Sarbanes-Oxley Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Sarbanes-Oxley skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 418 632
Rank change year-on-year -130 +214 -54
Permanent jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 32 108 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.048% 0.37% 0.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.54% 2.32% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26 31 61
10th Percentile £51,250 £41,250 -
25th Percentile £53,375 £46,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £54,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.61% +3.81% -12.50%
75th Percentile £87,188 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £140,677 £77,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +29.63% -11.74%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

Sarbanes-Oxley falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,883 4,652 9,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.91% 16.05% 13.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,511 2,388 6,258
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £25,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +11.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,114 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,738 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Sarbanes-Oxley relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Sarbanes-Oxley job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Sarbanes-Oxley
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Sarbanes-Oxley

Sarbanes-Oxley
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -42 13 £68,750 -44.00% 8
Yorkshire -51 11 £72,500 -40.95% 3
South East -42 8 £69,625 +27.75% 8
East of England -13 7 £75,000 +76.47%
Midlands -24 4 £52,500 +23.53% 5
West Midlands -39 3 £52,500 +23.53% 4
North West -13 2 £64,750 - 5
Sarbanes-Oxley
UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 7 (21.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) AWS
1 5 (15.63%) AWS KMS
1 5 (15.63%) Boomi
1 5 (15.63%) Matillion
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) iPaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) HTTP
2 2 (6.25%) DHCP
2 2 (6.25%) DNS
2 2 (6.25%) NetScaler
2 2 (6.25%) SAN
2 2 (6.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) SAP BW
2 6 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (15.63%) Pentaho
3 5 (15.63%) Snowflake Schema
3 5 (15.63%) Star Schema
4 3 (9.38%) SAP HANA
General
1 14 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (37.50%) Finance
3 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 7 (21.88%) Legal
5 5 (15.63%) Law
5 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
6 4 (12.50%) Telecoms
7 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.13%) Automotive
8 1 (3.13%) Banking
8 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Consultant
1 7 (21.88%) SAP Consultant
2 5 (15.63%) Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Senior
2 5 (15.63%) Senior Manager
3 4 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Finance Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Security Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Audit Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Information Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Information Security Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) IT Audit Manager
5 2 (6.25%) IT Manager
5 2 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Security Compliance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.38%) Driving Licence
2 3 (9.38%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.25%) Clustering
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
1 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Risk Management
2 8 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (21.88%) High Availability
3 7 (21.88%) Internal Audit
3 7 (21.88%) Performance Testing
3 7 (21.88%) System Integration Testing
4 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (18.75%) ETL
4 6 (18.75%) Information Security
4 6 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (15.63%) Analytics
5 5 (15.63%) Data Engineering
5 5 (15.63%) Data Extraction
5 5 (15.63%) Data Migration
5 5 (15.63%) Data Transformation
5 5 (15.63%) Migration
5 5 (15.63%) RBAC
6 4 (12.50%) IT Governance
6 4 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) SQL
2 7 (21.88%) ABAP
3 5 (15.63%) Python
4 3 (9.38%) Perl
5 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) ACCA
3 4 (12.50%) CIMA
3 4 (12.50%) CISA
4 3 (9.38%) CISSP
5 2 (6.25%) CISM
6 1 (3.13%) Degree
6 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (56.25%) GDPR
2 11 (34.38%) HIPAA
3 10 (31.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (31.25%) NIST
4 6 (18.75%) Data Quality
5 4 (12.50%) Accessibility
6 3 (9.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (9.38%) ITGC
6 3 (9.38%) SOC 2
7 2 (6.25%) COBIT
7 2 (6.25%) GRC
7 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
8 1 (3.13%) IFRS
8 1 (3.13%) SOX 404
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Dell DRAC
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (6.25%) vCenter Server
1 2 (6.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) SAP
2 7 (21.88%) OpenText
3 6 (18.75%) Informatica
4 5 (15.63%) MuleSoft
4 5 (15.63%) Talend
5 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.25%) Citrix
6 2 (6.25%) Dell
6 2 (6.25%) NetApp
6 2 (6.25%) Veeam
6 2 (6.25%) VMware
7 1 (3.13%) Callidus
7 1 (3.13%) Salesforce