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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 467 465
Rank change year-on-year +91 -2 +236
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 184 106 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.28% 0.35%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.26% 2.07% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 70 95
10th Percentile £403 £357 £326
25th Percentile £510 £371 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year - +6.80% -6.36%
75th Percentile £652 £625 £644
90th Percentile £743 £675 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £21.50 - £30.08
25th Percentile £27.06 - £36.20
Median hourly rate £65.00 £44.04 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +47.59% +11.21% +15.99%
75th Percentile £91.56 - -
90th Percentile £92.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £44.04 £39.60
% change year-on-year -47.77% +11.21% +164.00%

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 5,640 5,117 7,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.12% 13.38% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,615 3,036 4,768
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 262 251
10th Percentile £13.60 £12.25 £14.03
25th Percentile £17.05 £15.00 £18.60
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.09 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% -23.97% +54.91%
75th Percentile £59.38 £58.44 £64.13
90th Percentile £80.28 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.18 £26.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year +6.34% -26.39% +71.43%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +114 164 £550 - 70
London +65 82 £550 -8.33% 28
UK excluding London +27 75 £550 +4.76% 53
Work from Home +50 71 £537 +7.40% 31
North of England -2 28 £582 +58.30% 16
Yorkshire -6 15 £589 +60.14% 8
South East +32 13 £538 - 22
North West -7 13 £569 +14.09% 8
South West +34 12 £503 - 4
East of England +10 9 £650 +16.07% 3
Midlands -12 6 £525 -12.50% 7
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
West Midlands -10 4 £525 -22.22% 6
East Midlands -6 2 £484 -19.38% 1
Wales - 2 £625 -
Scotland -21 1 £600 -2.04% 2

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (7.07%) Confluence
2 3 (1.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.54%) CICS
3 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (4.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.54%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (10.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (8.70%) NetSuite
3 7 (3.80%) Oracle Assets
3 7 (3.80%) Oracle EBS R12
3 7 (3.80%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.63%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.63%) SAP CO
4 3 (1.63%) SAP FI
4 3 (1.63%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (1.63%) Workday HCM
5 2 (1.09%) SAP ERP
5 2 (1.09%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.54%) Actimize
6 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.54%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.54%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.54%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.54%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.54%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (18.48%) Azure
2 28 (15.22%) SaaS
3 23 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 22 (11.96%) AWS
5 15 (8.15%) GitHub
6 13 (7.07%) Power Platform
7 11 (5.98%) OCI
8 7 (3.80%) Lucidchart
9 6 (3.26%) GCP
10 5 (2.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.17%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
13 1 (0.54%) Alation
13 1 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.89%) Firewall
2 6 (3.26%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.17%) DNS
4 2 (1.09%) HTTP
4 2 (1.09%) SSL
5 1 (0.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.07%) Power BI
1 13 (7.07%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.80%) SAP HANA
3 4 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.63%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (1.63%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.09%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.54%) Ataccama
6 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.54%) DB2
6 1 (0.54%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.54%) Metadata
6 1 (0.54%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (11.96%) JIRA
2 5 (2.72%) Git
3 4 (2.17%) Subversion
3 4 (2.17%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.63%) JMeter
4 3 (1.63%) LoadRunner
4 3 (1.63%) NeoLoad
5 2 (1.09%) Gradle
General
1 93 (50.54%) Finance
2 51 (27.72%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (23.37%) Social Skills
4 17 (9.24%) Manufacturing
5 14 (7.61%) Pharmaceutical
6 12 (6.52%) Banking
7 11 (5.98%) Telecoms
8 10 (5.43%) Legal
9 6 (3.26%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.17%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.17%) Front Office
11 4 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.63%) Retail
13 2 (1.09%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.09%) Marketing
13 2 (1.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (11.96%) Analyst
2 16 (8.70%) Architect
3 14 (7.61%) Lead
4 12 (6.52%) Incident Manager
5 11 (5.98%) Consultant
6 9 (4.89%) Business Analyst
6 9 (4.89%) Security Architect
7 8 (4.35%) Project Manager
8 7 (3.80%) Software Engineer
8 7 (3.80%) Technical Writer
9 6 (3.26%) AWS Specialist
9 6 (3.26%) IAM Specialist
9 6 (3.26%) Programme Manager
9 6 (3.26%) Risk Manager
9 6 (3.26%) SAP Manager
9 6 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.72%) Accountant
10 5 (2.72%) IT Manager
11 4 (2.17%) Administrator
11 4 (2.17%) Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.59%) SailPoint
2 18 (9.78%) OAuth
3 17 (9.24%) OpenID
4 15 (8.15%) SAML
5 10 (5.43%) LDAP
5 10 (5.43%) REST
6 5 (2.72%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.72%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (2.17%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.17%) Kafka
7 4 (2.17%) NumPy
7 4 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (2.17%) Pandas
7 4 (2.17%) Spring
7 4 (2.17%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.63%) Web Services
9 2 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
10 1 (0.54%) Node.js
10 1 (0.54%) React
10 1 (0.54%) SAP Core Interface
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.89%) Life Science
1 9 (4.89%) Security Posture
2 8 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.26%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.72%) Clustering
4 5 (2.72%) Replication
5 4 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.63%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.63%) FMCG
6 3 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.63%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.09%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.09%) Derivative
8 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.35%) Linux
1 8 (4.35%) Windows
2 4 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.17%) Solaris
3 1 (0.54%) Unix
3 1 (0.54%) Windows XP
3 1 (0.54%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
1 39 (21.20%) Risk Management
2 33 (17.93%) Identity Access Management
3 28 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (13.59%) ERP
4 25 (13.59%) Project Management
5 23 (12.50%) Agile
5 23 (12.50%) ITSM
6 22 (11.96%) Cybersecurity
7 21 (11.41%) Mentoring
8 18 (9.78%) Decision-Making
8 18 (9.78%) Revenue Recognition
9 17 (9.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (8.70%) Incident Response
11 15 (8.15%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (8.15%) Regulatory Compliance
11 15 (8.15%) Roadmaps
11 15 (8.15%) Validation
12 14 (7.61%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.04%) Python
2 23 (12.50%) SQL
3 12 (6.52%) Java
3 12 (6.52%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.72%) Bash
4 5 (2.72%) C#
5 4 (2.17%) Perl
6 3 (1.63%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.63%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.54%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.54%) COBOL
7 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.54%) JCL
7 1 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (12.50%) Degree
2 20 (10.87%) CISSP
3 15 (8.15%) ACCA
3 15 (8.15%) CISM
4 13 (7.07%) CISA
5 11 (5.98%) CIMA
5 11 (5.98%) Security Cleared
6 9 (4.89%) CRISC
7 7 (3.80%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.72%) FFIEC
9 4 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.17%) OCP
9 4 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (2.17%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.63%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.63%) PMP
11 2 (1.09%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 1 (0.54%) CBAP
12 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (41.30%) GDPR
2 33 (17.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (14.13%) HIPAA
4 23 (12.50%) PCI DSS
5 22 (11.96%) NIST
6 21 (11.41%) IFRS
7 18 (9.78%) GxP
8 17 (9.24%) GRC
9 13 (7.07%) ITGC
10 9 (4.89%) SLA
11 5 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (2.17%) SOX 404
13 3 (1.63%) Basel III
13 3 (1.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (1.09%) MiFID
14 2 (1.09%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
15 1 (0.54%) IFRS 17
15 1 (0.54%) SOC 1
System Software
1 10 (5.43%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.26%) Docker
3 4 (2.17%) NFS
3 4 (2.17%) Veritas File System
3 4 (2.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 4 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.09%) NDS
4 2 (1.09%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 1 (0.54%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.54%) RACF
5 1 (0.54%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 14 (7.61%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (3.26%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.72%) Terraform
4 4 (2.17%) Ansible
4 4 (2.17%) QRadar
4 4 (2.17%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.09%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 29 (15.76%) SAP
2 28 (15.22%) Oracle
3 21 (11.41%) Microsoft
4 20 (10.87%) ServiceNow
5 17 (9.24%) Okta
6 15 (8.15%) CyberArk
7 8 (4.35%) Workday
8 6 (3.26%) Ping Identity
9 4 (2.17%) Qualys
9 4 (2.17%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.17%) SaltStack
9 4 (2.17%) Splunk
9 4 (2.17%) VMware
10 3 (1.63%) Ariba
10 3 (1.63%) ForgeRock
10 3 (1.63%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.09%) Adaptive Insights
11 2 (1.09%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (1.09%) Databricks
11 2 (1.09%) NetIQ
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