Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 21 September 2021

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 21 September 2021 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
21 Sep 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 589 432 640
Rank change year-on-year -157 +208 +46
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 199 71 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.24% 0.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.00% 2.06% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 50 116
10th Percentile £370 £389 £325
25th Percentile £463 £434 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £508 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% +6.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £583
90th Percentile £725 £664 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £19.48 " £18.68
25th Percentile £25.81 £16.13 £21.76
Median hourly rate £37.75 £16.25 £31.35
Median % change year-on-year +132.31% -48.16% +20.56%
75th Percentile £50.81 £16.38 £39.46
90th Percentile £57.83 " £41.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £16.25 £33.78
% change year-on-year +132.31% -51.89% +29.92%

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 9,973 3,442 9,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.49% 11.70% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,703 2,137 6,237
10th Percentile £263 £263 £249
25th Percentile £381 £360 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% +3.89% -
75th Percentile £589 £563 £550
90th Percentile £675 £638 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £433 £425
% change year-on-year +0.54% +1.80% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 158 407
10th Percentile £11.17 £10.92 £10.80
25th Percentile £13.00 £15.31 £14.63
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.50 £20.89
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.92% +4.45%
75th Percentile £42.22 £45.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £62.12 £55.00 £53.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £21.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -16.86% -6.44% +12.50%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Daily rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 21 September 2021.

Daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Hourly rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 21 September 2021.

Hourly rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 14 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 21 September 2021. 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 -144 175 £525 +3.45% 43
London -111 110 £575 +9.52% 19
UK excluding London -116 62 £475 - 24
Work from Home -219 49 £544 +8.75% 3
South East -75 27 £500 +28.21% 6
Midlands -58 19 £463 +22.35% 5
West Midlands - 16 £291 - 2
East of England -55 5 £500 +3.09% 5
Scotland - 4 - -
South West - 4 £365 - 3
East Midlands -37 3 £500 +32.28% 3
North of England -88 3 £321 +8.64% 5
North West -57 2 £321 +167.08% 1
Yorkshire -56 1 - - 4

For the 6 months to 21 September 2021, 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 77 (38.69%) Finance
2 55 (27.64%) Social Skills
3 44 (22.11%) Risk Management
4 42 (21.11%) CISA
5 41 (20.60%) IT Audit
6 40 (20.10%) SQL
7 38 (19.10%) Azure
8 37 (18.59%) Information Security
9 35 (17.59%) Change Management
9 35 (17.59%) Agile Software Development
9 35 (17.59%) Microsoft
10 33 (16.58%) PCI DSS
11 32 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
12 29 (14.57%) Degree
12 29 (14.57%) COBIT
12 29 (14.57%) Windows
12 29 (14.57%) Management Information System
12 29 (14.57%) GDPR
13 27 (13.57%) CISSP
13 27 (13.57%) Active Directory
14 26 (13.07%) SAP
14 26 (13.07%) Oracle
15 25 (12.56%) ITGC
16 24 (12.06%) Stakeholder Management
16 24 (12.06%) CISM
16 24 (12.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 23 (11.56%) DevOps
17 23 (11.56%) CRISC
17 23 (11.56%) Scrum
18 22 (11.06%) Risk Assessment

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 13 (6.53%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.52%) Confluence
3 5 (2.51%) IBM Notes
4 3 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.51%) CMS
4 3 (1.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.01%) Camunda
6 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 14 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Cloudability
1 3 (1.51%) HFM
1 3 (1.51%) Hyperion Planning
1 3 (1.51%) PeopleSoft Financials
1 3 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.01%) SAP APO
2 2 (1.01%) SAP BPC
2 2 (1.01%) SAP SD
2 2 (1.01%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.50%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.50%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.50%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.50%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 38 (19.10%) Azure
2 22 (11.06%) AWS
2 22 (11.06%) SaaS
3 15 (7.54%) Power Platform
4 14 (7.04%) IaaS
4 14 (7.04%) PaaS
5 11 (5.53%) GCP
6 9 (4.52%) GitHub
7 8 (4.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (4.02%) Azure Event Grid
7 8 (4.02%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.51%) Azure Active Directory
9 2 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.01%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.50%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.55%) WAN
2 18 (9.05%) LAN
3 11 (5.53%) Firewall
4 10 (5.03%) DNS
4 10 (5.03%) TCP/IP
5 8 (4.02%) Kerberos
6 7 (3.52%) VPN
7 6 (3.02%) Internet
7 6 (3.02%) SSL
8 5 (2.51%) Network Security
9 3 (1.51%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (1.51%) Wireless
10 2 (1.01%) BGP
10 2 (1.01%) Broadband
10 2 (1.01%) DMZ
10 2 (1.01%) EIGRP
10 2 (1.01%) HTTP
10 2 (1.01%) IPsec
10 2 (1.01%) L2TP
10 2 (1.01%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.54%) Power BI
2 14 (7.04%) Big Data
2 14 (7.04%) Data Lake
3 11 (5.53%) Oracle Database
3 11 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.52%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.02%) RDBMS
6 6 (3.02%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.01%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.01%) SQL Server 2008
7 4 (2.01%) Tableau
8 3 (1.51%) Apache Hive
8 3 (1.51%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.51%) HBase
8 3 (1.51%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.51%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (1.51%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (1.51%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 10 (5.03%) JIRA
2 9 (4.52%) Subversion
3 7 (3.52%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.51%) Git (software)
5 4 (2.01%) Serena SBM
6 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.50%) GitLab
6 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.50%) LSMW
6 1 (0.50%) Selenium
6 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.50%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 77 (38.69%) Finance
2 55 (27.64%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.04%) Banking
5 7 (3.52%) Billing
6 6 (3.02%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.51%) General Ledger
7 5 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.51%) Retail
8 4 (2.01%) French Language
8 4 (2.01%) Legal
8 4 (2.01%) Marketing
8 4 (2.01%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.51%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.51%) German Language
9 3 (1.51%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.01%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (14.07%) Consultant
2 27 (13.57%) Architect
3 20 (10.05%) Analyst
4 13 (6.53%) SOX Consultant
5 11 (5.53%) IT Manager
5 11 (5.53%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (5.03%) Security Manager
7 8 (4.02%) Auditor
7 8 (4.02%) Azure Architect
7 8 (4.02%) Compliance Manager
7 8 (4.02%) Developer
7 8 (4.02%) Security Architect
7 8 (4.02%) Security Consultant
7 8 (4.02%) Support Engineer
8 7 (3.52%) Business Analyst
8 7 (3.52%) IT Auditor
8 7 (3.52%) IT Consultant
8 7 (3.52%) Project Manager
9 6 (3.02%) Administrator
10 5 (2.51%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.03%) REST
2 8 (4.02%) LDAP
3 7 (3.52%) Web Services
4 6 (3.02%) Middleware
5 4 (2.01%) OpenID
6 2 (1.01%) Drools
6 2 (1.01%) SAML
6 2 (1.01%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.50%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.50%) jBPM
7 1 (0.50%) JPA
7 1 (0.50%) MDX
7 1 (0.50%) ODBC
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.57%) Management Information System
2 12 (6.03%) Clustering
3 9 (4.52%) Replication
4 5 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.51%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.01%) FMCG
6 3 (1.51%) CESG
6 3 (1.51%) CMDB
6 3 (1.51%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.01%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.01%) LIMS
7 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.50%) BYOD
8 1 (0.50%) Life Science
8 1 (0.50%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.50%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.57%) Windows
2 20 (10.05%) Windows Server
3 11 (5.53%) Linux
4 6 (3.02%) Solaris
5 5 (2.51%) Android
5 5 (2.51%) Windows Phone
5 5 (2.51%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (2.01%) CentOS
6 4 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.01%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.01%) Unix
6 4 (2.01%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.51%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.01%) SUSE
9 1 (0.50%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.50%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.50%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (22.11%) Risk Management
2 41 (20.60%) IT Audit
3 37 (18.59%) Information Security
4 35 (17.59%) Agile Software Development
4 35 (17.59%) Change Management
5 24 (12.06%) Stakeholder Management
6 23 (11.56%) DevOps
6 23 (11.56%) Scrum
7 22 (11.06%) Risk Assessment
8 20 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (10.05%) Project Management
9 18 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (9.05%) Data Security
9 18 (9.05%) ITIL
10 17 (8.54%) Computer Science
10 17 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (8.54%) High Availability
10 17 (8.54%) IT Governance
11 16 (8.04%) Decision-Making
12 15 (7.54%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (20.10%) SQL
2 20 (10.05%) Python
3 10 (5.03%) PowerShell
4 9 (4.52%) Bash Shell
4 9 (4.52%) Java
4 9 (4.52%) Perl
5 5 (2.51%) Ruby
5 5 (2.51%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.01%) C#
6 4 (2.01%) VBA
7 3 (1.51%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.51%) Scala
8 2 (1.01%) C
9 1 (0.50%) ABAP
9 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
9 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 42 (21.11%) CISA
2 29 (14.57%) Degree
3 27 (13.57%) CISSP
4 24 (12.06%) CISM
5 23 (11.56%) CRISC
6 9 (4.52%) CGEIT
6 9 (4.52%) ISACA
7 8 (4.02%) GIAC
8 7 (3.52%) GSEC
8 7 (3.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 7 (3.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 6 (3.02%) PMI Certification
9 6 (3.02%) PMP
10 5 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (2.51%) Security Cleared
11 4 (2.01%) CESG Certified Professional
11 4 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.51%) ACCA
12 3 (1.51%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (16.58%) PCI DSS
2 29 (14.57%) COBIT
2 29 (14.57%) GDPR
3 25 (12.56%) ITGC
4 24 (12.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (8.54%) NIST
6 16 (8.04%) GRC
7 10 (5.03%) SOC 2
8 6 (3.02%) Data Quality
8 6 (3.02%) HIPAA
9 5 (2.51%) QA
10 4 (2.01%) FedRAMP
10 4 (2.01%) IFRS
11 3 (1.51%) GxP
11 3 (1.51%) PMO
12 2 (1.01%) GAAP
12 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (1.01%) PSD2
12 2 (1.01%) SLA
12 2 (1.01%) Solvency II
System Software
1 27 (13.57%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.52%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (3.02%) Docker
5 3 (1.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (1.51%) HDFS
5 3 (1.51%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.01%) NFS
6 2 (1.01%) Veritas File System
6 2 (1.01%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (1.01%) Xen
7 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (7.54%) CASB
2 9 (4.52%) QRadar
3 8 (4.02%) Ansible
4 7 (3.52%) Control-M
4 7 (3.52%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (3.52%) Tivoli
4 7 (3.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 6 (3.02%) Kubernetes
6 4 (2.01%) Icinga
6 4 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.51%) Data Guard
7 3 (1.51%) Hadoop YARN
7 3 (1.51%) HP Quality Center
7 3 (1.51%) Netcool
7 3 (1.51%) Opscode Chef
7 3 (1.51%) Puppet
7 3 (1.51%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (1.51%) Terraform
8 2 (1.01%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (1.01%) Nagios
Vendors
1 35 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.07%) Oracle
2 26 (13.07%) SAP
3 13 (6.53%) IBM
4 12 (6.03%) McAfee
4 12 (6.03%) Symantec
4 12 (6.03%) VMware
5 11 (5.53%) Qualys
5 11 (5.53%) Splunk
6 10 (5.03%) ServiceNow
7 9 (4.52%) CyberArk
7 9 (4.52%) Databricks
8 8 (4.02%) BMC
9 7 (3.52%) EMC
10 6 (3.02%) Apple
10 6 (3.02%) Cisco
10 6 (3.02%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.51%) Citrix
11 5 (2.51%) Workday
12 4 (2.01%) PeopleSoft