Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts in England

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Sarbanes-Oxley skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 489 620
Rank change year-on-year +9 +131 -76
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 57 162 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.34% 0.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.11% 2.52% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 93 80
10th Percentile £500 £400 £337
25th Percentile £538 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +16.46%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £700
90th Percentile £765 £713 £764
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £27.36 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £29.40 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £32.80 £34.14
Median % change year-on-year +113.41% -3.93% -45.38%
75th Percentile £72.50 £36.20 -
90th Percentile - £38.24 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £67.07
% change year-on-year +76.77% -40.96% +7.31%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

Sarbanes-Oxley is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,125 6,421 9,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.09% 13.33% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,289 4,357 6,302
10th Percentile £300 £290 £290
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 215 265
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.63 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £20.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +27.12% +40.48%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £79.90 £69.52
UK median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -39.84% +7.69% +54.76%

Sarbanes-Oxley
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in England.

Daily rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley in England.

Hourly rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in England

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +20 34 £600 +4.35% 18
South East -4 10 £550 +10.00% 9
North of England +26 8 £560 +142.60% 3
Yorkshire +16 5 £340 -11.30% 1
North West +17 3 £580 +154.95% 1
East of England +11 3 £560 +24.44% 1
Midlands +26 1 £675 +22.73% 6
West Midlands +25 1 £675 +22.73% 4
South West +9 1 £875 -
Sarbanes-Oxley
UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (12.28%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) IBM Notes
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (15.79%) Dynamics GP
2 8 (14.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (7.02%) SAP BPC
4 3 (5.26%) SAP GRC
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (1.75%) Relativity
5 1 (1.75%) SAP ERP
5 1 (1.75%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.54%) Azure
2 9 (15.79%) GCP
2 9 (15.79%) SaaS
3 7 (12.28%) AWS
4 6 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (10.53%) IaaS
4 6 (10.53%) Nutanix
4 6 (10.53%) PaaS
4 6 (10.53%) Rubrik
5 4 (7.02%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.51%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.51%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.75%) OCI
7 1 (1.75%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.75%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) DNS
1 8 (14.04%) Firewall
2 6 (10.53%) DHCP
2 6 (10.53%) Kerberos
2 6 (10.53%) NAS
2 6 (10.53%) SAN
2 6 (10.53%) TCP/IP
2 6 (10.53%) VLAN
3 4 (7.02%) Network Security
4 2 (3.51%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (3.51%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (3.51%) Internet
4 2 (3.51%) NX-OS
4 2 (3.51%) VPN
4 2 (3.51%) WAN
4 2 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) Power BI
1 4 (7.02%) SAP HANA
2 2 (3.51%) SAP BW
2 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Git
1 7 (12.28%) JIRA
2 6 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.53%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.75%) GoCD
3 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (56.14%) Finance
2 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.77%) Banking
4 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (7.02%) Legal
5 3 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.75%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (33.33%) Consultant
2 9 (15.79%) Great Plains Consultant
2 9 (15.79%) Microsoft Consultant
3 8 (14.04%) Analyst
4 6 (10.53%) Lead
5 5 (8.77%) Compliance Analyst
5 5 (8.77%) Project Manager
5 5 (8.77%) SOX Project Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Security Consultant
6 4 (7.02%) Senior
6 4 (7.02%) SOX Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Cloud Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) GCP Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) Oracle Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) Transformation Consultant
8 2 (3.51%) Security Architect
8 2 (3.51%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) LDAP
2 2 (3.51%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.75%) Jest
3 1 (1.75%) Node.js
3 1 (1.75%) React
3 1 (1.75%) SAML
3 1 (1.75%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Clustering
1 6 (10.53%) Replication
2 3 (5.26%) Life Science
3 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Windows
2 6 (10.53%) Linux
2 6 (10.53%) Oracle Linux
2 6 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (10.53%) Solaris
2 6 (10.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.05%) Use Case
2 11 (19.30%) User Acceptance Testing
3 10 (17.54%) Risk Management
4 9 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (15.79%) Test Scripting
5 8 (14.04%) Analytics
5 8 (14.04%) Project Management
6 7 (12.28%) Agile
6 7 (12.28%) Data Security
7 6 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (10.53%) DevOps
7 6 (10.53%) High Availability
7 6 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (10.53%) Storage Management
7 6 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.05%) SQL
2 7 (12.28%) PowerShell
2 7 (12.28%) Python
3 6 (10.53%) Bash
4 2 (3.51%) ABAP
5 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (15.79%) Degree
2 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
2 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) CISM
3 3 (5.26%) CISSP
4 2 (3.51%) CISA
4 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.51%) PMP
5 1 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.75%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.54%) GDPR
2 6 (10.53%) GxP
2 6 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (8.77%) PCI DSS
4 4 (7.02%) COBIT
4 4 (7.02%) GRC
5 3 (5.26%) ITGC
5 3 (5.26%) NCSC
6 2 (3.51%) COSO
7 1 (1.75%) GLBA
7 1 (1.75%) ISAE 3402
7 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.75%) NIST
7 1 (1.75%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (14.04%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.53%) Docker
2 6 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) Ansible
1 6 (10.53%) EMC NetWorker
1 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 6 (10.53%) Netcool
1 6 (10.53%) Terraform
1 6 (10.53%) Tivoli
1 6 (10.53%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (1.75%) CASB
2 1 (1.75%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.75%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 13 (22.81%) Oracle
3 9 (15.79%) Cisco
3 9 (15.79%) SAP
4 7 (12.28%) CyberArk
4 7 (12.28%) HP
4 7 (12.28%) ServiceNow
5 6 (10.53%) Dell
5 6 (10.53%) EMC
5 6 (10.53%) IBM
5 6 (10.53%) Isilon
5 6 (10.53%) Qualys
5 6 (10.53%) Serena
5 6 (10.53%) Splunk
5 6 (10.53%) VMware
6 3 (5.26%) Ariba
6 3 (5.26%) Concur
6 3 (5.26%) Google
6 3 (5.26%) Hyperion
7 2 (3.51%) Juniper