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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 410 493
Rank change year-on-year +2 +83 +137
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 180 130 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.39% 0.25%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.83% 2.72% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 73 67
10th Percentile £394 £303 £253
25th Percentile £480 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -1.41% -7.39%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £619
90th Percentile £775 £740 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £431 £515
% change year-on-year +30.43% -16.26% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £29.23 £49.14 -
25th Percentile £38.56 £56.78 £31.25
Median hourly rate £50.75 £69.52 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% +113.91% +17.12%
75th Percentile £55.50 £82.26 £33.75
90th Percentile £56.40 £89.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £44.04 -
% change year-on-year -10.31% - -

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 6,360 4,773 6,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.22% 14.23% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,116 2,790 4,203
10th Percentile £313 £258 £313
25th Percentile £406 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £619 £644
90th Percentile £700 £720 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 190 235
10th Percentile £14.43 £15.00 £14.08
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.01 £18.08
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% -12.12% +46.67%
75th Percentile £61.25 £63.75 £61.63
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £81.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.60 £29.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -28.98% -12.12% +57.14%

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 28 December 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 28 December 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 28 December 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 +27 164 £550 +10.00% 147
London +37 109 £550 - 55
Work from Home +32 59 £525 +5.00% 16
UK excluding London -48 56 £563 +30.43% 112
South West +10 13 £512 - 11
South East -8 12 £525 +61.54% 37
North of England -43 11 £582 +58.30% 21
East of England -14 10 £650 +18.18% 15
Yorkshire -45 9 £589 +60.14% 10
Midlands -41 6 £525 -12.50% 20
West Midlands -24 5 £525 +133.33% 10
Scotland -14 2 £612 +1.92% 5
North West -24 2 £514 +26.52% 10
Wales - 2 £625 - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £550 - 1
East Midlands -24 1 £525 -12.50% 9

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 14 (7.78%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (7.22%) MS Visio
2 12 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (7.78%) NetSuite
2 12 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.22%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (2.22%) SAP GRC
4 3 (1.67%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.67%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (1.11%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (1.11%) SAP CO
5 2 (1.11%) SAP EWM
5 2 (1.11%) SAP FI
5 2 (1.11%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (1.11%) SAP GTS
5 2 (1.11%) SAP IBP
5 2 (1.11%) SAP MM
5 2 (1.11%) SAP PP
5 2 (1.11%) SAP SCM
5 2 (1.11%) SAP SRM
6 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (22.22%) Azure
2 18 (10.00%) OCI
2 18 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 18 (10.00%) SaaS
3 16 (8.89%) AWS
4 12 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 11 (6.11%) Lucidchart
6 5 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.78%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (2.22%) GitHub
8 3 (1.67%) IaaS
9 2 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.11%) GCP
9 2 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.56%) Alation
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.67%) Firewall
2 8 (4.44%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.89%) DNS
3 7 (3.89%) HTTP
4 5 (2.78%) Network Security
5 4 (2.22%) SSL
6 3 (1.67%) DHCP
7 2 (1.11%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.00%) Power BI
2 8 (4.44%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.33%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.33%) SAP HANA
4 5 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.78%) Spark SQL
5 4 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.56%) Ataccama
8 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.56%) Big Data
8 1 (0.56%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.56%) Metadata
8 1 (0.56%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 16 (8.89%) JIRA
2 11 (6.11%) Git
3 10 (5.56%) GitLab
4 4 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.22%) Subversion
4 4 (2.22%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.67%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.11%) Selenium
7 1 (0.56%) Postman
7 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
General
1 107 (59.44%) Finance
2 66 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 46 (25.56%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (12.78%) Banking
5 19 (10.56%) Manufacturing
6 9 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.89%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (3.33%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.33%) General Ledger
8 6 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.33%) Legal
9 5 (2.78%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.22%) Marketing
11 3 (1.67%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.11%) Electronics
13 1 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (13.33%) Analyst
2 17 (9.44%) Lead
3 15 (8.33%) Consultant
4 14 (7.78%) Architect
5 11 (6.11%) Senior
5 11 (6.11%) Technical Writer
6 10 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 9 (5.00%) Developer
8 7 (3.89%) Business Analyst
8 7 (3.89%) Security Analyst
8 7 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.33%) Incident Manager
9 6 (3.33%) Programme Manager
10 5 (2.78%) Accountant
10 5 (2.78%) ForgeRock Developer
11 4 (2.22%) Head of Testing
11 4 (2.22%) Internal Audit Manager
11 4 (2.22%) Linux Administrator
11 4 (2.22%) SAP Consultant
11 4 (2.22%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.67%) OAuth
1 12 (6.67%) SAML
2 9 (5.00%) LDAP
3 7 (3.89%) OpenID
3 7 (3.89%) REST
3 7 (3.89%) SailPoint
4 6 (3.33%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (2.78%) PySpark
5 5 (2.78%) RESTful
5 5 (2.78%) Spark Streaming
6 4 (2.22%) Middleware
7 2 (1.11%) ISPF
7 2 (1.11%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (1.11%) XML
8 1 (0.56%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.56%) Great Expectations
8 1 (0.56%) JSON
8 1 (0.56%) pytest
8 1 (0.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (3.89%) Replication
3 5 (2.78%) Clustering
3 5 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (2.78%) Life Science
3 5 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.78%) PMI
4 3 (1.67%) BYOD
4 3 (1.67%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.11%) Derivative
5 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.11%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.11%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.11%) IoT
5 2 (1.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.00%) Linux
1 9 (5.00%) Windows
2 4 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.22%) Solaris
3 2 (1.11%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.11%) zOS
4 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (22.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 32 (17.78%) Agile
2 32 (17.78%) ERP
3 30 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 28 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (13.33%) Risk Management
6 23 (12.78%) Project Management
7 22 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (12.22%) DevOps
8 21 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
8 21 (11.67%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (11.67%) Identity Access Management
9 19 (10.56%) CI/CD
10 16 (8.89%) IT Audit
10 16 (8.89%) Project Delivery
11 15 (8.33%) Analytics
11 15 (8.33%) Decision-Making
11 15 (8.33%) Revenue Recognition
11 15 (8.33%) Test Strategy
12 14 (7.78%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 28 (15.56%) Python
2 26 (14.44%) SQL
3 18 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 15 (8.33%) Java
5 5 (2.78%) Bash
6 4 (2.22%) C#
6 4 (2.22%) Perl
7 2 (1.11%) BeanShell
7 2 (1.11%) CLIST
7 2 (1.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.11%) JCL
7 2 (1.11%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.11%) REXX
8 1 (0.56%) R
8 1 (0.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (18.33%) Degree
2 19 (10.56%) ACCA
3 18 (10.00%) CISSP
4 14 (7.78%) CIMA
4 14 (7.78%) CISM
5 10 (5.56%) PMI Certification
6 8 (4.44%) CISA
7 7 (3.89%) FFIEC
8 6 (3.33%) PMP
8 6 (3.33%) SC Cleared
8 6 (3.33%) Security Cleared
9 5 (2.78%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.22%) CRISC
11 3 (1.67%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.56%) CBAP
13 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (40.56%) GDPR
2 38 (21.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (18.33%) NIST
4 25 (13.89%) PCI DSS
5 19 (10.56%) GRC
6 18 (10.00%) IFRS
7 16 (8.89%) ITGC
8 12 (6.67%) HIPAA
9 9 (5.00%) COBIT
10 8 (4.44%) QA
10 8 (4.44%) SOX 404
11 7 (3.89%) GxP
12 5 (2.78%) PSD2
12 5 (2.78%) SLA
13 4 (2.22%) GAAP
14 3 (1.67%) Basel III
15 2 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (1.11%) COSO
15 2 (1.11%) IFRS 9
15 2 (1.11%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.00%) Docker
3 6 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.22%) NDS
4 4 (2.22%) NetIQ eDirectory
4 4 (2.22%) NFS
4 4 (2.22%) Veritas File System
4 4 (2.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 4 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.11%) RACF
6 1 (0.56%) IAG
6 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.33%) Ansible
4 5 (2.78%) Terraform
5 4 (2.22%) QRadar
5 4 (2.22%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (2.22%) RSA Archer
6 2 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.11%) zSecure
7 1 (0.56%) Avamar
7 1 (0.56%) Control-M
7 1 (0.56%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Identity Manager
7 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (18.33%) SAP
2 32 (17.78%) Oracle
3 19 (10.56%) Microsoft
4 18 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 12 (6.67%) CyberArk
6 9 (5.00%) Workday
7 7 (3.89%) VMware
8 5 (2.78%) ForgeRock
8 5 (2.78%) Okta
8 5 (2.78%) Ping Identity
8 5 (2.78%) Splunk
9 4 (2.22%) BeyondTrust
9 4 (2.22%) IBM
9 4 (2.22%) NetIQ
9 4 (2.22%) Qualys
9 4 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.22%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.67%) OpenText
10 3 (1.67%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.67%) Thycotic
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