Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 18 January 2022

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 18 January 2022 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
18 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 639 532 610
Rank change year-on-year -107 +78 +31
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 201 73 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.76% 1.49% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 43 76
10th Percentile £418 £266 £355
25th Percentile £500 £311 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £438
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% +11.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £688 £543 £614
90th Percentile £738 £671 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £353 £420
% change year-on-year +41.54% -15.89% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £23.70 - -
25th Percentile £36.38 £58.75 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £13.58
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +360.24% -78.27%
75th Percentile £76.63 £66.25 £15.73
90th Percentile £85.10 - £17.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -39.60% - -

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 11,395 4,888 8,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.03% 12.04% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,703 3,209 5,153
10th Percentile £275 £269 £242
25th Percentile £400 £370 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £695 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 220 313
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £21.05 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% +1.45% +2.55%
75th Percentile £49.25 £40.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £58.98 £52.50 £53.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.50 £21.05 £21.42
% change year-on-year -12.11% -1.70% +7.08%

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 18 January 2022.

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 18 January 2022.

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 18 January 2022. 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 -88 182 £575 +17.95% 32
London -77 123 £575 +11.92% 19
UK excluding London -100 51 £500 +41.54% 13
Work from Home -146 47 £600 +31.51% 2
Midlands -50 19 £500 +32.28% 5
South East -69 19 £500 +53.85% 2
West Midlands -45 17 £500 +42.86% 3
East of England -47 8 £663 +28.33% 2
East Midlands -35 2 £500 +32.28% 2
North of England -65 2 £425 +286.36% 2
South West - 2 - - 1
North West -48 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -48 1 £425 - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 1

For the 6 months to 18 January 2022, 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 61 (30.35%) Finance
2 49 (24.38%) Social Skills
3 43 (21.39%) GDPR
4 39 (19.40%) Azure
4 39 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (18.91%) Information Security
5 38 (18.91%) Agile Software Development
6 36 (17.91%) Windows
7 35 (17.41%) Risk Management
7 35 (17.41%) Degree
8 33 (16.42%) COBIT
8 33 (16.42%) DevOps
8 33 (16.42%) Microsoft
9 32 (15.92%) Active Directory
9 32 (15.92%) SQL
10 31 (15.42%) Banking
11 30 (14.93%) Project Management
12 29 (14.43%) Change Management
13 28 (13.93%) Python
13 28 (13.93%) CISSP
13 28 (13.93%) IT Audit
14 27 (13.43%) Data Security
14 27 (13.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 27 (13.43%) AWS
15 26 (12.94%) NIST
16 25 (12.44%) CISA
17 24 (11.94%) CISM
17 24 (11.94%) Risk Assessment
18 23 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
18 23 (11.44%) Oracle

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 10 (4.98%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.99%) Confluence
3 4 (1.99%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.99%) IBM Notes
4 3 (1.49%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.50%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (5.47%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.99%) SAP GRC
1 4 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.49%) SAP CO
2 3 (1.49%) SAP FI
2 3 (1.49%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (1.49%) SAP SD
3 2 (1.00%) SAP APO
3 2 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.50%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 39 (19.40%) Azure
2 27 (13.43%) AWS
3 17 (8.46%) SaaS
4 16 (7.96%) GitHub
4 16 (7.96%) Power Platform
5 10 (4.98%) IaaS
5 10 (4.98%) PaaS
6 9 (4.48%) GCP
6 9 (4.48%) Nutanix
7 8 (3.98%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (2.99%) Azure Event Grid
9 5 (2.49%) IBM Blueworks
9 5 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.49%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.00%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.46%) Kerberos
1 15 (7.46%) LAN
2 14 (6.97%) TCP/IP
2 14 (6.97%) WAN
3 13 (6.47%) Network Security
4 10 (4.98%) Firewall
5 8 (3.98%) DNS
6 4 (1.99%) SSL
6 4 (1.99%) VPN
7 3 (1.49%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (1.00%) Broadband
8 2 (1.00%) Internet
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.50%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.50%) Frame Relay
9 1 (0.50%) NAS
9 1 (0.50%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.50%) PPP
9 1 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.47%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.97%) Big Data
2 12 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.97%) Power BI
3 11 (5.47%) Data Lake
4 10 (4.98%) Oracle Database
5 9 (4.48%) MongoDB
5 9 (4.48%) MySQL
6 8 (3.98%) Oracle Database 11g
6 8 (3.98%) Oracle Database 12c
7 6 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.49%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.49%) Metadata
10 3 (1.49%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.49%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.49%) SAP HANA
10 3 (1.49%) Tableau
11 2 (1.00%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 16 (7.96%) Subversion
2 13 (6.47%) TeamCity
3 9 (4.48%) Git (software)
3 9 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.98%) JIRA
5 5 (2.49%) GitLab
6 2 (1.00%) Serena SBM
7 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.50%) Selenium
7 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 61 (30.35%) Finance
2 49 (24.38%) Social Skills
3 39 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (15.42%) Banking
5 15 (7.46%) Retail
6 13 (6.47%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (5.47%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.98%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.98%) Legal
9 5 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.99%) Law
10 4 (1.99%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.49%) International Banking
11 3 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.49%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.00%) Billing
13 1 (0.50%) Back Office
13 1 (0.50%) Danish Language
13 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (12.94%) Analyst
1 26 (12.94%) Architect
2 25 (12.44%) Consultant
3 12 (5.97%) Administrator
3 12 (5.97%) Developer
3 12 (5.97%) Project Manager
4 10 (4.98%) IT Manager
4 10 (4.98%) Senior Manager
5 9 (4.48%) Security Architect
5 9 (4.48%) Security Manager
5 9 (4.48%) Senior Architect
5 9 (4.48%) SOX Consultant
6 8 (3.98%) Network Architect
6 8 (3.98%) Network Security Architect
6 8 (3.98%) Security Consultant
6 8 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (3.48%) Business Analyst
7 7 (3.48%) DBA
7 7 (3.48%) Senior Network Architect
7 7 (3.48%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.46%) LDAP
2 11 (5.47%) REST
3 5 (2.49%) Middleware
4 3 (1.49%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (1.49%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.49%) Web Services
5 2 (1.00%) .NET
5 2 (1.00%) JSON
5 2 (1.00%) OpenID
5 2 (1.00%) RESTful
6 1 (0.50%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.50%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.50%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.50%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.50%) Kafka
6 1 (0.50%) ODBC
6 1 (0.50%) React
6 1 (0.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.96%) Clustering
1 18 (8.96%) Management Information System
2 14 (6.97%) Replication
3 6 (2.99%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.99%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.49%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.00%) Cyberthreat
6 2 (1.00%) LIMS
6 2 (1.00%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.50%) EPoS
7 1 (0.50%) FMCG
7 1 (0.50%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.50%) SWIFT
7 1 (0.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 36 (17.91%) Windows
2 19 (9.45%) Linux
3 18 (8.96%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.47%) Solaris
5 9 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.48%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (3.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (2.49%) Unix
7 5 (2.49%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (2.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.99%) Android
8 4 (1.99%) CentOS
8 4 (1.99%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.99%) Windows Phone
9 3 (1.49%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
10 2 (1.00%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.50%) SUSE
11 1 (0.50%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (18.91%) Agile Software Development
1 38 (18.91%) Information Security
2 35 (17.41%) Risk Management
3 33 (16.42%) DevOps
4 30 (14.93%) Project Management
5 29 (14.43%) Change Management
6 28 (13.93%) IT Audit
7 27 (13.43%) Data Security
8 24 (11.94%) Risk Assessment
9 23 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (9.95%) Disaster Recovery
11 20 (9.95%) High Availability
11 20 (9.95%) Identity Access Management
12 19 (9.45%) ITIL
13 18 (8.96%) Internal Audit
14 17 (8.46%) Information Security Management
14 17 (8.46%) Security Management
15 16 (7.96%) IT Governance
16 15 (7.46%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 32 (15.92%) SQL
2 28 (13.93%) Python
3 10 (4.98%) Java
3 10 (4.98%) T-SQL
4 9 (4.48%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.98%) PL/SQL
6 7 (3.48%) Bash
6 7 (3.48%) Perl
7 4 (1.99%) Ruby
7 4 (1.99%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.99%) VBA
8 3 (1.49%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.00%) C#
9 2 (1.00%) Go
9 2 (1.00%) Scala
10 1 (0.50%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 35 (17.41%) Degree
2 28 (13.93%) CISSP
3 25 (12.44%) CISA
4 24 (11.94%) CISM
5 15 (7.46%) CRISC
6 12 (5.97%) GIAC
7 10 (4.98%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (4.48%) Security Cleared
9 7 (3.48%) PMI Certification
10 6 (2.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (2.99%) CGEIT
10 6 (2.99%) GSEC
10 6 (2.99%) ISACA
10 6 (2.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 6 (2.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 6 (2.99%) SANS
11 4 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.99%) PMP
12 3 (1.49%) ACCA
12 3 (1.49%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (21.39%) GDPR
2 33 (16.42%) COBIT
3 27 (13.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (12.94%) NIST
5 23 (11.44%) PCI DSS
6 18 (8.96%) ITGC
7 16 (7.96%) GRC
8 8 (3.98%) NCSC
8 8 (3.98%) SOC 2
9 7 (3.48%) QA
10 5 (2.49%) HIPAA
11 4 (1.99%) Data Quality
11 4 (1.99%) FINREP
11 4 (1.99%) SLA
12 3 (1.49%) GxP
12 3 (1.49%) IFRS
13 2 (1.00%) FedRAMP
13 2 (1.00%) PMO
13 2 (1.00%) SOC 1
13 2 (1.00%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (15.92%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.48%) Docker
3 9 (4.48%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (3.98%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.49%) Xen
6 2 (1.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.00%) HDFS
6 2 (1.00%) IAG
6 2 (1.00%) NFS
6 2 (1.00%) Veritas File System
6 2 (1.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.50%) SRDF
7 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (7.46%) Ansible
2 10 (4.98%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.48%) CASB
4 8 (3.98%) Data Guard
5 6 (2.99%) QRadar
5 6 (2.99%) Tivoli
6 5 (2.49%) Control-M
6 5 (2.49%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (2.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (1.99%) Icinga
7 4 (1.99%) Opscode Chef
7 4 (1.99%) Puppet
7 4 (1.99%) Terraform
8 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.49%) Nagios
8 3 (1.49%) Netcool
8 3 (1.49%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (1.00%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 33 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.44%) Oracle
3 20 (9.95%) SAP
4 13 (6.47%) IBM
5 12 (5.97%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.97%) VMware
6 11 (5.47%) Splunk
7 9 (4.48%) Sybase
8 8 (3.98%) McAfee
8 8 (3.98%) Qualys
8 8 (3.98%) Symantec
9 7 (3.48%) CyberArk
9 7 (3.48%) Databricks
10 6 (2.99%) BMC
10 6 (2.99%) EMC
10 6 (2.99%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.49%) Cisco
11 5 (2.49%) Citrix
11 5 (2.49%) Informatica
12 4 (1.99%) Apple