Sarbanes-Oxley Jobs

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 772 717
Rank change year-on-year +219 -55 +263
Permanent jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 150 135 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.13% 0.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.63% 0.98% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 51 86 144
10th Percentile - £29,750 £44,888
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,750 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +13.74% -13.78% -2.11%
75th Percentile £81,875 £67,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £77,500 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £59,875
% change year-on-year - -12.32% +19.75%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,197 13,737 17,699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.47% 13.25% 18.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,631 9,235 8,484
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.17%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sarbanes-Oxley as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley.

Salary trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 15 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 6 months to 31 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
England +154 110 £62,500 +13.64% 123
UK excluding London +185 106 £52,500 - 56
London +122 40 £73,750 +18.00% 78
Work from Home +122 32 £72,500 +20.83% 58
Scotland +152 31 - - 4
South East +57 26 £55,000 +10.00% 14
North of England +38 26 £122,773 +145.55% 16
North West +19 20 - - 9
Midlands +48 10 £42,500 -34.62% 11
West Midlands +43 10 £42,500 -34.62% 10
East of England +55 7 £42,500 - 2
Yorkshire +39 6 £122,773 +277.76% 7
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 5
South West +112 1 - - 3
Wales - 1 - -

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (2.00%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.33%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.67%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.67%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.67%) Primavera
3 1 (0.67%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.67%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (16.00%) Azure
2 20 (13.33%) AWS
3 10 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (6.67%) Serverless
4 9 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (4.00%) GCP
6 5 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (2.67%) GitHub
7 4 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.67%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.33%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.33%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.33%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.33%) SaaS
10 1 (0.67%) Amazon Macie
10 1 (0.67%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.33%) Firewall
2 3 (2.00%) FTP
2 3 (2.00%) NAS
2 3 (2.00%) Network Security
2 3 (2.00%) VLAN
3 2 (1.33%) LAN
3 2 (1.33%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (1.33%) SSL
3 2 (1.33%) VPN
3 2 (1.33%) WAN
3 2 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.67%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.67%) Power BI
2 1 (0.67%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.67%) GitLab
2 1 (0.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.67%) Git
General
1 76 (50.67%) Finance
2 45 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 33 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (14.00%) Banking
5 17 (11.33%) Legal
6 9 (6.00%) Retail
7 5 (3.33%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.67%) Law
9 3 (2.00%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.00%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.33%) Marketing
10 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (26.00%) Analyst
2 35 (23.33%) Risk Manager
3 29 (19.33%) Senior
4 24 (16.00%) Senior Manager
5 21 (14.00%) Technology Risk Manager
6 16 (10.67%) Audit Manager
6 16 (10.67%) Audit Support Manager
6 16 (10.67%) Lead
6 16 (10.67%) Quality Manager
6 16 (10.67%) Senior Audit Manager
6 16 (10.67%) Senior Quality Manager
6 16 (10.67%) Senior Support Manager
6 16 (10.67%) Support Manager
7 14 (9.33%) Operations Manager
8 12 (8.00%) Asset Management Analyst
8 12 (8.00%) Software Analyst
9 11 (7.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 8 (5.33%) Applications Support Engineer
10 8 (5.33%) Software Support Engineer
10 8 (5.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.00%) .NET
2 3 (2.00%) EDI
2 3 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.00%) REST
3 2 (1.33%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (1.33%) EDIFACT
3 2 (1.33%) IDoc
3 2 (1.33%) Middleware
4 1 (0.67%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.67%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.67%) Management Information System
1 7 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
1 7 (4.67%) Virtual Team
2 5 (3.33%) Security Posture
3 4 (2.67%) Clustering
4 3 (2.00%) CMDB
4 3 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.00%) iSeries
4 3 (2.00%) Mainframe
4 3 (2.00%) Market Risk
4 3 (2.00%) Online Banking
4 3 (2.00%) Social Media
5 2 (1.33%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.33%) FMCG
5 2 (1.33%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.67%) Life Science
6 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.67%) Replication
6 1 (0.67%) TRADACOMS
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.67%) zOS
2 12 (8.00%) Linux
3 7 (4.67%) Windows
4 6 (4.00%) Unix
5 4 (2.67%) Solaris
5 4 (2.67%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.33%) VMS
6 2 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.00%) Agile
2 48 (32.00%) Risk Management
3 44 (29.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 42 (28.00%) CI/CD
4 42 (28.00%) DevOps
5 37 (24.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 32 (21.33%) ITIL
7 31 (20.67%) Roadmaps
8 30 (20.00%) Coaching
9 29 (19.33%) Root Cause Analysis
10 27 (18.00%) Information Security
11 25 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
11 25 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
12 24 (16.00%) Customer Service
13 23 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (14.67%) Mentoring
14 22 (14.67%) Technology Roadmap
15 21 (14.00%) Creative Thinking
15 21 (14.00%) Project Management
16 20 (13.33%) IT Audit
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.33%) Python
2 10 (6.67%) Bash
2 10 (6.67%) SQL
3 9 (6.00%) Java
4 7 (4.67%) Perl
5 4 (2.67%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (2.67%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.00%) ABAP
6 3 (2.00%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (22.67%) CISA
2 21 (14.00%) CRISC
3 19 (12.67%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (11.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 16 (10.67%) CISSP
6 14 (9.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 14 (9.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 4 (2.67%) CISM
7 4 (2.67%) GISP
7 4 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (2.00%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.33%) CCNA
9 2 (1.33%) CCSP
9 2 (1.33%) Degree
9 2 (1.33%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.67%) CCA
10 1 (0.67%) CCSK
10 1 (0.67%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (22.00%) GDPR
2 24 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (15.33%) COBIT
3 23 (15.33%) PCI DSS
4 22 (14.67%) ITGC
5 10 (6.67%) NIST
6 6 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.67%) GRC
7 4 (2.67%) SLA
8 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.67%) Docker
3 2 (1.33%) RACF
3 2 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (8.00%) Ansible
2 7 (4.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.67%) Terraform
3 6 (4.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (2.67%) Grafana
4 4 (2.67%) Progress Chef
4 4 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.00%) EMC VPLEX
6 2 (1.33%) CASB
6 2 (1.33%) Istio
6 2 (1.33%) linkerd
6 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.33%) RSA Archer
6 2 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.00%) ServiceNow
3 13 (8.67%) SAP
4 9 (6.00%) Red Hat
5 8 (5.33%) IBM
6 6 (4.00%) Google
7 5 (3.33%) Oracle
8 3 (2.00%) EMC
8 3 (2.00%) Instagram
8 3 (2.00%) Twitter
8 3 (2.00%) VMware
9 2 (1.33%) Cisco
9 2 (1.33%) F5
9 2 (1.33%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.33%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.33%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.67%) Axway
10 1 (0.67%) Dell
10 1 (0.67%) IBM Sterling
10 1 (0.67%) ION Trading