Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 25 September 2017

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 25 September 2017 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
25 Sep 2017		 Same period 2016 Same period 2015
Rank 647 581 558
Rank change year-on-year -66 -23 -12
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 217 323 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.82% 2.68% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 179 239
UK median daily rate £485 £434 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +11.75% +2.12% +6.25%
10th Percentile £311 £260 £280
90th Percentile £663 £590 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £400 £423
% change year-on-year +20.00% -5.33% +10.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +42.86% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +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 11904 12070 13373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 11.39% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7769 7825 8510
UK median daily rate £438 £413 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.93% +3.25% -
10th Percentile £250 £225 £231
90th Percentile £638 £600 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £375
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 369 430 466
UK median hourly rate £21.90 £23.78 £21.55
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -7.91% +10.35% +7.75%
10th Percentile £10.64 £10.74 £11.00
90th Percentile £48.09 £46.78 £53.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £25.50 £21.55
% change year-on-year -21.57% +18.33% +7.75%

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 25 September 2017.

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 25 September 2017.

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 25 September 2017. 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 -52 203 £485 +11.75% 10
UK excluding London +11 123 £480 +20.00% 4
London -59 89 £500 +5.26% 6
South East +29 61 £463 +32.14% 2
North of England +39 20 £425 - 1
Midlands +25 17 £540 +27.06%
East Midlands -1 12 £540 +20.00%
North West +31 11 £380 +1.33% 1
Scotland +7 11 £425 -15.00%
South West +10 8 £575 +26.37% 1
Yorkshire +12 7 £400 -6.87%
West Midlands +26 5 £450 +20.00%
East of England -14 5 £363 -27.50%
North East - 2 £550 -
Channel Islands - 1 £575 -

For the 6 months to 25 September 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Sarbanes-Oxley.

1 79 (36.41%) Finance
2 60 (27.65%) SAP
3 51 (23.50%) ITIL
3 51 (23.50%) Information Security
4 41 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (18.43%) Risk Management
6 33 (15.21%) Windows
6 33 (15.21%) Banking
7 32 (14.75%) PCI DSS
7 32 (14.75%) Service Management
8 31 (14.29%) Management Information System
8 31 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (14.29%) Degree
9 30 (13.82%) Linux
9 30 (13.82%) CISSP
10 29 (13.36%) Identity Access Management
11 28 (12.90%) SQL
12 27 (12.44%) Microsoft Excel
12 27 (12.44%) Microsoft
13 23 (10.60%) Migration
13 23 (10.60%) Unix
13 23 (10.60%) User Acceptance Testing
13 23 (10.60%) Agile Software Development
13 23 (10.60%) SAP Security
14 22 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (10.14%) COBIT
15 21 (9.68%) Active Directory
16 20 (9.22%) Project Management
17 19 (8.76%) Pharmaceutical
17 19 (8.76%) CISA

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 8 (3.69%) SAS
1 8 (3.69%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.30%) IIS
3 2 (0.92%) MS Exchange
3 2 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.92%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.46%) Confluence
4 1 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 27 (12.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (7.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (3.23%) MS Visio
5 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (5.99%) SAP GRC
2 7 (3.23%) SAP APO
2 7 (3.23%) SAP MM
3 5 (2.30%) SAP MDM
3 5 (2.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.92%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.92%) SAP SM
5 1 (0.46%) Global One
5 1 (0.46%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.46%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.46%) Sentinel
Cloud Services
1 12 (5.53%) Microsoft Azure
2 8 (3.69%) IaaS
3 6 (2.76%) Amazon AWS
4 5 (2.30%) PaaS
4 5 (2.30%) SaaS
5 2 (0.92%) Akamai
5 2 (0.92%) Office 365
6 1 (0.46%) Azure Active Directory
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.45%) Firewall
2 10 (4.61%) Network Security
2 10 (4.61%) TCP/IP
3 9 (4.15%) LAN
3 9 (4.15%) WAN
4 6 (2.76%) SAN
4 6 (2.76%) VPN
5 5 (2.30%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (2.30%) SSL
5 5 (2.30%) Wireless
6 4 (1.84%) OSPF
7 3 (1.38%) BGP
7 3 (1.38%) HTTP
7 3 (1.38%) MVNO
7 3 (1.38%) NAS
8 2 (0.92%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.92%) FTP
8 2 (0.92%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.92%) VLAN
8 2 (0.92%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.61%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.15%) SAP HANA
3 7 (3.23%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (2.76%) SAP Data Services
5 4 (1.84%) SAP BW
6 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle9i Database
8 1 (0.46%) Big Data
8 1 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.46%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
8 1 (0.46%) DB2
8 1 (0.46%) Essbase
8 1 (0.46%) GIS
8 1 (0.46%) MS Access
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.15%) JIRA
2 7 (3.23%) LSMW
3 3 (1.38%) Git (software)
4 2 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.46%) CA Gen
5 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.46%) JUnit
5 1 (0.46%) Log4j
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.46%) Toad
General
1 79 (36.41%) Finance
2 33 (15.21%) Banking
3 19 (8.76%) Pharmaceutical
4 17 (7.83%) Manufacturing
5 10 (4.61%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.15%) Retail
7 7 (3.23%) Legal
8 6 (2.76%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.84%) Billing
10 3 (1.38%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.92%) Law
12 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.46%) French Language
12 1 (0.46%) Front Office
12 1 (0.46%) Marketing
12 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (29.49%) Analyst
2 25 (11.52%) Architect
3 16 (7.37%) SAP Analyst
4 15 (6.91%) Developer
4 15 (6.91%) Project Manager
5 14 (6.45%) Security Manager
5 14 (6.45%) Service Manager
6 13 (5.99%) Data Analyst
7 11 (5.07%) Business Analyst
7 11 (5.07%) Consultant
8 10 (4.61%) Azure Architect
8 10 (4.61%) Compliance Manager
8 10 (4.61%) IT Manager
8 10 (4.61%) Senior Analyst
9 9 (4.15%) Risk Manager
9 9 (4.15%) Security Analyst
9 9 (4.15%) Security Engineer
9 9 (4.15%) Senior Architect
10 8 (3.69%) SAP Data Analyst
10 8 (3.69%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.23%) .NET
2 5 (2.30%) Middleware
3 3 (1.38%) SAML
3 3 (1.38%) Web Services
3 3 (1.38%) XML
4 2 (0.92%) CSS
4 2 (0.92%) HTML
4 2 (0.92%) Regular Expression
4 2 (0.92%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.46%) EDI
5 1 (0.46%) JDBC
5 1 (0.46%) OAuth
5 1 (0.46%) OpenID
5 1 (0.46%) Spring
5 1 (0.46%) Spring Batch
5 1 (0.46%) Spring Integration
5 1 (0.46%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 41 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 13 (5.99%) PKI
4 12 (5.53%) Computer Science
5 10 (4.61%) Algorithms
6 8 (3.69%) Credit Risk
7 7 (3.23%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.76%) AS400
8 6 (2.76%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.76%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.30%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.84%) Life Science
10 4 (1.84%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.38%) Derivative
11 3 (1.38%) Equities
11 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.38%) Market Risk
11 3 (1.38%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.21%) Windows
2 30 (13.82%) Linux
3 23 (10.60%) Unix
4 10 (4.61%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.69%) AIX
6 6 (2.76%) HPUX
6 6 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.76%) Solaris
7 5 (2.30%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (1.84%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.84%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.92%) SUSE
9 2 (0.92%) zOS
10 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.46%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (23.50%) Information Security
1 51 (23.50%) ITIL
2 40 (18.43%) Risk Management
3 32 (14.75%) Service Management
4 29 (13.36%) Identity Access Management
5 23 (10.60%) Agile Software Development
5 23 (10.60%) Migration
5 23 (10.60%) SAP Security
5 23 (10.60%) User Acceptance Testing
6 22 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (9.22%) Project Management
8 19 (8.76%) SIEM
9 18 (8.29%) Data Analysis
9 18 (8.29%) Data Modelling
9 18 (8.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (7.83%) Internal Audit
10 17 (7.83%) Regulatory Compliance
11 16 (7.37%) Change Management
11 16 (7.37%) Security Operations
12 14 (6.45%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 28 (12.90%) SQL
2 8 (3.69%) T-SQL
3 5 (2.30%) C#
4 4 (1.84%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.84%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.84%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.38%) Java
5 3 (1.38%) Python
5 3 (1.38%) VBA
6 2 (0.92%) Perl
6 2 (0.92%) VB
7 1 (0.46%) ABAP
7 1 (0.46%) JCL
7 1 (0.46%) PHP
7 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (14.29%) Degree
2 30 (13.82%) CISSP
3 19 (8.76%) CISA
3 19 (8.76%) CISM
4 15 (6.91%) CRISC
5 7 (3.23%) ACCA
5 7 (3.23%) CIMA
6 6 (2.76%) SANS
7 4 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.38%) HND
8 3 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.38%) Security+ Certification
9 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.92%) CGEIT
9 2 (0.92%) GCIA
9 2 (0.92%) OSCP
9 2 (0.92%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.75%) PCI DSS
2 31 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (10.14%) COBIT
4 14 (6.45%) SLA
5 12 (5.53%) GxP
6 11 (5.07%) GDPR
6 11 (5.07%) HIPAA
7 10 (4.61%) Data Quality
8 8 (3.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (3.23%) IFRS
9 7 (3.23%) MiFID
10 5 (2.30%) IFRS 9
11 4 (1.84%) COSO
11 4 (1.84%) Dodd-Frank
12 3 (1.38%) Basel II
12 3 (1.38%) EMIR
12 3 (1.38%) PA-DSS
12 3 (1.38%) SAS 70
12 3 (1.38%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.92%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.15%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.84%) IAG
5 3 (1.38%) vSphere
6 2 (0.92%) ACF2
6 2 (0.92%) RACF
6 2 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.46%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (0.92%) SCCM
1 2 (0.92%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
1 2 (0.92%) WSUS
1 2 (0.92%) zSecure
2 1 (0.46%) BladeLogic
2 1 (0.46%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.46%) IBM BigFix
2 1 (0.46%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (0.46%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Identity Management
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 1 (0.46%) QRadar
2 1 (0.46%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.46%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 60 (27.65%) SAP
2 27 (12.44%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.37%) IBM
4 9 (4.15%) Cisco
4 9 (4.15%) HP
4 9 (4.15%) Splunk
5 8 (3.69%) Oracle
6 6 (2.76%) CyberArk
6 6 (2.76%) VMware
7 5 (2.30%) Remedy
8 4 (1.84%) EMC
8 4 (1.84%) F5
8 4 (1.84%) McAfee
9 3 (1.38%) ArcSight
9 3 (1.38%) Citrix
9 3 (1.38%) Intel
9 3 (1.38%) Qualys
9 3 (1.38%) Symantec
10 2 (0.92%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.92%) Salesforce.com