Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 314 402
Rank change year-on-year +65 +88 +159
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 55 31 75
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.56% 0.20% 0.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.70% 1.38% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 54
10th Percentile £382 £500 £400
25th Percentile £444 £556 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £625 - £688
90th Percentile £706 £755 £713
UK median daily rate £582 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +1.14% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £27.36
25th Percentile £87.50 £67.50 £29.40
Median hourly rate £90.00 £70.00 £32.80
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +113.41% -67.20%
75th Percentile £92.50 £72.50 £36.20
90th Percentile - - £38.24
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £51.25 £39.60
% change year-on-year +75.61% +29.42% -56.24%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,488 2,240 3,140
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.02% 14.60% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,532 2,292
10th Percentile £281 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £420 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £603 £623 £625
90th Percentile £713 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 79 63
10th Percentile £17.98 £12.75 £18.54
25th Percentile £23.13 £14.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £22.87 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.53% -46.81% -2.16%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.38 £61.88
90th Percentile £87.15 £65.00 £72.35
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Sarbanes-Oxley trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Sarbanes-Oxley daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Sarbanes-Oxley daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Sarbanes-Oxley hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (7.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.64%) SAP GRC
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.82%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.91%) Azure
2 11 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 9 (16.36%) AWS
4 5 (9.09%) GitHub
5 4 (7.27%) Azure AKS
5 4 (7.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (7.27%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.64%) GCP
7 2 (3.64%) OCI
8 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.82%) IaaS
8 1 (1.82%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.82%) PaaS
8 1 (1.82%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.82%) SaaS
8 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.82%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) DHCP
1 1 (1.82%) DNS
1 1 (1.82%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.82%) NAS
1 1 (1.82%) SAN
1 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.45%) Oracle Database
2 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.82%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.82%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.82%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Gradle
1 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.64%) JIRA
2 1 (1.82%) Git
2 1 (1.82%) JMeter
2 1 (1.82%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.82%) NeoLoad
2 1 (1.82%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (47.27%) Finance
2 16 (29.09%) Social Skills
3 12 (21.82%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (16.36%) Banking
5 5 (9.09%) Legal
6 4 (7.27%) Retail Banking
7 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.64%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.64%) Retail
9 1 (1.82%) Automotive
9 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.82%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.82%) Law
9 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (20.00%) Analyst
2 6 (10.91%) Software Engineer
3 5 (9.09%) Consultant
3 5 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 5 (9.09%) Senior
4 4 (7.27%) Architect
4 4 (7.27%) AWS Specialist
4 4 (7.27%) C# Software Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) IAM Specialist
4 4 (7.27%) Lead
4 4 (7.27%) Python Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Python Software Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) SOX Analyst
5 3 (5.45%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (5.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (5.45%) Governance Analyst
5 3 (5.45%) IT Risk Manager
5 3 (5.45%) Risk Manager
6 2 (3.64%) Security Consultant
6 2 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.45%) SailPoint
2 11 (20.00%) OpenID
3 10 (18.18%) OAuth
4 7 (12.73%) SAML
5 4 (7.27%) Kafka
5 4 (7.27%) NumPy
5 4 (7.27%) OAuth2
5 4 (7.27%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (7.27%) Pandas
5 4 (7.27%) REST
6 3 (5.45%) LDAP
7 2 (3.64%) AWS CDK
7 2 (3.64%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (3.64%) Spring
7 2 (3.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Management Information System
2 5 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.27%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.45%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.64%) Clustering
5 2 (3.64%) Replication
5 2 (3.64%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.82%) FMCG
6 1 (1.82%) Life Science
6 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Linux
1 4 (7.27%) Windows
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Solaris
2 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.18%) Identity Access Management
2 20 (36.36%) Risk Management
3 18 (32.73%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (21.82%) Project Management
4 12 (21.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (18.18%) Agile
6 8 (14.55%) Regulatory Compliance
7 7 (12.73%) Process Improvement
7 7 (12.73%) RBAC
8 6 (10.91%) DevOps
8 6 (10.91%) Software Engineering
8 6 (10.91%) Test Automation
9 5 (9.09%) Computer Science
9 5 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (9.09%) ERP
9 5 (9.09%) Information Security
9 5 (9.09%) Mentoring
9 5 (9.09%) Programme Management
9 5 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.64%) Python
2 10 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 5 (9.09%) C#
4 4 (7.27%) Java
4 4 (7.27%) SQL
5 3 (5.45%) VBA
6 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.82%) PHP
7 1 (1.82%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (16.36%) CISA
2 6 (10.91%) Degree
3 5 (9.09%) CRISC
3 5 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.45%) ACCA
5 3 (5.45%) CISSP
5 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.64%) CIMA
6 2 (3.64%) CISM
6 2 (3.64%) OCP
6 2 (3.64%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.82%) AAT
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.82%) CISMP
7 1 (1.82%) GCIH
7 1 (1.82%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (40.00%) GDPR
2 12 (21.82%) HIPAA
3 7 (12.73%) GRC
3 7 (12.73%) PCI DSS
4 6 (10.91%) ITGC
4 6 (10.91%) NIST
5 5 (9.09%) COBIT
6 4 (7.27%) COSO
6 4 (7.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (7.27%) SOC 2
7 2 (3.64%) GAAP
7 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (3.64%) SOX 404
8 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.82%) GxP
8 1 (1.82%) IFRS
System Software
1 12 (21.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.45%) Docker
3 1 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 5 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (1.82%) Ansible
2 1 (1.82%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (1.82%) Netcool
2 1 (1.82%) Tivoli
2 1 (1.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.55%) Oracle
2 8 (14.55%) SAP
3 7 (12.73%) Okta
4 6 (10.91%) CyberArk
5 4 (7.27%) Ping Identity
6 3 (5.45%) ForgeRock
7 2 (3.64%) Qualys
7 2 (3.64%) Sybase
8 1 (1.82%) Cisco
8 1 (1.82%) EMC
8 1 (1.82%) Hyperion
8 1 (1.82%) IBM
8 1 (1.82%) Isilon
8 1 (1.82%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.82%) Serena
8 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.82%) Splunk
8 1 (1.82%) TSYS
8 1 (1.82%) VMware