Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts in the West Midlands

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Sarbanes-Oxley skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 104 125
Rank change year-on-year -6 +21 +54
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 3 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.18% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.97% 1.08% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £531 - £428
25th Percentile £558 £663 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +17.39% +167.44%
75th Percentile £645 £688 £681
90th Percentile £671 - £723
England median daily rate £572 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -4.67% +20.00% -9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 309 279 330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.54% 15.08% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 182 210
10th Percentile £235 £250 £277
25th Percentile £357 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -4.31% +7.18%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £588
90th Percentile £686 £756 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 20 13
10th Percentile £16.04 £13.18 £14.61
25th Percentile £18.35 £14.00 £23.22
Median hourly rate £29.09 £15.90 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.96% -42.18% +61.76%
75th Percentile £34.71 £51.25 £30.00
90th Percentile £40.46 £59.63 £33.60
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +9.09% -35.29% +79.51%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the West Midlands

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the West Midlands

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the West Midlands

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the West Midlands

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Birmingham - 2 £564 -
Warwickshire -6 1 £675 -
Sarbanes-Oxley
England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP BPC
1 1 (33.33%) SAP ERP
1 1 (33.33%) SAP GRC
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) OCI
1 1 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SAP BW
1 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) ERP Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Advisor
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Architect
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Security Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Security Advisor
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (33.33%) SailPoint
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Forensic Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Key Management
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Security
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) CEH
2 1 (33.33%) CISA
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) OCP
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) GRC
2 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Concur
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SAP