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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 366 513
Rank change year-on-year -108 +147 -23
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 180 171 79
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.53% 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.01% 3.19% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 102 57
10th Percentile £425 £406 £361
25th Percentile £481 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% +17.00%
75th Percentile £613 £688 £625
90th Percentile £738 £748 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £55.63 £21.50 £67.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% +17.86% +76.77%
75th Percentile £76.50 £92.50 £72.50
90th Percentile £81.20 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £23.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +170.65% -67.14% +76.77%

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 8,937 5,362 5,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.98% 16.50% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,721 3,436 3,626
10th Percentile £338 £277 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £619
90th Percentile £700 £717 £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 548 240 420
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.60 £11.66
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.18 £13.52
Median hourly rate £38.72 £30.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +29.07% +24.07% -38.66%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £51.24
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.30 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £27.59 £24.18
% change year-on-year +45.01% +14.08% -30.91%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -100 156 £563 -2.17% 42
London -63 81 £600 -7.69% 23
UK excluding London -94 73 £550 +2.33% 23
Work from Home -63 70 £600 +11.73% 14
North of England -75 34 £450 -19.57% 4
North West -45 20 £631 +10.31% 1
Yorkshire -51 14 £450 -11.24% 3
South East -59 12 £563 +4.65% 10
East of England -14 11 £558 -3.04% 1
Midlands -54 11 £600 +6.38% 4
West Midlands -51 8 £650 +7.79%
Scotland -14 4 £600 - 1
East Midlands -10 3 £550 +24.29% 4
South West -32 1 £600 +18.81% 1

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 (3.89%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.78%) Apache
2 5 (2.78%) IIS
3 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 16 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (14.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.78%) NetSuite
3 4 (2.22%) HFM
3 4 (2.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 3 (1.67%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (1.11%) SAP CO
5 2 (1.11%) SAP FI
5 2 (1.11%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.56%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.56%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.56%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.56%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.56%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.56%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 63 (35.00%) Azure
2 49 (27.22%) AWS
3 26 (14.44%) Entra ID
4 11 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (6.11%) SaaS
5 10 (5.56%) GCP
5 10 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.89%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.22%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (1.67%) IaaS
9 2 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.11%) GitHub
9 2 (1.11%) Matillion
9 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.11%) OCI
9 2 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.11%) Veeva
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.00%) DHCP
1 9 (5.00%) DNS
1 9 (5.00%) Kerberos
2 7 (3.89%) HTTP
2 7 (3.89%) Network Security
3 5 (2.78%) HTTPS
4 4 (2.22%) Firewall
5 1 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.56%) Power BI
2 7 (3.89%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.89%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.67%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.11%) GIS
6 2 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.56%) Big Data
7 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.56%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.56%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.56%) Spotfire
7 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.33%) JIRA
2 5 (2.78%) Git
3 2 (1.11%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.11%) GitLab
4 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.56%) Gradle
4 1 (0.56%) Introscope
4 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.56%) Maven
4 1 (0.56%) Postman
4 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.56%) Selenium
4 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 96 (53.33%) Finance
2 70 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 34 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.67%) Legal
5 15 (8.33%) Banking
6 13 (7.22%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.78%) Billing
10 5 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.67%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.11%) Retail
12 2 (1.11%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.56%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 31 (17.22%) Lead
2 26 (14.44%) Architect
3 23 (12.78%) Analyst
4 18 (10.00%) Consultant
5 12 (6.67%) Business Analyst
6 10 (5.56%) Author
6 10 (5.56%) SOX Analyst
6 10 (5.56%) Technical Author
7 8 (4.44%) Finance Business Analyst
7 8 (4.44%) Financial Analyst
7 8 (4.44%) IT Analyst
7 8 (4.44%) Project Manager
7 8 (4.44%) Senior
8 7 (3.89%) Java Engineer
9 6 (3.33%) Data Engineer
10 5 (2.78%) Data Architect
10 5 (2.78%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (2.78%) Security Consultant
10 5 (2.78%) Software Engineer
11 4 (2.22%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.56%) LDAP
2 15 (8.33%) OAuth
2 15 (8.33%) REST
2 15 (8.33%) SAML
3 8 (4.44%) SailPoint
4 7 (3.89%) SOAP
4 7 (3.89%) Spring
4 7 (3.89%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.33%) JDBC
5 6 (3.33%) OpenID
6 5 (2.78%) AWS CDK
6 5 (2.78%) J2EE
6 5 (2.78%) JSON
6 5 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (2.22%) Middleware
7 4 (2.22%) Node.js
8 2 (1.11%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (1.11%) Snowpark
9 1 (0.56%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.56%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.78%) Replication
2 12 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.89%) BYOD
4 7 (3.89%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.78%) Reinsurance
6 4 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.22%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.67%) CMDB
7 3 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.67%) Life Science
7 3 (1.67%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.11%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.11%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.11%) PKI
8 2 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.89%) Windows
2 9 (5.00%) Linux
2 9 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.22%) Unix
4 1 (0.56%) AIX
4 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 43 (23.89%) Agile
3 33 (18.33%) ERP
3 33 (18.33%) Identity Access Management
3 33 (18.33%) RBAC
4 29 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (15.56%) Change Management
6 27 (15.00%) DevOps
6 27 (15.00%) Migration
7 26 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
9 23 (12.78%) Procure-to-Pay
10 20 (11.11%) AI
11 19 (10.56%) Order to Cash
11 19 (10.56%) Roadmaps
12 18 (10.00%) Information Security
12 18 (10.00%) Record to Report
13 16 (8.89%) User Acceptance Testing
14 15 (8.33%) Document Management
14 15 (8.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (12.22%) SQL
2 20 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 20 (11.11%) Python
3 19 (10.56%) Java
4 4 (2.22%) Bash
4 4 (2.22%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.11%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.56%) Jython
6 1 (0.56%) R
6 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (15.56%) Degree
2 21 (11.67%) CISSP
3 16 (8.89%) ACCA
3 16 (8.89%) CISM
4 14 (7.78%) Security Cleared
5 13 (7.22%) PMI Certification
6 12 (6.67%) PMP
7 11 (6.11%) CIMA
8 10 (5.56%) SC Cleared
9 6 (3.33%) CISA
10 4 (2.22%) CRISC
11 3 (1.67%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
13 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.56%) PgMP
13 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (36.11%) GDPR
2 34 (18.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (11.11%) NIST
4 16 (8.89%) HIPAA
4 16 (8.89%) ITGC
4 16 (8.89%) PCI DSS
5 13 (7.22%) GAAP
5 13 (7.22%) GRC
5 13 (7.22%) IFRS
6 10 (5.56%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.78%) COBIT
7 5 (2.78%) Solvency II
8 3 (1.67%) GxP
8 3 (1.67%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.67%) PMO
8 3 (1.67%) QA
9 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.56%) PSD2
9 1 (0.56%) SLA
9 1 (0.56%) SOC 1
System Software
1 28 (15.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (10.56%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 9 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.56%) CA Wily
4 1 (0.56%) Puppet
4 1 (0.56%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (30.56%) SAP
2 32 (17.78%) Microsoft
3 19 (10.56%) ServiceNow
4 15 (8.33%) Oracle
5 12 (6.67%) CyberArk
5 12 (6.67%) Okta
5 12 (6.67%) Workday
6 8 (4.44%) Ariba
7 5 (2.78%) Databricks
8 4 (2.22%) Hyperion
8 4 (2.22%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.22%) Tagetik
9 3 (1.67%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.67%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.67%) Google
9 3 (1.67%) Refinitiv
10 2 (1.11%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.11%) Centrify
10 2 (1.11%) OpenText
11 1 (0.56%) Cadence