Sarbanes-Oxley Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Sarbanes-Oxley skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 620 577
Rank change year-on-year +132 -43 +128
Permanent jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 106 113 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.15% 0.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.63% 1.22% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 31 57 64
10th Percentile - £30,750 £47,650
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,500 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -14.19% +11.24%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £78,473
90th Percentile £140,677 £86,250 £90,625
UK median annual salary £65,000 £53,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +22.64% -13.37% +1.97%

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 6,496 9,252 8,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.01% 12.68% 16.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,199 5,790 4,282
10th Percentile £28,822 £25,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,139
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.26% +0.28%
75th Percentile £70,600 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London

Sarbanes-Oxley
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK excluding London

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 17 July 2025.

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 17 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +115 29 - - 1
North of England +61 25 £122,773 +145.55% 8
South East +33 24 £61,250 +22.50% 16
North West +26 19 - - 1
Midlands +57 13 £42,500 -34.62% 9
West Midlands +47 13 £42,500 -34.62% 4
East of England +35 7 £42,500 - 13
Yorkshire +27 6 £122,773 +145.55% 7
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
South West +93 3 - - 2
Wales - 1 - - 1
Sarbanes-Oxley
UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (1.89%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Primavera
1 2 (1.89%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.94%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.94%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.94%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.94%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.15%) Azure
2 14 (13.21%) AWS
3 13 (12.26%) Amazon ECS
3 13 (12.26%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (12.26%) Serverless
4 4 (3.77%) SaaS
4 4 (3.77%) SuccessFactors
5 3 (2.83%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.89%) PaaS
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.94%) IaaS
7 1 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.94%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.94%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.94%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) Network Security
1 1 (0.94%) PuTTY
1 1 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (0.94%) SSL
1 1 (0.94%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.89%) Power BI
2 1 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.94%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.94%) Tableau
General
1 56 (52.83%) Finance
2 33 (31.13%) Social Skills
3 22 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (14.15%) Banking
5 13 (12.26%) Legal
5 13 (12.26%) Retail
6 4 (3.77%) Law
7 3 (2.83%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.83%) Marketing
8 2 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.94%) Back Office
9 1 (0.94%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (27.36%) Analyst
2 27 (25.47%) Risk Manager
3 22 (20.75%) Senior
4 19 (17.92%) Senior Manager
5 15 (14.15%) Technology Risk Manager
6 12 (11.32%) Applications Engineer
6 12 (11.32%) Applications Support
6 12 (11.32%) Applications Support Engineer
6 12 (11.32%) Operations Manager
6 12 (11.32%) Software Applications Engineer
6 12 (11.32%) Software Support Engineer
6 12 (11.32%) Support Engineer
7 10 (9.43%) Audit Manager
7 10 (9.43%) Audit Support Manager
7 10 (9.43%) Quality Manager
7 10 (9.43%) Senior Audit Manager
7 10 (9.43%) Senior Quality Manager
7 10 (9.43%) Senior Support Manager
7 10 (9.43%) Support Manager
8 8 (7.55%) Asset Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.26%) .NET
2 2 (1.89%) EDI
2 2 (1.89%) EDIFACT
2 2 (1.89%) IDoc
2 2 (1.89%) Middleware
3 1 (0.94%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.94%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.55%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (5.66%) Virtual Team
3 5 (4.72%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.72%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.72%) Social Media
4 3 (2.83%) Mainframe
4 3 (2.83%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.89%) CMDB
5 2 (1.89%) FMCG
5 2 (1.89%) Life Science
5 2 (1.89%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.89%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.94%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.94%) Clustering
6 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.94%) TRADACOMS
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.49%) zOS
2 1 (0.94%) Linux
2 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.94%) Solaris
2 1 (0.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (41.51%) Risk Management
2 39 (36.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 33 (31.13%) Agile
4 27 (25.47%) Root Cause Analysis
5 24 (22.64%) Information Security
5 24 (22.64%) ITIL
5 24 (22.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (20.75%) Coaching
7 20 (18.87%) Roadmaps
8 19 (17.92%) Project Management
9 18 (16.98%) DevOps
10 17 (16.04%) CI/CD
11 15 (14.15%) Continuous Delivery
11 15 (14.15%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (14.15%) Creative Thinking
11 15 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (13.21%) Technology Roadmap
13 13 (12.26%) Decision-Making
13 13 (12.26%) Mentoring
13 13 (12.26%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.15%) Python
2 13 (12.26%) Java
2 13 (12.26%) SQL
3 1 (0.94%) ABAP
3 1 (0.94%) Bash
3 1 (0.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (21.70%) CISA
2 17 (16.04%) CRISC
3 13 (12.26%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (11.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 12 (11.32%) CISSP
4 12 (11.32%) CompTIA Security+
4 12 (11.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 4 (3.77%) GISP
5 4 (3.77%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.83%) Degree
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.94%) CCA
7 1 (0.94%) CCNA
7 1 (0.94%) CISM
7 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.94%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.92%) COBIT
1 19 (17.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (16.98%) ITGC
3 17 (16.04%) PCI DSS
4 14 (13.21%) GDPR
5 4 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (3.77%) GRC
5 4 (3.77%) SLA
6 3 (2.83%) NIST
7 2 (1.89%) QA
8 1 (0.94%) GAAP
8 1 (0.94%) IFRS
System Software
1 2 (1.89%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (1.89%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 19 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.32%) ServiceNow
3 8 (7.55%) IBM
3 8 (7.55%) SAP
4 5 (4.72%) Instagram
4 5 (4.72%) Twitter
5 1 (0.94%) Cisco
5 1 (0.94%) F5
5 1 (0.94%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.94%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (0.94%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle
5 1 (0.94%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.94%) SolarWinds