 (2.62%) Network Security
5 4 (2.09%) SSL
6 1 (0.52%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.76%) Power BI
2 7 (3.66%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.14%) SAP HANA
4 4 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.52%) Ataccama
5 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.52%) DB2
5 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.52%) Metadata
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.52%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (13.09%) JIRA
2 5 (2.62%) Git
3 4 (2.09%) Subversion
3 4 (2.09%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.57%) GitLab
5 2 (1.05%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 108 (56.54%) Finance
2 64 (33.51%) Social Skills
3 57 (29.84%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.52%) Manufacturing
5 18 (9.42%) Banking
6 12 (6.28%) Telecoms
7 11 (5.76%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.14%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.14%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.62%) Legal
11 4 (2.09%) Front Office
11 4 (2.09%) Marketing
12 2 (1.05%) Electronics
12 2 (1.05%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.05%) Retail
13 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (13.61%) Analyst
2 17 (8.90%) Architect
3 13 (6.81%) Consultant
4 12 (6.28%) Incident Manager
4 12 (6.28%) Project Manager
5 11 (5.76%) Programme Manager
5 11 (5.76%) Technical Writer
6 10 (5.24%) Business Analyst
6 10 (5.24%) Lead
7 9 (4.71%) Senior
8 8 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.66%) SAP Manager
10 5 (2.62%) Accountant
10 5 (2.62%) Developer
10 5 (2.62%) ForgeRock Developer
10 5 (2.62%) Risk Manager
11 4 (2.09%) Audit Manager
11 4 (2.09%) IT Analyst
11 4 (2.09%) IT Consultant
11 4 (2.09%) SOX Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.85%) SailPoint
2 12 (6.28%) LDAP
2 12 (6.28%) SAML
3 11 (5.76%) OAuth
4 10 (5.24%) OpenID
5 7 (3.66%) REST
6 6 (3.14%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.62%) RESTful
8 3 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (1.05%) Middleware
9 2 (1.05%) SAP Fiori
10 1 (0.52%) .NET
10 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.52%) Great Expectations
10 1 (0.52%) ISPF
10 1 (0.52%) JSON
10 1 (0.52%) React
10 1 (0.52%) SAP Core Interface
10 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.24%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.14%) Life Science
3 6 (3.14%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.62%) Clustering
4 5 (2.62%) Replication
5 4 (2.09%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.09%) PMI
6 3 (1.57%) BYOD
6 3 (1.57%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.57%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.57%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.05%) Derivative
7 2 (1.05%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.05%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.19%) Linux
1 8 (4.19%) Windows
2 4 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.09%) Solaris
3 1 (0.52%) Unix
3 1 (0.52%) Windows XP
3 1 (0.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (21.47%) Stakeholder Management
2 35 (18.32%) ERP
2 35 (18.32%) Risk Management
3 32 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (15.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 26 (13.61%) Project Management
6 25 (13.09%) Cybersecurity
7 24 (12.57%) Agile
7 24 (12.57%) Identity Access Management
7 24 (12.57%) ITSM
8 19 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (9.95%) Decision-Making
9 18 (9.42%) Roadmaps
10 17 (8.90%) Incident Management
11 16 (8.38%) DevOps
11 16 (8.38%) Privileged Access Management
11 16 (8.38%) Revenue Recognition
12 15 (7.85%) IT Audit
12 15 (7.85%) ITIL
12 15 (7.85%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (12.04%) SQL
2 22 (11.52%) Python
3 17 (8.90%) PowerShell
4 10 (5.24%) Java
5 5 (2.62%) Bash
6 4 (2.09%) C#
6 4 (2.09%) Perl
7 2 (1.05%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.52%) COBOL
8 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.52%) JCL
8 1 (0.52%) R
8 1 (0.52%) VB
8 1 (0.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (17.28%) Degree
2 22 (11.52%) CISSP
3 18 (9.42%) ACCA
4 17 (8.90%) CISM
5 13 (6.81%) CIMA
6 9 (4.71%) CISA
7 8 (4.19%) PMI Certification
8 7 (3.66%) FFIEC
9 5 (2.62%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.09%) CRISC
10 4 (2.09%) PMP
11 3 (1.57%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.57%) SC Cleared
11 3 (1.57%) Security Cleared
12 2 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.52%) CBAP
13 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (39.27%) GDPR
2 37 (19.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (15.71%) NIST
4 23 (12.04%) PCI DSS
5 18 (9.42%) GRC
5 18 (9.42%) HIPAA
6 17 (8.90%) IFRS
7 16 (8.38%) ITGC
8 15 (7.85%) GxP
9 10 (5.24%) SLA
10 8 (4.19%) SOX 404
11 7 (3.66%) COBIT
12 5 (2.62%) PSD2
12 5 (2.62%) QA
13 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
13 2 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (1.05%) MiFID
13 2 (1.05%) PMO
13 2 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (6.28%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.09%) Docker
3 4 (2.09%) NDS
3 4 (2.09%) NetIQ eDirectory
3 4 (2.09%) NFS
3 4 (2.09%) Veritas File System
3 4 (2.09%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 4 (2.09%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.52%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.52%) RACF
4 1 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (7.85%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (2.62%) Ansible
3 4 (2.09%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.09%) QRadar
3 4 (2.09%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (2.09%) RSA Archer
3 4 (2.09%) Terraform
4 1 (0.52%) Avamar
4 1 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Identity Manager
4 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (17.28%) SAP
2 32 (16.75%) Oracle
3 23 (12.04%) ServiceNow
4 20 (10.47%) Microsoft
5 16 (8.38%) CyberArk
6 9 (4.71%) Okta
7 8 (4.19%) Workday
8 7 (3.66%) VMware
9 6 (3.14%) Ping Identity
10 5 (2.62%) ForgeRock
11 4 (2.09%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (2.09%) NetIQ
11 4 (2.09%) Qualys
11 4 (2.09%) Red Hat
11 4 (2.09%) SaltStack
11 4 (2.09%) Splunk
12 3 (1.57%) OpenText
12 3 (1.57%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.57%) Thycotic
13 2 (1.05%) Adaptive Insights
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