Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts with Work from Home 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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 377 561
Rank change year-on-year +69 +184 -113
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 33 80 62
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.34% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.62% 2.68% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 55 34
10th Percentile £370 £376 £450
25th Percentile £550 £438 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.38% +17.50%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £688
90th Percentile £790 £729 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £30.08 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £36.20 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £100.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.77% -60.40% -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £67.07
% change year-on-year +76.77% -40.96% -

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 2,036 2,982 5,763
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 13.80% 12.49% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 2,167 4,130
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £521 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +1.56% +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £613
90th Percentile £750 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 71 128
10th Percentile £12.23 £17.50 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.00 £20.94 £19.44
Median hourly rate £24.50 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -21.35% +134.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £58.38 £56.60
90th Percentile £66.75 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

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 20 June 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 5 (15.15%) Confluence
2 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.03%) IBM Notes
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (6.06%) SAP GRC
2 2 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) AWS
1 6 (18.18%) SaaS
2 5 (15.15%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (15.15%) GCP
2 5 (15.15%) IaaS
2 5 (15.15%) Nutanix
2 5 (15.15%) PaaS
2 5 (15.15%) Rubrik
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) DHCP
1 5 (15.15%) DNS
1 5 (15.15%) Firewall
1 5 (15.15%) Kerberos
1 5 (15.15%) NAS
1 5 (15.15%) SAN
1 5 (15.15%) TCP/IP
1 5 (15.15%) VLAN
2 2 (6.06%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.15%) JIRA
2 5 (15.15%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.03%) GoCD
General
1 20 (60.61%) Finance
2 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.03%) Law
4 1 (3.03%) Legal
4 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Consultant
2 9 (27.27%) Great Plains Consultant
2 9 (27.27%) Microsoft Consultant
3 4 (12.12%) Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Lead
4 2 (6.06%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.03%) CISSP Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Compliance Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Finance Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Information Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Information Security Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Report Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Risk Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Security Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Senior
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Security Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) SOX Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) SOX Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) LDAP
2 1 (3.03%) Jest
2 1 (3.03%) Node.js
2 1 (3.03%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Clustering
1 6 (18.18%) Replication
2 2 (6.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Windows
2 5 (15.15%) Linux
2 5 (15.15%) Oracle Linux
2 5 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (15.15%) Solaris
2 5 (15.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Test Scripting
1 9 (27.27%) Use Case
1 9 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (21.21%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (18.18%) Information Security
3 6 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (15.15%) Agile
4 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (15.15%) Cost Optimisation
4 5 (15.15%) Data Security
4 5 (15.15%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (15.15%) DevOps
4 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (15.15%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (15.15%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (15.15%) Security Hardening
4 5 (15.15%) Service Catalogue
4 5 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (15.15%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) SQL
2 6 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 6 (18.18%) Python
3 5 (15.15%) Bash
4 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) CISA
3 1 (3.03%) CISM
3 1 (3.03%) CISSP
3 1 (3.03%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (27.27%) GDPR
2 6 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (9.09%) COBIT
4 2 (6.06%) COSO
4 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
4 2 (6.06%) GRC
4 2 (6.06%) NCSC
4 2 (6.06%) NIST
4 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.03%) GLBA
5 1 (3.03%) ISAE 3402
5 1 (3.03%) ISO 9001
5 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (3.03%) ITGC
5 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.15%) Docker
2 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Ansible
1 5 (15.15%) EMC NetWorker
1 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
1 5 (15.15%) Netcool
1 5 (15.15%) Terraform
1 5 (15.15%) Tivoli
1 5 (15.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (3.03%) CASB
2 1 (3.03%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.03%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 15 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Cisco
2 6 (18.18%) HP
3 5 (15.15%) CyberArk
3 5 (15.15%) Dell
3 5 (15.15%) EMC
3 5 (15.15%) IBM
3 5 (15.15%) Isilon
3 5 (15.15%) Oracle
3 5 (15.15%) Qualys
3 5 (15.15%) Serena
3 5 (15.15%) ServiceNow
3 5 (15.15%) Splunk
3 5 (15.15%) VMware
4 3 (9.09%) SAP
5 2 (6.06%) Ariba
6 1 (3.03%) Axway
6 1 (3.03%) Lotus
6 1 (3.03%) McAfee
6 1 (3.03%) Trend Micro