Sarbanes-Oxley Contracts

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 522 674
Rank change year-on-year -8 +152 -76
Contract jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley 70 191 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.32% 0.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.12% 2.39% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 105 90
10th Percentile £478 £400 £337
25th Percentile £513 £445 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +17.95%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £700
90th Percentile £733 £713 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £34.88 £28.65 £45.36
25th Percentile £40.31 £32.63 £62.20
Median hourly rate £51.25 £39.60 £90.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.42% -56.24% +44.80%
75th Percentile £62.81 £40.68 £95.38
90th Percentile £68.63 £41.32 £98.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 -
% change year-on-year +76.77% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,250 7,982 11,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.34% 13.37% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,951 5,482 8,057
10th Percentile £295 £275 £290
25th Percentile £402 £409 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £619
90th Percentile £750 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 225 301
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.21 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.70 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £37.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +33.93% +33.02%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £77.50 £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £36.25 £21.05
% change year-on-year -50.34% +72.21% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Sarbanes-Oxley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Sarbanes-Oxley
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +10 65 £575 +4.55% 58
London +36 38 £600 - 27
Work from Home +74 31 £600 +9.09% 19
UK excluding London +30 24 £560 +12.00% 35
North of England +29 8 £560 +142.60% 8
South East -5 8 £550 +15.79% 9
East of England +17 6 £543 +20.56% 8
Yorkshire +25 5 £340 -11.30% 6
North West +22 3 £580 +154.95% 2
West Midlands +26 2 £625 +13.64% 5
Midlands +26 2 £625 +13.64% 8
South West +11 1 £875 -

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 8 (11.43%) Confluence
2 6 (8.57%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.71%) Mendix
4 1 (1.43%) IBM Notes
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Dynamics GP
2 8 (11.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (7.14%) SAP GRC
4 4 (5.71%) SAP BPC
5 2 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (2.86%) SAP ERP
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.71%) GCP
2 10 (14.29%) Azure
3 9 (12.86%) AWS
3 9 (12.86%) SaaS
4 8 (11.43%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (11.43%) IaaS
4 8 (11.43%) Nutanix
4 8 (11.43%) PaaS
4 8 (11.43%) Rubrik
5 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.43%) OCI
6 1 (1.43%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.29%) DNS
1 10 (14.29%) Firewall
2 8 (11.43%) DHCP
2 8 (11.43%) Kerberos
2 8 (11.43%) NAS
2 8 (11.43%) SAN
2 8 (11.43%) TCP/IP
2 8 (11.43%) VLAN
3 5 (7.14%) Network Security
4 2 (2.86%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (2.86%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (2.86%) Internet
4 2 (2.86%) NX-OS
4 2 (2.86%) VPN
4 2 (2.86%) WAN
4 2 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.71%) SAP HANA
2 2 (2.86%) Power BI
2 2 (2.86%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Git
2 8 (11.43%) Jenkins
2 8 (11.43%) JIRA
2 8 (11.43%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.43%) GoCD
General
1 39 (55.71%) Finance
2 25 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.14%) Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.86%) Legal
6 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.43%) Law
7 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (30.00%) Consultant
2 9 (12.86%) Great Plains Consultant
2 9 (12.86%) Microsoft Consultant
3 7 (10.00%) Analyst
4 6 (8.57%) Lead
5 5 (7.14%) Compliance Analyst
5 5 (7.14%) SOX Consultant
6 4 (5.71%) Risk Manager
6 4 (5.71%) SAP Consultant
6 4 (5.71%) Security Consultant
6 4 (5.71%) Senior
7 3 (4.29%) Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.29%) GCP Consultant
7 3 (4.29%) Oracle Consultant
7 3 (4.29%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.29%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (4.29%) Service Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.29%) Service Manager
7 3 (4.29%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.86%) LDAP
2 6 (8.57%) SailPoint
3 3 (4.29%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.43%) Jest
4 1 (1.43%) Node.js
4 1 (1.43%) React
4 1 (1.43%) SAML
4 1 (1.43%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Clustering
1 8 (11.43%) Replication
2 3 (4.29%) Life Science
3 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.86%) Windows
2 8 (11.43%) Linux
2 8 (11.43%) Oracle Linux
2 8 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (11.43%) Solaris
2 8 (11.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.14%) Use Case
2 11 (15.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (15.71%) Risk Management
2 11 (15.71%) User Acceptance Testing
3 10 (14.29%) Agile
4 9 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (12.86%) Data Security
4 9 (12.86%) Test Scripting
5 8 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (11.43%) Deployment Automation
5 8 (11.43%) DevOps
5 8 (11.43%) High Availability
5 8 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (11.43%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (11.43%) Security Hardening
5 8 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 8 (11.43%) Storage Management
5 8 (11.43%) Vulnerability Management
6 7 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.29%) SQL
2 9 (12.86%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.86%) Python
3 8 (11.43%) Bash
4 2 (2.86%) ABAP
5 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (12.86%) Degree
2 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 5 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) CISSP
4 3 (4.29%) CISA
4 3 (4.29%) CISM
5 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.86%) PMP
6 1 (1.43%) CRISC
6 1 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.43%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.57%) GDPR
2 8 (11.43%) GRC
2 8 (11.43%) GxP
3 7 (10.00%) PCI DSS
4 6 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (7.14%) COBIT
6 3 (4.29%) COSO
6 3 (4.29%) ITGC
6 3 (4.29%) NCSC
7 2 (2.86%) NIST
8 1 (1.43%) GLBA
8 1 (1.43%) ISAE 3402
8 1 (1.43%) ISO 9001
8 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (1.43%) PMO
8 1 (1.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (15.71%) Active Directory
2 8 (11.43%) Docker
2 8 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (11.43%) Ansible
1 8 (11.43%) EMC NetWorker
1 8 (11.43%) Kubernetes
1 8 (11.43%) Netcool
1 8 (11.43%) Terraform
1 8 (11.43%) Tivoli
1 8 (11.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (1.43%) CASB
2 1 (1.43%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.43%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (32.86%) Microsoft
2 16 (22.86%) Oracle
3 13 (18.57%) SAP
4 11 (15.71%) Cisco
5 9 (12.86%) CyberArk
5 9 (12.86%) HP
6 8 (11.43%) Dell
6 8 (11.43%) EMC
6 8 (11.43%) IBM
6 8 (11.43%) Isilon
6 8 (11.43%) Qualys
6 8 (11.43%) Serena
6 8 (11.43%) ServiceNow
6 8 (11.43%) Splunk
6 8 (11.43%) VMware
7 5 (7.14%) Ariba
8 3 (4.29%) Concur
8 3 (4.29%) Google
8 3 (4.29%) Hyperion
9 2 (2.86%) Palo Alto