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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 759 712
Rank change year-on-year +206 -47 +240
Permanent jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 158 136 269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.14% 0.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.71% 1.00% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 59 86 152
10th Percentile £41,250 £29,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £31,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £54,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -11.74% +1.97%
75th Percentile £96,889 £67,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £120,250 £78,125 £94,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.81% -12.50% +23.08%

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 9,237 13,611 18,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.64% 13.72% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,749 9,222 8,694
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £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 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 14 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 16 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 +141 117 £70,000 +27.27% 116
UK excluding London +190 108 £54,500 +3.81% 66
London +131 46 £78,750 +23.53% 63
Work from Home +127 33 £75,000 +7.14% 50
Scotland +140 30 - - 2
South East +84 30 £54,500 +9.00% 27
North of England +51 28 £122,773 +145.55% 13
North West +22 19 - - 5
Yorkshire +52 9 £122,773 +197.63% 8
East of England +48 8 £42,500 - 4
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 3
Midlands +42 5 £42,500 -34.62% 15
West Midlands +39 5 £42,500 -34.62% 11
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 (1.90%) CMS
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.27%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.63%) Primavera
3 1 (0.63%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.63%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (18.99%) Azure
2 22 (13.92%) AWS
3 11 (6.96%) GCP
4 8 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.06%) Serverless
5 7 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (3.80%) GitHub
7 4 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.53%) Azure AKS
7 4 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.90%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.63%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.63%) Amazon Macie
10 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.63%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.06%) Firewall
1 8 (5.06%) Network Security
2 5 (3.16%) LAN
2 5 (3.16%) VPN
2 5 (3.16%) WAN
3 4 (2.53%) SSL
4 3 (1.90%) FTP
4 3 (1.90%) NAS
5 2 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.27%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.27%) Cisco Wireless
5 2 (1.27%) DMVPN
5 2 (1.27%) HTTP
5 2 (1.27%) MPLS
5 2 (1.27%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.27%) VLAN
5 2 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.27%) Wireless
6 1 (0.63%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.90%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.63%) Looker
2 1 (0.63%) Power BI
2 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.63%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.53%) GitLab
2 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.27%) Spinnaker
3 1 (0.63%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.63%) Git
General
1 84 (53.16%) Finance
2 55 (34.81%) Social Skills
3 36 (22.78%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (14.56%) Banking
5 19 (12.03%) Legal
6 7 (4.43%) Retail
7 4 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.90%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.90%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.63%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (22.15%) Risk Manager
1 35 (22.15%) Senior
2 33 (20.89%) Analyst
3 23 (14.56%) Senior Manager
4 21 (13.29%) Technology Risk Manager
5 19 (12.03%) Lead
6 16 (10.13%) Audit Manager
6 16 (10.13%) Audit Support Manager
6 16 (10.13%) Quality Manager
6 16 (10.13%) Senior Audit Manager
6 16 (10.13%) Senior Quality Manager
6 16 (10.13%) Senior Support Manager
6 16 (10.13%) Support Manager
7 14 (8.86%) Operations Manager
8 12 (7.59%) Asset Management Analyst
8 12 (7.59%) Software Analyst
9 7 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (4.43%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (4.43%) Security Engineer
10 6 (3.80%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.43%) .NET
1 7 (4.43%) Azure Blueprints
2 4 (2.53%) Middleware
3 3 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.90%) REST
4 2 (1.27%) EDI
4 2 (1.27%) EDIFACT
4 2 (1.27%) HTML
4 2 (1.27%) IDoc
4 2 (1.27%) SOAP
4 2 (1.27%) XML
4 2 (1.27%) XSLT
5 1 (0.63%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.33%) Security Posture
2 9 (5.70%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.43%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.80%) Clustering
4 6 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.16%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.90%) iSeries
6 3 (1.90%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.90%) Online Banking
7 2 (1.27%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.27%) FMCG
7 2 (1.27%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.27%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.27%) Social Media
8 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.13%) Linux
2 14 (8.86%) zOS
3 10 (6.33%) Unix
3 10 (6.33%) Windows
4 6 (3.80%) Solaris
5 4 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.53%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.90%) VMS
6 3 (1.90%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (33.54%) Risk Management
2 52 (32.91%) Agile
3 48 (30.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 48 (30.38%) DevOps
4 45 (28.48%) CI/CD
5 35 (22.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 34 (21.52%) Roadmaps
7 32 (20.25%) ITIL
8 30 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (18.35%) Information Security
10 28 (17.72%) Coaching
11 25 (15.82%) Customer Service
12 23 (14.56%) Continuous Delivery
12 23 (14.56%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (14.56%) Root Cause Analysis
12 23 (14.56%) Technology Roadmap
13 22 (13.92%) IT Audit
14 21 (13.29%) Creative Thinking
14 21 (13.29%) Mentoring
15 20 (12.66%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 25 (15.82%) Python
2 16 (10.13%) Bash
3 12 (7.59%) SQL
4 9 (5.70%) Perl
5 8 (5.06%) PowerShell
6 7 (4.43%) Java
7 6 (3.80%) ABAP
8 4 (2.53%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.90%) R
10 2 (1.27%) C
10 2 (1.27%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.27%) Jython
Qualifications
1 35 (22.15%) CISA
2 22 (13.92%) CRISC
3 20 (12.66%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (12.03%) CISSP
5 18 (11.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 14 (8.86%) CompTIA Security+
6 14 (8.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 6 (3.80%) CISM
8 4 (2.53%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.53%) Degree
8 4 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.90%) CCSP
10 2 (1.27%) CCNA
10 2 (1.27%) NVQ Level 3
11 1 (0.63%) CCA
11 1 (0.63%) CCSK
11 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.63%) MRICS
11 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (22.15%) GDPR
2 29 (18.35%) PCI DSS
3 25 (15.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (14.56%) COBIT
5 22 (13.92%) ITGC
6 16 (10.13%) NIST
7 6 (3.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (2.53%) GRC
9 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
9 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
9 2 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 6 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.53%) Docker
3 3 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.63%) RACF
Systems Management
1 13 (8.23%) Kubernetes
1 13 (8.23%) Terraform
2 12 (7.59%) Ansible
3 7 (4.43%) CASB
4 6 (3.80%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (2.53%) Grafana
5 4 (2.53%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.90%) EMC VPLEX
6 3 (1.90%) Istio
6 3 (1.90%) linkerd
6 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.27%) RSA Archer
7 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.63%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.86%) ServiceNow
3 11 (6.96%) Google
3 11 (6.96%) Red Hat
3 11 (6.96%) SAP
4 8 (5.06%) IBM
5 5 (3.16%) VMware
6 4 (2.53%) Cisco
6 4 (2.53%) Oracle
7 3 (1.90%) EMC
8 2 (1.27%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.27%) F5
8 2 (1.27%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.27%) Instagram
8 2 (1.27%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.27%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.27%) Twitter
9 1 (0.63%) IBM Sterling
9 1 (0.63%) Veritas