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

 6 months to
6 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 407 425 485
Rank change year-on-year +18 +60 +146
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 189 125 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.35% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.97% 2.51% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 72 73
10th Percentile £388 £301 £253
25th Percentile £500 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.09% -1.21%
75th Percentile £681 £619 £613
90th Percentile £775 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £475 £508
% change year-on-year +18.42% -6.40% +1.50%
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 6,364 4,987 6,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.46% 13.86% 14.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,101 2,924 4,365
10th Percentile £313 £263 £313
25th Percentile £405 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £603 £623 £640
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 212 240
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.45 £14.51
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.38 £19.87
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.18 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -23.45% +55.41%
75th Percentile £57.13 £55.82 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.88 £70.00 £83.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.83 £26.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -21.40% -25.35% +69.05%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +58 173 £550 +10.00% 62
London +48 105 £550 - 34
UK excluding London -35 67 £563 +18.42% 53
Work from Home +37 66 £525 +5.00% 55
North of England -37 24 £572 +55.65% 7
South West +11 14 £512 - 1
Yorkshire -30 14 £575 +56.46% 2
South East 0 10 £563 +73.08% 28
North West -18 10 £569 +37.94% 5
East of England -5 9 £650 +18.18%
Midlands -37 6 £525 -12.50% 7
West Midlands -23 5 £525 +133.33% 5
Scotland -17 2 £562 -6.42% 2
Wales - 2 £625 -
Northern Ireland - 2 £550 - 8
East Midlands -19 1 £525 -12.50% 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 18 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (0.53%) CICS
2 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (6.88%) MS Visio
2 12 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.53%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (10.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (7.94%) NetSuite
3 4 (2.12%) SAP GRC
4 3 (1.59%) SAP IBP
5 2 (1.06%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.06%) SAP CO
5 2 (1.06%) SAP EWM
5 2 (1.06%) SAP FI
5 2 (1.06%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (1.06%) SAP GTS
5 2 (1.06%) SAP MM
5 2 (1.06%) SAP PP
5 2 (1.06%) SAP SCM
5 2 (1.06%) SAP SRM
6 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.53%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 34 (17.99%) Azure
2 19 (10.05%) SaaS
3 16 (8.47%) AWS
4 15 (7.94%) Entra ID
4 15 (7.94%) OCI
5 13 (6.88%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.82%) Lucidchart
7 8 (4.23%) GitHub
8 5 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.65%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.06%) GCP
9 2 (1.06%) IaaS
9 2 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.53%) Alation
10 1 (0.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.53%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.53%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.53%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.35%) Firewall
2 8 (4.23%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.70%) HTTP
4 5 (2.65%) DNS
4 5 (2.65%) Network Security
5 4 (2.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.53%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.88%) Power BI
2 7 (3.70%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.17%) SAP HANA
4 4 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.59%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.06%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.53%) Ataccama
7 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.53%) DB2
7 1 (0.53%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.53%) Metadata
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.53%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 25 (13.23%) JIRA
2 7 (3.70%) Git
3 6 (3.17%) GitLab
4 4 (2.12%) Subversion
4 4 (2.12%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.59%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 104 (55.03%) Finance
2 65 (34.39%) Social Skills
3 52 (27.51%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.64%) Banking
5 19 (10.05%) Manufacturing
6 11 (5.82%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (4.23%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.70%) Financial Institution
9 7 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.17%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.12%) Legal
12 4 (2.12%) Marketing
13 3 (1.59%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.59%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.59%) Retail
14 2 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (1.06%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 26 (13.76%) Analyst
2 15 (7.94%) Consultant
3 14 (7.41%) Architect
3 14 (7.41%) Lead
4 12 (6.35%) Incident Manager
5 11 (5.82%) Programme Manager
5 11 (5.82%) Senior
5 11 (5.82%) Technical Writer
6 10 (5.29%) Project Manager
7 8 (4.23%) Business Analyst
8 7 (3.70%) Developer
8 7 (3.70%) SAP Manager
8 7 (3.70%) Security Analyst
8 7 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.17%) Accountant
10 5 (2.65%) ForgeRock Developer
11 4 (2.12%) Head of Testing
11 4 (2.12%) Internal Audit Manager
11 4 (2.12%) Product Owner
11 4 (2.12%) SOX Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.88%) LDAP
1 13 (6.88%) SailPoint
2 11 (5.82%) OAuth
2 11 (5.82%) SAML
3 8 (4.23%) OpenID
4 7 (3.70%) REST
5 6 (3.17%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.65%) RESTful
7 3 (1.59%) ISPF
7 3 (1.59%) Middleware
7 3 (1.59%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.06%) PySpark
8 2 (1.06%) Spark Streaming
9 1 (0.53%) .NET
9 1 (0.53%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.53%) Great Expectations
9 1 (0.53%) JSON
9 1 (0.53%) React
9 1 (0.53%) SAP Core Interface
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (3.17%) Life Science
2 6 (3.17%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.65%) Clustering
3 5 (2.65%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.65%) Replication
4 4 (2.12%) PMI
5 3 (1.59%) BYOD
5 3 (1.59%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.59%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.06%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.06%) IoT
6 2 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.23%) Linux
2 7 (3.70%) Windows
3 4 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.12%) Solaris
4 3 (1.59%) zOS
5 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
2 33 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (16.40%) ERP
3 31 (16.40%) Risk Management
4 29 (15.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 27 (14.29%) Agile
6 25 (13.23%) Cybersecurity
7 23 (12.17%) Identity Access Management
7 23 (12.17%) ITSM
7 23 (12.17%) Project Management
8 20 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (10.58%) DevOps
9 19 (10.05%) Decision-Making
10 17 (8.99%) Incident Management
10 17 (8.99%) Privileged Access Management
11 16 (8.47%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (8.47%) IT Audit
11 16 (8.47%) Mentoring
11 16 (8.47%) Revenue Recognition
12 15 (7.94%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 24 (12.70%) Python
2 20 (10.58%) SQL
3 17 (8.99%) PowerShell
4 12 (6.35%) Java
5 5 (2.65%) Bash
6 4 (2.12%) C#
6 4 (2.12%) Perl
7 3 (1.59%) JCL
8 2 (1.06%) BeanShell
8 2 (1.06%) CLIST
8 2 (1.06%) REXX
9 1 (0.53%) COBOL
9 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.53%) R
9 1 (0.53%) VB
9 1 (0.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (16.40%) Degree
2 20 (10.58%) ACCA
3 19 (10.05%) CISSP
4 15 (7.94%) CIMA
5 14 (7.41%) CISM
6 9 (4.76%) CISA
7 8 (4.23%) PMI Certification
8 7 (3.70%) FFIEC
9 5 (2.65%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.12%) CRISC
10 4 (2.12%) PMP
10 4 (2.12%) SC Cleared
10 4 (2.12%) Security Cleared
11 2 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.53%) CBAP
12 1 (0.53%) GIAC
12 1 (0.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 1 (0.53%) MBA
12 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (41.27%) GDPR
2 38 (20.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (16.40%) NIST
4 23 (12.17%) PCI DSS
5 19 (10.05%) GRC
6 17 (8.99%) IFRS
6 17 (8.99%) ITGC
7 16 (8.47%) HIPAA
8 14 (7.41%) GxP
9 9 (4.76%) COBIT
9 9 (4.76%) SOX 404
10 6 (3.17%) QA
10 6 (3.17%) SLA
11 5 (2.65%) PSD2
12 2 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (1.06%) COSO
12 2 (1.06%) GAAP
12 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (1.06%) PMO
12 2 (1.06%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.17%) Docker
2 6 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.12%) NDS
3 4 (2.12%) NetIQ eDirectory
3 4 (2.12%) NFS
3 4 (2.12%) Veritas File System
3 4 (2.12%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 4 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.59%) RACF
5 1 (0.53%) IAG
5 1 (0.53%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.53%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (6.88%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (3.17%) Ansible
2 6 (3.17%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.65%) Terraform
4 4 (2.12%) QRadar
4 4 (2.12%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (2.12%) RSA Archer
5 2 (1.06%) zSecure
6 1 (0.53%) Avamar
6 1 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Identity Manager
6 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.53%) VxRail
Vendors
1 37 (19.58%) SAP
2 29 (15.34%) Oracle
3 24 (12.70%) ServiceNow
4 20 (10.58%) Microsoft
5 16 (8.47%) CyberArk
6 8 (4.23%) Okta
7 7 (3.70%) VMware
8 6 (3.17%) Workday
9 5 (2.65%) ForgeRock
9 5 (2.65%) Ping Identity
9 5 (2.65%) Splunk
10 4 (2.12%) BeyondTrust
10 4 (2.12%) NetIQ
10 4 (2.12%) Qualys
10 4 (2.12%) Red Hat
10 4 (2.12%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.59%) Ariba
11 3 (1.59%) IBM
11 3 (1.59%) OpenText
11 3 (1.59%) Salesforce
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