Sarbanes-Oxley Jobs

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Sarbanes-Oxley skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Sarbanes-Oxley over the 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox) UK
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	686	627	673
Rank change year-on-year	-59	+46
Permanent jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley	185	291	324
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.21%	0.30%	0.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category	1.73%	2.27%	2.29%
Number of salaries quoted	137	227	196
Median salary	£55,000	£55,000	£55,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	-	-0.90%
90% offered a salary of more than	£37,500	£40,000	£41,900
10% offered a salary of more than	£74,500	£79,500	£81,000
UK excluding London median salary	£45,000	£52,500	£53,750
% change year-on-year	-14.28%	-2.32%

Sarbanes-Oxley is in the quality assurance and compliance skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance and compliance skills.

Quality Assurance & Compliance Skills UK
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance and compliance skills	10671	12835	14123
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	11.97%	13.05%	12.74%
Number of salaries quoted	8056	10231	11143
Median salary	£50,000	£50,000	£46,250
Median salary % change year-on-year	-	+8.10%
90% offered a salary of more than	£30,000	£30,000	£27,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£75,000	£75,000	£75,000
UK excluding London median salary	£45,000	£45,000	£42,500
% change year-on-year	-	+5.88%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Salary trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 30 Job Locations

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 over the 3 months to 23 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-56	168	£55,000	-	23
London	-30	85	£60,000	+9.09%	8
South East	+12	22	£55,000	+4.76%	4
Yorkshire	+18	20	£40,000	+3.22%	1
North West	-44	16	£42,500	-19.04%	4
West Yorkshire	+18	13	£51,250	+32.25%	1
Surrey	+35	10	£55,000	-21.42%
Scotland	+21	10	£45,000	-35.71%
West Midlands	-8	10	£35,000	-44.00%	4
Leeds	+7	9	£62,500	+56.25%	1
East of England	-1	7	£42,500	+34.92%	1
Cheshire	-20	7	£50,000	-
North Yorkshire	-	7	£37,500	-
Hertfordshire	-	7	£42,500	-	1
Aberdeen	-	7	£45,000	-
South West	+4	6	£59,500	-20.66%
City of London	+8	5	£82,500	+51.37%	2
West Sussex	-5	5	£55,000	+15.78%	1
Manchester	-27	5	£55,000	+4.76%	2
Harrogate	-	5	£37,500	-
Staffordshire	+10	4	£32,500	-51.85%	2
Berkshire	+5	4	-	-	2
Knutsford	-	4	-	-
Cannock	-	4	£32,500	-	2
Bracknell	+20	3	-	-	1
Kent	+14	3	£42,500	+41.66%
Gloucester	+6	3	£60,000	-25.00%
Buckinghamshire	+1	3	-	-
Milton Keynes	-2	3	-	-
Gloucestershire	-3	3	£60,000	-25.00%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for Sarbanes-Oxley.

1	132 (35.20%)	Finance
2	126 (33.60%)	Information Security
3	116 (30.93%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	104 (27.73%)	CISSP
5	98 (26.13%)	ITIL
6	87 (23.20%)	PCI DSS
7	85 (22.67%)	Windows
8	78 (20.80%)	Cisco
8	78 (20.80%)	CISM
9	65 (17.33%)	Firewall
9	65 (17.33%)	Risk Management
10	59 (15.73%)	Degree
11	56 (14.93%)	CISA
12	55 (14.67%)	SIEM
13	50 (13.33%)	Unix

14	48 (12.80%)	Oracle
15	47 (12.53%)	SQL
15	47 (12.53%)	Management Information System
16	46 (12.27%)	Microsoft
17	45 (12.00%)	SAP
17	45 (12.00%)	Computer Science
18	44 (11.73%)	LAN
18	44 (11.73%)	WAN
19	40 (10.67%)	DNS
19	40 (10.67%)	Active Directory
20	39 (10.40%)	Change Management
21	37 (9.87%)	Data Security
21	37 (9.87%)	Service Management
21	37 (9.87%)	Cybersecurity
22	36 (9.60%)	Stakeholder Management

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	32 (8.53%)	IIS
2	19 (5.07%)	SharePoint
3	18 (4.80%)	Apache
4	17 (4.53%)	Tomcat
4	17 (4.53%)	WebLogic
5	14 (3.73%)	Apache Spark
6	11 (2.93%)	SAS
7	7 (1.87%)	MS Exchange
8	6 (1.60%)	SharePoint 2013
9	3 (0.80%)	Exchange Server 2010
9	3 (0.80%)	Oracle SOA Suite
10	1 (0.27%)	Apache Pig
10	1 (0.27%)	OpenStack

Applications
1	30 (8.00%)	Microsoft Office
2	8 (2.13%)	Microsoft Excel
2	8 (2.13%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
3	5 (1.33%)	MS Visio
4	2 (0.53%)	Maya
5	1 (0.27%)	SPSS

Business Applications
1	23 (6.13%)	SAP GRC
2	10 (2.67%)	SAP MM
3	9 (2.40%)	SAP ERP
4	4 (1.07%)	JDE World
4	4 (1.07%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5	3 (0.80%)	Dynamics NAV
6	2 (0.53%)	Dynamics AX
6	2 (0.53%)	SAP BPC
6	2 (0.53%)	SAP Business One
7	1 (0.27%)	Movex
7	1 (0.27%)	SAP APO
7	1 (0.27%)	SAP LE
7	1 (0.27%)	SAP SD

Cloud Services
1	22 (5.87%)	Microsoft Azure
2	20 (5.33%)	Amazon AWS
3	13 (3.47%)	GitHub
4	11 (2.93%)	Cloud Computing
5	10 (2.67%)	IaaS
6	9 (2.40%)	SaaS
7	8 (2.13%)	Force.com
7	8 (2.13%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	2 (0.53%)	Office 365
8	2 (0.53%)	Veeva
9	1 (0.27%)	Amazon EC2
9	1 (0.27%)	Amazon EMR
9	1 (0.27%)	Amazon S3
9	1 (0.27%)	Datadog
9	1 (0.27%)	Route 53
9	1 (0.27%)	Virtual Private Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	65 (17.33%)	Firewall
2	44 (11.73%)	LAN
2	44 (11.73%)	WAN
3	40 (10.67%)	DNS
4	36 (9.60%)	Network Security
5	34 (9.07%)	Internet
5	34 (9.07%)	VPN
6	33 (8.80%)	TCP/IP
7	31 (8.27%)	SSL
8	30 (8.00%)	SMTP
9	27 (7.20%)	BIG-IP
10	22 (5.87%)	DHCP
11	21 (5.60%)	BGP
12	20 (5.33%)	OSPF
12	20 (5.33%)	Wi-Fi
12	20 (5.33%)	Wireless
13	17 (4.53%)	Cisco IOS
13	17 (4.53%)	DMVPN
13	17 (4.53%)	NX-OS
13	17 (4.53%)	VLAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	24 (6.40%)	SQL Server
2	20 (5.33%)	Big Data
3	16 (4.27%)	NoSQL
3	16 (4.27%)	Relational Database
4	15 (4.00%)	Hadoop
4	15 (4.00%)	SQL Server Integration Services
5	14 (3.73%)	Apache Hive
5	14 (3.73%)	SAP BW
6	11 (2.93%)	Oracle Database
7	5 (1.33%)	Data Warehouse
8	4 (1.07%)	BusinessObjects
8	4 (1.07%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
9	3 (0.80%)	Microsoft Analysis Services
9	3 (0.80%)	MySQL
9	3 (0.80%)	Oracle Database 11g
9	3 (0.80%)	SQL Server 2008
9	3 (0.80%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
10	2 (0.53%)	Crystal Reports
10	2 (0.53%)	MS Access
11	1 (0.27%)	Ingres

Development Applications
1	8 (2.13%)	Oracle Forms
2	6 (1.60%)	Visual Studio
3	4 (1.07%)	Git (software)
3	4 (1.07%)	Team Foundation Server
4	3 (0.80%)	Burp Suite
4	3 (0.80%)	Metasploit
4	3 (0.80%)	Oracle APEX
4	3 (0.80%)	VSS/SourceSafe
5	2 (0.53%)	Visual Studio Team System
6	1 (0.27%)	Atlassian Bamboo
6	1 (0.27%)	Liquibase
6	1 (0.27%)	MSTest
6	1 (0.27%)	Subversion
6	1 (0.27%)	UltraEdit

General
1	132 (35.20%)	Finance
2	21 (5.60%)	Retail
3	19 (5.07%)	Banking
4	17 (4.53%)	Manufacturing
5	12 (3.20%)	Telecoms
6	7 (1.87%)	Advertising
6	7 (1.87%)	Legal
7	4 (1.07%)	Local Government
7	4 (1.07%)	Pharmaceutical
8	3 (0.80%)	Financial Institution
8	3 (0.80%)	Marketing
9	2 (0.53%)	Electronics
9	2 (0.53%)	French Language
9	2 (0.53%)	Investment Banking
9	2 (0.53%)	Publishing
9	2 (0.53%)	Retail Banking
9	2 (0.53%)	Spanish Language
10	1 (0.27%)	Aerospace
10	1 (0.27%)	Billing
10	1 (0.27%)	International Banking

Job Titles
1	96 (25.60%)	Analyst
2	42 (11.20%)	Security Analyst
3	41 (10.93%)	IT Analyst
4	33 (8.80%)	Security Engineer
4	33 (8.80%)	Security Manager
5	32 (8.53%)	Consultant
6	30 (8.00%)	Network Engineer
7	24 (6.40%)	Architect
7	24 (6.40%)	SAP Consultant
8	22 (5.87%)	IT Manager
8	22 (5.87%)	Security Architect
9	21 (5.60%)	Network Security Engineer
10	20 (5.33%)	Developer
11	19 (5.07%)	IT Engineer
12	17 (4.53%)	Cisco Engineer
12	17 (4.53%)	Cisco Network Engineer
12	17 (4.53%)	Information Analyst
12	17 (4.53%)	Information Security Analyst
13	16 (4.27%)	Information Security Manager
13	16 (4.27%)	Technical Leader

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	31 (8.27%)	.NET
2	14 (3.73%)	Kafka
2	14 (3.73%)	SOAP
2	14 (3.73%)	XML
3	13 (3.47%)	Flask
3	13 (3.47%)	Grails
3	13 (3.47%)	JSON
3	13 (3.47%)	Node.js
3	13 (3.47%)	REST
4	9 (2.40%)	LAMP
5	8 (2.13%)	802.1X
6	6 (1.60%)	MSMQ
7	4 (1.07%)	.NET Framework
7	4 (1.07%)	ASP.NET
7	4 (1.07%)	Web Services
8	2 (0.53%)	Regular Expression
8	2 (0.53%)	WPF
9	1 (0.27%)	AngularJS
9	1 (0.27%)	Entity Framework
9	1 (0.27%)	Silverlight

Miscellaneous
1	47 (12.53%)	Management Information System
2	45 (12.00%)	Computer Science
3	34 (9.07%)	Analytical Skills
4	25 (6.67%)	Security Operations Centre
5	17 (4.53%)	Data Centre
6	16 (4.27%)	Data Protection Act
7	12 (3.20%)	CESG
7	12 (3.20%)	Client/Server
7	12 (3.20%)	Driving Licence
8	8 (2.13%)	Enterprise Storage
9	7 (1.87%)	AS400
10	5 (1.33%)	Mainframe
11	4 (1.07%)	Fintech
11	4 (1.07%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
11	4 (1.07%)	iSeries
11	4 (1.07%)	NHS
12	3 (0.80%)	Clustering
12	3 (0.80%)	Cyber Attack
12	3 (0.80%)	Digital Media
13	2 (0.53%)	CMDB

Operating Systems
1	85 (22.67%)	Windows
2	50 (13.33%)	Unix
3	26 (6.93%)	Windows Server
4	23 (6.13%)	Linux
5	13 (3.47%)	Windows Server 2012
6	8 (2.13%)	CentOS
6	8 (2.13%)	Debian
7	4 (1.07%)	Windows Server 2008
8	3 (0.80%)	Kali Linux
9	2 (0.53%)	Solaris
10	1 (0.27%)	Ubuntu
10	1 (0.27%)	Windows 7

Processes & Methodologies
1	126 (33.60%)	Information Security
2	98 (26.13%)	ITIL
3	65 (17.33%)	Risk Management
4	55 (14.67%)	SIEM
5	39 (10.40%)	Change Management
6	37 (9.87%)	Cybersecurity
6	37 (9.87%)	Data Security
6	37 (9.87%)	Service Management
7	36 (9.60%)	Stakeholder Management
8	34 (9.07%)	Security Operations
9	33 (8.80%)	IT Audit
10	31 (8.27%)	Agile Software Development
11	29 (7.73%)	Mentoring
11	29 (7.73%)	Security Management
12	28 (7.47%)	Data Protection
12	28 (7.47%)	Problem Management
12	28 (7.47%)	Project Management
12	28 (7.47%)	Security Architecture
12	28 (7.47%)	Vulnerability Management
13	27 (7.20%)	TOGAF

Programming Languages
1	47 (12.53%)	SQL
2	25 (6.67%)	C#
3	17 (4.53%)	Python
4	16 (4.27%)	PL/SQL
5	14 (3.73%)	Java
6	13 (3.47%)	JavaScript
7	9 (2.40%)	PowerShell
8	8 (2.13%)	VB
9	6 (1.60%)	VB.NET
10	4 (1.07%)	Perl
11	3 (0.80%)	C
11	3 (0.80%)	C++
11	3 (0.80%)	Shell Script
12	2 (0.53%)	PHP
12	2 (0.53%)	VBA
13	1 (0.27%)	ActionScript
13	1 (0.27%)	ActionScript 2.0
13	1 (0.27%)	ActionScript 3.0
13	1 (0.27%)	Bash Shell
13	1 (0.27%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	104 (27.73%)	CISSP
2	78 (20.80%)	CISM
3	59 (15.73%)	Degree
4	56 (14.93%)	CISA
5	19 (5.07%)	CRISC
6	12 (3.20%)	IISP
6	12 (3.20%)	Oracle Certification
7	11 (2.93%)	ITIL Certification
8	10 (2.67%)	Cisco Certification
9	9 (2.40%)	CCNA
9	9 (2.40%)	Microsoft Certification
9	9 (2.40%)	SANS
10	8 (2.13%)	ACCA
10	8 (2.13%)	CCNP
10	8 (2.13%)	CESG Certified Professional
10	8 (2.13%)	MCSE
10	8 (2.13%)	SC Cleared
10	8 (2.13%)	Security Cleared
11	7 (1.87%)	CEH
11	7 (1.87%)	ISSAP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	116 (30.93%)	ISO/IEC 27001
2	87 (23.20%)	PCI DSS
3	31 (8.27%)	COBIT
3	31 (8.27%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4	29 (7.73%)	Cyber Essentials
5	19 (5.07%)	SLA
6	15 (4.00%)	GDPR
7	14 (3.73%)	ISO 9001
8	11 (2.93%)	SSAE 16
9	8 (2.13%)	ISO/IEC 20000
10	6 (1.60%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
10	6 (1.60%)	JSP 440
11	5 (1.33%)	HIPAA
12	4 (1.07%)	COSO
12	4 (1.07%)	Data Quality
13	3 (0.80%)	Basel II
13	3 (0.80%)	BS25999
13	3 (0.80%)	GxP
13	3 (0.80%)	ISO 14001
14	2 (0.53%)	ISO/IEC 27005

System Software
1	40 (10.67%)	Active Directory
2	19 (5.07%)	Hyper-V
2	19 (5.07%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	8 (2.13%)	vSphere
4	6 (1.60%)	ProxySG
4	6 (1.60%)	RACF
5	2 (0.53%)	VMware Server
6	1 (0.27%)	Apache ZooKeeper
6	1 (0.27%)	KVM
6	1 (0.27%)	SRDF

Systems Management
1	12 (3.20%)	SCCM
2	3 (0.80%)	Ansible
2	3 (0.80%)	Backup Exec
2	3 (0.80%)	Cisco CUCM
2	3 (0.80%)	Failover Clustering
2	3 (0.80%)	McAfee ePO
2	3 (0.80%)	SCOM
3	2 (0.53%)	Puppet
4	1 (0.27%)	Cobbler
4	1 (0.27%)	Kibana
4	1 (0.27%)	Nagios
4	1 (0.27%)	Opscode Chef
4	1 (0.27%)	PowerCLI
4	1 (0.27%)	Rundeck
4	1 (0.27%)	Tivoli
4	1 (0.27%)	ZABBIX

Vendors
1	78 (20.80%)	Cisco
2	48 (12.80%)	Oracle
3	46 (12.27%)	Microsoft
4	45 (12.00%)	SAP
5	32 (8.53%)	Sun
6	27 (7.20%)	F5
7	24 (6.40%)	VMware
8	21 (5.60%)	Citrix
9	20 (5.33%)	CheckPoint
10	14 (3.73%)	Juniper
10	14 (3.73%)	Remedy
11	13 (3.47%)	Apigee
12	12 (3.20%)	Blue Coat
13	11 (2.93%)	McAfee
13	11 (2.93%)	Palo Alto
14	9 (2.40%)	Gemalto
14	9 (2.40%)	Symantec
15	8 (2.13%)	Google
15	8 (2.13%)	Splunk
16	6 (1.60%)	Novell