Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 405 540
Rank change year-on-year +82 +135 -116
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 31 75 72
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.29% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.37% 2.39% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 55 37
10th Percentile £500 £400 £480
25th Percentile £556 £425 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile - £650 £750
90th Percentile £755 £713 £780
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £27.36 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £29.40 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £32.80 £100.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.41% -67.20% +60.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £36.20 -
90th Percentile - £38.24 -
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £39.60 £90.50
% change year-on-year +29.42% -56.24% +44.80%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,269 3,143 5,887
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.71% 12.07% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,534 2,292 4,177
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £420 £419 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% +3.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £725 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 64 117
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.56 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £25.75 £18.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.16% -3.37% +119.54%
75th Percentile £40.00 £60.94 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.28 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £20.49 £37.75 £28.25
% change year-on-year -45.74% +33.63% +34.36%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Sarbanes-Oxley trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 7 (22.58%) Confluence
2 3 (9.68%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.23%) IBM Notes
3 1 (3.23%) Mendix
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (6.45%) SAP GRC
2 2 (6.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) AWS
1 8 (25.81%) SaaS
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (22.58%) GCP
2 7 (22.58%) IaaS
2 7 (22.58%) Nutanix
2 7 (22.58%) PaaS
2 7 (22.58%) Rubrik
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.23%) OCI
3 1 (3.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) DHCP
1 7 (22.58%) DNS
1 7 (22.58%) Firewall
1 7 (22.58%) Kerberos
1 7 (22.58%) NAS
1 7 (22.58%) SAN
1 7 (22.58%) TCP/IP
1 7 (22.58%) VLAN
2 2 (6.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Git
2 7 (22.58%) Jenkins
2 7 (22.58%) JIRA
2 7 (22.58%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.23%) GoCD
General
1 21 (67.74%) Finance
2 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.23%) Law
4 1 (3.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Consultant
2 9 (29.03%) Great Plains Consultant
2 9 (29.03%) Microsoft Consultant
3 2 (6.45%) Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Finance Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Security Architect
4 1 (3.23%) Analyst
4 1 (3.23%) Audit Manager
4 1 (3.23%) Finance Systems Manager
4 1 (3.23%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (3.23%) Information Manager
4 1 (3.23%) Information Security Manager
4 1 (3.23%) IT Consultant
4 1 (3.23%) Risk Manager
4 1 (3.23%) SAP Functional Consultant
4 1 (3.23%) Security Manager
4 1 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (3.23%) Senior Security Analyst
4 1 (3.23%) Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) LDAP
2 1 (3.23%) Jest
2 1 (3.23%) Node.js
2 1 (3.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Clustering
1 7 (22.58%) Replication
2 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Windows
2 7 (22.58%) Linux
2 7 (22.58%) Oracle Linux
2 7 (22.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (22.58%) Solaris
2 7 (22.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) User Acceptance Testing
2 9 (29.03%) Test Scripting
2 9 (29.03%) Use Case
3 8 (25.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (25.81%) Vulnerability Management
4 7 (22.58%) Agile
4 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (22.58%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (22.58%) Cost Optimisation
4 7 (22.58%) Data Security
4 7 (22.58%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (22.58%) DevOps
4 7 (22.58%) High Availability
4 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (22.58%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (22.58%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (22.58%) Security Hardening
4 7 (22.58%) Service Catalogue
4 7 (22.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (22.58%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) SQL
2 8 (25.81%) PowerShell
2 8 (25.81%) Python
3 7 (22.58%) Bash
4 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) CISA
3 1 (3.23%) CISM
3 1 (3.23%) CISSP
3 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.23%) PMP
3 1 (3.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (3.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (29.03%) GDPR
2 3 (9.68%) COBIT
2 3 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.45%) COSO
3 2 (6.45%) GRC
3 2 (6.45%) NCSC
3 2 (6.45%) NIST
3 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.23%) GLBA
4 1 (3.23%) GxP
4 1 (3.23%) ISAE 3402
4 1 (3.23%) ISO 9001
4 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (3.23%) ITGC
4 1 (3.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Active Directory
2 7 (22.58%) Docker
2 7 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Ansible
1 7 (22.58%) EMC NetWorker
1 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
1 7 (22.58%) Netcool
1 7 (22.58%) Terraform
1 7 (22.58%) Tivoli
1 7 (22.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (3.23%) CASB
2 1 (3.23%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.23%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 18 (58.06%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.81%) Cisco
2 8 (25.81%) HP
2 8 (25.81%) Oracle
3 7 (22.58%) CyberArk
3 7 (22.58%) Dell
3 7 (22.58%) EMC
3 7 (22.58%) IBM
3 7 (22.58%) Isilon
3 7 (22.58%) Qualys
3 7 (22.58%) Serena
3 7 (22.58%) ServiceNow
3 7 (22.58%) Splunk
3 7 (22.58%) VMware
4 3 (9.68%) SAP
5 2 (6.45%) Ariba
6 1 (3.23%) Concur
6 1 (3.23%) Lotus
6 1 (3.23%) McAfee
6 1 (3.23%) Netskope