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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 657 604
Rank change year-on-year +178 -53 +124
Permanent jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 106 106 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.15% 0.25%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.60% 1.10% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 29 61 78
10th Percentile £41,250 - £47,125
25th Percentile £51,000 £31,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £52,500 £59,875
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -12.32% +22.82%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £140,677 £77,500 £86,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £53,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +32.08% -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 6,626 9,651 12,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.95% 13.62% 20.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,164 6,353 4,568
10th Percentile £29,825 £25,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.39%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,400
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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +143 30 - - 3
South East +80 30 £54,500 +9.00% 30
North of England +56 28 £122,773 +145.55% 13
North West +15 19 - - 5
Yorkshire +49 9 £122,773 +197.63% 8
East of England +46 7 £42,500 - 4
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 5
Midlands +43 4 £42,500 -34.62% 15
West Midlands +37 4 £42,500 -34.62% 11
Wales - 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 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.94%) Primavera
2 1 (0.94%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.94%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.43%) Azure
2 6 (5.66%) AWS
3 5 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (4.72%) Serverless
4 2 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (1.89%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.89%) GitHub
4 2 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.94%) IaaS
5 1 (0.94%) PaaS
5 1 (0.94%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.94%) SaaS
5 1 (0.94%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.72%) Firewall
2 4 (3.77%) LAN
2 4 (3.77%) VPN
2 4 (3.77%) WAN
3 3 (2.83%) NAS
4 2 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.89%) Cisco Wireless
4 2 (1.89%) DMVPN
4 2 (1.89%) FTP
4 2 (1.89%) HTTP
4 2 (1.89%) MPLS
4 2 (1.89%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (1.89%) SSL
4 2 (1.89%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.89%) VLAN
4 2 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.89%) Wireless
5 1 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.94%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.94%) Power BI
1 1 (0.94%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.89%) Spinnaker
General
1 55 (51.89%) Finance
2 33 (31.13%) Social Skills
3 24 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (16.04%) Banking
4 17 (16.04%) Legal
5 5 (4.72%) Retail
6 3 (2.83%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.94%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.94%) Marketing
8 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (25.47%) Risk Manager
2 24 (22.64%) Analyst
2 24 (22.64%) Senior
3 17 (16.04%) Senior Manager
4 15 (14.15%) Technology Risk Manager
5 14 (13.21%) Lead
6 12 (11.32%) Operations Manager
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
8 8 (7.55%) Software Analyst
9 6 (5.66%) Engineering Manager
9 6 (5.66%) Software Engineering Manager
9 6 (5.66%) Software Manager
10 5 (4.72%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.72%) .NET
2 2 (1.89%) EDI
2 2 (1.89%) EDIFACT
2 2 (1.89%) HTML
2 2 (1.89%) IDoc
2 2 (1.89%) Middleware
2 2 (1.89%) SOAP
2 2 (1.89%) XML
2 2 (1.89%) XSLT
3 1 (0.94%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.94%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.66%) Management Information System
1 6 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
1 6 (5.66%) Virtual Team
2 3 (2.83%) Market Risk
3 2 (1.89%) Biopharmaceutical
3 2 (1.89%) Clustering
3 2 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.89%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.89%) FMCG
3 2 (1.89%) iSeries
3 2 (1.89%) Mainframe
3 2 (1.89%) Online Banking
3 2 (1.89%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.89%) Security Posture
3 2 (1.89%) Social Media
4 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.94%) Life Science
4 1 (0.94%) PMI
4 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.94%) TRADACOMS
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.38%) zOS
2 6 (5.66%) Linux
2 6 (5.66%) Unix
2 6 (5.66%) Windows
3 2 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.89%) Solaris
3 2 (1.89%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.89%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (40.57%) Risk Management
2 32 (30.19%) Agile
3 31 (29.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (25.47%) Roadmaps
5 26 (24.53%) ITIL
6 25 (23.58%) Information Security
6 25 (23.58%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (18.87%) Coaching
7 20 (18.87%) DevOps
8 18 (16.98%) CI/CD
9 17 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (16.04%) Project Management
10 16 (15.09%) Continuous Delivery
10 16 (15.09%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (15.09%) Customer Service
10 16 (15.09%) Technology Roadmap
11 15 (14.15%) Creative Thinking
11 15 (14.15%) Root Cause Analysis
12 14 (13.21%) Internal Audit
12 14 (13.21%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.49%) Python
2 8 (7.55%) SQL
3 6 (5.66%) ABAP
4 5 (4.72%) Java
5 2 (1.89%) Bash
5 2 (1.89%) C
5 2 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.89%) Jython
5 2 (1.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (22.64%) CISA
2 18 (16.98%) CRISC
3 14 (13.21%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (13.21%) CISSP
4 12 (11.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 12 (11.32%) CompTIA Security+
4 12 (11.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 4 (3.77%) Degree
5 4 (3.77%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.83%) CISM
7 2 (1.89%) CCNA
8 1 (0.94%) CCA
8 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.94%) MRICS
8 1 (0.94%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.92%) COBIT
1 19 (17.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (16.98%) ITGC
3 13 (12.26%) GDPR
3 13 (12.26%) PCI DSS
4 5 (4.72%) NIST
5 4 (3.77%) GRC
6 3 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.89%) QA
8 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (1.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.94%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (2.83%) EMC VPLEX
2 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.89%) RSA Archer
2 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (10.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.43%) ServiceNow
3 8 (7.55%) IBM
3 8 (7.55%) SAP
4 4 (3.77%) Cisco
5 3 (2.83%) EMC
6 2 (1.89%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.89%) F5
6 2 (1.89%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.89%) Instagram
6 2 (1.89%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.89%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.89%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.89%) Twitter
6 2 (1.89%) VMware
7 1 (0.94%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle