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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 384 500
Rank change year-on-year -99 +116 -26
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 183 171 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.52% 0.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.02% 3.11% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 105 60
10th Percentile £425 £393 £357
25th Percentile £450 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -0.86% +16.00%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £633
90th Percentile £760 £740 £692
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -1.61% -1.14% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £55.63 £21.50 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.50 £44.04
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% +87.33% +11.21%
75th Percentile £76.50 £92.50 -
90th Percentile £81.20 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £23.00 £44.04
% change year-on-year +170.65% -47.77% +11.21%

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 9,059 5,502 5,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.10% 16.82% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,810 3,549 3,462
10th Percentile £338 £281 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -0.10% -4.67%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £623
90th Percentile £700 £715 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 247 359
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.56 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.49 £17.48 £14.41
Median hourly rate £38.86 £27.64 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.59% +10.56% -34.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.12 £54.18
90th Percentile £82.25 £84.15 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.86 £25.08 £25.00
% change year-on-year +54.98% +0.30% -28.57%

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 25 July 2026.

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 25 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 14 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 25 July 2026. 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 -101 157 £555 -2.46% 48
UK excluding London -77 78 £535 -1.61% 27
London -64 76 £598 -6.75% 23
Work from Home -59 71 £511 -4.84% 13
North of England -66 39 £450 -19.57% 6
North West -45 21 £600 +4.90% 1
Yorkshire -45 18 £450 -11.24% 5
South East -68 13 £563 +4.65% 9
East of England -11 11 £558 -3.04% 1
Midlands -48 10 £600 +6.38% 7
West Midlands -50 7 £650 +7.79% 6
Scotland -18 4 £600 - 1
East Midlands -13 3 £550 +24.29% 1
South West -35 1 £600 +18.81% 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 7 (3.83%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.73%) Apache
2 5 (2.73%) IIS
3 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.55%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.55%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (13.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.28%) NetSuite
3 4 (2.19%) HFM
3 4 (2.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 4 (2.19%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (2.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.09%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.09%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.09%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.55%) SAP CS
5 1 (0.55%) SAP ECC
5 1 (0.55%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.55%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.55%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.55%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 55 (30.05%) Azure
2 50 (27.32%) AWS
3 18 (9.84%) Entra ID
4 11 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (6.01%) GCP
4 11 (6.01%) SaaS
5 8 (4.37%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.28%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.19%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (1.64%) IaaS
8 3 (1.64%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.09%) GitHub
9 2 (1.09%) Matillion
9 2 (1.09%) OCI
9 2 (1.09%) Veeva
10 1 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.92%) Network Security
2 7 (3.83%) HTTP
3 5 (2.73%) HTTPS
4 4 (2.19%) Firewall
5 1 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.37%) Power BI
2 7 (3.83%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.83%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.28%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.64%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.09%) GIS
7 1 (0.55%) Big Data
7 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.55%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.55%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.55%) Spotfire
7 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.28%) JIRA
2 5 (2.73%) Git
3 2 (1.09%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.09%) GitLab
4 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.55%) Gradle
4 1 (0.55%) Introscope
4 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.55%) Maven
4 1 (0.55%) Postman
4 1 (0.55%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.55%) Selenium
4 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 100 (54.64%) Finance
2 69 (37.70%) Social Skills
3 38 (20.77%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.93%) Legal
5 15 (8.20%) Banking
6 13 (7.10%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (4.92%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.73%) Billing
9 5 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.64%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.64%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.09%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.09%) Retail
12 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.55%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 33 (18.03%) Lead
2 30 (16.39%) Architect
3 25 (13.66%) Analyst
4 18 (9.84%) Consultant
5 15 (8.20%) Author
5 15 (8.20%) Technical Author
6 12 (6.56%) Business Analyst
7 11 (6.01%) SOX Analyst
8 9 (4.92%) IT Analyst
8 9 (4.92%) Senior
9 8 (4.37%) Finance Business Analyst
9 8 (4.37%) Financial Analyst
9 8 (4.37%) Project Manager
10 7 (3.83%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.28%) Data Engineer
12 5 (2.73%) Compliance Analyst
12 5 (2.73%) Data Architect
12 5 (2.73%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (2.73%) Security Consultant
12 5 (2.73%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.74%) REST
2 12 (6.56%) LDAP
3 9 (4.92%) SailPoint
4 7 (3.83%) SOAP
4 7 (3.83%) Spring
4 7 (3.83%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.28%) JDBC
5 6 (3.28%) OAuth
5 6 (3.28%) OpenID
5 6 (3.28%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (3.28%) SAML
6 5 (2.73%) AWS CDK
6 5 (2.73%) Jakarta EE
6 5 (2.73%) JSON
7 4 (2.19%) Middleware
7 4 (2.19%) Node.js
8 2 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (1.09%) Snowpark
9 1 (0.55%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.55%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.10%) Management Information System
2 12 (6.56%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.37%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.37%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.83%) BYOD
5 6 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.73%) Reinsurance
6 5 (2.73%) Replication
7 4 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.19%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.64%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.64%) Augmented Reality
8 3 (1.64%) CMDB
8 3 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.64%) Life Science
8 3 (1.64%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.74%) Windows
2 9 (4.92%) Linux
3 4 (2.19%) Unix
4 1 (0.55%) AIX
4 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (30.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 45 (24.59%) Agile
3 36 (19.67%) ERP
4 32 (17.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 31 (16.94%) Change Management
6 28 (15.30%) Migration
6 28 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (14.75%) DevOps
8 26 (14.21%) Cybersecurity
8 26 (14.21%) RBAC
9 25 (13.66%) Identity Access Management
10 24 (13.11%) Procure-to-Pay
11 22 (12.02%) Roadmaps
12 21 (11.48%) AI
13 20 (10.93%) Order to Cash
14 19 (10.38%) Information Security
14 19 (10.38%) Record to Report
15 18 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 17 (9.29%) User Acceptance Testing
17 16 (8.74%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.93%) Java
1 20 (10.93%) Python
1 20 (10.93%) SQL
2 10 (5.46%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.19%) Bash
3 4 (2.19%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.55%) BeanShell
5 1 (0.55%) Jython
5 1 (0.55%) R
5 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (15.30%) Degree
2 21 (11.48%) CISSP
3 16 (8.74%) CISM
4 15 (8.20%) ACCA
5 13 (7.10%) PMI Certification
6 12 (6.56%) PMP
7 10 (5.46%) CIMA
8 6 (3.28%) CISA
9 5 (2.73%) Security Cleared
10 4 (2.19%) CRISC
11 3 (1.64%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.09%) SAFe Agilist
13 1 (0.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 1 (0.55%) SAP Certification
13 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (31.15%) GDPR
2 37 (20.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (12.02%) NIST
4 19 (10.38%) ITGC
5 16 (8.74%) PCI DSS
6 15 (8.20%) GRC
6 15 (8.20%) HIPAA
7 14 (7.65%) GAAP
7 14 (7.65%) IFRS
8 10 (5.46%) Data Quality
9 5 (2.73%) COBIT
9 5 (2.73%) Solvency II
10 4 (2.19%) GxP
11 3 (1.64%) NIST 800
11 3 (1.64%) PMO
11 3 (1.64%) QA
12 1 (0.55%) PSD2
12 1 (0.55%) SLA
12 1 (0.55%) SOC 1
System Software
1 20 (10.93%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (5.46%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (4.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.55%) CA Wily
3 1 (0.55%) Puppet
3 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (31.69%) SAP
2 26 (14.21%) Microsoft
3 21 (11.48%) ServiceNow
4 18 (9.84%) Oracle
5 13 (7.10%) Workday
6 12 (6.56%) CyberArk
7 8 (4.37%) Ariba
8 5 (2.73%) Databricks
9 4 (2.19%) Google
9 4 (2.19%) Hyperion
9 4 (2.19%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.19%) Tagetik
10 3 (1.64%) Alteryx
10 3 (1.64%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.64%) Okta
10 3 (1.64%) Refinitiv
10 3 (1.64%) Splunk
11 2 (1.09%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (1.09%) Centrify
11 2 (1.09%) Zscaler